R.A.C.E: Current Affairs (April 2015) Objective Type Questions

Current Affairs (April 2015)

Objective Type Questions

National Affairs

1. Aahar’ cheap meal scheme for providing subsidised food to urban poor introduced by which state

(a) Odisha (b) Manipur

2. Central Govt. Cancels Licenses of Around ____ NGOs For Failing To File Annual Returns

(a) 8000 (b) 9000

3. the government increased the iron ore supply from 50 percent to __ percent.

(a) 60 (b) 65

4. Indian Army conducts Akraman–II defense exercise in ________

(a) Rajasthan (b) Tamilnadu

5. _______ awarded as Best e-Panchayat state on National Panchayati Raj Diwas

(a) Assam (b) Tamilnadu

6. National panchayat raj diwas_____

(a) April 23 (b) April 25

7. LTC is abbreviated as ______

(a) Leave Travel Concession

(b) Live Travel Concession

(d) Late Travel Concession

8. ________ Government launches Padho Punjab- Khedo Punjab Mission.

(a) Assam (b) Kerala

9. ________ is the name of Andhra'new capital city.

(a) Amaravathi (b) Guntur

10. India Ranks ___ On FM Global Resilience Index.

(a) 117 (b) 118

11. _________ Govt to Build 56 Lakh Toilets by 2019 under the cleanliness campaign of central government.

(a) Punjab (b) Haryana

12. TRAI Recommends Single Number ____ For All emergency Phone Calls Across India

(a) 116 (b) 118

13. Oil India commissions 54 MW capacity wind energy projects in

(a) Assam (b) Gujarat

14. President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated first Songs and Dances of the North East, a cultural festival in

(a) Gorakpur (b) Thirvanathapuram

15. Union Government launches _______ India scheme to boost electric, hybrid vehicle sales

(a) FAME (b) FAEM

16. In _____ state, High Court upholds the liquor policy of government that says that 312 liquor bar outlets in Four and Three Star hotels will have to close down from 1st Apr’15

(a) Maharastra (b) Andhra

17. A high-intensity earthquake of magnitude _____ on the Richter scale had struck central Nepal

(a) 7. 5 (b) 7.7

18. Who inaugurates India’s Healthcare Tourism Portal

(a) Prime minister (b) President

19. ________ Govt to Build 56 Lakh Toilets by 2019 under the cleanliness campaign of central government

(a) Assam (b) Gujarat

20. Aadhaar Card Linked Admission In Schools in _________

(a) Assam (b) Punjab

Answer Key

1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (c) 4. (a) 5. (a) 6. (b) 7. (a) 8. (c) 9. (a) 10. (c) 11. (d) 12. (c) 13. (b) 14. (d) 15. (a) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (a) 19. (d) 20. (c)

International Affairs

1. Who is the President of Nigeria?

(a) Goodluck Jonathan

(b) Muhammadu Buhari

(d) None of these

2. Who tops the most dangerous country in the World announced by Country Threat Index?

(a) Iraq (b) Syria

3. What is the theme of World Autism 2015?

(a)Employement: The Autism Awareness

(b) Employment: The Autism Rehabiliation

(d) Employement: The Autism Education

4. India ranks _____ on 2015 FM Global Resilience Index?

(a) 117 (b) 118

5. 5^th SAARC Summit will be held at?

(a) Brazil (b) Maldives

6. Theme of World Health Day 2015?

(a) Vector borne disease: small bite, big threat

(b) Healthy heart beat, Healthy blood pressure

(d) Good health adds life to years

7. India to chair ___ International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) council meet?

(a) 6^th (b) 7^th

8. IRENA meeting to be held in _____?

(a) Russia (b) China

9. Name the country who begins first nuclear powerplant?

(a) Pakistan (b) Iraq

10. Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar is on a first visit to which country?

