General Awareness for NIACL and SBI PO Mains Day - 12
1. Which of the following ex-chief ministers of Maharashtra
conferred with Padma Vibhushan 2017?
1) Devendra Fadnavis
2) Prithviraj Chavan
3) Sharad Pawar
4) Sushilkumar Shinde
5) Vilasrao Deshmukh
2. Which of the following famous Sitar instrument player
refused to take Padma Vibhushan on the allegation that 'the selection
committees were incompetent to judge his music' in the year 2000?
1) Pandit Ravishankar
2) Ali Akbhar Khan
3) Vilayat Khan
4) Imrat Khan
5) Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee
3. Second - highest civilian award of the Republic of India
is.....
1) Padma Shri
2) Padma Raaga
3) Jnanpith
4) Padma Vibhushan
5) Maha Vir Chakra
4. Padma Vibhushan Award instituted on....
1) 1954, January 2nd
2) 1950, January 26th
3) 1947, August 14th
4) 1949, November 26th
5) 1951, April 1st
5. Satyendra Nath Bose, Nand Lal Bose, Zakir Hussain,
Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, Jigme Dorji Wangchuk and ............. are the first
recipients of Padma Vibhushan in 1954.
1) Sardhar Vallabhai Patel
2) Moulana Abul Kalam Azad
3) Rao Bhahaddur Ranga Charya
4) V. K. Krishna Menon
5) J. Kripalani
6. On 2017, March 1st the Audience Award at the Glasgow
Film Festival conferred on......
1) Ka Body Scapes
2) Dangal
3) City of Joy
4) Santa Banta Pvt Ltd
5) Lipstick Under My
Burkha
7. Who is the director of Film 'Lipstick Under My Burkha'?
1) Rani Sen
2) Madhu Phalker
3) Alankrita
Shrivastava
4) Siddhanth Prodey
5) Ramanand Shyam
8. Which festival inaugurated on the occasion of Republic
Day celebration on 2017, January 26th at Red Fort in New Delhi?
1) Prakash Parv
2) Muhurth Parv
3) Bharat Parv
4) Rama Parv
5) Soma Parv
9. Bhagoria Festival of tribal people celebrated in...........
1) Assam
2) Madhya Pradesh
3) Uttar Pradesh
4) West Bengal
5) Himachal Pradesh
10. Which country and India signed MoU in the field of
Information Technology and Electronics (IT & E) on 2017, January 6th?
1) Spain
2) UK
3) Portugal
4) USA
5) UAE
11. Oslo is in news for banning diesel cars from the road
temporarily. Oslo is the capital of
A) Sweden
B) Finland
C) Norway
D) Poland
E) Mongolia
12. What is the rank of India in the World Economic Forum's
Inclusive Growth and Development Report 2017?
A) 60th
B) 62nd
C) 65th
D) 69th
E) 68th
13. As per the data given by the Electronic Transaction
Aggregation & Analysis Layer, which state has recorded the highest
transactions per 1,000 people?
A) Maharashtra
B) Kerala
C) Telangana
D) Gujarat
E) Andhra Pradesh
14. Recently Metals and Minerals Trading Corporation of
India has announced to sell Gold Bars on .......
A) Flipkart
B) Amazon
C) Snapdeal
D) Paytm
E) Mobikiwi
15. Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has decided
to launch diploma course for sports training in which city?
A) Rohtak
B) Hisar
C) Karnal
D) Faridabad
E) Mangalore
16. India's rank in the Global Talent Competitiveness Index
(GTCI) is ......
A) 89th
B) 92nd
C) 95th
D) 99th
E) 101st
17. Name the US astronaut, the last man to set foot on the
moon, passed away on 2017, January 16th.
A) John Herschel Glenn
B) Gordon Cooper
C) Eugene Cernan
D) Alan Shepard
E) None of these
18. The world's lightest high-performance mechanical watch
is developed weighing 40 g. The watch was made using a unique composite
incorporating .....
A) Graphene
B) Polystyrene
C) Polysiloxane
D) Nylon
E) None of these
19. 'Mawlynnong' village termed as Asia's cleanest village
has become tourists' hotspot. The village is located in which state?
A) Manipur
B) Meghalaya
C) Assam
D) Arunachal Pradesh
E) Mizoram
20. Name the British Poet who has won the 2016 T.S. Eliot
prize for his collection "Jackself"?
A) Mary Shelley
B) Jacob Polley
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) John Boyne
E) None of these
