General Awareness Quiz For Upcoming Exam 2015

Q. : 1   Through its ‘Make in India’ campaign, the goal the Modi govt has set is to make India break into the top 50 in the World Bank’s ease of business index ranking from the current ________ position.

1) 131st 

2) 132nd

3) 133rd                

4) 134th

5) 135th                

Q. : 2   We often read about ARCs in financial newspapers. What does the term ARC stands for?

1) Asset Reconstruction Company            

2) Asset Recapitalisation Company

3) Asset Reinsurance Company 

4) Asset Recovery Company

5) None of these              

Q. : 3   Who among the following has been re-elected as the new President of Brazil after the recently held elections?

1) Aecio Neves  

2) Dilma Rousseff

3) Aecio Neves  

4) Marina Silva

5) None of these              

Q. : 4   Which of the following pairs won the women’s doubles titles of the WTA Finals?

1) Sania Mirza and Cara Black      

2) Su-Wei Hseih and Shuai Peng

3) Kveta Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik              

4) Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci

5) None of these           

Q. : 5   According to a recent verdict by the Supreme Court, those govt employees cannot ask for promotion at a later stage whose

1) promotions have been cancelled owing to their refusal to accept it     

2) appointment have been made on the basis of reservation

3) performance has not been satisfactory            

4) appointments have been made without written exam

5) None of these              

Q. : 6   The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide 500 million dollar loan for urban services management in which of the following states? The loan will help finance creation of a new corporate-style state body to oversee urban services development.

1) Madhya Pradesh         

2) Telangana

3) Andhra Pradesh          

4) Rajasthan

5) None of these              

Q. : 7   Ghulam Azam died at 91 recently. He was the former head of Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest Islamist party, of which of the following countries?

1) Pakistan          

2) Iran

3) Bangladesh    

4) Turkey

5) None of these              

Q. : 8   The European Union leaders have reached a landmark deal at a summit in Brussels to cut greenhouse emissions by __________by 2030, compared with 1990 levels.

1) 20 per cent    

2) 40 per cent

3) 50 per cent    

4) 60 per cent

5) None of these              

Q. : 9   A lone gunman named Zehaf-Bibeau stormed into Parliament of which of the following countries on 22 Oct? He shot dead a soldier guarding the national war memorial before being gunned down.

1) Spain                

2) Canada

3) France             

4) UK

5) None of these              

Q. : 10   The US President Barack Obama has nominated an Indian-American Azita Raji as the US Ambassador to ________ recently.

1) Sweden          

2) Japan

3) China                

4) Malaysia

5) None of these              

Answer:- 

1. (4) 134th
2. (1) Asset Reconstruction Company
3. (2) Dilma Rousseff
4. (1) Sania Mirza and Cara Black      
5. (1) promotions have been cancelled owing to their refusal to accept it
6. (4) Rajasthan
7. (3) Bangladesh
8. (2) 40 per cent
9. (2) Canada
10. (1) Sweden