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For competitive examinations in India, General Awareness is very important. If you are not good in General Awareness you can’t clear Bank PO, Civil Services, State Civil Services, Railways exam, NDA, CDS etc. To help my readers in General Awareness section, I have created “General Awareness” category in abhisays where I will post General Knowledge and Current Affairs questions with their answers. So here comes the General Awareness Quiz 1.
- Who is the current Secretary-General of the United Nations?
- Who is the vice-president of India?
- Who has become the first woman Prime Minister of Iceland on 1st Feb, 2009?
- This actor has broken the Guiness World Record for maximum public appearances in 12 hours while promoting his latest film. Give the name of the actor and the film.
- Who is the president of Libya and Chairman of the African Union?
- Who is the author of the well-known book “Linear Systems”?
- Who is the new Election Commissioner of India?
- Kalpana Chawla was killed during the crash of a US space Shuttle. What was its name?
- Who is the President of Iran?
- What is the name of the protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC), an international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on treaty is intended to achieve “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system?
- Who is the first Indian to go to both the North and South Pole?
- Who is the first woman President of Liberia?
- Which nation was the winner of World Cup Football 2006?
- Who is the president of France?
- Who is the president of South Africa?
- Who is the Secretary-General of Commonwealth of Nations?
- Who is the author of “A Golden Age”?
- Who was appointed as the Federal Chief Information Officer in the Barack Obama’s administration in March, 2009?
- Who is the Prime Minister of Israel?
- Who is the Prime Minister of Pakistan?
- Under his command, India won 1971 war against Pakistan. He died last year. Name the person.
- Who is the CEO of CitiGroup?
- Who is the CEO of Pepsi Co.?
- Who won the Australian Open Tennis (Men) Championship?
- Who is the Prime Minister of Zimbwae?
- Who is the current representative of India to the United Nations?
- Who is the Prime Minister of Nepal?
- Who is the managing director and CEO of BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange)?
- What is the maximum number of candidates an (Electronic Voting Machine)EVM can support?
- Who is the CEO of Mahindra Satyam?
- Who is the author of “Between the Assassinations”?
- Who is the president of International Cricket Council?
- Who is the Chief Justice of India?
- Who is the Governor of Reserve Bank of India?
- Who is the Attorney General of India?
- Who is the CMD of State Bank of India?
- Who is the President of FICCI?
- Who is the Chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC)?
- Who is the Chairman of ISRO?
- Who is the Chairman of Finance Commission of India?
- Which company’s famously punchline is ‘The Network is the Computer’?
- What is the currency of Mexico?
- What does the letters XP stand for in the product Microsoft XP?
- Who is the vice-president of USA?
- Which country is the largest producer of natural rubber in the world?
- Which two male tennis players have won 14 grand slam titles in their career?
- What was the name of State Bank of India before Independence?
- Recently China has become world’s third biggest economy, replacing an European country. What is the name of that country?
- Who is the biggest city of India, in terms of Population?
- Which Hindi film actor won Filmfare best actor award for 8 (maximum) times?
Answers ::
- Ban Ki Moon
- Hamid Ansari
- Johanna Singurdadottir
- Abhishek Bachchan for the movie Delhi 6
- Muammar Qaddafi
- Thomas Kailath
- Navin Chawla
- Columbia
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Kyoto Protocol
- Ajeet Bajaj
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Italy
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Jacob Zuma
- Kamlesh Sharma
- Thamima Anam
- Vivek Kundra
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Yusuf Raza Gilani
- Sam Manekshaw
- Vikram Pandit
- Indra Nooyi
- Rafael Nadal
- Morgan Tsvangirai
- Nirupam Sen
- Madhav Kumar Nepal
- Madhu Kannan
- 64
- C P Gurnani
- Arvind Adiga
- David Morgan
- K G Balakrishnan
- D. Subbarao
- G E Vahanvati
- O P Bhatt
- Mr. Harsh Pati Singhania
- S K Thorat
- G. Madhavan
- Dr. Vijay Kelkar
- Sun Microsystems
- Peso
- Experience
- Joe Biden
- Malaysia
- Pete Sampras and Roger Federer
- Imperial Bank of India
- Germany
- Mumbai
- Dilip Kumar




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