General Knowledge - 1 (Fire Operator Exam)

General Knowledge - 1

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign was launched on ___ birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

  1. 140th
  2. 142nd
  3. 150th
  4. 147th
  5. 149th
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following was not inducted as a Cabinet Minister in the first expansion of the Modi government?

  1. Manohar Parrikar
  2. J. P. Nadda
  3. Suresh Prabhu
  4. Jayant Sinha
  5. Birender Singh
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following districts became the 18th district of Arunachal Pradesh in November 2014?

  1. Upper Dibang Valley
  2. Namsai
  3. Papum Pare
  4. Upper Siang
  5. Upper Subansiri
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who won the 2014 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold Badminton Title in November 2014?

  1. Kim Hyo Min
  2. Sun Yu
  3. P. V. Sindhu
  4. Wang Shixian
  5. Saina Nehwal
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Where was the 18th SAARC Summit held?

  1. Bangladesh
  2. Nepal
  3. Maldives
  4. Bhutan
  5. Sir Lanka
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In November 2014, which of the following housing finance companies named Shah Rukh Khan as its brand ambassador?

  1. DHFL
  2. IHFL
  3. HDFC
  4. CHFL
  5. PNBHFL
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following countries urged International Monetary Fund (IMF) to cancel debt of Ebola-stricken countries?

  1. The UK
  2. Guinea
  3. The US
  4. Sierra Leone
  5. Liberia
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In November 2014, which of the following cities banned smoking in all indoor public spaces like workplaces and public transport vehicles?

  1. Shanghai
  2. Guangzhou
  3. Macau
  4. Beijing
  5. Lhasa
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following companies launched the web-based email service ‘Verse’?

  1. Oracle
  2. IBM
  3. Accenture
  4. Microsoft
  5. Google
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following was nominated by the Union Government to replace Gurdial Singh Sandhu as Director on the Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India?

  1. Dr. Hasmukh Adhia
  2. Y. C. Deveshwar
  3. G. M. Rao
  4. Anil Kokodkar
  5. Kiran Karnik
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following pairs was among the list of five authors shortlisted for the DSC Prize for the year 2015?

  1. Amitav Ghosh and Kiran Desai
  2. Arundhati Roy and Vikram Seth
  3. Chetan Bhagat and Anita Desai
  4. Jhumpa Lahiri and Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
  5. Shashi Tharoor and Rohinton Mistry
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following was appointed as the new Secretary General of the Lok Sabha in November 2014?

  1. Anoop Mishra
  2. T. K. Viswanathan
  3. S. Bal Shekhar
  4. M. Thambidurai
  5. P. T. D. Acharya
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following laureates were awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine?

  1. Randy W. Schekman, James E. Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof
  2. Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka
  3. Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann
  4. John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser
  5. Robert G. Edwards and Randy W. Schekman