September 2011 Current Affairs with Question & Answers

September 2011 Current Affairs with Question & Answers

Q.l. Who has been re-elected the UN secretary-general for a second term?
(I) KofiAnnan
(2) Boutros Ghali
(3) Dominique Strauss Kahn
(4) Ban Ki-moon
(5) None of these

Q.2. What is the Repo Rate at present?
(1)7.25%
(2)7.0%
(3)6.75%
(4) 8.0%
(5) None of these
Q.3. Nassir Abdulaziz AI-Nasser has been elected president of the —– session of the UN General Assembly.
(I) 62th
(2) 64th
(3) 66th
(4) 68th
(5) None of these
Q.4. Which of the following schemes is launched to develop infrastructure in rural areas in India?

(I) Jawaharlal Nehru Rojgar Yojana
(2)Rajiv Gandhi Udyami
Mitra Yojana
(3) Saakshar Bharat Yojana (4) AkshatYojana
(5) BharatNirman
Q.5. Jose Graziano da Silva will be the ——- Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
(I) Fourth (2) Sixth
(3) Eighth (4) Tenth
(5) None ofthese

Q.6. Which of the following acts is specially enacted to help banks to deal with bad loans?
(I) Negotiable InstrumentAct (2) Banking Regulation Act (3) Offshore Banking Act
(4) Companies Act (5)SARFAESIAct
Q.7. Who has been elected the first woman Managing Director of International Monetary Fund?
(I) Christine Lagarde
(2) Ruth Kelly
(3)CristinaDia
(4) Melissa Park
(5) None of these
Q.8. Which of the following organizations is created specially for providing credit to small and medium enterprises in India?
(I)NABARD
(2)SIDBI
(3) ECGC
(4)AMFI
(5) None of these
Q.9. Who has been appointed the new Chairman and Managing Director of Central Bank of India?

(I) M. V.Tanksale (2) S. Sridhar
(3) Rarnnath Pradeep (4) Jag Mohan Garg (5) None ofthese

Q.I0. Who amongst the following is a famous author?
(I) Medha Patkar
(2)A.R. Rahman
(3) Kiran Desai (4)AzimPremji
(5) None ofthese

Q.ll. Who has taken over as the new Chairman, Railway Board and ex-officio Principal Secretary to the Government ofIndia?

(I) Vivek Sahai (2) N. M. Kamble

(3) Mukul Saran Mathur (4) Vinay Mittal
(5) None of these

Q.12. A second Green Revolution is being planned to improve the production of agro commodities specially in which of the following regions ofIndia?
(I) Orissa
(2) North Eastern Region (3) Bundelkhand Region
(4) DesertAreas of Rajasthan (5) None of these

Q.13. Who has been appointed the new Chief Vigilance Commis ­-sioner ofIndia?

(l)P.J. Thomas
(2) P. Chidambaram (3) Pradeep Kumar (4) Sushma Swaraj (5) None ofthese

Q.14. What is the full form of’NBFC’ as used in financial sector?

(I)New Banking Finance Corporation

(2)Non Banking Finance ~y

(3) New Business Formation Company

(4) Net Banking & Finance Cooperative
(5) None of these
Q.47. Former Union Minister and senior —— leader Chaturanan Mishra has passed away.
Q.15. Who will be the Thailand’s first woman prime minister?
(1) Yulia Tymoshenko
(2) Yingluck Shinawatra
(3) Ruby Dhalla
(4) Alina Kabaeva
(5) None ofthese
Q.16. Davis Cup is associated with the game of ———.
(1) Badminton (2) Cricket
(3) Lawn Tennis( 4) Horse Race (5) Polo
Q.17. India’s ace magician ———-­received the International Merlin Award 2011.
(l)P.C. Sorcar(Junior)
(2) Upendra Thakur
(3) Gopinath Muthukad (4) Ashok Bhandari
(5) None of these
Q.18. Which of the following terms is NOT used in the field of Banking/Finance?
(1) Goods & Service
(2) Refund
(3) Tax Deducted at Source
(4) FundamentalDutiesofacitizen (5) Relief to exporters
Q.19. Sunil Mitta1 and————­have been selected for Business Leader for the World 2011 Award.
(1) Dominic Barton (2) Venu Srinivasan (3) Alexander Johan (4) MukeshAmbani ( 5) None of these
Q.20. Which of the following terms is used in the game of Hockey? (1) Silly Point (2) Booster
(3) Revoke (4) Grand Slam
(5) Penalty Stroke
Q.21. Spiritual guru ———- is the first Indian to receive the Crans Montana ForumAward.
(1) Baba Ramdev
(2) Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

