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June 27th, 2009 at 4:27 pm

General Awareness Quiz 1

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General AwarenessFor 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.

  1. Who is the current Secretary-General of the United Nations?
  2. Who is the vice-president of India?
  3. Who has become the first woman Prime Minister of Iceland on 1st Feb, 2009?
  4. 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.
  5. Who is the president of Libya and Chairman of the African Union?
  6. Who is the author of the well-known book “Linear Systems”?
  7. Who is the new Election Commissioner of India?
  8. Kalpana Chawla was killed during the crash of a US space Shuttle. What was its name?
  9. Who is the President of Iran?
  10. 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?
  11. Who is the first Indian to go to both the North and South Pole?
  12. Who is the first woman President of Liberia?
  13. Which nation was the winner of World Cup Football 2006?
  14. Who is the president of France?
  15. Who is the president of South Africa?
  16. Who is the Secretary-General of Commonwealth of Nations?
  17. Who is the author of “A Golden Age”?
  18. Who was appointed as the Federal Chief Information Officer in the Barack Obama’s administration in March, 2009?
  19. Who is the Prime Minister of Israel?
  20. Who is the Prime Minister of Pakistan?
  21. Under his command, India won 1971 war against Pakistan. He died last year. Name the person.
  22. Who is the CEO of CitiGroup?
  23. Who is the CEO of Pepsi Co.?
  24. Who won the Australian Open Tennis (Men) Championship?
  25. Who is the Prime Minister of Zimbwae?
  26. Who is the current representative of India to the United Nations?
  27. Who is the Prime Minister of Nepal?
  28. Who is the managing director and CEO of BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange)?
  29. What is the maximum number of candidates an (Electronic Voting Machine)EVM can support?
  30. Who is the CEO of Mahindra Satyam?
  31. Who is the author of “Between the Assassinations”?
  32. Who is the president of International Cricket Council?
  33. Who is the Chief Justice of India?
  34. Who is the Governor of Reserve Bank of India?
  35. Who is the Attorney General of India?
  36. Who is the CMD of State Bank of India?
  37. Who is the President of FICCI?
  38. Who is the Chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC)?
  39. Who is the Chairman of ISRO?
  40. Who is the Chairman of Finance Commission of India?
  41. Which company’s famously punchline is ‘The Network is the Computer’?
  42. What is the currency of Mexico?
  43. What does the letters XP stand for in the product Microsoft XP?
  44. Who is the vice-president of USA?
  45. Which country is the largest producer of natural rubber in the world?
  46. Which two male tennis players have won 14 grand slam titles in their career?
  47. What was the name of State Bank of India before Independence?
  48. Recently China has become world’s third biggest economy, replacing an European country. What is the name of that country?
  49. Who is the biggest city of India, in terms of Population?
  50. Which Hindi film actor won Filmfare best actor award for 8 (maximum) times?

Answers ::

  1. Ban Ki Moon
  2. Hamid Ansari
  3. Johanna Singurdadottir
  4. Abhishek Bachchan for the movie Delhi 6
  5. Muammar Qaddafi
  6. Thomas Kailath
  7. Navin Chawla
  8. Columbia
  9. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  10. Kyoto Protocol
  11. Ajeet Bajaj
  12. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  13. Italy
  14. Nicolas Sarkozy
  15. Jacob Zuma
  16. Kamlesh Sharma
  17. Thamima Anam
  18. Vivek Kundra
  19. Benjamin Netanyahu
  20. Yusuf Raza Gilani
  21. Sam Manekshaw
  22. Vikram Pandit
  23. Indra Nooyi
  24. Rafael Nadal
  25. Morgan Tsvangirai
  26. Nirupam Sen
  27. Madhav Kumar Nepal
  28. Madhu Kannan
  29. 64
  30. C P Gurnani
  31. Arvind Adiga
  32. David Morgan
  33. K G Balakrishnan
  34. D. Subbarao
  35. G E Vahanvati
  36. O P Bhatt
  37. Mr. Harsh Pati Singhania
  38. S K Thorat
  39. G. Madhavan
  40. Dr. Vijay Kelkar
  41. Sun Microsystems
  42. Peso
  43. Experience
  44. Joe Biden
  45. Malaysia
  46. Pete Sampras and Roger Federer
  47. Imperial Bank of India
  48. Germany
  49. Mumbai
  50. Dilip Kumar

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