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Current Affairs Quiz

1) Which film was awarded the Best Feature Film in the 62nd National Film Awards 2015 announced on 24 March 2015?
(A) Court
(B) Mary Kom
(C) Queen
(D) Nanu Avanalla Avalu
(E) None of these

2) Which high court on 25 March 2015 became the first court to set up dedicated commercial divisions within it, in line with recommendation of the Law Commission of India?
(A) Kerala High Court
(B) Calcutta High Court
(C) Delhi High Court
(D) Karnataka High Court
(E) None of these

3) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 25 March 2015 launched his ambitious multi-purpose and multi-modal platform, PRAGATI. Expand PRAGATI?
(A) Pro-Active Governance And Timely Implementation
(B) Pro-Active Government And Transparent Implementation
(C) Pro-Active Governance And Transparent Implementation
(D) Pro-Active Government And Timely Implementation
(E) None of these

4) KM Mani was recently appointed as the chairman of the empowered committee of state finance ministers on Goods & Services Tax (GST). KM Mani is the finance minister of which state?
(A) Jammu and Kashmir
(B) Gujarat
(C) Maharashtra
(D) Kerala
(E) None of these

5) Noted Hindi poet Gopaldas Neeraj on 24 March 2015 was awarded with first National Kavi Pradeep Samman. National Kavi Pradeep Samman was instituted by the Government of?
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Madhya Pradesh
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Haryana
(E) None of these

6) RBI on 25 March 2015 signed a USD 400 million currency swap agreement with the Central Bank of which country for three years?
(A) Sri Lanka  
(B) Nepal
(C) Bhutan
(D) Maldives
(E) None of these

7) Who bagged the best actress award at the 62nd National Film Awards?
(A) Priyanka Chopra
(B) Kareena Kapoor
(C) Sonam Kapoor
(D) Kangana Ranaut
(E) None of these

8) Who recently emerged as the only Indian author among 10 finalists for this year’s Man Booker International Prize?
(A) Siddhartha Mukherjee
(B) Amitav Ghosh
(C) Ashok Srinivasan
(D) Jeet Thayil
(E) None of these

9) John F. Nash, Jr. and Louis Nirenberg recently won the Abel Prize 2015 for their contributions to mathematical sciences. Of this, John F. Nash is also a winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in?
(A) Physics
(B) Chemistry
(C) Peace
(D) Economics
(E) None of these

10) Gandhi Peace Prize for 2014 was recently won by which Organization?
(A) Bachpan Bachao Andolan
(B) Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
(C) Bhabha Atomic Research Centre ( BARC )
(D) Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)
(E) None of these

11) Which former Prime Minister of India was presented with the prestigious Bharat Ratna Award by President Pranab Mukherjee on 27 March 2015 in New Delhi?
(A) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(B) Manmohan Singh
(C) HD Deve Gowda
(D) IK Gujral
(E) None of these

12) Which state recently launched the country's first e-ration card service?
(A) Rajasthan
(B) Gujarat
(C) Bihar
(D) Delhi
(E) None of these

13) Which state recently became the first State in the country to fix a minimum educational qualification for contesting elections to the Panchayati Raj Institutions?
(A) Haryana
(B) Kerala
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Andhra Pradesh
(E) Assam

14) Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan were sacked from the national executive of which party on 28 March 2015?
(A) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
(B) Communist Party of India (CPI)
(C) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
(D) Janata Dal United (JDU)
(E) None of these

15) Aziz Qureshi was on 28 March 2015 removed as the Governor of which state?
(A) Gujarat
(B) Goa
(C) Arunachal Pradesh
(D) Mizoram
(E) None of these


Answer: 

1.   A
2.   C
3.   A
4.   D
5.   B
6.   A
7.   D
8.   B
9.   D
10. B
11. A
12. D
13. C
14. C
15. D

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