General Awareness Quiz for RBI Assistants and IBPS Clerks VII Main Exams

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1. Which of the following was named as the Merriam-Webster's word of the year on December 13, 2017 ?
1. Empathy
2. Dotard
3. Feminism
4. Gaffe
5. Hurricane
2. Who won the 2017 Ballon d'Or award ? (It is given to the best footballer competing in Europe)
1. Lionel Messi
2. Cristiano Ronaldo
3. Neymar
4. Marcelo
5. Luis Suarez
3. Where was the plenary meeting of the Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) held in December 2017? (WA is an elite club of countries subscribing to arms export controls)
1. Toronto, Canada
2. Helsinki, Finland
3. Vienna, Austria
4. Athens, Greece
5. Dublin, Ireland
4. Where was the 7th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Economic Ministers' Meeting held in September 2017 ?
1. Manila
2. Seoul
3. Brussels
4. Berlin
5. Valetta
5. Which country has created one of the world's largest protected marine areas around Easter Island ?
1. Peru
2. Mauritius
3. Chile
4. New Zealand
5. Maldives
6. Marshal of the Indian Air Force (IAF) passed away on September 16, 2017. What is his name ? (He was the only officer of the IAF to be given a distinction equal to that of a Field Marshal)
1. O.P. Mehra
2. Dilbagh Singh
3. Arjan Singh
4. Pratap Chandra Lal
5. Denis La Fontaine
7. John Ashbery died on September 3, 2017. He was a Pulitzer Prize winning poet from :
1. UK
2. USA
3. Canada
4. Australia
5. Brazil
8. Who is the present Chief Executive Officer of Uber ? (Uber is a taxi aggregator)
1. Meg Whitman
2. Jeff Immelt
3. John Thain
4. Dara Khosrowshahi
5. Ursula Burns
9. Where is India's first Videsh Bhavan located ? (It was inaugurated by External Affairs Sushma Swaraj in August 2017)
1. Hyderabad
2. New Delhi
3. Mumbai
4. Kolkata
5. None of these
10. Which city hosted the two day Indian Ocean Conference recently ?
1. New Delhi
2. Dhaka
3. Singapore 
4. Colombo
5. Port Louis
11. Lai Ching-te was appointyed the Premier of which of the following Asian countries in September 2017 ? 
1. Taiwan
2. China
3. Singapore
4. Vietnam
5. Laos
12. Former CBI Director R.K. Raghavan has been appointed High Commissioner to which of the following countries ?
1. Pakistan 
2. Cyprus
3. UK 
4. Kenya
5. Canada
13. Who among the following Ministers was elevated to the cabinet rank in the reshuffle of Council of Ministers on September 3, 2017 ?
1. Vijay Goel
2. V.K. Singh
3. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
4. M.J. Akbar
5. Jayant Sinha
14. Who became the Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha on September 1, 2017 ?
1. Surina Rajan
2. Nagaraja Sharma
3. Asha Ram Sihag
4. Desh Deepak Verma
5. None of these
15. Who became the first Asian to be chosen for the prestigious Von Hippel Award in September 2017 ? (The award is the United States-based Materials Research Society's highest honor)
1. Vijay Bhatkar
2. Ashoke Sen
3. CNR Rao
4. Roddam Narsimha
5. Satheesh Reddy
16. Who has been elected President of The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for the year 2017-18 ?
1. Shailesh Gupta
2. Sharad Saxena
3. Jayant Mathew
4. Akila Urankar
5. None of these
17. Which of the following films was awarded the Golden Lion Award at the 74th Venice International Film Festival in September 2017 ?
1. The Shape of Water
2. Foxtrot
3. Custody
4. The Insult
5. Sweet Country
18. Venice International Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world. It is held in which of the following countries ?
1. Germany
2. UK
3. Russia
4. France
5. Italy

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