General Awareness Quiz

Ques. : 1 Name the women shuttler who clinched her maiden India Open Super Series title recently. 

1) Carolina Marin 

2) Saina Nehwal 

3) Ratchanok Intanon 

4) PV Sindhu 

5) None of these

Ques. : 2 Who among the following is a deputy governor of the RBI as of now? 

1) Pratip Chaudhuri 

2) Usha Thorat 

3) Subir Gokarn 

4) SS Mundra 

5) KC Chakrabarty

Ques. : 3 What is India’s ranking on the new index compiled by the UN trade body UNCTAD for assessing the readiness of countries for electronic commerce? 

1) 63rd 

2) 130th 

3) 83rd 

4) 75th 

5) 92nd

Ques. : 4 The winner of the men’s singles title of the India Open Super Series badminton tournament is 

1) Viktor Axelsen 

2) Kidambi Srikanth 

3) Lin Dan 

4) Ajay Jayaram 

5) Parupalli Kashyap

Ques. : 5 PM Narendra Modi in his address to a global energy conference, recently, appealed to people not to take subsidy if they can afford to buy LPG at market price. The govt targets that ________ will surrender the LPG subsidy. 

1) ten crore 

2) five crore 

3) two crore 

4) one crore 

5) None of these

Ques. : 6 Which of the following countries is the world's largest B2C market measured both by the revenue and the number of online buyers as of now? 

1) US 

2) China 

3) India 

4) UK 

5) Germany

Ques. : 7 The _________Group is the world's largest e-commerce company by gross merchandise value, volume of goods and services being transacted at present? 

1) eBay 

2) Amazon 

3) Alibaba 

4) Flipkart 

5) None of these

Ques. : 8 Which country has topped the recently released UNCTAD’s new Business-to-Consumer (B2C) e-commerce, businesses selling to the general public, index? 

1) Finland 

2) Norway 

3) Luxembourg 

4) UK 

5) China

Ques. : 9 The govt gave 'in principle' nod to Sagarmala project recently. This project is aimed at port-led development in 

1) coastal states 

2) Sri Lanka and Maldives 

3) Mauritius and Seychelles 

4) Bangladesh and Myanmar 

5) None of these

Ques. : 10 A unique integrating and interactive platform named PRAGATI was launched by the PM Narendra Modi recently. Which of the following is correct about the programme? 

1) It is aimed at addressing common man’s grievances. 

2) It will monitor and review important programmes and projects of the central/state govts. 

3) The interactive Pragati sessions will take place every second Saturday of the month.
4) All the above 

5) Only 1) and 2)

ANSWERS
1. 2) Saina Nehwal
2. 4) SS Mundra
3. 3) 83rd
4. 2) Kidambi Srikanth
5. 4) one crore
6. 2) China
7. 3) Alibaba
8. 3) Luxembourg
9. 1) coastal states
10. 5) Only 1) and 2)