1) Who was appointed as the new CBI
Director in December 2014? - Anil Kumar Sinha
2) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in
January 2015 launched integrated women safety mobile app called? – Himmat
3) World AIDS Day 2014 theme? - Focus,
Partner, Achieve: An AIDS-free generation
4) Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi was
recently named as the Asian of the Year 2014 by? - The Straits Times, Singapore
daily
5) Who became the first Indian Footballer
to be conferred with Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Hall of Fame Award
recently? - Baichung Bhutia
6) Union Government during January 2015
accepted the recommendations of the Bezbaruah committee on? - Safety of North
East people
7) Union Government recently renamed the
Department of Disability Affairs (Nishaktata Karya Vibhag) as? - Department of
Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Viklangjan Sashaktikaran Vibhag)
8) Which film won the Golden Peacock Award
at the 45th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which concluded in Goa
recently? - Leviathan, Russian Film
9) Mahendra Singh Dhoni in December 2014
announced retirement from which format of International cricket? - Test Cricket
10) National Good Governance Day was
observed recently observed for the first time on? - December 25 (birthday of
the former Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee)
11) Union Government launched Operation All
Out against Bodo militants in which state? – Assam
12) 102nd Indian Science Congress (ISC) was
recently held at? - Mumbai
13) Who was nominated as the next defence
secretary of US Department of Defence by the President Barack Obama? - Ashton
Carter
14) Recently American geologists discovered
the most abundant mineral on earth's lower mantle known as? - Bridgmanite
15) Name the French satirical weekly
magazine in Paris which was attacked by three masked gunmen during January
2015? - Charlie Hebdo
16) Name the joint venture of Tata-SIA
which started its flight operation in India in January 2015? - Vistara Airline
17) The book "2014: The Election That
Changed India" that was released in November 2014 was penned by? - Rajdeep
Sardesai.
18) Who was named as the TIME’s Person of
the Year 2014 by the TIME’s magazine? - Ebola fighters
19) Which country won the fourth edition of
the Blind Cricket World Cup (BCWC) 2014? - India
20) Who is the Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog? -
Sindhushree Khullar
21) Who recently became the first
Indian-American to be appointed as US Ambassador to India? - Richard Rahul
Verma
22) Name the new antibiotic discovered by
scientists nearly after two decades? – Teixobactin
23) Who won the 2014 FIFA Ballon d’Or
award? - Cristiano Ronaldo
24) Union Home Ministry recently removed
which section of Indian Penal Code (IPC) decriminalizing attempt to suicide? -
Section 309
25) Name the new Chairman of Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO)? - AS Kiran Kumar
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