General Knowledge Question Answer: GK Questions and Answers

General Knowledge Questions, Quiz for Competitive Exams, Important MCQs for GK

Q. Who amongst the following was the Chairman of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission who submitted its report to the Government a few months back?
1) Veerappa Moily
2) Natwar Singh
3) M.S. Gill
4) None of these

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Q. Which of the following companies/commissions of Indians Origin signed a pact for obtaining oil blocks in Libya?
1) Reliance Petroleum
2) Oil India Ltd.
3) Oil & Natural Gas Corporation
4) None of these

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Q. Which of the following companies of Indian Origin has become the first Indian Company to launch financial services to retail investors in China?
1) Bajaj Finance
2) SBI Capital Markets
3) Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
4) None of these

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Q. Tata Motors has signed a long term partnership agreement with which of the following auto companies?
1) Ford Motor Company
2) Maruti Suzuki
3) Toyota Motor Corporation
4) None of these

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Q. Many times we read in financial newspapers/magazines about "Share Swap" done by big corporates. What is "Share Swap"?
(A) A business takeover in which acquiring company uses its own stock to pay for the acquired company
(B) When a company uses its own shares to get some short term loan for working capital requirement, it is known as Share Swap
(C) When companies are required to float a new issue to earn capital for their expansion programmes, each shareholder gets some additional preferential shares. The process of the allotment of preferential share is known as Share Swap.

1) Only A
2) Only B
3) Only C
4) None of these

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Q. On the basis of the study done by the Government of India, various states were divided into two groups "Low Poverty States", "High Poverty States". Which of the following is not a low poverty state?
1) Kerala
2) Orissa
3) Karnataka
4) Gujarat

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Q. As reported in the major financial newspapers the Federal Reserve has made certain changes/corrections in its base federal funds rates. This act of the Federal Reserve will bring an effect directly and immediately on the banks located in
1) USA
2) China
3) Japan
4) Russia

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Q. Which of the following countries has the largest cheques truncation facility in Asia?
1) China
2) India
3) Myanmar
4) None of these

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Q. Which of the following is the name of the asset reconstruction company created by various banks in India?
1) ARCIL
2) HCR
3) SEBI
4) None of these

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Q. India does not have a single branch/office of any one of its banks in which of the following countries?
1) USA
2) Russia
3) Nepal
4) Switzerland

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