KNOWLEDGE ADDA: November 2012

IIFT General Awareness Questions and Answers, Final Cut off (Updated for IIFT 2013)

IIFT 2012 General Awareness Questions and Answers, Final Cut off

	Quantitative Aptitude	General Awareness	Logical Reasoning & Data Interpretation	Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension	Total
Maximum Marks	25.00	14.00	34.00	27.00	100
Sectional Cut-off	6.00	1.667	8.917	7.00	-

IIFT 2012 General Awareness Questions and Answers

1 Picture shown on the first stamp of independent India-                 The new Indian Flag

2 City hosted summer olympics maximum number of times-             London

3 Length of coastline of mainland INDIA -                                     6100 KM

4. Treaty led to creation of the single European Currency EURO - Masstricht Treaty

5. Indian Winner of Magsaysay Award 2012-            Kulandei Francis

6.Mullaperiyar Dam Controversy-                            Kerla Tamilnadu

7 11:55 Greenwich Mean Time hours in India        16:45(+5.30)

8 4th bricks Summit-                  New Delhi

9.God Particle -                         Higgs Bosson Particlel

10 Hosni Mubarak -                  National Democratic Party
Aung San Suu Kyi                National League for Democracy
   Francois Hollande -    Socialist Party

11. Myanmar is Member of ASEAN

12. North to South -                           Jhelum Narmada Godaveri Kaveri

13. Played final but never win world cup- South Africa , England

14. 2012 Olympics Men's Football Gold Medal - Mexico

15. World AIDS Day                      1 December
   UN Day 24 October
   Earth Day-                               April 22
   Internation Women Day          8 March

16.Year of great divide in the demographic history of India 1921

17.GAAR-                                        General Anti Avoidance Rule

18 Not a vice president before becoming president- Giani Zail Singh

19. First Hindi Film -                                                       Raja Harishchandra
First Hindi Colur Film-                                             Kisan Kanya
First Hindi Film Nominated for Oscar -                   Mother India
First Hindi Film With Sound -                                 Alam Ara

20. BMW                                              Mini
FIAT                                              Chrysler
General Motors-                           Cadillac
Volkswagen -                                 Bentley

21 CIC-    Pradep Kumar
CVC                                               Satyananda Mishra
    CEC-                                             V.S. Sampath
    CJI-                                               S.H. Kampadia (Now Altamas Kabir)

22.Hungary                        Budapest                         Forint
    Iran                               Tehran                             Rial
    Morocco                        Rabat                              Dirham
    Romania                       Bucharest                        Leu

23.Open-                                          Andre Agassi
     Living History -                          Hilery Clinton
     The elephent to hollywood -    Michel Caine
     Every second Counts -    Lance Armstrong

24 Vanishing point in Painting- The point on the horizon where parallel lines appear to meet

IIFT 2013 General Awareness Questions and Answers, Final Cut off

Exam Date 24November 2013

	Quantitative Aptitude	General Awareness	Logical Reasoning & Data Interpretation	Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension	Total
Maximum Marks	25.00	14.00	34.00	27.00	100
Sectional Cut-off	6.34	1.8	9.75	5.75	-

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ONGC GT 2012 General Awareness Questions(Objectives)

GSAT 10

GSAT-10, with a design life of 15 years is expected to be operational by November and will augment telecommunication, Direct-To-Home and radio navigation services.At 3,400 kg at lift-off, it is the heaviest built by Bangalore-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation. It was ISRO's 101st space mission.Arianespace's heavy lifting Ariane-5 ECA rocket launched the satellite about 30 minutes after the blast off from the European launch pad in South America at 2.48 am, prior to which it injected European co-passenger ASTRA 2F into orbit. GSAT-10 carries 30 transponders (12 Ku-band, 12 C-band and six Extended C-Band), which will provide vital augmentation to INSAT/GSAT transponder capacity

Blood Circulation in Heart

Oxygen-poor blood enters the right atrium of the heart (via veins called the inferior vena cava and the superior vena cava). The blood is then pumped into the right ventricle and then through the pulmonary artery to the lungs, where the blood is enriched with oxygen (and loses carbon dioxide). The oxygen-rich (oxygenated) blood is then carried back to the left atrium of the heart via the pulmonary vein. The blood is then pumped to the left ventricle, then the blood is pumped through the aorta and to the rest of the body. This cycle is then repeated. Every day, the heart pumps about 2,000 gallons (7,600 liters) of blood, beating about 100,000 times.

