General Knowledge 16 february 2016

Ques. : 1 Stretching their winning run to 40, Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy recently defeating
1) Vera Dushevina and Barbora Krejcikova
2) Chan Yung-jan and Zheng Jie
3) Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova
4) Kimberly Birrell and Priscilla Hon
5) Jessica Moore and Storm Sanders
Answer:- 1) Vera Dushevina and Barbora Krejcikova

Ques. : 2 Biraja Prasad, who died recently, was the India's present ambassador to
1) Kazakhstan
2) Turkmenistan
3) Ukraine
4) Tajikistan
5) Uzbekistan
Answer:- 4) Tajikistan

Ques. : 3 Albert Pahimi Padacke has been appointed as the new prime minister of
1) Chad
2) Algeria
3) Namibia
4) Kenya
5) Nigeria
Answer:- 1) Chad

Ques. : 4 Which of the following firms won the award for best in class for manufacturing at the inaugural TIME India awards?
1) Ajanta Pharma Limited
2) Hero MotoCorp
3) Tata Steel
4) JSW Steel
5) Nestle India
Answer:- 3) Tata Steel

Ques. : 5 The joint military exercise ‘Lamitye 2016’ was held by Indian Army and their counterparts from which country recently?
1) Mauritius
2) Singapore
3) Malaysia
4) Indonesia
5) Seychelles
Answer:- 5) Seychelles

Ques. : 6 Which of the following films won the Best Film award at the 69th BAFTA Awards 2016?
1) Spotlight
2) Bridge of Spies
3) The Revenant
4) Brooklyn
5) Room
Answer:- 3) The Revenant

Ques. : 7 The RBI has announced to inject adequate additional liquidity to support banks using tools like LAF. The term LAF stands for
1) Liquidity Advancement Facility
2) Liquidity Adjustment Facility
3) Liquidity Adequacy Facility
4) Liquidity Approval Facility
5) None of these
Answer:- 2) Liquidity Adjustment Facility

Ques. : 8 M Devaraja Reddy recently took over as the President of which of the following institutes?
1) IGNOU 2) IIT Delhi
3) IIM Ahmedabad
4) ICAI
5) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Answer:- 4) ICAI

Ques. : 9 Who among the following received the Pride of Kerala Award from the World Malayalee Council recently?
1) Asin
2) Sridevi
3) Vidya Balan
4) Hema Malini
5) Rekha
Answer:- 3) Vidya Balan

Ques. : 10 The Trade and Development Agency of which country inked a pact with the Andhra Pradesh Govt to develop infrastructure, communications and data systems in Visakhapatnam to make it a Smart City?
1) France
2) China
3) Singapore
4) US
5) Germany
Answer:- 4) US