Saturday, 27 June 2015

General Awareness Quiz

1. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit was held at Yanqi Lake, about 50 km north east of Beijing. This
was ________APEC summit.
1) 11th 2) 12th 3) 21st 4) 22nd 5) None of these

2. The RBI has announced a new set of norms for NBFCs mandating a huge increase in the minimum ‘net owned fund’
requirement from earlier Rs 25 lakh to ________by 2017 in a phased manner.
1) Rs 50 lakh 2) Rs 75 lakh 3) Rs 1 cr 4) Rs 2 cr 5) Rs 5 cr

3. The SFIO submitted the final report on Saradha scam to the Corporate Affairs Ministry recently. Expand the term SFIO.
1) Serial Fraud Investigation Office 2) Scam and Fraud Investigation Office
3) Serious Fraud Investigation Office 4) Serious Fraud Investigation Organisation
5) None of these

4. The first ever state of the art institute of livestock management and entrepreneurship of North East is being set up in
which of the following states?
1) Assam 2) Arunachal Pradesh 3) Mizoram 4) Tripura 5) Manipur

5. The PM Narendra Modi invited ASEAN nations to invest in India while interacting with them on the sidelines of ASEAN
summit in Myanmar. ASEAN is a bloc of ________ small and medium economies.
1) 9 2) 10 3) 12 4) 21 5) 22

6. The National Education Day in observed on the birth Anniversary of Mulana Abul Kalam Azad which falls on
1) 6 Nov 2) 10 Nov 3) 11 Nov 4) 14 Nov 5) 16 Nov

7. The 45th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will begin in Goa from 20 Nov. Which of the following countries will
be the focus country of this year?
1) Japan 2) Germany 3) China 4) Vietnam 5) Australia

8. The Minister of Minority Affairs launched the Maulana Azad National Academy for skills (MANAS) in New Delhi, on
the 125th birth Anniversary of Mulana Abul Kalam Azad. Who among the following is the Minority Affairs Minister at
present?
1) MJ Akbar 2) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi 3) Syed Shahnawaz Hussain
4) Najma Heptulla 5) None of these

9. India and which of the following countries have successfully test-fired a jointly developed long range surface to air
missile (LRSAM) recently? The multi-role missile has a range of 70 km and has sea-skimming capability and could take
on anti-ship function too.
1) US 2) Brazil 3) Japan 4) Israel 5) None of these

10. Who among the following has been elected as the Speaker of the Maharashtra Assembly?
1) Ganpatrao Deshmukh 2) Haribhau Bagde 3) Jiva Pandu Gavit
4) Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil 5) Eknath Shinde

11. Who among the following Indian cricketers has become the quickest cricketer in history to reach 6000 runs in ODI?
1) Yuvraj Singh 2) Suresh Raina 3) Virat Kohli
4) Mahendra Singh Dhoni 5) None of these

12. Who among the following batsmen has become the world’s only cricketer to hit two double centuries as of now?
1) Ravindra Jadeja 2) Shikhar Dhawan 3) Rohit Sharma 4) Virat Kohli 5) Suresh Raina

13. The names disclosed by the Supreme Court in connection with the IPL match fixing probe includes who among the
following? The Mudgal Committee submitted its report in this case recently.
1) Sunder Raman 2) N Srinivasan 3) Gurunath Meiyappan
4) Only 2) and 3) 5) All 1), 2) and 3)

14. Which of the following is the capital city of Myanmar? It hosted ASEAN Summit recently.
1) Naypyidaw 2) Manila 3) Hanoi 4) Beirut 5) None of these

15. After ‘Make In India’ campaign, the govt is all set to launch ‘Served from India’ campaign. The services sector constitutes
________share of the country’s GDP as of now.
1) 37 per cent 2) 43 per cent 3) 57 per cent 4) 63 per cent 5) 77 per cent

16. After RBI’s approval, banks like SBI, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank have started charging customers for using home ATMs
more than five times a month with effect from 1 Nov. It is NOT applicable in which of the following cities?
1) Kolkata 2) Chennai 3) New Delhi 4) Mumbai 5) None of these

17. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Myanmar’s President on 11 Nov on the sidelines of ASEAN summit. Who among
the following is the current president of Myanmar?
1) Min Aung Hlaing 2) Thein Sein 3) Shwe Mann 4) Than Shwe 5) Aung San Suu Kyi

18. The govt has launched GIS based decision support system to expedite forest clearance for development projects in New
Delhi. GIS stands for
1) Geographical Information System 2) Geological Information System
3) Graphical Information System 4) Geothermal Information System
5) None of these

19. Who among the following is NOT among the 19 Americans who will on 24 Nov receive Presidential Medal of Freedom,
the country’s highest civilian honour for their “extraordinary contributions”?
1) Meryl Streep 2) Stephen Sondheim 3) Tom Brokaw 4) Stevie Wonder 5) None of these

20. According to current regulations for banks, an asset is classified as non-performing when it remains overdue for how
many days?
1) 30 2) 60 3) 90 4) 120 5) 180

21. Which of the following fighter aircrafts grounded following a crash in Pune has been cleared for flying recently?
1) Sukhoi-30s 2) Mirage 2000 3) MiG-29M 4) Jaguar 5) None of these

22. Six infrastructure projects in India figure among the 100 most innovative infrastructure investments in the world. Which
of the following is one among them?
1) Delhi Metro 2) Yamuna Expressway
3) Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT) 4) Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project
5) All the above

23. One out of three companies that raised funds via QIP route in the recent past have seen their stocks underperform the
markets. Expand the term QIP.
1) Qualified Institutional Placement 2) Qualified Institutional Package
3) Quantitative Institutional Placement 4) Qualitative Institutional Placement
5) None of these

24. The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has cleared the long-pending proposal of which of the following banks
to hike foreign holding in the bank to 74 per cent recently?
1) ICICI Bank 2) Axis Bank 3) Federal Bank 4) HDFC Bank 5) None of these

25. Name the spacecraft launched by the EU Space Agency which has successfully landed on a comet for the first time in
space history.
1) Discovery 2) Philae 3) Curiosity 4) Phoenix 5) None of these

26. Which of the following state govt’s has made voting compulsory in elections to local bodies recently attracting widespread
controversy?
1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Kerala 3) Tamil Nadu 4) Gujarat 5) Rajasthan

27. CRY is an international organisation associated with
1) animal rights 2) child rights 3) climate change 4) citizen’s rights 5) None of these

28. As revealed by the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj recently, India is the third largest passport issuing country
in the world. Which of the following countries holds the top position in this regard?
1) Japan 2) China 3) Malaysia 4) Indonesia 5) Philippines

Answers: 1. 4 2. 4 3. 3 4. 1 5. 2
6. 3 7. 3 8. 4 9. 4 10. 2
11. 3 12. 3 13. 5 14. 1 15. 3
16. 5 17. 2 18. 1 19. 5 20. 3
21. 1 22. 5 23. 1 24. 4 25. 2
26. 4 27. 2 28. 2

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