Section – III : General Awareness/Marketing/Computer
1. Which Indian has won this year’s Goldman Prize awarded by the Goldman Environmental Foundation?
- Ramesh Agrawal
- Maneka Gandhi
- SunitaNarain
- RajendraPachauri
- None of these
2. The 15th IIFA awards were recently held in
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Florida, USA
- Dubai, U.A.E.
- Sharjah, U.A.E.
- Macau, China
3. Shailesh Nayak has been appointed as the new chairperson of …
- Railway Board
- Defense Research Development Organization
- Indian Space Research Organization
- Nuclear Power Corporation of India
- None of these
4. . In Touch is the name of the contactless credit and debit cards that have been launched recently by..
- ICICI Bank
- HDFC Bank
- HSBC Bank
- State Bank of India
- Axis Bank
5. Who amongst the following has been appointed as the vice chairman of the recently reconstituted Niti Aayog?
- C. Rangarajan
- M.S. Ahluwalia
- Kaushik Basu
- Harsh Mander
- Arvind Panagriya
6. Amitabh Bachchan has been appointed as the brand ambassador of the health sector of which of the following states of India?
- Andhra Pradesh*
- Guajarat
- Madhya Pradesh
- Bihar
- Tamil Nadu
7. Who is the new global CEO of Nokia?
- SatyaNadella
- Rajeev Suri
- ShantanuNarayen
- Anshu Jain
- IndraNooy
8. Which Indian has won the “Times 100” poll conducted by Time magazine?
- A P J Abdul Kalam
- Narendra Modi
- Arvind Kejriwal
- Mahatma Gandhi
- None of these
9. “Greater than Bradman: Celebrating Sachin, the greatest batsman in Test history” is a book written by
- Gary Kirsten
- Andy Flower
- Ian Chappell
- Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- 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?
- France
- Germany
- Canada
- USA
- Britain*
Explanations
1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5
6. 1
7. 2
8. 3
9. 4
10. 5