General Awareness - 111

1. Which of the following teams was crowned the champions of the Indian Premier League on May 29, 2016?
1) Gujarat Lions
2) Royal Challengers Bangalore
3) Sun Risers Hyderabad
4) Kolkata Knight Riders
5) Delhi Daredevils

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  Answer: 3

2. Who is the youngest cricketer to score 10,000 Test runs?
1) Sachin Tendulkar
2) Alastair Cook
3) Kumar Sangakkara
4) Mahela Jayawardene
5) Ricky Ponting

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  Answer: 2

3. Which country hosted the 42nd G7 Summit on May26-27, 2016?
1) Canada
2) France
3) Italy
4) Japan
5) Germany

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  Answer: 4

4. A bank included in the second schedule of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 is called?
1) Nationalized bank
2) Public sector bank
3) Private bank
4) Scheduled bank
5) Commercial bank

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  Answer: 4

5. Who is the inventor of the World Wide Web?
1) Charles Babbage
2) Tommy Flowers
3) Jimmy Wales
4) Steve Wozniacki
5) Tim Berners Lee

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  Answer: 5

6. Who among the following functioned as the Reserve Bank of India Governor?
1) Pranab Mukherjee
2) P Chidambaram
3) Yashwant Sinha
4) Manmohan Singh
5) Montek Singh Ahluwalia

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  Answer: 4

7. Who is the author of the book ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari’?
1) Paulo Coelho
2) Rhonda Byrne
3) Spencer Johnson
4) Anthony Robbins
5) Robin Sharma

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  Answer: 5

8. Who is the current President and Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo!, an American technology company?
1) Sheryl Sandberg
2) Larry Page
3) Marissa Mayer
4) Ginni Rometty
5) Mary Barra

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  Answer: 3

9. EMV is a technical standard for ATMs. EMV stands for?
1) Electronic Money Value
2) Europay, MasterCard, Visa
3) Electronic Money Valuation
4) Empowered Money Value
5) None of these

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  Answer: 2

10. Which State will set up India’s first defense industrial park?
1) Punjab
2) Haryana
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Kerala
5) Maharashtra

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  Answer: 4

11. Who is the current President of the International Tennis Federation (ITF)?
1) David Haggerty
2) Steve Simon
3) Chris Kermode
4) Francesco Ricci Bitti
5) Anil Khanna

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  Answer: 1

12. Who is India's High Commissioner to Pakistan?
1) Pankaj Saran
2) Gautam Bambawale
3) Sujan Chinoy
4) George Raju
5) Anil Wadhwa

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  Answer: 2

13. The Bihu dance is a folk dance of which of the following States?
1) Sikkim
2) Odisha
3) Assam
4) Goa
5) Punjab

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  Answer: 3

14. The currency notes issued before which of the following years do not have the year of printing on the reverse side?
1) 2002
2) 2003
3) 2004
4) 2005
5) 2006

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  Answer: 4

15. Which of the following is the fastest possible funds transfer system through the banking channel?
1) ASBA
2) NEFT
3) MICR
4) CTS
5) RTGS

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  Answer: 5

16. The Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited (BRBNMPL) has its registered and corporate office situated in?
1) Mumbai
2) Bangalore
3) Chennai
4) Kolkata
5) New Delhi

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  Answer: 2

17. Which of the following is not a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India?
1) DICGC
2) NHB
3) BRBNMPL
4) NABARD
5) Both 1 and 2

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  Answer: 4

18. Indian currency notes are not printed in which of the following cities?
1) Nasik
2) Mysore
3) Salboni
4) Dewas
5) Jaipur

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  Answer: 5

19. The National Stock Exchange is located in which of the following cities?
1) New Delhi
2) Hyderabad
3) Mumbai
4) Chennai
5) Kolkata

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  Answer: 3

20. The 2015 PEN Pinter Prize has been awarded to?
1) Raif Badawi
2) James Fenton
3) Salman Rushdie
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3

