General Awareness Quiz

Ques. : 1 The first day-night cricket Test match will be played in Adelaide, Australia later this year. In order to facilitate the game under floodlights, the specially designed _______ Kookaburra balls will be used.

1) red 

2) white

3) pink 

4) yellow

5) None of these

Ques. : 2 The One nation, one number became a reality on 3 Jul as mobile phone users can now retain their numbers when they relocate to any part of the country. The mobile number portability (MNP) was first allowed within circles in

1) 2009 

2) 2010

3) 2011 

4) 2012

5) 2013

Ques. : 3 The book titled ‘Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji’ has been written by which of the following famous personalities and Arun Tiwari?

1) J Jayalalithaa 

2) APJ Abdul Kalam

3) Pranab Mukherjee 

4) LK Advani

5) Narendra Modi

Ques. : 4 The govt has approved Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) which will have an outlay of _________ over a period of five years (2015-16 to 2019-20).

1) Rs 5000 cr 

2) Rs 10,000 cr

3) Rs 20,000 cr 

4) Rs 25,000 cr

5) Rs 50,000 cr

Ques. : 5 China has started construction of the 3,968-km-long gas pipeline to pump 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas from _________ to Shanghai.

1) Kazakhstan 

2) Tajikistan

3) Belarus 

4) Russia

5) Uzbekistan

Ques. : 6 The govt notified the compliance window, to declare foreign assets without prosecution, under the Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets and Imposition of Tax Act on 1 Jul. The window will remain open till

1) Sep 1, 2015 

2) Sep 30, 2015

3) Oct 1, 2015 

4) Dec 31, 2015

5) Mar 31, 2016

Ques. : 7 _______ this year is officially be a bit longer than usual because an extra second, or 'leap' second, was added to the day, according to NASA.

1) Jun 29 

2) Jun 30 

3) Jul 01 

4) Jul 02

5) Jul 03

Ques. : 8 Who among the following has been chosen for the GD Birla Award for Scientific Research for 2014? The award seeks to recognise research by Indian scientists aged below 50 and living and working in India.

1) CNR Rao 

2) Thanu Padmanabhan

3) Jayant Narlikar 

4) Sanjeev Galande

5) None of these

Ques. : 9 Who won Norway Chess 2015 tournament recently?

1) Jon Ludvig Hammer 

2) Veselin Topalov

3) Magnus Carlsen 

4) Vishwanathan Anand

5) None of these

Ques. : 10 Matti Makkonen, who passed away, recently, was known as the father of

1) Short Message Service (SMS) 

2) E-mail

3) World Wide Web 

4) Cloud storage

5) None of these

ANSWERS
1. 3) pink
2. 3) 2011
3. 2) APJ Abdul Kalam
4. 5) Rs 50,000 cr
5. 4) Russia
6. 2) Sep 30, 2015
7. 2) Jun 30
8. 4) Sanjeev Galande
9. 2) Veselin Topalov
10. 1) Short Message Service (SMS)