General Awareness

1. The new President of FICCI for the year 2017?
1) Harshavardhan Neotia
2) Pankaj Patel
3) Naushad Forbes
4) C.P.Gurnani
5) None of these

2. The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) is a research and training institute on public policy and public administration in India. It is located in.
1) Mussoorie
2) Hyderabad
3) Dehradun
4) Nagpur
5) None of these

3. The current Service Tax Rate?
1) 12%
2) 13%
3) 14%
4) 15%
5) None

4. The Constitution Day is celebrated on which date in India?
1) January 26
2) August 15
3) November 26
4) December 9
5) None of these

5. What was the name of State Bank of India (SBI) before it was created by SBI Act?
1) Reserve Bank of India
2) Federal Bank of India
3) Imperial Bank of India
4) Central Bank of India
5) None of these

6. Who is the Chairman of NITI Aayog?
1) Arun Jaitley
2) Urjit Patel
3) Arvind Subramanian
4) Arvind Panagariya
5) None of these

7. The headquarter of IRDAI is situated at?
1) New Delhi
2) Mumbai
3) Kolkata
4) Chennai
5) Hyderabad

8. What is the name of America-Canada boundary line?
1) 49th Parallel
2) 38th Parallel
3) Duran line
4) Radcliffe line
5) None of these

9. The 2020 Summer Olympics venue is..
1) Beijing
2) London
3) Rio de Janeiro
4) Tokyo
5) None of these

10. UNESCO has its headquarters in..
1) New York
2) Paris
3) Geneva
4) Vienna
5) None of these

11. Fidel Castro, who recently passed away, was the former President of which country?
1) Venezuela
2) Syria
3) Cuba
4) Brazil
5) Chile

12. Which of the following is an Indian Government owned Bank?
1) IDFC Bank
2) HDFC Bank
3) IDBI Bank
4) ICICI Bank
5) None of these

13. Who has appointed as China’s new ambassador to India by Chinese President Xi Jinping?
1) Li Keqiang
2) Luo Zhaohui
3) Shinzo Abe
4) Joko Widodo
5) None of these

14. The National Milk Day (NMD) has been observed on
1) April 21
2) August 7
3) September 25
4) October 31
5) November 26

15. Which of the following is not a public sector unit?
1) BHEL
2) BEL
3) CIL
4) RIL
5) NTPC

16. Which Indian state will become the first state in India to go cashless?
1) Punjab
2) Haryana
3) Goa
4) Sikkim
5) None of these

17. Which country’s Davis team has won the 2016 Davis Cup tennis tournament?
1) Croatia
2) Argentina
3) Australia
4) Britain
5) None of these

18. Pankaj Advani is associated with 
1) Chess
2) Snooker
3) Golf
4) Tennis
5) Cricket

19. The recipients of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2016?
1) Jitu Rai
2) Dipa Karmakar
3) Sakshi Malik
4) P.V.Sindhu
5) All of the above

20. Who is Navtej Sarna?
1) India’s Ambassador to China
2) India’s Ambassador to Russia
3) India’s Ambassador to Japan
4) India’s Ambassador to USA
5) None of these

21. Qamar Javed Bajwa is the new army chief of
1) Bangladesh
2) Pakistan
3) Iran
4) Iraq
5) None of these

22. Who is Paul Beatty?
1) The winner of Man Booker Prize 2016
2) The winner of Man Booker International Prize 2016
3) The winner of Nobel Literature Prize 2016
4) The winner of Pulitzer Prize for 2016
5) None of these

23. India’s rank in WEF’s Global Gender Gap Report 2016?
1) 67th
2) 77th
3) 87th
4) 97th
5) None of these

24. 2011 Census is
1) 11th Census
2) 12th Census
3) 13th Census
4) 14th Census
5) 15th Census

25. Konark Sun Temple is in
1) Madhya Pradesh
2) Maharashtra
3) Odisha
4) Uttar Pradesh
5) None of these

26. Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport is in
1) Nagpur
2) Patna
3) Lucknow
4) Amritsar
5) Raipur

27. The Capital City of Portugal?
1) Warsaw
2) Lisbon
3) Belgrade
4) Ankara
5) Stockholm

28. Manas National Park is in
1) Assam
2) Bihar
3) Chhattisgarh
4) Gujarat
5) None of these

29. Who is Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare?
1) Ravi Shankar Prasad
2) Jagat Prakash Nadda
3) Radha Mohan Singh
4) Thawar Chand Gehlot
5) Prakash Javadekar

30. Which is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System?
1) Earth
2) Jupiter
3) Mercury
4) Venus
5) None of these

31. With regard to Banking in India, which one of the following events took place in 1972?
1) Establishment of NABARD
2) Second phase of Nationalization of Banks
3) Nationalization of SBI
4) Establishment of the first Regional Rural Bank
5) Merger of New Bank of Indiawith PNB

32. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) was founded in..
1) 1885
2) 1925
3) 1949
4) 1972
5) None of these

33. Nobel Peace Prize every year awarded on December 10 in
1) Stockholm
2) Oslo
3) Vienna
4) Geneva
5) None of these

34. Which of the following banks is not headed by a woman?
1) ICICI Bank
2) Axis Bank
3) State Bank of India
4) HDFC Bank
5) Bharatiya Mahila Bank

35. Indian Financial System Code (IFSC) is an alpha numeric code. It has how many characters?
1) 9
2) 10
3) 11
4) 8
5) 12

36. Capital Market Regulator is
1) RBI
2) SBI
3) NSE
4) BSE
5) SEBI

37. The Foreign Exchange Reserves of India are kept in the custody of.
1) World Bank
2) International Monetary Fund
3) Prime Minister Rahat Kosh
4) Reserve Bank of India
5) None of these

38. India’s first Regional Rural Bank?
1) Prathama Grameena Bank
2) Deccan Grameena Bank
3) Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank
4) Andhra Pragathi Grameena Bank
5) None of these

39. Which among the following is not an American Company?
1) Walmart
2) Apple Inc
3) Metro
4) IBM
5) Intel Corporation

40. Who is Arjun Bahadur Thapa?
1) Secretary General of SAARC
2) Secretary General of Amnesty International
3) Secretary General of ASEAN
4) Secretary General of UNO
5) None of these

41. Who is the interim Chairman of Tata Group?
1) Cyrus Pallonji Mistry
2) Ratan Tata
3) Ishaat Hussain
4) Natarajan Chandrasekaran
5) None of these

42. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA) is in. 
1) Chennai
2) Bengaluru
3) Mumbai
4) Kolkata
5) None of these

43. Which is NOT a part of new economic reforms in India?
1) Globalization
2) Centralization
3) Privatization
4) Liberalization
5) None of these

44. Consider the following countries:
a) Venezuela
b) Saudi Arabia
c) India
d) Nigeria
Which of the above is/are member/members of OPEC?
1) a & b only
2) a & c only
3) c & d only
4) a, b & d only
5) None of these

45. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the supreme authority of the worldwide Olympic Games. Who is the President of IOC?
1) Thomas Bach
2) Zaheer Abbas
3) David Richard
4) Gianni Infantino
5) None of these