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General Awareness Quiz

1) Which country's central bank cut interest rates for the sixth time since November to 4.35 percent, which will be effective from Oct. 24?

Answer. China's The People’s Bank of China (PBOC)

2) Name the deaf and mute girl in Pakistan, who is believed to have crossed the border by mistake after being separated from her family in 2003, came back to India.

Answer. Geeta

3) Which missile developed by the Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), failed again when it lost control after about 12 minutes of flight and fell into the Bay of Bengal?

Answer. Nirbhay

4) Who is going to head the committee to oversee the revival of three urea plants?

Answer. Arvind Panagariya 

5) Facebook has renamed what it had termed its Internet access enabling platform, “internet.org”, as ?

Answer. Free Basics

6) India has pledged to cut its carbon emission intensity by how much per cent and increase the share of renewable energy by a massive 40 per cent in its total energy mix by 2030?

Answer. 33-35 percent

7) The first-ever US-India-Japan Trilateral Ministerial dialogue was held in?

Answer. New York

8) Which country has offered to finance Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail corridor estimated to cost about Rs 90,000 crore at an interest rate of less than one per cent?

Answer. Japan

9) Who is elected as the new President of Fiji?

Answer. Jioji Konrote

10) Who is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Nepal?

Answer. KP Sharma Oli

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