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General Awareness - 95

  1. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a package of Rs 1.25 lakh crore for which of the following States on 18th August 2015?
    1) Odisha
    2) Andhra Pradesh
    3) Bihar
    4) Jharkhand
    5) West Bengal
  2. Which of the following banks has launched 'Smart Vault', the first of its kind fully automated digital locker? (It would be available to customers even on weekends and post banking hours)
    1) SBI
    2) ICICI Bank
    3) Axis Bank
    4) HDFC Bank
    5) SBH
  3. Kishor Piraji Kharat is the new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of?
    1) Union Bank of India
    2) Canara Bank
    3) IDBI Bank
    4) Bank of India
    5) Bank of Baroda
  4. Who is the new Chief Executive Officer of the technology giant Google?
    1) Satya Nadella
    2) Ajay Banga
    3) Nikesh Arora
    4) Sundar Pichai
    5) Shantanu Narayan
  5. Pedro Cateriano assumed office as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries on April 2, 2015?
    1) Chile
    2) Uruguay
    3) Bolivia
    4) Argentina
    5) Peru
  6. Who is the head of a new innovative council of Indian Railways called 'Kaya Kalp', formed to turnaround the ailing railways?
    1) Shiv Gopal Mishra
    2) M. Raghuvaiah
    3) Ratan Tata
    4) Suresh Prabhu
    5) Sunil Mittal
  7. Who has been appointed the brand ambassador of the Northeastern region?
    1) Saina Nehwal
    2) Sushil Kumar
    3) Saurav Ganguly
    4) Mary Kom
    5) None of these
  8. Northeast India's first Kisan call centre was opened in?
    1) Agartala
    2) Shillong
    3) Kohima
    4) Imphal
    5) Gangtok
  9. Who is the Chairman of the NITI Aayog task force on Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS)?
    1) Naveen Patnaik
    2) Shivraj Singh Chouhan
    3) Raman Singh
    4) K. Chandrasekhar Rao
    5) None of these
  10. Who is the Chairman of the NITI Aayog's sub-group on Skill Development?
    1) Siddaramaiah
    2) Akhilesh Yadav
    3) Manik Sarkar
    4) Nitish Kumar
    5) Manoharlal Khattar
  11. Malwa Trophy is associated with which of the following sports?
    1) Hockey
    2) Cricket
    3) Football
    4) Kabaddi
    5) Chess
  12. Which of the following is the capital of Cambodia?
    1) Battambaug
    2) Kampong Chan
    3) Putrajaya
    4) Phnom Penh
    5) Hanoi
  13. Which is the only country where the Prime Minister, Parliament Speaker and Leader of the Opposition are all women?
    1) Argentina
    2) Liberia
    3) Chile
    4) Lithuania
    5) Bangladesh
  14. Identify the mismatched pair with regard to the 62nd National Film Awards?
    1) Best Direction - Srijit Mukherjee
    2) Best Actor - Vijay Sanchari
    3) Best Actress - Kangana Ranaut
    4) Best Popular Film - Queen
    5) Best Music Director - Vishal Bharadwaj
  15. Abel Prize is given by which of the following countries?
    1) Sweden
    2) Norway
    3) USA
    4) Germany
    5) Finland
  16. The Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary is located in which of the following States?
    1) Sikkim
    2) Assam
    3) Nagaland
    4) Jammu and Kashmir
    5) Arunachal Pradesh
  17. The Gobi desert covers parts of southern Mongolia and the northern parts of?
    1) Kazakhstan
    2) China
    3) Russia
    4) Myanmar
    5) Afghanistan
  18. Who is the author of the book "Modi-Incredible Emergence of a Star"?
    1) Lokesh Chandra
    2) S.K. Sopory
    3) Tarun Vijay
    4) Arnab Goswami
    5) Rajat Sharma
  19. The Rashtriya Kavi Pradeep Samman was introduced by which of the following States?
    1) Uttar Pradesh
    2) West Bengal
    3) Jharkhand
    4) Madhya Pradesh
    5) Rajasthan
  20. Who was awarded with the first Rashtriya Kavi Pradeep Samman on 24th March 2015?
    1) Kamal Kishore Goyanka
    2) Kedarnath Singh
    3) Gopaldas Neeraj
    4) Viswanath Tripathi
