general awareness quiz

www.sakshieducation.com



GENERAL AWARENESS1. Yogesh Agarwal resigned as the Chairman of which of the following regulators on

November 13, 2013?

1) Pension Fund Regulatory Development Authority

2) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

3) Airport Economic Regulatory Authority

4) Insurance Regulatory Development Authority

5) Securities and Exchange Board of India

2. Who was appointed as the Chairperson and Managing Director (CMD) of Bharatiya Mahila

Bank (BMB), the first women's bank, in November 2013?

1) Shubhalaxmi Panse 2) Vijayalaxmi Iyer

3) Arundhathi Bhattacharya 4) Usha Ananthasubramanian

5) Archana Bhargava

3. The nineteenth session of the Conference of Parties (COP-19) to the United Nations

Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in which of the following

cities in Nov. 2013?

1) Copenhagen (Denmark) 2) Moscow (Russia)

3) Warsaw (Poland) 4) Stockholm (Sweden)

5) Oslo (Norway)

4. Miss Universe beauty pageant was held in Moscow, Russia on November 9, 2013. Who was

crowned Miss Universe 2013?

1) Maria Gabriela Isler (Venezuela) 2) Patricia Rodriguez (Spain)

3) Constanza Baez (Ecuador) 4) Ariella Arida (Philippines)

5) Megan Young (Philippines)

5. Who represented India at Miss Universe 2013 in Moscow, Russia on November 9, 2013?

(She was placed 10th)

1) Gurleen Grewal 2) Sristi Rana 3) Preeti Chauhan

4) Manasi Moghe 5) Navneet Kaur Dhillon


6. Which country will host the women's World Cup Hockey in 2018?

1) India 2) Netherlands 3) England 4) Malaysia 5) South Korea

7. Whose 125th birth anniversary was celebrated on November 11, 2013?

1) C. Rajagopalachary 2) Dr. Babu Rajendra Prasad

3) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 4) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

5) Bhagat Singh

8. Who won the ATP World Tour Finals Tennis tournament for the second year in a row in

November 2013?

1) Novak Djokovic 2) Rafael Nadal 3) Roger Federer

4) Richard Gasquet 5) Andy Murray

9. Who was honored with the first CII President's award for his contributions to the industry and

nation building on November 15, 2013?

1) Adi Godrej 2) Rahul Bajaj 3) S. Ramadorai

4) S. Gopalakrishnan 5) Ratan Tata

10. Which team won the Men's Asian Hockey Champions Trophy in Kakamighara city, Japan

in November 2013?

1) Pakistan 2) Japan 3) Malaysia 4) China 5) India

11. Who was sworn-in as Malaysia's Prime Minister for the second time in May 2013?

1) Anwar Ibrahim 2) Tuanku Abdul Halim

3) Abdullah Ahmad Badawi 4) Najib Tun Razak

5) Muhyiddin Yassin

12. The Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) was signed recently by Preneet Kaur,

Minister of State for External Affairs of India and George William Vella, the Foreign

Minister of?

1) Malta 2) Hungary 3) Greece 4) Romania 5) Ireland

13. Indian biologist Dr. Aparajita Datta has been honored with which of the following awards

for her work to save threatened hornbills in the forests of Arunachal Pradesh?

1) Asom Ratna Award 2) Whitley Award 3) Baby Nobel Award

4) Right Livelihood Award 5) Ramon Magsaysay Award




14. Narinder Nath Vohra was appointed as Governor of which of the following states for a

second five-year term recently?

1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Uttar Pradesh 3) Jammu and Kashmir

4) West Bengal 5) Gujarat

15. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury is the current and the first woman speaker of the Parliament

of which of the following countries?

1) Pakistan 2) Singapore 3) Indonesia

4) Bangladesh 5) Iran

16. Aparna Bhattacharya and Pramila Jayapal were honored recently as 'champions of change'

by?

1) UK 2) USA 3) Sri Lanka 4) Canada 5) Australia

17. Mike Denness died of cancer at the age of 72 on April 19, 2013. He was the former cricket cap-

tain of?

1) Australia 2) England 3) South Africa

4) New Zealand 5) West Indies

18. Elaine Lobl Konigsburg of USA passed away recently. She won John Newbery Medal which

is given for?

1) Mathematics 2) Films 3) Music

4) Fashion Designing 5) Children's Literature

19. Which of the following paramilitary forces declared 2013 as the 'Year of the Jawan'?

1) Border Security Force 2) Central Industrial Security Force

3) Assam Rifles 4) Central Reserve Police Force

5) Indo Tibetan Border Police

20. Which of the following is a disaster response agency created by the Ministry of Home

Affairs in 2009 for disaster management?

1) BSF 2) CRPF 3) CISF 4) NDRF 5) Sashastra Seema Bal




21. President Pranab Mukherjee recently released commemorative postage stamps depicting

50 personalities including Durga Khote, Suraiya, Geeta Dutt, Bhalji Pendharkar, Sohrab

Modi who were associated with?

