Current Affairs MCQ Quiz – 30 November 2015

Friends.. Here are some very useful Current Affairs Multiple Choice Questions from 30 November 2015 as Online Quiz for cracking upcoming exams. 

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1) Which country on 29 Nov. 2015 won the 2015 Davis Cup tennis title?

(A) Serbia

(B) Switzerland

(C) Belgium

(D) Britain

2) Who recently won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix title of Formula One (F1)?

(A) Nico Rosberg

(B) Lewis Hamilton

(C) Kimi Raikkonen

(D) Sebastian Vettel

3) Which country has recently allowed women to vote and contest in municipal elections for the first time?

(A) Britain

(B) Saudi Arabia

(C) Egypt

(D) Bangladesh

4) ICC has recently suspended which off-spinner from bowling in international cricket with an immediate effect?

(A) Pragyan Ojha

(B) Amit Mishra

(C) Sunil Narine

(D) Said Ajmal

5) Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently announced economic sanctions against which country following the downing of their warplane?

(A) Turkey

(B) Syria

(C) France

(D) China

6) Wealth-X on 25 November 2015 released the World’s 20 Most Generous People list. Who topped the philanthropist list?

(A) Warren Buffett

(B) Azim Premji

(C) George Soros

(D) Bill Gates

7) Who recently defeated Wladimir Klitschko to become world heavyweight champion?

(A) Tyson Fury

(B) Randy Orton

(C) Joe Louis

(D) Jack Johnson

8) Footballer Joe Marston who died on 29 November 2015 belongs to which country?

(A) Spain

(B) Australia

(C) Brazil

(D) Argentina

9) Which country will host the BRICS Media Summit 2015 from 1 Dec. 2015?

(A) India

(B) Russia

(C) China

(D) South Africa

10) Who among the following was on 28 November 2015 re-elected as the president of Asian Tennis Federation?

(A) Anju Bobby George

(B) Suresh Kalmadi

(C) Ram Das Gupta

(D) Anil Khanna

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Current Affairs Quiz Questions – 29 November 2015

Friends.. Here are the latest Current Affairs Quiz 29 November 2015 useful for all upcoming competitive exams. 

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1) Which state has recently decided to set up NRI Commission?

(A) Punjab

(B) Kerala

(C) Telangana

(D) West Bengal

2) Next-generation Barak surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, which was successfully tested for the first time recently, is co-developed by India and which country?

(A) Russia

(B) France

(C) Canada

(D) Israel

3) International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW) was recently observed on?

(A) 25th November

(B) 26th November

(C) 27th November

(D) 28th November

4) Who was recently appointed as the Chairperson of Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) by Union Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs?

(A) P.T.Usha

(B) Anurag Thakur

(C) Anju Bobby George

(D) Sachin Tendulkar

5) 1st Constitution Day was recently observed on?

(A) 22 November

(B) 24 November

(C) 26 November

(D) 29 November

6) Nuclear-capable Dhanush ballistic missile was successfully test fired recently from warship Subhadra, off the Puri coast of which state?

(A) Goa

(B) Andhra Pradesh

(C) Kerala

(D) Odisha

7) Union Government has recently reduced the deadline for completion of flagship Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) from 2022 to?

(A) 2020

(B) 2019

(C) 2021

(D) 2016

8) Who among the following on 29 Nov. 2015 won the Macau Open Badminton Series?

(A) Saina Nehwal

(B) Minatsu Mitani

(C) Carolina Marin

(D) P V Sindhu

9) Which country recently won the first ever day-night Test held at Adelaide?

(A) New Zealand

(B) No result

(C) Australia

(D) Draw

10) Mauricio Macri of Republican Proposal Party has recently won the Presidential elections of which country?

(A) Argentina

(B) Brazil

(C) Canada

(D) Australia

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Complete List of Man Booker Prize Winners (1969-2016) - PDF Download

Friends.. In this post we are sharing with you the Complete List of Man Booker Prize Winners from 1969 to 2015.  Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker-McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel, written in the English language. From its inception, only Commonwealth, Irish, and Zimbabwean citizens were eligible to receive the prize; in 2013, however, this eligibility was widened to any English language novel. Here is the complete list of winners. You can download this app as PDF from the below link. 

2016: Han Kang, South Korea (The Vegetarian - Novel)
2015 : Marlon James, Jamaica (A Brief History of Seven Killings - Novel)

2014 : Richard Flanagan, Australia (The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Historical Novel)

2013 : Eleanor Catton (Born-New Zealand), Canada (The Luminaries - Historical novel)

2012 : Hilary Mantel, United Kingdom (Bring Up the Bodies - Historical novel)

2011 : Julian Barnes, United Kingdom (The Sense of an Ending - Novel)

2010 : Howard Jacobson, United Kingdom (The Finkler Question - Comic novel)

2009 : Hilary Mantel, United Kingdom (Wolf Hall - Historical novel)

2008 : Aravind Adiga, India (The White Tiger - Novel)

2007 : Anne Enright, Ireland (The Gathering - Novel)

2006 : Kiran Desai, India (The Inheritance of Loss - Novel)