(a) Pakistan (b) North Korea

11. Two Indians, Rahul Pandita,& ________, among 16 in 2015 Yale World Fellows in the US?

(a) Zeena Johar (b) Anant Agarwal

12. Who is the President of China?

(a) Hu Jintao (b) Jiang Zemin

13. India ___ biggest generator of e-waste in 2014: UN report?

(a) 4^th (b) 5^th

14. Ministry of External Affairs, India Sushma Swaraj is on 5¬day visit to _____?

(a) Jordan (b) Norway

15. The Bandung Conference was the first global meeting of African and _____ states?

(a) Australia (b) Europe

16. India is in which position in World Happiest Country?

(a) 115 (b) 116

17. India and France today began 'Varuna' a 10 day ‘Naval Service’. This is ____ edition of Varuna?

(a) 12^th (b) 13^th

18. India ____ largest supplier of generic medicines to US?

(a) 2^nd (b) 3^rd

19. Who delivers 3 Cheetal helicopters to Afghanistan?

(a) Nepal (b) China

20. The Indian Army has named the aid to Nepal named as Operation ______?

(a) Cheetah (b) Maitri

21. Maharashtra collaborates with _____on Smart Cities?

(a) Iran (b) Afghanistan

Answer Key

1. (b) 2. (a) 3. (c) 4. (c) 5. (c) 6. (b) 7. (d) 8. (d) 9. (d) 10. (c) 11. (a) 12. (c) 13. (b)

14. (c) 15. (c) 16. (c) 17. (c) 18. (c) 19. (c) 20. (a) 21. (d)

Persons in News

1. ____ is a 12-year-old Muslim girl from Mumbai wins Bhagwad Gita contest.

(a) Mariyam Asif Siddiqui (b) Malala

2. India’s _____ has been granted the honor of having a minor planet named after him.

(a) M.S. Dhoni (b) Vishwanathan Anand

3. Who is the former Agriculture minister arrested by the Crime Branch CID of the Tamil Nadu police in connection with the suicide of senior engineer S. Muthukumarasamy?

(a) S S Krishnamoorthy

(b) Gobala Krishnan

(d) None of these

4. Who occupies the First position in the Forbes Middle East list of 100 richest Arab personalities in the world?

(a) Joseph Safra

(b) Muhammed ali

(d) None of these

5. What was named as ‘316201 Malala’ after the youngest Nobel laureate and girls’ education campaigner Malala Yousafzai?

(a) Planet 316201 (b) Asteroid 316201

6. Which government decided to give status equivalent to state Cabinet Minister to yoga guru Ramdev?

(a) Haryana (b) Sikkim

7. Who is the United Nation (UN) peace envoy to Yemen, recently resigned, after losing support from Gulf countries for his mission in the conflict-riven nation?

(a) Joseph Safra (b) Masarat Alam

8. Who is the first women driver of the Delhi Transport Corporation?

(a) V. Saritha (b) K. Kousalya

9. Which North Korean leader has scaled Mt. Paektu, the country's highest mountain.

(a) Jim Yong (b) Kim JongUn

10. Who is the 3rd most followed world leader on Twitter?

(a) Obama (b) Pope Francis

Answer Key

1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (a) 4. (c) 5. (b) 6. (a) 7. (d) 8. (a) 9. (b) 10. (c)

Business and Economy

1. India has been ranked _______ on FM Global Resilience Index 2015.

(a) 116 (b) 117

2. _______ has acquired Periscope, a startup that lets users stream live video from their phone,

(a) Gmail (b) google plus

3. _________ announced a reduction in its lending rate by 15 basis points to 9.85%.

(a) SBI

(b) Union bank of India

(d) United Bank of India

4. To provide insurance cover to its all Aadhaar-linked savings account holders in the age group of 18 to 50 years state owned _______ has signed MoU with LIC of India.