    5) None of these
  21. Which country has won the prestigious Women in Parliaments (WIP) Award for regional leadership in the South and Southeast Asia category for reducing the gender gap in politics?
    1) India
    2) Sri Lanka
    3) Myanmar
    4) Bangladesh
    5) Thailand
  22. Who topped the Fortune magazine's list of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders?
    1) Tim Cook
    2) Mario Draghi
    3) Xi Jinping
    4) Pope Francis
    5) Mary Barra
  23. Fortune magazine's list of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders include?
    1) Narendra Modi
    2) Kailash Satyarthi
    3) Chanda Kochchar
    4) Both 1 and 2
    5) All 1, 2 and 3
  24. The inaugural Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award was given on March 28, 2015 to?
    1) V. Bhaskaran
    2) Balbir Singh senior
    3) Mukesh Kumar
    4) Sardar Singh
    5) Harendra Singh
  25. Asia, Africa and Latin America belong to the?
    1) First world
    2) Second World
    3) Third World
    4) Developed World
    5) None of these
  26. The first session of the Indian National Congress was held in?
    1) Calcutta
    2) Madras
    3) New Delhi
    4) Bombay
    5) Nagpur
  27. The International Day of Cooperatives is observed every year on the first Saturday of?
    1) June
    2) July
    3) August
    4) September
    5) October
  28. Which is the first State in India to present a paperless budget?
    1) Punjab
    2) Haryana
    3) Himachal Pradesh
    4) Jharkhand
    5) None of these
  29. Which country suspended work on the construction of a controversial Chinese port city project?
    1) India
    2) Sri Lanka
    3) Pakistan
    4) Afghanistan
    5) Maldives
  30. Burraq is an unmanned combat aerial vehicle developed by?
    1) Pakistan
    2) Afghanistan
    3) Iran
    4) Syria
    5) Yemen
  31. Ashu Suyash is the MD and CEO of?
    1) NSE
    2) CRISIL
    3) IndusInd Bank
    4) BSE
    5) CARE
  32. Who was voted as the greatest ODI cricketer in an online poll conducted by ESPNcricinfo's magazine Cricket Monthly?
    1) Sachin Tendulkar
    2) Wasim Akram
    3) Viv Richards
    4) Adam Gilchrist
    5) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  33. Who was appointed the Chairman of the Indian Premier League's governing council by the BCCI?
    1) Anurag Thakur
    2) Jagmohan Dalmiya
    3) Rajeev Shukla
    4) N. Sreenivasan
    5) Saurav Ganguly
  34. Kudremukh National Park has been declared a tiger reserve. It is in?
    1) Maharashtra
    2) Goa
    3) Tamil Nadu
    4) Karnataka
    5) None of these
  35. The Government resumed the printing of one rupee currency notes recently. Printing of these notes was discontinued in?
    1) 1994
    2) 1995
    3) 2004
    4) 2005
    5) 2001
  36. Which team won the Irani Cup Cricket in March 2015?
    1) Rest of India
    2) Mumbai
    3) Karnataka
    4) Tamil Nadu
    5) Uttar Pradesh
  37. The IntelCenter's "Top 10 Most Dangerous Countries" list is topped by?
    1) Iraq
    2) Syria
    3) Nigeria
    4) Somalia
    5) Afghanistan
  38. Jaitapur nuclear power plant is being set up in?
    1) Gujarat
    2) Rajasthan
    3) Maharashtra
    4) West Bengal
    5) Odisha
  39. The United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) was held in March 2015 in?
    1) South Korea
    2) China
    3) Malaysia
    4) Japan
    5) Philippines
  40. IDBI Bank is a?
    1) Public sector bank
    2) Private sector bank
    3) Foreign bank
    4) Cooperative bank
    5) None of these


KEY:

1) 3

2) 2

3) 3

4) 4

5) 5

6) 3

7) 4

8) 1

9) 2

10) 3

11) 3

1 2) 4

1 3) 5

1 4) 4

1 5) 2

16) 5

17) 2

18) 3

19) 4

20) 3

21) 4

2 2) 1

2 3) 4

2 4) 2

2 5) 3

26) 4

27) 2

28) 3

29) 2

30) 1

31) 2

3 2) 3

3 3) 3

3 4) 4

3 5) 1

36) 3

37) 1

38) 3

39) 4

40) 1

Published date : 09 Dec 2015 12:27PM

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