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1.

Who got the Hafiz Ali Khan Award-2014?

Award
violinist L Subramaniam and Kathak exponent Roshan Kumari

2.

What is Repo Rate at present?

.......% (As per current change)

3.

Which country has booked the biggest score in the history

history of the Cricket World Cup?
Australia (417 Run)

4.

With which company, Union Ministry of Shipping has signed

signed an agreement for export
of automobile units?
Toyota

5.

Where has Subway opened an outlet entirely run by women?

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Andheri (Mumbai)

6.

Which city of Iraq has been destroyed by the Terrorist Organization ISIS?
Nimrud

7.

Name the senior journalist and the founder editor of

of the Outlook magazine who
passed away recently.
Vinod Mehta

8.

Who is appointed as the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) of Walmart

Wal
India Private
Limited?
Ashwin Mittal

9.

Who became the first Indian woman player to enter in the final of the All England
Open Badminton tournament?
Saina Nehwal

10. Who won the title of All England Open Badminton Championships
Championships ?
Carolina Marin Martin of Spain
11. Who are the three Indian players to enter in the final
final of All England Badminton
Championships 2015?
Prakash Padukone, Pullela Gopichand and Saina Nehwal
Nehwa
12. Who is the first batsman to score hundreds in three consecutive World Cup matches?
Kumar Sangakkara

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13. What is the name of the web-based

web based tool launched by the HR Dept. (MoHRD) to
develop the girls education?
Digital Gender Atlas
14. Who became the first cricketer to score four consecutive centuries in Cricket World
Worl
Cup?
Kumar Sangakkara
15. What is the name of the solar-powered
solar
aircraft departed from Abu Dhabi
Dhabi to roundthe-world?
Solar Impulse-
16. Who was the first Indian to win the title of All England
England Badminton Champ
Championships
?
Prakash Padukone
17. Who is the brand ambassador of Maharashtra Government's
Government's Bhagyashree sche
scheme?
Bhagyashree
18. Where has the first Kisan Call Centre (KCC) of North-East
Nort
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Agartala (Tripura)
19. Who is given responsibility to promote the India-centric
India centric campaign, 'Bollywood Britain'
by 'Visit Britain'?
Saif Ali Khan
20. Which is the largest company in terms of assets?
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL)
21. Who is appointed as Global Executive Adviser of Blackstone?
Blackstone
Harish Manwani
22. Which company has acquired total hypermarket?
Aditya Birla Retail
23. Who is the head of the National Boxing Selection panel?
pa
Gopal N Devang

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24. With which co. the Indian railway has signed the MOU
MOU to implement the Railway
projects?
LIC
25. Which state has won the title of Ranji Trophy by defeating
defeating Tamilnadu?
Karnataka
26. Who became the first Indian player to score three sanctuaries
sanctuaries in Ranji Trophys
Troph
Final?
Varun Nair (Karnataka)
27. What is the name of the Prime Minister of Mauritius?
Mauritius
Anerood Jugnuth
28. Which shopping search engine has been acquired by Facebook?
F
The Find
29. Which university is the first in the world as per the
the list of Times Higher Education?
Howard University, America
30. Who has given the National Teachers award KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu
?
?
An Indian-origin
origin South African educator, Ganasen Reddy
31. Which day hasbeen celebrated as the World Kidney Day?
Second Thursday of March
32. Which position did Saina Nehwal get in the women's ranking of BFW?
Second
33. Who is at the first position in the women's ranking of BWF?
Li XueruiChina)
China)
34. Which famous Gandhiyan known for telling Gandhi
Gandhi Stories, passed away?
Narayanbhai Desai
35. Who won the mens singles title of Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold Badminton
tournament ?
Kidambi Srikanth
36. Who has been appointed as the MD and CEO of CRISIL?
Ashu Suyash
37. Who won the Santosh Trophy of football Championship (
th National football
championship)?
Services
38. Which state won the Santosh Trophy of football Championship
Championship most often?
West Bengal

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39. Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of the North-East
North East region?
Boxer MC Mary Kom
40. Who won the title of Australian Grand Prix?
Lewis Hamilton
41. Who is the youngest writer to get National Dushyant Kumar Alankaran'?
Alankaran'
Alok Shrivastava
42. :hich
hich country is the worlds largest importer of weapons
weapons and military equipment
equipment
Dccording to SIPRI?
India
43. Which community is declined by the Supreme Court to get included in OBC
Category?
Jat community
44. Who has been selected for National Dushyant Kumar Alankaran' ?

