General Awareness Quiz for Bank and Insurance Exams - 33
1. The Minister of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Venkaiah
Naidu launched 352 housing projects in 53 cities recently, under this scheme
highest number of houses will be constructed in
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Karnataka
c) Maharashtra
2. Joint Military Exercise Nomadic Elephant is held at Vairengte from
5th April 2017 till 18th April 2017. It is an exercise between:
a) India and Bangladesh
b) India and Mongolia
c) India and Thailand
d) India and Bhutan
3. Recently who unveiled 'Khel Yatra' for the underprivileged children
in Delhi as its chief sponsor?
a) Flipkart
b) PayTm
c) Spice Jet
d) Go Airways
4. Which internet search engine is adding a fact-checking tag to search
results globally, its latest initiative to help curb the spread of
misinformation and "fake news,"?
a) Mozilla
b) Bing
c) Google
d) Yahoo
5. Recently, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is to inaugurate
the Dorjee Khandu Memorial Museum and the adjacent Jangchub Chorten. Dorjee
Khandu was former Chief Minister of:
a) Manipur
b) Arunachal Pradesh
c) Mizoram
d) Sikkim
6. The Prime Minister inaugurated the exhibition entitled ''Swachhagraha
Bapu Ko Karyanjali"-A Mission, An Exhibition on the occasion of 100th
Anniversary of:
a) Champaran Satyagrah
b) Bardoli Satyagrah
c) Civil Disobedience Movement
d) Jalian Wala Bagh Massacre
7. Inter State Council (ISC) has been in the news, who is the chairman
of the Inter State Council (ISC)?
a) President of India
b) Prime Minister of India
c) Home Minister
d) Vice President
8. The Election Commission cancelled the by-election to the Dr.
Radhakrishnan Nagar Assembly constituency in Chennai, Who is the current Chief
Election Commissioner of India?
a) H.S. Brahma
b) V.S. Sampath
c) Navin Chawla
d) Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi
9. Teesta River is a long river flowing through which of the following
state(s) of India?
a) Assam
b) Sikkim
c) West Bengal
d) Both b and c
10. Nikki Haley has been in the news, she is the current United States
Ambassador to which of the following countries/ organizations?
a) India
b) United Nations Organization
c) Russia
d) World Bank
11. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency
in which of the following countries?
a) Egypt
b) Syria
c) Libya
d) Nigeria
12. Astronomers have, for the first time, detected an atmosphere around
an Earth-like planet known as:
a) GJ 1132b
b) SJ 1132a
c) EL 1132b
d) AE 1132b
13. Recently, the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated
the first NIMCARE World Health Day Summit 2017 in:
a) Vadodara
b) Udaipur
c) New Delhi
d) Kolkata
14. Recently, the Government of India and ....... signed a $175 million
loan agreement to support construction of high voltage transmission systems to
evacuate power generated from new mega solar parks to the interstate grid, and
improve reliability of the national grid system.
a) Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
b) Asian Development Bank (ADB)
c) World Bank
d) IMF
15. Which movies have been awarded as Best Feature Film and as Best
Popular Film providing Wholesome Entertainment in 64th National Film Awards
respectively?
a) Rustom and Sathamanam Bhavathi
b) Kasaav and Sathamanam Bhavathi
c) Dangal and Rustom
d) Sathamanam Bhavathi and Neerja
Answers
with Explanations:
1. c) The Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India (CREDAI)
members to invest over Rs.38,000 cr to build over two (2) lakh affordable
houses.Over one lakh units to be built in Maharashtra, 41,921 houses in
National Capital Region, 28,465 in Gujarat, 7,037 in Karnataka, 6,055 in UP.
2. b)
Twelfth iteration of Indo - Mongolian Joint
Military Exercise Nomadic Elephant is held at Vairengte from 5th April 2017
till 18th April 2017.
3. c)
Low-cost carrier SpiceJet unveiled 'Khel
Yatra' for the underprivileged children in Delhi as its chief sponsor.
4. c)
Google is adding a fact-checking tag to search
results globally, its latest initiative to help curb the spread of
misinformation and "fake news,".
5. b) Dorjee Khandu was an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National
Congress. He was the sixth Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh.
6. a) The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate the exhibition
entitled ''Swachhagraha "Bapu Ko Karyanjali"-A Mission, An
Exhibition' on the occasion of 100th Anniversary of Champaran Satyagrah in
National Archives of India (NAI) Janpath, New Delhi on 10th April 2017.
7. b)
The Inter-State Council was established under
Article 263 of the Constitution of India through a Presidential Order dated
28th May 1990. The Prime Minister of India is the chairman of the Inter-State Council
(ISC).
8.
d) Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi is the incumbent Chief
Election Commissioner of India. He is a retired I.A.S. officer of 1976 batch
from the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
9. d)
The Teesta River is a long river flowing
through the Indian states of Sikkim and West Bengal.
10.
b) Nikki Haley is the 29th and current United
States Ambassador to the United Nations . She served as the 116th Governor of
South Carolina from January 2011 to January 2017. Haley was the first female Governor
of South Carolina and the second Indian American, after fellow Republican Bobby
Jindal, to serve as a governor in the United States.
11.
a) President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared a
three-month state of emergency in Egypt following twin church bombings that
killed dozens of people in two cities.
12.
a) Astronomers have, for the first time, detected
an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet just 39 light years away, a
significant step towards the detection of life beyond our solar system.
Scientists, including those from Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany,
studied the planet known as GJ1132b, which is 1.4 times the size of our planet.
13.
c) The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee
inaugurated the first NIMCARE World Health Day Summit 2017 in New Delhi.
14.
b) The Government of India and the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) signed a $175 million loan agreement to support
construction of high voltage transmission systems to evacuate power generated from
new mega solar parks to the interstate grid, and improve reliability of the
national grid system.
15.
b) Kasaav awarded Best Feature Film and
Sathamanam Bhavathi awarded as Best Popular Film providing Wholesome
Entertainment.
