General Awareness
1. In the fourth Bi-monthly monetary policy
review, on 29 September 2015, RBI reduced
the Repo Rate under the Liquidity
Adjustment Facility (LAF) by ...........
1) 150 basis points
2) 100 basis points
3) 25 basis points
4) 50 basis points
5) 75 basis points
2. Present Repo Rate is ...........
1) 6.75%
2) 7.25%
3) 6.00%
4) 7.75%
5) 8.25%
3. Present Reverse Repo Rate is ...........
1) 5.75%
2) 8.75%
3) 9.75%
4) 10.25%
5) 8.25%
4. Present Bank Rate ...........
1) 7.75%
2) 7.50%
3) 6.75%
4) 5.25%
5) 8.25%
5. RBI's Marginal Standing Facility Rate ...........
1) 7.50%
2) 6.75%
3) 7.75%
4) 8.75%
5) 4.0%
6. RBI kept the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) of
scheduled banks unchanged at ............ of
Net Demand and Time Liability (NDTL) in its
recent monetary policy review.
1) 24.5%
2) 5.75%
3) 4.0%
4) 4.5%
5) 3.5%
7. RBI declared to issue final guidelines on
base rate computation by ...........
1) March 2016
2) September 2016
3) November 2015
4) January 2016
5) March 2020
8. RBI lowered its economic growth forecast for
the current fiscal year from 7.6% to ........
1) 7.1%
2) 7.2%
3) 7.4%
4) 7.5%
5) 6.5%
9. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley pegged the fiscal deficit target at ........... of the GDP for the
current fiscal year.
1) 3.9%
2) 3.4%
3) 2.9%
4) 6.1%
5) 2.0%
10. Union Government said it has plan for setting up a non-statutory PDMA. PDMA
stands for ...........
1) Public Debt Management Agency
2) Public Debit Management Agency
3) Private Debt Management Agency
4) Private Debt Monetary Agency
5) None
11. A non-statutory PDMA would be an interim
arrangement before an independent
agency is set up for managing the government borrowing programme. At present
who is handling the governments borrowing programme?
1) RBI
2) SBI
3) Asian Development Bank
4) National Development Council
5) NITI Aayog
12. Which bank announced the launch of
'Money2World', a fully online outward remittance service for resident Indians?
1) YES Bank 2) Axis Bank 3) ICICI Bank
4) SBI
5) Corporation Bank
13. National watershed management project
'Neeranchal' assisted by ...........
1) IMF
2) IDA
3) AIIB
4) World Bank
5) USAID
14. Which Scotland economist argued ''foreign
aid did more harm than good'' conferred
with the Nobel prize for Economics on 12
Oct 2015?
1) Meghnad J Desai
2) John Kay
3) Angus Deaton
4) Edward Miliband
5) Nicholas Herbert Stern
A. Veeraswamy
A.R. Rahman appointed as the cultural ambassador of ............
1) Seychelles
2) Australia
3) USA
4) UK
5) Spain
Ans: 1
Seychelles capital is Victoria and its currency is..
1) Euro
2) Peso
3) Dollar
4) Rupee
5) Pound
Ans: 4
Abel Prize described as..
15. First Nobel prize in Economics awarded
in ...........
1) 1969
2) 1901
3) 1954
4) 1989
5) 2001
16. First Nobel prize in Economics jointly conferred on the Dutch Economist Jan Tinbergen
and the Norwegian Economist ...........
1) Ragnar Frisch
2) Trygve Haavelmo
3) Svein Gjedrem
4) Victor Norman
5) None of above
17. Which famous Indian Economist received
Nobel prize in Economics 'for his contributions to welfare economics'?
1) Arvind Panagariya
2) Arvind Subramanian
3) Amartya Sen
4) R.C. Dutt
5) Suresh Tendulkar
18. Abel Prize described as Nobel in ...........
1) Mathematics
2) Peace
3) Literature
4) Economics
5) Physics
19. Abel Prize annually given by the
Government of Norway. The first award
given in ...........
1) 2003
2) 2009
3) 2008
4) 2007
5) 2006
20. The Abel Prize awardees receive ...........
1) 6 Million British Pounds
2) 6 Million USA Dollars
3) 6 Million Indian Rupees
4) 6 Million Euros
5) 6 Million Norwegian Kroner
21. Which Indian American received Abel prize
in 2007?
1) Srinivasa Ramanujam
2) Professor Manjul Bhargava
3) S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan
4) Subhash Khot
5) C.R. Rao
22. For striking and seminal contributions to the
theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric
analysis, two mathematicians were awarded with Abel prize for 2015. One is John F.
Nash, Jr. and another one is ...........
1) Louis Nirenberg
2) Yakov Grigorevich Sinai 3) John Milnor
4) John Griggs Thompson
5) Peter David Lax
23. Which state bagged the Skoch Order-ofMerit national award for implementation of
six e-Governance and IT initiatives in the
state recently?
1) Kerala
2) AP
3) Haryana
4) Maharashtra 5) Telangana
24. Who has been appointed as India's permanent representative in the UNO?
1) Jaishankar
2) Richard Rahul Verma
3) Syed Akbaruddin
4) Gautam Bambawale
5) Sushma Swaraj
25. Gautam Bambawale appointed as the new
high commissioner to ...........
