Tuesday, February 2, 2016

GENERAL AEARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR ALL COMPETITIVE EXAMS

1. Who is the author of the book "The Turbulent Years 1980-1996"?
1) Sharad Pawar
2) Hamid Ansari
3) Pranab Mukherjee
4) L.K. Advani
5) Sonia Gandhi

2. Who won the 2016 Australian Open women's singles tennis title on January 30, 2016?
1) Serena Williams
2) Angelique Kerber
3) Victoria Azarenka
4) Zhang Shuai
5) Maria Sharapova

3. Who won the Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold Championship Badminton men's singles title on January 31, 2016?
1) Huang Yuxiang
2) Parupalli Kashyap
3) Kidambi Srikanth
4) Shi Yuqi
5) None of these

4. The President's Rule was imposed in which of the following States on January 26, 2016?
1) Manipur
2) Sikkim
3) Meghalaya
4) Arunachal Pradesh
5) Tripura

5. Shiv Prakash Mishra was given the 2015 Dhyan Chand Award. He is associated with?
1) Hockey
2) Volleyball
3) Golf
4) Football
5) Tennis

6. Which of the following organizations is headquartered in London?
1) International Maritime Organization
2) World Meteorological Organization
3) Food and Agriculture Organization
4) United Nations Environment Program
5) International Atomic Energy Agency

7. Who was elected Chairman of the Press Trust of India in September 2015?
1) Riyad Mathew
2) Prabhu Chawla
3) Hormusji N. Cama
4) N. Ram
5) Vineet Jain

8. Who was appointed as a full-time member in the NITI Aayog in September 2015?
1) M.S. Swaminathan
2) Kaushik Basu
3) Raghuram Rajan
4) Ramesh Chand
5) Avinash Chander

9. Which of the following teams won the Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup cricket tournament in September 2015?
1) India Cements
2) Hyderabad Cricket Association
3) ONGC
4) Air India
5) FCI

10. The Finance Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated the new bank note paper line of 6,000 tonnes capacity in?
1) Indore
2) Bhopal
3) Hoshangabad
4) Nasik
5) Noida

11. Who is the author of the novel "A Strangeness in My Mind"?
1) Orhan Pamuk
2) V.S. Naipaul
3) P.H. Newby
4) Doris Lessing
5) None of these

12. Which of the following statements is not correct?
1) Karnataka is the highest coffee growing State in India
2) London is situated on the banks of the river Thames
3) Graphite is used in making pencils
4) The first Indian to give a speech in Hindi in the United Nations General Assembly is Narendra Modi
5) Disguised Unemployment means more people working than required

13. Identify the mismatched pair?
Country - Prime Minister
1) Sri Lanka - Ranil Wickremesinghe
2) Australia - Malcolm Turnbull
3) Greece - Alexis Tsipras
4) England - David Cameron
5) China - Xi Jinping

14. India has gifted its former Indian Coast Guard (ICG) ship "Varaha" to?
1) Maldives
2) Sri Lanka
3) Mauritius
4) Myanmar
5) Seychelles

15. Which of the following banks has launched a mobile wallet app "Buddy"?
1) HDFC Bank
2) Axis Bank
3) Corporation Bank
4) State Bank of India
5) None of these

16. Which of the following statements about Bandhan Bank is not correct?
1) Bandhan Bank was inaugurated on August 23, 2015
2) It is headquartered in Kolkata
3) Its Chairman is Ashok Kumar Lahiri
4) Its tag line is "Aapka Bhala, Sabki Bhalai"
5) Bandhan is the second microfinance company to transform into a bank

17. Who among the following is not an archer?
1) Abhishek Verma
2) Rajat Chauhan
3) Sandeep Kumar
4) Chekrovolu Swuro
5) Aditi Ashok

18. Who is the present Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)?
1) Shanta Sinha
2) Deepika Shrivastava
3) Stuti Narain Kacker
4) Krishna Tirath
5) Preet Verma

19. INS Vajrakosh has been commissioned at Karwar Base in?
1) Karnataka
2) Odisha
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Kerala
5) Gujarat

