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Vizag Steel General Awareness question paper

1, which was put in orbit in April 2012 by PSLV-C19, is the heaviest satellite launched by India so far with a weight of
1,858 kg

3.The two-day 20th ASEAN Summit was held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2012 in the month of
April

4.Abd-Rabbu Mansour was recently elected as the President of which one of the following Arab nation?
Yemen

5.Name the Tamil author who was announced the winner of the Saraswati Samman 2011 by K.K. Birla Foundation announced on March 22, 2012 for his book Irama Kathaiyum Iramayakalum.
A.A. Manavalan

6.Which legendary versatile Bengali actor was on March 21,2012 selected for India's highest film honour the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2012?
Soumitra Chatterjee

7.Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh during his tour of Maharashtra's Satara district announced on March 11,2012 a national award for sanitation and water in the name of which of the following Maharashtrian saints?
Sant Gadge Baba

8.Akali Dal Chief Prakash Singh Badal, sworn in as the chief minister of Punjab on March 14, 2012. Badal became the chief minister of the state for-
Fifth time

9.Which one of the following state governments imposed restrictions on the visit of foreign tourists to the areas inhabited by Tribals?
Odisha

10.Indian black eagle was spotted in the Aravali Biodiversity park after a gap of ____ years.
90

11. Name the freedom fighter with picture of whom Rs.5 coin would be introduced by RBI.
Ans. Bhagat Singh


12. Name the news search engine introduced by Rediff.com
Ans. Relatime News Search

13. Tiger brand is associated with which company?
Ans. Britannia

14. Name the cricketer who was honoured with lifetime membership the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Ans. Sachin Tendulkar

15. Which country has been ranked as the world’s richest country in the list compiled by US magazine Forbes?
Ans. Qatar

16. Which country did India beat to qualify for London Olympics men’s hockey 2012?
Ans. France

17. Name the service that is to be launched by Times Group to enable viewers to watch movies and TV shows online.
Ans. BoxTV.com

18. Name the football player who led India to the gold in the inaugural Asian Games in New Delhi who passed away recently.
Ans. Sailendra Nath Manna

19. Who won the Allan Border medal (Australia cricketer of the year) award 2012?
Ans. Michael Clarke

19. Which west Asian country approved for new constitution recently?
Ans. Syria

20. Which model of Nokia phone has been built with 41-megapixel sensor camera?
Ans. Nokia 808 Pureview camera phone

21 Name the digital music store launched by flipkart.com.
Ans. Flyte

22. Name the online property search portal launched by HDFC in Kolkata
Ans. HDFC Red

23. Name the application launched by Vigyan Prasar and IGNOU as a free SMS service for mobile users that delivers content on science and related areas.
Ans. Science@Mobile

24 Name the Kerala-based UAE business magnate who was awarded with Interfaith Harmony Award at Kuala Lumpur.
Ans. M.A.Yusuf Ali

25. Which country has India agreed ‘in-principle’ to the participation in hydro power-projects in the North-East?
Ans. Bangladesh

26. Name the Tech-savvy state which set a record by winning the National Tourism Award for its website for 5th time in last 10 years.
Ans. Kerala

27. Who has been appointed as brand ambassador of fruit drink maker rasna?
Ans. Genelia D’souza

28 Name the book which is set to be launched by model-turnedactress Diana Hayden.
Ans. A Beautiful Truth

29. Who has been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize considered as Nobel prize in Architecture?
Ans. Wang Shu

30. Which railway station became the first railway network to offer BluFi, a combination of Bluetooth and WiFi to provide information to passengers?
Ans. Bangalore City Railway Station

31. Name the Indian golfer who qualified for The Open Championship to be played in July at the Royal Lytham St Annes.
Ans. Anirban Lahiri

32. Which state bagged the second best national award in the Comprehensive Development of Tourism category?
Ans. RajasthanDownload

33. Name the men’s mixed doubles winner of the ATP Dubai Open 2012.
Ans. Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna

34. Who won the men’s singles of ATP Dubai Open 2012?
Ans. Roger Federer

35Name the Indian American filmmaker who won the ’2012 Rising Star Award’ for his feature film ’9 Eleven’ at the Canada International Film Festival.
Ans. Manan Singh Katohora

36. Who has been elected as Russian President recently?
Ans. Vladimir Putin

37. Name of Taslima Nasreen’s autobiography?
Ans. Nirbasan

38. Who is World’s shortest man as per recent Guinness World Records ?
Ans. 72-year old Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal

39. Name the Romanian Prime Minister who quit recently.
Ans. Emil Boc

40Name the Maldives President who was appointed after Mohamed Nasheed quit.
Ans. Mohammad Waheed Hassan

41. Which singer is launching her own social networking website exclusively for her fans?
Ans. Lady Gaga

42. Which country released world’s highest resolution lunar images taken by its 2nd moon orbiter, Chang’e-2?
Ans. China

43. Who was honoured with Lata Mangehkar award by the Madhya Pradesh government recently?
Ans. Rajesh Roshan

44. Why zebras have black and white stripes (recently solved mystery)?
Ans. To keep blood-sucking files away

45. Who was honoured with a posthumous Grammy award for his contributions to the music industry in area other than performance?
Ans. Steve Jobs


46. Name the yesteryear actress who featured in the popular song ‘Ae Meri Zohra Jabeen’ from the film ‘Waqt’who passed away recently.
Achala Sachdev passed away at a Pune hospital on April 30, 2012. was 91 year old.

47. Where in India, largest solar power plant with an installed capacity of 40 MW started producing electricity?
Pokhran in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan

48. Which department in India plans to set up 1000 ATM’s across 6 states?
Postal department

49 Who created history by becoming the first Indian female wrestler to have qualified for the London Olympics 2012?
Geeta

50. Who has been appointed next Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission?
Ratan Kumar Sinha

51. In which part of India, Indo Tibetan Border Police headquarters is to be opened?
Bihar

52. Which state’s High Court has insisted that banks cannot freeze accounts nor stop services of issuing cheque book or ATM facility where the account holder has not supplied KYC (Know Your Customers) documents?
Gujarat

53. Name the former Haryana chief secretary who took oath as state information commissioner ?
Urvashi Gulati

54. Which State becames the 3rd state in India to launch State Portal (SP) and State Service Delivery Gateway (SSDG) project?
Nagaland

55. Who won the World Series Hockey 2012 title?
Sher-E-Punjab

56. In which state Urdu medium Government schools would be setup as announced by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav?
Uttar Pradesh

57Where is the World’s first Virtual shopping store opened?
Korea

58. Who is named as HSBC’s India CEO?
Stuart Milne

59 Which Indian state bans guthka from 1st of April 2012 to curb the increasing number of mouth cancer cases?
Madhya Pradesh

60. Which Indian state chief minister has urged union Finance Minister to bail it out of its huge burden?
West Bengal