1) Who is appointed as the Sherpa for the 2015 G-20 Summit,which will take place in Antalya, Turkey in November 2015?
Answer. Arvind Panagariya
2) Who is appointed as the head of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights?
Answer. Stuti Narain Kacker
3) Who is the new PM of Greece who belongs to the Syriza party?
Answer. Alexis Tsipras
4) Who is elected as the President of the Indian Newspaper Society for the year 2015-16?
Answer. PV Chandran
5) Who is sworn is as the Prime Minister of Egypt?
Answer. Sherif Ismail
6) Who is appointed as the Union Home secretary?
Answer. Rajiv Mehrishi
7) Who is appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Children’s Fund?
Answer. Novak Djokovic
8) Who is appointed as the Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research?
Answer. Girish Sahni
9) Who won the Skoch Award for Smart Governance?
Answer. Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)
10) Name the personalities who won the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US-India Business Council (USIBC).
Answer. PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bharatia
11) Who was conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for his work 'Premchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayan'?
Answer. Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka
12) Name the best-selling British-born author who passed away in September 2015?
Answer. Jackie Collins
13) Name the former president of BCCI who passed away in September 2015.
Answer. Jagmohan Dalmiya
14) Name the famous Bollywood singer and music composer who passed away?
Answer. Aadesh Shrivastava
15) The first India-US Strategic and Commercial Dialogue was held in?
Answer. Washington, the USA
16) Name the Indian FIlm who voted as the first runner-up at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
Answer. Angry Indian Goddesses
17) Who is the head of 15-member Oscar Selection Jury who selected Marathi-film Court as India’s official entry to 88th Oscar Awards?
Answer. Amol Palekar
18) Prime Minister Narendra Modi released digital recordings of which epic, as a set of digital CDs which is produced by All India Radio (AIR)?
Answer. Ramcharitmanas
19) Cabinet Committee on Security approved the deal to buy 37 military helicopters from which country?
Answer. United States (US)
20) What is the name of the India-Maldives joint military training Exercise 2015 which was held in Trivandrum, Kerala?
Answer. EKUVERIN 2015
21) What is the name given to Indian and Australian Navy Bilateral Maritime Exercise?
Answer. AUSINDEX-15
22)‘Jaisalmer War Museum’ established in the Military Station of Jaisalmer was inaugurated in September 2015. It comes in which state of India?
Answer. Rajasthan
23) Agriculture Division of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog in the fourth week of September 2015 constituted an Expert Group on Land Leasing.This group will be headed by?
Answer. T Haque
24) The Union Ministry of Water Resources constituted a seven-member committee to advise it on restructuring the Central Water Commission. Who is heading this committee?
Answer. Mihir Shah
25) Who is the author of:
a) Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights
b) To the Brink and Back: India's 1991 Story
c) 30 Women in Power: Their Voices, Their Stories
Answer.
a) Salman Rushdie
b) Jairam Ramesh
c) Naina Lal Kidwai