GATE ACADEMY

THALAYOLAPARAMBU

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 ms 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 widows sister?
6. Divide 30 by 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?

(a) Royal Bengal Tiger

(b) Lion

(d) Lotus

Royal Bengal Tiger

(c) Peacock

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 Poors 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. Its 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 Banks 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. Its
consultant Dr.Bell contents that this particular approach is the
one most easily copied by its 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 Capris.

Target market

When Dupont develops a new carpet

that are highly stain resistant and
durable, it must educate consumers
about the products 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 companys products. Kelly is
studying the Companys..

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 ones income

4.Thorn in ones flesh

Ans. a person causing
continuous nuisance

5. Other side of the

coin
Ans. alternative

version or
side of an issue

6. Poke Ones
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