(a) Dena bank (b) SBI

5. MUDRA bank is abbreviated as

(a) Micro Units Development and Refienery Agency

(b) Micro Units Development and Refienery Agenda

(d) Modern Units Development and Refinance Agency

6. When doea the MUDRA bank launched?

(a) 8 April 2015 (b) 8 April 2014

7. Who launched MUDRA bank?

(a) Prime Minister (b) President

8. _______ has acquired mobile recharge platform Freecharge and it is said to be a largest Indian buy out so far

(a) Flipkart (b) Snapdeal

9. The World Bank has predicted _______ GDP growth rate of India by 2017

(a) 8% (b) 8.5%

10. Recently _______ slashed home loan rate for both existing as well as new borrowers by 0.25 per cent.

(a) ICICI bank (b) Federal bank

11. World Bank Chief Jim Yong Kim praises _______ Scheme.

(a) MUDRA bank scheme

(b) Aam Aatmi Bima Yojana

(d) Jan Dhan Yojana

12. French IT services firm Capgemini has announced its plan to acquire US based information technology (IT) outsourcer IGATE for US 4 billion dollars.

(a) Cast (b) Codra

13. ____ tied up with UAE exchange for money transfer

(a) Federal bank (b) Bank of Baroda

14. Government has allowed retirement fund body EPFO to invest ______ of its corpus in exchange traded funds which will result into an inflow of around Rs 5,000 crore into the stock markets during this fiscal.

(a) 5 percent (b) 6 percent

15. Online restaurant guide ______ has acquired United States (US) based online table reservation platform NexTable for undisclosed amount.

(a) Zomato (b) Pizzavitto

16. _____ is the Mobile commerce platform on 13 March 2015 inked MoU with National Centre for Trade Information (NCTI) to promote Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).

(a) Wanelo (b) Rasie

17. The Regional Rural Banks (Amendment) Bill, 2014 raises authorised capital from five crore to ______

(a) 2,000 cr (b) 2200cr

18. Online marketplace _______ has acquired mobile marketing start-up Appiterate in order to strengthen its mobile platform.

(a) Godaddy (b) Amazon

19. India and _______ have signed a Five-point action agenda to increase bilateral trade and investment between the two nations.

(a) Japan (b) America

20. India ranks at ______ position in the world in terms of generation electricity from nuclear source.

(a) 11 (b) 12

Answers:

1. (d) 2. (c) 3. (a) 4. (a) 5. (c) 6. (a) 7. (a) 8. (b) 9. (a) 10. (a) 11. (d) 12. (c) 13. (b) 14. (a) 15. (a) 16. (d) 17. (a) 18. (d) 19. (a) 20. (c)

Banking News

1. Union Government has unveiled new Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) to make India to boost jobs and take India’s exports to _____ dollars by 2020

(a) 900 billion (b) 800 billion

2. India’s first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) became operational at

(a) Bihar (b) Delhi

3. _______ won Asian Banker Achievement Award

(a) Union Bank of India

(b) State Bank of India

(d) Reserve Bank of India

4. Who is the Chairman and Managing Director of BMB

(a) Usha Ananthasubramanian

(b) Kooteswaran

(d) Chanda Kocchar

5. Income Tax Deptt. Slaps 121 Cases against Indian Accounts Holder in HSBC Bank

(a) 125 cr (b) 121 cr

6. Financial inclusion to remain 'pipe dream' sans broadband says TRAI

(a) TRAI (b) SEBI

Answers:

1. (a) 2. (d) 3. (d) 4. (a) 5. (b) 6. (a)

Appointments

1. ______ becomes first chief of cyber security

(a) Gulshan Rai (b) Richard Clarke

2. Muhammadu Buhari Elected as a President of

(a) Spain (b) Portugal

3. Captian Anoop Kumar Sharma has taken over as Whole Time Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of _________

(a) Paytm limited (b) Igate

4. ________ has been re-appointed as a chairman of the Indian Premier

League (IPL) Governing Council by BCCI.

(a) Srinivasan (b) Rajib Biswal

5. ________was sworn in as new Mizoram Governor

(a) Keshari Nath Tripathi (b) Ram Naik

6. Who is the new election commissioner of India

(a) H.S.Bramha (b) Nazim Zaidi

7. US President Barack Obama has nominated prominent IndianAmerican businesswoman __________ as the member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service for a term expiring in October 2019.

