General Awareness - 97 | Sakshi Education

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Sheila Watt-Cloutier is one of the winners of the 2015 Right Livelihood Award. She belongs to?

1) Canada
2) Nigeria
3) UK
4) South Africa
5) Kenya
Reserve Bank of India reduced the repo rate by 50 basis points on September 29, 2015. What is the present repo rate?
1) 7.25 percent
2) 6.75 percent
3) 7.50 percent
4) 6.50 percent
5) 7.75 percent
RBI has kept the Cash Reserve Ratio unchanged at?
1) 4.5 percent
2) 5 percent
3) 4 percent
4) 5.5 percent
5) 6 percent
Who is the new President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)?
1) Anurag Thakur
2) Sharad Pawar
3) Rajiv Shukla
4) Shashank Manohar
5) N. Srinivasan
Siddhartha Gigoo won the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia region for which of the following books?
1) The Umbrella Man
2) The Lives of Others
3) Famished Eels
4) Light
5) The King of Settlement 4
Karim Massimov is the Prime Minister of which of the following countries?
1) Azerbaijan
2) Ukraine
3) Kazakhstan
4) Bulgaria
5) Armenia
Thomas Bach has been named an ambassador for HeForShe campaign by UN Women. He is the President of?
1) IAAF
2) IOC
3) FIDE
4) FIFA
5) ICC
Which country hosted the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships?
1) South Korea
2) Japan
3) India
4) China
5) Russia
Which country assumed the Presidency of 68th World Health Assembly (WHA), the top decision making body of the World Health Organization (WHO)?
1) Pakistan
2) USA
3) Myanmar
4) Germany
5) India
G. Mohan Kumar has been appointed as the Secretary of?
1) Home
2) Defense
3) Tribal Affairs
4) Finance
5) Revenue
The World Bank has sanctioned Rs. 100 crore for all round development of Sagar Island in?
1) Odisha
2) West Bengal
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Andhra Pradesh
5) Karnataka
World Cancer Day is observed every year on?
1) February 4
2) February 14
3) March 4
4) March 14
5) October 14
"Wandering in Many Worlds" is the autobiography of which of the following former Supreme Court Judges?
1) Justice R.M. Lodha
2) Justice P. Sathasivam
3) Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer
4) Justice Altamas Kabir
5) Justice P.N. Bhagwathi
Which of the following cities is not in Brazil?
1) Fortaleza
2) Salvador
3) Sao Paulo
4) Rio de Janeiro
5) Santiago
Who replaced Prakash Karat as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)?
1) P. Karunakaran
2) S. Ramachandran Pillai
3) V.S. Achutanandan
4) Sitaram Yechury
5) Manik Sarkar
Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the National Safety Council (NSC)?
1) S. Rama Dorai
2) N. Chandrasekaran
3) K. Satish Reddy
4) Rajan Mittal
5) None of these
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy is situated in?
1) Pune
2) Mussorie
3) Dehradun
4) Nagpur
5) Hyderabad
Which country will host the 2018 women's hockey World Cup?
1) England
2) India
3) Germany
4) Netherlands
5) Spain
What is the full form of MFN?
1) Monetary Fund Notary
2) Most Favored Nation
3) Mutual Fund Notary
4) Mid Firm Nexus
5) None of these
Peter Christian was elected the President of which of the following countries in May 2015?
1) Nauru
2) Marshall Islands
3) Palau
4) Philippines
5) Micronesia
In which of the following industries is the term CASA used?
1) Software
2) Tourism
3) Telecom
4) Banking
5) Defense
Who was appointed as the Election Commissioner on May 7, 2015?
1) Neeraj Kumar
2) Arvind Saxena
3) Achal Kumar Jyothi
4) M.J. Joseph
5) None of these
Which country recently legalized death to terminally ill children of any age?
1) Belgium
2) Turkey
3) Spain
4) Brazil
5) USA
Who among the following own Ashok Leyland?
1) Tatas
2) Hindujas
3) Birlas
4) Ambanis
5) None of these
The headquarters of which of the following organizations is located in Vienna?
1) IAEA
2) OPEC
3) NATO
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3
Pakistan conferred its top civilian award 'Nishan-e- Pakistan' on which of the following world leaders in April 2015?
1) Barack Obama
2) Vladimir Putin
3) Xi Jinping
4) Fidel Castro
5) Raul Castro
Who was conferred Dinanath Mangeshkar Award in April 2015?
1) Anil Kapoor
2) Dharmendra
3) Vinod Khanna
4) Jitendra
5) Randhir Kapoor
The Samadhi (memorial) of which of the former Prime Ministers will be called 'Jannayak Sthal'?
1) P.V. Narasimha Rao
2) Chandrasekar
3) I.K. Gujral
4) Morarji Desai
5) V.P. Singh
V. Shanmuganathan was sworn in as the Governor of which of the following States in May 2015?
1) Meghalaya
2) West Bengal
3) Tripura
4) Jharkhand
5) Kerala
Which of the following teams won the Senior Men's National Hockey Championship held in Pune in April 2015?
1) Railways
2) Uttar Pradesh
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Air India
5) Punjab
Bank Holidays are covered by?
1) RBI Act
2) Negotiable Instruments Act
3) Banking Regulation Act
4) As per the orders of the IBA
5) None of these
Philip Kotler is a known personality in the field of?
1) Technology
2) Software
3) Marketing
4) Investment
5) Fine Arts
Which of the following is not an Indian pharma company?
1) Sun Pharmaceuticals
2) Cipla
3) Aurobindo Pharma
4) Nicholas Piramal
5) Pfizer
Which of the following awards is given in the field of Medicine?
1) Dhyan Chand award
2) Phalke Ratna award
3) Moorti Devi award
4) B.C. Roy award
5) Kalidas Samman
Who among the following foreign nationals was given the Bharat Ratna?
1) Marshal Tito
2) Mikhail Gorbachev
3) Norman Borlaug
4) Vladimir Putin
5) Khan Abdul Gafar Khan
Who is the author of the book "India Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in Our Time'?
1) Harsh Vardhan
2) Manohar Parrikar
3) Shashi Tharoor
4) Kamal Nath
5) S. Jaipal Reddy
Who propounded the theory of economic drain of India during British Imperialism?
1) Mahatma Gandhi
2) Jawaharlal Nehru
3) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
4) Dadabhai Naoroji
5) Gopalkrishna Gokhale
Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal are the cofounders of which of the following online market places?
1) Snapdeal
2) Amazon
3) Flipkart
4) eBay
5) Alibaba
Amish Tripathi is the author of which of the following books?
1) Smoking Boy
2) Girl of Heaven
3) Half Girlfriend
4) Village by the Sea
5) The Immortals of Meluha
Baglihar Dam is built on which of the following rivers?
1) Jhelum
2) Chenab
3) Bhagirathi
4) Yamuna
5) None of these

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