Saturday, September 19, 2009

Quiz on General Awareness 4

1.Tata DoCoMo is the GSM brand of Tata teleservice ltd,in which Japan's NTT DoCoMo holds ____ stake?
a)21%  b)26%  c)33%  d)42%  e)none

2.Mumbai-based Wockhardt Hospitals Pvt. Ltd said it has agreed to sell 10 of its 17 hospitals to Fortis Healthcare Ltd for _____crore?
a)909  b)1000  c)675  d)858  e)none.

3.Who wrote the book "True Colours"?
a)Kapil Dev  b)Ravi Shastri  c)Hayden  d)Gilchrist  e)Brain Lara


4.Very Recently AAI has approved an International airport in?
a)Chandigarh  b)Mysore   c)Mohali  d)Vishakapatnam  e)Kharagpur

5.How many Recruitment Boards are there for Indian Railways?
a)7  b)5  c)11  d)13  e)19

6.'Shakti Sthal' is the samadhi of _____?
a)Indira Gandhi  b)Mahatma Gandhi   c)Rajiv Gandhi   d)Sanjay Gandhi  e)Jawaharlal Nehru

7.Who is the new Director-General of International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA)____________?
a)Mohamed Elbaradei  b)Yukhio Hatoyama  c)Yukio Persobo  d)Hans Blix  e)none

8.Recently Government has decided to give a ___ increase in DA(Dearness Allowance) for all Central govt. employess and pensioners.
a)4%  b)4.5%  c)5%  d)10%  e)11%

9.Who is India's envoy to Pakistan?
a)Meera Shankar  b)Sharat Sabharwal  c)Nirupama Rao  d)M K Narayanan  e)Satyabrata Pal

10.Chandrayan-2,the second Indian lunar mission, is slated to take off in which of the following years?
a)2010-2011  b)2011-2012  c)2012-2013  d)2013-2014  e)2014-2015.

11.The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana(PMGSY) seeks to connect habitations with a population of more than_____?
a)2000  b)1500  c)1000 d)500 e)none.

12.'In the Line of Fire' book is written by __________?
a)Abdul Kalam   b)Kuldeep Singh  c)Pervez Musharaff  d)Jagdish Bhagwati  e)none.

13.Which was the first airport in India to have a thermal camera for screening Influenza A H1N1?
a)IGIA,New Delhi  b)SVPIA,Ahmedabad  c)RGIA,Hyderabad  d)CSIA,Mumbai  e)BIA,Bangalore.

14.Roger Federer defeated _____________to win Cincinnati Masters?
a)Rafael Nadal  b)Andy Murray  c)Novak Djokovic  d)Andy Roddick  e)Robin Soderling

15.Government  has sanctioned a financial assistance of ______ crore to two Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s memorial in Gujarat.
a)20  b)30  c)50  d)100  e)none.

16.The Karur Vysya bank(KVB) has become the first private sector bank to cross Rs_________crore mark in net-owned funds.
a)500  b)1000 c)1500 d)2000 e)3000

17)Which Cricket board has scrapped the 50-over format from its domestic cricket calendar ?
a)West Indies  b)Srilanka  c)India  d)Kenya  e)England

18)Oil India Lmtd is ____________?
1)Navaratna status PSE   2)Mini ratna(catg-01) status   3)Mini ratna(catg-02) status  4)PSU by GOI
a)only 1
b)only 4
c)only 1 & 4
d)only 2 & 3
e)only 2 & 4.

19)India won the Azlan Shah Hockey Cup tournament 2009 by defeating ____________ ?
a)Germany   b)Pakistan  c)Spain  d)China  e)Malayasia.

20)Where the 17th International Agriculture Exhibition 2009 held in ____?
a)Israel  b)India  c)Turkey  d)US  e)China

Note:For 7th Question answers is: Yukia Amano.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Chandrayan-2,the second Indian lunar mission, is slated to take off in which of the following years?

I think i have read out many times its 2012-2013.

Varun Reddy said...

Thanku Satish for responding.....I dont know where you have read...but a/c to ISRO it is 2011-12.For clarification refer

http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/scripts/pressreleasein.aspx?Nov14_2007

Satish Deepak said...

Sir...this link is dated Nov 14 2007...For latest 2009 news its...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articlelist/articleshow/5062791.cms

I think so.

Varun Reddy said...

Various news channels are telling diff years...Actually it is proposed to launch in 2011-2012....and now they postponed to 2012-13.
Lets see what wikipedia says..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2
Ok any way thanku for updating satish...!!!!