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CURRENT GENERAL AWARENESS 2008

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CURRENT GENERAL AWARENESS 2008

[FOR : BANK PO, UPSC , MBA , B.ED., LIC ASSISTANT, BANK SPECIALIST OFFICER , RRB ASM ,RRB TC, RRB CC, ETC ]

1. Who amongst the following is a recipient of V.V.Giri Memorial Award for the year 2008?
(a) K.P.Kannan
(b) Megha Patekar
(c) Depak Chawla
(d) B.B.Tondon
Ans (a)

2. Which of the following city is very recently renamed?
(a) Puducherry
(b) Kolkata
(c) Gaya
(d) Bangaluru
Ans (d)

3. Which of the following is not recognized by UNO as an International Year of 2008?
(a) Planet Earth
(b) Aids
(c) Potato
(d) Sanitation
Ans (b)

4. Who is the winner of Slaka Samman for the year 2008?
(a) Prabhash Joshi
(b) Nazma Hepthullah
(c) Ashok Chakradhar
(d) Rehman Rahi
Ans (a)

5. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards are given for the person who shown exemplary performance in the field of __________
(a) Sports
(b) Politics
(c) Science & Technology
(d) Literature
Ans (c)

6. What was the controversial issue for getting the confidence of Lok Sabha by the U.P.A. Government on 22nd July, 2008?
(a) Increase of prices
(b) Fall of Share Market
(c) Increase of inflation
(d) Nuclear Treaty with US
Ans (d)

7. Who amongst following is not named for one time Life Time Achievement Awards on the occasion of 60th Anniversary of India’s Independence?
(a) Dilip Kumar
(b) Dev Anand
(c) Saroja Devi
(d) Tapan Sinha
Ans (b)

8. What is the estimated G.D.P. rate in 11th Five Year Plan?
(a) 8.8%
(b) 8.9%
(c) 9.0%
(d) 9.5%
Ans (c)

9. What is the range of Agni-3 Ballistic Missile which was launched by DRDA on 7th May, 2008?
(a) 1500
(b) 2000
(c) 3000
(d) 4500
Ans (c)

10. The agricultural growth rate in 2006-07 was -
(a) 1.75%
(b) 2.00%
(c) 2.6%
(d) 3.6%
Ans (c)

11. Who is the present Chief Minister of Bihar?
(a) R.L.Bhatia
(b) Rabri Devi
(c) Nitish Kumar
(d) Ram Vilash Paswan
Ans (c)

12. Who won the First Gold Medal in Beijing 2008 Olympic games For India in the individual category 10 metre rifle shooting ?
(a) Vijyendra Kumar
(b) Sushil Kumar
(c) Abhinav Bindra
(d) Anju Bobby George
Ans (c)

13. What was the major issue for the Left Parties (CPI and CPM) to withdraw support to UPA Government?
(a) To protect the secularism
(b) To protect the interest of the left parties
(c) Against the Nuclear Treaty with USA
(d)All the above
Ans (c)

14. Where was held the WTO (World Trade Organization) Ministerial Conference in July 2008 ?
(a) New Delhi
(b) Jakarta
(c) Beijing
(d) Jeneva
Ans (d)

15. Who is the chairman of U.P.A..?
(a) Sonia Gandhi
(b) Manmohan Singh
(c) Pranav Mukherjee
(d) Shivraj Patil
Ans (a)

16. What is the objective of eleventh Five Year plan (2007-12) ?
(a) Removal of Unemployment
(b) Inclusive growth
(c) Growth with social- justice
(d) Development of minorities
ANS (b)

17. Where will be held the first Youth Olympic Games in 2010 ?
(a) Beijing
(b) New Delhi
(c) Singapore
(d) London
Ans (c)

18. Where will be held the 30th Olympic Games in 2012 ?
(a) Beijing
(b) Kualalumpur
(c) Singapore
(d) London
Ans (d)

19. The name of Thaksin Shinawatra's is associated with which of the follwing countries ?
(a) USSR
(b) Kazakistan
(c) Thailand
(d) Soth Korea
Ans (c)

20. Who amongst the following is the author of the book ‘The Enchantress of Florence’ ?
(a) Benajir Bhutto
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) Laxmi Sehgal
(d) L.K.Advani
Ans (b)

