General Awareness - 110

1. Ahmet Davutoglu has announced his resignation as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries on May 5, 2016?
   1) Turkey
   2) Syria
   3) Iran
   4) Iraq
   5) Libya
   
2. Who has been appointed as the next Chief of the Naval Staff? (He will succeed Robin K. Dhowan on May 31, 2016)
   1) Harish Bisht
   2) Sunil Lanba
   3) Satish Soni
   4) Girish Luthra
   5) Bimal Verma
   
3. Which country won the Sultan of Johor Cup 2015 junior men’s hockey tournament?
   1) Great Britain
   2) India
   3) Malaysia
   4) Argentina
   5) Belgium
   
4. Gangaur is one of the most important festivals of people of?
   1) Chhattisgarh
   2) Bihar
   3) Jharkhand
   4) Rajasthan
   5) Punjab
   
5. Who was conferred the 2015 Humanitarian of the Year Award by the Harvard University?
   1) Dalai Lama
   2) Jhumpa Lahiri
   3) Dennis Mukwege
   4) Ratan Tata
   5) Kailash Satyarthi
   
6. Who was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought for the year 2015?
   1) Malala Yousafzai
   2) Aung San Su Kyi
   3) Goutam Narayan
   4) Raif Badawi
   5) Julian Assange
   
7. Who among the following has been appointed as India’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom?
   1) Navtej Sarna
   2) Pankaj Saran
   3) Vijay Gokhale
   4) Anil Wadhwa
   5) None of these
   
8. Who has been elected as the United States-India Business Council (USIBC) Chairman?
   1) Sundar Pichai
   2) John Chambers
   3) Larry Ellison
   4) Larry Page
   5) Satya Nadella
   
9. Who among the following is a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015 for the discovery of neutrino oscillations?
   1) Tomas Lindahl
   2) Paul Modrich
   3) Aziz Sancar
   4) Satoshi Omura
   5) Takaaki Kajita
   
10. Brian Close passed away recently. He is the youngest man ever to play Test cricket for which of the following countries?
    1) Australia
    2) New Zealand
    3) England
    4) South Africa
    5) West Indies
    
11. Hoesung Lee is the Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He belongs to?
    1) China
    2) Singapore
    3) South Korea
    4) Vietnam
    5) Japan
    
12. Hailemariam Desalegn is the Prime Minister of which of the following African countries?
    1) Somalia
    2) Ethiopia
    3) Kenya
    4) Zambia
    5) Tanzania
    
13. Rajiv Lall is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of which of the following private banks?
    1) Bandhan Bank
    2) Yes Bank
    3) IDFC Bank
    4) Kotak Mahindra Bank
    5) None of these
    
14. Which country will create the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, one of the largest marine protected areas in the world, spanning an area of 6,20,000 sq km?
    1) Canada
    2) Mexico
    3) Australia
    4) New Zealand
    5) USA
    
15. Who among the following is the founder of Punjab National Bank?
    1) Gopalkrishna Gokhale
    2) Bipin Chandra Pal
    3) Lala Lajpat Rai
    4) Sachchidananda Sinha
    5) None of these
    
16. Hand-in-Hand is a joint military training exercise of India and?
    1) South Korea
    2) Singapore
    3) Sri Lanka
    4) USA
    5) China
    
17. Izmir Cup tennis is played annually in which of the following countries?
    1) Israel
    2) Turkey
    3) Iran
    4) Iraq
    5) Oman
    
18. Who won the 2015 FIDE World Chess Cup held in Baku, Azerbaijan?
    1) Sergey Karjakin
    2) Peter Svidler
    3) Viswanathan Anand
    4) Veselin Topalov
    5) Hikaru Nakamura
    
19. Which country won the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asia Championship in October 2015?
    1) China
    2) Philippines
    3) Iran
    4) India
    5) South Korea
    
20. Who became the first Prime Minister of Nepal under the newly adopted secular, republic and federal constitution of Nepal in October 2015?
    1) Bidhya Devi Bhandari
    2) Kamal Thapa
    3) Bijay Kumar Gachhadar
    4) Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
    5) Ram Baran Yadav
    