Seven sisters in India

The Seven Sisters of India are the seven relatively unexplored and isolated Indian states -- Assam, Nagaland, Tripura, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh -- which for many years was closed to foreigners. This land, better known to the world as the North-Eastern region of India, borders China, Tibet, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. India's remote northeast, the area comprising the seven states stretching from Tibet in the north to Myanmar (Burma) in the south, among them Nagaland, Meghalaya, and Assam. In this area, rarely visited by foreigners, peoples scarcely known to the Western world continue a way of life steeped in ancient ritual.

Mineral Resources in India

India has a large number of economically useful minerals and they constitute one-quarter of the world's known mineral resources.

About two-thirds of its iron deposits lies in a belt along Odisha and Bihar border. Other haemaite deposits are found in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharastra and Goa.

Magnetite iron-ore is found in Tamilnadu, Bihar and Himachal. I

ndia has the world's largest deposits of coal. Bituminous coal is found in Jharia and Bokaro in Bihar and Ranigunj in West Bengal.

Lignite coals are found in Neyveli in Tamilnadu.

Next to Russia, India has the largest supply of Manganese. The manganese mining areas are Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra and Bihar-Odisha area.

Chromite deposits are found in Bihar, Cuttack district in Odisha, Krishna district in Andhra and Mysore and Hassan in Karnataka.

Bauxite deposits are found in western Bihar, southwest Kashmir, Central Tamilnadu, and parts of Kerala, U.P, Maharastra and Karnataka.

India also produces third quarters of the world's mica. Belts of high quality mica are, Bihar, Andhra and Rajasthan. Gypsum reserves are in Tamilnadu and Rajasthan.

Nickel ore is found in Cuttack in Bihar and Mayurbanj in Odisha.

Ileminite reserves are in Kerala and along the east and the west coastal beaches.

Silimanite reserves are in Sonapahar of Meghalaya and in Pipra in M.P.

Copper ore bearing areas are Agnigundala in Andhra, Singhbum in Bihar, Khetri and Dartiba in Rajasthan and parts of Sikkhim and Karnataka.

The Ramagiri field in Andhra, Kolar and Hutti in Karnataka are the important gold mines.

The Panna diamond belt is the only diamond producing area in the country, which covers the districts of Panna, Chatarpur and Satna in Madya Pradesh, as well as some parts of Banda in Uttar Pradesh.

Petroleum deposits are found in Assam and Gujarat. Fresh reserves were located off Bombay.

The potential oil bearing areas are, Assam, Tripura, Manipur, west Bengal, Punjab, Himachal, Kutch and the Andamans.

India also possesses the all-too valuable nuclear uranium as well as some varieties of rare earths.

SOILS

Soil-types in India can be classified into three groups.

The first group comprises of the alluvial, black and red soils, which are basically fertile and are arable and cultivatable.

The second group consists of the peaty and marshy, the saline and alkaline soils which are potentially arable.

The third group is the laterite and forest and hill soils, which are not at all suitable for cultivation. The main alluvial area is found in the Indo-Gangetic plain and the Peninsular regions.

The main crops are rice, sugarcane and wheat. Black soil is found in the northwestern regions and in the Deccan lava areas and Tamilnadu.

Black soil is especially suited for cotton. Red soil is particularly rich in potash and is found in northern and central India.

The peaty and marshy soils are found in the Bengal deltas, Saline and alkaline soils in the semi-arid regions of Bihar, U.P, Gujarat, Punjab and Rajasthan.

Desert soils are found in the minimum rain receiving areas of Gujarat, Punjab and Rajasthan. Laterite soil is common in the low hills of Andhra, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Assam.

