Static Awareness Quiz | 16th December 2018

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Q1. The book “The House of Islam: A Global History” is written by which author?

(a) Ed Husain

(b) Ayaan Hirsi Ali

(c) Maajid Nawaz

(d) Abdullah Quilliam

(e) None of these

Q2. What is the Capital city of Ethiopia?

(a) Baku

(b) Jakarta

(c) Addis Ababa

(d) Moscow

(e) Khartoum

Q3.  Rourkela is a planned city located in the northern part of Odisha and it is situated on which river?

(a) Godavari

(b) Brahmani

(c) Brahmaputra

(d) Jhelum

(e) None of these

Q4. Koyna Dam is built across river koyana in which state?

(a) Maharashtra

(b) Haryana

(c) Odisha

(d) Madhya Pradesh

(e) None of these

Q5. Karma dance is popular in which state?

(a) Uttar Pradesh

(b) Odisha

(c) Jharkhand

(d) Bihar

(e) None of these

Q6. The Chapchar Kut is a festival of which state?

(a) Assam

(b) Mizoram

(c) Nagaland

(d) Sikkim

(e) None of these

Q7. Name the oldest Joint Stock Bank of India.

(a) Allahabad Bank

(b) Punjab National Bank

(c) Central Bank of India

(d) Bank of Madras

(e) Bank of India

Q8. Where is the headquarter of ABN AMRO Bank?

(a) Taiwan

(b) Germany

(c) France

(d) Netherland

(e) None of these

Q9. The Vansda National Park (VNP) is located in which state?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Assam

(c) Punjab

(d) Rajasthan

(e) None of these

Q10. World Development Information Day is celebrated on________.

(a) 24th September

(b) 26th November

(c) 25th October

(d) 24th October

(e) 20th October

Solutions

Ans.1.(a)

Ans.2.(c)

Exp.  Capital of Ethiopia is Addis Ababa and currency is Birr. Prime Minister is Abiy Ahmed Ali.

Ans.3.(b)

Exp. Rourkela is a planned city located in the northern part of Odisha. It is situated on the bank of river Brahmani.

Ans.4.(a)

Exp. Koyna Dam is built across river koyna in Koyna Naga Maharashtra with a height of 103m. It is one of the largest dams in Maharashtra located at Western Ghats. The lake founded by the Koyna dam is called The Shivaji Lake.

Ans.5.(c)

Exp. Karma dance which is also popularly known as Karma Naachis performed by the tribes of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa and other regions of the country. This tribal dance is performed during the autumnal festival of Karma Puja.

Ans.6.(b)

Exp. The Chapchar Kut is a festival of Mizoram, India. It is celebrated during March after completion of their most arduous task of Jhum operation i.e., jungle-clearing.

Ans.7.(a)

Exp. Allahabad Bank is a nationalized bank with its headquarters in Kolkata, India. It is the oldest joint stock bank in India. On 24 April 2014, the bank entered into its 150th year of establishment. It was founded in Allahabad in 1865.

Ans.8.(d)

Exp. ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is a Dutch bank with headquarters in Amsterdam. ABN AMRO Bank is the third-largest bank in the Netherlands. In 1991, Algemene Bank Nederland (ABN) and AMRO Bank (itself the result of a merger of the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche Bank in the 1960s) agreed to merge to create the original ABN AMRO.

Ans.9.(a)

Exp. Vansda National Park, also known as Bansda National Park, is a protected area which represents the thick woodlands of the Dangs and southern Gujarat, and is situated in the Vansda tehsil, Navsari District of Gujarat State, India.

Ans.10.(d)

Exp. The United Nations’ (UN) World Development Information Day is annually held on October 24 to draw attention of worldwide public opinion to development problems and the need to strengthen international cooperation to solve them.

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