General Awareness - 91 | Sakshi Education

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Which of the following countries won the Copa America football tournament on July 4, 2015?
1) Argentina
2) Paraguay
3) Chile
4) Peru
5) Brazil
Nationwide Mobile Number Portability has been operational from?
1) July 1, 2015
2) July 3, 2015
3) July 5, 2015
4) July 7, 2015
5) None of these
As per the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC), what percent of the rural Indians are illiterates?
1) 32%
2) 44%
3) 36%
4) 40%
5) 41%
Who has been named the winner of the 2015 World Food Prize?
1) M.S. Swaminathan
2) Mahabub ul Haq
3) Muhammad Yunus
4) Fazle Hasan Abed
5) Sanjay Rajaram
Tony Tan Keng Yam visited India in February 2015. He is the President of?
1) South Korea
2) Vietnam
3) Cambodia
4) Laos
5) Singapore
National Rail Museum is located in?
1) Mumbai
2) Chennai
3) Kolkata
4) Secunderabad
5) New Delhi
The International Mountain Day is observed every year on?
1) December 11
2) October 11
3) November 11
4) September 11
5) August 11
Nickolay Mladenov was appointed as the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process on February 5, 2015. He belongs to?
1) Russia
2) Bulgaria
3) Ukraine
4) Georgia
5) Serbia
Identify the mismatched pair?
State - Chief Minister
1) Jammu & Kashmir – Mufti Mohammed Sayeed
2) Bihar - Nitish Kumar
3) Odisha - Naveen Patnaik
4) Tripura - T.R. Zeliang
5) Sikkim - Pawan Chamling
Who is the deputy Chief Minister of Delhi?
1) Sandeep Kumar
2) Gopal Rai
3) Asim Ahmed Khan
4) Manish Sisodia
5) Somnath Bharti
The World Health Organization is headquartered in?
1) Austria
2) USA
3) UK
4) Italy
5) Switzerland
Which of the following statements is not correct?
1) Pranab Mukherjee is the author of "The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years"
2) BRICS Development Bank is now known as The New Development Bank
3) The chief regulator for the commodity futures market is Forward Markets Commission
4) Bharatiya Mahila Bank is a non-scheduled commercial bank
5) The 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held in Australia
Who was given the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in January 2015?
1) Tanuja
2) Waheeda Rehman
3) Kamini Kaushal
4) Hema Malini
5)Jaya Bachchan
The Rapid Action Force (RAF) is a specialized wing of the?
1) CISF
2) BSF
3) CRPF
4) ITBP
5) NSG
Which is the second largest river in India after the river Ganga?
1) Brahmaputra
2) Godavari
3) Krishna
4) Indus
5) Yamuna
Ritu Rani is associated with which of the following sports?
1) Football
2) Cricket
3) Hockey
4) Boxing
5) Shooting
Michael Adams of England is associated with?
1) Billiards
2) Golf
3) Formula one
4) Chess
5) Boxing
Who is the author of the book "The Good, The Bad and The Ridiculous"?
1) Salman Rushdie
2) Khushwant Singh
3) V.S. Naipaul
4) Arvind Adiga
5) None of these
The currency of Oman is?
1) Omani Dollar
2) Omani Ruble
3) Omani Rial
4) Omani Pound
5) Omani Dinar
Buying or selling of securities by a person with access to privileged information with an objective of making an illegal gain is called?
1) Cross trading
2) Forward trading
3) Circular trading
4) Insider trading
5) None of these
Who was appointed the Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in February 2015?
1) M.O. Garg
2) P.K. Kapil
3) D.M. Kale
4) I.M. Mishra
5) A.S. Basu
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy is situated in?
1) Ghaziabad
2) Lucknow
3) Nagpur
4) Hyderabad
5) New Delhi
Which of the following rivers crosses the equator twice?
1) Amazon
2) Congo
3) Volga
4) Nile
5) Danube
Which of the following pairs of countries and capital cities is not matched correctly?
1) Argentina – Buenos Aires
2) Colombia – Bogotá
3) Egypt – Cairo
4) Zimbabwe – Harare
5) Peru – Santiago
Which one of the following European Union countries has its own currency and has not switched over to Euro?
1) France
2) Germany
3) Italy
4) Spain
5) Sweden
Which country recently launched a new generation navigation satellite Glonass-K?
1) Japan
2) France
3) Russia
4) China
5) South Korea
Who was appointed by the President Barack Obama as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations in February 2015?
1) Indra Nooyi
2) Ajay Banga
3) Padmasree Warrior
4) Punit Renjen
5) None of these
Which one of the following countries does not have a female President at present?
1) Brazil
2) Argentina
3) Venezuela
4) Chile
5) Croatia
Sergio Mattarella assumed office as the President of which of the following countries on February 3, 2015?
1) Greece
2) Italy
3) Bulgaria
4) Slovenia
5) Spain
Who is the present Defense Secretary of the United States of America?
1) Chuck Hagel
2) Robert Gates
3) John Kerry
4) Ashton Carter
5) Leon Panetta
Which of the following films won the Best Picture award at the 87th Academy awards in February 2015?
1) Boyhood
2) Whiplash
3) Still Alice
4) Birdman
5) None of these
Bhalachandra Nemade was chosen for the Jnanpith Award 2014. He is an eminent writer in which of the following languages?
1) Kannada
2) Marathi
3) Sanskrit
4) Hindi
5) Bengali
The abbreviation "EPOS" stands for?
1) Electronic Purchase of Sale
2) Electronic Payment of Sale
3) Electronic Point of Sale
4) Electronic Price of Sale
5) None of these
Nikkei 225 is a stock market index of?
1) Shanghai stock exchange
2) Tokyo stock exchange
3) New York stock exchange
4) Beijing stock exchange
5) None of these
Which country won the African Nations Cup football tournament on February 8, 2015?
1) Ghana
2) Cameroon
3) Senegal
4) South Africa
5) Ivory Coast
Who is the Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir?
1) Priya Sethi
2) Aasiya Naqqash
3) Mehbooba Mufti
4) Nirmal Singh
5) None of these
Dunya Maumoon visited India in February 2015. She is the Foreign Minister of?
1) Malaysia
2) Maldives
3) Afghanistan
4) Iraq
5) Iran
Who founded Prarthana Samaj in 1867?
1) Swami Vivekananda
2) Ramakrishna Paramahansa
3) Aatmaram Pandurang
4) Mahadev Govind Ranade
5) Dayananda Saraswati
Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy is in?
1) Mussorie
2) Darjeeling
3) Kolkata
4) Dehradun
5) Bhubaneswar

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