General Awareness - 99

1. What is the theme of the World Food Day 2015?
   1) Fighting Hunger and Malnutrition
   2) Water: Source of Food Security
   3) Social Protection and Agriculture: Breaking the Cycle of Rural Poverty
   4) Family Farming: Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth
   5) Agricultural Cooperatives-Key to Feeding the World
2. Angus Deaton has been named the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in?
   1) Physics
   2) Economics
   3) Chemistry
   4) Literature
   5) Medicine
3. The BRICS University President Forum held its three-day meeting in October 2015 in?
   1) New Delhi
   2) Mumbai
   3) Beijing
   4) Brasilia
   5) Fortaleza
4. Who won the Man Booker Prize in October 2015?
   1) Tom McCarthy
   2) Anne Tyler
   3) Chigozie Obioma
   4) Marlon James
   5) Richard Flanagan
5. Jessore Sloth Bear Sanctuary is situated in which of the following States?
   1) Maharashtra
   2) Jharkhand
   3) Uttar Pradesh
   4) Himachal Pradesh
   5) Gujarat
6. Which of the following has released a report titled ''Act Local, Solve Global: The $5.3 Trillion Energy Subsidy Problem''?
   1) World Bank
   2) IMF
   3) OPEC
   4) WTO
   5) UNCTAD
7. Who is the author of the book ''The Past Before Us''?
   1) Romila Thapar
   2) Satish Sharma
   3) Ramachandra Guha
   4) Shobha De
   5)Gurucharan Das
8. SIMBEX-15 is a bilateral naval exercise between India and?
   1) South Korea
   2) Japan
   3) South Africa
   4) Iran
   5) Singapore
9. Phung Quang Thanh visited India in May 2015. He is the Defense Minister of?
   1) South Korea
   2) Japan
   3) Vietnam
   4) China
   5) Laos
10. Who is the Chairman of a Committee that was constituted to review and revitalize publicprivate partnership (PPP) mode of infrastructure development?
    1) Vijay Kelkar
    2) C.S. Rajan
    3) Shekhar Shah
    4) S.B. Nayar
    5) Vikram Limaye
11. ''Mission Indradhanush'' aims to immunize all children against how many vaccine preventable diseases by 2020?
    1) Three
    2) Five
    3) Seven
    4) Nine
    5) None of these
12. Which of the following books is written by K. Natwar Singh?
    1)The Substance and the Shadow
    2) Not Just an Accountant
    3) Train to Pakistan
    4) One Life is Not Enough
    5) None of these
13. Which of the following is a public sector bank?
    1) ICICI Bank
    2) HDFC Bank
    3) J & K Bank
    4) Karnataka Bank
    5) None of these
14. Dinar is the currency of which of the following countries?
    1) Iraq
    2) Maldives
    3) Morocco
    4) Turkey
    5) Saudi Arabia
15. Which of the following is a missile-cum-multi barrel rocket launcher?
    1) Prithvi I
    2) Prithvi II
    3) Agni III
    4) Pinaka Mark II
    5) Agni V
16. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has inaugurated the New Bank Note Paper Line unit of 6,000 metric ton capacity in?
    1) Mumbai
    2) Hoshangabad
    3) Noida
    4) Hyderabad
    5) Rewa
17. The United States removed which of the following countries from its blacklist as a State sponsor of terrorism in May 2015?
    1) North Korea
    2) Sudan
    3) Cuba
    4) Syria
    5) Libya
18. Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said that it has destroyed what percent of global chemical weapons stockpile?
    1) 70%
    2) 75%
    3) 80%
    4) 85%
    5) 90%
19. OPCW is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in?
    1) Geneva
    2) New York
    3) Paris
    4) The Hague
    5) Lyon
20. Which of the following organizations launched Arctic Challenge Exercise, fighter jet drills, in May 2015?
    1) APEC
    2) SCO
    3) NATO
    4) BIMSTEC
    5) European Union
21. Which of the following countries is not a member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU)?
    1) Armenia
    2) Belarus
    3) Kazakhstan
    4) Kyrgyzstan
    5) Azerbaijan
22. Identify the mismatched pair?
    

