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General Awareness-93

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1. Who among the following is the present governor of Tamil Nadu?
1) Vidyasagar Rao 2) SC Jamir 3) ESL Narasimhan
4) P Sathasivam 5) Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala
2. The South American economic bloc Mercosur recently suspended which country from it for violating the blocs democratic
principles and failing to meet its basic standards?
1) Paraguay 2) Uruguay 3) Brazil 4) Argentina 5) Venezuela
3. Name the only Indian city among the winners of the best cities of 2016 award at the C40 Mayors Summit held in Mexico
for its programme on solid waste management.
1) Mumbai 2) Kolkata 3) Bengaluru 4) Hyderabad 5) Chennai
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1) Nigeria 2) Sudan
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Usain Bolt has won the International Association of Athletics Federations award for male athlete of the year. He hails
from
3) Kenya 4) Jamaica 5) Zambia
LeBron James has been chosen as the Sports Illustrateds Sportsperson of the Year. He is a player of
1) football 2) basketball 3) volleyball 4) squash 5) golf
Which of the following airports has topped the OAGs 2016 Megahubs Index for the most connected airport in the
world? The IGI airport of New Delhi has been ranked 22nd.
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1) Heathrow Airport 2) Dallas Airports 3) Atlanta Airports 4) Chicago Airport 5) Tokyo Airport
7. Indian girl Kehkashan Basu based in the UAE has won this years International Childrens Peace Prize. Name the NGO
founded by her which now operates in over 10 countries.
1) Green Hope 2) Green Shoots 3) Green Kart 4) Green Apple 5) None of these
8. _______ in association with SBI has launched an initiative to provide banking assistance to farmers in Madhya Pradesh
under the initiative Kisan Kalyan Ayojan.
1) Cargill 2) Adani Wilmar 3) Ruchi Soya 4) Palanjali 5) None of these
9. The RBI has deferred the deployment of Aadhaar-enabled devices for authorised card payment networks and white-
label ATM operators till
1) Dec 30, 2016 2) Jan 30, 2017 3) Mar 30, 2017 4) Jun 30, 2017 5) Sep 30, 2017
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10. The International Day of Persons with Disabilities is observed on

1) 1 Dec 2) 2 Dec 3) 3 Dec 4) 5 Dec 5) 7 Dec
11. The VISAKA scheme launched by the Union Ministry for Human Resource Development is aimed at making people
aware about
1) cleanliness 2) importance of vaccination 3) cashless economic system
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4) disaster management 5) None of these

12. The Hornbill Festival began was observed recently in which state? The festival coincides with the Statehood Day of the
state which is observed on Dec 1.
1) Nagaland 2) Sikkim 3) Tripura 4) Manipur 5) Assam
13. The US President-elect Donald Trump has named Mary Barra to his economic and job-creation panel. She is the present
CEO of
1) Yahoo 2) IBM 3) Boeing 4) Walt Disney 5) General Motors
14. Which of the following womens cricket teams won the Asia Cup T20 in Bangkok recently?
1) India 2) Pakistan 3) Bangladesh 4) Sri Lanka 5) Afghanistan

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15. What was the theme of the sixth Heart of Asia ministerial conference held in India recently?
1) Ending Terrorism, Achieving Prosperity 2) Achieving Prosperity and Fraternity
3) Addressing Challenges of Poverty and Terrorism 4) Addressing Challenges, Achieving Prosperity
5) None of these

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16. __________ has been named the most admired leader in the technology space, in a survey conducted by VC firm First
Round Capital involving over 700 startup founders.
1) Steve Jobs (Apple) 2) Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) 3) Jeff Bezos (Amazon)

