Night Class: General Awareness Quiz

1. For the first time in India, a system to detect earthquakes and disseminate warnings has been installed in

1) Arunachal Pradesh 

2) Himachal Pradesh

3) Jammu and Kashmir 

4) Sikkim

5) Uttarakhand

2. Only a few Indian Prime Ministers have visited Pakistan so far. Who among the following is one among those PMs who visited Pakistan?

1) Atal Bihari Vajpayee 

2) Rajiv Gandhi

3) Jawaharlal Nehru 

4) All the above

5) None of these

3. Leander Paes clinched the mixed doubles title at 2015 Wimbledon after defeating Alexander Peya and Timea Babos on 12 Jul. His partner in the game was

1) Martina Navratilova 

2) Monica Seles

3) Anna Kournikova 

4) Sania Mirza

5) Martina Hingis

4. The indigenously-built Aakash missile has been inducted into Indian Air Force. Which of the following is NOT true about the missile?

1) The supersonic missile has a speed three times faster than that of sound.

2) The surface-to-air missile can hit eight targets at a time.

3) It has been developed jointly by the DRDO and Bharat Electronics Ltd.

4) The missile's radar, developed by BEL, has been named ‘Rajendra Radar.’

5) None of these

5. Who among the following has been selected to be the chairman of the upcoming Kolkata-based Bandhan Bank?

1) Sisir Kumar Chakrabarti 

2) B Sambamurthy

3) Chandra Shekhar Ghosh 

4) Ashok Kumar Lahiri

5) Bibek Debroy

6. Novak Djokovic beats who among the following to win the men’s singles title of the Wimbledon 2015?

1) Roger Federer 

2) David Ferrer

3) Stan Wawrinka 

4) Andy Murray

5) Rafael Nadal

7. SN Sahai has been appointed as the new Home Secretary of

1) Delhi 

2) Gujarat

3) Madhya Pradesh 

4) Assam 

5) Bihar

8. India got full membership of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on 10 Jul. Along with India, the process to include ________ as a member was also initiated.

1) Afghanistan 

2) Belarus

3) Pakistan 

4) Mongolia

5) Iran

9. Gennady Padalka has broken the record for the longest time spent in space with a total of 803 days as on Jul 2015. He is a cosmonaut of

1) Germany 

2) Russia

3) US 

4) France

5) UK

10. After talks between PM Narendra Modi and President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, the two sides signed a total of seven pacts. Mr Gurbanguly is the present president of

1) Turkmenistan 

2) Tajikistan

3) Kyrgyzstan 

4) Kazakhstan

5) Uzbekistan 

ANSWERS

1. 5)

2. 4)

3. 5)

4. 5)

5. 4)

6. 1)

7. 1)

8. 3)

9. 2)

10. 1)