Saturday, November 29, 2014

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS

1. ING Vysya Bank has decided to merge with which of the following private banks?
1) ICICI Bank
2) Axis Bank
3) HDFC Bank
4) Kotak Mahindra Bank
5) Yes Bank

2. Who received the prestigious Colonel CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award on November 21, 2014?
1) Sunil Gavaskar
2) Dilip Vengsarkar
3) Syed Kirmani
4) G.R. Viswanath
5) K. Srikkanth

3. Who was honored with the centenary award for Indian Film Personality of the Year 2014 on November 20, 2014?
1) Amitabh Bachchan
2) Kamal Hasan
3) Rajinikanth
4) Shah Rukh Khan
5) Waheeda Rehman

4. Who is the winner of the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year?
1) Michael Clarke
2) Kumar Sangakkara
3) AB de Villiers
4) Mitchell Johnson
5) Dale Steyn

5. Who among the following is/are serving as the Chief Minister of a State for the first time?
1) K. Chandrasekara Rao
2) Jitan Ram Manjhi
3) Anandiben Patel
4) Both 1 and 3
5) All 1, 2 and 3

6. Which one of the following books is written by Hillary Clinton?
1) Central Time
2) The Goldfinch
3) Hard Choices
4) The Last Word
5) None of these

7. Who has been appointed the Chairman of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal?
1) Justice RM Lodha
2) Justice Madan B. Lokur
3) Justice M.Y. Eqbal
4) Justice B.S. Chauhan
5) Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri

8. International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is headquartered in?
1) Geneva
2) London
3) Berne
4) Vienna
5) Paris

9. ITU presented the 2014 World Telecommunication and Information Society Award to Paul Kagame, the President of?
1) Uganda
2) Democratic Republic of Congo
3) Rwanda
4) Niger
5) Nigeria

10. The James Beard Foundation Awards are given for excellence in?
1) Poetry
2) Television
3) Films
4) Cuisine
5) Sculpture

11. Donetsk and Luhansk are the cities in?
1) Ukraine
2) Kazakhstan
3) Georgia
4) Poland
5) Portugal

12. Which country topped the Press Freedom Index for 2014?
1) Netherlands
2) Norway
3) Sweden
4) Belgium
5) Finland

13. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, in which of the following States the Bharatiya Janata Party did not win all the seats?
1) Gujarat
2) Rajasthan
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) Uttarakhand
5) Madhya Pradesh

14. Which is the third largest party in the 16th Lok Sabha?
1) Trinamool Congress
2) AIADMK
3) Biju Janata Dal
4) Shiv Sena
5) CPI (M)

15. 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of which of the following agencies of the United Nations Organization?
1) UNICEF
2) UNEP
3) ILO
4) ICAO
5) ITU

16. India successfully test-fired indigenously developed Akash, which is a/an?
1) Surface to surface missile
2) Air to air missile
3) Surface to air missile
4) Subsonic missile
5) None of these

17. What is the full form of GIRO?
1) General Instant Recurring order
2) General Interlinked Recurring Order
3) General International Recurring Order
4) General Interbank Recurring Order
5) None of these

18. In banking CASA stands for?
1) Corporate Account, Savings Account
2) Current Account, Savings Account
3) Current Account, Service Account
4) Corporate Account, Service Account
5) None of these

19. Rakhigarhi is a Harappan civilization site in?
1) Gujarat
2) Rajasthan
3) Haryana
4) Punjab
5) Himachal Pradesh

20. Shiv Chowrasia is a player associated with?
1) Golf
2) Squash
3) Billiards
4) Polo
5) Table Tennis

21. In the 7th IPL edition which bowler won the Purple Cap?
1) Sunil Narine
2) Bhuvneswar Kumar
3) Sandeep Sharma
4) Ravindra Jadeja
5) Mohit Sharma

22. Pilot testing of plastic currency notes will not be done in which of the following cities?
1) Shimla
2) Kochi
3) Mysore
4) Jaipur
5) Mumbai

ANSWERS:
1) 4; 2) 2; 3) 3; 4) 4; 5) 5; 6) 3; 7) 4; 8) 1; 9) 3; 10) 4;
11) 1; 12) 1; 13) 5; 14) 2; 15) 5; 16) 3; 17) 4; 18) 2; 19) 3; 20) 1; 21) 5; 22) 5.