General Knowledge Part Three

21. Which of the following accounting majors have recently changed its name to Bearing Point ?
(a) Arthur Anderson (b) A. F. Ferguson (c) KPMG (d) Ernst & Young

22. Who is the present disinvestment minister of India?
(a) M. Venkaiah Naidu (b) Pradeep Baijal (c) Arun Shourie (d) Ram Naik

23. Who is the present director-general of World Trade Organisation?
(a) Mike Moore (b) James D. Wolfenson
(c) Klaus Schwab (d) Supachai Panitchpakadi

24. Who is the present chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)?
(a) A. K. Purwar (b) G. N. Bajpayee (c) N. Rangachari (d) K. V. Kamath

25. Which Indian state attracted the maximum foreign direct investment in 2001-2002?
(a) Kerala (b) Maharashtra (c) Karnataka (d) Orissa

26. Which of the following companies launched ‘Pure for Sur’ campaign?
(a) Tata Salt (b) BPCL (c) Amul (d) Mother Dairy

27. According to the Union Budget 2003-04, the service tax has been raised from the present 5
per cent to
(a) 10 per cent. (b) 9 per cent. (c) 8 per cent. (d) 7 per cent.

28. Tenth Five-year Plan will end in
(a) 2004. (b) 2005. (c) 2006. (d) 2007.

29. According to the latest Census 2001, the literacy rate of India is
(a) 52.56%. (b) 59.66%. (c) 65.38%. (d) 68.42%.

30. Who among the following personalities won the Nobel Prize 2002 for Literature?
(a) Salman Rushdie (b) Yann Martel (c) Rohinton Mistry (d) Imre Kertesz

Answer: 

21 c

22 c

23 d

24 b

25 b

26 b 

27 c 

28 d 

29 c 

30 d