General Awareness - 101

1. Justice and Development Party (AKP) has won majority seats in the Parliament elections in?
   1) Turkey
   2) Iran
   3) Iraq
   4) Syria
   5) Yemen
2. Which country won the 2015 Rugby World Cup?
   1) Australia
   2) New Zealand
   3) England
   4) South Africa
   5) Ireland
3. Which country hosted the eighth Rugby World Cup from September 18 to October 31, 2015?
   1) South Africa
   2) Argentina
   3) England
   4) Romania
   5) Italy
4. Who is the first woman President of Nepal? (She replaced Ram Baran Yadav)
   1) Amrita Thapa Magar
   2) Basantidevi Jha
   3) Binda Pandey
   4) Bidhya Devi Bhandari
   5) Minakshi Jha
5. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete visited India in June 2015. He is the President of?
   1) Nigeria
   2) Lesotho
   3) Algeria
   4) Kenya
   5) Tanzania
6. Who is the present Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways?
   1) Ravi Shankar Prasad
   2) Kalraj Mishra
   3) Nitin Gadkari
   4) Suresh Prabhu
   5) P. Ashok Gajpathi Raju
7. Surendra Singh Negi was bestowed with HQ's World No Tobacco Day Award 2015 for south Asian region by World Health Organization in May 2015. He is the Health Minister of?
   1) Uttarakhand
   2) Himachal Pradesh
   3) Haryana
   4) Punjab
   5) Rajasthan
8. Mikheil Saakashvili has been appointed the governor of Ukraine's southern Odessa region. He served as the President of which of the following countries from January 2004 to November 2013?
   1) Armenia
   2) Belarus
   3) Georgia
   4) Latvia
   5) Azerbaijan
9. Nek Chand died on June 12, 2015. He is known for building the Rock Garden of?
   1) Mumbai
   2) Chandigarh
   3) Jaipur
   4) Udaipur
   5) Bhopal
10. Irwin Rose of USA died on June 2, 2015. He was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in?
    1) Literature
    2) Physics
    3) Chemistry
    4) Peace
    5) Medicine
11. Nikesh Arora is the President and Chief Operating Officer of?
    1) Deutsche Bank
    2) Adobe Systems
    3) Soft Bank
    4) Google
    5) Nokia
12. World Quality Day takes place every year on the?
    1) Second Thursday of October
    2) Second Thursday of November
    3) Second Friday of October
    4) Second Friday of November
    5) Second Friday of December
13. Ways and Means Advances (WMA) is a temporary loan given by the Reserve Bank of India to the?
    1) Public sector banks
    2) Private sector banks
    3) Regional rural banks
    4) General insurance companies
    5) Government
14. India and which of the following countries have signed a new strategically important 10 year defense framework agreement in June 2015?
    1) UK
    2) USA
    3) Israel
    4) UAE
    5) Russia
15. International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified which of the following pesticides /herbicides as carcinogenic to humans?
    1) Lindane
    2) DDT
    3) 2, 4-D
    4) Both 1 and 2
    5) All 1, 2 and 3
16. Who was appointed as the Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (VSSC) in June 2015?
    1) K. Sivan
    2) M.Y.S Prasad
    3) S. Somanath
    4) P. Kunhikrishnan
    5) None of these
17. A Global Depository Receipt (GDR) is also known as?
    1) National Depository Receipt
    2) International Depository Receipt
    3) Commercial Depository Receipt
    4) Intercontinental Depository Receipt
    5) None of these
18. Gramin Gaurav Path is a major road construction project under which about 2,048 km of roads would be built in 33 districts in which of the following States?
