General Knowledge Test Paper 6

Section – III :  General Awareness/Marketing/Computer

1.  Which Indian has won this year’s Goldman Prize awarded by the Goldman Environmental Foundation?

  1. Ramesh Agrawal
  2. Maneka Gandhi
  3. SunitaNarain
  4. RajendraPachauri
  5. None of these

2. The 15th IIFA awards were recently held in

  1. Cape Town, South Africa
  2. Florida, USA
  3. Dubai, U.A.E.
  4. Sharjah, U.A.E.
  5. Macau, China

3. Shailesh Nayak has been appointed as the new chairperson of …

  1. Railway Board
  2. Defense Research Development Organization
  3. Indian Space Research Organization
  4. Nuclear Power Corporation of India
  5. None of these

4. . In Touch is the name of the contactless credit and debit cards that have been launched recently by..

  1. ICICI Bank
  2. HDFC Bank
  3. HSBC Bank
  4. State Bank of India
  5. Axis Bank

5. Who amongst the following has been appointed as the vice chairman of the recently reconstituted Niti Aayog?

  1. C. Rangarajan
  2. M.S. Ahluwalia
  3. Kaushik Basu
  4. Harsh Mander
  5. Arvind Panagriya

6. Amitabh Bachchan has been appointed as the brand ambassador of the health sector of which of the following states of India?

  1. Andhra Pradesh*
  2. Guajarat
  3. Madhya Pradesh
  4. Bihar
  5. Tamil Nadu

7. Who is the new global CEO of Nokia?

  1. SatyaNadella
  2. Rajeev Suri
  3. ShantanuNarayen
  4. Anshu Jain
  5. IndraNooy

8. Which Indian has won the “Times 100” poll conducted by Time magazine?

  1. A P J Abdul Kalam
  2. Narendra Modi
  3. Arvind Kejriwal
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. None of these

9. “Greater than Bradman: Celebrating Sachin, the greatest batsman in Test history” is a book written by

  1. Gary Kirsten
  2. Andy Flower
  3. Ian Chappell
  4. Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
  5. Brian Lara

10. Raghuram Govind Rajan was in the news recently as he won the ‘Governor of the Year’ award by a famous magazine for his deep understanding of the root causes of economic problems. This award is given by which of the following countries?

  1. France
  2. Germany
  3. Canada
  4. USA
  5. Britain*

Explanations

1. 1

2. 2

3. 3

4. 4

5. 5

6. 1

7. 2

8. 3

9. 4

10. 5