General Awareness Quiz 4/1/2016

#everydayquiz 20Q 

Ques. : 1 The Union Home Ministry cleared the proposal to grant the citizenship of India to who among the following recently?
1) Asma Jahangir
2) Sabeen Mahmud
3) Adnan Sami
4) Wasim Akram
5) Ghulam Ali 

Answer:- 3) Adnan Sami

Ques. : 2 Who among the following was named ‘Cricketer of the Year’ at the BCCI annual honours?
1) Ravichandran Ashwin
2) Ajinkya Rahane
3) Rohit Sharma
4) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
5) Virat Kohli
Answer:- 5) Virat Kohli

Ques. : 3 DK Hota has been appointed the new CMD of which of the following public sector undertakings?
1) IOC
2) BEML
3) HAL
4) SAIL
5) GAIL
Answer:- 2) BEML

Ques. : 4 Giorgi Kvirikashvili has been elected as the new Prime Minister of which of the following countries?
1) Georgia
2) Ukraine
3) Bulgaria
4) Romania
5) Armenia
Answer:- 1) Georgia

Ques. : 5 Who among the following has been chosen for the prestigious Jnanpith Award for 2015?
1) Raghuveer Chaudhary
2) Subhash Chandra
3) Jayant Vishnu Naralikar
4) Adil Jussawalla
5) Ramesh Chandra Shah
Answer:- 1) Raghuveer Chaudhary

Ques. : 6 The RBI has asked the banks to open more brick and mortar branches in villages with no banking facilities and with a population of more than
1) 2,000
2) 2,500
3) 3,500
4) 5,000
5) 10,000
Answer:- 4) 5,000

Ques. : 7 The govt has approved the scaling up of budget for implementation of Grid Connected Rooftops systems over a period of five years from Rs 600 cr to
1) Rs 1,000 cr
2) Rs 2,000 cr
3) Rs 3,000 cr
4) Rs 4,000 cr
5) Rs 5,000 cr
Answer:- 5) Rs 5,000 cr

Ques. : 8 The name of the Sudarsan Pattnaik is associated with which of the following arts? His work got a place in the Limca Book of Records recently.
1) Sand art
2) Painting
3) Sculpturing
4) Clay art
5) Mosaic art
Answer:- 1) Sand art

Ques. : 9 Rakhi Haldar and Kavita Devi won gold medals at National Championship in which of the following sports recently?
1) Wrestling
2) Boxing
3) Weightlifting
4) Archery
5) Long jump
Answer:- 3) Weightlifting

Ques. : 10 Subir Sen, who passed away recently, was a veteran
1) author
2) music director
3) singer
4) actor
5) director
Answer:- 3) singer

Ques. : 1 Who among the following will head the panel on Censor Board to work out a revamp plan and submit its report within two months?
1) Pahlaj Nihalani
2) Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
3) Bhawana Somaaya
4) Piyush Pandey
5) Shyam Benegal
Answer:- 5) Shyam Benegal

Ques. : 2 Eight states in the country agreed to implement direct benefit transfer for kerosene oil recently. The DBT scheme for kerosene will be implemented from
1) Mar 1, 2016
2) Apr 1, 2016
3) Jun 1, 2016
4) Sep 1, 2016
5) Oct 1, 2016
Answer:- 2) Apr 1, 2016

Ques. : 3 Shekhar Saran recently took over as CMD of the Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Ltd (CMPDI). The institute is based in
1) Ranchi
2) Varanasi
3) Jamshedpur
4) Bokaro
5) Dhanbad
Answer:- 1) Ranchi

Ques. : 4 The Indian-origin Harpal Singh Kumar was knighted by the Queen Elizabeth II recently. He is a(n)
1) cancer expert
2) tuberculosis expert
3) automobile expert
4) environmentalist
5) astronomer
Answer:- 1) cancer expert

Ques. : 5 The govt recently constituted a one-man committee headed by Kamlesh Chandra to examine the wage structure and service conditions of
1) MGNREGA workers
2) women work force
3) gramin dak sevaks
4) farm labourers
5) cleaning staff
Answer:- 3) gramin dak sevaks

Ques. : 6 The vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyam was conferred with 2015 Sangita Kalanidhi award recently. The Sangita Kalanidhi is the highest honour given to _________ musicians.
1) Hindustani
2) Rajasthani
3) Lavani
4) Carnatic
5) None of these
Answer:- 4) Carnatic

Ques. : 7 The DAVA project won the 2015 eASIA Award under trade facilitation category recently. The project is associated with
1) digital identification
2) vaccination
3) telemedicine
4) distribution of free medicines
5) drug verification
Answer:- 5) drug verification

Ques. : 8 India and Pakistan exchanged the list of their nuclear installations for the 25th consecutive year recently. Under a bilateral pact, both the countries share the above list every year on
1) 1 Dec
2) 25 Dec
3) 31 Dec
4) 1 Jan
5) 3 Jan
Answer:- 4) 1 Jan

Ques. : 9 Which of the following teams won the SAFF Cup 2015 football title in Thiruvananthapuram recently?
1) Afghanistan
2) India
3) Pakistan
4) Bangladesh
5) Sri Lanka
Answer:- 2) India

Ques. : 10 What is the full form of CBDT as used in banking/finance?
1) Central Board of Deductible Taxes
2) Central Board of Derived Taxes
3) Central Board of Domestic Taxes
4) Central Board of Direct Taxes
5) None of these
Answer:- 4) Central Board of Direct Taxes

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