Current Affairs Questions - 5

1) 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
Ans: (D)

2) 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
Ans: (B)

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

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
Ans: (D)

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
Ans: (B)

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
Ans: (A)

7) 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
Ans: (A)

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
Ans: (B)

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
Ans: (D)

10) 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
Ans: (C)

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
Ans: (A)

12) 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
Ans: (A)

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
Ans: (C)

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
Ans: (C)

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
Ans: (D)