General Awareness - 90 | Sakshi Education

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Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) released Global Peace Index 2015 on June16, 2015. What is India’s rank?
1) 138
2) 134
3) 143
4) 139
5) 140
Which tennis legend was appointed the Ayurveda brand ambassador of Kerala on June 24, 2015?
1) Andre Agassi
2) Steffi Graf
3) Maria Sharapova
4) Boris Becker
5) Pete Sampras
Sheila Kaul passed away on June 13, 2015. She was a former Governor of?
1) Uttar Pradesh
2) Madhya Pradesh
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) West Bengal
5) Jharkhand
Mogens Lykketoft was elected as President of the United Nations General Assembly in June 2015. He belongs to?
1) UK
2) France
3) Italy
4) Denmark
5) Norway
Institute for Economics and Peace is headquartered in?
1) Sydney
2) Geneva
3) Berne
4) Manila
5) Oslo
The world’s first mangrove zoo will be set up in?
1) Tripura
2) Odisha
3) Manipur
4) Jharkhand
5) West Bengal
UNO declared 2015 as the International Year of?
1) Crystallography
2) Light and Light based Technologies
3) Yoga
4) Family Farming
5) Cooperatives
The first development financial institution in India is?
1) IDBI
2) Exim Bank
3) IFCI
4) SIDBI
5) ICICI
The world’s largest vertical maze, Maze Tower, is in?
1) Dubai
2) Kuala Lumpur
3) New York
4) Jakarta
5) Riyadh
Charlie Hebdo’s office was attacked by terrorists in January 2015. It is a satirical weekly magazine based in?
1) Spain
2) Germany
3) France
4) Hungary
5) Portugal
The 2017 women’s cricket world cup will be held in?
1) India
2) Australia
3) West Indies
4) England
5) New Zealand
Who won the 7th Chennai International Open Grandmaster chess tournament in January 2015?
1) Popov Ivan
2) Ramnath Bhuvanesh
3) R. Siddharth
4) Dzhumaev Marat
5) Mozharov Mikhail
Which of the following is a successor body of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
1) World Bank
2) IMF
3) WTO
4) OECD
5) WEF
Which country was formerly known as Nyasaland?
1) Zambia
2) Tanzania
3) Mozambique
4) Malawi
5) Sudan
Which of the following organizations has seven members?
1) SAARC
2) NATO
3) BIMSTEC
4) OPEC
5) ASEAN
According to the ‘Status of Tigers in India 2014’ report what is the population of tigers?
1) 1706
2) 1411
3) 2226
4) 1909
5) 1826
India is home to what percent of the world’s tiger population?
1) 60%
2) 65%
3) 75%
4) 70%
5) 55%
Who was named as the Governor of the Year in the Central Banking Awards for 2015?
1) Ben Bernanke
2) Janet Yellen
3) Raghuram Rajan
4) Mark Carney
5) None of these
Which State got the National Award for e-Governance for the best district level initiative in India?
1) Haryana
2) Punjab
3) Sikkim
4) Gujarat
5) Jammu & Kashmir
Sukanya Samruddhi Account was launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 22, 2015 from?
1) Ambala
2) Panipat
3) Hissar
4) Karnal
5) Faridabad
India’s foreign direct investment increased by what per cent in 2014, as per a UN report released in January 2015?
1) 26%
2) 30%
3) 14%
4) 18%
5) 20%
Leander Paes and which of the following female tennis players won the 2015 Australian Open Mixed Doubles title?
1) Kristina Mladenovic
2) Martina Hingis
3) Sania Mirza
4) Lucie Safarova
5) Simona Halep
Who won the women’s singles title of the Syed Modi Internatio-nal Masters Badminton tournament in Lucknow on January 25, 2015?
1) Carolina Marin
2) P. V. Sindhu
3) Saina Nehwal
4) Li Xuerai
5) None of these
National Academy of Direct Taxes is located in?
1) Mumbai
2) Pune
3) Thane
4) Nagpur
5) Surat
The technique of inducing rain from cloud is called?
1) Cloud Control
2) Cloud Computing
3) Cloud Engineering
4) Cloud Seeding
5) None of these
Indian Statistical Institute was founded by?
1) R.C. Bose
2) J.M. Sengupta
3) R.R. Bahadur
4) P.C. Mahalanobis
5) C.R. Rao
Arihant is a?
1) Unmanned combat aerial vehicle
2) Multi barrel rocket launcher
3) Surface to air missile
4) Nuclear submarine
5) None of these
Baiji oil refinery is located in?
1) Iran
2) Iraq
3) Syria
4) Russia
5) Sudan
World Vitiligo Day is observed on?
1) June 25
2) June 26
3) June 23
4) June 24
5) June 28
Sukanya Samridhi Account will enable parents to open bank accounts of girls who are under?
1) 12 years
2) 15 years
3) 10 years
4) 18 years
5) 14 years
The Venture Capital Fund for Scheduled Castes was launched by the Union Ministry of?
1) Urban Development
2) Rural Development
3) Home
4) Finance
5) Social Justice and Empowerment
The 13th Foreign Ministers Meeting of the Russia-India-China trilateral was held in February 2015 in?
1) Beijing
2) Moscow
3) Yekaterinburg
4) New Delhi
5) Sochi
Which of the following is a 21-nation grouping of Pacific Rim countries?
1) ASEAN
2) SCO
3) EAS
4) BASIC
5) APEC
The first district in India to have complete rural broadband coverage is?
1) Ernakulam
2) Kollam
3) Idukki
4) Palakkad
5) Thrissur
Which country topped the list of 93 countries in the 2014 edition of Global Talent Competitive Index?
1) Switzerland
2) Singapore
3) Luxembourg
4) USA
5) Canada
What is India’s rank in the Global Talent Competitive Index that was released by the INSEAD Business School in January 2015?
1) 63
2) 78
3) 65
4) 67
5) 75
Yingluck Shinawatra was impeached by the Parliament in January 2015. She is the former Prime Minister of?
1) Cambodia
2) Laos
3) Thailand
4) Vietnam
5) Myanmar
Which country was the largest recipient of FDI in 2014?
1) China
2) USA
3) Singapore
4) Brazil
5) India
The Ra’ad is an air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) developed by?
1) Israel
2) Afghanistan
3) North Korea
4) Pakistan
5) Myanmar
Which of the following is the capital of Turkey?
1) Antalya
2) Istanbul
3) Izmir
4) Adana
5) Ankara

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