Quiz on General Awareness 24

1. Which Bank has received the Outlook Money NDTV Profit Award 2009 in the category of ‘Best Education Loan Provider’ ?

a)Central Bank of India    b)SBI   c)Corporation Bank   d)Union Bank of India  e)PNB

2. In which of the following associates banks SBI holds 100% stake?

a)State Bank of Hyderabad

b)State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur

c)State Bank of Travancore

d)State Bank of Indore

e)State Bank of Mysore

3. Which state is opposing the FTA (Free Trade Agreement) with ASEAN?

a)Andhra Pradesh    b)Goa   c)Karnataka   d)Tamilnadu   e)Kerala

4. Who has been taken over as Director of Vikran Sarabahi Space Centre (VSSC) after K,Radhakrsihnan took over as Chairman of ISRO?

a)G. Madhavan Nair   b)P.S. Veeraraghavan   c)A.C Basu   d)Kamlesh Sharma  e)B.N Sharma

5. Who is considered as the "founding father" of Indian Space Programme?

a)Abdul Kalam   b) Satish Dawan   c) Vikram Sarabhai   d)Rakesh Sharma  e)Madhavan Nair

6. Which city will host the 16^th International Children Film Festival in November 2009?

a)Chandigarh   b)Chennai   c)Goa   d)Hyderabad   e)Jaipur

7. Which state has celebrated its formation day on November 1^st?

a)Andhra Pradesh   b)Kerala   c)Maharashtra  d)Tamilnadu   e)Karnataka

8. ‘Real’ is the currency of which of the following countries?

a)Israel   b)South Africa   c)Cuba   d)Greenland   e)Brazil

9. Government is deciding to give another Stimulus Package, so that which among the following sectors will be benefited?

a)Textiles   b)Engineering   c)Leather   d)Pharmaceuticals   e)All the above

10. Hosni Mubarak the President of Egypt has been in the post for the past _____years?

a)15   b)20   c)28   d)35  e)41

11. Who won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the first race to start in daylight and end at night?

a)Jenson Button   b)Sebastian Vessel   c)Mark Webber   d)Lewis Hamilton   e)Narain Karthikeyan

12. Which Country has emerged as the most optimistic globally, with better improving conditions, better growth and job prospects a/c to the report by Global Consultancy firm?

a)India   b)China   c)Hongkong   d)Indonesia   e)Norway

13. Who among the following is the recipient of Indira Gandhi Peace Prize?

1)Rajiv Gandhi   2)Jimmy Carter   3)Hamid Karzai   4)M S Swaminathan   5)Bill Gates

a)only 2,5

b)only 4 & 5

c)only 1 & 3

d)only 2,4 & 5

e)All the above

14. Mohamed ElBaradei, the 4^th Director-General of IAEA and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2005 and Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2008 Winner hails from which of the following country?

a)Brazil   b)US   c)South Africa   d)Egypt   e)none

15. Who has been elected as the first goodwill ambassador for the cleft Charity Organization “Smile Train “?

a)Nandita Das   b)Shabana Azmi   c)Aishwarya Rai   d)Shilpa Shetty   e)D.Purendeshwari

16. Lakshmi Mittal retained the richest Business Tycoon in which of the following countries recently?

a)China   b)UK   c)Germany   d)South Africa   e)Argentina

17. Who won the WTA Championship?

a)Dinara Safina   b)Serena Williams    c)Venus Williams   d)Maria Sharapova   e)Ana Ivanovic

18. In which of the following days World Diabetes day is observed?

a)November 14th   b)July 29^th   c)August 29^th   d)November 27^th   e)September 29^th

19. Who wrote the book “Power Politics”?

a)Salman Rushdie   b)V S Naipaul   c)Arundathi Roy   d)Anita Desai   e)Vikram Seth

20. Which of the following two states are affected by recent heavy floods, where many of them lost there houses, wealth and life, PM has given an assistance 1000 crores for each state?

a)Karnataka, Tamilnadu   b)Karnataka, Kerala   c)Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka  d)Karnataka, Maharashtra  e)none 

Summits & Places in News - 2009

1.      3rd India Steel Summit Will be held at New Delhi.

2.      4th South Asia Renewable Energy Conference 2009 will be held at New Delhi.

3.      5th ASSOCHAM (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India) Global Telecom Summit will be held at New Delhi.

4.      International summit on Food Processing & Agribusiness will be held at New Delhi.

5.      The 15th Summit of NAM (Non-Alignment Movement) held at Sharm EI Sheikh, Egypt. Secretary-General of NAM: Hosni Mubarak (President of Arab Republic of Egypt).118 developing nations have Membership in this Organization.

6.      The 35th G8 Summit held in the city L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy on July.

7.      The 1st BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) summit held at Russia.

8.      The 9th SCO summit held at Yekaterinburg, Russia.

9.      The G20 Summit 2009 held at London. Again in September of this year another G20 summit will be held at Pittsburg, US.

10. The 14th ASEAN summit 2009 held at Hua Hin, Thailand.

11. The 21st Arab Summit held at Doha, Qatar.

12. 17th International Agriculture Exhibition 2009 held in Israel.

13. 153rd  OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) Meeting will be held in Vienna, Austria.

14. International festival of Children's Films in May 2009 held at Kolkata.

15. Indore to Host Global Film Festival 2009.

16. Mauritius is the venue for 4th Bhojpuri Conference in September 2009.

17. 2009 Shri Shyam Bhajan Hindu religious festival held in Hyderabad.