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GENERAL AWARENESS WEEKLY POCKET

Q.1. Who has been appointed as India's new ambassador to Russia?

(1) Pankaj Saran

(2) P.S. Raghavan

(3) Sudhesh Wallia

(4) Iram Khan

(5) Sukbir Kaur

Ans: (1) Pankaj Saran

Q.2. Who has been awarded the 'Freedom of the City' award of cape

town?

(1) Desmond Tutu

(2) Dalai Lama

(3) Ahmed Kathrada

(4) Narendra Modi

(5) Francois Pienaar

Ans: (3) Ahmed Kathrada

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Q.3. Who has been elected as Vice-President of the International

Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA)?

(1) S.R. Verma

(2) Vipin Saxena

(3) James Rodrick

(4) Kate Joules

(5) Rakesh Kapur

Ans: (5) Rakesh Kapur

Q.4. Which foreign bank announced shutting of its private banking

operations in India?

(1) Federal Bank

(2) Doha Bank

(3) Standard Chartered Bank

(4) HSBC Holdings Plc.

(5) Bank of America

Ans: (4) HSBC Holdings Plc.

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Q.5. Recently Union Govt. extended the usage criterion of the RuPay

debit cards under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana in order to

avail of the in-built insurance cover to _______ days.

(1) 50

(2) 72

(3) 90

(4) 100

(5) 105

Ans: (3) 9

Q.6. Which Indian Cricketer has been appointed as brand ambassador

of Dubai-based hospitality and event management company Grand

Midwest Group?

(1) Virat Kohli

(2) M.S. Dhoni

(3) Kapil Dev

(4) Yuvraj Singh

(5) Virendra Sehwag

Ans: (2) M.S. Dhoni

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Q.7. Agni-I is a _________ missile.

(1) surface-to-air

(2) air-to-surface

(3) air-to-air

(4) surface-to-surface

(5) surface-to-water

Ans: (4) surface-to-surface

Q.8. Who has been named as World Athletes of the Year by the IAAF?

(1) Ashton Eaton

(2) Genzebe Dibaba

(3) Usain Bolt

(4) Sim Bhullar

(5) 1 and 2

Ans: (1) Ashton Eaton and Genzebe Dibaba

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Q.9. Recently Prof. Y. Sudershan Rao resigned from his post. He was

the Chairman of which of the following?

(1) Indian Council of Historical Research

(2) National Green Tribunal

(3) PETA

(4) Indian Red Cross Society

(5) Indian Council of Geographical Research

Ans: (1) Indian Council of Historical Research

Q.10. Japan will give how much Official Development Loan Assistance

to India for Chennai and Ahmedabad Metro Rail Projects?

(1) Rs. 5,536 crore

(2) Rs. 2,166 crore

(3) Rs. 7,429 crore

(4) Rs. 4,231 crore

(5) Rs. 8,578 crore

Ans: (1) Rs. 5,536 crore

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Q.11. With which country India signed an agreement on the removal of

visa requirements for diplomatic and service passport holders between

the two countries?

(1) Albania

(2) Cyprus

(3) Seychelles

(4) Malaysia

(5) Singapore

Ans: (1) Albania

Q.12. Which country won the 2015 Davis Cup Tennis title?

(1) Belgium

(2) America

(3) India

(4) Great Britain

(5) Germany

Ans: (4) Great Britain

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Q.13. Which of the following will host the CHOGM in 2018?

(1) New York

(2) London

(3) Beijing

(4) Cape town

(5) New Delhi

Ans: (2) London

Q.14. Who has been elected as the new Secretary-General of the

Commonwealth during its 2015 summit?

(1) Kamalesh Sharma

(2) Nitin Bhargava

(3) Patricia Scotland

(4) Susane James

(5) Kate Flower

Ans: (3) Patricia Scotland

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Q.15. Along with which country India successfully launched Barack 8

missile?

(1) France

(2) Russia

(3) Bangladesh

(4) Israel

(5) Iraq

Ans: (4) Israel

Q.16. According to TRA Research study which of the following is

India's most creative brand?

(1) Aditya Birla Group

(2) Infosys

(3) Tata Group

(4) Nestle

(5) Reliance Communications

Ans: (3) Tata Group

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Q.17. Who won the women’s singles title of Macau Open 2015?

(1) Minatsu Mitani

(2) Xhi Chau

(3) Roseff Dicosta

(4) P.V. Sindhu

(5) Perry Rodricks

Ans: (4) P.V. Sindhu

Q.18. Tyson Fury is a __________.

(1) British Weightlifter

(2) German Boxer

(3) German Weightlifter

(4) British Boxer

(5) Ukrainian Boxer

Ans: (4) British Boxer

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Q.19. Who took over the additional charge of the post of Director

General, Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D)?

(1) A.R.K. Kini

(2) Mahesh Ratore

(3) Rashid Khan

(4) N.R. Wasan

(5) Sukwinder Kaur

Ans: (1) A.R.K. Kini

Q.20. What is the CRR at present?

