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1) Indian Space Research Organisation
(ISRO) on 10 July 2015 successfully launched five British satellites into space
using? - PSLV-C28
Note: This was the heaviest commercial luggage carried by a PSLV
rocket to date. It was also the biggest commercial launch of ANTRIX/ISRO.
2) Seventh BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India,
China and South Africa) summit was held from 8 to 9 July 2015 in which city? - Ufa, Russia
3) Which country on 5 July 2015 won the
FIFA Women’s World Cup? - United
States of America (USA)
Note: They defeated Japan. This was third world cup title for
the USA and first since 1999.
4) Which country on 4 July 2015 won its
first Copa America Cup football tournament? - Chile
Note: In the final played at the Estadio Nacional (national
stadium) in Santiago, Chile defeated Argentina 4-1 through penalties shootout.
5) Who won World Food Prize 2015? - Fazle Hasan Abed
6) Name the man responsible for conceiving
the idea of short messaging service (SMS) technology, who died on 30 June 2015?
- Matti Makkonen
7) World Population Day was observed on 11
July 2015 with the theme? - Vulnerable
Populations in Emergencies
8) Which player on 10 July 2015 became only
the second cricketer in the history of One Day International (ODI) cricket to
claim a hat-trick on ODI debut? - Kagiso
Rabada
Note: South African player claimed a hat-trick against
Bangladesh.
9) Which city will be hosting the 8th BRICS
summit in 2016? - New
Delhi, India
10) India’s 1st Earthquake Warning System
was on 10 July 2015 successfully installed in which state? – Uttarakhand
11) Which state will host the fifth Youth
Delphic Games in February 2016? - Goa
Note: The motto of the 2016 Games is Celebrating Arts and
Cultures.
12) Who won British Grand Prix 2015
recently? - Lewis
Hamilton
13) Name the founding Chairman of Kerala
State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (Keltron) who died on 1 July
2015? - K P P Nambiar
14) Name the initiative to provide doorstep
services and expedite Home Loan Application (HLA) process launched on 3 July
2015 by State Bank of India (SBI)? - Project
Tatkal
15) Anisa Rasouli was on 30 June 2015
nominated as the first ever female Supreme Court judge of which country? – Afghanistan
16) Who recently became the first
British-Asian appointee to England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Management
Board? - Lord Kamlesh Patel
17) India and which other country on 10
July 2015 were accepted as the full members of the Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation (SCO), a six-member regional grouping? – Pakistan
18) Bandhan Bank Ltd on 9 July 2015
appointed whom as its Chairman? - Ashok
Kumar Lahiri, former Chief Economic Adviser
19) India and which country on 9 July 2015
signed Inter Governmental Agreement (IGA) to implement the Foreign Account Tax
Compliance Act (FATCA)? - United
States (US)
20) Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in
first week of July 2015 extended the ‘disturbed area’ status of which state? – Nagaland
21) Who was on 8 July 2015 appointed as
Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Housing
Bank (NHB)? - Sriram
Kalyanaraman
Note: He became the first person form the Private Sector to head
a Public Sector Financial Institution.
22) World Boxing Organization (WBO) on 7
July 2015 stripped whom of the Welterweight title which he won by defeating
Manny Pacquiao in May 2015? - Floyd
Mayweather Jr
23) India on 5 July 2015 won the South
Asian Basketball (SABA) Championship title defeating which country? - Sri Lanka
24) Which country recently became the first
country to eliminate mother-to-child (vertical) transmission of human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and syphilis in the World? – Cuba
25) Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
summit 2015 was recently held at? -
Ufa, Russia
26) Bashar Navaaz who passed away on 9 July
2015 was a famous writer in which language? – Urdu
27) Who recently became first Indian to win
a Gold Medal at World University Games held in Gwangju? - Inderjit Singh (shot-put)
28) What was announced as the theme of 2015
Science Express? - Climate
Change
29) ____ on 7 July 2015 released the State
of Safety Nets 2015 report? - World
Bank
30) Which bank launched Watch Banking
application for Apple Watch in the first week of July 2015? – HDFC
31) Which bank on 4 July 2015 launched
country’s first MUDRA (Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency) card under
the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) in Mangalore, Karnataka? - Corporation Bank
32) Mahindra Defence on 3 July 2015 tied-up
with which European aerospace giant to form a Joint Venture to manufacture
defence choppers? - Airbus
Helicopters
33) Name the Russian cosmonaut who recently
entered Guinness World Records for spending most number of days in the space? -
Gennady Padalka
Note: He achieved the feat by spending 804 days on the
International Space Station (ISS) and surpassed record of cosmonaut Sergei
Krikalev.
34) Which country on 30 June 2015 became
the first developed nation to default on International Monetary Fund (IMF)
debt? – Greece
35) Who was recently selected for G D Birla
Award for Scientific Research for 2014? - Sanjeev
Galande
36) University Grants Commission (UGC) on 2
July 2015 accorded special Heritage Status on ___ Colleges across the country? –
19
37) Who was nominated by China to be the
first president of the Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
(AIIB)? - Liqun, Former
Finance Minster of China
38) Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA) scheme
was on 9 July 2015 launched in New Delhi recently by? - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
39) Union Government in June 2015 increased
the national floor-level minimum wage (NFLMW) to ___ rupees per day? – 160
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