Night Class: General Awareness Quiz

Ques. : 1 The Union Cabinet has given its nod for the creation of a central agriculture university at _________ in Bihar with an outlay of Rs 295 cr.

1) Vaishali 

2) Samastipur

3) Patna 

4) Darbhanga

5) Gaya

Ques. : 2 The central govt has given an in-principle nod for locomotive-maker Talgo to undertake trial runs of its lighter and faster trains that could cut travel time considerably. Talgo is based in

1) Spain 

2) Italy

3) Germany 

4) France

5) Japan

Ques. : 3 Who among the following is the new Director General of ‘The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)’?

1) K Radhakrishnan 

2) A Sivathanu Pillai

3) Avinash Chander 

4) Rajendra Pachauri

5) Ajay Mathur

Ques. : 4 Name the media firm which has announced to buy the Financial Times from Britain’s Pearson in a $1.3-billion deal?

1) Time Warner 

2) The Korea Times

3) Nikkei 

4) Bennett Coleman

5) HT Media

Ques. : 5 The central govt along with the three state govts will soon undertake an artificial breeding programme for the critically endangered flying bird the Great Indian Bustard (GIB). These three states are

1) Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Maharashtra 

2) West Bengal, Karnataka and Maharashtra

3) Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra 

4) Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Odisha

5) None of these

Ques. : 6 The SEBI has suggested the newly introduced platform ITP be used by the central govt for its disinvestment programme in unlisted PSUs. The term ITP stands for

1) Initial Trading Platform 

2) Institutional Trading Platform

3) International Trading Platform 

4) Integrated Trading Platform

5) None of these

Ques. : 7 Name the Nobel prize winner who has won the world’s oldest scientific prize, the Royal Society’s Copley Medal recently. 

1) Robert Brout 

2) Francois Englert

3) Peter Higgs 

4) Fabiola Gianotti

5) Tom Kibble

Ques. : 8 The Unesco has announced that Conakry will be the World Book Capital for 2017. Conakry is the capital city of

1) Ghana 

2) Sierra Leone

3) Burkina Faso 

4) Guinea

5) Benin

Ques. : 9 The National Broadcasting Day is observed across the country on

1) 18 Jul 

2) 23 Jul

3) 28 Jul 

4) 29 Jul

5) 30 Jul

Ques. : 10 Name the legendary sports person of India who will be conferred with the 'Bharat Gaurav' Lifetime Achivement Award by Sanskriti Yuva Sangstha at the British Parliament on Jul 25.

1) Sachin Tendulkar 

2) Dhyan Chand

3) Viswanathan Anand 

4) Prakash Padukone

5) None of these

ANSWERS

1. 2) Samastipur

2. 1) Spain

3. 5) Ajay Mathur

4. 3) Nikkei

5. 3) Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra

6. 2) Institutional Trading Platform

7. 3) Peter Higgs

8. 4) Guinea

9. 2) 23 Jul

10. 2) Dhyan Chand