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- Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) released Global Peace Index 2015 on June16, 2015. What is India’s rank?
1) 138
2) 134
3) 143
4) 139
5) 140 - Which tennis legend was appointed the Ayurveda brand ambassador of Kerala on June 24, 2015?
1) Andre Agassi
2) Steffi Graf
3) Maria Sharapova
4) Boris Becker
5) Pete Sampras - Sheila Kaul passed away on June 13, 2015. She was a former Governor of?
1) Uttar Pradesh
2) Madhya Pradesh
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) West Bengal
5) Jharkhand - Mogens Lykketoft was elected as President of the United Nations General Assembly in June 2015. He belongs to?
1) UK
2) France
3) Italy
4) Denmark
5) Norway - Institute for Economics and Peace is headquartered in?
1) Sydney
2) Geneva
3) Berne
4) Manila
5) Oslo - The world’s first mangrove zoo will be set up in?
1) Tripura
2) Odisha
3) Manipur
4) Jharkhand
5) West Bengal - UNO declared 2015 as the International Year of?
1) Crystallography
2) Light and Light based Technologies
3) Yoga
4) Family Farming
5) Cooperatives - The first development financial institution in India is?
1) IDBI
2) Exim Bank
3) IFCI
4) SIDBI
5) ICICI - The world’s largest vertical maze, Maze Tower, is in?
1) Dubai
2) Kuala Lumpur
3) New York
4) Jakarta
5) Riyadh - Charlie Hebdo’s office was attacked by terrorists in January 2015. It is a satirical weekly magazine based in?
1) Spain
2) Germany
3) France
4) Hungary
5) Portugal - The 2017 women’s cricket world cup will be held in?
1) India
2) Australia
3) West Indies
4) England
5) New Zealand - Who won the 7th Chennai International Open Grandmaster chess tournament in January 2015?
1) Popov Ivan
2) Ramnath Bhuvanesh
3) R. Siddharth
4) Dzhumaev Marat
5) Mozharov Mikhail - Which of the following is a successor body of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
1) World Bank
2) IMF
3) WTO
4) OECD
5) WEF - Which country was formerly known as Nyasaland?
1) Zambia
2) Tanzania
3) Mozambique
4) Malawi
5) Sudan - Which of the following organizations has seven members?
1) SAARC
2) NATO
3) BIMSTEC
4) OPEC
5) ASEAN - According to the ‘Status of Tigers in India 2014’ report what is the population of tigers?
1) 1706
2) 1411
3) 2226
4) 1909
5) 1826 - India is home to what percent of the world’s tiger population?
1) 60%
2) 65%
3) 75%
4) 70%
5) 55% - Who was named as the Governor of the Year in the Central Banking Awards for 2015?
1) Ben Bernanke
2) Janet Yellen
3) Raghuram Rajan
4) Mark Carney
5) None of these - Which State got the National Award for e-Governance for the best district level initiative in India?
1) Haryana
2) Punjab
3) Sikkim
4) Gujarat
5) Jammu & Kashmir - Sukanya Samruddhi Account was launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 22, 2015 from?
1) Ambala
2) Panipat
3) Hissar
4) Karnal
5) Faridabad - India’s foreign direct investment increased by what per cent in 2014, as per a UN report released in January 2015?
1) 26%
2) 30%
3) 14%
4) 18%
5) 20% - Leander Paes and which of the following female tennis players won the 2015 Australian Open Mixed Doubles title?
1) Kristina Mladenovic
2) Martina Hingis
3) Sania Mirza
4) Lucie Safarova
5) Simona Halep - Who won the women’s singles title of the Syed Modi Internatio-nal Masters Badminton tournament in Lucknow on January 25, 2015?
1) Carolina Marin
2) P. V. Sindhu
3) Saina Nehwal
4) Li Xuerai
5) None of these - National Academy of Direct Taxes is located in?
1) Mumbai
2) Pune
3) Thane
4) Nagpur
5) Surat - The technique of inducing rain from cloud is called?
1) Cloud Control
2) Cloud Computing
3) Cloud Engineering
4) Cloud Seeding
5) None of these - Indian Statistical Institute was founded by?
1) R.C. Bose
2) J.M. Sengupta
3) R.R. Bahadur
4) P.C. Mahalanobis
5) C.R. Rao - Arihant is a?
1) Unmanned combat aerial vehicle
2) Multi barrel rocket launcher
3) Surface to air missile
4) Nuclear submarine
5) None of these - Baiji oil refinery is located in?
1) Iran
2) Iraq
3) Syria
4) Russia
5) Sudan - World Vitiligo Day is observed on?
1) June 25
2) June 26
3) June 23
4) June 24
5) June 28 - Sukanya Samridhi Account will enable parents to open bank accounts of girls who are under?
1) 12 years
2) 15 years
3) 10 years
4) 18 years
5) 14 years - The Venture Capital Fund for Scheduled Castes was launched by the Union Ministry of?
1) Urban Development
2) Rural Development
3) Home
4) Finance
5) Social Justice and Empowerment - The 13th Foreign Ministers Meeting of the Russia-India-China trilateral was held in February 2015 in?
1) Beijing
2) Moscow
3) Yekaterinburg
4) New Delhi
5) Sochi - Which of the following is a 21-nation grouping of Pacific Rim countries?
1) ASEAN
2) SCO
3) EAS
4) BASIC
5) APEC - The first district in India to have complete rural broadband coverage is?
1) Ernakulam
2) Kollam
3) Idukki
4) Palakkad
5) Thrissur - Which country topped the list of 93 countries in the 2014 edition of Global Talent Competitive Index?
1) Switzerland
2) Singapore
3) Luxembourg
4) USA
5) Canada - What is India’s rank in the Global Talent Competitive Index that was released by the INSEAD Business School in January 2015?
1) 63
2) 78
3) 65
4) 67
5) 75 - Yingluck Shinawatra was impeached by the Parliament in January 2015. She is the former Prime Minister of?
1) Cambodia
2) Laos
3) Thailand
4) Vietnam
5) Myanmar - Which country was the largest recipient of FDI in 2014?
1) China
2) USA
3) Singapore
4) Brazil
5) India - The Ra’ad is an air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) developed by?
1) Israel
2) Afghanistan
3) North Korea
4) Pakistan
5) Myanmar - Which of the following is the capital of Turkey?
1) Antalya
2) Istanbul
3) Izmir
4) Adana
5) Ankara
Answers:
| 1) 3 | 2) 2 | 3) 3 | 4) 4 | 5) 1 | 6) 5 | 7) 2 | 8) 3 | 9) 1 | 10) 3 |
| 11) 4 | 12) 1 | 13) 3 | 14) 4 | 15) 3 | 16) 3 | 17) 4 | 18) 3 | 19) 5 | 20) 2 |
| 21) 1 | 22) 2 | 23) 3 | 24) 4 | 25) 4 | 26) 4 | 27) 4 | 28) 2 | 29) 1 | 30) 3 |
| 31) 5 | 32) 1 | 33) 5 | 34) 3 | 35) 1 | 36) 2 | 37) 3 | 38) 1 | 39) 4 | 40) 5 |
Published date : 09 Dec 2015 11:42AM
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