General Awareness Questions | RBI GRADE "B" AND NICL AO 2017 | 15.06.2017

1. India’s Rohan Bopanna in June 2017 won the mixed doubles title of the French Open of Tennis with his Canadian teammate. Who of the following was his teammate during this triumph?
a) Anna-Lena Groenefeld 
b) Robert Farah
c) Alicja Rosolska
d) Gabriela Dabrowski
e) None of these

2. India’s Rohan Bopanna with his Canadian teammate has won the mixed doubles title of the 2017 French Open of Tennis. Name the mixed pair that was defeated by the Indo-Canadian pair to win the title.
a) Gabriela Dabrowski and Robert Farah
b) Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Robert Farah
c) Gabriela Dabrowski and Anna-Lena Groenefeld
d) Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Sania Mirza
e) None of these


3. Who of the following is the author of the book, “Who has seen the Wind”?
a) Dorothy Livesay 
b) WO Mitchell
c) Hugh MacLennan
d) Margaret Laurence 
e) None of these

4. Name the eminent historian and former chairman of Indian Council for Historical Research passed away in Guwahati in June 2017.
a) Bipin Chandra 
b) Basudev Chatterji
c) Gangmumei Kamei 
d) DN Namboodiri 
e) None of these

5. Name the institution/organisation that in its report said that stressed assets of Indian banks will increase through 2019 and capitalisation will remain a key credit weakness for state-owned lenders. 
a) World Bank
b) Moody’s 
c) Fitch & Smera
d) CRISIL
e) None of these

6. Name the south-Indian state whose State Tourism Department is holding a three-day full moon festival at Oravakallu, a natural landscape of regal rock formations, beginning on 9 June 2017.
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Telangana 
c) Odisha
d) Karnataka 
e) None of these

7. Name the cricketer who was recently inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame?
a) Muttiah Muralidaran
b) Niroshan Dickwella
c) Danushka Gunathilaka
d) Chamara Kapugedara
e) None of these

8. What was the theme of 2017 World Oceans Day? 
a) Our Oceans, Our Future 
b) Protect your Ocean 
c) Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet 
d) Youth: the Next Wave for Change 
e) None of these

9. Consider the following statements with respect to exoplanet ‘KELT-9b’ discovered recently:
I. It is cooler than the most of the stars in the universe.
II. It has a day-side temperature of 4326 degree C which is only 926 degree Celsius cooler than Sun.
Choose the correct option
a) Only I
b) Only II
c) Both I and II
d) None of the above
e) None of these

10. India recently signed the multilateral convention in Paris to implement tax treaty-related measures to prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS). The BEPS was launched by which of the following projects?
a) International Monetary Fund (IMF) project
b) Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) project
c) Group of 20 countries (G-20) project
d) Both (B) and (C)
e) None of these


ANSWER
1. (d) Gabriela Dabrowski
2. (b) Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Robert Farah
3. (b) WO Mitchell
4. (b) Basudev Chatterji
5. (b) Moody’s 
6. (a) Andhra Pradesh
7. (a) Muttiah Muralidaran
8. (a) Our Oceans, Our Future
9. (b) Only II
10. (d) Both (b) and (c)