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1. Who won 19th Commonwealth
Chess Championship ?
Ans- Abhijeet Gupta
2. Name the pioneer of SMS
technology who died recently?
Ans- Matti Makkonen
3. Who was nominated as first
female judge of Afghanistan
Supreme Court?
Ans- Anisa Rasouli
4. Who was appointed as Interim
CMD of Oil India Limited?
Ans- U P Singh
5. Which Indian-American teacher
was named for US Presidential Award
for Excellence in
Mathematics and Science Teaching
by President Barack Obama.?
Ans- Darshan Jain
6. Which is the new version of
Facebook that was launched for its
application for Android
phones in India?
Ans- FB Lite
7. Which country becomes first
nation to eliminate mother-to-child
HIV and syphilis?
Ans- Cuba
8. Mhara Gaon- Jagmag Gaon
Scheme launched in which state?
Ans- Haryana
9. Who was selected for the G D
Birla Award for Scientific Research
for 2014?
Ans- Sanjeev Galande
10. 7th Meeting of India-Thailand
Joint Commission was held
at_________.
Ans- Bangkok
11.Which Indian-American professor
named for 2015 World Agriculture
Prize laureate?
Ans- R Paul Singh
12. Which state launched the State
Portal - ePMS (Electronic Projects
Management System) to
fast track infrastructural
development.?
Ans- Punjab
13. Which operation was launched by
Army to secure Amarnath Yatra?
Ans- Operation Shiva
14.The Adani Group, will set up a
₹4,536 crore solar park in _____
Ans- Ramanathapuram district of
Tamil Nadu
15. Ryan Harris who announced his
retirement from all forms of cricket
belongs to which
country?
Ans- Australia
16. Which Insurance Company has
launched weather based crop
insurance scheme for three
districts for Maharashtra?
Ans- Bajaj Allianz
17. Which country is largest
shareholders in Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank (AIIB)?
Ans-China
18. Sampada is a facility for e-
registration of property documents
launched by which state?
Ans-Madhya Pradesh
19. Who has been named as the
winner of the 2015 World Food Prize?
Ans-Fazle Hasan Abed of Bangladesh
20. Who is the author of the book
“Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years”?
Ans-Former Research and Analysis
Wing chief AS Dulat
21. Newly appointed Director of the
Aeronautical Development Agency?
Ans- C D Balaji
22. USA won Women's FIFA World
Cup for the third time by defeating
which country?
Ans- Japan
23. Which bank has launched first
MUDRA card under Pradhan Mantri
MUDRA Yojana?
Ans- Corporation Bank
24. India won 2015 South Asian
Basketball Championship by
defeating _____
Ans- Sri Lanka
25. Who won 2015 Formula 1 British
Grand Prix title?
Ans- Lewis Hamilton (Britain)
26.______ of France granted with
World Heritage status by UNESCO
Ans- Champagne vineyards
27. Which state government reported
that 58 percent school kids suffer
from orthopaedic ailment
due to heavy bags?
Ans- Maharashtra
28. Which system has been newly
launched for Foreign Employers in
India?
Ans- eMigrate
29. Which company has started
Wallet Services- Speed Pay?
Ans- BSNL
30. Chile won Copa America formerly
known as the South American
Football Championship by
defeating ____
Ans- Argentina
31.China nominated Jin Liqun, for
the post of AIIB President. Who is
Jin Liqun?
Ans- Former Chinese Finance Minster
32. Microsoft to develop digital
villages, cyber-security centre in
which state ?
Ans- Maharashtra
33. Which Indian scientist was
elected as fellow of Royal Society?
Ans- Kamal Bawa
34. .Which state has announced to
replicate Maharashtra’s Jalyukta
Shivar Abhiyan?
Ans- Rajasthan
35. Name the mobile application
launched by The National Dairy
Development Board (NDDB)
to boost dairy farmers' income?
Ans- Pashu Poshan
36. Which Bank launched watch
banking application for Apple
Watch?
Ans- HDFC Bank
37. Who won WBO Welterweight title
by defeating Manny Pacquiao?
Ans- Floyd Mayweather
38.Book titled India Central Asia
Relations: The Economic Dimension
authored by _______
Ans- Amiya Chandra
39. The Film Society was conferred
with the Pritiman Sarkar Award
2014-15 ?
Ans- Jodhpur
40. India has signed an agreement
with which country for supply of
uranium?
Ans- Kazakhstan
41. Who was appointed as the Home
Secretary of Delhi?
Ans- Sanjeev Nandan (SN)Sahai
42. Who was appointed as the
Managing Director (MD) and Chief
Financial Officer (CFO) of
Bharti Enterprises?
Ans- Rahul Bhatnagar
43. Who was appointed as Managing
Director (MD) and Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of
National Housing Bank (NHB)?
