Tuesday, November 17, 2015

GENERAL AWARENESS STUDY MATERIAL FOR ALL BANK EXAMS

1. India-born Harjit Sajjan became the Defense Minister of which of the following countries in
November 2015?
1) Fiji
2) Canada
3) Kenya
4) UK
5) New Zealand

2. Shaktikanta Das has been nominated as a Director to the Central Board of Directors of the
Reserve Bank of India. He is presently working as?
1) Economic Affairs Secretary
2) Finance Secretary
3) Financial Services Secretary
4) Tourism Secretary
5) Agriculture Secretary

3. Who became the first cricketer in Ranji Trophy history to complete 10,000 runs in Ranji Trophy in November 2015?
1) Amol Mazumdar
2) Mithun Manhas
3) Wasim Jaffar
4) Virendra Sehwag
5) Devendra Bundela

4. Who was named the Most Powerful Person in the World by the Forbes magazine in November 2015?
1) Barack Obama
2) Angela Merkel
3) Pope Francis
4) Xi Jinping
5) Vladimir Putin

5. Who won the Norway chess tournament in June 2015?
1) Veselin Topalov
2) Viswanathan Anand
3) Magnus Carlsen
4) Vassily Ivanchuk
5) Vladimir Kramnik

6. The theme of which of the following Summits held in 2015 was ‘Think Ahead. Act Together’?
1) G7
2) BRICS
3) SCO
4) G4
5) ASEAN

7. Who was awarded the Bjornson Prize for freedom of speech by Norway in June 2015?
1) Malala Yousafzai
2) Edward Snowden
3) Kailash Satyarthi
4) Dalai Lama
5) None of these

8. Hwang Kyo-ahn assumed office as the Prime Minister of which of the following Asian countries on June 18, 2015?
1) North Korea
2) South Korea
3) Vietnam
4) China
5) Laos

9. Christopher Lee passed away recently. He was a famous?
1) Actor
2) Footballer
3) Photographer
4) Musician
5) Author

10. Who won the Commonwealth chess title in New Delhi on June 30, 2015?
1) K. Sasikiran
2) Arghyadip Das
3) Abhijeet Gupta
4) Parimarjan Negi
5) Deep Sengupta

11. Who is the author of the book “Gandhi at First Sight”?
1) Thomas Weber
2) Daniel Bell
3) Jonathan Gil Harris
4) Patrick French
5) None of these

12. Pandit Haridutt Sharma Award is an annual award given in the field of?
1) Sculpture
2) Journalism
3) Films
4) Music
5) Theater

13. Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti launched ‘Jal Kranti Abhiyan’ on June 5, 2015 in?
1) Varanasi
2) Lucknow
3) Jaipur
4) Gwalior
5) Jhansi

14. Who became the second Indian umpire after S. Venkataraghavan to be inducted into the Elite
Panel of International Cricket Council (ICC)?
1) Ram Babu Gupta
2) I. Shivram
3) M.R. Singh
4) Sundaram Ravi
5) Raman Sharma

15. Which of the following has become the world’s first billion dollar football brand in June 2015?
1) Manchester United
2) Manchester City
3) Chelsea 4) Arsenal
5) Real Madrid

16. Who is the present Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting?
1) Venkaiah Naidu
2) Jual Oram
3) Arun Jaitley
4) J.P. Nadda
5) Prakash Javdekar

17. Which is the first private bank to launch a voice password facility for its customers recently?
1) HDFC Bank
2) ICICI Bank
3) Axis Bank
4) Yes Bank
5) Kotak Mahindra Bank

18. Whose autobiography is titled ‘The Test of My Life’?
1) Steve Waugh
2) Shane Warne
3) M.S. Dhoni
4) Yuvraj Singh
5) M. Amarnath

19. Serena Williams defeated who among the following to win the women’s singles tennis title in the 2015 French Open?
1) Maria Sharapova
2) Ana Ivanovic
3) Lucie Safarova
4) Victoria Azarenka
5) Petra Kvitova

