CURRENT AFFAIRS & ANALYSIS

Friday, November 02, 2012

CURRENT AFFAIRS 03/11/2012

Ques. : 1   Which of the following companies is all set to buy filmmaker George Lucas’s Lucasfilm Ltd and its ‘Star Wars’ franchise for $4.05 billion with a promise to release a new film of the series in 2015?
1) Warner Brothers 2) 20th Century Fox
3) Walt Disney (ANS) 4) Sony Motion Pictures
5) None of these

Ques. : 2   The board of directors of IDBI Bank has approved the merger of which of the following corporations with the bank which is subject to regulatory and shareholders’ approval?
1) Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited (ANS) 2) Unit Trust of India
3) Sharekhan Limited 4) India Infoline Limited
5) None of these

Ques. : 3   What is India’s current rank according to the fifth edition of the Financial Development Report of World Economic Forum released recently?
1) 40th (ANS) 2) 36th
3) 32nd 4) 30th
5) None of these

Ques. : 4   Which of the following Indian players will get Polly Umrigar Award at the BCCI Annual Award ceremony in which Sachin Tendulkar will be awarded for his 100th international century?
1) R Ashwin 2) M S Dhoni
3) Gautam Gambhir 4) Virat Kohli (ANS)
5) None of these

Ques. : 5   Which of the following Japanese broking firm has been fined with record $2.5 million in the wake of an insider trading scandal?
1) Daiwa 2) Nomura (ANS)
3) Yamaichi 4) Nikko
5) None of these

Ques. : 6   Taking in account a commercial bank, which of the following cannot be the source of its borrowing?
1) Capital (ANS) 2) Cash reserves with RBI
3) Call Money 4) Fixed deposits by customers
5) None of these

Ques. : 7   With which of the following cards the risk is highest for the issuing banks?
1) Dabit Cards 2) Credit Cards (ANS)
3) ATM Cards 4) Travel Cards
5) All the above

Ques. : 8   Name the noted poet and filmmaker who received the 27th Indira Gandhi award for national integration from Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the death anniversary of the late Prime Minister.
1) Javed Akhtar 2) Gulzar (ANS)
3) Vikram Seth 4) Charanjeet Makar
5) None of these

Ques. : 9   Which of the following is a snooker player who represents/represented India in international events?
1) Geet Sethi 2) Pankaj Advani
3) Vikram Seth 4) Subhash Agarwal
5) All the above (ANS)

Ques. : 10   Who among the following is Cabinet Secretary of Government of India at present?
1) Ajit Kumar Seth (ANS) 2) Upendra Tripathi
3) L. C. Goyal 4) Alok Rawat
5) None of these


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