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HAL General Awareness questions and answers

1 How many Padma Sri Awards were presented for the year 2012?

a. 5
b.27
c. 77 -Answer
d.84

2 Who wrote the book Olympics the Indian Story?
a.Suresh Kalmadi
b.Boria Majundar, Nalini Mehata -Answer
c.Kirthy Chawla
d. P.T. Usha

3 How many times Mr. Viswanath Anand won the World Chess Champion Title?
a. 4
b. 5-Answer
c.6
d. 7

4 Who among the following is president of Indian Olympics Association?
a. Suresh Kalmadi
b. Akhil Kumar
c. VK Malhotra -Answer
d. Deva Dath Sharma

5 Who among the following has been appointed as the new President of the World Bank?
1) Jim Yong Kim
2) Jose Antonio Ocampo
3) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
4) Robert Zoellick
5) Naoyuki Shinohara
Ans.) 1

6 Who among the following countries is the first to set up a cardless ATM which will run on Fujitsu palm-scanning biometric technology, which recognizes the unique pattern of veins in a palm?
1) China
2) Japan
3) United States
4) United Kingdom
5) India
Ans.) 2

7 In which of the following Indian city the Asia’s first Dolphin Research centre will be set up?
1) Patna
2) Allahabad
3) Banaras
4) Kolkata
5) Kanpur
Ans.) 1

8 Which of the following countries has decided to lift sanctions against Myanmar’s President and more than 200 others who are at present under travel and financial bans?
1) Australia
2) Philippines
3) China
4) Indonesia
5) Taiwan
Ans.) 1

9 With which of the following country has the UAE recently signed an agreement to amend the double taxation avoidance treaty which will pave way for better sharing of tax related information between the two countries?
1) Pakistan
2) United States
3) India
4) Austria
5) Bangladesh
Ans.) 3

10 Recently the Reserve Bank Governor D Subbarao has slashed the short term lending rate, which will reduce the cost of home, auto and corporate loans. What is the current repo rate?
1) 8.50%
2) 8%
3) 9%
4) 7.50%
5) 9.50%
Ans.) 2

11 Which of the following country has recently assured India that it will continue to allow post-study work-experience permits to students, provided they get appropriate jobs commensurate with their qualifications or degrees?
1) United States
2) Australia
3) United Kingdom
4) Canada
5) China
Ans.) 3

12 The annual joint military exercise named as Balikatan recently took place in Palawan. It is a joint exercise between which of the two following countries?
1) US, China
2) China, Philippines
3) Malaysia, China
4) US, Philippines
5) Taiwan, US
Ans.) 4

13 The South China Sea is believed to contain huge deposits of oil and gas that has led to occasional flare-ups and to competition to occupy the island. There are six countries who claim their sovereignty over the sea. Name the countries.
1) China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Philippines, Brunei, Vietnam
2) China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Philippines, US, Japan
3) Philippines, US, Japan, Vietnam, India, Cambodia?
4) Indonesia, Cambodia?, Thailand, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia
5) Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Cambodia, Singapore, China
Ans.) 1

14 Which of the following is not a function of the EXIM bank?
1) Financing of joint ventures in foreign countries
2) Financing of export and import of machinery and equipment on lease basis
3) Financing of export from and import into not only India, but also third countries of goods and services
4) Providing loans to a foreign party so as to enable it to contribute in the share capital of a joint venture in India
5) None of these
Ans.) 4


Aptitude and reasoning question for practice


Qn.1 A tank has 2 pipes A and B which can fill a tank in 4 hrs and 6 hrs respectively. Another pipe C can empty the tank in 4 hrs. A man wanted to set a timer which should open the pipe C after the tank is half filled, but by mistake sets it to open when the tank is one fourth empty. The man was supposed to reach the place at the same time as the tank fills. How late was the man to reach the spot? (Pipes & Cisterns)

24 minutes

36 minutes

48 minutes

54 minutes
Answer:
54 minutes
Explanation:
The man will be late by the difference in time it takes to fill one fourth the tank in the two scenarios.
i.e., 1 / 4(1/4 + 1/6 – 1/4) – 1 / 4(1/4 + 1/6) = 12/3 - 15/3 = 9/10 hours = 54 minutes.

Qn.2 Ajay has a four digit sum of money. If he is able to divide it among his 22 friends and himself equally when he spends Rs.19, what is the maximum possible amount with Ajay initially?

9978
Answer:
9978
Explanation:
Explanation: x- 19 should be divisible by 23

9995

9972

9977

Qn.3 Consider the sum of first 70 natural numbers. If every digit '6' is replaced by '8' what would be the net increase and the new sum?

16 & 2501
Answer:
16 & 2501
Explanation:
To answer this question, you need to know the simple formula for sum of first 'n' natural numbers which is n (n+1)/2. Hence sum of numbers from 1 to 70 would be 70X71/2 = 2485. If every '6' digit is replaced by '8' there would be totally 8 replacements at (6,16,26,36,46,56,60,66). Every replacement will add an additional '2' to the net sum. Hence the new sum will be 2485 + 8 X 2 = 2501 and the increase will be 16.

16 & 3501

14 & 2501

14 &3501

Qn.4 3 blocks are chosen randomly on a chessboard. What is the probability that they are in the same diagonal?

3/452

4/564

1/372
Answer:
1/372
Explanation:
There are total of 64 blocks on a chessboard. So 3 blocks can be chosen out of 64 in 64C3 ways. So the sample space is = 41664 There are 2 diagonal on chessboard each one having 8 blocks. Consider one of them. 3 blocks out of 8 blocks in diagonal can be chosen in 8C3 ways. But there are 2 such diagonals, hence favourables = 2 * 8C3 = 2 * 56 = 112 The require probability is = 112 / 41664 = 1 / 372
3/546