2005 : John Banville, Ireland (The Sea - Novel)

2004 : Alan Hollinghurst, United Kingdom (The Line of Beauty - Historical novel)

2003 : DBC Pierre, Australia (Vernon God Little - Black comedy)

2002 : Yann Martel, Canada (Life of Pi - Fantasy and adventure novel)

2001 : Peter Carey, Australia (True History of the Kelly Gang - Historical novel)

2000 : Margaret Atwood, Canada (The Blind Assassin - Historical novel)

1999 : J. M. Coetzee, South Africa (Disgrace - Novel)

1998 : Ian McEwan, United Kingdom (Amsterdam - Novel)

1997 : Arundhati Roy, India (The God of Small Things - Novel)

1996 : Graham Swift, United Kingdom (Last Orders - Novel)

1995 : Pat Barker, United Kingdom (The Ghost Road - War novel)

1994 : James Kelman, United Kingdom (How Late It Was, How Late - Stream of consciousness)

1993 : Roddy Doyle, Ireland (Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Novel)

1992 : Michael Ondaatje, Canada (The English Patient - Historiographic metafiction)

1992 : Barry Unsworth, United Kingdom (Sacred Hunger - Historical novel)

1991 : Ben Okri, Nigeria (The Famished Road - Magic realism)

1990 : A. S. Byatt, United Kingdom (Possession - Historical novel)

1989 : Kazuo Ishiguro, United Kingdom (The Remains of the Day - Historical novel)

1988 : Peter Carey, Australia (Oscar and Lucinda - Historical Novel)

1987 : Penelope Lively, United Kingdom (Moon Tiger - Novel)

1986 : Kingsley Amis, United Kingdom (The Old Devils - Comic novel)

1985 : Keri Hulme, New Zealand (The Bone People - Mystery novel)

1984 : Anita Brookner, United Kingdom (Hotel du Lac - Novel)

1983 : J. M. Coetzee, South Africa (Life and Times of Michael K- Novel) South Africa

1982 : Thomas Keneally, Australia (Schindler's Ark - Biographical novel)

1981 : Salman Rushdie, United Kingdom (Midnight's Children - Magic realism)

1980 : William Golding, United Kingdom Rites of Passage - Novel)

1979 : Penelope Fitzgerald, United Kingdom (Offshore - Novel)

1978 : Iris Murdoch (Born-United Kingdom), Ireland (The Sea, the Sea - Philosophical novel)

1977 : Paul Scott, United Kingdom (Staying On - Novel)

1976 : David Storey, United Kingdom (Saville - Novel)

1975 : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Born-Germany), United Kingdom (Heat and Dust - Historical novel)

1974 : Nadine Gordimer, South Africa (The Conservationist - Novel)

1974 : Stanley Middleton, United Kingdom (Holiday - Novel)

1973 : J. G. Farrell (Born-Ireland), United Kingdom (The Siege of Krishnapur - Novel)

1972 : John Berger, United Kingdom (G. - Experimental novel)

1971 : V. S. Naipaul (Born- Trinidad and Tobago), United Kingdom (In a Free State - Short story)

1970 : J. G. Farrell(Born- Ireland), United Kingdom (Troubles - Novel)

1970 : Bernice Rubens, United Kingdom (The Elected Member - Novel)

1969 : P. H. Newby, United Kingdom (Something to Answer For - Novel)

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SSC Examinations Calendar/Schedule in 2016 [CGL 2016, CHSL 2016, MTS 2016 etc]

Friends..recently Staff Selection Commission has released the Schedule of Examinations to be held during the year 2016. Here are the highlights:

Combined Graduate Level Examination – 2016 (Tier-I)

Date of Advt. - 13.02.2016

Date of Exam - 08.05.2016 & 22.05.2016

Combined Graduate Level (Tier-II) Examination- 2016

Date of Exam - 13.08.2016(Saturday) & 14.08.2016 (Sunday) 

Combined Higher Secondary (10+2) Examination 2016

Date of Advt. -  02.07.2016

Date of Exam - 25.09.2016, 09.10.2016 & 16.10.2016

Multi Tasking (Non-Technical) Staff Examination-2016

Date of Advt. - 08.10.2016

Date of Exam - 08.01.2017 & 22.01.2017

Stenographer Grade ‘C’ & ‘D’ Examination – 2016

Date of Advt. - 07.05.2016

Date of Exam - 31.07.2016

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Improve Vocabulary - The Hindu Editorial - 28 November 2015

One editorial of The Hindu on 28 November 2015 was about the non-compliance of Maharashtra government to the Supreme Court judgment which stayed its legislation to ban dance bars in Mumbai.

(A) Unhealthy defiance (Please read the article first and then come back to us. We are only covering the English Words)

  

1. It is not unusual to see State governments showing reluctance to abide by court orders that rulers deem politically inexpedient or ideologically unpalatable.

(a) reluctance: an unwillingness to do something

More examples: I accepted his resignation with great reluctance.

(b) abide: If you can't abide someone or something, you dislike them very much

(c) deem: to consider or judge something in a particular way.

More examples: The area has now been deemed safe.

