SBI PO GENERAL AWARENESS QUESTIONS 2015

1. Who has become the first India-born woman to be appointed as Judge in the New York City?

(a) Sandhya Agarwal
(b) Raja Rajeshwari
(c) Sandhya Sathish
(d) Sonali Singh

2. A square standing on its edge appears
 (a) Smaller than the one lying on its side
(b) Distorted than the one lying on its side
(c) Bigger than the one lying on its side
(d) Smaller and distorted than the one lying on its side

3. An Art-Deco Style of Architecture is commonly found in
(a) Hyderabad and Bangalore
(b) Mumbai and Kolkata
(c) Ahmedabad and Chandigarh
(d) Shimla and Darjeeling

4. Which of the following journalists has been conferred with the RedInk Award for lifetime achievement? 

(a) Shwetha Kulkarni
(b) Neha agarwal
(c) Prannoy Roy
(d) Suresh Chaudry

5. Zero tolerance in design and production is possible today because of
 (a) Availability of energy-audit tools
(b) Availability of highly accurate digital metrology tools
(c) Possibility of calculating quantities to many places of decimal
(d) Intense professionalism in the field

6. Who has been appointed as chairperson of the Children Film Society of India (CFSI)?

(a) Ameer Khan
(b) Sharook Khan
(c) Mukesh Khanna 
(d) Jaya Bachchan

7. Red House by William Morris belonged to a movement in Architecture, namely
(a) Art Nouveau
(b) Art Deco
(c) Post Modernism (d) Arts and Crafts Movement

8. A conic section formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a
plane that cuts through both the axis and the surface of the cone is
(a) Parabola
(b) Ellipse
(c) Hyperbola
(d) Spheroid

9. Which of the following two Indians have recently won the Whitley award for their contribution to wildlife conservation?
(a) Jaya Kumar and Anand Patil
(b) Ananda Kumar and Pramod Patil
(c) Pramod Patil and Jaya Suvarna
(d) Ashok Khari and Anand Patil

10. Pointed Arch, Sexpartite vaulting and flying buttresses were the techniques
to span the huge spaces and to handle the thrust in
(a) Gothic architecture
(b) Byzantine architecture
(c) Roman architecture
(d) Greek architecture

11. Which district of West Bengal has been declared country’s first open defecation free district?

(a) Dhakshin Dinajpur
(b) Nadlia
(c) Medinipur
(d) Purulia

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