    Company	CEO
    1) Amazon	i) Jeff Bezos
    2) Microsoft	ii) Satya Nadella
    3) Apple	iii) TimCook
    4) Facebook	iv) MarkZuckerberg
    5) Google	v) Larry Page

23. One of the founders of Euro currency died in May 2015. Name him?
    1) Wim Duisenberg
    2) Karl Carstens
    3) Alexandre Lamfalussy
    4) Helmut Schmidt
    5) Roman Herzog
24. Who is the author of the book "My Years with Rajiv and Sonia"?
    1) Pranab Mukherjee
    2) R.D. Pradhan
    3) Karan Singh
    4) Shashi Tharoor
    5) Bhajan Lal
25. Which of the following is the currency of Sweden?
    1) Dollar
    2) Pound
    3) Euro
    4) Franc
    5) Krona
26. The third Monday of January each year is an American federal holiday. It is the birthday of?
    1) Abraham Lincoln
    2) George Washington
    3) John F. Kennedy
    4) Martin Luther King Jr.
    5) Franklin D. Roosevelt
27. Mahatma Gandhi Setu is a bridge over the river Ganges in?
    1) Bihar
    2) West Bengal
    3) Uttar Pradesh
    4) Uttarakhand
    5) Jharkhand
28. UNICEF has decided to prepare a Tea Atlas in?
    1) Tripura
    2) Meghalaya
    3) Assam
    4) West Bengal
    5) Nagaland
29. What is the full form of PIO?
    1) People of Indian Origin
    2) Public of Indian Origin
    3) Passport of Indian Origin
    4) Person of Indian Origin
    5) None of these
30. BCSBI is an independent banking industry watchdog that protects consumers of banking services in India. It was set up by?
    1) SBI
    2) RBI
    3) SEBI
    4) IBA
    5) None of these
31. The driest location on Earth, Maria Elena South, is in the Atacama Desert in?
    1) Brazil
    2) Venezuela
    3) Paraguay
    4) Bolivia
    5) Chile
32. Rome Masters and Madrid Masters tournaments are related to which of the following sports?
    1) Badminton
    2) Formula One
    3) Chess
    4) Tennis
    5) Golf
33. ''Vishu'' is the New Year Day celebrated in which of the following States?
    1) Tamil Nadu
    2) Kerala
    3) Punjab
    4) Goa
    5) Maharashtra
34. Who is the Union Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises?
    1) Anant Geete
    2) J.P. Nadda
    3) Harsha Vardhan
    4) Ram Vilas Paswan
    5) Anant Kumar
35. The next NATO Summit will be held in July 2016 in?
    1) Lisbon
    2) Madrid
    3) Chicago
    4) London
    5) Warsaw
36. What is the full form of NEFT?
    1) National Electronic File Transfer
    2) Non Electronic Fund Transfer
    3) National Elected File Transfer
    4) National Electronic Funds Transfer
    5) None of these
37. Who is the brand ambassador for health sector in Andhra Pradesh?
    1) Madhuri Dixit
    2) Shah Rukh Khan
    3) Aamir Khan
    4) Sachin Tendulkar
    5) Amitabh Bachchan
38. Emmy Award recognizes excellence in?
    1) Literature
    2) Music
    3) Sports
    4) Films
    5) Television
39. The trading of a company’s stocks by individuals with access to non-public information about the company with an objective of making illegal gains is called?
    1) Forward Trading
    2) Cross Trading
    3) Insider Trading
    4) Circular Trading
    5) None of these
40. ''Fugdi'' is a folk dance popular in which of the following Indian States?
    1) Maharashtra
    2) Goa
    3) Odisha
    4) Kerala
    5) Karnataka

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Published date : 09 Dec 2015 12:54PM