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)