1) Who was on 19 March 2015 appointed as
the head of an innovation council of Indian Railways called ‘Kayakalp’?
(A) Azim Premji
(B) E. Sreedharan
(C) Ratan Tata
(D) APJ Abdul Kalam
2) Name the Information and Technology
Minister who on 18 March 2015 launched Bharatniti.in, a public policy portal
that attempts to put into perspective policy matters using an “ancient yet
contemporary” approach?
(A) Ravi Shankar Prasad
(B) Ram Vilas Paswan
(C) Smriti Irani
(D) Suresh Prabhu
3) Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on
19 March 2015 became the first Indian captain to register 100 One Day
International wins. Which cricketer is leading the list of most victories as
captain in ODI?
(A) Hansie Cronje
(B) Ricky Ponting
(C) Allan Border
(D) Viv Richards
4) Book entitled “Indian Parliamentary
Diplomacy – Speaker’s Perspective” which was released on 19 March 2015 is
authored by which former speaker of Lok Sabha?
(A) Somnath Chatterjee
(B) Manohar Joshi
(C) P. A. Sangma
(D) Meira Kumar
5) International Conference on Counter
Terrorism was recently held in which city of India?
(A) Jaipur
(B) Kochi
(C) Pune
(D) Vishakhapatnam
6) India on 19 March 2015 defeated which
country to enter the semifinals of ICC Cricket World Cup 2015?
(A) South Africa
(B) Bangladesh
(C) Pakistan
(D) West Indies
7) India-born Nobel laureate Sir
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was recently elected president of Britain's
prestigious Royal Society. In which year Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan shared
the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath?
(A) 2008
(B) 2007
(C) 2009
(D) 2006
8) Name India's Beyond Visual Range (BVR)
air-to-air missile which was on 19 March 2015 successfully test fired from a
Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft?
(A) Astra
(B) K-100
(C) Mitra
(D) Tejas
9) Maharashtra government on 18 March 2015
decided to rename the area at Girgaum Chowpatty in Mumbai where veteran freedom
fighter Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was cremated as?
(A) Chaitya Bhoomi
(B) Veer Bhoomi
(C) Punya Bhoomi
(D) Swaraj Bhoomi
10) Two coaches and engine of the Dehradun-Varanasi
____ Express were derailed at Bachhrawan railway station near Rae Bareli on 20
March 2015?
(A) Shatabdi
(B) Rajadhani
(C) Janta
(D) None of these
Answers
1) Ans. (C) Ratan Tata
2) Ans. (A) Ravi Shankar Prasad
3) Ans. (B) Ricky Ponting
4) Ans. (D) Meira Kumar
5) Ans. (A) Jaipur
6) Ans. (B) Bangladesh
7) Ans. (C) 2009
8) Ans. (A) Astra
9) Ans. (D) Swaraj Bhoomi
10) Ans. (C) Janta
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