General Awareness Model Practice Questions

1. Raghuram Rajan is the first Indian served as the Chief Economist of IMF. Where is
the head quarter of IMF?
1) Geneva
2) Beijing
3) Washington D C
4) Paris
5) New York

2. Who is the present Managing Director of IMF?
1) Kristalina Georgieva-Kinova
2) K.V.Kamath
3) Christine Legarde
4) Jin Liquin
5) Takehiko Nakao

3. On 7 January 2019, who announced his resignation as the president of World Bank unexpectedly, more than three years before his term ends in 2022?
1) K.V.Kamath
2) Temasek Holdings
3) Werner Hoyer
4) Brian Thomas Moynihan
5) Jim Yong Kim

4. How many players will be selected out of competitions in Khelo India Youth games and they will be given Rs 5 lakh each per annum for the next 8 years for development of their sporting talent?
1) 200
2) 10000
3) 1000
4) 750
5) 500

5. Which team secured the highest number of Gold Medals in 2018 Khelo India Games held at New Delhi?
1) Karnataka
2) Kerala
3) Haryana
4) Maharashtra
5) Delhi

6. Indian Woman boxer attained number one position in the International Boxing Association's (AIBA) latest world rankings recently. She is……………..?
1) Pinki Rani
2) Sarita Devi
3) Kavita Chahal
4) M C Mary Kom
5) Yvonne Caples

7. On 5 January 2019, PM Modi laid the foundation stone of revival of North Koel (Mandal Dam) project in…..?
1) Uttarakhand
2) Uttar Pradesh
3) Odisha
4) Manipur
5) Jharkhand

8. Present woman governor of Jharkhand is ?
1) Draupadi Murmu
2) Nazma Hepthulla
3) Mrudula Sinha
4) Ananda Bin Patel
5) Babi Rani Maurya

9. Venezuela is one of the world's largest oil producers. What is the capital of Venezuela?
1) Buenos Aires
2) Caracas
3) Lima
4) Santiago
5) Bogota

10. Who is the chief minister of Gujarat?
1) Manohar Lal Khattar
2) Vasundara Raje
3) Vijay Rupani
4) Devendra Fadnavis
5) Yogi Adityanath

11. Which state ranked Best Performer in first ever States Start-up Ranking 2018 by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) announced on 20, December 2018?
1) Telengana
2) Kerala
3) Gujarat
4) Uttarakhand
5) Manipur

12. Present chairman of Staff Selection Commission is …?
1) Ashim Khurana
2) Aravind Saxena
3) Anita Karwal
4) Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe
5) Vijay Kumar Saraswat

13. Norway capital is Oslo. What is the currency of Norway?
1) Rupee
2) Pound
3) Euro
4) Krone
5) Dollar

14. Who was declared as the Player of the series Award in the India-Australia Test series held recently?
1) Rishabh Rajendra Pant
2) Mohammed Shami
3) Cheteshwar Pujara
4) Virat Kohli
5) Hanuma Vihari

ANSWERS:
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Global Skill Summit - 2019

On January 10, 2019, Global Skill Summit 2019 was held in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The unique feature of the Summit was that on this occasion, total 1,06,619 youths of Jharkhand were given symbolic offer letter for jobs in the private sector, surpassing the target of giving jobs to 1,00,000 youths.
Thus, Jharkhand became the first state to achieve the feat of giving jobs to over one lakh youths in the private sector. The theme of the Summit was ‘Skilling Youth, Enabling Youth’. The summit was attended by Dharmendra Pradhan, Ministerfor Petroleum and Natural Gas, and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

Longest Steel Bridge Opened

On 10th January 2019, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu inaugurated India’s longest 300-meter single- lane steel cable suspension bridge over Siang River in Upper Siang district of state bordering China.

International Kite Festival

On 6th January 2019, the international kite festival inaugurated in Ahmadabad. The kite fest usually celebrated ahead of Uttarayan or Makar Sankranti, the day when winter season starts changing to summer and farmers welcome the approaching harvest season. Besides kite flyers from India, 45 different countries also took part in the festival at Sabarmati River Front. This year, the Gujarat government also decided to organise a kite festival at Kevadia, the site of the Statue of Unity, a memorial to Sardar Patel and also the world’s tallest statue.

Khelo India - 2019

The Khelo India Youth Games 2019 were declared open on 9 January 2019 in the presence of a host of sports personalities including double Olympic medalist wrestler Sushil Kumar.
The Khelo India is now bigger and better in its second edition, after being re-christened Khelo India Youth Games, covering 18 different disciplines of which six are team sports. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore participated in the event. Opened in Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Pune, for the first time students from Colleges and Universities are participating, will have a total of 9000 participants.

