General Awareness Quiz


1. Who has been appointed as Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare?
1) Bhanu Pratap Sinha
2) Bhanu Pratap Mishra
3) Bhanu Pratap Mehata
4) Bhanu Pratap Sharma
5) None of these.

2. India and ......... have initiated steps to remove the hindrances and boost commerce by signing an agreement in the area of customs and moving to liberalize business visas.

1) Germany
2) France
3) Russia
4) UK
5) None of these.

3. INSTC is a multi modal transportation established on 12 SEP 2000 in St. Petersburg, by Iran, Russia and India for the purpose of promoting transportation cooperation among the Member States. considered as gateway for India to expand trade and investment links with Central Asia and Eurasia. What does INSTC stand for?
1) International North-South Transport Corridor
2) International North-South Transportation Corridor
3) International North-South Atlantic Transportation Corridor
4) International North-South Asiatic Transportation Corridor
5) None of these.

4. The Reserve Bank of India has set up a 14-member committee for working out a medium-term (five-year) measurable action plan for financial inclusion. This committee is headed by?
1) Vimal Jalan
2) Deepak Mohanty
3) Nachiket Mor
4) G. Parthasastry
5) None of these.

5. Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) and US-based aircraft maker .......... have signed a strategic framework agreement for aerospace and defence manufacturing.
1) Boeing
2) Lockheed Martin‎
3) chweizer Aircraft
4) Airbus
5) None of these.

6. Scientists working at the world’s biggest atom smasher say they have discovered a new kind of particle called “pentaquark”. The existence of pentaquarks was first proposed in the 1960s by American physicists Murray Gell-Mann and .......... Gell-Mann, who coined the term “quark,” received the Nobel Prize in 1969.
1) Prof Eric Swanson
2) Prof Eric Mann
3) Prof Georg Zweig.
4) Prof George Swanson
5) None of these.

7. Who was appointed as new Managing Director and Group CEO of Gandhinagar based Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City)?
1) Ajay Kumar Singh
2) Ajay Kumar MIshra
3) Ajay Kumar Sinha
4) Ajay Kumar pandey
5) None of these.

8. Serena Williams of United States has won Women’s Singles Wimbledon title at 2015. In the final match played she defeated Garbine Muguruza of?
1) Switzerland
2) Spain
3) Australia
4) Germany
5) None of these.

9. World Bank has ranked the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (MGNREGA) as the world’s largest public works programme. It was revealed in recently released World Bank Group’s report titled ‘The State of Social Safety Nets 2015‘. MGNREGA comes under?
1) Ministry of Urban and Rural Development
2) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
3) Ministry of Rural Development
4) Ministry of Human Resource Development
5) None of these.

10. Recently India and which country have signed a series of agreements on health in order to enhance cooperation in health sector?

1) China
2) Russia
3) United States
4) United Kingdom
5) None of these.

Answers..


1. (4)
2. (3)
3. (1)
4. (2)
5. (1)
6. (3)
7. (4)
8. (2)
9. (3)
10. (3)



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