General Knowledge Part Two

11. Which of the following taxes has been reduced from 100% to 70% in 2003-04 budget?
(a) Service Tax (b) Entertainment Tax (c) Corporate Tax (d) Sales Tax

12. Which of the following is country’s first Non-Banking Financial Corporation (NBFC) to have been converted
into a bank and have also started its operations?
(a) ICICI (b) IDBI
(c) HDFC (d) Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd.

13. World’s fastest computer at present is
(a) ASCI Purple. (b) Deep Blue. (c) Param. (d) Earth Simulator.

14. Identify the wrong pair.
Personality Year of winning Nobel Prize
(a) Rabindranath Tagore 1913
(b) H. Khorana 1966
(c) S. Chandrashekhar 1983
(d) C. V. Raman 1930

15. The most famous movie of 75th Oscar Awards Chicago has been directed by
(a) Peter O’ Tool. (b) Rob Marshall. (c) Roman Polanski. (d) Adrian Brandy.

16. Justice Adarsh Sen Anand was recently in news as he was appointed as the chairman of
(a) National Commission for SCs and STs. (b) National Human Rights Commission.
(c) Telecome Regulatory Authority of India. (d) National Commission for Minorities.

17. The leading silk producing state in India is
(a) Karnataka. (b) West Bengal. (c) Madhya Pradesh. (d) Himachal Pradesh.

18. ‘Kaizen’ means
(a) restructuring the processes.
(b) error-free production.
(c) continuous improvement in work process.
(d) weakening the weaknesses by strengthening the strengths.

19. According to the Berlin-based Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2002, out of the
surveyed 102 countries, which of the following was the most corrupt nation?
(a) Paraguay (b) India (c) Nigeria (d) Bangladesh

20. According to the survey of Indian population 2001, which of the following states was the least populated?
(a) Punjab (b) Goa (c) Haryana (d) Mizoram

Answer:
11 b        12 d               13 d
14 b       15 b                 16 b
17 a        18 c               20 b