Ans- Sriram Kalyanaraman
44. Operation Smile was led to trace
of 44 missing children in which
state ?
Ans- Uttarakhand
45. Recently who became first
British-Asian appointee to ECB
Management Board?
Ans- Lord Kamlesh Patel
46. Nagaland has been declared as
disturbed area under section 3 of
the Armed Forces (Special
Powers) Act_________.
Ans- 1958
47. Which state will host the Youth
Delphic Games in February 2016?
Ans- Goa
48. Ashwini Nachappa committee
was constituted by Union Sports
Ministry to ______
Ans- study status of SAI training
centers
49. Which Russian cosmonaut
entered Guinness World Records for
spending 804 days on ISS?
Ans- Gennady Padalka
50. What will be the theme of
Science Express in 2015?
Ans- Climate Change
51. The government Of India has
appointed international lawyer to
arbitrate on its behalf in the
Rs. 20,000 crore tax case with the UK
telecom major Vodafone?
Ans- international lawyer Rodrigo
Oreamuno
52. Who is the President of
Turkmenistan ?
Ans-Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov
53. Which bank has become the first
to launch Watch Banking in India?
Ans-HDFC for Apple watch
54. World Population Day was
observed on which Date?
Ans-11 July 2015 with theme
Vulnerable Populations in
Emergencies.
55. Prince Saud al-Faisal, World’s
longest serving Foreign Minister
passes away recently. He
belongs to which country?
Ans- Saudi Arabia's foreign minister
56. Serena Williams wona sixth
Wimbledon title and fourth
successive grand slam crown by
defeating .......?
Ans- Spanish Garbine Muguruza
57. Who won Wimbledon Men's title?
Ans- Novak Djokovic defeated Roger
Federer
58. Who became only the second
cricketer in the history of One Day
International (ODI) cricket
to claim a hat-trick on ODI debut?
Ans-South Africa debutant Kagiso
Rabada (Bangladesh spinner Taijul
Islam was the first debutant to take
an ODI hat-trick.)
59. 7th BRICS summit held at which
place?
Ans-Russian city of Ufa in
Bashkortostan
60. Who was appointed as the
Chairman of the Kolkata-based
Bandhan Bank?
Ans-Ashok Kumar Lahiri, former Chief
Economic Adviser to the Union
Government
61. Justice RM Lodha-headed panel
on IPL Betting Scandal 2013
suspended Indian Premier
League (IPL) franchise ...... for two
years?
Ans- Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and
Rajasthan Royals (RR)
62. Who was conferred with highest
French Civilian Award Commandeur
de la Lgion dHonneur
(the Legion of Honour)?
Ans- Artist Sayed Haider Raza
63. What is the Full Form of GAGAN?
Ans-GPS-Aided Geo Augmented
Navigation (GAGAN) system
64. Who has been appointed as new
Vice-Chief of the Indian Army?
Ans-Lt Gen Man Mohan Singh Rai
65. Who was conferred with the
Golden Peacock Environment
Management Award (GPEMA)
2015?
Ans-Tata Steel's West Bokaro
Division
66. Which is India’s longest road
tunnel?
Ans-Patnitop Tunnel or Chenani-
Nashri Tunnel
67. India has test-fired its
indigenously developed missile from
a helicopter?
Ans-Nag anti-tank guided missile
68. Which film has won the best
original screenplay in a Foreign
Language award at the Madrid
International Film Festival?
Ans-‘Buddha In A Traffic Jam’
69. Which Bank received approval
from the Reserve Bank of India to
set up IFSC Banking Units
(IBUs) in Gujarat International
Finance Tec City (GIFT) ?
Ans- Yes Bank
70. Which country has setup world’s
largest cancer registry system?
Ans- China
71. Who won Frost and Sullivan’s
2015 Economic Development
Innovation Award?
Ans-Make in India initiative of
Department of Industrial Policy and
Promotion (DIPP),
Government of India.
72. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
constituted a committee to work out
a five-year (mediumterm) action plan
for financial inclusion. What is the
name of that committee?
Ans-Deepak Mohanty Committee (RBI
executive director )
73. The World Youth Skills Day
(WYSD) was observed globally for the
first ever time on which
Date?
Ans- 15 July 2015
74. Which Banklaunched instant
money transfer service `QuickPay’?
Ans-IndusInd Bank
75. Who has become the first
microfinance institution (MFI) in the
Indian microfinance sector to
have received a loan from MUDRA
Bank?
Ans-Delhi-based Satin Creditcare
Network Ltd (SCNL).
76. India’s first railway-line built
under PPP model inaugurated in
which place?
Ans-railway-line between
Gandhidham and Tuna-Tekra Port in
Gujarat
77. Asian Development Bank (ADB)
has estimated India economic
growth forecast for 2015-16
at .......?