(d) inexpedient: not suitable or convenient

More examples: It was inexpedient for him to be seen to approve of the decision.

(e) unpalatable: An unpalatable fact or idea is unpleasant or shocking and therefore difficult to accept.

2. Maharashtra is perilously close to being seen as wilfully disobedient.

(a) perilously : extremely dangerous

More examples: The country roads are quite perilous.

3.  The court has now peremptorily told the State government to process within two weeks all the applications it has received.

(a) peremptorily: expecting to be obeyed immediately and without asking questions.

More examples: He started issuing peremptory instructions.

4. The present amendment that his regime is trying to defend is unlikely to survive judicial scrutiny.

(a) regime: a particular government or a system or method of government.

More examples: The old corrupt, totalitarian regime was overthrown.

5. The plight of these vulnerable sections ought to pose greater concern to the government than the possibility that society will lapse into depravity by the mere presence of dance bars.

(a) plight: an unpleasant condition, especially a serious, sad, or difficult one.

More examples: the plight of the poor/homeless.

(b) ought: used to say that the action expressed in the verb is probable or expected

More examples: He ought to be home by seven o’clock.

(c) depravity: the state of being morally bad, or an action that is morally bad.

6. Wholesale bans and unhealthy defiance of judicial authority should not be among them.

(a) defiance: behaviour in which you refuse to obey someone or something.

More examples: In defiance of the ceasefire, rebel troops are again firing on the capital.

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Current Affairs Quiz – 28 November 2015

Friends.. Here are some useful Current Affairs Quiz Questions from 28 November 2015. Here we have covered all important National and International events for the day from exam perspective. This Objective Current Affairs Quiz will be very useful.   

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1) Long Range Surface-to-Air Missile (LRSAM) co-developed by India and which country was recently successfully test-fired for the first time?

(A) Israel

(B) Sri Lanka

(C) China

(D) Russia

2) India on 27 November 2015 successfully test-fired its which indigenously developed nuclear capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile?

(A) Akash-III

(B) Prithvi-I

(C) Agni-I

(D) Pinaka -IV

3) ICC on 25 November 2015 announced that four female match officials have been selected for the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifier 2015 to be held at?

(A) Bangkok, Thailand

(B) New York, USA

(C) Sydney, Australia

(D) Beijing, China

4) Who has been elected as the new Secretary General of the Commonwealth on 27 November 2015?

(A) Kamalesh Sharma

(B) Don McKinnon

(C) Emeka Anyaoku

(D) Patricia Scotland

5) Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) Friendship Motor Car Rally was recently held in which state?

(A) Karnataka

(B) Delhi

(C) Uttar Pradesh

(D) Assam

6) Rajiv Bansal was on 27 November 2015 appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of which app-based cab operator?

(A) Bla Bla Car

(B) Uber

(C) OlaCabs

(D) Redcar

7) Australia and which country have created history by playing first day-night Test match at the Adelaide Oval Cricket Stadium on 27 November 2015?

(A) England

(B) South Africa

(C) New Zealand

(D) Pakistan

8) Which state government has recently banned sale of liquor in the state from 1st April 2016?

(A) Kerala

(B) Bihar

(C) Maharashtra

(D) Haryana

9) Atonio Costa was on 26 November 2015 named Prime Minister of which country?

(A) Costa Rica

(B) Italy

(C) Portugal

(D) Egypt

10) National Milk Day is observed every year on?

(A) 26 November

(B) 27 November

(C) 28 November

(D) 29 November

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GK Quiz for Competitive Exams 2015- 2016

Friends..Here are some more useful GK Questions for upcoming competitive Exams. 

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1) In which year Swami Vivekanand delivered his speech in ‘World Religion Conference’ in Chicago city?

(A) 1863

(B) 1892

(C) 1881

(D) 1893

2) Nanda Devi Peak is located in which state?

(A) Himachal Pradesh

(B) Uttarakhand

(C) Uttar Pradesh

(D) Sikkim

3) Bhagirathi river originates from?

(A) Mount Kailash

(B) Mansarovar Lake

(C) Gomukh

(D) Tapovan

4) Who among the following was the Speaker of first Lok Sabha?

(A) G.V. Mavalankar

(B) K. M. Munshi

(C) G. B. Pant

(D) Acharya Kriplani

5) Subrato Cup is associated with which of the following?

(A) Football

(B) Cricket

(C) Chess

(D) Badminton

6) Which of the following is a non metal that remains liquid at room temperature?

(A) Phosphorous

(B) Bromine

(C) Chlorine

(D) Helium

7) The great Victoria Desert is located in

(A) Canada

(B) West Africa

(C) Australia

(D) North America

8) By whom the character of “James Bond” was created?

(A) Perry Mason

(B) Ian Fleming

(C) Wode House

(D) Agatha Christie

9) Which countrys lower house of Parliament is called Wolesi Jirga?

(A) Afghanistan

(B)Japan

(C) Pakistan

(D) Bangladesh

10) Which of the following countries is not a member of the NuclearSuppliers Group (NSG)?

(A) Australia

(B) France

(C) USA

(D) India

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