General Awareness Quiz (Based on New Pattern)

1. The govt has appointed who among the following as the ninth chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi)?

1) Ajay Tyagi

2) JN Gupta

3) Vikram Limaye

4) Sandeep Parekh

5) G Raghuram

2. The Hindustan Motors has sold the iconic Ambassador car brand to which of the following automakers for Rs 80 cr?

1) Peugeot

2) Ford

3) Renault

4) General Motors

5) Hyunda

3. The IT giant Oracle Corporation will set up its biggest development centre outside its US headquarters with an investment of about Rs 2,500 cr in India in

1) Gurugram

2) NOIDA

3) Bengaluru

4) Hyderabad

5) Chennai

4. __________ has created a Guinness World Record by creating a 48.8 feet tall sand castle at Puri beach in Odisha.

1) Nitish Bharti

2) Manas Kumar Sahoo

3) Rahul Arya

4) Sudarsan Pattnaik

5) Swapnil Dangerkar

5. Who among the following is the present Revenue Secretary in the central govt?

1) Amitabh Kant

2) Arvind Subramanian

3) Arvind Mayaram

4) Rajiv Mehrishi

5) Hasmukh Adhia

6. Luanda is the capital city of which of the following countries?

1) Angola

2) Sudan

3) Uruguay

4) Kenya

5) Jordan

7. The official mascot of FIFA Under-17 World Cup India 2017 was unveiled recently. The mascot is named

1) Appu

2) Shera

3) Dolphin

4) Ganga

5) Kheleao

8. _________ has been appointed as Managing Director of state-owned Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India.

1) Sushil Vachani

2) Bharat Bhasker

3) Dheeraj Sharma

4) Hemant Bhargava

5) Shailendra Singh

9. Which state has become the first state in the country to establish a cashless system in its public distribution system (PDS) of food grains?

1) Maharashtra

2) Odisha

3) Gujarat

4) Haryana

5) Karnataka

10. Name the Indian-origin person who has been shortlisted by NASA for its 2018 space mission under the Citizen Science Astronaut (CSA) programme.

1) Kamlesh Lulla

2) Shawna Pandya

3) Meyya Meyyappan

4) Ashwin R Vasavada

5) Sharmila Bhattacharya

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