Bank Exam General Awareness with Special Reference to Banking Industry 20

Julie Bishop visited India in April 2015. She is the Foreign Minister of? 1) Canada  2) New Zealand  3) Australia  4) UK  5) Norway Who was chosen the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year on April 15, 2015? 1) Usain Bolt  2) Novak Djokovic  3) Magnus Carlsen  4) Sachin Tendulkar  5) Rafael Nadal Gunter Grass, a German author, died on April 13, 2015. He was a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in? 1) 1995  2) 2001  3) 1999  4) 2004  5) 2003 Which team won the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament in April 2015? 1) New Zealand  2) Australia  3) India  4) South Korea  5) Canada Who is the first bowler to claim a hat trick on debut in one day international cricket? 1) Lasith Malinga  2) Thisara Perera  3) Clint McKay  4) Dan Christian  5) Taijul Islam Pole Vault World Record holder Renaud Lavillenie was named the IAAF’s World Male Athlete of the Year. He belongs to? 1) Spain  2) Russia  3) Ukraine  4) France  5) Germany Justice Nanavati Commission has submitted its final report recently. It is related to? 1) Anti Sikh riots  2) Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination  3) Indira Gandhi’s assassination  4) Gujarat riots  5) None of these Which State will have India’s first Bamboo Technology Park? 1) Assam  2) West Bengal  3) Odisha  4) Bihar  5) Jharkhand Hand-in-Hand is a joint military exercise between India and? 1) Pakistan  2) China  3) USA  4) Russia  5) Japan Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the governing board of the Kalakshetra Foundation in Chennai? 1) N. Gopalaswami  2) Ravindra Singh  3) Raghav Chandra  4) R. Kannan  5) Bhaskar Ghose Gumti Wildlife Sanctuary is located in? 1) Tripura  2) Sikkim  3) West Bengal  4) Assam  5) Jharkhand Which private bank has launched the world’s first Facebook based instant funds transfer platform KayPay? 1) Yes Bank  2) Kotak Mahindra Bank  3) ICICI Bank  4) HDFC Bank  5) Axis Bank Mithra Shakthi is a joint military exercise between India and? 1) Bhutan  2) Nepal  3) Sri Lanka  4) Bangladesh  5) Maldives Who is the author of the book “When God is a Traveller”? 1) Rudra Chaudhuri  2) Ritu Menon  3) Chetan Bhagat  4) Arundhati Subramaniam  5) None of these India’s first ‘Shramodaya School’ for the children of laborers will be set up in? 1) Gujarat  2) Jharkhand  3) Chhattisgarh  4) Rajasthan  5) Madhya Pradesh Darfur is a region in which of the following countries? 1) Mali  2) Sudan  3) Liberia  4) Eritrea  5) Sierra Leone Which country clinched its maiden Davis Cup tennis title in November 2014? 1) Switzerland  2) Serbia  3) France  4) Spain  5) Russia Rohit Sharma scored the highest ever individual score in a one day international against which of the following countries? 1) West Indies  2) Australia  3) South Africa  4) Sri Lanka  5) Bangladesh The next G20 Summit will be hosted by which of the following countries in November 2015? 1) China  2) Australia  3) Turkey  4) Mexico  5) Indonesia Which are the first States in India to achieve 100% financial inclusion under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana? 1) Kerala & Tamil Nadu  2) Gujarat & Goa  3) Gujarat & Rajasthan  4) Andhra Pradesh & Telangana  5) Kerala & Goa Nikki Haley visited India recently. She is the Indian –American Governor of? 1) Texas  2) Louisiana  3) North Dakota  4) Alaska  5) South Carolina INS Tarasa has been transferred from the Indian Navy to which of the following countries? 1) Maldives  2) Seychelles  3) Mauritius  4) Sri Lanka  5) Fiji Who was conferred the Japan’s top award “The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers 2014”? 1) Narendra Modi  2) Pranab Mukherjee  3) Manmohan Singh  4) Sonia Gandhi  5) L.K. Advani Magnus Carlsen of Norway won the World Chess Championship played in November 2014 in? 1) Chennai  2) Moscow  3) Oslo  4) Sochi  5) Beijing The 2014 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) women’s championship was played in Islamabad. It was won by? 1) India  2) Nepal  3) Pakistan  4) Bangladesh  5) Sri Lanka Harinderpal Singh Sandhu is the Senior National Men’s champion in? 1) Shooting  2) Badminton  3) Squash  4) Boxing  5) Archery The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) comprises how many member countries? 1) 56  2) 66  3) 62  4) 54  5) 58 The Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyothi Yojana replaced which of the following schemes? 1) IAY  2) JNNURM  3) MGNREGP  4) RGGVY  5) None of these The government has banned the Kamatapur Liberation Organization (KLO), a militant outfit which operates in? 1) Assam  2) Himachal Pradesh  3) Jharkhand  4) Uttarakhand  5) Chhattisgarh Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana (VKY) has been launched by the Union Tribal Welfare Minister? 1) Ram Vilas Paswan  2) Narendra Singh Tomar  3) Kalraj Mishra  4) Ravishankar Prasad  5) Jual Oram Dilma Rousseff has been elected the President of which of the following countries for a second consecutive term? 1) Argentina  2) Chile  3) Peru  4) Bolivia  5) Brazil Which of the following awards/prizes was won by Malala Yousafzai in 2014? 1) World’s Children’s Prize  2) Sakharov Prize  3) International Children’s Peace Prize  4) Right Livelihood Award  5) None of these Vakil Raj Dindor is a player associated with? 1) Cycling  2) Archery  3) Badminton  4) Billiards  5) Golf Who equaled Vivian Richards’ record of fastest century in Tests in November 2014? 1) Brendon McCullum  2) Chris Gayle  3) A.B. de Villiers  4) Shane Watson  5) Misbah-ul Haq Who is the Chairman of the Committee that was formed to frame guidelines on government advertisements? 1) N.R. Madhava Menon  2) T.K. Viswanathan  3) Ranjit Kumar  4) Mukul Rohatgi  5) None of these Which of the following is the capital city of Burkina Faso? 1) Boromo  2) Solenzo  3) Diapaga  4) Boulsa  5) Ouagadougou Lichens are a symbiotic association of? 1) Algae and Ferns  2) Algae and Bacteria  3) Algae and Fungi  4) Fungi and Bacteria  5) None of these ‘Arab Spring’ originally started from which of the following countries? 1) Yemen  2) Syria  3) Libya  4) Egypt  5) Tunisia The Arctic Council has how many member countries? 1) 6  2) 7  3) 8  4) 10  5) None of these KEY 1) 3 2) 2 3) 3 4) 1 5) 5 6) 4 7) 4 8) 1 9) 2 10) 1 11) 1 1 2) 2 1 3) 3 1 4) 4 1 5) 5 16) 2 17) 1 18) 4 19) 3 20) 5 21) 5 2 2) 2 2 3) 3 2 4) 4 2 5) 1 26) 3 27) 4 28) 4 29) 1 30) 5 31) 5 3 2) 1 3 3) 2 3 4) 5 3 5) 1 36) 5 37) 3 38) 5 39) 3

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Published on 12/9/2015 10:45:00 AM

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