General Awareness – 114 | Sakshi Education

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Who was awarded the $1 million Genesis Prize on June 23, 2016?
1) Itzhak Perlman
2) Michael Douglas
3) Michael Bloomberg
4) Helen Mirren
5) None of these
Which country won the Copa America Centenario football tournament on June 26, 2016?
1) Argentina
2) Chile
3) Colombia
4) Brazil
5) USA
The 2019 Copa America football championship will be held in which of the following countries?
1) Paraguay
2) Peru
3) Brazil
4) Uruguay
5) Venezuela
Who won the Best Actor in a Leading Role award at the 17th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards ceremony on June 25, 2016?
1) Salman Khan
2) Varun Dhawan
3) Ranbir Kapoor
4) Ranveer Singh
5) Amitabh Bachchan
Which world leader took part in the "Aarti" on the banks of River Ganges in December 2015?
1) Vladimir Putin
2) Barack Obama
3) Xi Jinping
4) Maitripala Sirisena
5) Shinzo Abe
Who succeeded T.C.A. Raghavan as India's High Commissioner to Pakistan?
1) Syed Akbaruddin
2) Ahmad Javed
3) Akhilesh Mishra
4) Navtej Sarna
5) Gautam Bambawale
Pravin Gordhan is the current Minister of Finance of which of the following countries?
1) Canada
2) New Zealand
3) South Africa
4) Australia
5) None of these
Roch Marc Christian Kabore became the President of which of the following African countries on December 29, 2015?
1) Eritrea
2) Gabon
3) Gambia
4) Burkina Faso
5) Ghana
Patricia Scotland is the first woman Secretary General of which of the following organizations?
1) European Union
2) OECD
3) Commonwealth
4) APEC
5) None of these
Who is the author of the book "Because We Say So"?
1) Noam Chomsky
2) Daniel Everett
3) Michael Moore
4) Harold Pinter
5) John Searle
Who was given the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy in December 2015?
1) Steve Smith
2) Virat Kohli
3) A.B. de Villiers
4) Faf du Plessis
5) Brendon McCullum
Which country has become the 164th member of the World Trade Organization?
1) Bhutan
2) Afghanistan
3) Comoros
4) Ethiopia
5) Sudan
The 10th World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference was held in December 2015 in
1) Bali, Indonesia
2) Doha, Qatar
3) Nairobi, Kenya
4) Geneva, Switzerland
5) Bogota, Colombia
International Nelson Mandela Day is celebrated every year on
1) June 18
2) July 28
3) June 28
4) July 18
5) June 30
Which of the following is the capital of Uzbekistan?
1) Ankara
2) Antalya
3) Istanbul
4) Astana
5) Tashkent
What is the objective of MUDRA Yojana?
1) To encourage small banks
2) To encourage big infrastructure projects
3) To encourage small and medium enterprises
4) Both 1 and 2
5) None of these
Which Indian State has the highest tiger population?
1) Karnataka
2) Uttarakhand
3) Madhya Pradesh
4) Tamil Nadu
5) Kerala
Desert National Park is located in the State of
1) Haryana
2) Gujarat
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) Rajasthan
5) None of these
An unclaimed deposit refers to any deposit or any amount remaining unclaimed for more than
1) Two years
2) Three years
3) Four years
4) Five years
5) Ten years
Ramon Magsaysay, in whose name the prestigious Magsaysay Award is given, was the President of
1) Thailand
2) Philippines
3) Malaysia
4) Indonesia
5) Cambodia
What is the full form of EPS as used in stock markets?
1) Equity Per Share
2) Equilibrium of Private Securities
3) Earnings Per Share
4) Elongated Period of Settlement
5) None of these
Which famous author is one of the cofounders of London School of Economics?
1) T.S. Eliot
2) George Bernard Shaw
3) John Osborne
4) Harold Nicolson
5) None of these
Comiket, the world's largest comic festival, is held in
1) Paris
2) Seoul
3) Tokyo
4) Beijing
5) Munich
Cartography is the study of
1) Cartoons
2) Carrots
3) Cartilages
4) Maps
5) None of these
Regional Rural Banks are jointly owned by
1) Government of India, Reserve Bank of India and a commercial bank
2) Government of India, State Government and a commercial bank
3) Government of India, Reserve Bank of India and State Government
4) State Government, Reserve Bank of India and a commercial bank
5) None of these
Who started "Bachpan Bachao Andolan"?
1) Malala Yousafzai
2) Medha Patkar
3) Kailash Satyarthi
4) Shantha Sinha
5) None of these
"Working for a world free of poverty" is the motto of
1) World Bank
2) UNESCO
3) UNICEF
4) IMF
5) UNCTAD
The Reserve Bank of India has announced that the Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) would be lowered to 20.5% by
1) July 2016
2) October 2016
3) December 2016
4) January 2017
5) None of these
Which State leads India in tobacco consumption with 67.2% of its population consuming various tobacco products?
1) Mizoram
2) Tripura
3) Nagaland
4) Sikkim
5) Odisha
India will manufacture Kamov 226 choppers jointly with which of the following countries?
1) Japan
2) South Korea
3) Russia
4) China
5) France
Which country has recently launched Ghadr-110 ballistic missile?
1) Iran
2) Afghanistan
3) Pakistan
4) Israel
5) None of these
Inle Lake is the first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in which of the following countries?
1) Japan
2) Myanmar
3) Vietnam
4) Laos
5) Thailand
Which country will lead Islamic Military Coalition that is formed to counter terrorism?
1) Turkey
2) Malaysia
3) Saudi Arabia
4) Egypt
5) UAE
The fifth Heart of Asia Conference on Afghanistan was held in December 2015 in?
1) Almaty
2) Kabul
3) Beijing
4) Islamabad
5) Shanghai
The 16th India-Russia Annual Summit was held on December 24, 2015 in?
1) Mumbai
2) New Delhi
3) Jaipur
4) Yekaterinburg
5) Moscow
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has chaired the Combined Commanders Conference on board?
1) INS Vikrant
2) INS Vikramaditya
3) INS Virat
4) INS Kolkata
5) INS Arihant
India's first indigenously designed and built warship was decommissioned on December 23, 2015. What is its name?
1) INS Ganga
2) INS Gomati
3) INS Godavari
4) INS Vishwakarma
5) INS Betwa
Who has been honored with the prestigious Jnanpith Award for 2015?
1) Rajendra Shah
2) Uma Shankar Joshi
3) Pratibha Ray
4) Raghuveer Chaudhary
5) None of these
Which author was awarded the Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement in December 2015?
1) Orhan Pamuk
2) V.S. Naipaul
3) Salman Rushdie
4) Doris Lessing
5) None of these
Which country gives the Genesis Prize every year?
1) Germany
2) Mexico
3) France
4) Israel
5) USA

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