Ans-7.8 percent.
78. Mudra stands for.......?
Ans-Micro Units Development &
Refinance Agency (MUDRA) Bank
79. Who won the prestigious
Microsoft Country Partner of the Year
Award for 2015?
Ans-India-based Comparex India Pvt
Ltd
80. Open marketplace app Shopo
launched by which company?
Ans-Snapdeal
81. Union Cabinet set up an expert
group to classify the Caste names
returned in the Socio
Economic and Caste Census (SECC),
2011. Who is the chairman of
committee?
Ans-Arvind Panagariya
82. Who was honoured as Champions
of Change by the White House of
United States (US)?
Ans-Sunita Viswanath
83. India decommissioned Torpedo
launch and recovery vessel (TLRV)
recently. What is the
name of that recovery vessel?
Ans-INS Astravahini
84. Who has been appointed as the
Chief Advisor of Security and anti-
corruption unit (ACSU) of
BCCI for next year’s T20 World Cup
to be hosted by India ?
Ans- Former Delhi Police
Commissioner Neeraj Kumar
85. Who was appointed as Interim
Director of Film and Television
Institute of India (FTII)?
Ans- Prashant Pathrabe
86. India’s first air freight station in
the private sector ready to serve the
Nation at which place?
Ans-Irungattukottai near Chennai
87. Which cricketer suspended from
Bowling in International Cricket for 1
Year recently?
Ans- Pakistan’s Mohammad Hafeez
88. India’s first defence industrial
park will be set up at which place?
Ans-Ottappalam in Palakkad district
of Kerala
89. The Reserve Bank of India signed
a Special Currency Swap Agreement
with the which
central Bank?
Ans-Central Bank of Sri Lanka
90. Who is the president of Greece?
Ans-Prokopis Pavlopoulos
91. Who will lead Indian Challenge
at "Cup of the President of the
Republic of Kazakhstan"
Wrestling Meet?
Ans-Amit Kumar
92. Who has won 2015 Pacific Asia
Travel Association (PATA) award in
the ‘Heritage &
Culture’ category?
Ans-Kerala Tourism for its Muziris
Heritage Project
93. Who took charge as the new
Chairperson of Delhi Commission for
Women (DCW)?
Ans-Swati Maliwal
94.Who was inducted into the
International Tennis Hall of Fame ?
Ans- Amelie Mauresmo
95. Who will head a panel to probe
ex-director of CBI Ranjit Sinha ?
Ans- ML Sharma, former Special
Director of the CBI
96. White-Fi technology, which uses
of a Wi-Fi technology within the TV
unused spectrum is
being developed by which company?
Ans- Microsoft
97. Which city has been chosen as
City of Music by UNESCO under
Creative Cities of Network
Ans- Varanasi
98. Which company has bagged the
bagging the Leading Oil & Gas
Corporate of the Year award?
Ans-State-owned Indian Oil Corp
(IOC)
99. Who has been appointed as
chairman of Narmada Valley
Development Authority (NVDA)?
Ans- Rakesh Sahni
100. From which country, Apple has
recently introduced “Apple Pay”, a
mobile payments system?
Ans- Britain
101. Who was appointed as Chief
Economist of the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) ?
Ans-Maurice Obstfeld
102. High Level Committee (HLC) on
Status of Women , constituted by
former UPA
government recently in news?
Ans- Headed by Pam Rajput
103. Who won the Grand Prix World
Press Cartoon 2014 Award for
sketching Nelson Mandela?
Ans-Pamarthy Shankar
104. Who was appointed as the
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the
Flipkart-owned fashion
store Myntra ?
Ans-Ananth Narayanan
105. 2016 World Twenty20 cricket
tournament Finals will be held at...?
Ans-Eden Gardens ground in Kolkata
106. Who has won the 36th edition
of American Book Award 2015?
Ans-Noted Canadian author Naomi
Klein
107. BRICS bank starts its operations
recently at which place?
Ans-Shanghai, China
108. Who has won the Best
Documentary Producer award at
Madrid International Film Festival?
Ans- Film-maker Benoy Behl
documentary film titled Indian Roots
of Tibetan Buddhism.
109. Who has appointed as
Chairperson of Food Safety and
Standards Authority of India
(FSSAI) ?
Ans- Bhanu Pratap Sharma
110. Recently IRCTC partner with
which company to provide meals in
Train?
Ans- KFC
111. Who was appointed as CMD of
National Aluminium Company?
Ans- T K Chand
112. National Broadcasting Day was
observed on _____
Ans- 23 July 2015
113. Author of the Book titled
Ghosts of Calcutta ____
Ans- Sebastian Ortiz
114. Which city was named as World
Book Capital for 2017 by UNESCO?
