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April - 2015 GK - 2

April 2015 GK Week - 2

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation suspended the 1000 rupees minimum monthly pension scheme from

  1. April 2015
  2. June 2015
  3. August 2015
  4. September 2015
  5. October 2015
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following cities was awarded the title of Global Earth hour Capital 2015, after it won the Earth Hour City Challenge (EHCC) of World Wildlife Fund in April 2015?

  1. Balikpapan
  2. Thane
  3. Seoul
  4. Evanston
  5. Paris
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Upon whom did the Uttar Pradesh government confer the Sahitya Shiromani Samman in April 2015?

  1. Gulzar
  2. Gopal Das Neeraj
  3. Salim Arif
  4. Virendra Narain Yadav
  5. Abhilash Awasthi
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following was appointed as the Chief Election Commissioner in April 2015?

  1. H. S. Brahma
  2. Dr. Nasim Zaidi
  3. S. Y. Quraishi
  4. V. S. Sampath
  5. Navin Chawla
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which country won the Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament 2015?

  1. Australia
  2. India
  3. New Zealand
  4. Germany
  5. Pakistan
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who was sworn in as the first lady judge of Sikkim High Court?

  1. Meenakshi Madan Rai
  2. Anjana Mishra
  3. R. S. Dalvi
  4. R. P. Sondurbaldota
  5. Mridula Bhatkar
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Stanislav Gross, who passed away in April 2015, was the former Prime Minister of

  1. Romania
  2. Armenia
  3. Bahamas
  4. Chad
  5. Czech Republic
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In April 2015, Turkey began the construction of its first nuclear power plant. With which country had Turkey, in 2010, signed an agreement to set up a $20 billion Akkuyu nuclear project?

  1. Australia
  2. France
  3. Germany
  4. Russia
  5. The US
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As of April 2015, how many Prospective Founding Members did the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank have?

  1. 38
  2. 43
  3. 49
  4. 51
  5. 57
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In April 2015, India was elected to four key bodies of the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC). Which of the following is not among the four key bodies?

  1. Executive Board of United Nations Children’s Fund
  2. Governing Council of United Nations Human Settlements Programme
  3. Executive Board of World Food Programme
  4. Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
  5. United Nations Environment Programme
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following was elected as the President of the Wrestling Federation of India in April 2015?

  1. I. D. Nanavati
  2. Raj Singh
  3. Brijbhushan Sharan Singh
  4. Hamza Bin Omar
  5. B. C. Das
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Earth Day is observed on

  1. 8th April
  2. 13th April
  3. 17th April
  4. 22nd April
  5. 29th April
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency at present (2015)?

  1. Rainer Baake
  2. John Geesman
  3. Dr. Thani Al Zeyoudi
  4. Adnan Amin
  5. Herbert Girardet
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Surya Bahadur Thapa, who passed away in April 2015, was the ___ Prime Minister of Nepal.

  1. 20th
  2. 21st
  3. 22nd
  4. 23rd
  5. 24th
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

According to International Monetary Fund, India will overtake China as the fastest growing emerging economy in 2015-16 by clocking a growth rate of

  1. 7.1 percent
  2. 7.3 percent
  3. 7.5 percent
  4. 7.7 percent
  5. 7.9 percent
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

At present (2015), how many member states are there in the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)?

  1. 125
  2. 129
  3. 143
  4. 138
  5. 151
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following cities was a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, which is believed to be the only one in the world showing Gandhi as a young lawyer in his court robes, defaced?

  1. Cape Town
  2. Johannesburg
  3. Durban
  4. Pretoria
  5. Port Elizabeth
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In April 2015, Allan Donald retired as the bowling coach of

  1. England
  2. New Zealand
  3. Australia
  4. South Africa
  5. Sri Lanka
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Jamal Benomar was a UN peace envoy to which of the following countries?

  1. Iraq
  2. Israel
  3. South Africa
  4. Yemen
  5. Syria
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As per the Social Progress Index 2015, released by the US-based non-profit organisation Social Progress Imperative, which of the following three countries were among the top in the world on the Social Progress Index?

  1. The United Kingdom, Germany and Japan
  2. Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland
  3. The United States, France and Italy
  4. France, Switzerland and Japan
  5. The United States, the United Kingdom and Italy
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which city did India’s first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) become operational?

  1. Chennai
  2. Gandhinagar
  3. Mumbai
  4. Bangalore
  5. Jaipur
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As per the South Asia Focus report released in April 2015, what is the projected economic growth of South Asia by 2017?

  1. 7.6%
  2. 7.3%
  3. 7.8%
  4. 7.5%
  5. 7.9%
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In April 2015, Sania Mirza created history by becoming the first Indian female tennis player to achieve the world number one rank in the doubles category. Who was her partner when she achieved this feat?

  1. Abigail Spears
  2. Tímea Babos
  3. Anna-Lena Grönefeld
  4. Martina Hingis
  5. Raquel Kops-Jones
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