General Awareness Quiz

Ques. : 1 India is third in global doping report for 2013 released by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Which of the following countries tops in this regard?

1) China 

2) Turkey

3) Russia 

4) Australia

5) None of these

Ques. : 2 The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given its approval for Inclusion of which of the following states in the list of states to be covered under the National Dairy Plan- I (NDP-I)?

1) Uttarakhand 

2) Chhattisgarh

3) Jharkhand 

4) All the above

5) None of these

Ques. : 3 Which of the following countries has launched the world's first facial recognition ATM, which will not allow users to withdraw cash unless their face matches their Ids?

1) South Korea 

2) Switzerland

3) France 

4) China

5) None of these

Ques. : 4 Which of the following countries has produced world’s first electric passenger plane‘BX1E’ which has gained an airworthiness certificate?

1) Switzerland 

2) China

3) Germany 

4) Sweden

5) None of these

Ques. : 5 Keith Vaz has been re-elected as chair of the British Parliament’s influential home affairs select committee. He is the Britain’s longest-serving MP of

1) Chinese-origin 

2) Pakistani-origin

3) Indian-origin 

4) Nepalese-origin

5) None of these

Ques. : 6 After a gap of more than a decade, a new private sector lender will start operations from Aug 23 as it received the final approval from the Reserve Bank of India on 17 Jun. Identify the Kolkata-based micro financier.

1) Bandhan Financial Services 

2) SKS Microfinance

3) Asirvad Microfinance 

4) Annapurna Microfinance

5) None of these

Ques. : 7 The Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP), which evaluates a country’s readiness for Basel III norms, is conducted by

1) World Bank 

2) IMF 

3) ADB 

4) BIS

5) None of these

Ques. : 8 The ANZ Bank will open two more branches in India by early next year in Gurgaon and Bangalore. What is the full form of ANZ?

1) Australia New Zealand 

2) Austria New Zealand

3) Amsterdam New Zealand 

4) Athens New Zealand

5) None of these

Ques. : 9 The LIC of India has been allowed to form a joint venture in Bangladesh, becoming the second foreign insurer to operate in the country. The first one is

1) Tata-AIG 

2) MetLife-ALICO

3) IFFCO-Tokyo 

4) Edelweiss Tokio

5) None of these

Ques. : 10 Japan’s parliament passed a bill to lower the voting age to _____ recently.

1) 25 

2) 21

3) 19 

4) 18

5) None of these

ANSWERS

1. 3) Russia

2. 4) All the above

3. 4) China

4. 2) China

5. 3) Indian-origin

6. 1) Bandhan Financial Services

7. 4) BIS

8. 1) Australia New Zealand

9. 2) MetLife-ALICO

10. 4) 18