There are two crop seasons: Kharif, Rabi.

The major Kharif crops are rice, jowar, maize, cotton, sugarcane, sesame and groundnut.

The Rabi crops are wheat, jowar, barley, gram, rapeseed and mustard and the summer crops are rice, maize, groundnut and some cash crops.

List of countries by uranium production

1 Kazakhstan
2 Canada
3 Australia
4 Namibia
5 Niger
6 Russia
7 Uzbekistan
8 United States
9 Ukraine
10 China

Indian order of precedence - Protocol List

1 President

2 Vice President

3 Prime Minister

4 Governors of states (within their respective states)

5 Former Presidents, Deputy Prime Minister

6 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Speaker

7 Former Prime Ministers, Cabinet Ministers of the Union, Leaders of Chief Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission of India , Chief Ministers of States (within their respective states), Holders of the Bharat Ratna decoration

8 Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and High Commissioners of the Commonwealth of Nations accredited to India, Governors of states (outside their respective states), Chief Ministers of states (outside their respective states)

9 Judges of the Supreme Court, Comptroller and Auditor General of India , Chief Election Commissioner of India , Chairman of Union Public Service Commission

10 Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha , Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha , Members of the Planning Commission, Deputy Chief Ministers of States, Ministers of State of the Union (and any other Minister in the Ministry of Defence for defence matters)

11 Attorney General of India , Cabinet Secretary , Lieutenant Governors (within their respective Union Territories)

12 Chiefs of staff holding the rank of full General or equivalent rank (Air Chief Marshal, Admiral)

13 Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary accredited to India

14 Chairman and Speakers of State Legislatures within their respective States, Chief Justices of High Courts within their respective jurisdictions

15 Cabinet Ministers in States within their respective States, Chief Ministers of Union Territories and Chief Executive Councillor of Delhi, within their respective Union Territories, Deputy Ministers of the Union

16 Officiating Chiefs of Staff holding the rank of Lieutenant General or equivalent rank

17 Chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal, Chairman of Minorities Commission, Chairman of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission, Chief Justice of High Courts outside their respective jurisdictions, Puissant Judges of High Courts within their respective jurisdictions

18 Cabinet Ministers in States outside their respective States, Chairmen and Speakers of State Legislatures outside their respective States, Chairmen of Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission, Deputy Chairmen and Deputy Speakers of State Legislatures within their respective States, Ministers of State in States within their respective States, Ministers of Union Territories and Executive Councilor of Delhi within their respective Union Territories, Speakers of Legislative Assemblies in Union Territories and Chairman of Delhi Metropolitan Council within their respective Union Territories

19 Chief Commissioners of Union Territories not having Councils of Ministers, within their respective Union Territories, Deputy Ministers in States within their respective States, Deputy Speakers of Legislative Assemblies in Union Territories and Deputy Chairman of Metropolitan Council Delhi within their respective Union Territories

20 Deputy Chairman & Deputy Speakers of State Legislatures, outside their respective States, Ministers of State in States outside their respective States, Puisne Judges of High Courts outside their respective jurisdictions.

21 Members of Parliament

22 Deputy Ministers in States outside their respective States

23 Army Commanders/Vice Chief of the Army Staff or equivalent in other Services, Chief Secretaries to State Governments within their respective States, Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Commissioner for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Members of Minorities Commission, Members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission, Officers of the rank of full General or equivalent rank, Secretaries to the Government of India (including officers holding this office ex-officio), Secretary of Minorities Commission, Secretary of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission, Secretary to the President, Secretary to the Prime Minister, Secretary to Rajya Saba/Lok Saba, Solicitor General of India , Vice-Chairman, Central Administrative Tribunal

