General Knowledge Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who amongst the following is the Minister of Home Affairs in Union Cabinet of India at present ?
(A) Shivraj Patil
(B) Lalu Prasad Yadav
(C) P. Chidambaram
(D) Sharad Pawar
(E) None of these
Ans : c

2. Which of the following car companies in India announced a special savings scheme________ ‘Happy Customer Offer’ - in December 2007?
(a) Hyundai
(b) Tata
(c) Ford
(d) Maruti Suzuki
Ans : d

3. Who, among the following golfers, won the Target World Challenge Cup in Thousand Oaks on December 16, 2007?
(a) Zach Johnson
(b) Lee Westwood
(c) Tiger Woods
(d) HenrikStenson
Ans : c

4. The French Minister for Foreign and European Affairs who visited India in December 2007 to prepare the ground for French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit in January 2008 is .
(a) Bernard Kouchner
(b) Andrei Strahler
(c) William Tarbuck
(d) Philip Randell
Ans : a

5. The former British Prime Minister who, in December 2007, was welcomed into Britain’s Catholic community after his/ her conversion to the the Catholic Church is___________.
(a) John Major
(b) Tony Blair
(c) Rowan Williams
(d) Margaret Thatcher
Ans : b

6. In which of the following capital cities, of Gulf Cooperation Council countries, did Union Bank of India open its representative office in December 2007?
(a) Riyadh
(b) Doha
(c) Kuwait City
(d) Abu Dhabi
Ans : d

7. Which of the following countries on December 23, 2007 conclude the annual central rural work conference with a pledge to improve rural infrastructure, promote stable development of agriculture and facilitate a sustained income growth for farmers in the year 2008?
(a) Brazil
(b) Canada
(c) China
(d) Argentina
Ans : c

8. The Supreme Court of ___________ sentenced the former President, Alberto . K. Fujimori, on December 11, 2007 sentenced the former President K. Fujimori to six years in prison for ordering an illegal search as his government was collapsing in 2000.
(a) Peru
(b) Chile
(c) Colombia
(d) Mexico
Ans : a

9. After16, months of marathon hearing the inquiry into the 1985 Kanishka bombing ended in Toronto on December 13, 2007. The bombing of the Air India flight killed _________ people.
(a) 117
(b) 233
(c) 329
(d) 409
Ans : c

10. Hollywood star in box-office hits like ‘Monster-in-Law’, fitness guru and activist who turned seventy years old on December 21, 2007 is ___________.
(a) Olivia Silverstone
(b) Lisa Marigold
(c) Jane Fonda
(d) Elizabeth Turner
Ans : c

11. In December 2007, Nasdaq opened an office in the Asian capital-city of _________aimed at stepping up efforts at attracting more firms to list on the exchange and forging deeper ties with bourses and regulators.
(a) Seoul
(b) Beijing
(c) Tokyo
(d) Manila
Ans : b

12. Which of the following countries, on December 17, 2007, expressed its interest in investments by Indian corporates for construction and promotion of budget hotels in the island nation ?
(a) Sri Lanka
(b) Mauritius
(c) Maldives
(d) Tuvalu
Ans : a

13. The Eleventh Plan Document approved by the National Development Council (NDC) on December 19, 2007 envisages a growth of _____ percent during 2001-12 the terminal year of plan period.
(a) Eight
(b) Nine
(c) Ten
(d) Eleven
Ans : c

14. Whom did Zubin Kumar beat in the finals to win the youth boys’ crown in the National youth and junior table tennis championship in Indore on December 21 2007?
(a) Raj Mondal
(b) G. Sathiyan
(c) Devesh Karia
(d) Satyajit Prasanna
Ans : c

15. The American cyclist, stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title for doping, who was banned from all competitions in France by the country’s anti-doping agency AFLD, on December 19, 2007 is ___________ .
(a) Fabio Lefebore
(b) John Carragher
(c) Desmond Capello
(d) Floyd Landis
Ans : d