General Awareness for NIACL and SBI PO Mains Day - 8
1. In which city the ten day Island Tourism Festival 2017 held
in January, 2017?
A) Rangat
B) Port Blair
C) Diglipur
D) Gharacharma
2. Who has been officially appointed as the captain for all
three formats of the cricket?
A) Virat Kohli
B) Yuvraj Singh
C) Rohit Sharma
D) R. Ashwin
3. Name the eminent jurist acclaimed for his dissenting
judgment on nuclear weapons in the early 1990s, passed away on 2017, January
5th.
A) C.G. Weeramantry
B) C.F. Amerasinghe
C) Rohan Edrisinghe
D) Baltasar Gracian
4. Which country has designated Al-Qaeda leader Hamza bin
Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden, as a global terrorist?
A) France
B) Unites States
C) Afghanistan
D) Nigeria
5. The 14th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas convention is being held in
A) Bengaluru
B) Surat
C) Rajkot
D) Kochi
6. The 14th edition of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas organized at
A) New Delhi
B) Hyderabad
C) Bengaluru
D) Chandigarh
7. Recently India and Portugal signed defence and six other
pacts to boost ties. Who is the present Prime Minister of Portugal?
A) Antonio Costa
B) Duarte Leite Pereira da Silva
C) Mario Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares
D) Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres
8. The BSE's international exchange is to be opened in
A) Hyderabad
B) Gandhinagar
C) Kochi
D) Patna
9. Biswa Bangla University is in coming up at
A) Midnapore
B) Malda
C) Birbhum
D) Siliguri
10. China is setting up the world's highest altitude
gravitational wave telescopes in
A) Pakistan
B) Nepal
C) Tibet
D) Bhutan
11. Former Army Chief Gen. Raheel Sharif (retired) will now
head the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition. He is former army chief of
A) Bangladesh
B) Pakistan
C) Afghanistan
D) India
12. World's first fully mass-reproduced atlas for the blind
has been made in
A) Russia
B) China
C) India
D) Canada
13. Recently an 18-year old girl has taken the Indian
government to court after being refused access to drug-resistant tuberculosis
(XDR TB) drug called
A) Bedaquiline
B) Ethambutol
C) Pyrazinamide
D) Isoniazid
14. Recently which smartphone company launched its first phone
with Android OS?
A) Apple
B) Nokia
C) Motorola
D) Micromax
15. Which ministry organised National Contest on Social
Innovation to commemorate Gandhiji?
A) Ministry of Finance
B) Ministry of External
Affairs
C) Ministry of Corporate Affairs
D) Ministry of Home
16. Who has won the 2017 Qatar Open tennis title in the men's
single category?
A) Andy Murray
B) Novak Djokovic
C) Stan Wawrinka
D) Rafael Nadal
17. To boost joint production and development of niche weapons
system, India has entered into a defence agreement with
A) Portugal
B) Italy
C) France
D) Spain
18. In Andhra Pradesh, the first Digi Dhan Mela is being
organized in January, 2017 at
A) Kadapa
B) Nellore
C) Vijayawada
D) Kurnool
19. Who has been named as the International Event Ambassador
of 14th edition of Mumbai Marathon?
A) David Rudisha
B) Matthew Centrowitz
C) Emma Coburn
D) Desiree Linden
20. Name the newly appointed Chief Financial Officer of
Reliance Power.
A) Suresh Nagarajan
B) Yogendra Narain
C) Sateesh Seth
D) Rashna Khan
