General Awareness Quiz 2016

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1. Which of the following is NOT a Capital city of a country ?
1. Abu Dhabi
2. Doha
3. Riyadh
4. Muscat
5. Dubai 
2. Which of the following is NOT a Currency of a country ?
1. Ringgit
2. Ngultrum
   
3. New Shekel
4. Male
5. Kyat 
3. Which of the following is NOT a Legislature of a country ?
1. Diet
2. Congress
3. Reykjavik
4. Storting
5. Riksdag
4. Find the correct statement ? 
• A. G7 summit (26-27 May) 2016 was held in Shima, Japan. 
• B. G7 summit (26-27 May) 2017 will be held in Taormina, Italy. 
• C. G20 summit (4-5 September) 2016 was held in Hangzhou, China. 
• D. G20 summit (7-8 July) 2017 will be held in Hamburg, Germany.
1. only A & B
2. only B & C
3. OnlyC&D
4. All A, B, C & D
5. None
5. Who is the recipient of 2016 Nobel Peace Prize ?
1. European Union
2. Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
3. Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai
4. Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
5. Juan Manuel Santos
6. Who will be the new Secretary General of the United Nations ?
1. Ban Ki-moon
2. Antonio Guterres 
3. Jim Yong Kim
4. Roberto Azevedo
5. Takehiko Nakao
7. Which of the following book was awarded the 2015 Man Booker Prize ?
1. A Brief History of Seven Killings
2. The Narrow Road to the Deep North
3. The Luminaries
4. Bring Up the Bodies
5. The Sense of an Ending 
8. Which of the following organization releases Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) ?
1. United Nations Development Programme
2. International Monetary Fund
3. World Economic Forum
4. Institute for Economics and Peace
5. None of these
9. Ecologist and conservation activist Bibhuti Lahkar has won prestigious 'Herita ge Heroes Award' of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He belongs to ___________
1. Bihar
2. Assam
3. Odisha
4. Manipur
5. None of these 
10. Maharashtra Governor C. Vidyasagar Rao has been given the additional charge of which state by President Pranab Mukherjee?
1. Andhra Pradesh
2. Karnataka
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Telangana
5. None of these 
11. India's GDP growth rate for first quarter of current fiscal ?
1. 7.1%
2. 7.3%
3. 7.6%
4. 6.2%
5. None of these 
12. Who is Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw ?
1. Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon Limited
2. Chairman and Managing Director of Infosys Limited
3. Chairman and Managing Director of Wipro Limited
4. Chairman and Managing Director of Dr. Reddy's Labs
5. None of these 
13. Government has declared September 25 as 'Antyodaya Diwas' in memory of ____________
1. Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
2. Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan
3. Sardar Vallabhai Patel
4. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
5. None of these 
14. Which of the following terms is not used in Economics ?
1. Balance of Trade
2. Break Even
3. Fiscal Deficit
4. Capital Account
5. Kyoto Protocol 
15. NABARD is ?
1. A nationalized bank
2. A government commercial bank
3. A subsidiary of SBI
4. An apex bank for agriculture
5. A private bank 
16. The national income of a country divided by the total population is called ?
1. Purchasing power
2. Per capita income
3. Exchange value
4. Rate of inflation
5. None of these 
17. Decibel unit is used to measure ?
1. Intensity of heat
2. Intensity of sound
3. Speed of light
4. Radioactive frequency
5. None of these 
18. Identify the mismatched pair ?
1. Anemometer - ind velocity
2. Seismograph - Earthquakes
3. Hygrometer - Humidity
4. Thermometer - Temperature
5. Barograph - Salinity 

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