Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Night Class: General Awareness Quiz

1. Which of the following countries won the Copa America football tournament on July 4, 2015?
1) Argentina
2) Paraguay
3) Chile
4) Peru
5) Brazil

2. Nationwide Mobile Number Portability has been operational from?
1) July 1, 2015
2) July 3, 2015
3) July 5, 2015
4) July 7, 2015
5) None of these

3. As per the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC), what percent of the rural Indians are illiterates?
1) 32%
2) 44%
3) 36%
4) 40%
5) 41%

4. Who has been named the winner of the 2015 World Food Prize?
1) M.S. Swaminathan
2) Mahabub ul Haq
3) Muhammad Yunus
4) Fazle Hasan Abed
5) Sanjay Rajaram

5. Tony Tan Keng Yam visited India in February 2015. He is the President of?
1) South Korea
2) Vietnam
3) Cambodia
4) Laos
5) Singapore

6. National Rail Museum is located in?
1) Mumbai
2) Chennai
3) Kolkata
4) Secunderabad
5) New Delhi

7. The International Mountain Day is observed every year on?
1) December 11
2) October 11
3) November 11
4) September 11
5) August 11

8. Nickolay Mladenov was appointed as the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process on February 5, 2015. He belongs to?
1) Russia
2) Bulgaria
3) Ukraine
4) Georgia
5) Serbia

9. Identify the mismatched pair? State Chief Minister
1) Jammu & Kashmir - Mufti Mohammed Sayeed
2) Bihar - Nitish Kumar
3) Odisha - Naveen Patnaik
4) Tripura - T.R. Zeliang
5) Sikkim - Pawan Chamling

10. Who is the deputy Chief Minister of Delhi?
1) Sandeep Kumar
2) Gopal Rai
3) Asim Ahmed Khan
4) Manish Sisodia
5) Somnath Bharti

11. The World Health Organization is headquartered in?
1) Austria
2) USA
3) UK
4) Italy
5) Switzerland

12. Which of the following statements is not correct?
1) Pranab Mukherjee is the author of "The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years"
2) BRICS Development Bank is now known as The New Development Bank
3) The chief regulator for the commodity futures market is Forward Markets Commission
4) Bharatiya Mahila Bank is a non-scheduled commercial bank
5) The 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held in Australia

13. Who was given the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in January 2015?
1) Tanuja
2) Waheeda Rehman
3) Kamini Kaushal
4) Hema Malini
5)Jaya Bachchan

14. The Rapid Action Force (RAF) is a specialized wing of the?
1) CISF
2) BSF
3) CRPF
4) ITBP
5) NSG

15. Which is the second largest river in India after the river Ganga?
1) Brahmaputra
2) Godavari
3) Krishna
4) Indus
5) Yamuna


Answers

1) 3 
2) 2 
3) 3 
4) 4 
5) 5 
6) 5 
7) 1 
8) 2 
9) 4 
10) 4
11) 5 
12) 4 
13) 3 
14) 3 
15) 2


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