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India-born Harjit Sajjan became the Defense Minister of which of the following countries in November 2015?
1) Fiji
2) Canada
3) Kenya
4) UK
5) New Zealand
Shaktikanta Das has been nominated as a Director to the Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India. He is presently working as?
1) Economic Affairs Secretary
2) Finance Secretary
3) Financial Services Secretary
4) Tourism Secretary
5) Agriculture Secretary
Who became the first cricketer in Ranji Trophy history to complete 10,000 runs in Ranji Trophy in November 2015?
1) Amol Mazumdar
2) Mithun Manhas
3) Wasim Jaffar
4) Virendra Sehwag
5) Devendra Bundela
Who was named the Most Powerful Person in the World by the Forbes magazine in November 2015?
1) Barack Obama
2) Angela Merkel
3) Pope Francis
4) Xi Jinping
5) Vladimir Putin
Who won the Norway chess tournament in June 2015?
1) Veselin Topalov
2) Viswanathan Anand
3) Magnus Carlsen
4) Vassily Ivanchuk
5) Vladimir Kramnik
The theme of which of the following Summits held in 2015 was ‘Think Ahead. Act Together’?
1) G7
2) BRICS
3) SCO
4) G4
5) ASEAN
Who was awarded the Bjornson Prize for freedom of speech by Norway in June 2015?
1) Malala Yousafzai
2) Edward Snowden
3) Kailash Satyarthi
4) Dalai Lama
5) None of these
Hwang Kyo-ahn assumed office as the Prime Minister of which of the following Asian countries on June 18, 2015?
1) North Korea
2) South Korea
3) Vietnam
4) China
5) Laos
Christopher Lee passed away recently. He was a famous?
1) Actor
2) Footballer
3) Photographer
4) Musician
5) Author
Who won the Commonwealth chess title in New Delhi on June 30, 2015?
1) K. Sasikiran
2) Arghyadip Das
3) Abhijeet Gupta
4) Parimarjan Negi
5) Deep Sengupta
Who is the author of the book “Gandhi at First Sight”?
1) Thomas Weber
2) Daniel Bell
3) Jonathan Gil Harris
4) Patrick French
5) None of these
Pandit Haridutt Sharma Award is an annual award given in the field of?
1) Sculpture
2) Journalism
3) Films
4) Music
5) Theater
Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti launched ‘Jal Kranti Abhiyan’ on June 5, 2015 in?
1) Varanasi
2) Lucknow
3) Jaipur
4) Gwalior
5) Jhansi
Who became the second Indian umpire after S. Venkataraghavan to be inducted into the Elite Panel of International Cricket Council (ICC)?
1) Ram Babu Gupta
2) I. Shivram
3) M.R. Singh
4) Sundaram Ravi
5) Raman Sharma
Which of the following has become the world’s first billion dollar football brand in June 2015?
1) Manchester United
2) Manchester City
3) Chelsea
4) Arsenal
5) Real Madrid
Who is the present Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting?
1) Venkaiah Naidu
2) Jual Oram
3) Arun Jaitley
4) J.P. Nadda
5) Prakash Javdekar
Which is the first private bank to launch a voice password facility for its customers recently?
1) HDFC Bank
2) ICICI Bank
3) Axis Bank
4) Yes Bank
5) Kotak Mahindra Bank
Whose autobiography is titled ‘The Test of My Life’?
1) Steve Waugh
2) Shane Warne
3) M.S. Dhoni
4) Yuvraj Singh
5) M. Amarnath
Serena Williams defeated who among the following to win the women’s singles tennis title in the 2015 French Open?
1) Maria Sharapova
2) Ana Ivanovic
3) Lucie Safarova
4) Victoria Azarenka
5) Petra Kvitova
Who is the only Indian sportsman featured among the 2015 Forbes magazine’s 100 highest paid athletes in the world?
1) Virat Kohli
2) Sachin Tendulkar
3) Leander Paes
4) Viswanathan Anand
5) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Lal Thanhawla is the current Chief Minister of which of the following States?
1) Meghalaya
2) Tripura
3) Mizoram
4) Nagaland
5) Arunachal Pradesh
The Groningen gas field is the largest natural gas field in Europe. It is in?
1) Netherlands
2) Denmark
3) Switzerland
4) Germany
5) Sweden
Keoladeo Ghana National park is located in which of the following States?
1) Gujarat
2) West Bengal
3) Odisha
4) Rajasthan
5) Uttar Pradesh
The Global Times is a daily tabloid published in?
1) China
2) Singapore
3) UK
4) USA
5) Russia
Kalinga Stadium is a multipurpose stadium located in?
1) Indore
2) Bhubaneswar
3) Nagpur
4) Patiala
5) Mohali
Bhitarkanika wildlife sanctuary is located in which of the following States?
1) Odisha \
2) West Bengal
3) Goa
4) Maharashtra
5) Jharkhand
Who is the author of the book ‘Eternal India’?
1) Jawaharlal Nehru
2) Indira Gandhi
3) Lal Bahadur Shastri
4) Atal Behari Vajpayee
5) I.K. Gujral
How many persons won the Bharat Ratna award so far?
1) 49
2) 54
3) 45
4) 55
5) 57
Which is the capital of the union territory Dadra & Nagar Haveli?
1) Amini
2) Kavarati
3) Kalpeni
4) Silvassa
5) Amboli
Sukanya Samridhi Yojana (SSY) account can be opened in the name of a girl child who is not more than?
1) 5 years old
2) 7 years old
3) 9 years old
4) 10 years old
5) 15 years old
Who is the recipient of the 2015 Genesis Prize?
1) Michael Douglas
2) Sylvester Stallone
3) Mel Gibson
4) John Travolta
5) Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Genesis Prize was founded in 2012 by the office of the Prime Minister of?
1) Canada
2) Israel
3) New Zealand
4) Australia
5) Netherlands
Who among the following Indians has not made to the Forbes list of the world’s 100 Most Powerful Women?
1) Arundhati Bhattacharya
2) Chanda Kochchar
3) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
4) Shobhana Bhartia
5) Shikha Sharma
Identify the mismatched pair?
1) General Motors – Mary Barra
2) Google – Sheryl Sandberg
3) YouTube – Susan Wojcicki
4) Yahoo – Marissa Mayer
5) IBM – Ginny Rometty
Suleyman Demirel died on June 17, 2015. He served as the President of which of the following countries from 1993 to 2000?
1) Yemen
2) Syria
3) Lebanon
4) Libya
5) Turkey
Charles Correa died in June 2015. He was a renowned?
1) Tennis player
2) Hockey player
3) Film actor
4) Architect
5) Author
Which of the following Academy Award winning films was based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Prize-winning mathematician?
1) Chicago
2) No Country for Old Men
3) The Hurt Locker
4) The Artist
5) A Beautiful Mind
Which of the following has released the Financial Stability Report (FSR) on June 25, 2015?
1) World Bank
2) Reserve Bank of India
3) International Monetary Fund
4) World Economic Forum
5) Securities and Exchange Board of India
Genesis Prize is also known as?
1) Green Nobel
2) Asia’s Nobel Prize
3) Jewish Nobel Prize
4) Green Oscar
5) Alternative Nobel Prize
Matt Prior retired from all forms of cricket in June 2015. He played for?
1) Australia
2) West Indies
3) South Africa
4) England
5) New Zealand

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