Important Static Awareness Questions for all bank exams

Q1. Who is the governor of Uttarakhand? 
(a) E.S Lakshmi Narasimhan (Add. Charge)
(b) Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil
(c) Ram Naik
(d) Krishan Kant Paul
(e) Tathagata Roy

Q2. Who is current Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Minister in Narendra Modi government? 
(a) Radha Mohan Singh
(b) Kalraj Mishra
(c) Jual Oram
(d) Prakash Javadekar
(e) Thawar Chand Gehlot

Q3. Capital of Botswana is? 
(a) Tehran
(b) Niamey 
(c) Bujumbura
(d) Thimphu
(e) Gaborone

Q4. Silent Valley National Park is situated in which of the following Indian state? 
(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Kerala
(c) West Bengal
(d) Assam
(e) Meghalaya

Q5. World Environment Day is observed on which of the following date? 
(a) June 10
(b) June 22
(c) June 18
(d) June 4
(e) June 5

Q6. Which of the following country is not a member of G7? 
(a) France
(b) Italy
(c) Germany
(d) Russia
(e) Canada

Q7. Deepika Kumari is related to which of the following sports?
(a) Tennis
(b) Chess
(c) Shooting
(d) Boxing
(e) Archery

Q8. Who is present President of Bulgaria?
(a) Ilham Aliyev
(b) Rosen Plevneliev
(c) Charles Michel
(d) Freundel Stuart
(e) Serzh Sargsyan

Q9. Supa Dam is in which of the following state? 
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Tamil Nadu
(c) Kerala
(d) Maharashtra
(e) Karnataka

Q10. Headquarter of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC) is in which of the following city? 
(a) Colombo, Sri Lanka
(b) Vienna, Austria
(c) Washington, D.C., USA
(d) The Hague, Netherlands
(e) Geneva, Switzerland

Q11. Which river is also known as 'Bengal's sorrow'? 
(a) Damodar
(b) Mahanadi
(c) Hooghly
(d) Gandak
(e) Ganga

Q12. In which Indian city would you find the Rock Garden, a sculpture garden created by artist Nek Chand using waste especially rags and broken ceramics? 
(a) Chandigarh
(b) Bengaluru
(c) Gandhinagar
(d) Hyderabad
(e) Pune

Q13. Built across the Godavari river, Pochampad Dam is located in which state? 
(a) Karnataka
(b) Maharashtra
(c) Madhya Pradesh
(d) Telangana
(e) Odisha

Q14. Which waterbody seprates the India from the island nation of Sri Lanka? 
(a) Bering Strait
(b) Palk Strait
(c) Strait of Gibraltar
(d) Strait of Magellan
(e) None of the above

Q15. Who among the following is also known as 'Bhartiya Kokila' (The Nightingale of India)? 
(a) Sarojini Naidu
(b) Lata Mangeshkar
(c) Indira Gandhi
(d) M.S.Subbulakshmi
(e) None of the above

Solutions

S1. Ans.(d)

Sol. Krishan Kant Paul also known as K. K. Paul is the 6th and current Governor of Indian state of Uttarakhand, in office since January 2015. He had previously served as Governor of Meghalaya for over one year (2013–15) with additional charge of Mizoram and Nagaland for the same post.

S2. Ans.(a)

Sol. Radha Mohan Singh, a famous Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) became the Cabinet Minister in 2014. On May 27, he was appointed as the Minister of Agriculture under Modi's prime ministership. He has been associated with Bihar politics from a very long time.

S3. Ans.(e)

Sol. Botswana, a landlocked country in Southern Africa, has a landscape defined by the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango Delta, which becomes a lush animal habitat during the seasonal floods. Gaborone is the capital and largest city of Botswana. Gaborone is situated between Kgale and Oodi Hills, on the Notwane River in the south-eastern corner of Botswana, and 15 kilometres from the South African border.

S4. Ans.(b)

Sol. Silent Valley National Park is a national park with a core zone of 236.74 square kilometres(making it the largest national park in Kerala). It is located in the Nilgiri Hills, Mannarkkad, within the Palakkad District of Kerala, South India. It is famous for its population of the endangered Lion-tailed Macaque, Tiger, Leopard, Jungle Cat, Leopard Cat, Sloth bear, otter, Travancore flying squirrel, Porcupine and Elephant etc.

S5. Ans.(e)

Sol. World Environment Day (WED) is observed every year on 5 June to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth. It is run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

S6.  Ans.(d)

Sol. Group of Seven (G7), international organization officially established in 1985 to facilitate economic cooperation among the world's largest industrial nations; summit meetings of the member nations began in 1975. Members are Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States.

S7. Ans.(e)

Sol. Deepika Kumari is an Indian athlete who competes in the event of Archery, is currently ranked World No. 5, and is a former world number one. She won a gold medal in the 2010 Commonwealth games in the women's individual recurve event. 

                                                                                               

S8. Ans.(b)

Sol. Rosen Asenov Plevneliev is a Bulgarian politician who has been President of Bulgaria since January 2012. He was the Minister of Regional Development and Public Works from July 2009 to September 2011 as part of the cabinet of Boyko Borisov.

S9. Ans.(e)

Sol. Supa Dam is built across Kalinadi or Kali river in state of Karnataka in India. The dam is situated in Joida taluk of Uttara Kannada district. The power house at the foot of the dam has two electricity generators of fifty megawatt each.

S10. Ans.(b)

Sol. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an intergovernmental organization of 14 nations, founded in 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members, and headquartered since 1965 in Vienna.

S11. Ans.(a)

Sol.  Damodar River was earlier known as the "River of Sorrows" as it used to flood many areas of Bardhaman, Hooghly,Howrah and Medinipur districts. Even now the floods sometimes affect the lower Damodar Valley, but the havoc it wreaked in earlier years is now a matter of history.

S12. Ans.(a)

Sol. The Rock Garden of Chandigarh is a sculpture garden in Chandigarh, India, also known as Nek Chand's Rock Garden after its founder Nek Chand, a government official who started the garden secretly in his spare time in 1957. Today it is spread over an area of 40 acres. It is completely built of industrial and home waste and thrown-away items.

S13. Ans.(d)

Sol. The Sri Rama Sagar Project also known as the Pochampadu Project is an Indian flood-flow project on the Godavari River. The Project is located in Nizamabad district, 3 km away from National Highway 44. It has been described by The Hindu as a "lifeline for a large part of Telangana".

S14. Ans.(b)

Sol. The Palk Strait is a strait between the Tamil Nadu state of India and the Mannar district of the Northern Province of the island nation of Sri Lanka. It connects the Bay of Bengal in the northeast with the Palk Bay and thence with the Gulf of Mannar in the southwest.

S15. Ans.(a)

Sol. Sarojini Naidu also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India, was an Indian independence activist and poet. Naidu served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949; the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state.

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