Thursday, July 1, 2010

CURRENT AFFAIRS- ECONOMY QUESTIONS

CURRENT AFFAIRS- ECONOMY QUESTIONS

1. Which of the following is the slogancan be associated with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)?
a. Earth and nature
b. Nature is life
c. For a living planet
d. Life and planet
2. Pulsar, Discover and Ninja , are names of bike models that you would associate with …
a. TVS Motors Ltd
b. Bajaj Auto Ltd
c. Hero Honda Motors Ltd
d. Honda Motors Ltd
3. Servo brand of industrial oil belongs to the stable of …
a. HPCL
b. Indian Oil Corporation
c. BPCL
d. ONGC
4. Which company is a joint venture between Norway’s leading Telecom operator Telenorand India’s leading reality major,
Unitech, and has recently launched the mobile phone services in India?
a. Peninor
b. Uninor
c. Teletech
d. None of these
5. Real GDP growth rate in the second quarter of 2009-10 was?
a. 6.1 per cent
b. 6.7 per cent
c. 7.1 per cent
d. 7.9 per cent
6. The Union Minister for Corporate Affairs is ...
a. SK Shinde
b. Salman Khursheed
c. Veerappa Moily
d. None of these
7. What is the percentage stake acquired by Arcelor Mittal in Uttam Galva Steel in a deal worth 422 crores recently?
a. 21 per cent
b. 23 per cent
c. 25 per cent
d. 29 per cent
8. The amount invested by the Venture Capital fi rms in around 92 deals in India by the end of 2009 is?
a. $345 million
b. $475 million
c. $550 million
d. $640 million
9. Subir Raha who passed away recently, was an outstanding public service executive and headed one of the major oil companies of India. Identify the name of the organisation that he headed
a. IOC
b. ONGC
c. BPCL
d. HPCL
10. The name of the recently appointed disinvestment secretary of India is …
a. Ashok Chawla
b. Sumit Bose
c. Sunil Mitra
d. Krishna Kumar Goyal
11. Which veteran journalist has been appointed as the chairman of the Prasar Bharti recently.
a. Vir Sanghvi
b. N. Ram
c. Mrinal Pandey
d. Pravin Swami
12. Name the famous businessperson from India who was awarded the ‘Order of Diplomatic Service Merit’ by South Korea recently.
a. Rahul Bajaj
b. Venu Srinivasan
c. Vijay Mallaya
d. Kumaramangalam Birla
13. Identify the name of the bank whose punch line is ‘where every individual is committed’.
a. Indian Bank
b. Bank of India
c. Oriental Bank of
Commerce
d. Bank of Baroda
end of Question Bank
14. The fi rst city in the world where metro started is?
a. New York
b. London
c. Tokyo
d. Hong Kong
15. The deal in which Edelweiss Capital bought domestic retail brokering fi rm Angram Capital recently was worth?
a. Rs. 64 crore
b. Rs. 164 crore
c. Rs. 264 crore
d. Rs. 364 crore
16. Identify the name of the automobile major which recently recalled millions of its sold vehicles that were potentially
prone to uncontrolled acceleration ...
a. General Motors
b. Toyota Motors
c. Ford Motors
d. Honda Motors
17. Identify is the new group CEO of Tata Motors?
a. Allan Mullalay
b. Carl Peter Forster
c. Rick Wagoner Jr
d. PM Telang
18. Recently Bharti Airtel bided for the Kuwait based Zain Telecom’s Affrican assets. What was the amount of the bid?
a. $ 9.8 billion
b. $10.7 billion
c. $12.2 billion
d. $ 14.9 billion
19. The present chief economic advisor to the Finance minister of India...
a. Deepak C Jain
b. Bimal Jalan
c. Bibek Debroy
d. Kaushik Basu
20. Boxster S - the car model can be associate with …
a. Volkswagen AG
b. Porsche
c. Ford Motors
d. General Motors
21. Identify the main author of The Maruti Story ...
a. Jagadish Khattar
b. RC Bhargava
c. Ravi Kant
d. None of these
22. D. Shiva Kumar is the managing director of ….
a. LG India
b. Nokia India
c. Sony India
d. IBM India
23. Pranab Mukharjee represented maximum budgets in the history of India. How many budgets has
he represented so far …
a. 4 times
b. 5 times
c. 6 times
d. 7 times
24. As per the Union Budget 2010-2011, the percentage increase in the allocation for the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan is?
a. 10 per cent
b. 15 per cent
c. 20 per cent
d. 25 per cent
25. As per the Union Budget 2010-2011, which of the following represents the percentage of the planned expenditure that is allocated for the infrastructure development?
a. 35 per cent
b. 46 per cent
c. 52 per cent
d. 56 per cent
26. Author of "INDIA 2039 An Affl uent Society in One Generation" is …
a. VJ Taraporevala
b. Bibek Debroy
c. Onkar Goswami
d. Ashok V Desai
27. ‘Obsessed with quality since 1895’, is the punch line of …
a. Volkswagen AG
b. TAG Heuer
c. Skoda Automobiles
d. Swarovski
28. Rodeo, Duro and Flyte are the names of the two wheelers that originally belonged to …
a. Hero Honda Motors
b. Kinetic Engineering Ltd
c. Bajaj Auto Ltd
d. TVS Motors Ltd
29. Prius is the name of the car brand that was launched by …
a. Hyundai Motors Ltd
b. Honda Motors Ltd
c. General Motors
d. Toyota Motors
30. Who amongst the following is the present Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT)?
a. KT Chacko
b. RS Gujral
c. Saarthak Behuria
d. None of these
31. The Double Life of Ramalinga Raju The Story of India’s Corporate Fraud, is authored by …
a. Raghav Bahl
b. Udayan Bose
c. Kingshuk Nag
d. Gita Piramal
32. The fi rst Fortune 200 Chief Executive Offi cer to tweet his resignation recently was
a. Eric Schmidt
b. Jonathan Schwartz
c. John T Chambers
d. Samuel J Palmasino
33. The India businessman to win the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur award for the Year 2009 is?
a. PC Reddy
b. Anand Mahindra
c. KP Singh
d. Tulsi Tanti
34. KN Raj, a famous economist of India who passed away recently was famous for his …
a. Karnataka Model of
development
b. Kerala Model of
development
c. Tamil Nadu Model of
development
d. Maharashtra Model of
development
35. As per the domestic passenger vehicles sales in January 2010 , which of the following was the market leader?
a. Tata Motors
b. Hyundai Motors India Ltd
c. Maruti Suzuki Ltd
d. Honda Motors India Ltd
36. Recently SEBI constituted a committee for the review of the ownership and governance structure of the stock exchanges
of India. Identify the chairperson of this committee?
a. Deena Mehta
b. CB Bhave
c. Bimal Jalan
d. Usha Thorat
37. As per a recent development, in order to overhaul the existing Public Distribution System that is considered as one of the
factors for the increasing food prices in India, a 11 member committee has been constituted. It will be chaired by …
a. Pranab Mukharjee
b. Sharad Pawar
c. Montek Singh Ahluwalia
d. Dr. Manmohan Singh
38. As per a recent development Fortis Healthcare will buy 23.9 per cent stake in a Singapore Healthcare provider Parkway
holdings. Identify the worth of the deal from the given options?
a. $ 485 million
b. $ 585 million
c. $ 685 million
d. $ 785 million
39. The richest person of the world according to the recent Forbes annual list of world’s top billionaires is?
a. Bill Gates
b. Warren Buffet
c. Carlos Slim Helu
d. Ingwar Kemprad
40. The richest person of India according to the recent Forbes annual list of world’s top billionaires is?
a. LN Mittal
b. Mukesh Ambani
c. Sunil Bharti Mittal
d. Anil Ambani
41. Which of the following represents India’s Industrial growth for the month of January 2010?
a. 15.6 per cent
b. 16.2 per cent
c. 16.7 per cent
d. 17.3 per cent
42. You might have heard of IPO that is Initial Public Offer but which of the following represents the expansion of ‘F’ in ‘FPO’?
a. Finance
b. Follow-on
c. Fringe
d. Foreign
43. Which of the following represents the expansion of DTC, linked with Financial sector?
a. Dealers Technological
Corporation
b. Direct Tax Code
c. Digital Taxation Codifi ed
d. Digitised Technical Code
44. As per the Union Budget 2010-2011, the amount allocated to extend the green revolution to the eastern region of the
country is?
a. 400 crores
b. 500 crores
c. 600 crores
d. 700 crores
45. As per the Union Budget 2010-2011, BE, which of the following represents the fi scal defi cit as a percentage of GDP?
a. 4.5 per cent
b. 5.2 per cent
c. 5.5 per cent
d. 6.2 per cent
46. As per the new taxation slabs under the Union Budget 2010-2011, which of the following represents the amount up to
which there is no tax?
a. 1.3 lakhs
b. 1.6 lakhs
c. 1.8 lakhs
d. 2 lakhs
47. The new service tax rate as per the Union Budget of 2010-2011 is...
a. 10 per cent
b. 10.5 per cent
c. 10.8 per cent
d. 11.2 per cent
48. Find the odd one out.
a. Civic
b. CRV
c. City
d. Getz
49. The Generali group in the Future Generali insurance venture, hails from …
a. Germany
b. Italy
c. France
d. Australia
50. The percentage stake of ICICI Bank in the ICICI Lombard General Insurance is ...
a. 66 per cent
b. 74 per cent
c. 80 per cent
d. 85 per cent