(3) Shri Yogendra
(4) Swami Sivananda (5) None ofthese
Q.22. What does the letter ‘V’ denotes in the term ‘VAT’ as used in banking world?
(1) Valuable (2) Various
(3) Vendor (4) Very
(5) Value
Q.23. Wimbledon Championships 2011 was the —— edition of the Championships, Wimbledon.
(l) 125th (2) 135th
(3) 145th (4) 155th
(5) None ofthese
Q.24. ‘Pele’, the veteran Football player, belongs to which of the following countries?
(1) Argentina (2) Mexico
(3) Chile (4) Brazil
(5) None ofthese
Q.25. Mumbai-born writer ——–­has bagged the Betty Trask Award and the Desmond Elliot Prize.
( 1) Anita Desai (2) SmitaAgarwal (3)AnjaliJoseph (4)AjitCour
(5) None of these
Q.26. With which one of the following games, Azlan Shah Cup is associated?
(l) Lawn Tennis
(2) Football
(3) Badminton
(4) Hockey
(5) ~one ofthese
Q.27. Who has been honored with the 17th Indu Sharma Katha Samman 20 11 ?
(1) Barkha Dutt (2)VikasKumarJha
(3) Rajdeep Sardesai
(4) Udayan MukheIjee
(5) None ofthese
Q.28. ‘Business Correspondent’ model is launched to help customer of which of the following industries?
(1) Hotel (2) Telecom
(3) Banking (4) Airlines
(5) None ofthese
Q.29. Who has been awarded the 2011 Young Victorian of the Year award?
(1) Peter Varghese
(2) Akshay Venkatesh (3) Rhys Williams (4)AmitMenghani
( 5) None of these
Q.30. Which of the following is a scheme launched by the banks specially to help farmers?
(1) Kisan Credit Card Scheme (2) National Health Mission (3) Mid Day Meal
(4) ASHA
(5) None ofthese
Q.31. Telangana ideologue ———-­—— has passed away.
(1) K .Chandrasekhara Rao
(2) Dr. Kothapalli Jayashankar (3) N. JanardhanReddy
(4) K. Jana Reddy
( 5) None of these
Q.32. Which of the following services is not provided by the banks?
(1) Insurance Policy (2) Demand Draft (3) Money Transfer (4) Term Deposit
(5) Sale ofInfrastructure Bond
Q.33. Eminent ——— Professor Suresh D. Tendulkar has passed away.
(1) Economist
(2) Scientist
(3) Journalist
(4) Social Activist (5)None of these

Q.3.4. With which one of the following sports ‘AC Milan’ club is associated?
(1) Tennis (2) Football (3) Golf (4) Cricket (5) None ofthese
Q.35.John Waite who passed away recently, was a famous ———
(I) Boxer (2) Golfer
(3) Cricketer (4) Footballer (5) None ofthese
Q.36. A small vendor wants some financial assistance for the higher education of his son. Which loan he can avail from the bank?
(I) Personal Loan (2) Education Loan
(3) Reverse Mortgage Loan (4) Teaser Rate Loan
(5) None ofthese
Q.37.Senior Congress leader and
former ___ m __ minister A.
Sujanapal has passed away. (I) Kerala
(2) Karnataka
(3) Uttar Pradesh
(4) West Bengal
(5) None of these
Q.38. Who is Ms. Meira Kumar?
(I) DeputyChainnan,RajyaSabha (2) Speaker, Lok Sabha
(3) Chmman, Woom. Oxnrnmoo. (4) Revenue Secretary
(5) None of these
Q.39. Cinematographer has passed away.
(I) R.D Rajasekhar (2) S. Gopala Reddy (3) Ravi K. Chandran
(4) Prabhakar N. Niklankar (5) None of these
Q.40. Which of the following is a Private Bank functioning in India?
(I)IDBIBank

