1. Who was appointed as an Executive Director on the board of the International Monetary Fund?
1) Subir Gokarn
2) Anand Sinha
3) K.C. Chakrabarty
4) H.R. Khan
5) Urjit Patel
2. 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
3. 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
4. Who was appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations on November 16, 2015?
1) Vikas Swarup
2) S. Jaishankar
3) Saurabh Kumar
4) Syed Akbaruddin
5) T.C.A. Raghavan
5. 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
6. Which country won the 2015 FIFAWomen’s World Cup Football tournament on July 5, 2015?
1) USA
2) Japan
3) France
4) Germany
5) Norway
7. Identify the mismatched pair? 2015 Host Tournament Country
1) Copa America Chile
2) FIFAWomen’s Canada World Cup
3) FIFA Under-20 Serbia World Cup
4) Asian Athletics China Championships
5) ICC World Cup Australia & NewZealand
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. India’s spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi was conferred Order of the Democracy Simon Bolivar,
the highest civilian award of?
1) Bolivia
2) Brazil
3) Colombia
4) Chile
5) Argentina
13. What does the letter ‘C’ stand for in the abbreviation CRR?
1) Currency
2) Credit
3) Cash
4) Capital
5) Commercial
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. The 2015 World Food Prize recipient belongs to which of the following countries?
1) India
2) Philippines
3) Bangladesh
4) Brazil
5) Mexico
19. Praful Bidwai passed away on June 23, 2015. He was a renowned?
1) Architect
2) Painter
3) Singer
4) Journalist
5) Television personality
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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
28. Islam Karimov is the President of which of the following countries?
1) Azerbaijan
2) Armenia
3) Ukraine
4) Uzbekistan
5) Georgia
29. President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a ‘Nakshatra Vatika’ on July 6, 2015 in?
1) New Delhi
2) Secunderabad
3) Nagpur
4) Kolkata
5) Mumbai
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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
33. 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
34. Which State has declared Blue Mormon species as State Butterfly?
1) Punjab
2) Haryana
3) Gujarat
4) Maharashtra
5) West Bengal
35. Which of the following cities is the capital of Uzbekistan?
1) Samarkhand
2) Namangan
3) Peshawar
4) Hun
5) Tashkent
36. Which is the first developed nation to default on the International Monetary Fund debt?
1) Portugal
2) Ireland
3) Greece
4) Italy
5) Spain
37. Which city hosted the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in July 2015?
1) Yekaterinburg
2) Beijing
3) Shanghai
4) Ufa
5) Moscow
38. 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
39. Which country retained the South Asian Basketball Championship (SABA) title in July 2015?
1) Sri Lanka
2) Bangladesh
3) India
4) Pakistan
5) Nepal
40. Garbine Muguruza is a tennis player from which of the follo wing countries?
1) Russia
2) Bulgaria
3) Poland
4) Spain
5) Czech Republic
ANSWERS:
1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 1 7) 3 8) 4 9) 2 10) 4
11) 5 12) 3 13) 3 14) 4 15) 5 16) 5 17) 2 18) 3 19) 4 20) 2
21) 2 22) 4 23) 3 24) 4 25) 4 26) 1 27) 3 28) 4 29) 2 30) 1
31) 1 32) 2 33) 3 34) 4 35) 5 36) 3 37) 4 38) 5 39) 3 40) 4
1) Subir Gokarn
2) Anand Sinha
3) K.C. Chakrabarty
4) H.R. Khan
5) Urjit Patel
2. 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
3. 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
4. Who was appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations on November 16, 2015?
1) Vikas Swarup
2) S. Jaishankar
3) Saurabh Kumar
4) Syed Akbaruddin
5) T.C.A. Raghavan
5. 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
6. Which country won the 2015 FIFAWomen’s World Cup Football tournament on July 5, 2015?
1) USA
2) Japan
3) France
4) Germany
5) Norway
7. Identify the mismatched pair? 2015 Host Tournament Country
1) Copa America Chile
2) FIFAWomen’s Canada World Cup
3) FIFA Under-20 Serbia World Cup
4) Asian Athletics China Championships
5) ICC World Cup Australia & NewZealand
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. India’s spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi was conferred Order of the Democracy Simon Bolivar,
the highest civilian award of?
1) Bolivia
2) Brazil
3) Colombia
4) Chile
5) Argentina
13. What does the letter ‘C’ stand for in the abbreviation CRR?
1) Currency
2) Credit
3) Cash
4) Capital
5) Commercial
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. The 2015 World Food Prize recipient belongs to which of the following countries?
1) India
2) Philippines
3) Bangladesh
4) Brazil
5) Mexico
19. Praful Bidwai passed away on June 23, 2015. He was a renowned?
1) Architect
2) Painter
3) Singer
4) Journalist
5) Television personality
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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
28. Islam Karimov is the President of which of the following countries?
1) Azerbaijan
2) Armenia
3) Ukraine
4) Uzbekistan
5) Georgia
29. President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a ‘Nakshatra Vatika’ on July 6, 2015 in?
1) New Delhi
2) Secunderabad
3) Nagpur
4) Kolkata
5) Mumbai
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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
33. 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
34. Which State has declared Blue Mormon species as State Butterfly?
1) Punjab
2) Haryana
3) Gujarat
4) Maharashtra
5) West Bengal
35. Which of the following cities is the capital of Uzbekistan?
1) Samarkhand
2) Namangan
3) Peshawar
4) Hun
5) Tashkent
36. Which is the first developed nation to default on the International Monetary Fund debt?
1) Portugal
2) Ireland
3) Greece
4) Italy
5) Spain
37. Which city hosted the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in July 2015?
1) Yekaterinburg
2) Beijing
3) Shanghai
4) Ufa
5) Moscow
38. 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
39. Which country retained the South Asian Basketball Championship (SABA) title in July 2015?
1) Sri Lanka
2) Bangladesh
3) India
4) Pakistan
5) Nepal
40. Garbine Muguruza is a tennis player from which of the follo wing countries?
1) Russia
2) Bulgaria
3) Poland
4) Spain
5) Czech Republic
ANSWERS:
1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 1 7) 3 8) 4 9) 2 10) 4
11) 5 12) 3 13) 3 14) 4 15) 5 16) 5 17) 2 18) 3 19) 4 20) 2
21) 2 22) 4 23) 3 24) 4 25) 4 26) 1 27) 3 28) 4 29) 2 30) 1
31) 1 32) 2 33) 3 34) 4 35) 5 36) 3 37) 4 38) 5 39) 3 40) 4
