Practice General awareness mcq - general awareness mcq Online Quiz (set-2) For All Competitive Exams

IMF and World Bank are Bretton Wood Twins. Both the institutions were established to promote international economic cooperation but a basic difference is found in the nature of economic assistance given by these two institutions.

World Bank provides long term loans for balanced economic development, while IMF provides short-term loans to member countries for eliminating BOP disequilibrium. Both these institutions are complementary to each other.

C Rajagopalachari, S Radhakrishnan and CV Raman were given Bharat Ratna in 1954.

1. Jawaharlal Nehru — 1955
2. Govind Ballabh Pant — 1958
3. Dr BC Roy — 1961

Dubai International Airport has overtaken London’s Heathrow airport as the world’s busiest airport for international traffic.

In computer storage, direct access is the ability to obtain data from a storage device by going directly to where it is physically located on the device rather than by having to sequentially look for the data at one physical location after another.

Direct access is also called random access because it allows equally easy and fast access to any randomly selected destination.

NIMZ has not been proposed to be set up in Vijayawada.

The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2001) is a collection of essays written by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy. The book discusses several perspectives of global and local concerns, among them one is the abuse of Nuclear bomb showoffs.

Published by Penguin Books India, the book discusses the political euphoria in India over its successful nuclear bomb tests.

Kiran MK 11: Aerobatic aircraft

MI 35 : Attack helicopter

Mirage 2000 is a jet fighter aircraft

The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay’s example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society.

The Ramon Magsaysay Award is often considered Asia’s Nobel Prize. The prize was established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund based in New York City with the concurrence of the Philippine government.

Khushwant Singh is an Indian novelist and journalist.

Singh’s weekly column, “With Malice towards One and All”, carried by several Indian newspapers, is among the most widely-read columns in the country. An Indo-Anglican novelist, Singh is best known for his trenchant secularism, his humour, and his abiding love of poetry.

His comparisons of social and behavioural characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit. He served as editor of several literary and news magazines, as well as two broadsheet newspapers, through the 1970s and 1980s.

He is a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan the second-highest civilian award in India.

The government in Union Budget 2015-16 has proposed to establish University of Disability Studies in Kerala. This will boost research and development in this field.

The portal will be launched by the Labour Ministry.

Serena Williams of USA, in July 2016, won her seventh Wimbledon singles crown, defeating Germany’s Angelique Kerber in the final. This was her 22nd Slam title. With this victory, Williams levelled with Germany’s Steffi Graf with most grand slam singles titles in the professional era, although Margaret Court has 24.;

Ustad Hassu Khan was founder of Gwalior Gharana. Gwalior Gharana is the oldest among all the Khayal Gayaki (vocal) styles. The distinctive feature of this style of singing has been noted as its lucidity and simplicity.

Syntax errors or diagnostic errors are identified by the compiler. These errors occur when a program does not conform to the grammar of a programming language, and the compiler cannot compile the source file.

A syntax error is an error in the syntax of a sequence of characters or tokens that are intended to be written in a particular programming language.

Common syntax errors include missing or misplaced; or }, the missing return type for a procedure, missing or duplicate variable declaration, type mismatch on assignment, type mismatch between actual and formal parameters, etc.

Logic errors occur when a program does not do what the programmer expects it to do.

Since these errors are due to wrong logic in the program, logic errors cannot be identified by the compiler; they are detected only when the program is executed.

A pyrometer is a type of remote-sensing thermometer used to measure the temperature of a surface. It is a device that from a distance determines the temperature of a luminous surface from the spectrum of the thermal radiation it emits, a process known as pyrometry.

The Sultan Azlan Shah Cup is an annual international men’s field hockey tournament held in Malaysia.

There are 962 World Heritage Sites located in 157 States Party. Of these, 745 are cultural, 188 are natural and 29 are mixed properties.

The World Heritage Committee has divided the countries into five geographic zones:

1. Africa,
2. Arab States (composed of most of the Middle East and North Africa),
3. Asia and Oceania,
4. Europe & North America (includes Canada and the United States) and Latin America & Caribbean.
5. Russia and the Caucasus states are classified as European,

While Mexico is classified as belonging to the Latin America & Caribbean zone, despite its location in North America.

National Development and Reform commission is a new institution which is likely to be modelled after China’s policy advisory body.

‘Towards Total Revolution’ is written by Jayaprakash Narayan. He, popularly referred to as JP or Lok Nayak , was an Indian independence activist, social reformer and political leader.

Three boxers represented India at the 2016 Rio Olympics:

1. Shiva Thapa in 56 kg,
2. Manoj Kumar in 64 kg and
3. Vikas Krishan in 75 kg categories.

Avtar Singh is an Indian judoka who represented India at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He lost in the first round against Popole Misenga of the Refugee Olympic Team in the Men’s 90 kg event.

Leonardo DiCaprio won the Best Actor award at the 88th Academy Awards for the movie, ‘The Revenant.’ It was his first Academy award. The Revenant is a 2015 American epic survival Western film directed, co-produced and co-written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

Since 1901, it has been awarded annually (with some exceptions) to those who have “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. Nobel Prize is not given in Mathematics.

In a Computer System, the Printer is functionally Opposite of a Keyboard. A keyboard is the most common input device that comprises a set of typewriter-like keys used to enter data into a computer.

On the contrary, a printer is an output device capable of printing text and graphics on paper. Printers convert processed data from a combination of electronic impulses into a printed form called a hard copy.

Deepak Chopra (born October 22, 1946) is an Indian-born American physician and writer. Chopra has taught at the medical schools of Tufts University, Boston University and Harvard University. He became Chief of Staff at the New England Memorial Hospital (NEMH) in Massachusetts, before establishing a private practice.

In 1985, Chopra met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who invited him to study Ayurveda. Chopra left his position at the NEMH and became the founding president of the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine, and was later named medical director of the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center.

Chopra was sued for copyright infringement by Robert Sapolsky for using a stress endocrine chart without proper attribution, after the publication of Chopra’s book Ageless Body, Timeless Mind(1993)

New Zealand is identified as one of the world’s most stable and well-governed nations. As of 2011, the country was ranked 5th in the strength of its democratic institutions and 1st in government transparency and lack of corruption.

New Zealand has a high level of civic participation, with 79% voter turnout during the most recent elections, compared to an OECD average of 72%.

Furthermore, 67% of New Zealanders say they trust their political institutions, far higher than the OECD average of 56%. New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses that of the North and South Islands and numerous smaller islands.

Note: The latest rankings released in 2017 put New Zealand and Denmark in joint first place with a score of 90, followed by Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Singapore, Netherlands and Canada.

The Berlin-based corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) has put India at rank 79 out of 176 countries in its latest Corruption Perception Index.