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4) Elon Musk (Tesla and SpaceX) 5) None of these
17. The Indian Navy celebrates Navy Day on which day every year?
1) 1 Dec 2) 2 Dec 3) 3 Dec 4) 4 Dec 5) 5 Dec
18. Who among the following has been crowned Miss Supranational 2016?
1) Asha Bhat 2) Srinidhi Shetty 3) Priyadarshini 4) Priyanka Yoshikawa 5) None of these
19. India and which country signed four agreements on visas, cyberspace and investments during the visit of PM Sheikh
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani to India?
1) UAE 2) Qatar 3) Saudi Arabia 4) Iran 5) Iraq
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1) Italy
2) Indonesia

2) New Zealand
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Which of the following countries is hosting the FIFA World Cup 2022? India will train its police for handling the security
during the event.
1) Malaysia 3) Philippines

3) Sweden
4) Thailand
John Key unexpectedly announced his resignation recently as the Prime Minister of
4) Australia
Phulel Singh Sujlana, who passed away, recently, was associated with which of the following games?
1) Hockey 2) Football 3) Volleyball 4) Cricket
5) Qatar

5) Canada

5) Basketball
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23. ________ has launched its global startup program Launchpad in India, an online portal featuring over 400 products
from different startups.
1) Flipkart 2) Shopclues 3) Snapdeal 4) Amazon 5) ebay
24. Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal have been jointly named Asian of the Year 2016 by Singapore-based newspaper The
Straits Times. They are the founders of
1) Food Panda 2) Swiggy 3) Paytm 4) Mobikwik 5) Flipkart
25. The govt has extended the MIP on 19 products for two months to protect domestic steel industry. The term MIP stands
for
1) Maximum Import Price 2) Minimum Import Price 3) Minimal Import Price
4) Mortgaged Import Price 5) None of these
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26. Maha Vajiralongkorn was named as the new king in which of the following countries recently?
1) Philippines 2) Vietnam 3) Thailand 4) Japan 5) Cambodia
27. Who among the following is the present President of the All India Football Federation (AIFF)? He has been appointed
as a Senior Vice-President of Asian Football Confederation.
1) Arun Jaitley 2) Anurag Thakur 3) Shashank Manohar 4) Praful Patel 5) None of these
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28. In order to mop up extra liquidity from the system in view of demonetisation, govt and the RBI have raised the Market
Stabilisation Scheme (MSS) ceiling to
1) Rs 6 lakh cr 2) Rs 2 lakh cr 3) Rs 1 lakh cr 4) Rs 80,000 cr 5) Rs 30,000 cr
29. The World Soil Day is observed on
1) 1 Dec 2) 2 Dec 3) 3 Dec 4) 5 Dec 5) 6 Dec
30. Who among the following has won the readers poll for TIME Person of the Year 2016?
1) Hillary Clinton 2) Mark Zuckerberg 3) Julian Assange 4) Donald Trump 5) Narendra Modi
31. Bernard Cazeneuve is the new Prime Minister of which of the following countries?
1) Spain 2) France 3) Germany 4) Sweden 5) Cuba

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32. India received $300-bn FDI between Apr 2000 and Sep 2016. Thirty three per cent of the FDI came through the
1) Mauritius route 2) Singapore route 3) US route 4) Switzerland route 5) China route
33. Alexander Van der Bellen won the presidential election in which of the following countries recently?

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1) Denmark 2) Norway 3) Finland 4) Canada 5) Austria
34. The first ever International Gita Mahotsav was held recently in
1) Chennai, Tamil Nadu 2) Mangalore, Karnataka 3) Nasik, Maharashtra

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4) Ahmedabad, Gujarat 5) Kurukshetra, Haryana
35. Which of the following airlines has appointed Amar Abrol as its Managing Director in addition to his role as Chief
Executive Officer (CEO)?
1) Jet Airways 2) Indigo 3) Go Air 4) AirAsia 5) Vistara
36. To encourage each district in the country to take the digitization route, the NITI Aayog will be immediately transferring
______ to each district as seed money to kick start this drive.
1) Rs 2 lakh 2) Rs 5 lakh 3) Rs 8 lakh 4) Rs 10 lakh 5) Rs 15 lakh
37. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigned recently in which of the following countries after suffering a crushing defeat in a
referendum over constitutional reform?

