General Awareness – 122

  1. Who topped the Fortune's 51 Most Powerful Women list for 2016?
    1) Mary Barra
    2) Indra Nooyi
    3) Ginni Rometty
    4) Sheryl Sandberg
    5) Meg Whitman
  2. Who won the U.S. Open tennis women's singles title in September 2016?
    1) Karolina Pliskova
    2) Angelique Kerber
    3) Serena Williams
    4) Flavia Pennetta
    5) Roberta Vinci
  3. The 15th Summer Paralympics are held in September 2016 in?
    1) London, U.K.
    2) Beijing, China
    3) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    4) Tokyo, Japan
    5) Melbourne, Australia
  4. "AB: The Autobiography" is a book written by a cricketer from which of the following countries?
    1) Australia
    2) New Zealand
    3) West Indies
    4) South Africa
    5) England
  5. Who was appointed a member of the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions Bureau in March 2016?
    1) Justice T.S. Thakur
    2) Justice R.M. Lodha
    3) Justice B.S. Chauhan
    4) Justice Permod Kohli
    5) Justice H.L. Dattu
  6. India has signed an agreement with which of the following institutions to set up a South Asia Regional Training and Technical Assistance Center (SARTTAC) for training officials in dealing with macro-economic and financial issues?
    1) World Bank
    2) International Monetary Fund
    3) Asian Development Bank
    4) New Development Bank
    5) Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
  7. Thongloun Sisoulith is the Prime Minister of which of the following Asian countries?
    1) Laos
    2) Vietnam
    3) Cambodia
    4) Singapore
    5) Philippines
  8. Who took over as the Chairman of National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) for 2016 -17 in April 2016?
    1) Raman Roy
    2) N. Chandrasekharan
    3) C.P. Gurnani
    4) Azim Premji
    5) None of these
  9. Who became the new President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in April 2016?
    1) Rakesh Mittal
    2) Naushad Forbes
    3) Sunil Mittal
    4) Shobhana Kamineni
    5) None of these
  10. Who was declared Laureus World Sportsman of the Year in April 2016?
    1) Usain Bolt (Athletics)
    2) Cristiano Ronaldo (Football)
    3) Lewis Hamilton (Formula One)
    4) Novak Djokovic (Tennis)
    5) Lionel Messi (Football)
  11. Identify the mismatched pair?
    1) IFRS - International Financial Reporting Standards
    2) LDC - Low Diplomatic Country
    3) SHGs - Self Help Groups
    4) DIPP - Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion
    5) NSG - Nuclear Suppliers Group
  12. Which of the following does not represent the abbreviated name of an international organization?
    1) ASEAN
    2) APEC
    3) OPEC
    4) SAARC
    5) CAG
  13. Agni I ballistic missile is capable of hitting a target that is?
    1) 1000 km away
    2) 2000 km away
    3) 700 km away
    4) 3000 km away
    5) None of these
  14. The Indian Navy deployed a P8I maritime reconnaissance aircraft to which of the following countries for surveillance in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in March 2016?
    1) Sri Lanka
    2) Maldives
    3) Mauritius
    4) Seychelles
    5) Singapore
  15. Which of the following public sector banks is headquartered in Karnataka?
    1) Indian Bank
    2) Indian Overseas Bank
    3) Bank of India
    4) United Bank of India
    5) Canara Bank
  16. A new helicopter manufacturing unit of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is being set up in Tumkur district in?
    1) Tamil Nadu
    2) Kerala
    3) Karnataka
    4) Goa
    5) Odisha
  17. IMGC is the country's first mortgage guarantee company. In the abbreviation IMGC the alphabet 'I' stands for?
    1) Institution
    2) India
    3) International
    4) Internal
    5) None of these
  18. Which of the following terms refers to all the non-bank financial intermediaries that provide services similar to those of traditional commercial banks?
    1) Conventional banking
    2) Offshore banking
    3) Investment banking
    4) Shadow banking
    5) None of these
  19. Bandhan Bank is a?
    1) Development Bank
    2) Cooperative Bank
    3) Scheduled Bank
    4) Regional Rural Bank
    5) None of these
  20. Pranav Dhanawade is associated with which of the following sports?
    1) Hockey
    2) Cricket
    3) Archery
    4) Wrestling
    5) Football
  21. Who was declared Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year in April 2016?
    1) Serena Williams
    2) Yelena Isinbayeva
    3) Carli Lloyd
    4) Simone Biles
    5) None of these
  22. Who was conferred the Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award on April 12, 2016?
    1) Sachin Tendulkar
    2) Viswanathan Anand
    3) Leander Paes
    4) Saina Nehwal
    5) Pullela Gopichand
  23. Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson is the current Prime Minister of?
    1) Norway
    2) Bulgaria
    3) Iceland
    4) Ireland
    5) Moldova
  24. Imre Kertesz, the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, passed away on March 31, 2016. He belonged to?
    1) Poland
    2) Slovakia
    3) Slovenia
    4) Hungary
    5) Portugal

