General Knowledge - General Awareness Quiz - Questions and Answers, GK 2015

1. Who has been conferred with the prestigious Vyaas Samman award for the year 2014?

a. Kamal Kishore Goenka

b. Trilok Chandra Chaterjee

c. Balachandra Subramaniam

d. Aravind Chandrashekar

2. Garuda Shakti III is the military exercise between India and which country?

a. Nepal

b. Russia

c. Indonesia

d. China

3. The headquarters of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) are located in which city?

a. Madrid

b. London

c. Paris

d. Vienna

4. The Andes Mountains does not pass through which one of the following countries?

a. Argentina

b. Peru

c. Switzerland

d. Chile

5. Bhakti Sharma, who is in news in 2015, is associated with ________?

a. Swimming

b. Tennis

c. Badminton

d. Volleyball

6. Which committee has recommended major changes in IIT entrance examination?

a. Ashok Misra committee

b. Rameshwar committee

c. Rajesh Arora committee

d. Alok Naik committee

7. Who among the following has won the prestigious DSC Prize for Literature, one of the South Asia's top literary awards?

a. Jhumpa Lahiri

b. Vijay Sheshadri

c. Amitav Ghosh

d. Aravind Adiga

8. The Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 is meant to register which of the following:
1. Caste
2. Urban Poverty
3. Rural Poverty
4. Consumption pattern Select the correct option from the codes given below:

a. Only 1 & 2

b. Only 1 & 3

c. Only 1, 2 & 3

d. 1, 2, 3 & 4

9. Tim Peake is related to which of the following fields?

a. Physicist

b. Astronaut

c. Writer

d. Political activist

10. Which ministry is implementing the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) programme?

a. Ministry of Communication & Information Technology

b. Ministry of Culture

c. Ministry of Home

d. Ministry of Science and Technology

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