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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Current Affairs Part-1



1.    Svetlana Alexievich, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2015 belongs to
(a) Russia                   (b) Ukraine                  (c) Belarus                              (d) Poland

2.    Sagarmala is a programme launched by the govt for the development and modernisation of
(a) hill stations             (b) ports                      (c) islands                               (d) rivers

3.    Which Indian tennis player ranked for the first time in his career in the ATP Top 100 rankings?
(a) Yuki Bhambri         (b) Rohan Bopanna    (c) Vishnu Vardhan                 (d) Somdev Devvarman

4.    Artemisinin for the discovery of which Chinese scientist has been awarded the Nobel Prize this year is used to treat -?
(a) Malaria                   (b) Ebola                    (c) Swine flu                            (d) Bird flu

5.    Who of the following has been elected the new chief of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
(a) Sylvia Lucas          (b) Alexis Tsipras       (c) Maurice Obstfeld               (d) Hoesung Lee

6.    Which city in southern India is set to turn into "Ivory City", its newly adopted nickname by painting all govt buildings and heritage structures in the colour of ivory (off-white)?
(a) Mangalore                         (b) Madurai                 (c) Mysuru                              (d) Coimbatore

7.    MS Sathyu, who has been awarded the Akademi Ratna by the Sangeet Natak Akademi is associated with
(a) Carnatic music      (b) Film making           (c) Odissi dance                     (d) Folk music

8.    Omar al-Bashir, who is in news these days is the President of which African country?
(a) Democratic Republic of Congo                 (b) Tanzania                (c) Uganda                  (d) Sudan

9.    Which place in Andhra Pradesh has been chosen for setting up of one of the three AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana?
(a) Mangalagiri            (b) Anantapur              (c) Rajahmundry                     (d) Vizianagaram

10.  Recently, Indian fishermen were reported to have been arrested in Diego Garcia which is an island in the Indian Ocean owned by -
(a) Spain                     (b) United States         (c) France                               (d) United Kingdom

11.  Bermuda Bowl which was won by Poland recently is a trophy associated with which of the following sports?
(a) Chess                    (b) Bridge                    (c) Carrom                              (d) Rugby

12.  In which colour were monuments across the world, including India, lit up to mark United Nations Day on October 24?
(a) Red                        (b) Blue                       (c) Pink                                   (d) Purple

13.  What was the theme of World Food Day 2015 observed on 16 October 2015?
(a) Family Farming: Feeding the World                      (b) Ending Hunger starts with us 
(c) Social Protection & Agriculture                             (d) Think-Eat-Save

14.  With which one of the following sports are Hitendra Mahajan and Mahendra Mahajan associated?
(a) Cycling                  (b) Mountaineering                  (c) Paragliding             (d) Wildlife photography

15.  How many countries are associated with the United States of America in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a regional trade accord targeted to tie together 40% of world’s economy?
(a) 8                             (b) 9                             (c) 10                                       (d) 11


16.  Which organisation in Pakistan took care of the hearing and speech impaired Indian girl, Geeta during her over a decade-long stay in the country?
(a) Darul Sukun          (b) Aahung                  (c) Edhi Foundation                (d) H.O.P.E.S.

17.  Virender Sehwag, who retired from all forms of cricket recently is one of the 4 cricketers in the world to have scored 2 triple centuries in test cricket. Who among the following is not among the other three?
(a) Brian Lara              (b) Garfield Sobers     (c) Don Bradman                    (d) Chris Gayle

18.  National Dialogue Quartet, a group of four organisations which has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 is based in which country?
(a) Tunisia                   (b) Greece                  (c) Turkey                               (d) North Korea

19.  Which of the following books has been awarded the Man Booker Prize 2015?
(a) A Little Life                                     (b) The Year of the Runaways
(c) A Spool of Blue Thread                 (d) A Brief History of Seven Killings


20.  Which two countries apart from India participated in the maritime exercise Malabar 2015?
(a) US and Japan       (b) US and Singapore (c) Japan & Singapore            (d) Singapore & Indonesia

21.  Which insect affected about two-thirds of Punjab’s cotton crop causing a huge loss to the farmers?
(a) Aphid                     (b) Whitefly                  (c) Locust                                (d) Spider mite

22.  What is the rank of India in Ease of Doing Business Index released by World Bank group recently?
(a) 124                         (b) 134                         (c) 130                                     (d) 144

23.  Who is the new Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission?
(a) RK Sinha               (b) Dr. Sekhar Basu               (c) AK Doval               (d) Nripendra Misra

24.  The alternative train accommodation scheme launched by Indian Railways for the benefit of waitlisted passengers is named
(a) Vikalp                     (b) Suvidha                             (c) Aarakshan                         (d) Pariyojan

25.  Which of the following has replaced PepsiCo as the title sponsor of Indian Premier League?
(a) Amoi                      (b) Huawei                              (c) Oppo                      (d) Vivo

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