GK Tricks 28

[1] Who has sworn-in as the first woman Chief Minister of Gujarat on 22 May 2014?
Ans - Anandiben Patel
[2] When was International Day for Biological Diversity observed across the world?
Ans - 22 May 2014
[3] Who has been appointed as new Director General of Police of Jammu and Kashmir?
Ans - K Rajendra Kumar
[4] Name the Snooker champion who has been nominated for Arjuna awards announced by the Billiards and Snooker Association of India (BSFI)?
Ans - Chitra Magimairaj
[5] Who has been selected as Managing Director of ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) by Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB)?
Ans - Narendra Kumar Verma
[6] When is International Museum Day celebrated?
Ans – 18th May
[7] Who won the Cricket Club of India (CCI) Classic Billiards and Snooker tournament?
Ans - Pankaj Advani
[8] Who took over as the new Chief Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission?
Ans - Former IB chief Rajiv Mathur
[9] Which economies of the world have been declared world’s most expensive economies in a ranking released by the World Bank recently?
Ans - Switzerland, Norway
[10] What is the name of the India’s own card payment system that has been dedicated to the nation recently by President Pranab Mukherjee?
Ans - RupayCard

Books and Authors

Books and Authors 

01. My experiments with Truth: Mahatma M.K.Gandhi 
02. Far from the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy 
03. Geetanjali: Rabindra Nath Tagore
 04. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch: Alexander Solzhenitsyn 
05. The Merchant of venice: William shakespeare 
06. The Moon and Six pense : Somerset Maughan 
07. Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come: John Bunyan 
08. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens
09. Utopia: Sir Thomas Moor 
10. Origin of species: Charles Darwin 
11. David Copperfield: Charles Dickens 
12. A passage to India: E.M.Forster 
13. Gulliver's Travels: Jonathan Swift 
14. Discovery of India: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru 
15. The Vicar of Wakefield: Oliver Goldsmith 
16. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edward Gibbon 
17. The Lady of the Last Minstrel: Sir Walter Scott 
18. Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen 
19. Time Machine: H.G. Wells 
20. Arthashastra: Kautilya 
21. Le Contract Social: Jean Jacques Rousseau 
22. Avigyan Sakuntalam: Kalidas 
23. Anand Math: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay 
24. Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler 
25. Ain-i-Akbari: Abul Fazal 
26. Akbar-Nama: Abul Fazal 
27. Shakuntala: Kalidas 
28. War and peace: Leo Tolstoy 
29. A Dangerous place: D.P. Moynihan 
30. Raghuvamsa: Kalidas 
31. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle 
32. Adventures of Tom Saweyer: Mark Twain 
33. Agni Veena: Kazi Nasrul Islam 
34. Alice in Wonderland: Lewis Carrol 
35. Ancient Mariner: Coleridge 
36. Animal Farm: George Orwell 
37. Anna Karenina: Leo Tolstoy 
38. Antony and Cleopatra: Shakespeare 
39. Arms and the Man: G.B.Shaw 
40. Around the World in eighty days: Jules Verne 
41. Baburnama: Babur 
42. Ben Hur: Lewis Wallace 
43. Bhagwat Gita: Ved Vyas 
44. Bisarjan: R.N.Tagore 
45. Canterbury Tales: Chaucer 
46. Chitra: R.N.Tagore 
47. Count of Monte Cristo: Alexander Dumas 
48. Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky 
49. Das Kapital : Karl Marx 
50. Divine Comedy: Dante

