General Awareness Questions | NICL AO 2017 | 01.05.2017

1. What is the theme of the 2017 World Press Freedom Day that will be celebrated by the UNESCO in Jakarta, Indonesia?

a) Access to Information and Fundamental Freedoms 

b) Let Journalism Thrive! Towards Better Reporting, Gender Equality, and Safety in the Digital Age 

c) Media Freedom for a Better Future

d) Critical Minds for Critical Times: Media’s role in advancing peaceful, just and inclusive societies

e) None of these

2. Which of the following shorts films has been selected by UNESCO to screen as a part of the World Press Freedom Day celebrations in Indonesia?

a) Positive

b) Dying to be Me

c) Azaad

d) Makhmal

e) None of these

3. Which country became the first in world to ban metals mining?

a) Australia

b) El Salvador

c) Peru

d) New Zealand

e) None of these

4. Name the Oscar-winning director of the movie The Silence of the Lambs who passed away recently.

a) Jonathan Demme 

b) Roger Corman

c) Martin Scorsese

d) William Wyler

e) None of the above

5. Name the Indian city that has bagged the Pierre L'Enfant Planning Excellence and Achievement Awards-2017 that was instituted by the American Planning Association (APA).

a) Mumbai

b) Chennai 

c) Bhubaneswar

d) Kolkata

e) None of the above

6. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has entered into which planet’s unexplored region?

a) Mars

b) Saturn

c) Jupiter

d) Venus

e) None of the above

7. Who of the following won the UNESCO’s Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize?

a) Giuseppe Bottai

b) Giuseppina Nicolini

c) Alfredo Siniscalchi

d) Francesco Camero Medici

e) None of the above

8. Which of the following Indian Navy Ships is currently undertaking a hydrographic survey of Weligama Bay along with Sri Lankan Navy?

a) INS Darshak

b) INS Arihant

c) INS Rajput

d) INS Shardul

e) None of the above

9. What is the theme of the 2017 International Mother Earth Day?

a) Trees for the Earth

b) It's Our Turn to Lead 

c) Green Cities

d) Environmental & Climate Literacy

e) None of the above

10. Name the country whose lawmakers had approved package of security measures, partially ban burqa.

a) Scotland

b) Germany 

c) Britain

d) China

e) None of the above

ANSWER

1. (d) Critical Minds for Critical Times: Media’s role in advancing peaceful, just and inclusive societies

2. (c) Azaad

3. (b) El Salvador

4. (a) Jonathan Demme

5. (c) Bhubaneswar

6. (b) Saturn

7. (b) Giuseppina Nicolini

8. (a) INS Darshak

9. (d) Environmental & Climate Literacy

10. (b) Germany