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general knowledge questions for ALL COMPETITIVE EXAMS

1) Who is the new Director General of UNESCO?
1) Irina Bokova
2) Audrey Azoulay
3) Antonio Guterres
4) Roberto Azevedo
5)Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

2) The 2017 United Nations Day is observed on…..
1) 2nd October
2) 13th October
3) 16th October
4) 17th October
5) 24th October

3) Who is named as the 2017 Best FIFA Men’s Player?
1) Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid/ Portugal)
2) Lionel Messi (Barcelona/Argentina)
3) Neymar (Barcelona/Brazil)
4) Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus/Italy)
5) None of the above

4) Which country won the 2017 Men’s Hockey Asia Cup?
1) India
2) Malaysia
3) Pakistan
4) South Korea
5) None of the above

5) The first-ever International tri services joint exercise “INDRA – 2017” has started between…….
1) India and USA
2) India and China
3) India and Russia
4) India and UK
5) None of the above

6) Find the correct pair?
1) Man Booker Prize 2017 : George Saunders
2) Man Booker International Prize 2017 : David Grossman
3) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017 : Colson Whitehead
4) Nobel Literature Prize 2017 : Kazuo Ishiguro
5) All of the above

7) Richard Thaler has won the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He hails from which country?
1) USA
2) UK
3) Germany
4) France
5) Italy

8) India’s first-ever All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) has been inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in…
1) Hyderabad
2) Chennai
3) Kolkata
4) Mumbai
5) New Delhi

9) Which of the following novel won the Man Booker Prize 2017?
1) Lincoln in the Bardo
2) A Horse Walks Into a Bar
3) The Sellout
4) The Vegetarian
5) None of the above

10) Who is the India’s new ambassador to China?
1) Navtej Singh Sarna
2) Pankaj Saran
3) Gautam Bambawale
4) Ajay Bisaria
5) None of the above

11) Which of the following is NOT a Maharatna company at present?
1) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)
2) Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL)
3) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)
4) Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL)
5) National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC)

12) India has been ranked 100th out of 119 countries in the 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report, which is released by….
1) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
2) World Economic Forum (WEF)
3) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
4) International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
5) None of the above

13) Who is the recipient of the 2017 Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management?
1) Bindeshwar Pathak
2) Anna Hazare
3) Aruna Roy
4) Baba Mate
5) None of the above

14) Who will be the first recipient of the lifetime achievement award instituted by the Badminton Association of India (BAI) for his rich contribution to the sport?
1) Pullela Gopichand
2) Prakash Padukone
3) Chetan Anand
4) Jwala Gutta
5) None of the above

15) Which of the following is NOT a private sector bank in India?
1) Corporation Bank
2) South Indian Bank
3) Federal Bank
4) Karnataka Bank
5) IDFC Bank

16) Which of the following is NOT a British bank?
1) Standard Chartered
2) HSBC
3) Royal Bank of Scotland
4) Barclays Bank
5) Societe Generale

17) Who is the recipient of 2017 Mathrubhumi Literary Award?
1) M.K.Sanu
2) Shankha Ghosh
3) MP Veerendrakumar
4) Mahabaleshwar Sail
5) Rishabh Jain

18) Find the wrong pair? (Military Exercises)
1) Nomadic Elephant 2017 : India and Mangolia
2) Surya Kiran 2017 : India and Nepal
3) SIMBEX 2017 : India and Singapore
4) Hand in Hand 2017 : India and USA
5) Exercise Indra 2017 : India and Russia

19) Which of the following country became the 29th member country of NATO?
1) South Sudan
2) Nauru
3) Afghanistan
4) Montenegro
5) None of these

20) The Headquarters of NATO is located in which of the following city?
1) Geneva
2) New York
3) Brussels
4) The Hague
5) None of these

21) Which of the following novel written by Kazuo Ishiguro?
1) The Buried Giant
2) A Horse Walks Into a Bar
3) Lincoln in the Bardo
4) The Underground Railroad
5) None of the above

22) Prakash Javadekar is the minister of which of the following ministry?
1) Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
2) Social Justice and Empowerment
3) Health and Family Welfare
4) Petroleum and Natural Gas
5) Human Resource Development

23) RBI announced to release new currency notes of which denomination?
1) Rs 200
2) Rs 300
3) Rs 400
4) Rs 600
5) Rs 700

24) Berne is the capital of which of the following country?
1) Sweden
2) Norway
3) Netherlands
4) Denmark
5) Switzerland

25) Which of the following state has become the last state to pass the GST bill in the state?
1) Telangana
2) Andhra Pradesh
3) Karnataka
4) Bihar
5) Jammu and Kashmir

26) Raghubar Das is the Chief Minister of which of the following state?
1) Chhattisgrah
2) Uttarakhand
3) Jharkhand
4) Haryana
5) Odisha

27) SAP is a multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. SAP is belongs to which of the following country?
1) USA
2) UK
3) Germany
4) France
5) Spain

28) Who is the present Chairman of NITI Aayog?
1) Ram Nath Kovind
2) Venkaiah Naidu
3) Narendra Modi
4) Aravind Panagariya
5) Rajiv kumar

29) Magnus Carlsen belongs to which of the following country?
1) Norway
2) Germany
3) France
4) Italy
5) None of the above

30) Which of the following bank was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in 1919?
1) State Bank of India
2) Punjab National Bank
3) Union Bank of India
4) United bank of India
5) None of the above

31) The First bank to open a branch outside India?
1) Indian Bank
2) Bank of India
3) Andhra Bank
4) Corporation Bank
5) Central Bank of India

32) Chandoli National Park is located in which state?
1) Maharashtra
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Kerala
4) Madhya Pradesh
5) None of these

33) The President of India Ram Nath Kovind has constituted a Commission under Article 340 of the Constitution to examine Sub-categorization of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the central list. This commission is headed by…..
1) Raghuram Rajan
2) Justice G.Rohini
3) Justice J.S.Khehar
4) Y.V.Reddy
5) None of the above

34) The Government has constituted a high-level committee for proper management of the water resources in the North Eastern Region (NER) under the chairmanship of…..
1) Arvind Subramanian
2) Sanjeev Sanyal
3) Ajit Doval
4) Rajiv Kumar
5) None of the above

35) Rajnish Kumar is the new Chairman of SBI. Who is the first Chairman of SBI when it was set up in 1955?
1) Sir Osborne Smith
2) John Mathai
3) K.C.Neogy
4) Sukumar Sen
5) R.K.Shanmukham Chetty

36) “India’s International Bank” is the tagline of…..
1) State Bank of India
2) Bank of India
3) Bank of Baroda
4) Bank of Maharashtra
5) None of the above

37) The Headquarters of Canara Bank is in…….
1) New Delhi
2) Mumbai
3) Kolkata
4) Chennai
5) Bengaluru

38) Who among the following is NOT a deputy governor of RBI at present?
1) N. S. Vishwanathan
2) Viral V. Acharya
3) B.P. Kanungo
4) K.V.Kamath
5) None of the above

39) Who is the winner of the United States Grand Prix 2017?
1) Fernando Alonso
2) Sebastian Vettel
3) Kimi Raikkonen
4) Nico Rosberg
5) Lewis Hamilton

40) India’s economy growth rate during April to June 2017?
1) 5.3 per cent
2) 5.5 per cent
3) 5.7 per cent
4) 5.9 per cent
5) None of the above

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