(3) Bank ofBaroda
(4) Central Bank of India (5) None of these
Q.41.Noted ——– Anwar Farrukhabadi has passed away.
(I)Actor
(2) Cinematographer (3) Poet
(4) Film producer (5) None of these
Q.42. Who is Mr. Kamal Nath?
(I) Urban Development Minister, Govt. ofIndia
(2)Rural Development Minister, Govt. ofIndia
(3) Minister for National Highway, Govt. of India
(4)Minister for Public Distribution, Govt. ofIndia
(5) None of these
Q.43.Former Indian _u_u_u goalkeeper Manilal Ghatak has passed away.
(I) Hockey (2) Netball
(3) Football (4) Water Polo
(5) None of these
Q.44. Which scheme is NOT launched by the Govt. ofIndia? (I)MGNREGA
(2) Swajaldhara Yojana (3) BharatNirman
(4) Kutir Jyoti
(5) JivanAsha
Q.45. Daulatram Saran who passed away recently, was a famous —
(I) Mathematicians (2) Journalist
(3) Economist
(4) Politician
(5) None ofthese
Q.46. Which one of the following countries is not a member of SAARC?
(I) Nepal (2) Pakistan
(3) Iran (4) Bangladesh

(I)BSP (2)BJP
(3) Congress (4) CPI
(5) None ofthese
Q.48. With which one of the following games Sania Mirza is associated?
(I) Football (2) Golf
(3) Billiard (4) LawnTennis
(5) None ofthese
Q.49. Who is the Foreign Minister of UAE?
(1) Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed
Al Nahyan
(2) Hosni Mubarak (3) Omar al-Bashir (4) Sheikh Fahim
( 5) None of these
Q.50. Who is Mr. S.M. Krishna?
(I) Foreign Secretary, Govt. of India
(2) Foreign Minister, Govt. of India
(3) Home Secretary, Govt. of India
(4) Minister of State for Tourism, Govt. ofIndia
(5) None of these
Q.51. In which of the following countries, Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory is located?
(I) USA (2) India
(3)Japan (4)China
(5) None ofthese
Q.52. Which one of the following is not a banking term?
(I) Flow of Credit
(2) Fixed Rates
(3) Floating Rates
(4) Gold Loan
(5) Absolute Pressure
Q.53. Who is new coach of Indian Men’s Hockey Team?
(1) Jose Brasa
(2) Harendra Singh
(3) Michael Jack Nobbs
(4) Rajpal Singh
(5) None ofthese

Q.54. Diego Maradona, the famous football player, belongs to which one of the following countries?

(1) Brazil (3) France (5) Germany

Q.55 .. Eminent Hindi litterateur —–­———- has been honored with the Hindi Academy Shalaka Samman.

(1) Alok Kumar

(2) Arvind Kumar

(3) Ashish Kumar

(4) Amit Kumar

(5) None ofthese

Q.56. What is the full form of term PAC?

(1) PublicAccounts Committee (2) Parliamentary Accounts

Committee

(3) Parliamentary Accounts Commission

(4) PublicAccounts Commission (5) None ofthese

Q.57. Eminent ———- short story writer and Sahitya Akademi Award winner Saurav Kumar Chaliha has passed away.

(1) Assamese (2) Bengali (3)Punjabi (4) Gujarati (5) None ofthese

Q.58. With which one of the following games, Vijender Kumar is associated?

