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General Awareness - 94

  1. Tendong Lho Rum Faat, an Annual festival of ethnic Lepcha tribe is celebrated in the month of August in?
    1) Sikkim
    2) Meghalaya
    3) Nagaland
    4) Tripura
    5) West Bengal
  2. Which country is the world's largest exporter of beef, according to a data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture?
    1) Brazil
    2) India
    3) Australia
    4) USA
    5) Iran
  3. Acharya Dev Vrat has been appointed the new Governor of?
    1) Bihar
    2) Rajasthan
    3) Himachal Pradesh
    4) Haryana
    5) Punjab
  4. Which of the following days is declared as National Handloom Day?
    1) August 4
    2) August 5
    3) August 6
    4) August 7
    5) August 9
  5. Who won the Folio Prize 2015 for his novel "Family Life"?
    1) Colm Toibin
    2) Amitav Ghosh
    3) Akhil Sharma
    4) Neel Mukherjee
    5) None of these
  6. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the chief guest at the National Day celebrations of which of the following countries on March 12, 2015?
    1) Mongolia
    2) Fiji
    3) South Korea
    4) Sri Lanka
    5) Mauritius
  7. Who was elected the President of BCCI in March 2015?
    1) N. Srinivasan
    2) Anurag Thakur
    3) Jagmohan Dalmiya
    4) Sunil Gavaskar
    5) Sharad Pawar
  8. Who was chosen for the 2015 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement?
    1) Madhav Gadgil
    2) Vijay Seshadri
    3) Medha Patkar
    4) Kailash Satyarthi
    5) Rajendra Singh
  9. Who was presented the "Laadli Voice of the Century" award in March 2015?
    1) Shreya Ghoshal
    2) Lata Mangeshkar
    3) Asha Bhonsle
    4) Chitra
    5) None of these
  10. The prestigious Saraswati Samman for 2014 was given to a book written in?
    1) Telugu
    2) Hindi
    3) Kannada
    4) Malayalam
    5) Marathi
  11. Who was declared the richest man in the world by the Forbes magazine in March 2015?
    1) Carlos Slim Helu
    2) Warren Buffet
    3) Larry Ellison
    4) Bill Gates
    5) Larry Page
  12. Who among the following is the founder of Biocon?
    1) Akhila Srinivasan
    2) Aruna Jayanthi
    3) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
    4) Shikha Sharma
    5) Shobhana Bhartia
  13. Lee Kuan Yew died in March 2015. He was the architect of?
    1) Hong Kong
    2) Taiwan
    3) South Korea
    4) Japan
    5) Singapore
  14. Which is the world's largest importer of weapons as per a report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in March 2015?
    1) Russia
    2) China
    3) India
    4) Pakistan
    5) Germany
  15. Malcolm Fraser died on March 20, 2015. He was the former Prime Minister of?
    1) Australia
    2) New Zealand
    3) South Africa
    4) Canada
    5) Jamaica
  16. According to the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2015, the world's top university is?
    1) Harvard
    2) Cambridge
    3) Oxford
    4) University of Tokyo
    5) Tsinghua University
  17. Pedro Morenes visited India recently. He is the Minister of Defence of?
    1) Germany
    2) Spain
    3) France
    4) Italy
    5) Portugal
  18. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated two 600 MW units of the Shree Singaji Thermal Power Plant in Khandwa district of?
    1) Uttar Pradesh
    2) Haryana
    3) Madhya Pradesh
    4) Odisha
    5) Chhattisgarh
  19. Who is the first batsman to score four consecutive One Day International centuries?
    1) A.B. de Villiers
    2) Sachin Tendulkar
    3) Jacques Kallis
    4) Ricky Ponting
    5) Kumar Sangakkara
  20. Martina Hingis is a renowned female tennis player from?
    1) Sweden
    2) Norway
    3) Bulgaria
    4) Switzerland
    5) Germany
  21. Which of the following has introduced RuPay debit card?
    1) RBI
    2) MasterCard
    3) VISA
    4) SBI
    5) NPCI
  22. National Chemical Laboratory is situated in?
    1) Hyderabad
    2) Pune
    3) Chandigarh
    4) Faridabad
    5) Nagpur
  23. To boost research and innovation Newton- Bhabha Fund was recently established by India and?
    1) UK
    2) USA
    3) France
    4) Germany
    5) Poland
  24. Sarjubala Devi is associated with which of the following sports?
    1) Wrestling
    2) Archery
    3) Boxing
    4) Hockey
    5) Weightlifting
  25. Which of the following abbreviations and their full forms is not matched correctly?
    1) IFSC – Indian Financial System Code
    2) IFFI – International Film Festival of India
    3) GST – Government Sales Tax
    4) SEZ – Special Economic Zone
    5) LLP – Limited Liability Partnership
  26. Who among the following is not a President of a country?
    1) James Michel
    2) Anerood Jugnauth
    3) Maithripala Sirisena
    4) Abdullah Yameen
    5) Xi Jinping
  27. Who is the first man to be appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia for UN Women's "HeForShe" initiative?
    1) Aamir Khan
    2) Sachin Tendulkar
    3) Shah Rukh Khan
    4) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
    5) Farhan Akhtar
  28. Veenapani Chawla died recently. She was an eminent?
    1) Poet
    2) Writer
    3) Scientist
    4) Theater personality
    5) Hockey player
  29. The United Nations declared which of the following days as World Toilet Day?
    1) September 19
    2) November 19
    3) October 19
    4) December 19
    5) August 19
  30. With which of the following sports is Vijay Hazare Trophy associated?
    1) Hockey
    2) Football
    3) Cricket
    4) Tennis
    5) Kabaddi
  31. The percentage of shareholding of the concerned State government in Regional Rural Banks is?
    1) 50%
    2) 15%
    3) 35%
    4) 65%
    5) 75%
  32. Magnet Hill or Gravity Hill is located in?
    1) Itanagar
    2) Leh
    3) Shillong
    4) Gangtok
    5) Kamrup
  33. KHUSHII is an organization working for the upliftment of poor and destitute communities. It is headed by?
    1) Kapil Dev
    2) Sunil Gavaskar
    3) Sachin Tendulkar
    4) Rahul Dravid
    5) Saurav Ganguly
  34. Who won the women's singles title in the India Open Badminton championship in New Delhi in March 2015?
    1) Ratchanok Inthanon
    2) Carolina Marin
    3) P.V. Sindhu
    4) Saina Nehwal
    5) Sun Yu
  35. Komati Reddy Prateek Reddy Trophy is associated with which of the following sports?
    1) Billiards
    2) Chess
    3) Hockey
    4) Kabaddi
    5) Badminton


Answers:

1) 1

2) 2

3) 3

4) 4

5) 3

6) 5

7) 3

8) 1

9) 2

10) 3

11) 4

12) 3

13) 5

14) 3

15) 1

16) 1

17) 2

18) 3

19) 5

20) 4

21) 5

22) 2

23) 1

24) 3

25) 3

26) 2

27) 5

28) 4

29) 2

30) 3

31) 2

32) 2

33) 1

34) 4

35) 2

Published date : 09 Dec 2015 12:19PM

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