20. Who is the only Indian sportsman featured among the 2015 Forbes magazine’s 100 highest paid athletes in the world?
1) Virat Kohli
2) Sachin Tendulkar
3) Leander Paes
4) Viswanathan Anand
5) Mahendra Singh Dhoni

21. Lal Thanhawla is the current Chief Minister of which of the following States?
1) Meghalaya
2) Tripura
3) Mizoram
4) Nagaland
5) Arunachal Pradesh

22. The Groningen gas field is the largest natural gas field in Europe. It is in?
1) Netherlands
2) Denmark
3) Switzerland
4) Germany
5) Sweden

23. Keoladeo Ghana National park is located in which of the following States?
1) Gujarat
2) West Bengal
3) Odisha
4) Rajasthan
5) Uttar Pradesh

24. The Global Times is a daily tabloid published in?
1) China
2) Singapore
3) UK
4) USA
5) Russia

25. Kalinga Stadium is a multipurpose stadium located in?
1) Indore
2) Bhubaneswar
3) Nagpur
4) Patiala
5) Mohali

26. Bhitarkanika wildlife sanctuary is located in which of the following States?
1) Odisha
2) West Bengal
3) Goa
4) Maharashtra
5) Jharkhand

27. Who is the author of the book ‘Eternal India’?
1) Jawaharlal Nehru
2) Indira Gandhi
3) Lal Bahadur Shastri
4) Atal Behari Vajpayee
5) I.K. Gujral

28. How many persons won the Bharat Ratna award so far?
1) 49
2) 54
3) 45
4) 55
5) 57

29. Which is the capital of the union territory Dadra & Nagar Haveli?
1) Amini
2) Kavarati
3) Kalpeni
4) Silvassa
5) Amboli

30. Sukanya Samridhi Yojana (SSY) account can be opened in the name of a girl child who is not more than?
1) 5 years old
2) 7 years old
3) 9 years old
4) 10 years old
5) 15 years old

31. Who is the recipient of the 2015 Genesis Prize?
1) Michael Douglas
2) Sylvester Stallone
3) Mel Gibson
4) John Travolta
5) Arnold Schwarzenegger

32. The Genesis Prize was founded in 2012 by the office of the Prime Minister of?
1) Canada
2) Israel
3) New Zealand
4) Australia
5) Netherlands

33. Who among the following Indians has not made to the Forbes list of the world’s 100 Most Powerful Women?
1) Arundhati Bhattacharya
2) Chanda Kochchar
3) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
4) Shobhana Bhartia
5) Shikha Sharma

34.Identify the mismatched pair?
1) General Motors – Mary Barra
2) Google – Sheryl Sandberg
3) YouTube – Susan Wojcicki
4) Yahoo – Marissa Mayer
5) IBM – Ginny Rometty

35. Suleyman Demirel died on June 17, 2015. He served as the President of which of the following countries from 1993 to 2000?
1) Yemen
2) Syria
3) Lebanon
4) Libya
5) Turkey

36. Charles Correa died in June 2015. He was a renowned?
1) Tennis player
2) Hockey player
3) Film actor
4) Architect
5) Author

37. Which of the following Academy Award winning films was based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Prize-winning mathematician?
1) Chicago
2) No Country for Old Men
3) The Hurt Locker
4) The Artist
5) A Beautiful Mind

38. Which of the following has released the Financial Stability Report (FSR) on June 25, 2015?
1) World Bank
2) Reserve Bank of India
3) International Monetary Fund
4) World Economic Forum
5) Securities and Exchange Board of India

39. Genesis Prize is also known as?
1) Green Nobel
2) Asia’s Nobel Prize
3) Jewish Nobel Prize
4) Green Oscar
5) Alternative Nobel Prize

40. Matt Prior retired from all forms of cricket in June 2015. He played for?
1) Australia
2) West Indies
3) South Africa
4) England
5) New Zealand

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