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- Who was appointed as an Executive Director on the board of the International Monetary Fund? (He will replace Rakesh Mohan)
1) Subir Gokarn
2) Anand Sinha
3) K.C. Chakrabarty
4) H.R. Khan
5) Urjit Patel - Who won the China Open Super Series Premier badminton women’s singles title in Fuzhou in November 2015?
1) Saina Nehwal
2) Li Xuerui
3) Yihan Wang
4) Carolina Marin
5) P.V. Sindhu - Who was elected as the Vice Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in November 2015?
1) Y. Venugopal Reddy
2) C. Rangarajan
3) Raghuram Rajan
4) Kaushik Basu
5) Bimal Jalan - Who was appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations on November 16, 2015? (He will replace Asoke Mukerji)
1) Vikas Swarup
2) S. Jaishankar
3) Saurabh Kumar
4) Syed Akbaruddin
5) T.C.A. Raghavan - The Bank for International Settlements serves as a bank for central banks. It is based in?
1) Zurich
2) Tokyo
3) Beijing
4) Geneva
5) Basel - Which country won the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup Football tournament on July 5, 2015?
1) USA
2) Japan
3) France
4) Germany
5) Norway - Identify the mismatched pair?
2015 Host Tournament
Country
1) Copa America
Chile
2) FIFA Women’s World Cup
Canada
3) FIFA Under-20 World Cup
Serbia
4) Asian Athletics Championships
China
5) ICC World Cup
Australia & NewZealand
- Which of the following districts in West Bengal has won the United Nations Public Service Award 2015?
1) Purulia
2) Howrah
3) Cooch Behar
4) Nadia
5) Jalpaiguri - Which of the following governments has reached a historic agreement with FARC guerrillas to de-escalate the decades-long armed conflict?
1) Cuba
2) Colombia
3) Ecuador
4) France
5) Armenia - Which country will contribute the largest amount ($41 billion) to the BRICS Currency Reserve Arrangement(CRA)?
1) Brazil
2) Russia
3) India
4) China
5) South Africa - Identify the mismatched pair?
BOOK
AUTHOR
1) Modi-Incredible Emergence of a Star
Tarun Vijay
2) Flood of Fire
Amitav Ghosh
3) Scion of Ikshvaku
Amish Tripathi
4) Transcendence
APJ Abdul Kalam
5) Beyond Doubt
Shobha De
- India’s spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was conferred Order of the Democracy Simon Bolivar, the highest civilian award of?
1) Bolivia
2) Brazil
3) Colombia
4) Chile
5) Argentina - What does the letter ‘C’ stand for in the abbreviation CRR?
1) Currency
2) Credit
3) Cash
4) Capital
5) Commercial - Singapore’s central bank and financial regulatory authority is called?
1) Bank of Singapore
2) People’s Bank of Singapore
3) Federal Reserve of Singapore
4) Monetary Authority of Singapore
5) None of these - The World Food Program (WFP) is the food assistance branch of the United Nations. Its headquarters is in?
1) Vienna
2) Washington D.C.
3) Geneva
4) Tokyo
5) Rome - Who is the present Union Minister for Food Processing Industries?
1) Radha Mohan Singh
2) Anant Kumar
3) Anant Geete
4) Thawar Chand Gehlot
5) Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Who was given the Moortidevi Award for 2014 for his work ‘Vyomkesh Darvesh’?
1) K. Radhakrishnan
2) Viswanath Tripathi
3) Kamal Kishore Goenka
4) Munishwar Jha
5) None of these - The 2015 World Food Prize recipient belongs to which of the following countries?
1) India
2) Philippines
3) Bangladesh
4) Brazil
5) Mexico - Praful Bidwai passed away on June 23, 2015. He was a renowned?
1) Architect
2) Painter
3) Singer
4) Journalist
5) Television personality - Who has been named as the 2015 Global Confederation for Higher Education Associations for Agriculture and Life Sciences World Agriculture Prize laureate?
1) M.S. Swaminathan
2) R. Paul Singh
3) Sanjay Rajaram
4) R.S. Paroda
5) None of these - A National Memorial of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan will be set up in which of the following States?
1) Uttarakhand
2) Bihar
3) Madhya Pradesh
4) Uttar Pradesh
5) None of these - The Union Government has launched the first modernized Anganwadi centre of India at Hasnapur village of Sonepat in?
1) Chhattisgarh
2) Madhya Pradesh
3) Punjab
4) Haryana
5) Odisha - Who launched the Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan(RAA) in New Delhi on July 9, 2015?
1) Narendra Modi
2) Pranab Mukherjee
3) APJ Abdul Kalam
4) Hameed Ansari
5) Nitin Gadkari - How many cities will be chosen for the AMRUT (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation) project?
1) 100
2) 250
3) 200
4) 500
5) None of these - Who is the founder of BRAC, the largest Non Government Organization in the world?
1) Muhammad Yunus
2) Nurul Islam
3) Rehman Sobhan
4) Fazle Hasan Abed
5) None of these - As per a research published by the World Economic Forum, the world’s biggest employer is?
1) The US Department of Defense
2) People’s Liberation Army of China
3) Wal-Mart
4) McDonalds
5) UK’s National Health Service - The National Skill Development Mission’s Governing Council is chaired by the?
1) President
2) Home Minister
3) Prime Minister
4) Finance Minister
5) Human Resources Development Minister - Islam Karimov is the President of which of the following countries?
1) Azerbaijan
2) Armenia
3) Ukraine
4) Uzbekistan
5) Georgia - President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a ‘Nakshatra Vatika’ on July 6, 2015 in?
1) New Delhi
2) Secunderabad
3) Nagpur
4) Kolkata
5) Mumbai - Who won the women’s title in the Senior National Squash championship on July 12, 2015?
1) Joshna Chinappa
2) Bhuveneshwari Kumari `
3) Deepika Pallikal
4) Harshit Kaur
5) None of these - The United Nations General Assembly designated which of the following days as World Youth Skills Day?
1) July 15
2) June 15
3) August 15
4) September 15
5) April 15 - Which of the following has launched a mobile application named "Pashu Poshan" that will boost dairy farmer’s income?
1) NDRI
2) NDDB
3) IARI
4) NIRD
5) ICRISAT - Serena Williams won her sixth Wimbledon women’s singles title by defeating which of the following tennis players in the final in July 2015?
1) Maria Sharapova
2) Belinda Bencic
3) Garbine Muguruza
4) Lucie Safarova
5) Ana Ivanovic - Which State has declared Blue Mormon species as State Butterfly?
1) Punjab
2) Haryana
3) Gujarat
4) Maharashtra
5) West Bengal - Which of the following cities is the capital of Uzbekistan?
1) Samarkhand
2) Namangan
3) Peshawar
4) Hun
5) Tashkent - Which is the first developed nation to default on the International Monetary Fund debt?
1) Portugal
2) Ireland
3) Greece
4) Italy
5) Spain - Which city hosted the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in July 2015?
1) Yekaterinburg
2) Beijing
3) Shanghai
4) Ufa
5) Moscow - Which country has been accepted as a full member of Shanghai Cooperation Organization along with India?
1) Belarus
2) Afghanistan
3) Iran
4) Mongolia
5) Pakistan - Which country retained the South Asian Basketball Championship (SABA) title in July 2015?
1) Sri Lanka
2) Bangladesh
3) India
4) Pakistan
5) Nepal - Garbine Muguruza is a tennis player from which of the follo wing countries?
1) Russia
2) Bulgaria
3) Poland
4) Spain
5) Czech Republic
KEY
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Published date : 12 Dec 2015 12:01PM
