Practice Static GA Questions and Answers

• Who among the following is a former Governor of RBI?
• Which of the following schemes is related to the improvement of Rural Infrastructure?
• What is the capital of Myanmar?
• ______________ is known as the Father of Green Revolution.
• Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary located in Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh, is renamed as __________. 
• Unique PRANs are related to which scheme?
• Which of the following cities is not situated at the river bank of the Ganges?
• According to the data of census 2011 which district has the highest sex ratio of 1176 females per 1000 males?
• What is the currency of Qatar?
• World Post Day was observed every year on ________.
• What is the length of the river Brahmaputra? ...
• Derivative trading in Indian capital market started after the financial reforms in 1990s 
• UTI was the first private sector Mutual Fund in India 
• SEBI got established in 1988 and got statutory powers in 1992 
• NSE was setup in 1992 and started operations in 1994 
• Infosys is the first Indian company listed on NASDAQ with ADR 
• A company that wants to raise funds abroad has to prepare its financials as per the GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) 
• Dematerialisation or Demat in short is the process through which an investor’s physical share certificate gets converted to electronic format 
• Insider trading is the buying or selling of a security by someone who has access to material non-public information about the security.  
• SEBI has different circuit breakers for indices and for stocks 
• Corporate governance involves balancing the interests of a company's many stakeholders, such as shareholders, management, customers, suppliers, financiers,...
• Circuit breaker is a set of rules formed and issued by SEBI in order to bring back normalcy in the stock markets in the event an index or stock enters a ci...
• A privately held company can go with FPO for raising money from the market.
• QIP happens in case of listed companies 
• Preferred stock, are shares of a company's stock with dividends that are paid out to shareholders before common stock dividends are issued 
• As compared to GDR, exchange rate risk is more in FCCB as interest is payable in foreign currency 
• Direct sales of share to selected few in case of unlisted company is called Private Placement 
• FCCB can be accessed under two routes – automatic route and approval route. 
• A Green-shoe option is a special provision in an IPO prospectus, which allows underwriters to sell investors less shares than originally planned by the iss...
• Companies raise ECB because they get subsidy for raising capital from abroad 
• Demutualisation is a process that changes a mutual or co-operative association into a public company 
• Demat accounts are maintained with Depository Participants 
• BSE Indonext consolidates the order-book (in electronic form) of all regional exchanges 
• Shares of large, medium and small caps are traded at BSE Indonext
• P-Notes are instruments issued by registered FII to overseas investors, who wish to invest in the Indian stock markets without registering themselves with ...
• Depository helps in storage, transfer pledging and settlement of securities 
• A retail customer opens demat account with a Depository Participant (DP) 
• NSE is among the promoters of NSDL and BSE is among the promoters of CSDL  
• Reverse Repo is to absorb the liquidity and Repo is to inject the liquidity 
• LAF (Liquidity Adjustment Facility) is the principal tool of monetary policy.