General Awareness - 100 | Sakshi Education

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Ahmed Adheeb Abdul Ghafoor was arrested on charge of ‘high treason’ on October 24, 2015. He is the Vice President of?
1) Pakistan
2) Afghanistan
3) Malaysia
4) Indonesia
5) Maldives
The Paragliding World Cup is held in October 2015 in which of the following States of India?
1) Uttarakhand
2) Himachal Pradesh
3) Arunachal Pradesh
4) Uttar Pradesh
5) None of these
The India Africa Forum Summit is held in October 2015 in?
1) Cairo
2) Cape Town
3) New Delhi
4) Pretoria
5) Addis Ababa
Who is the Prime Minister-designate of Canada?
(He will succeed Stephen Harper) 1) Jean Chretien
2) Paul Martin
3) John Reynolds
4) Justin Trudeau
5) None of these
S. Christopher is the?
1) Scientific Advisor to the Defense Minister
2) Chairman of ISRO
3) Director General of Doordarshan
4) Chairman of Prasar Bharati
5) Director General of DRDO
Who won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 for her novel ‘How to be Both’?
1) Ali Smith
2) Rachel Cusk
3) Laline Paull
4) Kamila Shamsie
5) Anne Tyler
The Baileys Women’s Prize is formerly known as?
1) Pulitzer Prize
2) Orange Prize
3) Ondatje Prize
4) Man Booker Prize
5) Encore Prize
The year 2015-16 is observed as the “Year of Development” by which of the following Indian States?
1) Punjab
2) Haryana
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Kerala
5) Gujarat
Former bureaucrat Mahesh Neelkant Buch passed away in June 2015. He is regarded as the architect of modern?
1) Chandigarh
2) Kolkata
3) Bhopal
4) Gandhinagar
5) Jaipur
Who was conferred the Sant Namdev National Award in June 2015?
1) Devendra Fadnavis
2) Manik Sarkar
3) Naveen Patnaik
4) Manoharlal Khattar
5) Prakash Singh Badal
Who is the author of the book “Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights”?
1) V.S. Naipaul
2) Richard Flanagan
3) Patrick Ness
4) James Dashner
5) Salman Rushdie
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has inducted which of the following former players into the cricket advisory committee?
1) Sachin Tendulkar
2) Sourav Ganguly
3) VVS Laxman
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3
Who became the new Prime Minister of Denmark on June 28, 2015?
(He succeeded Helle Thorning Schmidt) 1) Lars Lokke Rasmussen
2) Kristian Jensen
3) Lene Espersen
4) Lars Barfoed
5) Andres Fogh Rasmussen
Which country has unveiled the world’s first facial recognition ATM recently?
1) USA
2) UK
3) India
4) China
5) France
Who was appointed as the Chief Information Commissioner on June 8, 2015?
1) Basant Seth
2) Vijai Sharma
3) Yashovardhan Azad
4) Sharat Sabharwal
5) Sudhir Bhargava
T.M. Bhasin was appointed Vigilance Commissioner in the Central Vigilance Commission in June 2015. He is the former Managing Director and CEO of?
1) Andhra Bank
2) Allahabad Bank
3) Indian Bank
4) Indian Overseas Bank
5) Canara Bank
Who took charge as the Cabinet Secretary on June 13, 2015?
(He succeeded Ajit Kumar Seth) 1) G. Mohan Kumar
2) R.K. Mathur
3) Mahesh Kumar Jain
4) Pradeep Kumar Sinha
5) L.C. Goyal
Syed Asif Ibrahim was appointed the Special Envoy for counter-terrorism and extremism. He is the former Director of?
1) RAW
2) IB
3) CBI
4) NCRB
5) None of these
R. Seshasayee has been appointed as the non-executive Chairman of?
1) TCS
2) HCL
3) Infosys
4) Wipro
5) Mindtree
The 16th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards were presented on June 7, 2015 in?
1) Toronto
2) Colombo
3) New Jersey
4) Kuala Lumpur
5) Macau
Who has written the book ‘Making India Awesome’?
1) Amitav Ghosh
2) Shashi Tharoor
3) Chetan Bhagat
4) Gurucharan Das
5) Rashmi Bansal
Who was appointed coach of the India A and Under-19 cricket teams in June 2015?
1) Ravi Shastri
2) Sourav Ganguly
3) VVS Laxman
4) Rahul Dravid
5) Praveen Amre
With regard to the 2015 IIFA Awards identify the mismatched pair?
1) Best Film - Queen
2) Best Director- Vikas Bahl
3) Best Actor - Shahid Kapoor
4) Best Actress - Kangana Ranaut
5) Most Awards - Haider
Who has been selected for Japan’s Fukuoka Prize 2015 in the Academy category?
1) Munishwar Jha
2) Ramachandra Guha
3) Charu Chandra Pande
4) Mathuradutt Mathpal
5) None of these
In India Army Day is celebrated every year on?
1) January 15
2) October 15
3) March 15
4) December 15
5) June 15
Who was appointed the new Director General of the National Security Guard (NSG) on June 8, 2015?
(He succeeded J. N. Choudhury) 1) Surender Singh
2) R. C. Tayal
3) R.K. Singh
4) Amar Pratap Singh
5) Subhash Goswami
Which one of the following is a regulator in the Indian financial system?
1) CRISIL
2) CARE
3) TRAI
4) SEBI
5) None of these
Whose autobiography is titled “The Odyssey of My Life”?
1) Shivraj Patil
2) Gulam Nabi Azad
3) L.K. Advani
4) Murli Manohar Joshi
5) P. Chidambaram
Who was appointed as the Director of Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in June 2015? (He succeeded MYS Prasad)
1) M. Annadurai
2) P. Kunhikrishnan
3) S. Ramakrishnan
4) S.K. Shivakumar
5) A.S. Kiran Kumar
Which country topped the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2015?
1) Finland
2) Canada
3) Japan
4) Czech Republic
5) Iceland
Which of the following is a negotiable instrument?
1) Share Certificate
2) Debenture
3) Demand Draft
4) Fixed Deposit Certificate
5) None of these
On the banks of which of the following rivers is the city of Nasik situated?
1) Krishna
2) Narmada
3) Tapti
4) Godavari
5) Tungabhadra
Which country won the FIFA Under-20 Football World Cup in Auckland, New Zealand on June 20, 2015?
1) Serbia
2) Brazil
3) Mali
4) Senegal
5) New Zealand
Who is the inventor of the television remote control?
1) Eugune Polley
2) Trevor Baylis
3) J.L. Baird
4) Robert Adler
5) Steve Wozniak
Cristiano Ronaldo got a galaxy named after him as CR7. He is a famous football player from?
1) Italy
2) Brazil
3) Argentina
4) Spain
5) Portugal
The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) is situated in?
1) Sriharikota
2) Bangalore
3) Ahmadabad
4) Chennai
5) Thiruvananthapuram
The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is headquartered in?
1) Vienna
2) Geneva
3) New York
4) Paris
5) The Hague
The Asian News International (ANI) is a news agency based in?
1) Singapore
2) Jakarta
3) Manila
4) New Delhi
5) Tokyo
Jim Corbett National Park is situated in which of the following States?
1) Uttar Pradesh
2) Himachal Pradesh
3) Uttarakhand
4) Arunachal Pradesh
5) Haryana
Renminbi is the currency of which of the following countries?
1) North Korea
2) South Korea
3) Vietnam
4) Bulgaria
5) China

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