(1) Shooting (2) Badminton (3) Boxing

(4) Wrestling

(5) None ofthese

Q.59. Northern ——– Golfer Rory McIlroy got his first Major Title in 111 th U.S. Open.

(1)Netherland (2)Finland

(3) Ireland (4) England (5) None ofthese

Q.60. Which of the following is NOT a currency?

(1) Dollar (3) Won

(5) Tora

Q.61. Shah Rukh Khan won Best Actor award at the 12th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards

ceremony organised in ___ m

(1) Toronto (2) Vancouver

(3) Ontario (4) Ottawa

(5) None ofthese

Q.62. Who is Dr. C. Rangarajan?

(1) Chairman, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisor

(2) Chairman, National

Advisory Council

(3) Deputy Governor, RBI (4) Executive Director, RBI (5) None of these

Q.63. Who won the women’s singles title’ at Indonesia Open Super Series 20 II ?

(1) Saina Nehwal (2) Wang Yihan

(3) Shao Chieh Cheng (4) WongMewChoo (5) None ofthese

Q.64. Which of the following is NOT the name of an International Organisation/ agency?

(1)ADB (2) UNO

(3)DCB (4)WTO

(5) World Bank
Q.65. Red Bull’s Formula One World champion Sebastian Vettel of ­——– on 26 June 2011 won the European Grand Prix.

(1) Russia (2) Gernlany

(3) China (4) India

(5) Noneofthese

Q.66. Who amongst the following is NOT a famous cricket player? (1) M.S. Dhoni

(2) v.V.S. Laxman

(3) Sachin Tendulkar

(4) Rahul Gandhi

(5) Yuvraj Singh

Q.67. Who won the women’s singles title at 2011 Wimbledon Championships?

(1) Maria Sharapova (2) PetraKvitova

(3) Martina Navratilova (4) Anne Jones

(5) None ofthese

Q.68. Shimla is the capital city of which ofthe following States?

(1) Punjab

(2) Haryana

(3) Andhra Pradesh (4) Tamil Nadu

(5) Himachal Pradesh

Q.69. Who won the men’s singles title at 2011 Wimbledon Championships?

(1) Roger Federer

(2) Rafael Nadal

(3) Andy Roddick

(4) Novak Djokovic

(5) None of these

Q.70. Name of the Ms. Chanda Kochhar is associated with —.

(I) Banking (2) Politics

(3) Literature (4) Films (5) Sports

ANSWERS

Q.l.(4)
Q.2.(4)
Q.3.(3)
Q.4.(5)
Q.5.(3)
Q.6.(5)
Q.7.(1)
Q.8.(2)
Q.9.(1).
Q.IO.(3)
Q.ll.(4)    Q.12.(2)
Q.13.(3)
Q.14.(2)
Q.15.(2)
Q.16.(3)
Q.17.(3)
Q.18.(4)
Q.19.(1)
Q.20.(5)
Q.21.(2)   Q.22.(5)
Q.23.(l)
Q.24.(4)
Q.25.(3)
Q.26.(4)
Q.27.(2)
Q.28.(3)
Q.29.(4)
Q.30.(1)
Q.31.(2)   Q.32.(5)
Q.33.(1)
Q.34.(2)
Q.35.(3)
Q.36.(2)
Q.37.(1)
Q.38.(2)
Q.39.(4)
Q.40.(2)
Q.41.(3)   Q.42.(1)
Q.43.(3)
Q.44.(2)
Q.45.(4)
Q.46.(3)
Q.47.(4)
Q.48.(4)
Q.49.(1)
Q.50.(2)
Q.51.(1)   Q.52.(5)
Q.53.(3)
Q.54.(4)
Q.55.(2)
Q.56.(1)
Q.57.(1)
Q.58.(3)
Q.59.(3)
Q.60.(5)
Q.61.(1)   Q.62.(1)
Q.63.(2)
Q.64.(3)
Q.65.(2)
Q.66.(4)
Q.67.(2)
Q.68.(5)
Q.69.(4)
Q.70.(1)

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