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August 19, 2015

General Awareness Quiz for Competitive Exams 2015 - Set 16

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  1. Supreme Court has recently banned photos of politicians in government advertisements based on which committee recommendation ?
    1. N S Madhava Menon Committee 
    2. T S R Subramanian Committee 
    3. Ajay Chauhan Committee 
    4. Not based on any committee recommendation
    5. Sadasivan Committee 
  2. Indian-origin Harbhajan Kaur Dheer recently became the first Asian elected mayor in which country ?
    1. USA
    2. Japan
    3. South Korea
    4. UK
    5. None of these
  3. Suchitra Bhattacharya who died recently was a celebrated writer in which language ?
    1. Bengali
    2. Marathi 
    3. Tamil
    4. Kannada
    5. None of these
  4. Lok Sabha on 13th May 2015 passed The Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Bill, 2015. The Bill seeks to amend the Negotiable Instruments Act of which year ?
    1. 1857
    2. 1881
    3. 1947
    4. 1951
    5. None of these
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  5. On 14th August, who took over as the new Election Commissioner of India ?
    1. Basanth Seth
    2. H S Brahma
    3. Achal kumar Jyoti
    4. Nasim Zaidi
    5. Om Prakash Rawat
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  6.  PM Narendra Modi on 16th May 2015 inaugurated which bank's first Chinese branch at Shanghai ?
    1. HDFC Bank
    2. Punjab National Bank
    3. ICICI Bank
    4. State Bank of Travancore 
    5. None of these
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  7. Mohamed Morsi who was sentenced to death by country's court recently, was the former president of which country ?
    1. Egypt
    2. Syria
    3. Yemen
    4. Iraq
    5. None of these
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  8. Government has recently allocated Rs. 5000 crore for development of AYUSh. Name the Union Minister for AYUSH Ministry ?
    1.  Shripad yesso Naik
    2. Sarabananda Sonowal
    3. Santosh Kumar gangwar 
    4. Anant Geete
    5. None of these
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  9.  Which country has recently won their sixth consecutive Sudirman Cup (for Badminton) ?
    1. Malaysia
    2. China
    3. Singapore
    4. India
    5. None of these
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  10. Vikas Gowda recently won a bronze medal in the second leg of the prestigious IAAF Diamond League series. Vikas Gowda is related with which sport ?
    1. Tennis
    2. Discuss Throw 
    3. Weight Lifting 
    4. Shooting
    5. None of these
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  11. Indian technology major infosys has recently announced establishing its first overseas centre outside India, in which country ?
    1. China
    2. Australia 
    3. Mangolia 
    4. South Korea
    5. None of these
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  12. Who was recently appointed as the new chairman of National Safety Council ?
    1. Apurvi Chandela 
    2. Ajay Shankar 
    3. Arun Kumar Jha
    4. Satish Reddy
    5. None of these
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  13. Union Minister Ravi Shanker Prasad has officially launched India Post's first Android App recently named ?
    1. IndiaPost
    2. PostShoppe
    3. PostInfo
    4. FingerPost
    5. None of these
  14. Kolkata born writer Neel Mukherjee recently won the UK's Encore Award for his novel 
    1. Family Life
    2. Life of Nagas
    3. The Lives of Others 
    4. Life of Pi
    5. None of these
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  15. Hindusta n Aeronautical Limited (HAL) on 7th February 2015 has successfully tested the second prototype of naval variant of Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) - Tejas at ?
    1. Odisha
    2. Bengaluru
    3. Kochi
    4. Vishakapatnam
    5. None of these
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  16. Who was recently appointed as MD & CEO of Bharti AXA General ?
    1. Vivek Krishna
    2. Deepak Iyer
    3. Sunil Sood 
    4. Ratan Singh
    5. None of these
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  17. Indian -  origin MP Priti Patel was recently appointed minister of state for employment in which country's new cabinet ?
    1. USA
    2. South Korea
    3. Russia
    4. Britain
    5. None of these
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  18. Supreme Court has recently restricted the use of photographs of political leaders and government functionaries in government advertisements. As per the latest order central government's advertisements cannot include the photographs of ?
    1. Chief minister's 
    2. President
    3. Prime Minister
    4. Chief Justice of India
    5. None of these
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  19. Government has recently approved a __________ %  stake sale in the country's biggest refinery and fuel retailer, Indian Coil Corp (IOC) ?
    1. 15%
    2. 26%
    3.  5%
    4. 10%
    5. None of these
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  20. Which city in India is set to become the first Indian City to offer Google street view ?
    1. Varanasi
    2. Ahmedabad
    3. Hyderabad 
    4. Thiruvananthapuram
    5. None of these
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Srivalli Josyula 
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