General Awareness - 110 | Sakshi Education

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Ahmet Davutoglu has announced his resignation as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries on May 5, 2016?
1) Turkey
2) Syria
3) Iran
4) Iraq
5) Libya
Who has been appointed as the next Chief of the Naval Staff? (He will succeed Robin K. Dhowan on May 31, 2016)
1) Harish Bisht
2) Sunil Lanba
3) Satish Soni
4) Girish Luthra
5) Bimal Verma
Which country won the Sultan of Johor Cup 2015 junior men’s hockey tournament?
1) Great Britain
2) India
3) Malaysia
4) Argentina
5) Belgium
Gangaur is one of the most important festivals of people of?
1) Chhattisgarh
2) Bihar
3) Jharkhand
4) Rajasthan
5) Punjab
Who was conferred the 2015 Humanitarian of the Year Award by the Harvard University?
1) Dalai Lama
2) Jhumpa Lahiri
3) Dennis Mukwege
4) Ratan Tata
5) Kailash Satyarthi
Who was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought for the year 2015?
1) Malala Yousafzai
2) Aung San Su Kyi
3) Goutam Narayan
4) Raif Badawi
5) Julian Assange
Who among the following has been appointed as India’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom?
1) Navtej Sarna
2) Pankaj Saran
3) Vijay Gokhale
4) Anil Wadhwa
5) None of these
Who has been elected as the United States-India Business Council (USIBC) Chairman?
1) Sundar Pichai
2) John Chambers
3) Larry Ellison
4) Larry Page
5) Satya Nadella
Who among the following is a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015 for the discovery of neutrino oscillations?
1) Tomas Lindahl
2) Paul Modrich
3) Aziz Sancar
4) Satoshi Omura
5) Takaaki Kajita
Brian Close passed away recently. He is the youngest man ever to play Test cricket for which of the following countries?
1) Australia
2) New Zealand
3) England
4) South Africa
5) West Indies
Hoesung Lee is the Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He belongs to?
1) China
2) Singapore
3) South Korea
4) Vietnam
5) Japan
Hailemariam Desalegn is the Prime Minister of which of the following African countries?
1) Somalia
2) Ethiopia
3) Kenya
4) Zambia
5) Tanzania
Rajiv Lall is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of which of the following private banks?
1) Bandhan Bank
2) Yes Bank
3) IDFC Bank
4) Kotak Mahindra Bank
5) None of these
Which country will create the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, one of the largest marine protected areas in the world, spanning an area of 6,20,000 sq km?
1) Canada
2) Mexico
3) Australia
4) New Zealand
5) USA
Who among the following is the founder of Punjab National Bank?
1) Gopalkrishna Gokhale
2) Bipin Chandra Pal
3) Lala Lajpat Rai
4) Sachchidananda Sinha
5) None of these
Hand-in-Hand is a joint military training exercise of India and?
1) South Korea
2) Singapore
3) Sri Lanka
4) USA
5) China
Izmir Cup tennis is played annually in which of the following countries?
1) Israel
2) Turkey
3) Iran
4) Iraq
5) Oman
Who won the 2015 FIDE World Chess Cup held in Baku, Azerbaijan?
1) Sergey Karjakin
2) Peter Svidler
3) Viswanathan Anand
4) Veselin Topalov
5) Hikaru Nakamura
Which country won the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asia Championship in October 2015?
1) China
2) Philippines
3) Iran
4) India
5) South Korea
Who became the first Prime Minister of Nepal under the newly adopted secular, republic and federal constitution of Nepal in October 2015?
1) Bidhya Devi Bhandari
2) Kamal Thapa
3) Bijay Kumar Gachhadar
4) Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
5) Ram Baran Yadav
Who holds the record as the youngest Prime Minister of Canada?
1) Justin Trudeau
2) Pierre Trudeau
3) Joe Clark
4) Stephen Harper
5) None of these
Sylvie Lucas is the Chair of the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reforms. She belongs to?
1) Belgium
2) Netherlands
3) Luxembourg
4) Finland
5) Denmark
Kundhavi Kadiresan is the Assistant Director General and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific of which of the following organizations?
1) WHO
2) UNICEF
3) FAO
4) UNESCO
5) UNDP
Who is the President of Belarus, in office since July 20, 1994?
1) Mikhail Chigir
2) Sergey Ling
3) Sergei Sidorsky
4) Alexander Lukashenko
5) Vladimir Yermoshin
George Konrote assumed office as the President of which of the following countries on November 12, 2015?
1) Tuvalu
2) Vanuatu
3) Papua New Guinea
4) Tonga
5) Fiji
Who is the President of the All India Council of Sports?
1) Anil Khanna
2) V.K. Malhotra
3) Rajiv Mehta
4) Lalit Bhanot
5) Rao Inderjit Singh
Who is the first male member of the National Commission for Women (NCW)?
1) Om Prakash Rawat
2) Alok Goyal
3) Alok Rawat
4) Ashok Lahiri
5) Ashok Chawla
The alphabet ‘T’ in the abbreviation RTGS stands for?
1) Transfer
2) Term
3) Turnover
4) Total
5) Time
Harish Salve is an eminent?
1) Diplomat
2) Painter
3) Economist
4) Lawyer
5) Industrialist
The term ‘ECS’ is associated with which of the following industries?
1) Textiles
2) Oil
3) Banking
4) Insurance
5) Steel
Who was conferred the Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award in October 2015?
1) Ilaya Raja
2) A.R. Rehman
3) K.S. Chitra
4) K.J. Yesudas
5) Sameer
Who was awarded the 2015 Confucius Peace Prize by China?
1) Angela Merkel
2) Jacob Zuma
3) Nawaz Sharif
4) Raul Castro
5) Robert Mugabe
The letter ‘E’ in the abbreviation ‘EMI’ stands for?
1) Equal
2) Equivalent
3) Equated
4) Equalized
5) None of these
Which of the following States is referred to as the ‘Cradle of Banking’ in India?
1) Tamil Nadu
2) Punjab
3) Maharashtra
4) Karnataka
5) West Bengal
Which of the following public sector banks is based in Tamil Nadu?
1) Canara Bank
2) Corporation Bank
3) Vijaya Bank
4) Syndicate Bank
5) Indian Overseas Bank
The Ganga river flows through the nations of India and?
1) Nepal
2) Bhutan
3) Pakistan
4) Bangladesh
5) Myanmar
The Bibi Ka Maqbara is a monument located in?
1) Agra
2) Aurangabad
3) New Delhi
4) Lucknow
5) Patna
Marlon James of Jamaica won the Man Booker Prize for 2015 for his book?
1) The Luminaries
2) The Wolf Hall
3) Bring up the Bodies
4) The Narrow Road to the Deep North
5) A Brief History of Seven Killings
What is the currency of Tajikistan?
1) Manat
2) Kuna
3) Somoni
4) Rial
5) Riel
Tasmania is an island State of which of the following countries?
1) Canada
2) Denmark
3) USA
4) Australia
5) New Zealand

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