CURRENT AFFAIRS

CURRENT AFFAIRS


1)Who is chosen for "Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013" ?
 ➖ Gulzar
2)Who was crowned as the new Miss India in the 51st Femina Miss India contest ?
 ➖ Koyal Rana
3)Union Minister K. Sambasiva Rao was holding which portfolio? 
➖ Union Textiles Minister
4)Indian woman who won the "International Women of Courage Award 2014"? 
➖ Ms. Laxmi
5)Till now (2014) how many Bharat Ratna\'s have been awarded? 
➖ 43
6)Who was appointed as new Commerce Secretary on 15 Jan 2014? 
➖ Rajeev Kher
7)Rashtriya Kishore Swasthya Karyakaram program of Indian Govt targets which age group?
 ➖ 10-19 years
8)Football player-Eusebio known as "Black Panther" belonged to which country? 
➖ Portugal
9)New Fossil National Park is proposed in which state?
 ➖ Uttrakhand
10)Which state in India has proposed new Time Zone ? 
➖ Assam

Important GK Questions and Answers

Competitive Exams - Important GK Questions and Answers

 1. What is the Full form of PIN? 
Answer. Postal Index Number 

2. When did the Pin system Started in India? 
Answer. 1972

3. Which is the first Indian post office outside Indian Territory?
 Answer. Post office at Dakshin Gangotri in Antarctica (1983) 

4. When did the speed post service started in India? 
Answer. 1986 

5. Which Governor General found Telegraph and Postal systems? 
Answer. Lord Dalhousie 

6. When did the first General Post Office opened in India? 
Answer. 1774 (Kolkata) 

7. Which is the first postage stamp of India? 
Answer. Sinde Dawk (1852) 

SBI - PO MARKETING QUESTIONS

SBI - PO MARKETING QUESTIONS


Q.1. A theory states that no matter how efficiently goods/service are produced, if they cannot be delivered to the customer in the quickest possible time it is vain-this theory is called-
(1) Quickest the best
(2) Instant service
(3) Service on time
(4) Timely effort
(5) Matter theory

Q.2. Demonstration is an exercises to-
(1) attractively pack and display the goods
(2) Prove the characteristic of the product
(3) Both 1 and 2
(4) Window shop
(5) Neither 1 nor 2

Q.3. In selling "Consumption" is the ultimate goal of the sales while a marketer-
(1) Identifies consumer needs and wants.
(2) Develop an appropriate product/service to attain customer satisfaction.
(3) Accomplish organizational goals through integrated marketing approach
(4) all of the above.
(5) None of these

GK Tricks : 22

* First India bank Got ISO : Canara Bank
* First Governor of RBI : Mr. Osborne Smith
* First Indian governor of RBI : Mr. C D Deshmukh
* First Bank to Introduce ATM in India : HSBC
* First Bank to introduce savings : Presidency bank in 1833
* First Bank to Introduce Cheque system : Bengal Bank 1784
* First Bank to introduce Internet Banking : ICICI BANK
* First Bank to introduce Mutual Fund : State Bank of India
* First Bank to introduce Credit Card : Central Bank of India
* First Foreign Bank in India : Comptoire d’Escompte de Paris of France in 1860
* First Joint Stock Bank of India : Allahabad Bank
* First Bank that is oldest Public Bank in India : Allahabad Bank
* First national bank that is merged with Punjab National Bank : New Bank of India in 1993
* First Indian bank to open branch outside India in London in 1946 : Bank of India
* First Indian Bank started with Indian capital / indigenous Bank of India : Punjab National Bank
* First Regional Rural Bank name Prathama Grameen Bank - Was started by : Syndicate Bank
First Bank to launch branch in foreign was "Bank of India" in 1946 in London UK.
* First bank to Introduce Credit card in India was Central Bank of India With "Central Card" 1980.
* First Bank to introduce Debit Card in India was Citibank In Bangalore in 1987.

Computer GK Questions

Computer GK Questions

1. Father of supercomputer is:
Answer: Seymour Cray
2. Father of Computer Science is:
Answer: Alan Turing
3. First Cyber police station established in India was at:
Answer: Bangalore
4. Internet controlling in India is by:
Answer: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
5. Name the first Supercomputer in the world?
Answer: The CDC 6600, released in 1964, is generally considered as the
first supercomputer.
6. RAM stands for:
Answer: Random Access Memory
7. CPU stands for:
Answer: Central Processing Unit
8. WAP stands for:
Answer: Wireless Application Protocol
9. Compact Disc (CD) invented by:
Answer: James T. Russell
10. Computer Programming Language 'C' introduced by:
Answer: Dennis Ritchie.