    1) Madhya Pradesh
    2) Chhattisgarh
    3) Rajasthan
    4) Bihar
    5) Jharkhand
19. Which of the following is the apex body for the formulation, coordination and promotion of bio medical research?
    1) National Institute of Epidemiology
    2) National Institute of Virology
    3) Indian Medical Association
    4) Indian Council of Medical Research
    5) All India Institute of Medical Sciences
20. International Agency for Research on Cancer is a specialized cancer agency of the?
    1) FAO
    2) UNICEF
    3) WHO
    4) UNESCO
    5) UNDP
21. NDMA stands for?
    1) National Defense Management Academy
    2) National Dairy Management Academy
    3) National Dairy Management Authority
    4) National Disaster Management Authority
    5) National Dam Management Authority
22. The International Court of Justice is based in?
    1) Glasgow
    2) Geneva
    3) Rome
    4) Zurich
    5) The Hague
23. Who is the brand ambassador for the Government of India's campaign against Hepatitis B?
    1) Vidya Balan
    2) Aishwarya Rai
    3) Amitabh Bachchan
    4) Aamir Khan
    5) Priyanka Chopra
24. Which country leads the world in production and export of the cocoa beans used in the manufacture of chocolate?
    1) Ivory Coast
    2) Ghana
    3) Nigeria
    4) Cameroon
    5) Brazil
25. Which one of the following full forms is not correct?
    1) QIB - Qualified Institutional Buyers
    2) MSP - Minimum Support Price
    3) IPO - Initial Public Offering
    4) FPO - Final Public Offering
    5) ITP - Institutional Trading Platform
26. Which is the largest carbon emitter in the world in terms of per capita emission?
    1) China
    2) USA
    3) European Union
    4) Russia
    5) Japan
27. SBI Life Insurance is a joint venture between State Bank of India and?
    1) Life Insurance Corporation of India
    2) BNP Paribas Cardif
    3) New York Life Insurance Company
    4) Prudential Life Insurance Company
    5) None of these
28. What is the currency of Czech Republic?
    1) Koruna
    2) Krona
    3) Kyat
    4) Kuna
    5) Euro
29. Which of the following is a newspaper published from Moscow?
    1) Straitstimes
    2) The Times
    3) Dawn
    4) Pravda
    5) The Sun
30. Which is the fourth largest carbon emitter in the world as per World Resources Institute (WRI) analysis?
    1) Brazil
    2) Russia
    3) Indonesia
    4) Mexico
    5) India
31. Which is the number one State in India in terms of total installed capacity of solar energy?
    1) Rajasthan
    2) Gujarat
    3) Madhya Pradesh
    4) Maharashtra
    5) Andhra Pradesh
32. Kinnerasani Wildlife Sanctuary is located in which of the following States?
    1) Kerala
    2) Tamil Nadu
    3) Karnataka
    4) Andhra Pradesh
    5) Telangana
33. What is the annual investment limit under the Public Provident Fund (PPF) scheme?
    1) Rs 1,00,000
    2) Rs 1,50,000
    3) Rs 2,00,000
    4) Rs 2,50,000
    5) Rs 3,00,000
34. The Public Provident Fund account is valid for how many years?
    1) 5 years
    2) 10 years
    3) 15 years
    4) 20 years
    5) None of these
35. Keenan Stadium is located in which of the following cities?
    1) Mohali
    2) Cuttack
    3) Mumbai
    4) Jamshedpur
    5) Bhubaneswar
36. President Pranab Mukherjee conferred Punyabhushan Award on?
    1) Munishwar Jha
    2) Charu Chandra Panda
    3) Prataprao Pawar
    4) Pankaja Munde
    5) None of these
37. Who won the 2015 French Open men's singles tennis title on June 7, 2015?
    1) Novak Djokovic
    2) Andy Murray
    3) Roger Federer
    4) Stanislas Wawrinka
    5) David Ferrer
38. Which team won the I-League football title on June 7, 2015?
    1) Mohun Bagan
    2) Bengaluru FC
    3) Dempo
    4) Churchill Brothers
    5) Salgaocar
39. The 21st Asian Athletics Championships were held in June 2015 in?
    1) Incheon
    2) Hong Kong
    3) Wuhan
    4) Tokyo
    5) Jakarta
40. Who was honored with the Friends of Bangladesh Liberation War Award in June 2015?
    1) Narendra Modi
    2) L.K. Advani
    3) Murli Manohar Joshi
    4) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    5) None of these

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Published date : 12 Dec 2015 11:36AM