(1) 4.25%

(2) 4%

(3) 4.50%

(4) 5%

(5) 4.75%

Ans: (2) 4%

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Q.21. Who were honoured with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement

Award at the annual Asian Business Leadership Forum (ABLF) Series

in Dubai?

(1) Anil Ambani

(2) Hinduja Brothers

(3) Ratan Tata

(4) Mukesh Ambani

(5) 1 and 2

Ans: (2) Hinduja Brothers

Q.22. Who has been re-elected as the President of Asian Tennis

Federation (ATF)?

(1) R.V. Sinha

(2) Suresh Kalmadi

(3) Sudhir Gaur

(4) Anil Khanna

(5) Brijesh Rao

Ans: (4) Anil Khanna

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Q.23. Recently Indian economy's GDP growth rate during the second

quarter (July-September) of 2015-16 stood at _______.

(1) 6.2%

(2) 7%

(3) 8.1%

(4) 8.2%

(5) 7.4%

Ans: (5) 7.4%

Q.24. What was the venue of United Nations Climate Change

Conference 2015?

(1) London

(2) New York

(3) Cape Town

(4) Paris

(5) Beijing

Ans: (4) Paris

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Q.25. How many country's including India have launched ‘Mission

Innovation’ during COP21?

(1) 14

(2) 17

(3) 21

(4) 25

(5) 32

Ans: (3) 21

Q.26. Who won Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2015?

(1) Nico Rosberg

(2) Lewis Hamilton

(3) Michael Schumacher

(4) Sebestian Vetle

(5) Andy Murray

Ans: (1) Nico Rosberg

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Q.27. Under which category India has been re-elected unopposed to the

Council of the International Maritime Organization?

(1) A

(2) B

(3) C

(4) A+

(5) B+

Ans: (2) B

Q.28. According to the Wealth-X report who is the top philanthropist

in the world?

(1) Azim Premji

(2) Bill Gates

(3) Warren Buffett

(4) George Soros

(5) Sundar Pichai

Ans: (2) Bill Gates

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Q.29. Which country won first day-night test match?

(1) India

(2) England

(3) New Zealand

(4) Sri Lanka

(5) Australia

Ans: (5) Australia

Q.30. Who inaugurated the First International Film Festival for

Persons with Disabilities in New Delhi?

(1) Thaawar Chand Gehlot

(2) Kiren Rijiju

(3) Dharmendra Pradhan

(4) Narendra Modi

(5) Arun Jaitley

Ans: (1) Thaawar Chand Gehlot

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Q.31. With which of the following the Export Import Bank of India has

inked an agreement to strengthen financial cooperation?

(1) Exim Bank of Afghanistan

(2) Exim Bank of Sri Lanka

(3) Exim Bank of Bangladesh

(4) Exim Bank of Seychelles

(5) Exim Bank of Malaysia

Ans: (5) Exim Bank of Malaysia

Q.32. What is the rank of India on Global Index of Information

Technology Access?

(1) 28th

(2) 105th

(3) 131st

(4) 140th

(5) 142nd

Ans: (3) 131st

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Q.33. Recently ___________ has signed loan agreements worth $265

million with OPIC and Wells Fargo to support small business growth

in India.

(2) YES Bank

(3) Feeral Bank

(3) Punjab National Bank

(4) ICICI Bank

(5) HDFC Bank

Ans: (2) YES Bank

Q.34. Which country launched International Agency for Solar

Technologies and Applications (IASTA)?

(1) India

(2) USA

(3) Germany

(4) France

(5) Australia

Ans: (1) India

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Q.35. Which currency has been added to the Special Drawing Rights

(SDR) currency basket?

(1) Rupee

(2) Yuan

(3) Franc

(4) Kip

(5) Lira

Ans: (2) Yuan

Q.36. Recently Ustad Sabri Khan passed away. He was a ________

player.

(1) Tabla

(2) Flute

(3) Shehnai

(4) Sarangi

(5) Sitar

Ans: (4) Sarangi

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Q.37. Recently the Badminton Association of India announced to give

__________ to P.V. Sindhu.

(1) Rs. 5 lakh

(2) Rs. 10 lakh

(3) Rs. 15 lakh

(4) Rs. 20 lakh

(5) Rs. 25 lakh

Ans: (2) Rs. 10 lakh

Q.38. Who was awarded with the best director award in the 46th

International Film Festival of India?

(1) Peter Greenaway

(2) Kaushik Ganguly

(3) Nancy Gometh

(4) Karan Jauhar

(5) Dick Suraz

Ans: (1) Peter Greenaway

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Q.39. Recently who won Mr World Bodybuilding title-2015?

(1) Irfan Husain

(2) Thakur Anoop Singh

(3) Subhas Chandra Chaudhary

(4) Amir Husain

(5) James Roger

Ans: (2) Thakur Anoop Singh

Q.40. Who was elected as new Speaker of the 16th Bihar Legislative

Assembly?

