WEEKLY QUIZ CLASS QUESTIONS DATE :- 25-10-2014 1. Who is the new Indonesian President :- Joko Widodo 2. Which country’s Parliament came under attack recently ?:- Canada 3. Which country became the sixth West African country to be hit by the deadly Ebola virus after its government recently confirmed first case of Ebola in the country? – Mali 4. Under the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 the government has to hold at least what percent stake in public sector banks? :- 51% 5. Sachin Tendulkar is the owner of which of the following Indian Super League football franchises? :- Kochi 6. Who was the coach of Indian national hockey team, who resigned ? – Terry Walsh(Australia) 7. The World Health Organization declared which country as free of Ebola recently :- Nigeria 8. Kip is the CURRENCY of country ? :- Laos 9. A five-year-old Indian boy, , has become the youngest person to reach the Everest Base Camp (EBC) :- Harshit Saumitra 10. Which bank has bagged the Best Bank Award for Business Intelligence Initiatives among small banks :- Karur Vysya Bank 11. Hurricane Gonzalo of Category 2 struck to which country :- Bermuda 12. Who is appointed as the new Chief Economic Advisor :- Arvind Subramanian 13. Who is appointed as the new finance secretary :- Rajiv Mehrishi 14. Who has been awarded with Euromoney’s Central Bank Governor of the Year Award 2014 by Reserve Bank of India :- Raghuram Rajan 15. Who has been awarded with “ Man Booker Prize “ for his novel “ The Narrow Road to the Deep North” :- Australian author Richard Flanagan 16. Who has become thenew PM of Yemen :- Khaled Bahah 17. what is the indias position in the Global Hunger Index in 2014 among 76 emerging economies :- 55th who was honoured with the National Kishore Kumar Award for 2012-13:- Sameer 18. who has won the Nobel prize 2014 for economics :- French economist Jean Tirole 19. who is the winner of Shanghai Masters trophy :- Federer defeated Frenchman Gilles Simon, 20. Which bank won the IDRBT Banking Technology Excellence award for 2013-14 in four out of total five categories in the mid-sized lenders segment? –Federal Bank 21. What is the name of India’s nuclear-capable cruise missile developed with indigenous technology by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) that was successfully test fired recently ? – ‘Nirbhay’ 22. Wilson Kipsang won the 2014 London Marathon. He belongs to? :- South Africa 23. Which Latin American country launched its first-ever domestically built satellite named ARSAT-1? – Argentina 24. What is the name of the revamped version of Google’s Android software that was unveiled by the company ? – “Lollipop” 25. Who was appointed as the next Chief Economic Adviser on 16 October 2014? – Arvind Subramanian 26. Who replaced him as the Economic Affairs Secretary? – Rajiv Mehrishi 27. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 13 October 2014 came out with an additional criterion for classifying an urban co-operative bank (UCB) as FINANCIALLY sound and well managed (FSWM). What is this additional criterion? – Implementation of Core Banking Solution (CBS) 28. Union Govt. formed a committee is on its way for a major overhaul of the current monetary policy framework. Under this the govt. will specify specific inflation related targets for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) instead of the RBI setting a target for itself. Who headed this RBI committee? – Urjit R. Patel, Deputy Governor of the RBI 29. Who was conferred with the Best Central Bank Governor award for 2014 by Euromoney magazine on 10 October 2014? – Raghuram Rajan, Governor of Reserve Bank of India 30. Which prominent real estate company was barred by Indian capital market regulator SEBI from accessing capital MARKETS for three years recently ? – DLF Limited 31. India’s third navigation satellite IRNSS-1C was launched and placed successful . Which rocket of ISRO launched this satellite? – PSLV-C26 (Indian Regional Navigational Satellite) 32. Who headed the committee on FINANCIAL Benchmarks? :- P. Vijaya Bhaskar 33. India has been re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the period of which year ? :- 2015-2017 34. Which associate banks has/have been merged with the State Bank of India (SBI) so far ? :- State Bank of Indore and State Bank of Saurashtra 35. What is mis-selling ? :- Selling a product which is not suitable for the buyers needs 36. As per the news published in financial newspapers, the govt is planning capital infusion in public sector banks (PSBs) to help them meet regulatory norms and maintain loan growth to economically important sectors. What is the amount to be infused ? :- 14000 cr 37. who is the author of Shadow play :- Shashi Deshpande
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