General Awareness - 108 | Sakshi Education

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Who is the author of the book "The Turbulent Years 1980-1996"?
1) Sharad Pawar
2) Hamid Ansari
3) Pranab Mukherjee
4) L.K. Advani
5) Sonia Gandhi
Who won the 2016 Australian Open women's singles tennis title on January 30, 2016?
1) Serena Williams
2) Angelique Kerber
3) Victoria Azarenka
4) Zhang Shuai
5) Maria Sharapova
Who won the Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold Championship Badminton men's singles title on January 31, 2016?
1) Huang Yuxiang
2) Parupalli Kashyap
3) Kidambi Srikanth
4) Shi Yuqi
5) None of these
The President's Rule was imposed in which of the following States on January 26, 2016?
1) Manipur
2) Sikkim
3) Meghalaya
4) Arunachal Pradesh
5) Tripura
Shiv Prakash Mishra was given the 2015 Dhyan Chand Award. He is associated with?
1) Hockey
2) Volleyball
3) Golf
4) Football
5) Tennis
Which of the following organizations is headquartered in London?
1) International Maritime Organization
2) World Meteorological Organization
3) Food and Agriculture Organization
4) United Nations Environment Program
5) International Atomic Energy Agency
Who was elected Chairman of the Press Trust of India in September 2015?
1) Riyad Mathew
2) Prabhu Chawla
3) Hormusji N. Cama
4) N. Ram
5) Vineet Jain
Who was appointed as a full-time member in the NITI Aayog in September 2015?
1) M.S. Swaminathan
2) Kaushik Basu
3) Raghuram Rajan
4) Ramesh Chand
5) Avinash Chander
Which of the following teams won the Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup cricket tournament in September 2015?
1) India Cements
2) Hyderabad Cricket Association
3) ONGC
4) Air India
5) FCI
The Finance Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated the new bank note paper line of 6,000 tonnes capacity in?
1) Indore
2) Bhopal
3) Hoshangabad
4) Nasik
5) Noida
Who is the author of the novel "A Strangeness in My Mind"?
1) Orhan Pamuk
2) V.S. Naipaul
3) P.H. Newby
4) Doris Lessing
5) None of these
Which of the following statements is not correct?
1) Karnataka is the highest coffee growing State in India
2) London is situated on the banks of the river Thames
3) Graphite is used in making pencils
4) The first Indian to give a speech in Hindi in the United Nations General Assembly is Narendra Modi
5) Disguised Unemployment means more people working than required

Identify the mismatched pair?

	Country	Prime Minister
1)	Sri Lanka	Ranil Wickremesinghe
2)	Australia	Malcolm Turnbull
3)	Greece	Alexis Tsipras
4)	England	David Cameron
5)	China	Xi Jinping

India has gifted its former Indian Coast Guard (ICG) ship "Varaha" to?
1) Maldives
2) Sri Lanka
3) Mauritius
4) Myanmar
5) Seychelles
Which of the following banks has launched a mobile wallet app "Buddy"?
1) HDFC Bank
2) Axis Bank
3) Corporation Bank
4) State Bank of India
5) None of these
Which of the following statements about Bandhan Bank is not correct?
1) Bandhan Bank was inaugurated on August 23, 2015
2) It is headquartered in Kolkata
3) Its Chairman is Ashok Kumar Lahiri
4) Its tag line is "Aapka Bhala, Sabki Bhalai"
5) Bandhan is the second microfinance company to transform into a bank
Who among the following is not an archer?
1) Abhishek Verma
2) Rajat Chauhan
3) Sandeep Kumar
4) Chekrovolu Swuro
5) Aditi Ashok
Who is the present Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)?
1) Shanta Sinha
2) Deepika Shrivastava
3) Stuti Narain Kacker
4) Krishna Tirath
5) Preet Verma
INS Vajrakosh has been commissioned at Karwar Base in?
1) Karnataka
2) Odisha
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Kerala
5) Gujarat
The Union Cabinet has approved what per cent of Foreign Direct Investment in White Label Automated Teller Machines (WLAs)?
1) 26%
2) 49%
3) 74%
4) 100%
5) None of these
Who was awarded the prestigious 2015 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize?
1) Manjul Bhargav
2) Jacob Tsimerman
3) Wei Zhang
4) Ben Green
5) None of these
Which country's Prime Minister was selected for the United Nations Champions of the Earth Award in September 2015?
1) Canada
2) Singapore
3) Bangladesh
4) UK
5) China
Baba Farid Gold Cup is associated with which of the following sports?
1) Cricket
2) Football
3) Hockey
4) Shooting
5) Boxing
Which of the following is the majority stakeholder in the capital of Regional Rural Banks?
1) Sponsor Bank
2) Reserve Bank of India
3) State Government
4) Central Government
5) NABARD
Madison Square Garden is an indoor arena in?
1) London
2) Paris
3) Sydney
4) Ankara
5) New York
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has entered into a partnership with which of the following banks for a payments bank?
1) ICICI Bank
2) HDFC Bank
3) State Bank of India
4) Bank of Baroda
5) Union Bank of India
Aqueela Asifi won the 2015 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Nansen Refugee Award. She belongs to?
1) Afghanistan
2) Syria
3) Iran
4) Lebanon
5) None of these
The 18th Asian Games will be held from August 18 to September 2, 2018 in which of the following cities?
1) Hanoi, Vietnam
2) Dubai, UAE
3) Bangkok, Thailand
4) Jakarta, Indonesia
5) Tokyo, Japan
The World Pneumonia Day is observed every year on?
1) May17
2) November 12
3) May 13
4) November 14
5) May 20
Ratan Watal has been appointed as the new?
1) Home Secretary
2) Revenue Secretary
3) Finance Secretary
4) Financial Services Secretary
5) Economic Affairs Secretary
Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad recently released a Rs 5/-postal stamp in honor of the Indian emperor?
1) Ashoka
2) Bimbisara
3) Bindusara
4) Chandragupta Maurya
5) Harshavardhana
Which of the following countries is not a member of the United Nations Organization?
1) Sudan
2) Kosovo
3) South Sudan
4) Rwanda
5) Bahrain
Where are the headquarters of UCO Bank located?
1) Mumbai
2) New Delhi
3) Kolkata
4) Chennai
5) Pune
Which bank has recently launched mCASH facility, where in a sender needs to know only the mobile number or email ID of the recipient to transfer money?
1) ICICI Bank
2) Punjab National Bank
3) Bank of India
4) State Bank of India
5) Corporation Bank
The recently launched IDFC Bank is a scheduled?
1) Public sector bank
2) Regional rural bank
3) Commercial bank
4) Cooperative bank
5) Local Area bank
Which one of the following is not a capital city of a country?
1) Copenhagen
2) Bern
3) Helsinki
4) Brussels
5) Milan
Veer Savarkar International Airport is located in?
1) Kolkata
2) Chennai
3) Port Blair
4) Kochi
5) Jaipur
Which of the following is the currency of Italy?
1) Lira
2) Franc
3) Krona
4) Euro
5) Peso
Who is the author of the book "Making India Awesome"?
1) Vikram Seth
2) Neil Mukherjee
3) Chetan Bhagat
4) Amitav Ghosh
5) Salman Rushdie
Who acts as the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee?
1) President
2) Prime Minister
3) Defense Minister
4) Defense Secretary
5) None of these

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