General Awareness Quiz - 1st May 2015

Q. : 1 Who among the following is the Minister of State for Finance in the present Union Cabinet?

1) Manoj Sinha 

2) Giriraj Singh

3) Sanwar Lal Jat 

4) Jayant Sinha

5) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi 

Q. : 2 The Finance Minister, in his budget speech on 28 Feb, announced that two more Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will be set up which will take the total number of IIMs in the country to 20. These new IIMs will come up in

1) Jammu & Kashmir and Andhra Pradesh 

2) Punjab and Tamil Nadu

3) Himachal Pradesh and Assam 

4) Bihar and Karnataka

5) None of these 

Q. : 3 As announced in the Union Budget for 2015-16, the govt will infuse what amount in PSU Banks in FY16?

1) Rs 6,999 cr 

2) Rs 7,240 cr

3) Rs 7,940 cr 

4) Rs 7,999 cr

5) None of these 

Q. : 4 Who among the following has been sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir?

1) Nirmal Singh 

2) Mufti Mohammad Sayeed

3) Mehbooba Mufti 

4) Sajjad Lone

5) None of these 

Q. : 5 Who among the following is the new president of the BCCI?

1) Anurag Thakur 

2) Sanjay Patel

3) Sharad Pawar 

4) N Srinivasan

5) Jagmohan Dalmiya 

Q. : 6 The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) celebrated its silver jubilee on Mar 1. The present chairman of NASSCOM is

1) Krishnakumar Natarajan 

2) R Chandrasekaran

3) Phaneesh Murthy 

4) Kris Gopalakrishnan

5) Ashok Soota 

Q. : 7 The winner of the men’s singles title of the 2015 Dubai Tennis Championships is

1) Roger Federer 

2) Novak Djokovic

3) Stan Wawrinka 

4) Andy Murray

5) Rafael Nadal 

Q. : 8 In the General Budget for 2015-16, the service tax has been increased from current 12.36 per cent to

1) 12.50 per cent 

2) 13 per cent

3) 13.50 per cent 

4) 14 per cent

5) 14.50 per cent 

Q. : 9 As proposed in the General Budget for FY16, the rate of corporate tax is to be reduced to what per cent from the current 30 per cent over next four years?

1) 28 per cent 

2) 25 per cent

3) 23 per cent 

4) 22 per cent

5) 20 per cent 

Q. : 10 Wealth tax has been abolished in the general budget for FY16. It is to be replaced by surcharge of __________on income of Rs 1 cr and above.

1) 1 per cent 

2) 2 per cent

3) 5 per cent 

4) 8 per cent

5) 10 per cent 

Answer:- 

(4) Jayant Sinha

(1) Jammu & Kashmir and Andhra Pradesh

(3) Rs 7,940 cr

(2) Mufti Mohammad Sayeed

(5) Jagmohan Dalmiya

(2) R Chandrasekaran

(1) Roger Federer

(4) 14 per cent

(2) 25 per cent

(2) 2 per cent