(a) Aziz Ansari (b) Nikki Haley

8. Mrs. Meenakshi Madan Rai was sworn in as the first lady judge of the _______ High Court today

(a) Sikkim (b) Haryana

9. Dr. Mohan Kumar, presently Ambassador of India to Bahrain, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to ______

(a) Iatly (b) Germany

10. _____ was unanimously elected as the 5^th general secretary Communist Party of India (Marxist) on 19 April 2015

(a) Sitaram Yechury (b) Ramakrishnan

11. _________ is 19th US Surgeon General and youngest-ever (37-year-old) to become in- charge of the country’s public health.

(a) Ganesh Moorthy

(b) Vivek Murthy

(d) Ganesh ragavan

12. ________ appointed as the leader of opposition (LoP) in the Delhi assembly

(a) Mahinder nawab gupta

(b) Naren Gupta

(d) Virendra Gupta

13. Novelist _________ has won 2500 pounds 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize in Asia region for his novel Umbrella Man.

(a) Siddhartha Gigoo (b) Stan Ageria

14. The Supreme Court today appointed CBI _______to head a new investigating team to further probe the IPL6 spotfixing.

(a) Vivek Priyadarshi

(b) Naren Mamooty

(d) Vaithiyanathan

15. ________ appointed as BCCI's ACSU Chief

(a) Neeraj Kumar

(b) R.E.Grant Grovan

(d) Magesh Gupta

16. _______ was appointed as Crown Prince and as Deputy Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia by King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud.

(a) Mohammed bin Nayef

(b) Saud Faizal

(d) mohammed aliz bin

17. _________ became the first Indian-born woman to be appointed a judge in New York City.

(a) Raja Rajeswari (b) T.S.Thakur

Answer Key

1. (a) 2. (c) 3. (d) 4. (c) 5. (a) 6. (b) 7. (d) 8. (a) 9. (c) 10. (a) 11. (b) 12. (d) 13. (a) 14. (a) 15. (a) 16. (a) 17. (a)

Awards & Honours

1. Name the player who has been awarded Sir Richard Hadlee Medal?

(a) Rohit Sharma (b) Sachin Tendulkar

2. Name the person who has been honoured by Egypt's Academy of Arts for his contribution to cinema.?

(a) Sharukh Khan (b) Amitabh Bachchan

3. Name the Airport who won the Golden Peacock National Quality Award 2015?

(a) Indira Gandhi International Airport

(b) Chattrapathi Shivaji International Airport

(d) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport

4. Who was chosen for 2015 Kumaran Asan World Prize for poetry?

(a) Prasoon Joshi (b) Javed Akhtar

5. Indian-origin student ________ from United Kingdom (UK) has won prestigious award Institute of Physics (IOP) Prize?

(a) Manoj Singh (b) Aravind Singh

6. Name the Person Who won the Padma Vibhusan award 2015?

(a) Sharukh Khan (b) Amitabh Bachchan

7. US President Barack Obama to honour Microsoft’s Indian-origin CEO ________with ‘Champion of Change’ award?

(a) Pierre Nanterme (b) Jeff Bezos

8. Who won theAsian Business Leader of the year award 2015?

(a) Anil Ambani (b) MukeshAmbani

9. Whose name dropped from Hindi awards?

(a) Indira Gandhi (b) Rajiv Gandhi

10. Who won the “Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Award 2015” for best leading actor?

(a) Sharukh Khan (b) Amitabh Bachchan

11. Who won the “Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Award 2015” for best debut award?

(a) Sharukh Khan (b) Amitabh Bachchan

12. Which state has been awarded as the Best e-Panchayat state?

(a) Assam (b) Bihar

13. Who received London Marathon Lifetime Achievement Award

(a)Maula Radcliffe (b) Paulin Radcliffe

14. Who has been conferred with Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Award 2015?

(a) Sharukh Khan (b) Amitabh Bachchan

15. Name the Indian-¬origin diplomat who has been bestowed with 'Outstanding Service Award'?

(a) Gopinath Pillai (b) Gopinath Anand

16. Name the Indian-origin scientist who has developed artificial human microlivers for drug testing, has won prestigious Heinz award?