21. Who holds the record as the youngest Prime Minister of Canada?
    1) Justin Trudeau
    2) Pierre Trudeau
    3) Joe Clark
    4) Stephen Harper
    5) None of these
    
22. Sylvie Lucas is the Chair of the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reforms. She belongs to?
    1) Belgium
    2) Netherlands
    3) Luxembourg
    4) Finland
    5) Denmark
    
23. Kundhavi Kadiresan is the Assistant Director General and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific of which of the following organizations?
    1) WHO
    2) UNICEF
    3) FAO
    4) UNESCO
    5) UNDP
    
24. Who is the President of Belarus, in office since July 20, 1994?
    1) Mikhail Chigir
    2) Sergey Ling
    3) Sergei Sidorsky
    4) Alexander Lukashenko
    5) Vladimir Yermoshin
    
25. George Konrote assumed office as the President of which of the following countries on November 12, 2015?
    1) Tuvalu
    2) Vanuatu
    3) Papua New Guinea
    4) Tonga
    5) Fiji
    
26. Who is the President of the All India Council of Sports?
    1) Anil Khanna
    2) V.K. Malhotra
    3) Rajiv Mehta
    4) Lalit Bhanot
    5) Rao Inderjit Singh
    
27. Who is the first male member of the National Commission for Women (NCW)?
    1) Om Prakash Rawat
    2) Alok Goyal
    3) Alok Rawat
    4) Ashok Lahiri
    5) Ashok Chawla
    
28. The alphabet ‘T’ in the abbreviation RTGS stands for?
    1) Transfer
    2) Term
    3) Turnover
    4) Total
    5) Time
    
29. Harish Salve is an eminent?
    1) Diplomat
    2) Painter
    3) Economist
    4) Lawyer
    5) Industrialist
    
30. The term ‘ECS’ is associated with which of the following industries?
    1) Textiles
    2) Oil
    3) Banking
    4) Insurance
    5) Steel
    
31. Who was conferred the Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award in October 2015?
    1) Ilaya Raja
    2) A.R. Rehman
    3) K.S. Chitra
    4) K.J. Yesudas
    5) Sameer
    
32. Who was awarded the 2015 Confucius Peace Prize by China?
    1) Angela Merkel
    2) Jacob Zuma
    3) Nawaz Sharif
    4) Raul Castro
    5) Robert Mugabe
    
33. The letter ‘E’ in the abbreviation ‘EMI’ stands for?
    1) Equal
    2) Equivalent
    3) Equated
    4) Equalized
    5) None of these
    
34. Which of the following States is referred to as the ‘Cradle of Banking’ in India?
    1) Tamil Nadu
    2) Punjab
    3) Maharashtra
    4) Karnataka
    5) West Bengal
    
35. Which of the following public sector banks is based in Tamil Nadu?
    1) Canara Bank
    2) Corporation Bank
    3) Vijaya Bank
    4) Syndicate Bank
    5) Indian Overseas Bank
    
36. The Ganga river flows through the nations of India and?
    1) Nepal
    2) Bhutan
    3) Pakistan
    4) Bangladesh
    5) Myanmar
    
37. The Bibi Ka Maqbara is a monument located in?
    1) Agra
    2) Aurangabad
    3) New Delhi
    4) Lucknow
    5) Patna
    
38. Marlon James of Jamaica won the Man Booker Prize for 2015 for his book?
    1) The Luminaries
    2) The Wolf Hall
    3) Bring up the Bodies
    4) The Narrow Road to the Deep North
    5) A Brief History of Seven Killings
    
39. What is the currency of Tajikistan?
    1) Manat
    2) Kuna
    3) Somoni
    4) Rial
    5) Riel
    
40. Tasmania is an island State of which of the following countries?
    1) Canada
    2) Denmark
    3) USA
    4) Australia
    5) New Zealand

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Published date : 14 May 2016 06:25PM