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1) Greece

Tamil Nadu?
1) B Valarmathi
2) Poland

2) Sellur K Raju

2) 3 Dec
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3) New Zealand

3) O Panneerselvam

3) 5 Dec
Mukesh Kumar, who won an Asian Tour title, recently, is an Indian
4) Italy 5) England
Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa Jayaraman passed away recently. Who among the following is the new Chief Minister of

4) Sasikala Natarajan 5) P Thangamani

The International Volunteer Day (IVD) is observed across the world on
1) 1 Dec 4) 6 Dec 5) 7 Dec
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1) squash player 2) cyclist 3) golfer 4) snooker player 5) None of these
41. The Vijaya Bank has been adjudged Best Bank for SME Lending in PSB category by Assocham at the 4th SMEs
Excellence Awards. The bank is headquartered at
1) Chennai 2) Hyderabad 3) Bengaluru 4) Mangalore 5) Kochi
42. The birth anniversary of the father of Indian Constitution BR Ambedkar (Apr 14) will be observed as ________ in the
country.
1) Constitution Day 2) People Day 3) Water Day 4) Determination Day 5) Soil Day
43. The RBI, in its monetary policy review on 7 Dec, said that the Gross Value Added (GVA) growth for 2016-17 will be
1) 7.6 per cent 2) 7.5 per cent 3) 7.3 per cent 4) 7.1 per cent 5) 6.9 per cent
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44. The RBI has authorised the Receivables Exchange of India (RXIL) to launch the countrys first trade receivables
exchange platform for MSMEs, buyers and financiers. The RXIL is promoted by
1) SIDBI 2) NSE 3) BSE 4) NABARD 5) Both 1) and 2)
45. The RBI issued its monetary policy statement on 7 Dec. What is the current repo rate as per the statement?
1) 6.75 per cent 2) 6.50 per cent 3) 6.25 per cent 4) 6 per cent 5) 5.75 per cent
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46. Who among the following has been named the 2016 Time magazine person of the year?
1) Julian Assange 2) Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi 3) Hillary Clinton
4) Donald Trump 5) Vladimir Putin
47. Justice Mian Saqib Nisar was recently appointed as the next Chief Justice of
1) Pakistan 2) Bangladesh 3) Maldives 4) Afghanistan 5) Iran
48. To speed up small value online transactions, the RBI has relaxed norms for AFA for payments up to Rs 2,000. The term
AFA stands for
1) Advanced Fast Authentication 2) Accredited Fast Authentication
3) Added Factor of Authentication 4) Additional Factor of Authentication
5) None of these

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49. Who among the following has been appointed as the new chief of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)?
1) Pravir Kumar 2) Shailesh Singh 3) Prabhat Kumar 4) BS Bhullar 5) M Sathiyavathy
50. Shavkat Mirziyoyev won the recent presidential elections in which of the following countries?

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1) Uzbekistan 2) Turkmenistan 3) Tajikistan 4) Kazakhstan 5) Ukraine
51. The Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) is scheduled to be held from 16 Dec to 23 Dec 2016 in
1) New Delhi 2) Lakshadweep 3) Goa 4) Pondicherry 5) Kolkata

