General Awareness Questions | RBI GRADE "B" AND NICL AO 2017 | 24.05.2017

1. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) in May 2017 banned open defecation and dumping of waste on the floodplains of this river. 

a) Krishna 
b) Yamuna
c) Ganga
d) Tapti 
e) None of these

2. Cabinet of this country has approved a bill that will allow its emperor to abdicate this thrown to allow the prince crown to take charge of the same. 
a) Japan
b) UAE
c) North Korea
d) Myanmar
e) None of these

3. As per a new report of the UNICEF, how many unaccompanied and separated children moving across borders were registered in 80 countries in 2015–16?
a) 300000
b) 250000
c) 66000
d) 98000
e) None of these

4. Who of the following won the All India Open Rapid FIDE Rating Chess Tournament?
a) Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury
b) Somak Palit
c) Prantik Roy
d) R R Laxman
e) None of these

5. President Pranab Mukherjee recently received the first copy of book ‘Metaphysics, Morals and Politics.’ Who is the author of the book?
a) Shirin M Rai
b) Baldav Raj Nayar
c) Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay
d) Sumantra Bose
e) None of these

6. Which Indian wildlife activist won the 2017 Whitley Awards?
a) Sanjay Gubbi
b) Naresh Kadyan
c) Aruna Sabhane
d) Shahriar Kabir
e) None of these

7. Anil Madhav Dave, who passed away recently, was the Union Minister of which department?
a) Labour and Employment
b) Environment, Forest and Climate Change
c) Petroleum and Natural Gas
d) Health & Family Welfare
e) None of these

8. Which Indian scientist won the 2017 Dan David prize in the “Future” category?
a) Dronamraju Krishna Rao
b) Biman Bagchi
c) Shrinivas Kulkarni
d) Har Gobind Khorana
e) None of these

9. Which Indian-American student won the 2017 National Geographic Bee contest?
a) Veda Bhattaram
b) George Sudarshan
c) Jayant Narlikar
d) Pranay Varada 
e) None of these

10. Which HADR Exercise of Indian Navy began recently?
a) Jalrahat
b) Prakampana
c) Sahayata
d) Karavali Karunya
e) None of these

ASNWER
1. (b) Yamuna
2. (a) Japan
3. (a) 300000
4. (d) R R Laxman
5. (c) Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay
6. (a) Sanjay Gubbi
7. (b) Environment, Forest and Climate Change
8. (c) Shrinivas Kulkarni
9. (d) Pranay Varada
10. (d) Karavali Karunya