General Awareness – 115 | Sakshi Education

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The second BRICS Youth Summit was held in July 2016 in?
1) New Delhi
2) Kolkata
3) Guwahati
4) Jaipur
5) Visakhapatnam
Who won the men's singles title at the Canada Open Grand Prix badminton tournament on July 3, 2016?
1) Parupalli Kashyap
2) B. Sai Praneeth
3) B. Sumeeth Reddy
4) H.S. Prannoy
5) Kidambi Srikanth
Who was named global Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women in June 2016?
1) Julian Moore
2) Emma Stone
3) Anne Hathaway
4) Julia Roberts
5) Jennifer Lawrence
Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared which of the following States as the first Organic State in India in January 2016?
1) Arunachal Pradesh
2) Kerala
3) Assam
4) Sikkim
5) Odisha
Who was appointed the new Registrar General and Census Commissioner in January 2016?
1) Atul Sobti
2) Kunal Shah
3) Jaideep Sarkar
4) Ramesh Chand
5) Sailesh
Who took charge as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in January 2016?
1) Raymond Benjamin
2) Edouard Dayan
3) Filippo Grandi
4) Francis Gurry
5) Jacques Diouf
Pavel Filip assumed office as the Prime Minister of which of the following European countries on January 20, 2016?
1) Ukraine
2) Romania
3) Latvia
4) Moldova
5) Lithuania
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa became the President of which of the following European countries on March 9, 2016?
1) Portugal
2) Bulgaria
3) Spain
4) Poland
5) France
Who is the present Chairman of Competition Commission of India?
1) Ashok Chawla
2) Ashok Lahiri
3) Devender Kumar Sikri
4) Aravind Mayaram
5) None of these
How many Pacific Rim countries signed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement in Auckland, New Zealand on February 4, 2016?
1) 11
2) 12
3) 13
4) 14
5) 15
Who won the 2016 Australian Open men's singles tennis title on January 31, 2016?
1) Andy Murray
2) Stanislas Wawrinka
3) Novak Djokovic
4) David Ferrer
5) Roger Federer
The India-Swiss pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won the Australian Open tennis women's doubles title in January 2016. In the final they defeated Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka of?
1) Brazil
2) Czech Republic
3) Russia
4) Romania
5) Slovakia
Dinesh Sharma has been elected to the Board of Directors of?
1) Asian Development Bank
2) New Development Bank
3) Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
4) World Bank
5) International Monetary Fund
Fraudsters using phone to collect personal information to commit fraud is termed as?
1) Stalking
2) Pharming
3) Skimming
4) Vishing
5) Whaling
Mumbai school cricketer Pranav Dhanawade scored a World Record unbeaten 1009 runs off how many balls?
1) 396
2) 443
3) 446
4) 381
5) 323
Which of the following is India's first credit information company founded in 2000?
1) ICRA
2) CARE
3) CIBIL
4) CRISIL
5) None of these
PMKSY is a scheme that has an outlay of Rs. 50,000 crore over a period of five years. Its main objective is development of?
1) Village infrastructure
2) Village industries
3) Rural housing
4) Irrigation
5) Village roads
Which State government has launched ABAAS, a new policy for housing for all in urban areas?
1) Odisha
2) West Bengal
3) Bihar
4) Madhya Pradesh
5) Jharkhand
The Indirasagar Dam is a multipurpose project of Madhya Pradesh on which of the following rivers?
1) Tapti
2) Narmada
3) Betwa
4) Chambal
5) Mahanadi
What is the annual premium in the Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyothi Bima Yojana (PMJJBY)?
1) Rs. 365
2) Rs. 366
3) Rs. 400
4) Rs. 330
5) Rs. 350
The headquarters of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is located in?
1) London, UK
2) Rome, Italy
3) Vienna, Austria
4) Geneva, Switzerland
5) Montreal, Canada
Which one of the following UN agencies has won the Nobel Peace Prize twice?
1) OPCW
2) IPCC
3) IAEA
4) UNICEF
5) UNHCR
What is the maximum loan given under the "Shishu" scheme of the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY)?
1) Rs. 50,000
2) Rs. 75,000
3) Rs. 1,00,000
4) Rs. 2,00,000
5) Rs. 3,00,000
Tansen Sangeet Samaroh is celebrated every year in the month of December in Behat village of which of the following districts in Madhya Pradesh?
1) Ratlam
2) Gwalior
3) Rewa
4) Indore
5) Jabalpur
Hindustan Antibiotics Limited (HAL) is the first public sector undertaking in the Drugs and Pharmaceuticals sector. It is in?
1) Ranchi, Jharkhand
2) Ankaleswar, Gujarat
3) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
4) Hyderabad, Telangana
5) Pimpri, Maharashtra
Who is the author of the book "Anubandh"?
1) Aruna Roy
2) Arundhati Roy
3) Medha Patkar
4) Ela Bhatt
5) Anuradha Roy
The Alps are the highest mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe. The highest mountain peak in the Alps is?
1) Mont Blanc
2) Matterhorn
3) Mount Robson
4) Mount Fogo
5) None of the above
Which is the first bank to introduce ATM in India in 1987?
1) SBI
2) ICICI Bank
3) HDFC Bank
4) HSBC
5) Barclays
What is the capital of Chhattisgarh?
1) Ranchi
2) Bilaspur
3) Rajgarh
4) Rajnandgaon
5) Raipur
"Abenomics" refers to the economic policies advocated by the Prime Minister of?
1) Italy
2) China
3) Japan
4) Canada
5) Singapore
Who is the author of the book "Poverty and Un-British Rule in India"?
1) Gopalkrishna Gokhale
2) Bipin Chandra Pal
3) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
4) Lalalajpat Rai
5) Dadabhai Naoroji
In which country one of the blocks in the new parliament has been named Atal Block? (It is named after former Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee)
1) Pakistan
2) Afghanistan
3) Iran
4) Sri Lanka
5) Nepal
What is the term used to describe a situation of decrease in the general price of goods and services?
1) Stagnation
2) Stagflation
3) Deflation
4) Inflation
5) None of these
Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL) comprises four mints which are situated in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata and?
1) Mysore
2) Dewas
3) Hoshangabad
4) Noida
5) Pune
Which of the following has launched abof.com, an online fashion portal?
1) Tata group
2) Reliance group
3) Snapdeal
4) Alibaba
5) Aditya Birla group
The National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) is based in which of the following cities?
1) Kanpur
2) Bangalore
3) Pune
4) Chennai
5) Shimla
Ritu Rani is the current captain of which of the following Indian women's teams?
1) Cricket
2) Hockey
3) Volleyball
4) Archery
5) Table Tennis
Which of the following statements is not correct?
1) Malabar is a naval exercise conducted by the navies of India, USA and Japan
2) The largest producer of coffee in the world is Brazil
3) December 25th is celebrated as National Good Governance Day
4) The Sunderbans National Park is located in West Bengal
5) The author of the book "The Inheritance of Loss" is Anita Desai
The bank rate is periodically announced by the?
1) Ministry of Finance
2) IBA
3) SBI
4) RBI
5) None of these
Nuakhai or Nuankhai is an agricultural festival celebrated by the people of?
1) Assam
2) Jharkhand
3) Chhattisgarh
4) Odisha
5) Arunachal Pradesh

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