General Awareness Quiz

1.Who has recently been appointed as Circuit Judge in the UK? 
Ans. Kalyani Kaul

2.Who has recently been appointed as Vice-chairman of the Bank of International Settlement (BIS)? 
Ans. Raghuram Rajan

3.Tanzania's first female Vice President ________? 
Ans. Samia Hassan Suluhu

4.Which Indian-Origin has recently been appointed as Defence Minister of Canada? 
Ans. Harjit Sajjan

5.Who has recently been appointed as Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations?
Ans.  Lawyer Patricia

6.Who has recently been appointed as Permanent CEO, Twitter?
Ans. Jack Dorsey

7.Who has recently been appointed as Chairman of Inter-governmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC)?
Ans. Hoesung Lee

8.Who has recently been appointed as Cultural Ambassador of Seychelles?
 Ans. AR Rahman

9.Who has recently been appointed as Prime Minister of Nepal?
Ans. Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli 

10.Who has recently been appointed as the first women president of Nepal
Ans. Bidhya Devi Bhandari

11.Who has recently been appointed as FAO's Assistant Director-General? 
Ans. Kundhavi Kadiresan

12.Which Indian origin has recently been appointed as Mayor of Bonn in Germany? 
Ans. Ashok-Alexander Sridharan

13.Which Indian origin has recently been appointed as 23rd Prime Minister of Canada? 
 Ans. Justin Trudeau

14.Who has recently been appointed as Tanzania new President? 
Ans. John Pombe Magufuli

15.Who has recently been appointed as the 54th speaker of the US House of Representatives?
Ans. Paul Ryan

16.Who has recently been appointed as Guatemala new President? 
Ans. Jimmy Morales

17.Newly appointed UN’s refugee chief________? 
 Ans. Filippo Grandi

18.Who has recently been Chosen as postmaster for Sacramento?
 Ans.  Jagdeep Grewal

19.Who has recently been appointed as Australia’s New Prime Minister?
Ans. Malcolm Turnbull

20.Who has recently been appointed as Executive Director, Asian Development Bank (ADB)? 

Ans. Swati Dandekar