General Awareness Questions for Insurance Exams

1).Which space programmes of India have won the 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the science and engineering category from the US-based National Space Society (NSS)?

a) Mars Orbiter Mission

b) GSAT MK-III

c) IRNSS

d) PSLV-23

e) GSAT-16

2).The World Hindi Day is observed on______.

a) 10 January

b) 14 September

c) 26 April

d) 4 February

e) 15 March

3).The ‘Government of the Year’ award has been given to ______________ at the Central Banking Awards for 2015.

a) Graeme Wheeler

b) Janet Yellen

c) Haruhiko Kuroda

d) Raghuram Rajan

e) None of these

4).Which Central bank has received the ‘Central Banking of the Year’ award at the Central Banking Awards for 2015?

a) Federal Reserve

b) Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ)

c) Bank of Japan (BOJ)

d) European Central Bank (ECB)

e) Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

5).Idukki has become India’s first remote district connected with the Hi-speed Rural Broadband Network (NOFN). It is situated at ______.

a) Kerala

b) Tamil Nadu

c) Maharashtra

d) Goa

e) Gujarat

6).On 10 January people from 11 countries walked through a 13 km- long stretch in the first Buddha Heritage Walk in which states recently? Lord Gautam Buddha had once travelled the stretch.

a) Arunachal Pradesh

b) Sikkim

c) Bihar

d) Madhya Pradesh

e) Uttar Pradesh

7).The Reserve Bank of the India (RBI) revised the Repo rate on 15 January, ______ is the new Repo rate?

a) 7.5 per cent

b) 7.75 per cent

c) 8 per cent

d) 7 per cent

e) None of these

8).The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has declared four sites in India as Adarsh Monuments recently. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

a) Konark Sun Temple, Odisha

b) Rang Ghar, Assam

c) Vaishali- Kolhua, Bihar

d) Hazarduari Palace, West Bengal

e) Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple, Tamil Nadu

9).Surendra Kumar Sinha has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of ________, he is the first Hindu to hold the highest judicial post in the Muslim-Majority Country.

a) Iraq

b) Bangladesh

c) Maldives

d) Pakistan

e) Indonesia

10).Who has clinched the FIFA world footballer of the year award, popularly called Ballon d’ Or award in football?

a) Lionel Messi

b) Manuel Neuer

c) Cristiano Ronaldo

d) James Rodriguez

e) None of these

Answers: 

1). a) 2). a) 3). d) 4). b) 5). a) 6). c) 7).b ) 8). e) 9). b) 10). c)