WEEKLY GK QUIZ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (23 - 29 JULY 2015 )

WEEKLY GK QUIZ 29 - JULY
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1. Who has been appointed as new Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in Credit Information bureau of India (CIBIL)?

      A) Satish Pillai                              B) M.V. Nair

      C) Anoop Mishra                         D) GK Pillai

2. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Bandhan Bank?    

      A) Ashok Lahiri                           B) Pratyush Sinha

      C) R.K. Singh                                D) Arvind Mayaram

3. Who was Bashar Navaaz?

      A) artist                                        B) novelist

      C) scientist                                   D) poet

4. Which Country will be hosting the 8^th BRICS summit in 2016?

      A) India                                        B) South Africa

      C) Russia                                      D) China

5. Name the Indian President who has launched the Rashtriya Aviskar Abhiyan (RAA) in New Delhi?

      A) APJ Abdul Kalam                    B) Pratibha Patil

      C) Pranab Mukherjee                 D) Ramaswamy Venkataraman

6. Name the women’s player who won a sixth women’s Wimbledon Title 2015?

      A) Victoria Azerenka                  B) Garbine Muguruza

      C) Serena Williams                      D) Maria sharapova

7. Which Player has won the Men’s single title of the Wimbledon tennis tournament 2015?

      A) Novak Djokovic                      B) Roger Federer

      C) Rafael Nadal                            D) Stan Wawrinka

8. Which company has won the Golden Peacock Environment Management Award 2015?   

      A) SAIL                                         B) HAL

      C) BHEL                                        D) Tata Steel

9. Who is the Author of the book Green Signals: Ecology, Growth and Democracy in India?

      A) Vinod Rai                                B) Anant Geete

      C) Jairam Ramesh                       D) Salman Khurshid

10. Which Indian Minister has launched the GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) system?

      A) Radha Mohan Singh               B) Ashok Gajapathi Raju

      C) Anant Geete                            D) Smriti Irani

11. HRIDAY Scheme is launched in which recently by Union Minister of Finance Arun Jaitely?

A) Amritsar                                  B) UP

C) Maharastra                             D) Bihar

12. Who was the head of Committee appointed by Supreme Court to investigate IPL spot fixing scandal?

A) R.M.Lodha                               B) Sri Ram Kalyan

C) Rajnath Singh                          D) Neha Sharma

13. When is the world population day observed?

A) 11 July                                     B) 21 June

C)  2 July                                       D) 22 April

14. Which state started operation Talash to find out the missing plane of Indian Coast Guard?

A) Goa                                          B) Tamil Nadu

C)  J & K                                        D) West Bengal

15. Who won 2015 Wimbledon Boys Double title?

A) Ashwini Kumar                       B) Deepak Kumar

C) Sumit Nagal                             D) Harash Kumar

16. Who is appointed as MD and CEO of Gift City?

A) Ajay Kumar                             B) U K Sinha

C) Y V Reddy                                D) Rama Kant

17. Which country has recently tied up with India for Pace setter fund?

A) USA                                          B) Iran

C) UK                                            D) China

18. Who got France’s highest civilian award?

A) Sayed Haider Raja                  B) Annu Malik

C) C N R Rao                                D) Kailash Kumar

19. Who is appointed as MD and CEO of National Housing Bank?

A) Sriram Kalyan Raman            B) K C Neogi

C) Ashok Lahiri                           D) Ashwini

20. In which state India started Earthquake warning system?

A)  Punjab                                                B) Haryana

C) Uttarakhand                            D) Maharashtra

 

ANSWER

1) A

2) A

3) D

4) C

5) A

6) C

7) A

8) D

9) C

10) B

11) A

12) A

13) A

14) B

15) C

16) A

17) A

18) A

19) A

20) C

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FREE WEEKLY GK QUIZ QUESTIONS - 22 JULY 2015

WEEKLY GK QUIZ 22- JULY
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1). Who has been awarded top police award in New-Zealand to help a bleeding child?

A) Sim Bhullar                             B) S.K. Rai

C) Harman Singh                         D) Adam Smith

2).  Who has been appointed as the Director of Chief Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) and Programme Director of LCA?

A) P. Takkar                                 B) C D Balaji

C) Arvind Suresh                         D) Pankaj Singh

3). Who has been selected for the World Food Prize for the year 2015?

A) M S Swaminathan                   B) Monty Jones

C) Fazle Hasan Abed                   D) Sanjay Rajaram

4). India’s economic growth has been estimated at ______ for FY 2014-15 by the Central Statistics Office (CSO)?

A) 5.5%                                        B) 5.0%

C) 7.3%                                         D) 6.5%

5). Which country has won the FIFA Women’s Football World cup title of the 2014-15 season?

A) Australia                                  B) Japan

C) USA                                          D) Germany

6). Who has won the South Asian Basketball Championship (SABA) title of the Bangalore?

A) Bangladesh                             B) Pakistan

C) Sri Lanka                                 D) India

7). Who has been appointed as the first president of the Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)?

A) Jin Liqun                                  B) Rahul Agarwal

C) Xi Jinping                                 D) V.P.Seth

8). Who is the author of the book ‘India Central Asia Relations: The Economic Dimension?

A) Arunima Sen                           B) Pooja Chaudary

C) Amiya Chandra                       D) Sneha Mathur

9). Which Bank has signed an agreement with Mudra Bank under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY)?