(a) Sangeeta Rani (b) Sangeeta Kumari

17. Jnanpith Award is belongs to ________ category?

(a) Art (b) Science

18. Who won the Jnanpith Award 2014?

(a) G. Sankara Kurup (b) P. V. Akilan

(d) Bhalchandra Nemade

19. Pakistan conferred ‘Nishan e- pakistan’ award to whom?

(a) Xi Jinping (b) Vlamdir Putin

20. Who has received the prestegious Hevesy Medal Award 2015?

(a) Susanta Lahiri (b) VijayaLahiri

Answer Key

1. (d) 2. (b) 3. (a) 4. (c) 5. (c) 6. (b) 7. (d) 8. (c) 9. (c) 10. (a) 11. (d) 12. (a) 13. (c) 14. (c) 15. (b) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (d) 19. (a) 20. (a)

Science & Technology

1. Name the first indigenously-built Scorpene submarine?

(a) INS Arihant (b) INS Aridhaman (c) INS Kalvari (d) INS Khanderi

2. INS Kalvari submarine is built by India and ________?

(a) Russia (b) Soviet Union (c) Germany (d) France

3. Dhanush Missile is _____ to ______ ballistic missile?

(a) Surface to Surface (b) Surface to Air

4. Nasa's _________ Probe Completes 1,000 Orbits Around Mars?

(a) Phoenix (b) Curiosity rover

5. India successfully test fired nuclear capable ballistic missile _______?

(a) AGNI I (b) AGNI II

6. Name the Country which have developed a self elevating barrier with the ability to bear the impact of powerful tsunamis?

(a) China (b) Japan

7. Google has designed a new app to test your on screen penmanship. Name the app?

(a) Google Scibble Input

(b) Google Write Input

(d) Google Handwriting Input

8. Name the Indian Navy's new and biggest destroyer which has enhanced capacity to operate in nuclear, biological and chemical atmosphere, was put to the sea?

(a) Mysore (b) Delhi

9. Name the train clocked a new world speed record?

(a) Alstom Euroduplex (b) Frecciarossa

0(c) Shinkansen Hayabusa (d) Maglev

10. What is the Speed of the train that made a new world record?

(a) 600 km/hr (b) 588 km/hr

11. Maglev train is manufactured by which country?

(a) China (b) Korea

12. Expand Maglev?

(a) Magnetic Leviation (b) Magnetic Level

Answer Key

1. (c) 2. (d) 3. (a) 4. (c) 5. (c) 6. (b) 7. (d) 8. (d) 9. (d) 10. (c) 11. (c) 12. (c)

Sports

1. Name the New Zealand cricketer Who retires from international cricket?

(a) Brendon Mccullum (b) K.Williamson

2. Name the ICC president who resigned recently?

(a) Alan Isaac (b) Sharad Pawar (c) Mustafa Kamal (d) Malcolm Gray

3. Who officially confirmed as World No. 1 in Women’s Single Badminton?

(a) PV Sindhu (b) LI Xuerui

(c)Saina Nehwal (d) None of these

4. Name the player world champion hurdler who retired recently?

(a) Aries Merritt (b) Dayron Robles

5. Who won the Miami Open Title in Men’s Single?

(a) Andy Murray (b) Roger Federer

6. Who won the Miami Open Title in Women’s Single?

(a) Venus Williams (b) MariaSharapova

7. Who won the Miami Open Title in Women’s double?

(a) Sania Mirza and Flavia Pennetta

(b) Sania Mirza and Sara Errani

(d) None of these

8. Dronavalli Harika wins ______ medal in World Women's chess championships 2015

(a) Silver (b) Bronze

9. Apurvi Chandela bas won the ______ medal in ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup in Korea?

(a) Silver (b) Bronze

10. Jitu Rai won the ______ medal in ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup in Korea?

(a) Silver (b) Bronze

11. India won the ________ medal in Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hockey Tournament 2015?

(a) Silver (b) Bronze

12. Who is the World no.1 rank in Women’s doubles?

(a) Serena Williams

(b) Li Na

(d) Maria Sharapova

13. Who won the 2015 Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix?

(a) N. Rosberg (b) L. Hamilton

14. Who won the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hockey Tournament 2015?

(a) India (b) Australia

15. Who won the Bahrain Grand Prix of Formula One?

(a) N. Rosberg (b) L. Hamilton

16. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has confirmed that __________will be the first Test team to tour Pakistan since 2009?

