General Awareness Quiz

1. Which of the following cities in Australia hosted the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank
Governors Meeting in September 2014?
1) Sydney
2) Brisbane
3) Melbourne
4) Adelaide
5) Cairns


2. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj inaugurated the Nalanda University in Bihar on 2014 September 19. Who is the vice chancellor of this university?
1) N.K. Singh
2) Gopa Sabharwal
3) Lord Meghnad Desai
4) Tansen Sen
5) Anil Wadhwa

3. Which of the following States has decided to set up 'Nirbhaya' centres in all districts to provide
prompt help to victims of crime against women?
1) Andhra Pradesh
2) Telangana
3) Uttar Pradesh
4) Tamil Nadu
5) Maharashtra

4. Who was declared the next President of Afghanistan on 2014 September 21?
1) Abdullah Abdullah
2) Habibullah Habib
3) Hamidullah Amin
4) Ashraf Ghani
5) Hedayat Amin Arsala

5. Which of the following films was selected as India's 2015 Oscar contender in the best foreign language film category?
1) Queen
2) Shahid
3) Yellow
4) Jaatishwar
5) Liar's Dice

6. John Key was re-elected as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries in September 2014?
1) Canada
2) Australia
3) Italy
4) New Zealand
5) Ireland

7. Larry Ellison has stepped down from the post of Chief Executive Officer of?
1) Yahoo
2) Facebook
3) Oracle
4) IBM
5) Microsoft

8. Ashok Mohanty was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a chit fund scam on
2014 September 22. He is the former Advocate General of?
1) West Bengal
2) Odisha
3) Assam
4) Tripura
5) Jharkhand

9. Moussa Mara assumed office as the Prime Minister of which of the following African countries
on 2014 April 5?
1) Mauritania
2) Senegal
3) Mali
4) Guinea
5) Niger

10. Marie Louise Coleiro Preca is the second female President of?
1) Malta
2) Chile
3) Latvia
4) Lithuania
5) Estonia

11. "The Accidental Prime Minister- The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh" is a book authored by?
1) Shashi Tharoor
2) Mani Shankar Aiyyar
3) Digvijay Singh
4) Sanjay Baru
5) H.K. Dua

12. UNO declared which of the following days as International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression?
1) June 1
2) June 5
3) June 2
4) June 3
5) June 4

13. Which of the following cities is the capital of Mali?
1) Kayes
2) Timbuktu
3) Bamako
4) Mopti
5) Segou

14. Justice G. Rohini is the first woman Chief Justice of which of the following High Courts?
1) Andhra Pradesh High Court
2) Delhi High Court
3) Madras High Court
4) Bombay High Court
5) Allahabad High Court

15. Who took charge as the Director General of Border Security Force (BSF) in April 2014?
1) R.K. Mathur
2) G.K. Pillai
3) D.K. Pathak
4) Subhash Goswami
5) Ranjit Sinha



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