Current Affairs Quiz – May 16′ 2015

1. Who has been conferred with the Pt. Haridutt Sharma Award recently?
a) Sowmya Nair
b) Amrutha Anand
c) Pavithra Ramanarayanan
d) Anurradha Prasad

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Answer d) Anurradha Prasad

2. Which country has announced its plans to decrease the emission of greenhouse gases by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030?
a) Germany
b) Canada
c) Sweden
d) Norway

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Answer b) Canada

3. Who has been appointed as the Controller General of Accounts?
a) Rishi Gupta
b) MJ Joseph
c) Kumaran Thangaraj
d) Viswa Kapoor

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Answer b) MJ Joseph

4. Who won the bronze medal in the 50 m Rifle Prone Event of the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup?
a) Gagan Narang
b) Michael Phyll
c) Olang Chi Kuan
d) Tye-Bu Tai

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Answer a) Gagan Narang

5. What is the name of recently discovered first fully warm-blooded fish?
a) Opah
b) Naoa
c) Kyia
d) Nisha

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Answer a) Opah

6. China Central Television (CCTV) has signed an agreement with _________ for exchange of art, culture and development television programmes?
a) Times Now
b) NDTV
c) Doordarshan
d) All India Radio

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Answer c) Doordarshan

7. What is Larsen B?
a) NASA’s Satellite
b) Ice Shelf in Antarctic Region
c) A street in Delhi
d) Google’s New Product for Street Viewing

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Answer b) Ice Shelf in Antarctic Region

8. Mohammed Morsi, who has been sentenced to death, is related to which country?
a) Syria
b) Armenia
c) Egypt
d) Tunisia

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Answer c) Egypt

9. Name the Indian-American who won the Young Scientist Award?
a) Karan Jerath
b) Joy Mukherjee
c) Dhruva Kumar
d) Pranav Reddy

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Answer a) Karan Jerath

10. Who won Gold in under-15 category of World School Chess Championships?
a) Sangamitra Mukherjee
b) Tejaswini Sagar
c) Soumya Nair
d) Chris Felshia

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Answer b) Tejaswini Sagar

11. The sixth National Conference on Nuclear Energy is held in
a) Mumbai
b) Chennai
c) New Delhi
d) Kolkata

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Answer c) New Delhi

12. Which country has observed the 67th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba Day?
a) Palestine
b) Syria
c) Iran
d) Afghanistan

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Answer a) Palestine

13. The Kayakalp Award Scheme is related with
a) Public Road Transport
b) Public Health Facilities
c) National level Sports
d) National Journalism

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Answer b) Public Health Facilities