1) Nepal
2) Pakistan
3) USA
4) UK
5) Japan
26. Prof. Ramesh Chand appointed as the .........
1) Full-time member of NITI Aayog
2) Part-time member of NITI Aayog
3) Vice-chairman of NITI Aayog
4) Chairman of NITI Aayog
5) Ex-officio member of NITI Aayog
27. Prime Minister on 11 October 2015 laid the
foundation stone of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
International Memorial in ...........
1) Mumbai
2) Delhi
3) Mau
4) Ratnagiri
5) London
28. Chaityabhoomi is the memorial of ...........
1) Mahatma Gandhi 2) Jawaharlal Nehru
3) B.R. Ambedkar
4) Lal Bahadur Sastri
5) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
29. Union
Minister
Social
Justice
&
Empowerment released a commemorative
postal stamp on father of Indian
Constitution Dr. B.R. Ambedkar as part of
........... his birth anniversary celebration.
1) 125th
2) 150th
3) 175th
4) 100th
5) 50th
30. Who is the Union Minister Social Justice &
Empowerment?
1) Ravi Shankar Prasad
2) Bandaru Dattatreya
3) Thaawar Chand Gehlot
4) Nitin Gadkari
5) Ram Vilas Paswan
31. Prime Minister of India proposed which day
to be observed as Constitution Day
(Samvidhan Divas)?
1) 26 November
2) 9 December
3) 26 January
4) 15 August
5) 2 October
32. New Prime Minister of Nepal ...........
1) Tshering Tobgay
2) Abdulla Yameen
3) Ameenah Gurib
4) Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
5) Thein Sein
33. India and Jordan signed six MoUs on the
eve of Pranab Mukherjee visit on 11
October 2015. Jordan Capital Amman and
its currency ...........
1) Rupee
2) Dollar
3) Peso
4) Dinar
5) Shilling
34. King of Jordan is Abdullah II and Prime
Minister is ...........
1) Abdullah Ensour 2) Benjamin Netanyahu
3) David Cameron 4) Abdulla Abdulla
5) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
35. International Girl Child day ...........
1) 24 Jan
2) 1 Jan
3) Second Sunday of February
4) 11 October
5) 1 June
36. 2015 International Girl Child day theme .......
1) Ending child marriage
2) The Power of the Adolescent Girl: Vision
for 2030
3) The Power of Girl Child: Vision for 2050
4) Girl Child is the Future Mother
5) None of above
37. First BRICS Ministerial meeting on
Migration held at ...........
1) Sochi
2) Durban
3) Bengaluru
4) Rio
5) Beijing
38. Who represented India in the first BRICS
Ministerial meeting on Migration?
1) Rajnath Singh
2) Sushma Swaraj
3) Kiren Rijiju
4) Jaishankar
5 ) Narendra Modi
39. President Pranab Mukherjee held talks with
his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud
Abbas on 12 October 2015. How much fund
offered by India to Palestine Budgetary
Support?
1) $ 5 million
2) $ 10 million
3) $ 15 million
4) $ 20 million
5) $ 50 million
40. A bond issued by an Indian company
expressed in foreign currency, and the principal and interest in respect of which is
payable in foreign currency is called ...........
1) Foreign Currency Convertible Bond
2) Indian Currency Convertible Bond
3) Foreign Medium Term Note
4) Treasury Bill
5) Foreign Currency Debenture
41. Monetary difference between export and
import trade flows of a country for a specific time period is ...........
1) Fiscal Deficit
2) Revenue Deficit
3) Balance of Trade
4) Monetary Policy Review
5) Cash Imbalance
42. Which committee was appointed by Union
Government to revisit civil services examination pattern?
1) T Haque
2) Mihir Shah
3) B.S. Baswan
4) S.M. Khan
5) D. Swarup
43. Men's singles title of China Open won by
Novak Djokovic of ...........
1) Sweden
2) Norway
3) Serbia
4) USA
5) China
44. Russian Grand Prix title of Formula One
won by ...........
1) Sebastian Vettel
2) Jenson Button
3) Lewis Hamilton
4) Fernando Alonso
5) John Arthur
45. Women's Doubles title of China Open won
by Sania Mirza of India and ...........
1) Casey Dellacqua, Australia
2) Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakistan
3) Martina Hingis, Switzerland
4) Elena Vesnina, Russia
5) Ekaterina Makarova, Russia
46. Union government on 7 October 2015
approved proposals to set up 3 AIIMS (All
India Institutes of Medical Sciences) at
Nagpur (Maharashtra), Mangalagiri (AP)
and Kalyani in ...........
1) West Bengal
2) Bihar
3) Rajasthan
4) UP
5) MP
47. AIIMS will be established by central government under the scheme of PMSSY.
PMSSY stands for ...........
1) Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha
Yojana
2) Pradhan Medium Swasthya Suraksha
Yojana
3) Pradhan Mantri Suddhi Suraksha Yojana
4) Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Sastrachikitsa
Yojana
5) None of above
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