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52. __________ will extend a support aggregating about Rs 120 cr to banks for deployment of two Point-of-Sale (PoS)
devices per village in one lakh villages having a population of up to 10,000.
1) NABARD 2) SIDBI 3) SBI 4) IBA 5) NHB
53. The Corporation Bank has bagged the Best MSME Bank Award 2016 instituted by Assocham. The bank is headquartered
at
1) Bengaluru 2) Mangalore 3) Chennai 4) Kolkata 5) Hyderabad
54. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) recently launched PSLV-C36 rocket carrying the remote sensing satellite
1) CARTOSAT-2 2) SCATSAT-1 3) TeLEOS-1
4) RESOURCESAT-2A 5) ASTROSAT
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1) Sri Lanka 2) Bhutan
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India will begin training the fighter pilots from which of the following countries on its Sukhoi-30MKI air dominance
jets from 2017 onwards?
3) Bangladesh 4) Mauritius 5) Vietnam
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has ranked Hindi language 10th among the top 10 most powerful languages on the
planet. Which language is the most powerful language?
1) Arabic 2) Spanish 3) French 4) Mandarin 5) English
The IOC, BPCL and HPCL have joined hands to set up Indias biggest oil refinery which will come up in the state of
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1) Gujarat 2) Rajasthan 3) Tamil Nadu 4) West Bengal 5) Maharashtra
58. The Indra NAVY-2016, to be held in Visakhapatnam and the Bay of Bengal, is a joint naval military exercise between India
and
1) Japan 2) China 3) US 4) Russia 5) Bangladesh
59. As per the findings of the 2015 Program International Student Assessment (PISA) conducted by the OECD, the teens
from which country tops in the world?
1) Sweden 2) Singapore 3) France 4) US 5) China
60. _______ has bagged the CII National Quality 2016 Award. The award has been jointly instituted by the Confederation
of Indian Industries (CII) and Export Import Bank (EXIM).
1) Hero Motocorp 2) Renault 3) BEML 4) BHEL 5) HAL
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61. The parliament in which of the following countries voted overwhelmingly to impeach President Park Geun-hye recently
over an influence-peddling scandal?
1) Vietnam 2) Philippines 3) Thailand 4) South Korea 5) Cambodia
62. The High Court in which of the following states recently scrapped the Special Backward Classes (SBC) Reservation Act
2015 that provisioned for 5% quota to five communities, including Gujjars?
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1) Haryana 2) Rajasthan 3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Uttar Pradesh 5) Punjab

63. India signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with which of the following countries in New Delhi recently?
1) Mauritius 2) Maldives 3) Suriname 4) Vietnam 5) Japan
64. The Human Rights Day is celebrated every year to commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on
1) 01 Dec 2) 04 Dec 3) 06 Dec 4) 08 Dec 5) 10 Dec
65. The US Congress passes a bill recently declaring _______ a major defence partner?
1) Vietnam 2) India 3) Philippines 4) Japan 5) South Korea
66. What is the maximum permissible shareholding of foreign investors in insurance companies in India as of now?
1) 26 per cent 2) 49 per cent 3) 51 per cent 4) 74 per cent 5) 100 per cent

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67. The SBI board approved sale of 3.9% stake in the life insurance arm for Rs 1,794 cr. The SBI Life Insurance is a joint
venture between SBI and
1) American International Group 2) AXA 3) BNP Paribas Cardif
4) Prudential Financial 5) Metlife

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68. India has decided to set up a center of Excellence in Information Technology at the Al-Azhar University which is the
oldest and most prestigious University of
1) Egypt 2) Kenya 3) Jordan 4) Yemen 5) Iraq

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69. Nana Akufo-Addo recently won the presidential election in which of the following countries?
1) Ghana 2) Nigeria 3) Kenya 4) Sudan 5) Tanzania
70. The board of directors of IDFC Bank has approved the appointment of Veena Mankar as Non-Executive Chairperson.
IDFC Bank is headquartered at
1) New Delhi 2) Mumbai 3) Kolkata 4) Pune 5) Chennai
71. A very severe cyclonic storm hit Chennai recently. The cyclone was named
1) Vardah 2) Phailin 3) Yemyin 4) Sidr 5) Aila
72. The Kerala govt launched the applications ArisingKerala and Whistle Now - on the occasion of International Anti-

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Corruption Day on
1) 5 Dec 2) 7 Dec