ANSWERS:

1. c. For a living planet
2. b. Bajaj Auto Limited
3. b. Indian Oil Corporation
4. b. Uninor
5. d. 7.9 per cent
6. b. Salman Khursheed
7. d. 29 per cent
8. b. $ 475 million
9. b. ONGC
10. b. Sumit Bose
11. c. Mrinal Pandey
12. b. Venu Srinivasan
13. c. Oriental Bank of Commerce
14. b. London
15. b. Rs 164 cr
16. b. Toyota Motors
17. b. Carl Peter Forster
18. b. $ 10.7 billion
19. d. Kaushik Basu
20. b. Porsche
21. b. R.C. Bhargava
22. b. Nokia India
23. c. 6 times
24. b. 15 per cent
25. b. 46 per cent
26. b. Bibek Debroy
27. c. Skoda Automobiles
28. b. Kinetic Engineering Ltd
29. d. Toyota Motors
30. b. RS Gujral
31. c. Kingshuk Nag
32. b. Jonathan Schwartz
33. b. Anand Mahindra
34. b. Kerala Model of Development
35. c. Maruti Suzuki Ltd.
36. c. Bimal Jalan
37. d. Dr Manmohan Singh
38. c. $685 million
39. c. Carlos Slim Helu
40. b. Mukesh Ambani
41. c. 16.7 per cent
42. b. Follow-on
43. b. Direct Tax Code
44. a. 400 cr
45. c. 5.5 per cent
46. b. 1.6 lakhs
47. a. 10 per cent
48. d. Getz
49. b. Italy
50. b. 74 per cent

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