Ans- Conakry
115. Which Indian city has emerged
as the first nomination to be
received by the Urban
Development Ministry for a Smart
City Mission?
Ans- Ponducherry
116. Who won IJGA World Stars of
Junior Golf event 2015?
Ans- Shubham Jaglan
117. India ranked ____ in terms of
power generation from nuclear
source?
Ans- 12th
118. Which 2 IT companies form
joint venture to provide technology
services, solutions to
banks?
Ans- CSC and HCL technologies
119. Who received Royal Society’s
Copley Medal, the world's oldest
scientific prize?
Ans- Peter Higgs
120. Name the world's first malaria
vaccine, approved by European
Medicines Agency?
Ans- Mosquirix
121. Who was awarded with first-ever
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize?
Ans- Helena Ndume of Namibia and
Jorge Sampaio of Portugal
122. Who was chosen for the
Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize 2015 in
the Academic Category ?
Ans- Historian Ramachandra Guha
123. President Pranab Mukherjee
has appointed 2 members of Anglo-
Indian Community to Lok
Sabha as per the provisions of which
article of Indian Constitution?
Ans- Article 331
Professor Richard Hay: He hails from
Kerala.
-George Baker: He hails from West
Bengal and is actor by profession.
124. Which State government
launched Shyamaprasad Mukherjee
Jan Van Vikas Scheme for for
development of villages around tiger
reserves ?
Ans- Maharashtra
125. Who was appointed as the
Director-General (DG) of The Energy
and Resources Institute
(TERI)?
Ans- Ajay Mathur
126. Who has headed Anil Ambani-
led Reliance group’s oil & gas
business?
Ans- Ashok Kumar Balyan
127. Union Government has
constituted ......... as an advisory
body to deliberate on matters
relating to the development and
promotion of sports in the country?
Ans- All India Council of Sports
(AICS)
128. United States has recently
restored diplomatic relations after
54 years with which country?
Ans- Cuba
129. As per recommendations of
which committee, BCCI changed the
format of the Deodhar
Trophy?
Ans-Anil Kumble
130. Which is India’s largest E-
commerce company?
Ans-mJunction online steel
marketplace (joint venture formed by
SAIL and Tata Steel
131. Who was appointed as the
Chairman of telecom regulator
Telecom Regulatory Authority of
India (TRAI)?
Ans-Ram Sevak Sharma
132. World’s largest flower bloomed
for the first time in 5 years at the
Jindai botanical gardens
in Tokyo ,Japan . what is the name of
that flower?
Ans- Amorphophallus Titanum
133. Who won CONCACAF Gold Cup
Football tournament ?
Ans-Mexico defeated Jamaica
134. Which bank has signed a $200
million 7-year bilateral loan deal
with the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) ?
Ans-Axis Bank
135. Who has won 102nd edition of
Tour de France ?
Ans- Chris Froome, a cyclist from
Team Sky of Britain
136. Kargil Vijay Diwas observed
across the nation on which Day?
Ans- 26 July 2015
137. World Hepatitis Day is observed
every year on which Date?
Ans- July 28
138. Which country has signed
Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) with search engine giant
Google to launch the Google Loon
project ?
Ans- Sri Lanka
139. Which country has recently
declares itself Middle East
Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
free?
Ans-South Korea
140. Who was named as most
marketable sportsman in the world ?
Ans- Roger Federer (Indian skipper
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been
named as the ninth most
marketable sportsman in the world)
141. What is the name of Committee
constituted for Re-drafting National
Sports Development
Code of India ?
Ans-Justice CK Mahajan
142. Who joined recently as 162nd
member of WTO?
Ans-Kazakhstan
143. World’s first diamond exchange
setup at which place?
Ans- Singapore Diamond Investment
Exchange’ (SDiX)
144.Which Bank has acquired the
diamond and jewellery (bullion)
financing business and
related deposit portfolio of Royal
Bank of Scotland ?
Ans- IndusInd Bank
145. Who has bagged the title
sponsorship rights of BCCI (Board of
Control for Cricket in India)?
Ans- Paytm replaced Sahara
146. Which movie has became first
Tamil film to enter Venice film
festival?
Ans- Actor Dhanush produced Tamil
thriller 'Visaaranai'
147. Microsoft launched its new
operating system. What is the name
of new operating system?
Ans- Windows-10
148. Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB)
launched a mobile banking app
aiming to provide mobile
banking services to customers in the
remotest regions of India ?
Ans- ‘Kotak Bharat’
149. Who is the head of the Rajya
Sabha panel on the constitutional
amendment Bill regarding
National Goods and Services Tax
(GST)?
Ans- Bhupender Yadav
150. Dr. Suniti Solomon who died
recently is famous for?
Ans- Pioneering Indian HIV/AIDS
researcher.