Tuesday 30 October 2012

Daily Dose-30.10.2012


1. Who won the 21st Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament 2012?
a) 
New Zealand         b) Australia
c) Malaysia               d) India
2. The Fifth Edition of the World Future Energy Summit was held in
a) 
Abu Dhabi             b) New Delhi
c) Tehran
d) Dhaka
3. Planning Commission of India on January 18, 2012 approved Rudrasagar development scheme. The Scheme is related to which State?
a) 
Assam                  b) Manipur
c) Tripura                  d) Sikkim
4. The high level safety Review Committee set up by the Ministry of Railway has been headed by:
a) 
C Rangarajan         b) Lalu Yadav
c) Anil Kakodkar         d) Harish Rawat
5. Name the balloonist who took off on the world’s first intercontinental flight in solar-powered plane.
a) 
Chris Gayle           b) Bertrand Piccard
c) Scott Walker         d) Ray Bradbury

 

6. Rail Bandhu is:
a) The helpline kiosk established in each railway division.
b) The onboard rail medical officer for medical help in case of emergency
c) An onboard magazine of Indian Railway provided in Shatabdi/Rajdhani and Duronto express

d) None

7. India’s first university dedicated exclusively to Urban Studies, the Institute of Human settlements has been set up in:
a) Mumbai         b) Chennai
c) New Delhi      d) Bangalore

8. The SEBI has launched a centralized web based complaints redress system named as:
a) SCORES
                       b) COMPLAINTSNOW
c) COMMUNICATE         d) SPEAK

9. Senkaku Islands are a group of disputed islands between which of the following countries?
a) Japan and South Korea     b) Japan and Russia
c) Japan and China
                d) China and Taiwan

10. When the Chandrayan 2 intended to be launched?
a) 2013                 b) 2014
c) 2015                 d) 2016

11. Which one is kept outside the purview of Goods and Services Tax Bill of 2011?

a) Crude petroleum     b) Aviation

c) Natural gas              d) All the above

 

12. The author of the book titled 'Planning for the Poor' is

a) B.S. Minhas              b) Y.K. Alagh

c) Jagdish Bhagwati    d) I.G. Patel

 

13. The thirteenth World Cup Hockey to be held in 2014 is scheduled at

a) New Delhi (India)   b) The Hague (Netherlands)

c) Lahore (Pakistan)    d) London (Britain)

 

14. Which country’s women team is first time participating in London Olympics

a) Saudi Arabia  b) Bahrain

c) UAE                 d) Libya

 

15. Recently Text-To-Speech system has been launched in six Indian languages. Which among the following does not belong to the group?

a) Marathi                        b) Tamil

c) Kannada                       d) Bangla

 

16. Consider the following statements regarding IPv6 implementation:
I. The Ipv6 is an internet layer protocol for packet switched inter-networking and was    developed to deal with IPv4 address exhaustion.
II. IPv6 uses 128 bit IP address while IPv4 allows only 32 bit IP address.
III. The IPv6 task force said that almost all major internet service providers should start providing new address till December 2012.
IV. Major ISPs are those having at least 10,000 internet customers or deploying STM-1 bandwidth.
Which of the above statement(s) is/ are correct?

a) 1, 2, 3 only                b) 2, 3, 4 only
c) 1, 2, 4 only
                d) 1, 2, 3, 4

17. The Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology recently concluded its Golden Jubilee Celebration. The Commission was set up on 1st October, 1961 by a resolution of which of following ministry/department of Government of India?
a) Ministry of Home affairs
b) Department of Official Language
c) Ministry of Science And Technology
d) Ministry of Education


18. To enable the mobile trading, which among the following stock exchanges has developed its own computer application called “NOW”?
a) Bombay Stock Exchange            b) National Stock Exchange
c) Delhi Stock Exchange                 d) None of them.

19. Consider the following statements regarding the draft National Telecom Policy (NTP) 2011?
I. Draft National Telecom Policy (NTP) 2011 provides broadband on demand by 2015.
II. Increase rural tele-density from 35 per cent to 60 per cent by 2017 and to 100 per cent by 2025.
III. One Nation - One License and One Nation - Free Roaming
Select the correct code given below:

a) Only I and II are correct
b) Only II and III are correct
c) Only I and III are correct

d) All I, II and III are correct

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