General Awareness Questions | RBI GRADE "B" AND NICL AO 2017 | 16.05.2017

1. Name the Indian wrestler who won a bronze medal in the Greco-Roman weight divisions in 80kg category on the opening day of the Asian Wrestling Championship. 

a) Gurpreet Singh
b) Harpreet Singh
c) Ravinder Singh 
d) Hardeep Singh
e) None of these

2. What is the theme of the 2017 World Thalassaemia Day (WTD)? 

a) Together for Humanity 
b) Access to Safe & Effective Drugs in Thalassaemia 
c) Thalassemia: Knowledge is Strength
d) Patients Rights Revisited 
e) None of these

3. Who was appointed as Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India? 

a) Husain Haqqani 
b) Sohail Mahmood 
c) Abdul Basit 
d) Maleeha Lodhi 
e) None of these

4. Which award(s) is/are part of the ‘Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil’?

a) Tolkappiyar award
b) Kural Peedam 
c) Young Scholar awards
d) All of the above
e) None of these

5. Cashback portal Cashkaro.com tied up with which private sector bank to launch card-linked offers for both offline and online shoppers?

a) Axis Bank
b) Yes Bank
c) ICICI Bank
d) HDFC Bank
e) None of these

6. India’s largest cab aggregator Ola partnered with which company to launch a range of integrated digital offerings to customers?

a) Reliance Jio
b) Vodafone
c) Airtel
d) Idea Cellular
e) None of these

7. The Season II of Indian Speed Star culminated on 10 May 2017 in New Delhi with selection of 7 athletes. Name the organisation that organised the event.

a) NTPC
b) GAIL
c) IFFCO
d) SAIL
e) None of these

8. Name the state that in recent past decided to merge the local bodies of twin-temple towns.

a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Kerala
d) Gujarat
e) None of these

9. The Union Government has created a task force on employment data. Who of the following will be chairing the task force? 

a) M. Sathiyavathy
b) Pulak Ghosh
c) Manish Sabharwal
d) Arvind Panagariya 
e) None of these

10. Kallazhagar avtar of Lord Vishnu entering Vaigai river festival was held in this Indian city in May 2017.

a) Madurai 
b) Kochi
c) Mathura
d) Vrindavan
e) None of these

ANSWER

1. (b) Harpreet Singh
2. (a) Together for Humanity
3. (b) Sohail Mahmood
4. (d) All of the above
5. (b) Yes Bank
6. (c) Airtel
7. (b) GAIL
8. (b) Uttar Pradesh
9. (d) Arvind Panagariya 
10. (a) Madurai