21. Who amongst the following is the recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award given away in August 2008 ?
(a) Sanjeev Singh
(b) Prabhjot Singh
(c) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
(d) Rahul Dravid
Ans (c)

22. Rafael Nadal who won Wimbledon Open 2008 Tennis Championship is a citizen of—
(a) Spain
(b) France
(c) Russia
(d) USA
Ans (a)

23. The Hiroshima Day was observed on which of the following days ?
(a) 6th August
(b) 14th November
(c) 19th September
(d) 2nd October
Ans (a)

24. Who amongst the following is NOT a recipient of the Dhyan Chand Award given away in August 2008 ?
(a) Sanjeeva Kumar Singh
(b) Mukh Bain Singh
(c) Hokam Singh
(d) Gyan Singh
Ans (a)

25. Who amongst the following is NOT a recipient of the Dronacharya Awards for the year 2007 given away in August 2008 ?
(a) Sanjeeva Kumar Singh
(b) GE Sridharan
(c) Jagdish Singh
(d) Prabhjot Singh
Ans (d)

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COMPUTER GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ

COMPUTER GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ COMPUTER QUIZ

Objective 10 questions

1. Why the document you created at home displays with a different font at school?

Because you have a different printer at school than at home Because you have a different monitor at school than at home

font you used at home is not installed on your school computer Because the version of Windows is different

2. Which keyboard shortcut centers selected text?

Ctrl+C Alt+C There is no keyboard shortcut for this operation Ctrl+E

3. What is the default file extension for all Word documents?

TXT WRD FIL DOC

4. Which key moves your cursor from one cell to the next in a table?

Tab Shift Enter Ctrl+Enter

5. How many different documents can you have open at one time?

No more that three Only one As many as your computer memory will hold No more than your Taskbar can display

6. In order to email a Word document from within Word:

Go to File/Send To/Mail Recipient Save the file as an email attachment Start Outlook and attach the file while open in Word This is an impossible operation

7. Which keystroke will take you at the beginning or the end of a long document?

Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown Shift+Home and Shift+End Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End The only way is by using the right scroll bar

8. How many margins are on a page?

Two (header and footer) Four (top, bottom, right, left) Two (landscape and Portrait) Two (top and bottom)

9.In order to save a Word document as a web page you need to:

Put the appropriate graphics and links on the document Save the document in simple text format Use your web browser as an editor and save as URL Save as HTML

10. A document in portrait prints:

The same characters per line with the same document in landscape More characters per line than the same document in landscape Less characters per line than the same document in landscape Smaller fonts in order to fit the same amount of characters per line with landscape

CURRRENT GK QUIZ

CURRENT GENERAL AWARENESS QUIZ

OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS 10

1. Femina Miss India World award for 2012 has been awarded to –

Vanya Mishra
Prachi Mishra
SimranKaur Mundi
Crystle Stewart

2. Who among the following is the winner of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for the year 2011? –

Sachin Tendulkar
Saurav Ganguli
Sanjeeva Kumar Singh
Gagan Narang

3. The Mascot of the 2008 Olympic Games was-

Fuwa
Izz
Izz
Cobi

4. Which among the following has won 2012 IPL Tournament?

Chennai Super Kings
Kolkata Knight Riders
Deccon Chargers
Delhi Daredevils

5. Who has written “Unaccustomed Earth” ?

Jhumpa Laheri
Kiran Desai
Arundhati Roy
Khushwant Singh

6. Which of the following has been selected for best parliamentarian of the year award 2007 ?

Priya Ranjan Das Munshi
Mani Shankar Aiyyar
P.Chidambaram
Sushama Swaraj

7. Duwuri Subbarao's name was in news recently as he has taken over as the Governor of
 RBI
SBI
SEBI
Bihar

8. ISRO has launched successfully RISAT-1 satellites through PSLV-C19 on -

15th March,2012
30th March,2012
26th April,2012
4th May,2012

9. Which country was host 15th SAARC Summit in 2008 ?

Maldives
Sri Lanka
India
Pakistan

10. Who among the following is the winner of the Wimbledon open Tennis Tournament 2008 of the Women's Single Title ? 

Serena Williams
Venus Wlliams
Maria Sharapova
Ana Ivanovic

Ana Ivanovic