Night Class: General Awareness Quiz

1. Mosquirix is the world’s first vaccine for which of the following diseases to get a green light from European drugs regulators recently?

1) Malaria 

2) Tuberculosis

3) AIDS 

4) Ebola

5) None of these

2. A nine-member committee set by which of the following sports bodies has recommended that Dutchman Paul van Ass need not return to resume his charge as the men's team's chief coach?

1) Hockey India 

2) BCCI

3) All India Tennis Association (AITA)

4) Badminton Association of India (BAI)

5) None of these

3. The govt has announced to sell 5% stake in which of the following firms to raise Rs 1700 cr on 27 Jul?

1) PFC 

2) SAIL

3) NTPC 

4) ONGC

5) NHPC

4. Anshu Jain has got a clean chit from the financial watchdog BaFin on charges ofallegedly lying about the interbank rate rigging scandal. He is the former co-CEO of

1) Standard Chartered 

2) Deutsche Bank

3) City Bank 

4) Morgan Stanley

5) HSBC

5. PM Narendra Modi launched the 'Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana' during his recent Bihar visit. Which of the following is NOT true about the scheme?

1) It will ensure round the clock electricity supply to farmers and rural households.

2) The Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) has been subsumed in the new scheme.

3) The scheme has an outlay of Rs 76,000 cr for implementation of the projects.

4) A total of Rs 14,680 cr worth projects have already been approved under the scheme.

5) None of these

6. The IDFC Bank to start operations from Oct 1. Which of the following is NOT correct about the bank?

1) The IDFC is a credit rating agency. 

2) Rajiv Lall will be its vice-chairman and managing director.

3) Anil Baijal will be the chairman of IDFC bank.

4) Vinod Rai (former CAG) will be its non-executive chairman. 

5) Vikram Limaye will continue to be its CEO and MD.

7. Name the Indian historian who has been awarded with the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in the academic category. He is best known for his book, 'India After Gandhi.'

1) Romila Thapar 

2) Ramachandra Guha

3) Bipan Chandra 

4) Sujata Keshavan

5) Madhav Gadgil

8. Which of the following states approved Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Jan Van Vikas Scheme aimed at comprehensive development of villages in the buffer zones of tiger reserves and around them recently?

1) West Bengal 

2) Assam

3) Gujarat 

4) Maharashtra

5) Madhya Pradesh

9. 10-year-old Shubham Jaglan was in news for winning second successive world junior title in ______at Las Vegas recently.

1) Tennis 

2) Badminton

3) Chess 

4) Golf

5) Snooker

10. The list of world’s 500 largest companies in the 2015 Fortune Global 500 list compiled by Fortune magazine is led by which company?

1) Chevron 

2) Exxon Mobil

3) Walmart 

4) Google

5) IBM

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