General Awareness Questions | NIACL Assistant 2017 | 22.04.2017

1. Advanced Farming – Enriched Farmer scheme was launched by a state for helping the farmers to increase their income. Name the state that has launched the scheme.

a) Telangana
b) Biharc) Madhya Pradesh
d) Maharashtra 
e) None

2. Name the progressive rock and jazz fusion guitar pioneer who passed away recently.
a) Allan Holdsworth
b) Eric Clapton
c) B.B. King
d) George Harrison
e) None

3. Identify the actor, best known for his roles as Sheriff J.W. Pepper in the James Bond movies, who dies recently.
a) Roger Moore
b) Timothy Dalton
c) David Niven
d) Clifton James
e) None

4. Who of the following recently won the Asian Billiards Championship?
a) Sourav Kothari
b) Geeth Sethi
c) Pankaj Advani
d) Devendra Joshi
e) None

5. Who of the following won the 2017 Bahrain Grand Prix?
a) Nico Rosberg
b) Sebastian Vettel
c) Lewis Hamilton
d) Valtteri Bottas
e) None

6. Name the badminton player who recently grabbed the 2017 Singapore Open Men’s Singles title.
a) B Sai Praneeth
b) Kidambi Srikanth
c) Chetan Anand
d) Aditya Joshi
e) None

7. Name the satellite that will be launched by ISRO to cater to complete south Asia. 
a) South Asia Satellite
b) ISRO for South Asia
c) SAARC satellite
d) North Asia Satellite
e) None

8. Which state celebrated its 70th Foundation Day recently?
a) Uttarakhand
b) Bihar
c) Himachal Pradesh
d) Karnataka
e) None

9. Which Indian environmental engineer won the 2017 Cartier Women’s Initiative Award? 
a) Trupti Jain 
b) Kirti Bose 
c) Megha Dixit
d) Atulya Khannae) None

10. Which countries held their first-ever joint military exercise Sagarmatha Friendship-2017? 
a) Nepal and Myanmar 
b) China and Nepal 
c) Myanmar and China 
d) Bhutan and Myanmar 
e) None

ANSWER
1. (d) Maharashtra 
2. (a) Allan Holdsworth
3. (d) Clifton James
4. (c) Pankaj Advani
5. (b) Sebastian Vettel
6. (a) B Sai Praneeth
7. (a) South Asia Satellite
8. (c) Himachal Pradesh
9. (a) Trupti Jain
10. (b) China and Nepal