General Awareness Quiz 1/2/2016

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1. Who on 30 January 2016 won the 2016 Australian Open women’s singles title?
a)    Serena Williams
b)    Angelique Kerber
c)    Li Na
d)    Maria Sharapova

2. On which day Anti-leprosy day was observed in the memory of Mahatma Gandhi?
a)    30 January 2016
b)    29 January 2016
c)    28 January 2016
d)    27 January 2016

3. What was India’s GDP growth for 2014-15 at 2011-12 constant prices as per the first revised estimates released by the CSO on 29 January 2016?
a)    7.1
b)    7.2
c)    7.3
d)    7.4

4. What was India’s GDP growth for 2013-14 at 2011-12 constant prices as per the second revised estimates released by the CSO on 29 January 2016?
a)    6.7
b)    6.8
c)    6.9
d)    7.0

5. From which space port the European Space Agency on 29 January 2016 launched the Eutelsat 9B satellite on-board the ILS Proton Breeze M launch vehicle?
a)    Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
b)    Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
c)    Kennedy Space Center, Florida
d)    Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

6. The royal family of which country on 29 January 2016 conferred the Prince Mahidol Award for contributions in the field of health and medicine?
a)    Bhutan
b)    Denmark
c)    Saudi Arabia
d)    Thailand

7. Identify the virus. The Union Government on 29 January 2016 formed a technical expert group to deal with it.
a)    Zika
b)    Ebola
c)    Chikungunya
d)    Dengue

8. In which European city the UN hosted peace talks to end the civil war in Syria opened on 29 January 2016?
a)    London
b)    Berlin
c)    Paris
d)    Geneva

9. Which State on 30 January 2016 signed a MoU with the Union Government under the UDAY Scheme to derive overall net benefit of 33000 crore rupees?
a)    Karnataka
b)    Uttar Pradesh
c)    West Bengal
d)    Madhya Pradesh

10. Who among the following on 30 January 2016 assumed command of Southern Naval Command?
a)    Vice Admiral Girish Luthra
b)    Vice Admiral Sunil Lanba
c)    Vice Admiral M P Muralidharan
d)    Vice Admiral Anil Kumar Chopra

Answers

1-(b)    6-(d)
2-(a)    7-(a)
3-(b)    8-(d)
4-(c)    9-(b)
5-(a)    10-(a)

Ques. : 1 The ATAS scheme was launched by the Indian Railway on a pilot basis recently. The term ATAS stands for
1) Advance Train Accommodation Scheme
2) Assured Train Accommodation Scheme
3) Alternative Train Accommodation Scheme
4) Associated Train Accommodation Scheme
5) None of these
Answer:- 3) Alternative Train Accommodation Scheme

Ques. : 2 Who among the following was recently named the Allan Border medallist for 2016, Australian cricket's greatest individual honour?
1) Alex Ross
2) Adam Voges
3) Glenn Maxwell
4) David Warner
5) Steve Smith
Answer:- 4) David Warner

Ques. : 3 The book titled ‘The Turbulent Years: 1980-1996’ was released by the Vice President Hamid Ansari recently. It is a memoir written by
1) Sonia Gandhi
2) Lal Krishna Advani
3) Murli Manohar Joshi
4) Manmohan Singh
5) Pranab Mukherjee
Answer:- 5) Pranab Mukherjee

Ques. : 4 Marvin Minsky, who passed away recently, was a pioneer in
1) Artificial Intelligence
2) radiology
3) space technology
4) nanotechnology
5) genetic engineering
Answer:- 1) Artificial Intelligence

Ques. : 5 __________ has won the Amnesty International Human Rights Award 2016. It is awarded to individuals or organisations fighting for the cause of human rights under difficult circumstances.
1) Kailash Satyarthi
2) Henri Tiphagne
3) Arundhati Roy
4) Malala Yousafzai
5) Azim Premji
Answer:- 2) Henri Tiphagne

Ques. : 6 Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won the women’s doubles title of the 2016 Australian Open defeating
1) Chan Yung-jan and Zheng Jie
2) Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka
3) Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova
4) Kimberly Birrell and Priscilla Hon
5) Jessica Moore and Storm Sanders
Answer:- 2) Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka

Ques. : 7 The indigenously-developed surface-to-air Akash missile was test fired from the integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur situated in
1) Andhra Pradesh
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Maharashtra
4) Rajasthan
5) Odisha
Answer:- 5) Odisha

Ques. : 8 The Union Cabinet approved raising of 17 Indian Reserve Battalions by J&K and Left Wing Extremism (LWE) states. Which of the following is one of these LWE states?
1) Maharashtra
2) Chhattisgarh
3) Jharkhand
4) Odisha
5) All of these
Answer:- 5) All of these

Ques. : 9 JS Deepak was appointed recently as the new _________ secretary.
1) revenue
2) telecom
3) minority affairs
4) cabinet
5) finance
Answer:- 2) telecom

Ques. : 10 The grateful nation paid tribute to who among the following on his 150th birth anniversary on 28 Jan?
1) Subhas Chandra Bose
2) Chandra Shekhar Azad
3) Lala Lajpat Rai
4) Bhagat Singh
5) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Answer:- 3) Lala Lajpat Rai

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