(1) Harvinder Kaur

(2) Rakesh Mehta

(3) Prabha Dinkar

(4) Vijay Kumar Chaudhary

(5) R. Sinha

Ans: (4) Vijay Kumar Chaudhary

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Q.41. Which of the following European countries started

'Transformative Carbon Asset Facility' initiative?

(1) Germany

(2) Norway

(3) Sweden

(4) Switzerland

(5) All of the above

Ans: (5) Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland

Q.42. Who has taken charge as the World Health Organisation

representative to India?

(1) Henk Bekedam

(2) Mark Sobel

(3) Stephen Field

(4) Menno Snel

(5) Carlo Cottarelli

Ans: (1) Henk Bekedam

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Q.43. Which of the following has emerged as the fastest growing state

in terms of GSDP?

(1) Maharashtra

(2) Tamil Nadu

(3) Uttar Pradesh

(4) Bihar

(5) Gujarat

Ans: (4) Bihar

Q.44. With which of the following Tata Group announced signing up

an alliance to provide it with a host of banking services?

(1) Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd

(2) Industrial and Commercial Bank of Malaysia Ltd

(3) Industrial and Commercial Bank of Germany Ltd

(4) Industrial and Commercial Bank of Russia Ltd

(5) Industrial and Commercial Bank of France Ltd

Ans: (1) Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd

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Q.45. Recently the Union Cabinet approved signing and ratification of

Protocol between India and __________ for amending the DTAC.

(1) China

(2) Japan

(3) Seychelles

(4) Australia

(5) South Africa

Ans: (2) Japan

Q.46. How many persons of Indian origin are featured in 'Foreign

Policy' magazine's list of 100 Leading Global Thinkers?

(1) 2

(2) 10

(3) 7

(4) 4

(5) 5

Ans: (4) 4

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Q.47. Who has been conferred with INBA's ‘General Counsel of the

year 2015 - Retail Award’?

(1) Abid Khan

(2) Pulin Kumar

(3) Rekha Kaushal

(4) Suhasini Verma

(5) Virendra Kumar

Ans: (2) Pulin Kumar

Q.48. Recently Sandy Berger passed away. He was the former National

Security Adviser of which country?

(1) Italy

(2) Russia

(3) Britain

(4) USA

(5) Indonesia

Ans: (4) USA

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Q.49. Which of the following has set up a Small and Medium

Businesses (SME) Council in India?

(1) Facebook

(2) Google

(3) Twitter

(4) IBM

(5) Infosys

Ans: (1) Facebook

Q.50. Which has become the first bank of the country to launch a

'display variant' debit card?

(1) ICICI Bank

(2) PNB

(3) Axis Bank

(4) Federal Bank

(5) HDFC Bank

Ans: (3) Axis Bank

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Q.51. What is the rank of India in Times Higher Education BRICS and

Emerging Economies rankings for 2016?

(1) First

(2) Second

(3) Third

(4) Fourth

(5) Fifth

Ans: (3) Third

Q.52. Recently Brazil’s economy contracted by how much percent

during July-September 2015 making it the country's longest recession

since the 1930s?

(1) 2%

(2) 1.7 %

(3) 2.2%

(4) 2.1%

(5) 1.2%

Ans: (2) 1.7 %

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Q.53. Recently M.A.M. Ramaswamy passed away. He was a noted

__________.

(1) painter

(2) tamil actor

(3) marathi actor

(4) industrialist

(5) journalist

Ans: (4) industrialist

Q.54. Under Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan by which year atleast 50% of all

the government buildings of National Capital and all the State capitals

will be made fully accessible for persons with disabilities?

(1) 2017

(2) 2018

(3) 2019

(4) 2020

(5) 2021

Ans: (1) 2018

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Q.55. Which of the following has become the first state to launch

Rotavirus vaccination project?

(1) Himachal Pradesh

(2) Uttar Pradesh

(3) Madhya Pradesh

(4) Sikkim

(5) Nagaland

Ans: (1) Himachal Pradesh

Q.56. Which of the following signed a MoU with Transparency

International India (TII) for adopting Integrity Pact?

(1) National Research Development Corporation

(2) The New India Assurance Co. Ltd.

(3) National Green Tribunal

(4) National Textile Corporation Limited

(5) Indian Oil Corporation

Ans: (4) National Textile Corporation Limited

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Q.57. Who has been appointed as chairperson of the prestigious

Radiological Society of North America?

(1) Dr. Vijay M. Rao

(2) Dr. Surendra Sinha

(3) Dr. R. kumar

(4) Dr. Imran Khan

(5) Dr. Suman Patel

Ans: (1) Dr. Vijay M. Rao

Q.58. Recently Aricent, a ________-based product engineering firm,

tied-up with Nasscom Foundation to launch Aricent Employability

Programme.

(1) Russia

(2) Japan

(3) USA

(4) Germany

(5) Italy

Ans: (3) USA