(a) India (b) Kenya

17. Which team made the historic record against Pakistan?

(a) India (b) Srilanka

18. Which country set to host continental champions in 2015 and 2016?

(a) Korea (b) Singapore

19. Who won the Shamkir Chess tournament 2015 held in Azerbaijan?

(a) Vishwanath Anand

(b) Magnus Carlsen

(d) Vladimir Kramnik

20. Name the player which BCCI recommended for Arjuna award?

(a) Sachin Tendulkar

(b) MS Dhoni

(d) Yuvraj Singh

Answer Key

1. (b) 2. (a) 3. (c) 4. (c) 5. (c) 6. (d) Serena Williams 7. (c) 8. (b) 9. (b) 10. (b) 11. (b) 12. (c) 13. (b) 14. (c) 15. (b) 16. (d) 17. (c) 18. (c) 19. (b) 20. (c)

Passed Away

1. Who is the Worlds oldest person recently dies in Japan at age 117?

(a) Risosu amaka (b) Misao Okawa

2. Who is the Renowned Hindi poet, passed away recenty received the Sahitya Akademi award for his work, Hawa mein hastakshar?

(a) Kailash Vajpeyi

(b) Kailash sathyarthi

(d) None of these

3. Who is the one of India’s top mountaineers passed away recently?

(a) Anand kapoor

(b) Suresh babu

(d) None of these

4. EM Hanifa, who recently passed away, belongs to which field?

(a) Singer (b) Dancer

5. Who is the German Nobel laureate novelist recently passed away?

(a) EM Hanifa (b) Gunter Grass

6. Who is the Threetime Chief Minister of Odisha passed away recently?

(a) Janaki Ballabh Patnaik

(b) Ram mohan das

(d) None of these

7. Name the Leading Pakistani human rights activist who, shot dead in Karachi recently?

(a) Sabeetha Miriam

(b) Sabeen Mahmud

(d) None of these

8. Name the Former Czech Republic Prime Minister who, passes away recently?

(a) Joseph ferrus (b) Jeff shannon

9. Name the Indian swimmer who, the only man with amputated legs to cross the English Channel (in 1997), recently passed away

(a) Malli Mastan Babu

(b) Masudur Rahman Baidya

(d) None of these

10. Name the One of the most wanted and dreaded terrorist, who heads the brutal Islamic State jihadist group, is reportedly dead, according to Radio Iran.

(a) Abdul Lakvi

(b) Muhammed abu bakr

(d) None of these

Answer Key

1. (b) 2. (a) 3. (c) 4. (a) 5. (b) 6. (a) 7. (b) 8. (c) 9. (b) 10. (c)

Important Days

1. When does the Orissa day celebrated?

(a) 1^st april (b) 2^nd april

2. Indian National Maritime day is ______

(a) 1^st april (b) 5^th april

3. Customs day ______

(a) 12^th april (b) 9^th april

4. World Haemophilian day

(a) 12^th april (b) 9^th april

5. World Heritage day

(a) 17^th april (b) 29^th april

6. World day for Animals in laboratories

(a) 24^th april (b) 29^th april

7. World Book and Copyright day

(a) 24^th april (b) 23^rd april

8. World Malaria day

(a) 24^th april (b) 23^rd april

9. World Intellectual property day

(a) 24^th april (b) 23^rd april

10. International Dance day

(a) 24^th april (b) 23^rd april

Answer Key

1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (d) 4. (c) 5. (a) 6. (a) 7. (b) 8. (c) 9. (d) 10. (d)

Current Articles

Nepal Earthquake

1. In which country a massive earthquake hits and killed more than 5000 lives, recently?

(a) Nepal (b) Iran

2. Which is the Capital of Nepal?

(a) Thimpu (b) Kathmandu

3. Who is the president of Nepal?

(a) Sushil Koirala

(b) Ram Baran Yadav

(d) None of these

4. What is the name of the rescue and relief operation in Nepal by the Government of India and Indian Armed Forces in the aftershock of the 2015 Nepal earthquake?