24 Officers of the rank of Lieutenant-General, Vice-Admiral or Air Marshal

25 Additional Secretaries to the Government of India, Additional Solicitor General, Advocate Generals of States, Chairman, Tariff Commission, Charge d’ Affairs and Acting High Commissioners a pied and ad interim, Chief Ministers of Union Territories and Chief Executive Councillor, Delhi outside their respective Union Territories, Chief Secretaries of State Governments outside their respective States, Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General, Deputy Speakers of Legislative Assemblies in Union Territories and Deputy Chairman, Delhi Metropolitan Council, outside their respective Union Territories, Director, Central Bureau of Investigation,

List of Dams and Reservoirs on Rivers in India

S.No.	Dam Name	State Name	River Name
1	Nizam Sagar Dam	Andhra Pradesh	Manjira River
2	Somasila Dam	Andhra Pradesh	Pennar River
3	Prakasam Barrage	Andhra Pradesh	Krishna River
4	Dindi Reservoir	Andhra Pradesh	Krishna River
5	Lower Manair Reservoir	Andhra Pradesh
6	Tatipudi Reservoir Project	Andhra Pradesh	Gosthani River
7	Srisailam Dam	Andhra Pradesh	Krishna River
8	Singur dam	Andhra Pradesh
9	Gandipalem Reservoir	Andhra Pradesh	Gandipalem, Manneru River
10	Ramagundam Dam	Andhra Pradesh	Godavari
11	Dummaguden Dam	Andhra Pradesh	Godavari
12	Himayat Sagar Reservoir	Andhra Pradesh	River Musi
13	Shriram Sagar Reservoir	Andhra Pradesh	Godavari River
14	Ukai Dam	Gujarat
15	Dharoi Dam	Gujarat	Banas River
16	Kadana dam	Gujarat	Mahi River
17	Dantiwada Dam	Gujarat	Sabarmati River
18	Pandoh Dam	Himachal Pradesh	Beas River
19	Bhakra Nangal Dam (ONGC GT 2012)	Himachal Pradesh	Sutlej River
20	Nathpa Dam	Himachal Pradesh	Sutlej River
21	Chamera Dam	Himachal Pradesh	Ravi River
22	Gobind Sagar, Reservoir	Himachal Pradesh	Sutlej River
23	Maharana Pratap Sagar Reservoir	Himachal Pradesh
24	Salal Project	Jammu & Kashmir	Chenab River
25	Baglihar Dam	Jammu & Kashmir	Chenab River
26	Chutak Hydroelectric Project	Jammu & Kashmir
27	Dumkhar Hydroelectric Dam	Jammu & Kashmir	Indus River
28	Uri Hydroelectric Dam	Jammu & Kashmir	Jhelum River
29	Maithon Dam	Jharkhand	Barakar Rive
30	Chandil Dam	Jharkhand	Subarnarekha River
31	Panchet Dam	Jharkhand	Damodar River
32	Tunga Bhadra Dam	Karnataka	Tungabhadra River and Krishna River
33	Linganamakki dam	Karnataka	Sharavathi River
34	Kadra Dam	Karnataka	Kalinadi River
35	Alamatti Dam	Karnataka	Krishna River
36	Supa Dam	Karnataka	Kali River
37	Krishna Raja Sagara Dam	Karnataka	Cauvery River
38	Harangi Dam	Karnataka	Cauvery River
39	Ghataprabha Reservoir	Karnataka	Ghataprabha River
40	Manchanabele Dam	Karnataka
41	Narayanpur Dam	Karnataka	Krishna River
42	Kodasalli Dam	Karnataka	Kali River
43	Basava Sagara Dam	Karnataka
44	Hemavathi Reservoir	Karnataka
45	Banasura Sagar Dam	Kerala	Chalakudy River
46	Malampuzha Dam	Kerala	Malampuzha River
47	Peechi Dam	Kerala
48	Idukki Dam	Kerala	Periyar River
49	Kundala Dam	Kerala	Parambikulam River
50	Parambikulam Dam	Kerala	Parambikulam River
51	Walayar Dam	Kerala	Walayar River
52	Mullaperiyar Dam	Kerala	Pennar River
53	Neyyar Dam	Kerala	Pennar River
54	Rajghat Dam	Madhya Pradesh	Betwa River
55	Barna Dam	Madhya Pradesh	Barna River
56	Indirasagar Project	Madhya Pradesh	Narmada River
57	Narmada Dam Project	Madhya Pradesh	Narmada River