1) Sports 2) Literature 3) Films 4) Education 5) Governance

22. The Tribal Forest Dwellers Empowerment Scheme for the economic upliftment of

Scheduled Tribe forest dwellers was launched recently by which of the following Union

Ministers?

1) Kapil Sibal 2) Mallikarjun Kharge 3) Sharad Pawar

4) V.Kishore Chandra Deo 5) Chandresh Kumari Katoch

23. The final Census was released by the Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on April 30,

2013. Which of the following statements is not correct regarding the Census?

1) India's total population as on March 1, 2011 is 1,210,726,932 or 1.21 billion

2) 833.5 million persons live in rural areas while 377.1 million persons live in urban areas

3) Urban population has gone up from 17.3 per cent in 1951 to 31.2 per cent in 2011

4) Highest proportion of urban population is in National Capital Territory Delhi (97.5 per

cent)

5) Literacy rate in India in 2011 is 64.8 per cent

24. The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal of the Ministry of Railways for setting up

of an Electric Locomotive Factory at Madhepura and Diesel Locomotive Factory at

Marhowra. Both Madhepura and Marhowra are in?

1) Uttar Pradesh 2) West Bengal 3) Bihar

4) Chhattisgarh 5) Jharkhand

25. With effect from May 1, 2013 what is the Advance Reservation Period (ARP) for booking

reserved train tickets?

1) 120 days 2) 90 days 3) 60 days 4) 150 days 5) 100 days

26. The Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project (1500 MW) is located in Jhajjar in?

1) Haryana 2) Punjab 3) Rajasthan

4) Himachal Pradesh 5) Madhya Pradesh




27. According to the final Census India's total population as on March 1, 2011 is 1.21 billion.

India's population grew by what per cent during 2001-11?

1) 21.5 % 2) 17.7 % 3) 25.4 % 4) 19.6 % 5) 20.6 %

28. Sabin Award is given for the conservation of?

1) Birds 2) Reptiles 3) Amphibians 4) Mammals 5) Corals

29. Which one of the following is a super computer built by the Indian Space Research

Organization (ISRO)?

1) Titan 2) SAGA-220 3) Jaguar 4) K-computer 5) Aakash

30. Lieutenant General (retired) Nirbhay Sharma was sworn in as the 15th Governor of which

of the following states on May 29, 2013?

1) Assam 2) Jharkhand 3) Kerala

4) Nagaland 5) Arunachal Pradesh

31. The National Florence Nightingale Awards are presented to?

1) Doctors 2) Engineers 3) Journalists

4) Nurses 5) Social workers

32. In the ranking of 189 economies, which country topped the World Bank's 'Ease of Doing

Business Report' for 2014?

1) Singapore 2) Hong Kong 3) New Zealand

4) USA 5) Denmark

33. 'Sethji' is a book written by?

1) Arundhati Roy 2) Shobhaa De 3) Anita Desai

4) Kiran Desai 5) Jhumpa Lahiri

34. The headquarters of the International Olympic Committee is located in?

1) France 2) Belgium 3) UK

4) Italy 5) Switzerland

35. The retail chain 'More' belongs to?

1) Reliance 2) Bharti Enterprises 3) Aditya Birla Group

4) Wal-Mart 5) None of these




36. The DAX is a blue chip stock market index of?

1) Germany 2) Singapore 3) China

4) USA 5) Hong Kong

37. Angry Birds is a video game franchise created by?

1) Amazon 2) Rovio 3) Nintendo

4) Zynga 5) Google

38. Which of the following African countries underwent political turmoil in the recent years?

1) Tunisia 2) Egypt 3) Libya

4) Both 1 and 2 5) All 1, 2 and 3

39. Which of the following combination of scholars have won the Nobel Prize in Economics?

1) Amartya Sen, Mohammad Yunus, Ronald Coase

2) Mohammad Yunus, Paul Krugman, Elinor Ostrom

3) Mehaboob Haque, Alvin Roth, Amartya Sen

4) Joseph Stiglitz, Oliver Williamson, Paul Krugman

5) Robert McNamara, Joseph Stiglitz, Jagdish Bhagwathi

40. In which of the following states the Chief Minister belongs to Congress party?

1) Bihar 2) Goa 3) Odisha 4) Tripura 5) Karnataka

Answers

1) 1 2) 4 3) 3 4) 1 5) 4 6) 3 7) 4

8) 1 9) 5 10) 1 11) 4 12) 1 13) 2 14) 3

15) 4 16) 2 17) 2 18) 5 19) 1 20) 4 21) 3

22) 4 23) 5 24) 3 25) 3 26) 1 27) 2 28) 3

29) 2 30) 5 31) 4 32) 1 33) 2 34) 5 35) 3

36) 1 37) 2 38) 5 39) 4 40) 5



general awareness quiz

Documents