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General Awareness - 97

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Karim Massimov is the Prime Minister of which of the following countries?
    1) Azerbaijan
    2) Ukraine
    3) Kazakhstan
    4) Bulgaria
    5) Armenia
  7. 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
  8. Which country hosted the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships?
    1) South Korea
    2) Japan
    3) India
    4) China
    5) Russia
  9. 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
  10. G. Mohan Kumar has been appointed as the Secretary of?
    1) Home
    2) Defense
    3) Tribal Affairs
    4) Finance
    5) Revenue
  11. 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
  12. World Cancer Day is observed every year on?
    1) February 4
    2) February 14
    3) March 4
    4) March 14
    5) October 14
  13. "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
  14. Which of the following cities is not in Brazil?
    1) Fortaleza
    2) Salvador
    3) Sao Paulo
    4) Rio de Janeiro
    5) Santiago
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy is situated in?
    1) Pune
    2) Mussorie
    3) Dehradun
    4) Nagpur
    5) Hyderabad
  18. Which country will host the 2018 women's hockey World Cup?
    1) England
    2) India
    3) Germany
    4) Netherlands
    5) Spain
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. In which of the following industries is the term CASA used?
    1) Software
    2) Tourism
    3) Telecom
    4) Banking
    5) Defense
  22. 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
  23. Which country recently legalized death to terminally ill children of any age?
    1) Belgium
    2) Turkey
    3) Spain
    4) Brazil
    5) USA
  24. Who among the following own Ashok Leyland?
    1) Tatas
    2) Hindujas
    3) Birlas
    4) Ambanis
    5) None of these
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. Who was conferred Dinanath Mangeshkar Award in April 2015?
    1) Anil Kapoor
    2) Dharmendra
    3) Vinod Khanna
    4) Jitendra
    5) Randhir Kapoor
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. Philip Kotler is a known personality in the field of?
    1) Technology
    2) Software
    3) Marketing
    4) Investment
    5) Fine Arts
  33. Which of the following is not an Indian pharma company?
    1) Sun Pharmaceuticals
    2) Cipla
    3) Aurobindo Pharma
    4) Nicholas Piramal
    5) Pfizer
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. Baglihar Dam is built on which of the following rivers?
    1) Jhelum
    2) Chenab
    3) Bhagirathi
    4) Yamuna
    5) None of these


Answers:

1) 1

2) 2

3) 3

4) 4

5) 1

6) 3

7) 2

8) 4

9) 5

10) 2

11) 2

12) 1

13) 3

14) 5

15) 4

16) 3

17) 5

18) 1

19) 2

20) 5

21) 4

22) 3

23) 1

24) 2

25) 4

26) 3

27) 1

28) 2

29) 1

30) 1

31) 2

32) 3

33) 5

34) 4

35) 5

36) 3

37) 4

38) 1

39) 5

40) 2

Published date : 09 Dec 2015 12:38PM

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