  25. Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi born British architect passed away on March 31, 2016. She was the first woman to receive which of the following prizes/awards in 2004?
    1) Pulitzer Prize
    2) Abel Prize
    3) Grammy Award
    4) Templeton Prize
    5) Pritzker Prize
  26. Kigali Central Prison is turned into a historical museum. It is in?
    1) Uganda
    2) Rwanda
    3) Burundi
    4) Mozambique
    5) Somalia
  27. The BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change was held in April 2016 in?
    1) New Delhi
    2) Brasilia
    3) Rio de Janeiro
    4) Fortaleza
    5) Beijing

  28. Which country won the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament in April 2016?
    1) Australia
    2) India
    3) Pakistan
    4) Malaysia
    5) South Korea
  29. Balpakram National Park is located in the State of?
    1) Tripura
    2) Manipur
    3) Meghalaya
    4) West Bengal
    5) Odisha
  30. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently met Charles Michel, who is the Prime Minister of?
    1) France
    2) Norway
    3) Belgium
    4) Sweden
    5) Switzerland
  31. An individual borrower can now take loans up to what amount from two Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) at the most?
    1) Rs. 1,00,000
    2) Rs. 50,000
    3) Rs. 1,50,000
    4) Rs. 75,000
    5) None of these
  32. Which private bank has launched a facility through which the registered users can transfer funds by just making a missed call to the bank? (It was started in January 2016)
    1) City Union Bank
    2) Federal Bank
    3) South Indian Bank
    4) Yes Bank
    5) Karnataka Bank
  33. Who coined the term "Shadow Bank" in 2007?
    1) Bill Gross
    2) Ben Bernanke
    3) Paul McCulley
    4) Hyman Minsky
    5) Alan Greenspan
  34. Identify the mismatched pair?
    1) NITI Aayog Vice Chairman -Arvind Panagariya
    2) Chief Economic Adviser - Arvind Subramanian
    3) Finance Secretary - Ratan Watal
    4) RBI Deputy Governor - R. Gandhi
    5) RBI Governor - Urjit Patel
  35. World Day of Social Justice is observed every year on?
    1) January 20
    2) January 28
    3) March 20
    4) March 28
    5) February 20
  36. "The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi" was released recently coinciding with the 25th year of the killing of former Indian Prime Minister. Who is the author of this book?
    1) Neena Gopal
    2) Jayanthi Natarajan
    3) Sonia Gandhi
    4) Neena Vyas
    5) Smita Gupta
  37. HSBC Holdings is a multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in?
    1) Hong Kong, China
    2) Shanghai, China
    3) London, U.K.
    4) New York, USA
    5) Frankfurt, Germany
  38. Identify the mismatched pair with regard to country and capital?
    1) Mexico -Mexico City
    2) Venezuela - Caracas
    3) Peru - Santiago
    4) Brazil - Brasilia
    5) Colombia - Bogotá
  39. Kakatiya Thermal Power Station is located near Chelpur village in the State of?
    1) Karnataka
    2) Andhra Pradesh
    3) Telangana
    4) Maharashtra
    5) Odisha
  40. Monte Carlo Masters and Miami Open tournaments are related to?
    1) Badminton
    2) Golf
    3) Formula One
    4) Tennis
    5) Soccer


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