20. The Union Cabinet has approved what per cent of Foreign Direct Investment in White Label Automated Teller Machines (WLAs)?
1) 26%
2) 49%
3) 74%
4) 100%
5) None of these

21. Who was awarded the prestigious 2015 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize?
1) Manjul Bhargav
2) Jacob Tsimerman
3) Wei Zhang
4) Ben Green
5) None of these

22. Which country's Prime Minister was selected for the United Nations Champions of the Earth Award in September 2015?
1) Canada
2) Singapore
3) Bangladesh
4) UK
5) China

23. Baba Farid Gold Cup is associated with which of the following sports?
1) Cricket
2) Football
3) Hockey
4) Shooting
5) Boxing

24. Which of the following is the majority stakeholder in the capital of Regional Rural Banks?
1) Sponsor Bank
2) Reserve Bank of India
3) State Government
4) Central Government
5) NABARD

25. Madison Square Garden is an indoor arena in?
1) London
2) Paris
3) Sydney
4) Ankara
5) New York

26. Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has entered into a partnership with which of the following banks for a payments bank?
1) ICICI Bank
2) HDFC Bank
3) State Bank of India
4) Bank of Baroda
5) Union Bank of India

27. Aqueela Asifi won the 2015 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Nansen Refugee Award. She belongs to?
1) Afghanistan
2) Syria
3) Iran
4) Lebanon
5) None of these

28. The 18th Asian Games will be held from August 18 to September 2, 2018 in which of the following cities?
1) Hanoi, Vietnam
2) Dubai, UAE
3) Bangkok, Thailand
4) Jakarta, Indonesia
5) Tokyo, Japan

29. The World Pneumonia Day is observed every year on?
1) May17
2) November 12
3) May 13
4) November 14
5) May 20

30. Ratan Watal has been appointed as the new?
1) Home Secretary
2) Revenue Secretary
3) Finance Secretary
4) Financial Services Secretary
5) Economic Affairs Secretary

31. Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad recently released a Rs 5/-postal stamp in honor of the Indian emperor?
1) Ashoka
2) Bimbisara
3) Bindusara
4) Chandragupta Maurya
5) Harshavardhana

32. Which of the following countries is not a member of the United Nations Organization?
1) Sudan
2) Kosovo
3) South Sudan
4) Rwanda
5) Bahrain

33. Where are the headquarters of UCO Bank located?
1) Mumbai
2) New Delhi
3) Kolkata
4) Chennai
5) Pune

34. Which bank has recently launched mCASH facility, where in a sender needs to know only the
mobile number or email ID of the recipient to transfer money?
1) ICICI Bank
2) Punjab National Bank
3) Bank of India
4) State Bank of India
5) Corporation Bank

35. The recently launched IDFC Bank is a scheduled?
1) Public sector bank
2) Regional rural bank
3) Commercial bank
4) Cooperative bank
5) Local Area bank

36. Which one of the following is not a capital city of a country?
1) Copenhagen
2) Bern
3) Helsinki
4) Brussels
5) Milan

37. Veer Savarkar International Airport is located in?
1) Kolkata
 2) Chennai
3) Port Blair
4) Kochi
5) Jaipur

38. Which of the following is the currency of Italy?
1) Lira
2) Franc
3) Krona
4) Euro
5) Peso

39. Who is the author of the book "Making India Awesome"?
1) Vikram Seth
2) Neil Mukherjee
3) Chetan Bhagat
4) Amitav Ghosh
5) Salman Rushdie

40. Who acts as the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee?
1) President
2) Prime Minister
3) Defense Minister
4) Defense Secretary
5) None of these

ANSWERS:
1) 3; 2) 2; 3) 3; 4) 4; 5) 5; 6) 1; 7) 3; 8) 4; 9) 1; 10) 3;
11) 1; 12) 4; 13) 5; 14) 2; 15) 4; 16) 5; 17) 5; 18) 3; 19) 1; 20) 4;
21) 2; 22) 3; 23) 3; 24) 4; 25) 5; 26) 3; 27) 1; 28) 4; 29) 2; 30) 3;
31) 1; 32) 2; 33) 3; 34) 4; 35) 3; 36) 5; 37) 3; 38) 4; 39) 3; 40) 5.