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3) 9 Dec

3) DigiShala
4) 11 Dec

4) DigiShiksha
5) 12 Dec
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) recently launched a new 24-hour TV channel for
cashless transaction lessons. The channel is named
1) DigiDarshan 5) DigiSalah
The noted astronaut John Glenn died recently. He was the first ______ astronaut to orbit Earth.
1) British 2) Russian 3) Japanese 4) French 5) US
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75. Indian documentary Raising The Bar won the Award of Recognition at the Hollywood International Independent
Documentary Awards recently. The documentary is directed by
1) Bikas Mishra 2) Juhi Chawla 3) Sanjay Suri 4) Onir 5) Nandita Das
76. Muhtar Kent recently announced to step down as the CEO of
1) Coca-Cola 2) PepsiCo 3) ExxonMobil 4) Oracle 5) MasterCard
77. _______ recently launched a rocket carrying the unmanned cargo spaceship Kounotori 6 to deliver supplies for
astronauts living in the International Space Station (ISS).
1) France 2) Germany 3) Japan 4) Sweden 5) US
78. The committee formed by Finance Ministry to boost Digital Payment system in India submitted its report recently. The
Committee was headed by
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1) Ratan P Watal 2) Arvind Subramanian 3) Arvind Mayaram

4) Rajiv Mehrishi 5) Hasmukh Adhia
79. Larsen & Turbo (L&T) has bagged a contract to make Sardar Patel Cricket Stadium the worlds biggest cricket stadium
in terms of seating capacity. The stadium is situated in
1) Maharashtra 2) Gujarat 3) Rajasthan 4) Madhya Pradesh 5) Chhattisgarh
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80. India and which country held a conference on Ease of Doing Business in New Delhi recently to enhance the strategic
bilateral partnership between the two nations?
1) US 2) China 3) Japan 4) UK 5) Germany
81. Rodrigo Duterte, who recently announced to have decided to accept an arms deal being offered by China under
concessional terms, is the present President of
1) Thailand 2) Taiwan 3) Philippines 4) Vietnam 5) Cambodia
82. President Pranab Mukherjee flagged off the 100 Million for 100 Million campaign recently which was organized by
1) Bill Gates 2) NR Narayana Murthy 3) Azim Premji
4) Ratan Tata 5) Kailash Satyarthi

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83. A nationwide toll-free helpline number 14444 will be launched shortly to educate people and provide support related to
1) startups 2) womens education 3) child abuse
4) cashless mode of transactions 5) cleanliness drive

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84. The RBI has directed the banks to upload the KYC data pertaining to new individual accounts opened on or after
______, with Central KYC Records Registry.
1) Dec 31, 2016 2) Jan 01, 2017 3) Mar 31, 2017 4) Apr 01, 2017 5) Jun 01, 2017

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85. In a significant development, India and Vietnam signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement and three other agreements
recently. The currency of Vietnam is
1) Dong 2) Lek 3) Shekel 4) Baht 5) Pound
86. Virat Kohli has become the first Indian to score three double hundreds in a year in 2016. He has scored a double ton
against which of the following teams in 2016?
1) New Zealand 2) West Indies 3) England 4) All the above 5) Only 2) and 3)
87. Who among the following won the 2016 IBSF World Billiards Long Up title?
1) Sourav Kothari 2) Peter Gilchrist 3) Geet Sethi 4) Aditya Mehta 5) Pankaj Advani
88. Rajendra Kumar was appointed as the new Member of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) recently. Who is the

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present Chairman of CBDT?
1) TS Vijayan
4) Sushil Chandra
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2) Upendra Kumar Sinha
5) Kaushal Srivastava
3) Y Venugopal Reddy

Viola Desmond, a black civil rights leader, will soon become the first woman to appear on a banknote in
1) UK 2) US 3) Canada 4) France 5) Italy
The 28th State Information Ministers Conference (SIMCON), 2016 held recently in New Delhi was chaired by the Union
Minister of Information and Broadcasting
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1) Narendra Singh Tomar 2) Ravi Shankar Prasad 3) DV Sadananda Gowda
4) Arun Jaitley 5) Venkaiah Naidu

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