Alok Shrivastava
45. Who has been appointed as the Group President and Chief Operating Officer of
Wipro Limited?
Abid Ali Neemuchwala
46. Who has been elected as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the American
Council on Education (ACE)?
Indian-American
American Renu Khator
47. Who has been awarded the prize of New South Wales Woman of the year , in
Australia?
Minoti Apte, an Indian cancer researcher
48. Who has been appointed as the head of 'Kaya Kalp' the innovation council of Indian
Railways?
Ratan Tata
49. Which mobile application has been launched in India by HDFC for quick fund
transfer?
Chillar
50. Who has been appointed as the Chief of Pakistan Air Force?
Air Marshal Sohail Aman
51. Which is Indias first Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air
ai
air missile?
Astra
52. Which is the smallest missile developed by DRDO?
Astra missile (metre long)

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53. Who is the second player of Sri Lanka to score  runs?
Kumar Sangakkara
54. Where was the third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk
R
Reduction
held?
Sendai (Japan)
55. Which India based scientist has been selected for the post of President of Britain's
prestigious Royal Society?
Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
56. Which state will be the first in India to introduce cows with unique identification
numbers?
Haryana
57. Which country has been assigned the hosting for the FIFA Womens World Cup
?
France
58. Where will FIFA Women's World Cup 2015 be held?
In Canada
59. Who has appointed as the brand ambassador of Hepatitis
Hepatitis B campaign?
Amitabh Bachchan
60. Who is the author of 'Indian Parliamentary DiplomacyDiplomac Speakers Perspective'?
Perspective'
Former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar
61. How many percent approved reservation for women in police forces of all Union
territories?
percent
62. Which state won the Irani Trophy cricket tournament?
tournament
Karnataka
63. Who has felicitated with the Laadli Voice of the Century award?
Lata Mangeshkar

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64. Who was the first Prime Minister of Singapore?

Lee Kuan Yew
65. Who is new CEO of HTC?
Cher Wang
66. Who won the Mens Singles title of The BNP Paribas Indian Wells Tennis
Tournament-?
Novak Djokovic
67. Who won the women's singles title of The BNP Paribas Indian
In
Wells Tennis
Tournament-?
Simona Halep
68. Who has EHHQappointed
appointed as WKHChancellor
Chancellor of Visva Bharati University (W. Bengal)?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
69. Where was the 'International Counter-Terrorism
Counter
Conference' held?
Jaipur
70. Which player became the first to score maximum runs in a single innings of the World
Cup?
Martin Guptil, New Zealand
71. Who has been appointed as a vice-chairman
vice
of the International Relations
Commission of the Association of National Olympic Committees
Committees (ANOC)?
N Ramachandran
72. Who has been nominated for the Stockholm Water Prize ?
Social Activist Rajendra Singh
73. Where will the first IFSC be established?
es
Gujarat International
Internatio
Finance Tec-city (GIFT)
74. Who is the first Sri Lankan Army officer to become the Field Marshal?
Former army chief Sarath Fonseka
75. What is the meaning of CBRN Terrorism?
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism
Terrorism
76. In which state the sale of chewing has been declared as non-bailable
able offense?
Maharashtra
77. Who has been selected for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award ?
Shashi Kapoor
78. Who won the award for the Best Actress in the ndNational
National Film Awards?
Kangana Ranaut (Best Hindi Queen)

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79. Which film won the award for the Best Popular Film in the ndNational
National Film Awards?
Mary Kom
80. Which film won the award for the Best Hindi Film in the 62ndNational
National Film Awards?
Queen
81. Which section of the IT Act has been cancelled by Supreme Court?
Section 66A
82. Which scientist'ss birthday is celebrated as the World TB Day?
Dr. Robert Koch
83. Who has been honored with 'the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters',
Letters' the biggest
cultural award of France?
Indian artist Bharti Kher
84. Which novel got the Folio Prize ?
Family Life
85. Who is the first Indian to win the Tyler Prize?
MS Swaminathan
86. Who has EHHQnominated
nominated for the Tyler Prize ?
Madhav Gadgil and Dr. Jane Lubchenco
87. Which company is operating the new platform named Twitter
Twitter Samvad?
Zip Dial
88. Who became the youngest Archer of India?
Dolly Shivani Cherukuri
89. How many Mega Food Parks have been approved by Union Ministry?

90. When was the Mega Food Park Scheme launched?
In 
91. How many financial assistance does the Union government provide to set up a Mega
Food Park?
crore rupees

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92. What is the full form of PRAGATI?

Pro-Active
Active Governance And Timely Implementation
Implementation
93. Who has given the first Rashtriya Kavi Pradeep Sanman
Sanman by Madhya Pradesh
government?
Gopaldas Neeraj
94. Where was the th round
round RI the talks on border issues between India and China
held?
At New Delhi
95. Against which rebels, Saudi Arabia has started a military
military offensive in Yaman?
Hauti rebels
96. Who is the investor to stand on the top in the Forbes
Forbes Midas List 2015?
Jim Goetz
97. Which memorial has been unveiled for the victims of transatlantic
transatlant trade at the UN
headquarters?
Arc of Return
98. Who has been awarded the Abel Prize ?
John F Nash Jr. and Louis Nirenberg
99. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Empowered Committee
Committe of State
Finance Ministers on GST?
Kerala Finance Minister KM Mani
100.

Who was the first Indian Army officer belonging to the Mizo community?
Brigadier Sailo

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