QUIZ GATE

GATE ACADEMYTHALAYOLAPARAMBU

WARM-UP EXERCISE (Time allotted is 3 minutes; One mark for each question)

1. Can you name a three lettered word for a Mouse-trap?2. If Mammotty marries Mariamma and they give birth to Mohammed and Mumthaj,

how many ‘m’s are there in all?3. Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?4. Do they have a fourth of July in England?5. Can a Punjabi man legally marry his widow’s sister?6. Divide 30 by ½ and add 10. what is the answer?7. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?8. A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half hour. how many

minutes would the pills last?9. A clerk in the butcher shop is 510 tall. What does he weigh?10. How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?11. How many birth days does the average man have?12. The product of the digits in a telephone dial?13. In which month do dogs bark less?14. A farmer has 17 sheep standing in a field and a but 9 drop down and die. HOW

many sheep are left standing?15. Two strangers build houses. They both forget one little item. They meet at a

hardware store and order the missing items. They are quoted rates as below:• a. One will cost them Rs. 100 b. 12 will cost them Rs. 200 c. 144 will cost them

Rs. 300 What is the item they both need

Reserve Bank of India increased the Reverse REPO rate from 6.5 to …

7 %

What is the country symbol of India?

Royal Bengal Tiger

(a) Royal Bengal Tiger (b) Lion (c) Peacock

(d) Lotus

With reference to the 61st National Film Award 2013 which was declared in January 2014, which of the following was conferred

with Best Actress award?

Geethanjali

What is the expanded form of SLR as far as Banking terminology is concerned?

Statutory Liquidity Ratio

Who is the only cricketer in the world who has scored the “Centuries of Century” and became

the first batsman in the history to score 100 International centuries?

Sachin Tendulkar(ODIs-49 & Tests 51)

Dr. Harsh Kumar Banwala has taken over as Chairman of which of the Apex Financial Institution?

NABARD

The renowned Hindi Poet, Govinda Mishra, was recently honoured with which prize 2013 declared in 2014?

SARASWATHY SAMMAN

The Cloud Computing System recently launched by the Govt. of India is named……?

Meghraj

Reserve Bank of India retained Repo rate in the recent Quarterly review. The

present REPO rate is …

8 %

What is the full form of FOSS?

Free and Open Source Software

Who is the Chairman of the Tata Group?

Cyrus Mistry

Excise Duty is a tax levied on..?

Production of goods

Which award is given to the coaches of sports persons?

Dronacharya Award

Modi Gold Cup is associated with which game?

Hockey

Standard and Poor’s is a Credit Rating Agency of international repute. Which of the following is one such agency of Indian origin?

CRISIL

Which is the highest award given for lifetime achievements in sports in India?

Dhyan Chand Award

Who won the Golden Ball prize (Foot ball) for best player in the World Cup Football match 2014 held at Marackana in Brazil ?

Lionell Messi

Which Indian born poet won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for his compilation named “3 Sections”?

Vijay Seshadri

If the President of India were to resign, he would address his resignation in writing to the……?

Vice President

Who among the following has been appointed as the Governor of RBI, consequent on retirement of D. Subbarao on 4th September 2013?

Reghuram G Rajan

Which International Organization is planning a common currency by 2020?

South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC)

IBSA summit concluded in Pretoria, South Africa. What does lBSA mean?

India Brazil South Africa

IMPS is the new term being used in banking sector. It’s full form is…

Inter bank Mobile Payment Service

The Nobel laureate Muhammed Yunus of Bangladesh founded which micro lending

organization ?

Bangladesh Gramin Bank

Who is believed to have been released the first

“Rupee”?

“Sher Shah Suri”{1486-1545 based on a ratio of 40 copper pieces

(paisa) per Rupee}

The First Bank Originated in India in the last decades of

18th century ?:

Bank of Hindustan

Which has become the first State in the country to constitute an exclusive “Agriculture Cabinet” to address the problems afflicting the farmers that arise from the recurrence of floods

and droughts.

Bihar

Which is the largest Wild Protection Programme in the history of India?

Green India Mission (GIM)

Who became the first Indian wicket keeper to cross 300 dismissals in One Day Internationals?

M.S.Dhoni

In India, the first Bank of Limited liability managed by Indians and founded in 1881

was

Oudh Commercial Bank

The Railway Budget 2014-2015 unveiled which project to connect all metro cities with semi high speed trains?

Diamond Quadrilateral Rail Project

What is the name of the pan-India multi-purpose smart card to be

introduced by the Railways?

Go India

Which rating agencies, for the first time ever, has downgraded its rating of US Government long term debt by one notch from

‘AAA’ to ‘AA+’?

The standard & Poor

WHAT IS THE NEW INITIATIVE WHICH HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS ONE OF

THE LARGEST AND AMBITIOUS PROGRAMMES TO REVIVE HEALTH

CARE IN THE WORLD?

NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH MISSION

WHERE IS THE HEAD OFFICE OF BANKS FOR INTERNATIONAL

SETTLEMENT (BIS) WHICH PROVIDES BANKING SERVICES FOR CENTRAL

BANKS

BASEL

Who is the 88 year old Scientist, known as Father of Green Revolution, awarded with the 28th Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration?

Dr.M.S.Swaminathan

IBA has a common networking system for sharing the ATM facilities in Mumbai which is known as…?

Shared Payment Network System

Coins of the rupee now legal tender are…?

50 paise and above

New Joint venture Partner of SBI FUNDS MANAGEMENT

PVT. LTD

Amundi India Holding

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM)

has announced ------as the new Chairman of its Executive Council for

2014-15.

R.Chandrasekar

COMPUTER LITERACY

Two or more computers connected to each other for

sharing information form a …

Network

computers that are portable and convenient for users who travel

are known as…

Laptops

What is the term for unsolicited e-mail?

