General Awareness Questions | NIACL Assistant 2017 | 22.03.2017

1. The committee that was constituted on 29 February 2016 to consider Scheduled Tribe status to six Communities of Assam by Union Government will be headed by?

1) Ajay Shankar

2) Amit Mitra

3) Arvind Subramanian

4) Mahesh Kumar Singla

5) None of these

2. Name the country that on 29 February 2016 declared three week emergency after a major oil pipeline burst affecting two rivers, namely Chiriaco and Morona. 

1) Peru

2) Chile

3) Brazil

4) Bolivia 

5) None of these

3. Who was signed as Cricbuzz's Expert for ICC World T20 on 29 February 2016?

1) Virat Kohli

2) Virender Sehwag

3) MS Dhoni

4) Zaheer Khan

5) None of these

4. Identify the socialist leader and former Maharashtra Minister, who died on 29 February 2016 in Nashik.

1) Nihal Ahmed Maulavi Mohammed Usma

2) SM Joshi

3) VP Singh

4) IK Gujral

5) None of these

5. Identify the Bollywood actress, who made her debut on the Oscars red carpet and presented the award on 29 February 2016. 

1) Deepika Padukone

2) Priyanka Chopra

3) Kareena Kapoor

4) Aiswarya Rai Bachhan

5) None of these

6. Who won the best actor award in the 88th Academy Awards on 29 February 2016? 

1) Bryan Cranston, Trumbo

2) Matt Damon, The Martian

3) Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs

4) Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant

5) None of these

7. Who won the best director award in the 88th Academy Awards (Oscar) on 29 February 2016?

1) Thomas Joseph

2) Lenny Abrahamson

3) Alejandro González Iñárritu

4) George Miller

5) None of these

8. Who was the famous Tamil Comedy actor who died on 28 February 2016 in Chennai?

1) Kumarimuthu

2) Mahadevan

3) Deven Varma

4) Nagesh

5) None of these

9. Who on 28 February 2016 won the FMSCI Motorsports Man-of-the-Year Trophy?

1) Armaan Ebrahim

2) Karun Chandhok

3) Lee Keshav

4) Arjun Maini

5) None of these

10. Identify the State in which the Baghmara mine is located. It became the first gold mine in the country to be auctioned in February 2016.

1) Karnataka

2) Chhattisgarh

3) Rajasthan

4) Madhya Pradesh

5) None of these

11. Which company on 27 February 2016 bagged the Baghmara gold mine in auction?

1) Vedanta Resources

2) Bharat Aluminium Company

3) Sterlite Industries

4) Hutti Gold Mines

5) None of these

12. Which state on 27 February 2016 was declared as the first digital state in India?

1) Karnataka

2) Kerala

3) Odisha

4) Telangana

5) None of these

13. Social networking site Twitter on 26 February 2016 launched #PositionOfStrength campaign in India to tackle which social issue?

1) Poverty

2) Caste Discrimination 

3) Women Empowerment

4) Child Labour

5) None of these

14. Identify the photographer who on 25 February 2016 was named Sports Photographer of the Year at the 2015 Picture Editors’ Guild awards.

1) James Glossop

2) Samir Hussein

3) James Hardisty

4) Tom Jenkins

5) None of these

15. The cement units of Jaiprakash Associates Limited on 28 February 2016 were acquired for 16500 crore rupees by which cement company?

1) Shree Cement

2) UltraTech Cement Limited

3) Ambuja Cements

4) JK Laxmi Cement

5) None of these

Answers

1-(4) 6-(4) 11-(1)

2-(1) 7-(3) 12-(2)

3-(2) 8-(1) 13-(3)

4-(1) 9-(1) 14-(3)

5-(2) 10-(2) 15-(2)