Important Current Affairs for SSC, SBI PO 2014

Important Current Affairs for SSC, SBI PO 2014
• Arvind Mayaram has been appointed as the new Finance Secretary on 15 April.
• Baroda won the National Syed Mustaq Ali Cricket T20 Trophy title after defeated Uttar Pradesh in the final match by three runs on 14 April at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
• ‘ The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh ‘ written by Dr. Sanjaya Baru.
• Veteran film lyricist and director Gulzar has been chosen for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2013.
• Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha has been appointed as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI) .
• Ratan Tata, the former chairman of the Tata Group which is one of the largest employers in Britain, has been honoured by Queen Elizabeth with a GBE (Knight Grand Cross), one of the UK’s highest civilian awards.
• R Chandrasekaran Takes Over As NASSCOM chairman.
• Sachin Tendulkar Adorns Cover of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.
• Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian American novelist Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Lowland” has been shortlisted for the 2014 Baileys Prize, the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman.
• Ravi Chauhan was appointed as Managing Director for SAP India.
• Koyal Rana won the coveted Miss India 2014 crown at the 51st edition of the pageant.
• Indian Cricket Captain MS Dhoni has won United Kingdom’s 2014 Asian award for outstanding achievement in sports.
• Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) received the Most Efficient Navratna Award for the year 2013.
• The government has appointed R Gandhi as deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 3 April.
• Union Government appointed senior IPS officer D K Pathak as the new Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF).
• The seventh annual World Autism Awareness Day 2014 was celebrated across the world on 2 April 2014.
• Narendra Kothari Appointed As new Chairman of NMDC(National Mineral Development Corporation Limited on 17 April
• Admiral Robin K Dhowan on 17 April took over as the 22nd Chief of Indian Navy
• State Bank of India (SBI) launched Tablet (Tab) Banking service for opening Savings Bank accounts
• The Supreme Court of India, in a landmark judgment on 15th April 2014, created the “third gender” status for transgenders.
• India-born poet Vijay Seshadri has won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize.

Current Affairs January 2014

Current Affairs January 2014

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SSC Exam General Knowledge [GK] Questions

SSC Exam General Knowledge [GK] Questions


1. In 1974 India surprised the world by exploding a "nuclear device" in an underground test in........ state.
Answer: Rajasthan

2. The cheapest transport in India is:
Answer: Water transport

3. Public health and sanitation, under the Indian Constitution fall in ......... list.
Answer: State list

 4. The festival kumbhamela is celebrated in:
Answer: Allahabad (UP)

5. The largest planet is:
Answer: Jupiter

6. Name the capital of Switzerland:
Answer: Berne

7. Who wrote Asian Drama?
Answer: Gunnar Myr Dal

8. Pneumonia affects:
Answer: Lungs

9. Arms and the man is a drama written by:
Answer: Bernard Shaw

10. One word for a group of islands.
Answer: Archipelago

11. The game chess had its origin in:
Answer: India

12. How many bones are there in the human body?
Answer: 206

13. The first Cricketer who complete 300 one day internationals.
Answer: Wasim Akram

14. The first month of the Saka era is:
Answer: Chaithra

15. Black Revolution associated with the production of ….?
Answer: Petroleum

16. Operation Flood associated with the increase in the production of …………….? Answer: Milk

17. Which country is the leading producer of vegetables?
Answer: China

18. Which is the major type of soil in India?
Answer: Alluvial Soil

19. …………. Is the leading of producer of tea in the world?
Answer: China

20. Who authored the Bok ‘The One Straw Revolution’?
Answer: Masanobu Fukuoka

21. Who is known as ‘The Father of Organic Farming’?
Answer: Albert Howard