Spam

Office LANs that are geographically apart on a large scale can be connected using a

corporate ..

WAN

The code for a web page is written using..

Hypertext

EXPAND ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

EXPAND DOS

Disk Operating System

The storage device used to compensate for the difference in

rates of flow of data from one device to another is termed as

Buffer

An E-R diagram is a graphic method presenting

Entity classes and its relationships

The account of information communications medium can transfer given amount of time.

Bandwidth

All the deleted items are stored in this until it is permanently deleted. This place is called

Virtual hard drive

A normal compiler take source code as input and produce this as

output

Machine Code

A computer science branch that is evolved in using

computers to solve that appear to require human imagination

or intelligence is called as

AI

What is the name of the software bug that is in news across the world?

Heartbleed

The server on the internet is also known as

Repeater

EBCDIC can code up to how many different characters?

256

Which computer memory is used for storing programs and data

currently being processed by CPU

PROM

Which American company is called Big Blue

IBM

Who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control

patterns of a weaving machine?

Hollerith

What is the MICR technique used for clearance of cheques by Banks?

Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

The word ‘FTP’ as used in the field of computers stands for

File Transfer Protocol

What is NEFT?

National Electronic Fund Transfer

ALU and control sections have special purpose locations called

Registers

A device that operates on data in the form of continuously varying physical quantities

Analog computer

The basic architecture of computer was developed by

John Von Neuman

Plotter accuracy is measured in terms of repeatability and…

Resolution

Who invented the microprocessor

Marcian Huff

Which was the computer conceived by Babbage

Donald Knuth

A name or number used to identify a storage location is

called

An Address

Whereas a computer mouse moves over the table surface, the trackball is

Stationary

The server on the internet is also known as

Repeater

The VIDEOCON developed a new technology that made 3-D imaging possible through the use of videotape played on an

advanced television set, it would be more likely to market this innovation if it could obtain a…..

Patent

Bank marketing means…..

Selling Bank’s products and services

Proper pricing is required for…..

Good customer service

A lead means….

A target customer

A good salesman should be …..

Polite; but firm

Retailer is a sub-element of…

Place

HNI means….

High Net worth Individual

Digital Banking means….

Internet Banking & Tele Banking

Home loans are granted to…..

Individuals

Credit cards are used for…….

Cash withdrawals, purchase of air tickets, purchase of consumable items for retail etc.

The ATMs are……

Unmanned cash dispensers

Internet Banking means…

Banking transactions through Internet

Customer loyalty means..

Customer banking with one Bank.

Premier, a smokeless cigarette, failed because it could not be easily lit with a match. The failure was

due to ;

Lack of customer satisfaction

Evaluating marketing performance by company by established standards is part of …

Market control

To effectively monitor changes in the in the marketing environment, marketers must engage in

Environmental scanning and analysis

Marketing strategy during a recession should include….

Promotional efforts that promote value and utility.

In a period of recovery, the best marketing strategy for Electrolux would be

characterised by which of the following?

Flexibility

The Chairman of Unilever states that the world is just one market. He feels that anyone not taking this stance is systematically passing up

profitable business. His approach most closely resembles…

Global marketing

Which of the following is often used to raise revenue for a country and or to protect domestic products?

Import tariff

Cuisnart Corporation own the Spalding name but does not produce a single Golf Club or Tennis ball. This arrangement

could indicate what type of organizational structure for international marketing?

Licensing

Body shop and Benetton are examples of companies which have employed ……as a

market entry strategy.

Franchising

If Kwik-Fit runs an advertisement asking customers to check windscreen wiper blades for wear, the firm is attempting to stimulate which of the following?

Problem recognition

Sanket and Pankaj are caught up in a stress craze and are looking for a health club to join. This purchase is likely to be

affected by

Enduring involvement

………….is a raw material for a sugar industry.

Sugarcane

Essex Office Products has decided to use a particular competitive tool that it feels will have a major impact. It’s consultant Dr.Bell contents that this particular approach is the one most easily copied by it’s competitors. The tool is..

Price

A small hardware store, whose only competitor is a discount store would be least likely to use which

competitive tool?

Ans. Price

Company computer collects information about political, legal regulatory, societal, economic competitive and technological forces that may affect its marketing activities. This process is

called …..

Ans. Environmental scanning

Capri is a brand of cigarette that contains low tar and slim in design to appeal the women. In this instance

women comprise Capri’s….

Target market

When Dupont develops a new carpet that are highly stain resistant and

durable, it must educate consumers about the product’s benefits. This calls

for the following activity

Promotion

Mrs. Kelly is a Marketing Manager in a large consumer foods company. She is

studying distribution, promotion and price of the company’s products. Kelly is

studying the Company’s..

Marketing mix.

1. Hat trick means ?

Ans. continuous three goals

2. Send the hat round?

Ans. invite contributions, donations

3. To make both ends meet?

Ans. to live with one’s income

4.Thorn in one’s flesh

Ans. a person causing continuous nuisance

5. Other side of the coin

Ans. alternative version or side of an issue

6. Poke One’s Nose Into

Ans. Involve unnecessarily

7. to face the music

Ans. To face the consequences boldly

8. move heaven and earth

Ans. Do everything humanly possible

9. burn the midnight oil

Ans. To work or study with out sleep

10. Die in harness

Ans. Die while in service (job)

11. What is the meaning of the

Consanguinity?

Ans. blood relation.

12. What is the one word for wanting or eating great quantities of food?

voracious

13. An illusion of hearing something

Ans. Hallucination

14. An apple of discord

Ans. A cause of quarrel

15. ‘Call a spade a spade’ means what?

Ans. Speak frankly and directly