Banking Pathway: General Awareness Quiz

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Ques. : 1 The Defence minister Manohar Parrikar recently laid the foundation stone of Jharkhand Raksha Shakti University. With this, Jharkhand has become the third state to have Raksha Shakti University after

1) Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan 

2) Punjab and Haryana

3) Punjab and Uttarakhand 

4) Uttarakhand and Rajasthan

5) Gujarat and Rajasthan

Ques. : 2 Who among the following is the present Chairman of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDA)?

1) TS Vijayan 

2) UK Sinha

3) Yaduvendra Mathur 

4) Yogesh Aggarwal

5) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala

Ques. : 3 __________ was awarded with the nation’s highest peacetime gallantry award Ashoka Chakra posthumously on the eve of the Republic Day 2016.

1) Rohan Anand 

2) Manvender Singh

3) Rajesh Pant 

4) Neeraj Kumar Singh

5) Mohan Nath Goswami

Ques. : 4 Who among the following was/were chosen for the Padma Vibhushan award, country’s second highest civilian award, at the Padma Awards 2016?

1) Ramoji Rao 

2) Avinash Dixit

3) Girija Devi 

4) Yamini Krishnamurthi

5) All the above

Ques. : 5 Which of the following is NOT correct with respect to the Republic Day celebrations 2016?

1) The French president Francois Hollande was the guest of honour. 

2) It was 67th Republic Day of India.

3) The first-ever foreign military group (French army) marched in the parade. 

4) Army dog squad returned after 26 years.

5) None of these

Ques. : 6 India’s Deborah Herold is associated with the game of

1) Chess 

2) Cycling

3) Boxing 

4) Wrestling

5) Luge

Ques. : 7 The French firm EDF has signed an MoU with India’s NPCIL for the construction of six EPR nuclear reactors at Jaitapur in

1) Tamil Nadu 

2) Gujarat

3) Haryana 

4) Punjab

5) Maharashtra

Ques. : 8 Who among the following is NOT a Padma awardee from the field of sports at the Padma Awards 2016?

1) Deepika Kumari 

2) Saina Nehwal

3) Sania Mirza 

4) PV Sindhu

5) None of these

Ques. : 9 Which of the following teams won the first blind T20 Asia Cup in Kochi recently?

1) Pakistan 

2) India

3) Bangladesh 

4) Sri Lanka

5) None of these

Ques. : 10 Who among the following is NOT one of the 19 awardees of the coveted Padma Bhushan award  announced on the eve of Republic Day 2016?

1) Priyanka Chopra 

2) Indu Jain

3) Vinod Rai 

4) Udit Narayan

5) Anupam Kher

Answers: 

1. 5) 

2. 1) 

3. 5) 

4. 5) 

5. 5) 

6. 2) 

7. 5) 

8. 4) 

9. 2) 

10. 1)