General Awareness - 86 | Sakshi Education

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Which of the following has won The Asian Banker Achievement Award 2015 for Technology Implementation in the category of Best Outsourcing Project?
1) Axis Bank
2) Yes Bank
3) State Bank of Hyderabad
4) Andhra Bank
5) Bharatiya Mahila Bank
Who won the Shamkir chess tournament in Azerbaijan on April 26, 2015?
1) Viswanathan Anand
2) Magnus Carlsen
3) Fabiano Caruana
4) Rauf Mamedov
5) Anish Giri
The Asia-Africa Summit was held in April 2015 in?
1) Dhaka
2) Beijing
3) Jakarta
4) Cape Town
5) Harare
Which country topped the third annual World Happiness Index produced by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), an initiative under the United Nations?
1) Switzerland
2) Iceland
3) Denmark
4) Norway
5) Canada
Who assumed office as the new President of Uruguay on March 1, 2015?
1) Raul Sendic
2) Rodolfo Nin
3) Jorge Batlle
4) Tabare Gonzalez
5) Tabare Vazquez
Who was conferred the 2014 Confucius Peace Prize?
1) Vladimir Putin
2) Mikhail Gorbachev
3) Fidel Castro
4) Dalai Lama
5) None of these
Who was appointed the new Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in December 2014?
1) Dineshwar Sharma
2) Amar Pratap Singh
3) Anil Kumar Sinha
4) Prakash Mishra
5) None of these
Anerood Jugnauth assumed office as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries on December 17, 2014?
1) Fiji
2) Maldives
3) Mauritius
4) Trinidad and Tobago
5) Guyana
Who was awarded the Olof Palme Human Rights Prize in December 2014?
1) Kofi Annan
2) Aung San Suu Kyi
3) Liu Xiaobo
4) Xu Youyu
5) Desmond Tutu
Which country started Confucius Peace Prize as an alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize?
1) Russia
2) Japan
3) Myanmar
4) Singapore
5) China
The Supreme Court has set up a special Social Justice Bench to deal with social issues. The special bench comprises Justices?
1) U.U. Lalit and J. Chalameswar
2) H.L. Dattu and N.V. Ramana
3) Madan B.Lokur and U.U. Lalit
4) A.K. Sikri and Madan B. Lokur
5) None of these
The reconstituted National Food Processing Development Council (NFPDC) is chaired by?
1) Sadhvi Niranjan Jyothi
2) Y. Deveshwar
3) Rakesh Bharti Mittal
4) Harsimrat Kaur Badal
5) None of these
Who among the following Union Ministers is a playback singer?
1) Hansraj Ahir
2) Babul Supriyo
3) Rajiv Pratap Rudy
4) Ram Kripal Yadav
5) J. P. Nadda
Rarawai Sugar Mills is located in which of the following countries?
1) Fiji
2) Jamaica
3) Cuba
4) Maldives
5) Mauritius
The term ARC stands for?
1) Asset Recovery Company
2) Asset Reconstruction Company
3) Asset Renewal Company
4) Asset Recapitalization Company
5) None of these
Who was appointed as the Secretary General of Lok Sabha on December 1, 2014?
1) Balkar Singh
2) Kinjal Singh
3) Mahendra Kumar
4) Anoop Mishra
5) Nagendra Prasad Singh
The 2014 Turner Prize was won by which of the following artistes?
1) Duncan Campbell
2) Ciara Phillips
3) James Richards
4) Tris Vonna-Michell
5) None of these
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) was held in December 2014 in?
1) Copenhagen
2) Doha
3) Lima
4) Mexico City
5) Sydney
Ferguson is in news recently. It is a city in?
1) Denmark
2) France
3) Netherlands
4) UK
5) USA
India’s first nesting site of extremely rare white-bellied heron bird was discovered in the Namdapha National Park in?
1) Odisha
2) Assam
3) West Bengal
4) Arunachal Pradesh
5) Sikkim
The currency of Austria is?
1) Peso
2) Pound
3) Dollar
4) Euro
5) Lira
Who is the Chairman of the committee that was appointed to review parliament security?
1) Harish Chandra Meena
2) Satyapal Singh
3) R.K. Singh
4) Amar Pratap Singh
5) Neeraj Kumar
Who created the character James Bond?
1) Ian Fleming
2) Augustus john
3) John Pearson
4) Sean Connery
5) None of these
The Prime Lending Rate (PLR) is replaced by?
1) Repo rate
2) Reverse repo rate
3) Bank rate
4) Base rate
5) None of these
The seat is considered vacant if a member is absent from either House of Parliament for a period of?
1) 90 days
2) 60 days
3) 120 days
4) 30 days
5) None of these
Who discovered the Ebola virus in 1976?
1) Peter Piot
2) N. Walker
3) W.W. Norton
4) Paul Farrell
5) None of these
The process of conversion of a physical cheque into electronic form is known as?
1) Cheque crossing
2) Cheque negotiation
3) Cheque alteration
4) Cheque truncation
5) None of these
Who is the present Chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India’s external intelligence agency?
1) Arvind Saxena
2) Dilip Trivedi
3) Rajinder Khanna
4) Syed Asif Ibrahim
5) Alok Joshi
Manoj Kumar received Arjuna Award after winning a court case. He is a gold medalist in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in which of the following sports?
1) Weightlifting
2) Boxing
3) Wrestling
4) Table Tennis
5) Gymnastics
Which of the following teams won the Deodhar Trophy Cricket in December 2014?
1) East Zone
2) West Zone
3) North Zone
4) South Zone
5) Central Zone
Which team won the Beighton Cup Hockey tournament in December 2014?
1) Indian Oil
2) Punjab National Bank
3) Punjab Police
4) Border Security Force
5) Jalandhar
European Free Trade Association (EFTA) has four members. Which of the following countries is not one of them?
1) Iceland
2) Liechtenstein
3) Norway
4) Switzerland
5) Sweden
The world’s biggest 750 megawatt solar power station will come up in Rewa district of?
1) Gujarat
2) Rajasthan
3) Andhra Pradesh
4) Madhya Pradesh
5) Haryana
Which of the following statements is not correct?
1) Tax Administration Reforms Commission is headed by Parthasarathi Shome
2) The 2014 Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award was given to Muzaffar Ali
3) The capital of Brazil is Brasilia.
4) Chutak power plant is in Jammu and Kashmir
5) The regulator of the commodity market is SEBI
Shigmotsav festival is celebrated in?
1) Kerala
2) Karnataka
3) Maharashtra
4) Goa
5) Odisha

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