Thursday 3 December 2015

Current Affairs Part-2



1. After how many years did India recently win a test series in Sri Lanka?
(a) 18 years    (b) 20 years    (c) 22 years    (d) 25 years

2. Who represented India at China's military parade in Beijing to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II?
(a) Shri Narendra Modi           (b) Gen V.K. Singh (Retd.)     (c) Smt Sushma Swaraj         (d) Shri Nitin Gadkari

3. Name of which of the following mountains has been changed to its original name Denali?
(a) Elbrus                  (b) Aconcagua                        (c) McKinley                (d) Etna

4. Who was the longest serving British monarch before Queen Elizabeth II, the present monarch?
(a) King George III                  (b) King Edward VII                (c) King George V                   (d) Queen Victoria

5. Jeremy Corbyn who is news is -
(a) the new Australian Prime Minister                        (b) the new US ambassador to India
(c) the new Chairman of the World Bank                   (d) the leader of Labour Party of U.K.

6. Which university has been ranked No. 1 by the QS World ranking of Universities released recently?
(a) Harvard University                                                (b) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(c) University of Cambridge 4;">                                      (d) Stanford University

7. Which of the following cities is not connected by the Nanning-Singapore Economic Corridor?
Singapore, Kuala Lampur, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vientiane, Jakarta, Hanoi and Nanning
(a) Jakarta                              (b) Hanoi                     (c) Phnom Penh         (d) Bangkok

8. Sumit Nagal is associated with which of the following sports?
(a) Tennis                                (b) Billiards                  (c) Golf                        (d) Squash

9. Which of the following films has been chosen to be India’s official entry to the Academy Awards 2016?
(a) Bajrangi Bhaijaan              (b) Manjhi                    (c) Court                      (d) Lunchbox

10. What s the correct order of World Bank’s ranking of Indian states in ease of doing business?
(a) Gujarat, M.P., Tamil Nadu                                    (b) A.P., Gujarat, Maharashtra
(c) M.P., A.P., Bihar                                                   (d) Gujarat, A.P., Jharkhand, CH, MH

11. Who of the following won the US Open Women’s Singles title?
(a) Roberta Vinci                     (b) Flavia Pennetta     (c) Serena Williams                (d) Maria Sharapova

12. Which railway zone of the Indian Railways has become the first in the country to eliminate all unmanned level crossings?
(a) West Central              (b) South Central        (c) Central               (d) East Central

13. Who of the following was awarded the best athlete at the 55th National Athletics Open Championship held in Kolkata?
(a) Vikas Gowda           (b) Arokya Rajiv          (c) Inderjeet Singh     (d) Neeraj chopra

14. Who of the following conducted the first Linguistic Survey of India?
(a) Sir George a Grierson       (b) Thomas Oldham   (c) David H Williams     (d) Charles Wood

15. Which city has been chosen as the Best Heritage City for the National Tourism Awards 2013-14?
(a) Jodhpur                     (b) Hampi                    (c) Hyderabad              (d) Gwalior

16.Who is the first President of the newly formed W-20 group?
(a) Ms Christine Lagarde        (b) Ms Belinda Gates             (c) Ms Gulden Turktan           (d) Sheryl Sandberg

17. Which city has been chosen to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games?
(a) Pretoria            (b) Durban              (c) Johannesburg                   (d) Harare

18. Multi-dose vials of painkiller drug Diclofenac have been banned by the Govt of India to save which animal/bird from extinction?
(a) Vulture                     (b) Tiger                      (b) Elephant                  (d) Peacock

19. Which organisation has been conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2014?
(a) DRDO                               (b) ISRO                     (c) HAL                        (d) RSS


20. Which Indian golfer has become the first Indian to qualify for the President’s Cup?
(a) Anirban Lahiri       (b) Arjun Atwal          (c) Shiv Kapur            (d) Gaganjeet Bhullar

21. Recently remains of an ancient human species Homo naledi were found in which country?
(a) Argentina                  (b) England                 (c) China             (d) South Africa

22. The exhibition celebrating Golden Jubilee of India’s war of 1965 held in New Delhi was named –
(a) Shradhanjali            (b) Shouryanjali           (c) Pushpanjali         (d) Vijayanjali

23. Which country has recently allowed its military to engage in overseas combat for the first time after World War II?
(a) Japan                (b) South Korea          (c) North Korea                    (d) Canada


24. Shobana Bhartia who was awarded 2015 USIBC Global Leadership Award is associated with –
(a) Times of India        (b) The Hindu        (c) Hindustan Times          (d) Indian Express

25. Which automobile company was in news recently for being involved in emission cheating scandal?
(a) Toyota             (b) Honda               (c) Peugeot                        (d) Volkswagen

26. Malcolm Turnbull is the new Prime Minister of
(a) Australia            (b) New Zealand                     (c) United Kingdom     (d) Canada

27. Which two rivers have been recently linked by the Pattiseema project?
(a) Krishna and Tungabhadra                         (b) Tungabhadra and Kaveri
(c) Godavari and Krishna                               (d) Godavari and Tungabhadra


28. Which of the following was the theme of the International Literacy Day 2015?
(a) Literacy for all                                            (b) Literacy and Sustainable Societies
(c) Literacies for the 21st Century                  (d) Literacy and Peace

29. Which of the following was the venue of 10th World Hindi Conference held in September 2015?
(a) Lucknow                (b) Gwalior                  (c) Chandigarh                        (d) Bhopal

30. At which of the following places has the first IIT of Karnataka been set up?
(a) Dharwad                (b) Raichur                  (c) Mysore                (d) Kalaburagi

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