A) UBI                                           B) PNB

C) IDBI                                          D) SBI

10). Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Bandhan Bank?    

A) Ashok Lahiri                           B) Pratyush Sinha

C) R.K. Singh                                D) Arvind Mayaram

11). Which country won women’s FIFA World Cup 2015?

A) USA                                          B) UK

C) Japan                                        D) Canada

12). Which operation is launched to secure Amar Nath Yatra?

A) Operation Maitri                     B) Operation Shiva

C) Operation Talash                    D) Operation Secure

13). Which state launched ePMS Portal (Electronic Project Management System)?

A) Punjab                                     B) Haryana

C) Manipur                                   D) M.P

14). Which company started Speed Pay?

A) BSNL                                        B) Airtel

C) Vodafone                                 D) Reliane

15). Which state made Guinness World Record in Washing hands?

A) Madhya Pradesh                    B) Mizoram

C) Telengana                               D) Bihar

16). What is the name of Indian Women’s Cricket Team Captain?

A) Mithali Raj                               B) Neha Sharma

C) Pryinka                                                D) Reva

17). Which city in India get Wifi Cover?

       A) Nasik                                       B) Patiala

C) Jaipur                                       D) Bikaner

18). Who is elected as the Head of New Development Bank?

A) Ashok Kumar                          B) K V Kamath

C) Sumit                                        D) M S Swaminathan

19). Which state starts weather based crop insurance scheme?

A) Assam                                      B) Punjab

C) Maharashtra                           D) UP

20). When is National Statistics Day observed?

A) 26^th June                                  B) 27^th June

C) 21^st June                                  D) 26^th July

<<<< ANSWER KEY >>>>

1). C

2). B

3). C

4). C

5). C

6). D

7). A

8). C

9). C

10). A

11). A

12). B

13). A

14). A

15). A

16). A

17). A

18). B

19). C

20). A

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WEEKLY GK QUIZ QUESTIONS - 15 JULY 2015

WEEKLY GK QUIZ 15-JULY
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1.     Who is appointed as India’s Head of Ericsson?

a.       P.V.Reddy                               b. Paolo Colella

c.   William Ricky                         d. Anurag Patel

2.     Aditya Puri is the highest paid CEO of which Bank?

a.       ICICI                                        b. Axis

c.   HDFC                                       d. Yes Bank

3.     Which state tops in the list of states of Intellectual property rights 2013-14?

a.       Maharashtra                          b. Sikkim

c.   UP                                            d. Bihar

4.     Who was conferred with Columbia’s highest civilian award?

a.       Narendra Modi                      b. Sushma Swaraj

c.   S S Negi                                   d. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

5.     First Unit of Bengaigaon. Thermal Power Project commissioned in?

a.       Assam                                     b. Manipur

c.   UP                                            d. Maharashtra

6.     Who released world investment report?

a.       World bank                            b. IMF

c.   ADB                                         d. UNCTAD

7.     Which mobile operator of India is world’s 3^rd largest mobile operator?

a.       Vodafone                               b. BSNL                      

c.   Bharti Airtel                           d. Reliance

8.     Which country proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank?

a.       China                                      b. Japan

c.   USA                                          d. UK

9.     Which state government announced to form Krishi cabinet?

a.       Haryana                                 b. Punjab

c.   Andhra Pradesh                    d. Gujarat

10.Which country topped in the list of carbon emitters?

a.       India                                       b. USA

c.   China                                       d. UK

11.When is World International Day against Drug abuse and illicit trafficking observed?

a.       26^th June                                 b. 21^st June

c.   29^th June                                 d. 1^st May

12.Government announced to infuse how much additional fund in Public Sector Banks in 2016?

a.       Rs 11500 cr                           b. Rs. 12000 cr

c.   Rs. 10500 cr                           d. Rs. 8500 cr

13.Which state won the UN Public Service award for 2015 for eliminating open defecation?

a.       West Bengal                           b. Maharashtra

c.   Kerala                                     d. UP

14.In Which State recently Metro Rail Service Started?

a.       Punjab                                                b. Haryana

c.   Tamilnadu                              d. Jharkhand

15.Which country is the 1st to default on IMF debt?

a.       Greece                                                b. Italy

c.   USA                                          d. India

16.Which state started e-registration of property in all district?

a.       Madhya Pradesh                   b. Assam

c.   Punjab                                     d. Haryana

17.Which country’s President dissolved parliament?

a.       Sri Lanka                                b. Iran

c.  Iraq                                          d. Nepal

18.Which player named as Greatest Player of 21^st Century?

a.       Kapil Dev                                b. Sachin Tendulkar

c.   Rahul Dravid                          d. Virat Kohli

19.Which Indian Player won women’s double Canada Badminton Tournament 2015?

a.       Jwala Gupta                            b. Deepika Kumari

c.   Bhagwan Das                         d. Sania Mirza

20.RBI increased deadline for exchanging pre-2005 currency notes extended upto?

a.       31^st December 2015             b. 31^st August 2015

c.   21^st October 2015                  d. 31^st January 2016

ANSWER

1)            B

2)          C

3)          A

4)          D

5)          A

6)          D

7)          C

8)          A

9)          C

10)     C

11)     A

12)     A

13)     A

14)     C

15)     A

16)     A

17)     A

18)     B

19)     A

20)     A

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