SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS FOR ASSAM IRRIGATION RECRUITMENT TEST

1. Which of the following countries has decided to purchase 126 Rafale fighter aircrafts from France? 

1) Iraq   
2) China 
3)  India  
4) Bangladesh 

5) Afghanistan 

Answer: (3) India.

2. Which of the following diseases is considered as completely eradicated from India, as no case of the same has been reported in last one year? 

1) Polio  
2) Swine flu  
3)  Tuberculosis  
4)  Asthma  
5) Cancer

Answer: (1) Polio.

3. Which of the following countries in India's neighbourhood is facing charges of violation of human rights of  Tamilians living there? 

1) Sri Lanka  
2) Pakistan  
3) Myanmar  
4) Nepal  
5)  Afghanistan

Answer: (1) Sri Lanka.

4. Which of the following is NOT an important function of Reserve Bank of India? 

1) Management of Foreign Exchange Reserves 

2) Foreign Exchange related current and capital account management 

3) Devising Foreign  Trade policy of India 

4) Debt and Cash Management for State Govts 

5) Regulation of Govt. Securities

Answer: (3) Devising Foreign  Trade policy of India 

5. Ms. Kamla Persad Bissessar who was on a visit to India recently is the 
1) President of  Trinidad &  Tobago 
2) Prime Minister of  Trinidad &  Tobago 
3) President of Fiji 
4) Prime Minister of Fiji 
5) None of these
Answer: (1) President of Trinidad & Tobago.

6. Which of the following statements pertaining to present economic situation of the world  is/are true?  
1) China and India are making very good progress on the economic front, thought India is a little slower than China 
2)  UK and almost all European nations are now out of economic crisis 
3) US has decided to give 3 lakh thousand US dollars to Iraq as a compensation for its unnecessary attack on it 
4) As  WTO is abolished, countries are free to make their own economic cooperation treaties 
5)  All are true  
Answer: (1) China and India are making very good progress on the economic front, thought India is a little slower than China

7. India recently signed a Multilateral Convention on Mutual  Administrative Assistance in  Tax Matters.  This will help India in having a strict check on which of the following issues? 
1) Nuclear safety of its plants 
2) Illegal supply of narcotics and drugs 
3) Balance of trade 
4) Black money stashed abroad 
5) Border trade among SAARC nations 
Answer: (4) Black money stashed abroad 

8. Which of the following organisations of countries, at one of its crucial meetings in Belgium, in December 2011, had agreed to sign an Inter-governmental Fiscal Treaty? 
1) OPEC 
2) BRICS 
3) SAARC 
4) NATO 
5) European Union 
Answer: (5) European Union 

9. Business Correspondent Framework launched by the Reserve Bank of India is a step in achieving which of the following? 
1) Financial inclusion 
2)  Transparency in banking transactions 
3) Better control over cooperative/small banks 
4) Providing direct subsidy to consumers of Publc Distribution System (PDS) 
5) None of these 

Answer: (1) Financial inclusion 

10. Immediately prior to Sri Mukul roy who among the following was the Railway Minister of India?  
1) Dr. Manmohan Singh 
2) Ms. Mamta Banerjee 
3) Sri Kamal Nath 
4) Sri Rajiv Shukla 
5) Sri Dinesh  Trivedi 
Answer: (5) Sri Dinesh  Trivedi 

11. Nuclear  Threat Initiative, the organisation which has compiled first ever index of security materials globally, is an agency based in 
1) India 
2) USA 
3) Germany 
4) China 
5) Japan 
Answer: (2) USA

12. Who among the following was the Chief Guest at India's 63rd Republic Day (2012) function? 
1) Kamla Persad Bissessar 
2)  Yingluck Shinawatra 
3) David Cameron 
4) Hamid Karzai 
5) Sheikh Hasina
Answer: (2) Yingluck Shinawatra

13. The 169th meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was organised in December 2011 in 
1) Doha 
2) Dubai 
3) Tehran 
4)  Beirut 
5)  Vienna 
Answer: (5) Vienna

14. The term of President Pratibha Patil in office will end in 
1) July 2012 
2) June 2013 
3) July 2013 
4) January 2013 
5) January 2014 
Answer: (1) July 2012

15. Which of the following organisations has recommended that financial literacy should be made part of syllabus from high schools itself? 
1) Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) 
2) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) 
3) Indian Bank's  Association (IBA) 
4) National Bank for  Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) 
5) State Bank of India 
Answer: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) 

16. Who among the following is a Padma Bhushan  Awardee? 
1)  Anand Kumar 
2) Shiva Keshavan 
3) Homi K Bhabha 
4) Dipika Pallikal 
5)  Vijay Zol 

Answer: (3) Homi K Bhabha

17. Which of the following days is observed as  AIDS Day every  Year? 
1) 10th March 
2) 1st December 
3) 1st November 
4) 1st March 
5) 10th December 
Answer: (2) 1st December

18. Which of the following terms is used in the field of Economics? 
1)  Ampere 
2) Horse Power 
3)  Arbitrage 
4) Joule's Law 
5) Relative Density 
Answer: (4) Joule's Law

19. Which of the following organisations is the regulator of stock exchanges in India? 
1) RBI 
2) NABARD 
3) SIDBI 
4) IBA 
5) SEBI 
Answer: (5) SEBI

20. Which of the following schemes is launched by the Govt of India to provide banking services in 73,000 villages in India? 
1)  ASHA 
2) RAY 
3) Swabiman 
4) Swavalamban 
5) Kutir Jyoti 
Answer: Swabiman

21. What does the letter 'D' denote in the term 'SDR'? (as used in finance) 
1) Deposits 
2) Data 
3) Debt 
4) Dealers 
5) Drawing 

Answer: (5) Drawing

22. Which of the following awards is given to sportspersons? 
1) Kalidas Samman 
2) Saraswati Samman 
3) Arjuna Award 
4)  Vysa  Samman 
5)  Ashok Chakra 
Answer: (3) Arjuna Award 

23. Which of the following books is written by Kiran Desai? 
1)  A Brush With  Life 
2)  A Fortune Teller Told  Me 
3)  Black  Arrow 
4) Catch-22 
5)  The Inheritance of Loss 
Answer: (5) The Inheritance of Loss 

24. Which of the following cups/trophies is associated with the game of cricket? 
1) Davis Cup 
2)  Agha Khan Cup 
3) Nehru Cup 
4)  Wimbledon Cup 
5) Ranji  Trophy 
Answer: (5) Ranji  Trophy 

25. Total Gross National Product divided by the total population is known as which of the following in economics? 
1) Statutory Liquidity Ratio 
2) National Income 
3) Inflation 
4) Deflation 
5) Per Capita Income 
Answer: (5) Per Capita Income 

26. which of the following terms is used in the game of football? 
1) Penalty 
2) Cover Point 
3) Bull's Eye 
4) Half Nelson 
5) Cox  
Answer: (1) Penalty 

27. Which of the following combinations of the name of countries and their capitals is NOT correct? 
1) Bangladesh - Dhaka 
2) China - Beijing 
3)  Afghanistan - Kabul 
4) Canada - Ottawa 
5) Italy - Milan 
Answer: (5) Italy - Milan

28. Which of the following instruments is used to measure intensity of earthquakes? 
1) Seismograph 
2) Periscope 
3) Galvano meter 
4) Dynamometer 
5) Manometer 
Answer: Seismograph