General awareness revision Set 101

General Awareness Revision Set 101:

1. Who among the following has been chosen for Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award for 2014-15 as announced by the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA)?
1) Subbiah Arunan
2) Mylswamy Annadurai
3) G Madhavan Nai
4) MYS Prasad
5) Roddam Narasimha

2.  On 14th January, an Indian swimmer created a world record by swimming 1.4 miles in 52 minutes in one degree Celsius temperature in the Antarctic Ocean. Who is he?
1) Pooja Raghava Alva
2) Malavika Vishwanath
3) Aditi Dhumatkar
4) Bhakti Sharma
5) None of these

3. Who among the following is the new Chief Election Commissioner of India?
1) VS Sampath
2) Hari Shankar Brahma
3) Shashi Kant Sharma
4) SY Quraishi
5) Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi

4. At present, how many banks are associated with SBI?
1) Four
2) Five
3) Six
4) Seven
5) None of these

5. The Central Govt contributes towards the capital of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) through
1) RBI
2) SBI
3) NABARD
4) SIDBI
5) None of these

6. Leda Samson has resigned from which of the following institutions recently?
1) FCAT
2) CBFC
3) TRAI
4) IRDA
5) None of these

7. The Haryana Govt. has appointed who among the following as its brand ambassador?
1) Gurmeet Ram Rahim
2) Kiran Bedi
3) Ramdev
4) Ravi Shankar
5) None of these

8. The National Award for e-Governance for the best district level initiative in the country has been given to________
1) Jammu& Kashmir
2) Kerala
3) Karnataka
4) Tamil Nadu
5) Sikkim

9. What is the fair and remunerative price (FRP) for sugarcane approved by the CCEA for the 2015-16 season(Oct-Sep)?
1) Rs. 210 per quintal
2) Rs. 230 per quintal
3) Rs. 250 per quintal
4) Rs. 280 per quintal
5) Rs. 300 per quintal

10. Which of the following pairs has won the women's doubles title of the 2015 Sydney International?
1) Abigail Spears and Raquel Kops Jones
2) Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek Sands
3) Martina Hingis and Flavia Pennetta
4) Kimiko Date Krumm and Karolina Pliskova
5) None of these

11. Who among the following has been selected for the prestigious Vyas Samman for the year 2014 for his work Premchand Kee Kahaniyo Kaa Kaalkramanusar Adhyayan?
1) Ashok Vajpeyi
2) Kamal Kishore Goyanka
3) Kunwar Narayan
4) Kedarnath Singh
5) None of these

12. Recently Giorgio Napolitano resigned as the President of which of the following countries?
1) France
2) Spain
3) Italy
4) Sweden
5) None of these

13. The project 'Sandesh One' is a first of its kind public-private partnership (PPP) programme to develop a network of trained women entrepreneurs in the state of _________
1) Assam
2) West Bengal
3) Kerala
4) Rajasthan
5) Gujarat

14. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has signed an MoU for cooperation in the area of central banking with which of the following central banks?
1) Federal Reserve
2) Bank of Japan
3) People's Bank of China
4) European Central Bank
5) Swiss National Bank

15. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has become the first female president of _________
1) Sweden
2) Slovenia
3) Bulgaria
4) Montenegro
5) Croatia

16. If the following is the first development bank It was started in 1948.
1) Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI)
2) Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI)
3) Export Import Bank (EXIM Bank)
4) Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)
5) None of these

17. Two suspected militants slaughtered 12 people at t office of which of the following French magazines?
1) Le Ndin Jaune
2) Hara Kiri
3) Le Charivari
4) Charlie Hebdo
5) Le Rire

18. Name the person who won the men's singles title the Chennai Open?
1) Leander Paes
2) Mahesh Bhupathi
3) Aljaz Bedene
4) Stanislas Wawrinka
5) Kei Nishikori

19. The five-day long 19th National Youth Festival was held in which of the following cities?
1) Guwahati
2) Itanagar
3) Kohima
4) Agartala
5) Aizawl

20. Who among the following is the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka?
1) Ranil Wickremasinghe
2) Chandrika Kumaratunga
3) Mahinda Rajapaksa
4) Maithripala Sirisena
5) None of these






Answers:

1.             4

2.             4

3.             2

4.             2

5.             3

6.             2

7.             3

8.             1

9.             2

10.          2

11.          2

12.          3

13.          3

14.          4

15.          5

16.          1

17.          4

18.          4

19.          1

20.          1