General Awareness Quiz for APPSC / TSPSC / RRB / SSC CGL

1.The 15th Summer Paralympicsare held in September 2016 in?
1) London, U.K.
2) Beijing, China
3) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
4) Tokyo, Japan

2."AB: The Autobiography" is a book written by a cricketer from which of the following countries?
1) Australia
2) New Zealand
3) West Indies
4) South Africa

3.Who was appointed a member of the International Coordinating Committee of National human Rights Institutions Bureau in march 2016?
1) Justice T.S. Thakur
2) Justice R.M. Lodha
3) Justice B.S. Chauhan
4) Justice H.L. Dattu

4.Thongloun Sisoulith is the Prime Minister of which of the following Asian countries?
1) Laos
2) Vietnam
3) Cambodia
4) Singapore

5.Who took over as the Chairmanof National Association of Soft-ware and Services Companies (NASSCOM) for 2016 -17 in April 2016?
1) Raman Roy
2) N. Chandrasekharan
3) C.P. Gurnani
4) Azim Premji

6.Who became the new Presidentof Confederation of Indian industry (CII) in April 2016?
1) Rakesh Mittal
2) Naushad Forbes
3) Sunil Mittal
4) Shobhana Kamineni

7.Who was declared Laure us world Sportsman of the Year in April 2016?
1) Usain Bolt (Athletics)
2) Cristiano Ronaldo (Football)
3) Lewis Hamilton (formula one)
4) Novak Djokovic (Tennis)

8.Identify the mismatched pair?
1) IFRS - International Financial Reporting Standards
2) LDC - Low Diplomatic Country
3) SHGs - Self Help Groups
4) DIPP- Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion

9.Which of the following does not represent the abbreviated name of an international organization?
1) ASEAN
2) APEC
3) OPEC
4) SAARC

10.Which of the following public sector banks is headquartered in Karnataka?

1) Indian Bank
2) Indian Overseas Bank
3) Bank of India
4) Canara Bank

11.Which of the following termsrefers to all the nonbank financial intermediaries that provide services similar to those of traditional commercial banks?
1) Conventional banking
2) Offshore banking
3) Investment banking
4) Shadow banking

12.Bandhan Bank is a?
1) Development Bank
2) Cooperative Bank
3) Scheduled Bank
4) Regional Rural Bank

13.Pranav Dhanawade is associated with which of the following sports?
1) Hockey
2) Cricket
3) Archery
4) Wrestling

14.Who was declared Laureus World Sportswoman of the Yearin April 2016?
1) Serena Williams
2) Yelena Isinbayeva
3) Carli Lloyd
4) Simone Biles

15.Imre Kertesz, the recipient of the2002 Nobel Prize in Literature,passed away on March 31, 2016.He belonged to?

1) Poland
2) Slovakia
3) Slovenia
4) Hungary

16.Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi born Britisharchitect passed away on March31, 2016. She was the first woman to receive which of the following prizes/awards in 2004?
1) Pulitzer Prize
2) Abel Prize
3) Grammy Award
4) Pritzker Prize

17.Which country won the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament in April 2016?
1) Australia
2) India
3) Pakistan
4) Malaysia

18.Balpakram National Park is located in the State of?
1) Tripura
2) Manipur
3) Meghalaya
4) West Bengal

19.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently met Charles Michel, who is the Prime Minister of?
1) France
2) Norway
3) Belgiul
4) Sweden

20.An individual borrower can nowtake loans up to what amount from two Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) at the most?
1) Rs. 1,00,000
2) Rs. 50,000
3) Rs. 1,50,000
4) Rs. 75,000

21.Which private bank has launcheda facility through which the reg-istered users can transfer fundsby just making a missed call to the bank? (It was started in January 2016)
1) City Union Bank
2) Federal Bank
3) South Indian Bank
4) Yes Bank

22.Who coined the term "Shadow Bank" in 2007?
1) Bill Gross
2) Ben Bernanke
3) Paul McCulley
4) Hyman Minsky

23.Identify the mismatched pair?
1) NITI Aayog Vice Chairman -Arvind Panagariya
2) Chief Economic Adviser -Arvind Subramanian
3) Finance Secretary - RatanWatal
4) RBI Deputy Governor - R.Gandhi

24.World Day of Social Justice is observed every year on?
1) January 20
2) January 28
3) March 20
4) February 20

25."The Assassination of RajivGandhi" was released recentlycoinciding with the 25thyear ofthe killing of former Indian Prime Minister. Who is the author of this book?
1) Neena Gopal
2) Jayanthi Natarajan
3) Sonia Gandhi
4) Neena Vyas