(a) Operation Lehar

(b) Operation varuna

(d) None of these

5. What is the full form of ‘SARAID’?

(a) Search and Rescue Assistance in Disasters

(b) Search and Rescue Assurance in Disasters

(d) None of These

6. What is the name of the web app launched by the Google to help people find their missing friends or relatives?

(a) People searcher (b) People Finder

7. What is the meaning of operation Maitri?

(a) Help (b) friendship

8. What is the name of the feature Facebook had introduced last year, and has put it to use in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake?

(a) Safety Check (b) Safety measure

9. Which messaging app has launched a set of charity stickers called ‘Pray for Nepal’?

(a) We chat (b) Viber

10. Name the Tower which built in 1832, had been open to visitors for the last 10 years and had a viewing balcony on its eighth floor?

(a) Dharara (b) Pokhara

Answers:

1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (b) 4. (c) 5. (a) 6. (b) 7. (b) 8. (a) 9. (c) 10. (a)

MUDRA Bank

1. MUDRA bank is abbreviated as

(a) Micro Units Development & Refienery Agency

(b) Micro Units Development and Refienery Agenda

(d) Modern Units Development and Refinance Agency

2. When doea the MUDRA bank launched?

(a) 8 April 2015 (b) 8 April 2014

3. Who launched MUDRA bank?

(a) Prime Minister (b) President

(4) MUDRA bank is primarily launched for

(a) Small entrepreneurs

(b) market share holders

(d) all the above

5. Headquarters of MUDRA bank?

(a) China (b) India

6. The Bank will be set up with a corpus of Rs _______

(a) 22,000 crore (b) 24,000 crore

7. Growth and Development Products of MUDRA bank are

(a) Shishu (b) Kishore

8. Offerings Planned for the Future by MUDRA bank is

(a) MUDRA Card

(b) Portfolio Credit Guarantee

(d) all of these

Answers:

1. (c) 2. (a) 3. (a) 4. (a) 5. (b) 6. (c) 7. (d) 8. (d)

PM’s Visits

1. Who is the President of France?

(a) Georges Pompidou

(b) Alain Poher

(d) Francois Hollande

2. How manu agreements are signed with France?

(a) 14 (b) 15

3. France agreed to supply _____ Rafale fighter jets in 'fly away' condition?

(a) 30 (b) 33

4. ________ and India have agreed to co-operate in renovating the Indian Railways?

(a) Canada (b) Germany

5. Currency of France?

(a) Peso (b) Dollar

6. Modi addressed the Indo-German Business Summit in?

(a) Wennigsen (b) Hannover

7. The two countries agreed to promote closer educational exchange and collaboration between universities in India and ________?

(a) Canada (b) China

8. Capital of Germany?

(a) Luanda (b) Abhuja

9. President of Germany?

(a) Horst Seehofer (b) Christian Wulff

10. Currency of Germany?

(a) Peso (b) Dollar

11. Narendra Modi became the first Prime Minister to visit Canada in ____ years?

(a) 42 (b) 41

12. Prime Minister of Canada?

(a) Paul Martin (b) Jean Chretien

13. Capital of Canada?

(a) Dhaka (b) Ottawa

14. Currency of Canada?

(a) Peso (b) Euro

15. Which airline has said that it plans to have direct flights from Toronto to New Delhi?

(a) Air Asia (b) Lifthunsa

Answers:

1. (d) 2. (d) 3. (c) 4. (c) 5. (c) 6. (b) 7. (d) 8. (d) 9. (d) 10. (c) 11. (a) 12. (c) 13. (b)

14. (d) 15. (c)