General Awareness Quiz

1. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu presented his second rail budget this year (2016). Railways will get how much budgetary support from the government?

a) 50,000 crore

b) 10,000 crore

c) 80,000 crore

d) 90,000 crore

e) 40,000 crore

2. The base year for the CPI was revised from 2011 to 2012. Also, the weights of various items in the index were changed on the basis of the 2011-12 consumption expenditure survey, against 2004-05 earlier. CPI stand for?

a) Communist Party of India

b) Consumer Price Index

c) Customer Price Index

d) Core Price Index

e) None of the above

3. ____________ is a discipline of marketing that relates to increasing the demand at wholeseller, retailer, or distributor level rather than at the consumer level. However, there is a need to continue with Brand Management strategies to sustain the need at the consumer end.

a) Money marketing

b) Capital marketing

c) Financial marketing

d) Trade marketing

e) Export marketing

4. Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country and former Soviet republic, extends from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Altai Mountains at its eastern border with China and Russia. Where is the capital of Kazakhstan?

a) Astana

b) Ashgabat

c) Kabul

d) Tashkent

e) Ankara

5. International Women's Day, originally called International Working Women's Day is celebrated on?

a) March 22

b) April 22

c) March 08

d) March 20

e) April 7

6. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development(IBRD) is an international financial institution that offers loans to middle-income developing countries. Where is the headquarter of IBRD?

a) Paris, France

b) Tokyo, Japan

c) Nairobi, Kenya

d) Washington DC, USA

e) Zurich, Switzerland

7. The Sun temple is situated in the small town of Konark, which is located at ........... ?

a) Puri, Odisha

b) Deoghar, Jharkhand

c) Nainital, Uttrakhand

d) Mathura, Uttar Pradesh

e) Hyderabad, Telangana

8. Satpura National Park is located in the Hoshangabad district of which of the following state?

a) Uttar Pradesh

b) Andhra Pradesh

c) Himachal Pradesh

d) Arunachal Pradesh

e) Madhya Pradesh

9. Laishram Sarita Devi is an Indian __________ from Manipur. She is a national champion and a former world champion in the lightweight class.

a) Shooter

b) Boxer

c) Cricketer

d) Wrestler

e) Footballer

10. Ram Vilas Paswan is an Indian politician, from Bihar and the current Union MInister of Food and Public Distribution. Paswan is also the president of the Lok Janshakti Party, eight time Lok Sabha member and former Rajya Sabha MP. His current constituency is?

a) Bokaro, Jharkhand

b) Dehradun, Uttarakhand

c) Hajipur, Bihar

d) Panipat, Haryana

e) Gorakhpur, UP