1.Name the Asteroid which is named after Malala Yousafzai?
a) Asteroid 315200
b) Asteroid 316201
c) Asteroid 317204
d) Asteroid 318210
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Answer b) Asteroid 316201. The youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner and girls education campaigner Malala Yousafzai now has an asteroid 316021 named after her on 10th April 2015. Amy Mainzer, astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, named Asteroid 316201 after Malala. Mr. Mainzer discovered the asteroid in the Main Belt between Mars and Jupiter which gives her the right to name it.
2. Apurvi Chandela is associated with which Sports?
a) Archery
b) Chess
c) Shooting
d) Swimming
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Answer c) Shooting. Indian shooter Apurvi Chandela on 11 April 2015 won Bronze medal in the 10-metre air rifle event at the (International Shooting Sport Federation) ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup in Changwon, South Korea.
3. Yuki Bhambri is related to which of the following game?
a) Swimming
b) Badminton
c) Tennis
d) Archery
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Answer c) Tennis. Yuki Bhambri won the USD 15,000 ITF Futures tournament on 11th April 2015 with a straight-set win over Dzmitry Zhyrmont and ensured that he will get entry into the French Open qualifying event.He is former Junior No. 1 and winner of 2009 Australian Open Junior Championship.
4. Richie Benaud, who passed was recently, was associated with
a) Football
b) Hockey
c) Cricket
d) Boxing
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Answer c) Cricket. Legendary cricket commentator and former Australian Captain Richie Benaud passed away at the age of 84. Benaud had been receiving radiation treatment for skin cancer for last one year. His family announced that he passed away peacefully in his sleep.
5. India’s first International Financial Services Centre became operational at
a) Gujarat
b) Mumbai
c) New Delhi
d) Kolkata
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Answer a) Gujarat. India’s first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) at GIFT City in Gandhinagar, Gujarat became operational on 10th April 2015. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley unveiled rules and regulations for this global financial hub.
7. The recently launched MUDRA Bank will act as a regulator of
a) Private Sector banks
b) Rural Regional banks
c) Micro-Finance Institutions
d) None of the above
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Answer c) Micro-Finance Institutions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency Ltd. (MUDRA) bank at the Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi. The bank will act as a regulator for ‘Micro-Finance Institutions‘ (MFIs) and provide credit of up to Rs 10 lakh to small entrepreneurs. The bank is launched with a corpus of Rs 20,000 crore and a credit guarantee corpus of Rs 3000 crore.
7. Who has been appointed as the 20th Chief Election Commissioner of India?
a) Hari Shankar Brahma
b) VS Sampath
c) Nasim Zaidi
d) Raghunath Trivedi
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Answer c) Nasim Zaidi. Dr Nasim Zaidi, as the next Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) on 9th April 2015. Nasim Zaidi is a retired IAS officer of 1976 batch from the Uttar Pradesh. He will assume the charge of office of the chief election commissioner with effectfrom April 19, after the incumbent Harishankar Brahma will retire on April 18.
8. India successfully test-fired ______ recently from a naval ship off the Odisha coast.
a) Agni III
b) Astra
c) Dhanush
d) Prithvi
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Answer c) Dhanush. India on 9th April 2015 successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable Dhanush ballistic missile with a strike range of 350 km from a naval ship off the Odisha coast.
9. Who has been appointed as the CEO of Khadi and Village Industries Commission?
a) Ravi Krishanan
b) Arun Kumar Jha
c) Aravind Mayank
d) Rahul Gupta
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Answer b) Arun Kumar Jha. Arun Kumar Jha has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC).Arun Kumar Jha was appointed by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) of the Union Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.
10. The National Safe Motherhood Day is observed on
a) April 10
b) April 11
c) April 12
d) April 13
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Answer b) April 11. The National Safe Motherhood Day is observed on April 11. The main objective of the day is to create awareness on proper health care and maternity facilities to pregnant and lactating women.
11. Who condemned the psychiatric therapies designed to repair gay, lesbian and transgender youth?
a) Pranab Mukherjee
b) Barack Obama
c) Xi Jinping
d) Tony Abbott
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Answer b) Barack Obama. US President Mr Barack Obama’s statement was in response to an online petition calling for a ban on conversion therapies, which gained over 120,000 signatures in three months. Some conservative groups and religious doctors support conversion therapy.
12. India has agreed to buy combat aircraft from the France. What is the name of the Aircraft?
a) Rafale
b) Thunder
c) Lightening
d) Mirage-75
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Answer a) Rafale. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a plan to buy 36 planes from Dassault through the government-to-government route.
13. The World Wide Fund has named ______ named as the National Earth Hour Capital for 2015.
a) Varanasi
b) Chandigarh
c) Madurai
d) Thane
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Answer d) Thane. An International jury comprising 11members has declared Thane the National Earth Hour Capital. Thane, Rajkot and Pune were the finalists from India. Last year, Coimbatore was selected as the National Earth Hour Capital.
14. What is the name of the Cultural Festival inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherjee in North East?
a) Voices of North East
b) Culture of North East
c) Songs and Dances of North East
d) None of the above
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Answer c) Songs and Dances of North East. President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a festival showcasing the culture of India’s northeast region. The day-long festival – “Songs and Dances of the North East” – was organised by the Meghalaya government here and sponsored by the North Eastern Council.
15. Hrushikesh Moolgavkar, who passed away recently, was associated with
a) Sports
b) Journalism
c) Indian Air Force
d) Politics
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Answer c) Indian Air Force. Former Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Hrushikesh Moolgavkar (Retired) passed away at the age of 95. During this tenure one of his major achievements was that of flight safety, where he personally implemented the new measures and brought down the accident rates.
