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General Awareness

  1. Algebra
  2. Progressions
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  14. Percentages
  15. Permutation & Combination
  16. Pipes & Cisterns And Work & Time
  17. Probability
  18. Profit & Loss
  19. Races
  20. Ratio, Proportion
  21. Speed, Time & Distance
  22. Trigonometry
  23. Miscellaneous
  24. General Knowledge
December 31, 2002
The General Awareness questions for the day are given below.

1. Who is the disinvestments minister in the Union Cabinet of India?
(1) Arun Shourie
(2) Ram Naik
(3) Shatrugan Sinha
(4) K C Pant
   
2. Who headed the committee that recommended the recent tax reforms which is being heatedly debated at present?
(1) C Rangarajan
(2) K C Pant
(3) Kelkar
(4) Malhotra
   
3. Who is the present (2002) Prime Minister of Sri Lanka?
(1) Anura Bandaranaike
(2) Ranil Wickremasinghe
(3) Chandrika Kumaratunga
(4) Anadasangaree
   
4. Which Indian group has partnered to bring the Hutch brand of Mobile phone service into the country?
(1) J K group
(2) Eicher group
(3) Escorts group
(4) Essar Group
   
5. Dockers brand of Khakis is owned by
(1) Lee Cooper Apparels
(2) Levi Strauss & Co
(3) GAP
(4) None of these
   
6. Which Indian group has acquired Hughes Tele.com the basic telecom service provider in Maharastra?
(1) A V Birla Group
(2) Tata group
(3) Reliance group
(4) Bharti group
   
7. The range of Agni-II missile is around
(1) 500 km
(2) 2000 km
(3) 4000 km
(4) 5000 km
   
8. Hoysalal Empire monuments are found in
(1) Hampi and Bangalore
(2) Hospet and Belur
(3) Halebid and Belur
(4) Dharwar and Halebid
   
9. Metastasis is the process by which
(1) cancer cells spread through the blood or lymphatic system to other sites or organs
(2) the chromosomes in cells nuclei are attached to the spindle before moving to the anaphase poles
(3) cancer cells are successfully inhibited to divide any further
(4) none of these
   
10. The chess player Alexi Shirov represents
(1) Chechnya
(2) Kazakhstan
(3) Russia
(4) Spain

Answer Key
(1) 1  (6) 2
(2) 3  (7) 2
(3) 2   (8) 3
(4) 4  (9) 1
(5) 2  (10) 4
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