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQ's

1. The recent decision of GST council made that Music Books attract how much GST rate?
1) 28%
2) 18%
3) 12%
4) 5%
5) Nil

2. GST council reduced the GST rate on Parts and accessories for the carriages for disabled persons from 28% to………
1) 18%
2) 5%
3) 0%
4) 12%
5) 8%

3. The Services supplied by banks to Basic Saving Bank Deposit (BSBD) and account holders under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) attract how much GST rate as per the decision of GST council recently?
1) 28%
2) 18%
3) 12%
4) 5%
5) totally exempted from GST

4. On 18th December 2018, Naveen Patnaik, CM of Odisha announced financial aid of Rs.10 Crore for the establishment of Odiya Cultural Centre in………
1) Hyderabad
2) Bangalore
3) Chennai
4) Guwahati
5) Surat

5. What is the official mascot for the Odisha Men’s Hockey World Cup is.....
1) Winkey
2) Rohoey
3) Olly
4) Phoneyh
5) Wi Wi

6. Which software launched by Indian Railways to keep track of punctuality of trains and freight and passenger earnings from anywhere in India?
1) Rwire
2) Rpole
3) eDrishti
4) epromote
5) eskill

7. Which state launched Saura Jalnidhi scheme to encourage use of solar energy in irrigation by farmers?
1) UP 2) Maharashtra
3) Odisha
4) Tamilnadu
5) MP

8. NITI Aayog document “Strategy for New India@75” said that the Investment rate should be boosted from 29% of GDP in FY18 to ………….by FY23.
1) 42%
2) 34%
3) 46%
4) 36%
5) 50%

9. 15 women entrepreneurs were given awards at the recently concluded Women Transforming India Awards 2018 in New Delhi. Theme of the WTI Awards 2018 is……
1) Women and Entrepreneurship
2) Women and Empowerment
3) Women and Rise of them
4) Women for Entrepreneurship for all
5) Women and Care

10. NITI Aayog inked agreement with ………. to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to address challenges in agriculture and healthcare
1) Infosys
2) TCS
3) Tech Mahindra
4) Microsoft India
5) Amazon India

11. Service-specific exercise AVIAINDRA between Indian Air Force (IAF) and Russian Federation Aerospace Force (RFAF), held ………
1) Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
2) Pune, Maharastra
3) Kochi, Kerala
4) Jodhpur in Rajasthan
5) Agra, Uttar Pradesh

12. Union Ministry of Tourism inaugurated
India’s first tribal circuit project connecting
13 tourism sites in………….. under
Swadesh Darshan Scheme.
1) Chhattisgarh 2) Jharkhand
3) Arunachal Pradesh 4) Manipur
5) Mizoram

Answers:
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Strategy for New India@75

NITI Aayog unveiled a strategy document called the “Strategy for New India@75” suggesting reforms to make India a 4-trillion dollar economy by 2022-23. The document’s main idea is to go for such reforms in the economy that will keep India growing at 8% annually that could be quicken to 9 10% by 2022-23. The document suggests increasing the share of taxes in the national income from current 17% to 22%. The report calls for the inclusion of fuel and electricity within the ambit of GST. All of the 250,000 gram panchayats should be digitally connected by 2019 through the Bharat Net programme. The government services should be delivered digitally to all the gram panchayats by 2022- 23. The document also says that Bharatmala Pariyojana and roads-construction in the north eastern region should be completed and Power for All and a pucca house for every family have to be ensured. FDI limits should be liberalised also.

KALIA scheme for Farmers

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik announced Rs.10,800 crore scheme for farmers on 21 December 2018. It is the Krushak Assistance for Livelihoods & Income Augmentation (KALIA), which benefits both farmers and share croppers. Lord Jagannath in Odisha is also called Kalia. The scheme has 5 components- financial support for cultivation, livelihood support for landless households, financial assistance to vulnerable agriculture households and landless labourers, life insurance cover and exemption of interest for crop loans of up to Rs 50,000. Under the KALIA scheme, all small and marginal farmers numbering around 3 million will be covered. An assistance of Rs 10,000 will be provided per family for Kharif and Rabi seasons. The scheme also promises Rs.2 Lakh life insurance cover.

First Railway University

National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI), is India’s first Railway university focused on transport-related education, multidisciplinary research and training dedicated to the nation by Union Minister of Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal and Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on 15 December 2018. Located in Vadodara, Gujarat offering two courses, Bachelor of Science in Transportation Technology and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Transport Management.