General Awareness Test (Jan - 15) - Set 5

ANSWER: 27th Jan’15

Explanation:
In the Auschwitz Concentration Camp situated in Poland, where around 1.1 million people, with vast majority of Jews, were killed between 1940 and 1945.

ANSWER: Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Lala Lajpat Rai

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

Explanation:
He was appointed as India's ambassador to United States in September 2013. He has replaced Sujata Singh who had nearly seven more months to go.

ANSWER: Vodafone is not liable to pay Rs 3,200 crore in additional tax in a transfer pricing case.

Explanation:
The High Court had in its October 10, 2014 order handed a big relief to the UK-based mobile service provider by ruling that it is not liable to pay the income tax demand of Rs 3,200 crore.

ANSWER: Sex determination

Explanation:
The court also directed the search engines to upload on their policy page and the terms of service page its order that they would not advertise or sponsor any advertisement which violated Section 22 of Prohibition of advertisement relating to pre-natal determination of sex (PC-PNDT) Act.

ANSWER: Tehran’s Nuclear Program

Explanation:
Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi and Deputy Foreign Minister for European and American Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi will pursue nuclear talks with the European deputy foreign ministers in Istanbul.

ANSWER: Kenya

Explanation:
Purple Tea contains lower caffeine and high in antioxidants. It also improves vision and lowers cholesterol.

ANSWER: Uttar Pradesh

Explanation:
The National Livelihood Mission will be implemented in the cities having a population of one lakh and above as per census of 2011. Currently, there are 82 such cities and towns which also include all the 75 district head quarters. The population living below the poverty line in these cities will be the target of the Mission. The NLM programme of the government of India will replace the Swarna Jayanti Urban Programme run by Housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry.

ANSWER: Jute

Explanation:
It will be minimum 90 per cent of production in case of food grains and 20 per cent for sugar. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, CCEA, has approved providing financial support to the Jute Corporation of India, JCI. The subsidy will be provided subsidy to JCI on a continuous basis to off-set the losses on account of Minimum Support Price (MSP) operations.

ANSWER: 10%

Explanation:
The decision will help the government to raise revenue of 24,000 crore rupees at the current market price. Currently, the government holds 89.65 per cent stake in CIL. As per the minimum shareholding norms for listed companies, the government needs to lower its stake in the state-run behemoth to 75 percent.

ANSWER: Reliance Communications

Explanation:
The ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, the 11th edition of cricket's flagship event, gets underway on 14th February.

ANSWER: U.S. Dollar

Explanation:
U.S. Dollar topped the chart with 44.6%, followed by the Euro and the British Pound with 28.3% and 7.92%, respectively. Whereas Chinese Yuan accounted for a record 2.17% of global payments in December 2014, up from 1.59% in October 2014.

ANSWER: Apple

Explanation:
Apple recorded quarterly profits of $18 billion on 27th Jan’15. Apple sold 74.5 million iPhones in its fiscal first quarter ended December 2014.

ANSWER: Lizard Squad

Explanation:
Lizard Squad group claimed responsibility for hacking everyone's favourite pop star Taylor Swift’s Twitter and Instagram accounts. The group also said they were responsible for a series of hacks on Microsoft and Sony’s online gaming networks over the Christmas period.

ANSWER: Arundhati Subramaniam

Explanation:
Arundhati Subramaniam won the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for poetry of her work ‘When God is Traveller’ at the Jaipur Literature Festival.

ANSWER: Steve Smith

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Sean Abbott

Explanation:
Australian’s Young Cricketer of the year is also known as Bradman Award.

ANSWER: Mahatma Gandhi

Explanation:
On this day in 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated at a prayer meeting.

ANSWER: 30th January

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Shekhar Sen

Explanation:
He is famous for his mono act musical plays Tulsi, Kabeer, Vivekananda, Sanmanti, Saahab and Soordas which have been highly acclaimed.

ANSWER: Portuguese Cabinet

Explanation:
Many Sephardic Jews were killed, forced to convert to Christianity or leave at the end of the 15th Century. From now on, descendants of Sephardic Jews who can prove a strong link to Portugal can apply for a passport.

ANSWER: Katsuhiro Otomo

Explanation:
The awarding of the Grand Prix, which last year awarded "Calvin and Hobbes" creator Bill Watterson, to Otomo highlights the importance of mangas in France, where they represent a quarter of all comic book sales.

ANSWER: Mohammad Amir

Explanation:
Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were handed bans in February 2011. Mohd. Amir's ban was due to expire on 2 September, 2015 but he has been cleared to play domestic cricket in Pakistan.

