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General Knowledge Quiz

 

1.Name the Union Minister who was appointed as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President of Maharashtra State on 6 January 2015?

Devendra Fadnavis

Raosaheb Patil Danve 

Amit Shah

Sudhir Mungantiwar

2.President Pranab Mukherjee on 7 January 2015 signed an ordinance to amend the Motor Vehicles Act of

1988

1995 

2004

2014

3.Name the French satirical weekly magazine that was attacked by three masked gunmen on 7 January 2015?

Charivari

Nain jaune

Charlie Hebdo 

Canard enchaine

4.National Youth Day was observed across India on 12 January 2015. The day was observed to commemorate the birth anniversary of which famous Indian personality?

Swami Dayanand Saraswati 

Swami Vivekananda 

Aurobindo Ghosh

Rabindranath Tagore

5.Jharkhand Assembly on 8 January 2015 adopted a resolution urging State government to send a proposal to Union Government for setting up a bench of the Jharkhand High Court in?

Dumka 

Jamshedpur

Dhanbad

Bokaro

6.India on 8 January 2015 decided to provide 60 million US dollars Line of Credit (LoC) to a country for its road infrastructure projects and passenger ferry service. Name the country.

Maldives

Guyana 

Nigeria 

Myanmar

7.Which Indian bank on 7 January 2015 launched contactless credit cards and debit cards?

HDFC Bank 

ICICI Bank 

Axis Bank

Citibank

8.What is AMCA that was in news in the first week of January 2015?

It is Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft being built by India and Russia jointly

It is fifth generation fighter aircraft being built by India indigenously 

It is fifth generation nuclear submarine being built by India and France jointly 

Both (a) and (b)

9.Who was sworn-in as the sixth Governor of Uttarakhand on 8 January 2015?

Rameshwar Thakur

V K Bisht

K K Paul 

Aziz Qureshi

10.Which Indian film was nominated for 2015 BAFTA Awards under non-English best film category on 8 January 2015?

The Lunchbox 

Two Days, One Night

Liar’s Dice 

Timbuktu

11.Who was appointed as MD & CEO of AXIS Capital Limited on 5 January 2015?

Nilesh Shah 

Albert A. Benchimol

Naba Mondal 

Jignesh Shah

12.Who won the 7th Chennai International Open Grandmaster Chess title on 6 January 2015?

Popov Ivan of Russia 

Dzhumaev Marat of Uzbekistan 

Mozharov Mikhail of Russia

Swapnil S Dhopade

13.Governor Rule was imposed in Jammu and Kashmir on 9 January 2015 under

Article 356 of Indian Constitution

Section 92 of the J & K Constitution 

Section 356 of the J & K Constitution

Article 370 of the Constitution

14.Larry Page on 6 January 2015 was named as the Business person of the Year for 2014 by Fortune magazine. Who is he?

CEO of Google

CEO of Amazon

CEO of Yahoo

CEO of WhatsApp

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