12 MAY 2015 KUNDAN SIR GENERAL AWARENESS

12 MAY 2015

Ques. : 1 India has appointed who among the following as the chief of the BRICS Bank or the New Development Bank?
1) KV Kamath
2) Kaushik Basu
3) Arvind Subramanian
4) Raghuram Rajan
5) YV Reddy
Answer:- 1) KV Kamath

Ques. : 2 As informed by the govt to the Lok Sabha, it will award how many kilometers of highways for the year 2015-16 to meet the construction target of 30 km of roads per day during the next two years?
1) 10,000 km
2) 8,000 km
3) 7,000 km
4) 4,000 km
5) None of these
Answer:- 1) 10,000 km

Ques. : 3 The RBI has asked all PSBs and the leading private and foreign banks to engage chief customer service officer (CCSO) or internal ombudsman. The RBI introduced the banking ombudsman scheme in
1) 1991
2) 1995
3) 1999
4) 2001
5) 2009
Answer:- 2) 1995

Ques. : 4 Economist Alexandre Lamfalussy died on 9 May. He was one of the founding fathers of the
1) Asian Development Bank
2) World Economic Forum
3) European single currency euro
4) General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
5) None of these
Answer:- 3) European single currency euro

Ques. : 5 The HDFC has made it to world's top-10 list of consumer finance firms compiled by Forbes’ magazine. The list is topped by
1) Franshion Properties
2) Hua Nan Financial
3) CITI Group
4) Mastercard
5) American Express
Answer:- 5) American Express

Ques. : 6 Shashi Kapoor was presented Dada Saheb Phalke award for 2014 on 10 May. Who was the winner of the coveted award for 2013?
1) Shammi Kapoor
2) Pran
3) Soumitra Chatterjee
4) Gulzar
5) Dilip Kumar
Answer:- 4) Gulzar

Ques. : 7 Name the Indian tech billionaire who has been ranked as Asia's wealthiest entrepreneur under the age of 40, according to the Wealth-X list released on 11 May.
1) Kunal Bahl
2) Sachin Bansal
3) Rishi Sunak
4) Arun Pudur
5) None of these
Answer:- 4) Arun Pudur

Ques. : 8 The Indian-origin Priti Patel got Cabinet rank in the new govt in which of the following countries recently?
1) Canada
2) UK
3) Norway
4) Spain
5) None of these
Answer:- 2) UK

Ques. : 9 Indian hockey team defeated which of the following teams 4-0 in a 4-match series on 9 May in Bhubaneshwar?
1) Japan
2) Malaysia
3) South Korea
4) Pakistan
5) None of these
Answer:- 1) Japan

Ques. : 10 Who won the Spanish Grand Prix F1 championship on 10 May?
1) Kimi Raikkonen
2) Valtteri Bottas
3) Sebastian Vettel
4) Lewis Hamilton
5) Nico Rosberg
Answer:- 5) Nico Rosberg