ANSWER: India

Explanation:
In the year 2016, it will be the 6th edition of T-20 World Cup.

ANSWER: Shirani Bhandaranayake

Explanation:
She is the first woman to hold Judicial position in the year 2011.

ANSWER: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Explanation:
It will be the first time a South American and Lusophone city will host the event.

ANSWER: Building Infrastructure - Building the Nation

Explanation:
The Vision of NHIDCL is to be an instrument for creation and management of infrastructure of the highest standard in the country with focus on the North East and Border areas and contribute significantly towards nation building.

ANSWER: World Bank

Explanation:
As per the report, Per capita income in Himachal Pradesh is the second highest in the country – an impressive achievement given that more than 90 percent of its residents live in rural areas.

ANSWER: Himachal Pradesh

Explanation:
Himachal Pradesh is also a trail-blazer in sanitation and is the first among its north Indian neighbours to come close to becoming open defecation free.

ANSWER: HDFC Bank

Explanation:
HDFC Bank would raise the fund through issuing of equity shares to non-resident Indians (NRIs) or foreign institutional investors (FIIs) or foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) subject to aggregate foreign shareholding not exceeding 74 per cent of the post issue paid up capital.

ANSWER: Steve Easterbrook

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Babu Jagjivan Ram Chhatrawas Yojana

Explanation:
The court directed the centre and State governments to carry out a survey and inform about the status of hostels being constructed under the scheme within four months. A social justice bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and U U Lalit also directed that construction of new hostels under the scheme should be expedited and posted the matter for further hearing on 20th July.

ANSWER: Jayanthi Natarajan

Explanation:
She claimed that she followed Rahul Gandhi’s directions on green nod to projects but was humiliated and sidelined by central leadership. Jayanthi Natarajan has also quit as the trustee of the Tamil Nadu unit Congress.

ANSWER: 23

Explanation:
Growth was down by 4.3 percentage points compared to 2012 and 1.6 percentage points lower than that for 2013. China's annual economic growth slowed to 7.4 percent last year, the weakest expansion in 24 years. The Ministry said, slower growth is in line with the weak performance of industrial output, consumption, investment and corporate profits.

ANSWER: 2011-12

Explanation:
The base year was last revised in January 2010. Earlier, year 2004-05 was the base year for computing the economic growth rate. India Ratings (Ind-Ra), a leading rating agency of the county, on 28th Jan’15 said that the revision in base year of India’s national accounts will increase the size of the economy to Rs. 111.7 trillion in the financial year 2014-15.

ANSWER: 6.9%

Explanation:
These changes follow a revision in the base for calculating national accounts to 2011-12 from 2004-05.

ANSWER: Shri R Gandhi

Explanation:
The committee will examine the line of businesses that UCBs may be permitted to undertake and their benchmark in terms of size of business, capital requirement, regulatory regime etc. It will also suggest the appropriate size up to which a UCB may be able to grow without undue risk to the system. The committee will further suggest the criteria for allowing voluntary conversion by a UCB. RBI has also asked the committee to examine whether the time is opportune to give license to new UCBs.

ANSWER: 1.07 times

Explanation:
This is the biggest share sale by any private or public sector company in the country, and exceeds the previous stake sale record of over Rs 15,000 crore by Coal India itself, in 2010.

ANSWER: 26%

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: China

Explanation:
China toppled the US in 2014 as the world's largest recipient of the FDI- a position that the US had been holding almost consistently since the 1980's- though with a modest increase of 3 per cent. The top five FDI hosts in 2014 were China with 128 billion US dollar, followed by Hong Kong 111 billion dollar, the United States 86 billion, Singapore 81 billion dollar and Brazil 62 billion dollar.

ANSWER: Telepresence

Explanation:
Telepresence offers a more engaging video conference with cutting edge technology, so that the parties involved feel the immersive presence of participants at different locations. The service is designed to improve collaboration, save executive time, reduce costs and carbon footprint with no capital investment and obsolescence risk.

ANSWER: Kumar Sangakkara

Explanation:
He achieved his 473rd dismissal in ODIs when he caught Corey Anderson in the final ODI against New Zealand that was played at Wellington.

ANSWER: Dr VK Saraswat

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Krishna Chaudhary

Explanation:
The 1979-batch Bihar cadre officer is presently working as the Director General of the Railway Protection Force. The post of ITBP DG has been vacant since January 1 after the retirement of Subhas Goswami on December 31 last year.

ANSWER: Krishna Chaudhary

Explanation:
He is Senior IPS Officer and succeeded Subhas Goswami.