General Awareness - 88 | Sakshi Education

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World Environment Day (WED) was celebrated on June 5, 2015. The theme for this year’s WED is?
1) Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care
2) Small Islands and Climate Change
3) Think.Eat.Save
4) Many Species. One Planet. One Future
5) None of these
The Reserve Bank of India cut the repo rate on June 2, 2015 by 25 basis points. What is the present repo rate?
1) 6.25 per cent
2) 7.25 per cent
3) 8.25 per cent
4) 8.5 per cent
5) 6.5 per cent
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim is the first woman President of?
1) Liberia
2) Benin
3) Mauritius
4) Gabon
5) Namibia
Who took over as Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on June 4, 2015?
1) Bikash Bhattacharya
2) Tessy Thomas
3) M.P. Kaushik
4) G. Satheesh Reddy
5) Venkatnarayana Raju
Who won the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015?
1) Neel Mukherjee
2) Amitav Ghosh
3) Anita Desai
4) Kiran Desai
5) Jhumpa Lahiri
Which bank launched ‘Digital Village’ project while adopting an entire village, Akodara in Gujarat on January 2, 2015?
1) SBI
2) Axis Bank
3) HDFC Bank
4) ICICI Bank
5) None of these
Edgar Lungu assumed office as the President of which of the following countries on January 25, 2015?
1) Somalia
2) Mali
3) Zambia
4) Sudan
5) South Sudan
Who took over as the Chairman of African Union in January 2015?
1) Robert Mugabe
2) Jacob Zuma
3) Goodluck Jonathan
4) Yoweri Museveni
5) None of these
Which of the following programmes made its way into the Guinness World Records in January 2015?
1) Swachh Bharat
2) Jan Dhan Yojana
3) Make in India
4) Digital India
5) None of these
A.B. de Villiers of South Africa smashed the fastest century in one day internationals against which of the following countries in January 2015?
1) Sri Lanka
2) India
3) Bangladesh
4) Zimbabwe
5) West Indies
With regard to credit card or debit card, the abbreviation CVV stands for?
1) Card Virtual Valuation
2) Core Virtual Value
3) Card Vulnerability Value
4) Card Verification Value
5) None of these
Which of the following is India’s first credit information company?
1) CIBIL
2) CRISIL
3) ICRA
4) CARE
5) None of these
Which of the following countries is not a member of OPEC?
1) Algeria
2) Libya
3) Venezuela
4) Ecuador
5) Syria
Klaus Iohannis took over as the President of which of the following countries on December 21, 2014?
1) Switzerland
2) Germany
3) Romania
4) Albania
5) Serbia
Who is the first woman Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)?
1) Jyotsna Suri
2) M. Sathiyavathy
3) Anita Kapur
4) Nidhi Razdan
5) None of these
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) commissioned 28 MW Nyaborongo Hydro Electric Project in?
1) Zimbabwe
2) Kenya
3) Ethiopia
4) Rwanda
5) South Africa
Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC) is a self-regulatory organization for?
1) RRBs
2) Cooperative Banks
3) NBFCs
4) MFIs
5) Insurance companies
Identify the mismatched pair.
1) Hiroshima Day – August 6
2) Anti Tobacco day – May 31
3) Ozone day – September 16
4) Earth Day – March 21
5) AIDS Day – December 1
CP is an unsecured money market instrument issued in the form of a promissory note. In the abbreviation CP, ‘P’ stands for?
1) Promissory
2) Paper
3) Portfolio
4) Position
5) Payment
Who is the author of the book ‘Born Again on the Mountain’?
1) Raha Moharrak
2) Bachendri Pal
3) Arunima Sinha
4) Prmlata Agarwal
5) None of these
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic is the first female President of?
1) Croatia
2) Latvia
3) Lithuania
4) Estonia
5) Bulgaria
Modibo Keita was appointed as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries in January 2015?
1) Uganda
2) Mali
3) Togo
4) Nigeria
5) Ghana
Which country won the Hopman Cup tennis tournament in Perth, Australia in January 2015?
1) USA
2) France
3) Poland
4) Great Britain
5) Australia
Who among the following won Padma Bhushan this year?
1) N. Gopalaswami
2) Subhash Kashyap
3) Harish Salve
4) Both 1 and 2
5) 1, 2 and 3
Mark Knowles was declared the 2014 International Player of the Year by the International Hockey Federation. He plays for?
1) Netherlands
2) Germany
3) Australia
4) Spain
5) UK
Who won the Ballon d’Or World Footballer of the Year in January 2015 for the second year in a row?
1) Lionel Messi
2) Neuer
3) James Rodriguez
4) Cristiano Ronaldo
5) Miroslav Klose
Who was chosen for the Vikram Sarabhai memorial award in January 2015?
1) G. Satheesh Reddy
2) Avinash Chander
3) M.Y.S. Prasad
4) K. Radhakrishnan
5) None of these
Who became the first woman to lead the Inter-Services Guard of Honor which was inspected by US President Barack Obama at Rashtrapati Bhavan on January 25, 2015?
1) Anjali Gupta
2) Pooja Thakur
3) Shalini
4) Deepika Misra
5) Karishma Sethi
Legendary cartoonist R.K. Laxman passed away in January 2015. He was the creator of?
1) Uncle Anu
2) Chacha Chaudhari
3) Amul girl
4) Common Man
5) Mungeri Lal
B.G. Verghese died recently. He was a renowned?
1) Actor
2) Director
3) Scientist
4) Hockey player
5) Journalist
James Rodriguez won the FIFA goal of the year award in January 2015. He plays for?
1) Uruguay
2) Colombia
3) Argentina
4) Peru
5) Brazil
A.S. Kiran Kumar is the?
1) Director of CBI
2) Director General of DRDO
3) Director of IB
4) Chairman of ISRO
5) None of these
Who was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in January 2015?
1) Maithripala Sirisena
2) Mahinda Rajapakse
3) Ranil Wickramasinghe
4) Sarath Fonseka
5) None of these
Beji Caid Essebsi is the current President of?
1) Algeria
2) Tunisia
3) Nigeria
4) Egypt
5) Morocco
Who won the Chennai Open men’s singles tennis title in Chennai in January 2015?
1) Aljaz Bedene
2) Jonathan Marray
3) Andy Murray
4) Leander Paes
5) Stanislas Wawrinka
Who among the following is not a Padma Vibhushan winner this year?
1) L.K. Advani
2) Dilip Kumar
3) M.R. Srinivasan
4) Veerendra Heggade
5) Rajat Sharma
With regard to WTO, what is the full form of TFA?
1) Trade Factoring Agreement
2) Trade Facilitation Agreement
3) Trade Fostering Agreement
4) Trade Featuring Agreement
5) None of these
Who won the London classic chess title in December 2014?
1) Michael Adams
2) Magnus Carlsen
3) Vladimir Kramnik
4) Viswanathan Anand
5) None of these
Olof Palme Human Rights Prize is given by which of the following countries?
1) Norway
2) Finland
3) Sweden
4) Iceland
5) Ireland
Shinzo Abe was reelected as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries in December 2014?
1) South Korea
2) North Korea
3) Philippines
4) Japan
5) Thailand

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