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  Answer: 4

21. NHB is a regulatory authority in India. The letter ‘H’ in the abbreviation NHB stands for?
1) Hedging
2) Hypothecation
3) Horticulture
4) Housing
5) None of these

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  Answer: 4

22. IAEA is an international organization that seeks to promote?
1) Nuclear weapon development
2) Nuclear proliferation
3) Peaceful use of nuclear energy
4) Peaceful use of nuclear weapons
5) None of these

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  Answer: 3

23. Which of the following Statements is not correct?
1) The headquarters of UNICEF is in New York.
2) The currency of South Korea is Won.
3) The capital of Kazakhstan is Astana.
4) Doctors Day is celebrated on July 1.
5) Barabati Stadium is located in Guwahati, Assam.

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  Answer: 5

24. Financial Intelligence Unit is an agency responsible for receiving, processing, analyzing and disseminating information related to?
1) Evasion of commercial taxes
2) Drug mafia activities
3) Insurgency in north east
4) Dubious financial transactions
5) None of these

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  Answer: 4

25. Hindu Kush is the name of a?
1) River
2) Lake
3) Cyclonic storm
4) Mountain range
5) None of these

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  Answer: 4

26. The headquarters of Punjab National Bank is located in which of the following cities?
1) Chandigarh
2) Amritsar
3) New Delhi
4) Patiala
5) Mumbai

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  Answer: 3

27. Every customer who opens an account under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna will get a?
1) Smart card
2) Visa debit card
3) Visa credit card
4) RuPay debit card
5) None of these

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  Answer: 4

28. Retail banking is also known as?
1) Consumer banking
2) Personal banking
3) Corporate banking
4) Investment banking
5) Both 1 and 2

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  Answer: 5

29. A mutual fund is required to be registered with which of the following regulators?
1) RBI
2) NABARD
3) PFRDA
4) SEBI
5) IRDA

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  Answer: 4

30. Sanjay Gandhi National Park is in the State of?
1) Uttar Pradesh
2) Kerala
3) Maharashtra
4) Rajasthan
5) Jharkhand

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  Answer: 3

31. How many Indian states are touched by the India - Bangladesh border?
1) 5
2) 6
3) 3
4) 4
5) 7

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  Answer: 1

32. Which of the following Indian states shares the longest border (2,217 km) with Bangladesh?
1) Assam
2) Tripura
3) Meghalaya
4) West Bengal
5) None of these

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  Answer: 4

33. Pravda newspaper is one of the most circulated newspapers in?
1) Germany
2) Italy
3) Russia
4) Japan
5) China

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  Answer: 3

34. Matti Makkonen of Finland is considered as the father of?
1) HTML
2) Mouse
3) GPRS
4) SMS
5) None of these

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  Answer: 4

35. Which of the following is a public sector bank?
1) DCB Bank
2) RBL
3) HDFC Bank
4) ICICI Bank
5) IDBI Bank

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  Answer: 5

36. Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary has been renamed as Chandra Shekhar Azad Bird Sanctuary. It is in?
1) Gujarat
2) Himachal Pradesh
3) Bihar
4) Uttar Pradesh
5) None of these

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  Answer: 4

37. State Bank of India's ‘Project Tatkal’ is an initiative to speed up the process of?
1) Auto loan applications
2) Educational loan applications
3) Home loan applications
4) Agriculture loan applications
5) None of these

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  Answer: 3

38. Who is the author of the book '37 Bridges and Other Stories'?
1) Aamer Hussein
2) Hasan Suroor
3) Fatima Bhutto
4) Javed Akhtar
5) None of these

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  Answer: 1

39. Which of the following schemes is related to the improvement of rural infrastructure?
1) PMSBY
2) PMJJBY
3) PMJDY
4) PMGSY
5) None of these

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  Answer: 4

40. Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape has been granted World Heritage Site status by UNESCO. It is in?
1) China
2) Iran
3) Afghanistan
4) Mongolia
5) Kazakhstan

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  Answer: 4

Published date : 03 Jun 2016 04:22PM