QUIZ-03

Q1. The book entitled ‘Faces and Places’ was written by _____________.

(a) Dr. NeelamMajumdar

(b) Mr. Subhash Jha

(c) Prof. Deepak Nayyar

(d) Mr. MansoorAlam

(e) Mr. Anil Jajodia

Q2. Which one of the following is the oldest and the deepest lake in the world?

(a) Chilika Lake

(b) Lake Superior

(c) Dal Lake

(d) Lake Baikal

(e) Wular Lake

Q3. World's largest stock exchange is in ________________.

(a) Honk Kong

(b) Paris

(c) Mumbai

(d) Geneva

(e) New York

Q4. Who won Man Booker Prize 2015 for 'A Brief History of Seven Killings'?

(a) Marlon James

(b) Jon Rickey

(c) Paul Beatty

(d) Hilary Mantel

(e) Kiran Desai

Q5. Money laundering is related with ___________

(a) Financial Budget

(b) Black Money

(c) Bank Loan

(d) Both (b) and (c)

(e) None of the above options are true

Q6. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) was established in _____________.

(a) 1990

(b) 1991

(c) 1992

(d) 1993

(e) 1994

Q7. The Buxa Tiger Reserve is situated in ___________.

(a) Madhya Pradesh

(b) West Bengal

(c) Assam

(d) Maharashtra

(e) Jharkhand

Q8. Tagline of Corporation Bank is _____________.

(a) Apka Apna Bank

(b) Tradition of trust

(c) Together we can

(d) A premier public sector bank

(e) Trusted family bank

Q9. What is the Name of international border shared between India and China?

(a) Line of Control

(b) The McMahon Line

(c) 39th parallel

(d) 45th parallel

(e) 17th parallel

Q10. Headquater of Union Bank of India is in ______________

(a) Mumbai

(b) New Delhi

(c) Kolkata

(d) Chennai

(e) Ahemdabad

Q11. Name the Indian Company that has won golden peacock award 2016.

(a) GAIL

(b) BHEL

(c) SAIL

(d) Reliance Steels

(e) None of the above options are true

Q12. Kaziranga national park in Assam is famous for ______________.

(a) Asian Monkey

(b) Rain Deer

(c) Crocodiles

(d) one-horned rhinoceroses

(e) Tigers

Q13. Barehipani water Fall is located in which one of the following Indian States? 

(a) Tamil Nadu

(b) Kerala

(c) Karnataka

(d) Madhya Pradesh

(e) Odisha

Q14. International Mother language day is celebrated on _________________.

(a) February 04

(b) February 13

(c) February 21

(d) February 28

(e) February 14

Q15. Mundra Thermal Power Station is situated in _____________.

(a) Gujarat

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(c) Maharashtra

(d) Jharkhand

(e) Tamil Nadu

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ANSWERS

S1. Ans.(c)

Sol. The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari released a book entitled ‘Faces and Places’ by Prof. Deepak Nayyar, noted economist and former Vice Chancellor of Delhi University at a function.

S2. Ans.(d)

Sol.  Lake Baikal is a rift lake in Russia, located in southern Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast. It is the oldest and deepest lake in the world.

S3. Ans.(e)

Sol. World's largest stock exchange is in New York, USA.

S4. Ans.(a)

Sol. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work published in the United Kingdom and in the English language. Marlon James won Man Booker Prize 2015 for 'A Brief History of Seven Killings'.

S5. Ans.(b)

Sol. Money laundering means concealment of the origins of illegally obtained money, typically by means of transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses.

S6. Ans.(c)

Sol. The Securities and Exchange Board of India was established on April 12, 1992 in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992.

S7. Ans.(b)

Sol. The Buxa Tiger Reserve is a 760-square-kilometre (290 sq mi) tiger reserve located inside the Buxa National Park in West Bengal, India, in the Buxa Hills of the southern hilly area of Bhutan. Animals found in the park include, the Tiger, Civet, Elephant, Gaur (Indian bison), Indian Boar and Red jungle fowl.

S8. Ans.(d)

Sol. Tagline of Corporation Bank is 'A premier public sector bank'. Its head quater is in Mangalore.

S9. Ans.(b)

Sol. The McMahon Line is a line agreed to by Britain and Tibet as part of the Simla Accord, a treaty signed in 1914. It is the effective boundary between China and India, although its legal status is disputed by the Chinese government.

S10. Ans.(a)

Sol. Union Bank of India is one of the largest government-owned banks of India. It is listed on the Forbes 2000, and has assets of USD 13.45 billion. All the bank's branches have been networked with its 6909 ATMs as on 30 September 2015. Its headquater is in Mumbai.

S11. Ans.(c)

Sol. The ‘Maharatna’ firm, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has won the prestigious 2016 Golden Peacock Award for Corporate GovernanceGolden Peacock Award. The award was received by Ashwini Kumar, CEO of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) on behalf of SAIL during the 16th London Global Convention on Corporate Governance and Sustainability in London, United Kingdom (UK).

S12. Ans.(d)

Sol. Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India. The sanctuary, which hosts two-thirds of the world's great one-horned rhinoceroses, is a World Heritage Site.

S13. Ans.(e)

Sol. Barehipani Falls is a two tiered waterfall located in Simlipal National Park in Mayurbhanj district in the Indian state of Odisha. It is one of the highest waterfalls in India. The Barehipani Falls has a total height of 399 metres (1,309 ft).It is tiered waterfall with two drops. The tallest single drop is 259 metres (850 ft).

S14. Ans.(c)

Sol. International Mother Language Day (IMLD) is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. First announced by UNESCO on 17 November 1999, it was formally recognized by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution establishing 2008 as the International Year of Languages.

S15. Ans.(a)

Sol. Mundra Thermal Power Station or Mundra Thermal Power Project is located at Mundra in Kutch district in the Indian state of Gujarat. The power plant is one of the coal-based power plants of Adani Power. The coal for the power plant is imported primarily from Bunyu, Indonesia. Source of water for the power plant is sea water from the Gulf of Kutch.