58	Bargi Dam	Madhya Pradesh	Narmada River
59	Bansagar Dam	Madhya Pradesh	Son River
60	Gandhi Sagar Dam	Madhya Pradesh	Chambal River
61	Tawa Reservoir	Madhya Pradesh	Tawa River
62	Yeldari Dam	Maharashtra	Purna River
63	Ujani Dam	Maharashtra	Bhima River
64	Pawna Dam	Maharashtra	Pawna River
65	Mulshi Dam	Maharashtra	Mula River
66	Koyna Dam	Maharashtra	Koyna River
67	Jaikwadi Dam	Maharashtra	Godavari River
68	Bhatsa Dam	Maharashtra	Bhatsa and Chorna rivers
69	Wilson Dam	Maharashtra	Pravara River
70	Tansa Dam	Maharashtra
71	Panshet Dam	Maharashtra	Mutha River
72	Mula Dam	Maharashtra
73	Kolkewadi Dam	Maharashtra	Koyna River
74	Girna Dam	Maharashtra	Girna and Godavari River
75	Bhandardara Dam	Maharashtra	Arthur Lake
76	Vaitarna Dam	Maharashtra	Vaitarna River
77	Radhanagari Dam	Maharashtra	Bhogawati River
78	Nandur Madhmeshwar Dam	Maharashtra
79	Manair Dam	Maharashtra	Manair River
80	Khadakwasla Dam	Maharashtra	Mutha River
81	Gangapur Dam	Maharashtra
82	Jalaput Dam	Orissa
83	Balimela Reservoir	Orissa	Sileru River
84	Indravati Dam	Orissa	Indravati River
85	Hirakud Dam (ONGC GT 2012)	Orissa	Mahanadi River
86	Vaigai Dam	Tamil Nadu	Vaigai River
87	Aliyar Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	River Aliyar
88	Chittar Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	Chittar River
89	Krishnagiri Reservoir	Tamil Nadu
90	Manimuthar Reservoir	Tamil Nadu
91	Pechiparai Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	River Kodayar
92	Soolagiri Chinnar Reservoir	Tamil Nadu
93	Thunakadavu Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	Chalakudy River
94	Varattupallam Reservoir	Tamil Nadu
95	Vidur Reservoir	Tamil Nadu
96	Perunchani Dam	Tamil Nadu	Paralayar River
97	Amaravathi Reservoir	Tamil Nadu
98	Gundar Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	Berijam Lake
99	Kullursandai Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	Arjuna Nadi
100	Pambar Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	Pambar River
101	Periyar Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	Periyar River
102	Stanley Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	Kaveri River
103	Uppar Reservoir	Tamil Nadu
104	Vattamalaikarai Odai Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	Odai River
105	Willingdon Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	Periya Odai River
106	Mettur Dam	Tamil Nadu	Kaveri River
107	Bhavanisagar Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	Bhavani River
108	Kodaganar Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	Kodagananar River
109	Manimukthanadhi Reservoir	Tamil Nadu
110	Parambikulam Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	Parambikulam River.
111	Sholayar Reservoir	Tamil Nadu
112	Thirumurthi Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	Parmabikulam Aliyar River
113	Varadamanadhi Reservoir, Tamil Nadu	Tamil Nadu
114	Vembakottai Reservoir	Tamil Nadu	Vaippar River
115	Manjalar Reservoir	Tamil Nadu
116	Parichha Dam	Uttar Pradesh	Betwa River
117	Rihand Project	Uttar Pradesh	Rihand River and Son River
118	Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar Dam	Uttar Pradesh	Rihand River
119	Tehri Dam (ONGC GT 2012)	Uttrakhand	Bhagirathi River
120	Dhauli Ganga Dam		Ganga River
121	Nagarjun Sagar (UPSC ESE 2014, ONGC GT 2012)	Andhra Pradesh	Krishna River