General Awareness Quiz for Competitive Exams 2015 - Set 20

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1. Which of the following departments was recently honored with Prime Minister's Award for excellence in Public Administration ?
1. Department of Posts
2. Department of Civil Aviation
3. Income Tax Department 
4. All of these 
5. None of these
2. International Mother Earth Day was observed globally on 22nd April 2015 with the theme ? 
1. Green Cities
2. The Face of Climate Change 
3. Mobilize the Earth 
4. It's our turn to lead 
5. None of these
3. Which player has recently smashed a world record 350 in just 138 balls during a one day match in a Royal London National Club Championship game ?
1. Sean Abbott 
2. Liam Livingstone
3. Charles Coventry
4. Chris Morgan
5. None of these
4. Which bank has recently tied up with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to launch Rupay Platinum Debit card with upgraded features ?
1. IDBI Bank
2. ICICI Bank
3. SBI
4. Federal Bank
5. None of these
5. Who was elected as the fifth general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) recently ?
1. Pinarayi Vijayan 
2. Prakash karat
3. S Ramachandran Pillai
4. Sitaram Yechuri 
5. None of these
6. Bangladesh cricket team recently recorded their first ever ODI series win against which country ?
1. Pakistan
2. West Indies
3. England
4. Australia 
5. None of these
7. Which bank has recently launched near-field communications-enabled payment service "Tap-n-Pay" ?
1. HDFC Bank
2. State Bank of India
3. Union Bank of India
4. ICICI Bank
5. None of these
8. ICICI Bank launched near-field communications-enabled payment service "Tap-n-Pay" in collaboration with ?
1. Snapdeal
2. PNB Paribas
3. Tech Mahindra 
4. Paytm
5. None of these
9. Name Indian Navy's new missile destroyer ship that was launched on 20th April 2015 at Mazagaon Dock Ltd (MDL), Mumbai ?
1. INS Visakhapatnam
2. INS Kolkata 
3. INS Alleppy 
4. INS Mumbai
5. None of these
10.  Rajaji National Park in which state was recently declared as India's 48th Tiger Reserve ?
1. Madhya Pradesh
2. Bihar
3. Uttarakhand
4. West Bengal
5. None of these
11. Name the new tournament announced by Cricket South Africa recently ?
1. Africa T20 Cup
2. African Super Series 
3. Africa T20 extravangaza 
4. African Cricket Cup
5. None of these
12. Who was recently appointed as chief adviser of the Board of Control for Cricket in India's Anti Corruption & Security Unit (ACSU) ?
1. Vivek Murthy 
2. Karun Sebastian
3. Vikrant Raju
4. Neeraj Kumar
5. None of these
13. E-Samiksha online monitoring mechanism was recently launched by ?
1. Railways 
2. India Post 
3. DOPT
4. Prime Minister's Office 
5. None of these
14. Union Home Ministry has recently decided to rename the tourist visa-on-arrival scheme as ?
1. e-tourist visa
2. e-arrival visa
3. tourist e-visa
4. arrival e-visa
5. None of these
15. Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation has recently constituted a "Task Force" on Interlinking of Rivers. The Task Force would be chaired by ?
1. T S R Subramanian
2. Madhav Gadgil
3. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
4. B N Navalawala
5. None of these
16. Which restaurant search application has recently acquired cloud-based point of sale (POS) product for restaurants MaplePOS ?
1. Restaurant finder 
2. Urbanspoon
3. Zomato
4. FoodPanda
5. None of these
17. Which country has recently began the construction of its first nuclear power plant located at Akkuyu in Mersin province ?
1. Canada
2. Turkey 
3. France 
4. Malaysia 
5. None of these
18. FM transmission of Vividh Bharati was recently launched by ?
1. Narendra Modi  
2. Arun Jaitley
3. Ravi Shankar Prasad
4. Pranabh Mukherjee 
5. None of these
19. Which Bank in India recently launched a mobile banking app named "WatchBanking" designed specially for the Apple Watch, becoming the first bank in India to do so ?
1. Bank of Baroda 
2. State Bank of India
3. ICICI Bank
4. HDFC Bank
5. None of these
20. Which bank was placed at the top spot among all banking entities in Mobile Banking transactions during January 2015 according to the pertaining data released by RBI recently ?  
1. HDFC
2. ICICI 
3. Axis
4. SBI
5. None of these

 

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