General Awareness Questions 2015

1. Who has been appointed as President of International Cricket Council (ICC)?

Ans: Zaheer Abbas

2. The Groningen gas field, which is largest natural gas field in Europe, is in which Country?

Ans: Netherland

3. Hollywood composer, James Horner, who died recently, had won two academic awards for his work in which movie?

Ans: Titanic

4. Who is the chairman of the committee on innovation and entrepreneurship set up by NITI Aayog?

Ans: Tarun Khanna

5. Which country became first in the world eliminate mother-to-baby HIV transmission?

Ans: Cuba

6. As per NSSO report, which state has recorded highest literacy rate?

Ans: Mizoram

7. Who has been voted as best test player of 21st century?

Ans: Sachin Tendulkar

8. Who has been appointed as Kerala's brand ambassador for Ayurveda?

Ans: Steffi Graf

9. Who is the chairman of the committee set up monitor Yamuna Clean-up project?

Ans: Shashi Shekar

10. Who has been chosen for the 28th Moortidevi Award for 2014?

Ans: Vishwanath Tripathi

11. Who won the Canada Open Women double?

Ans: Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa

12. Which state has been provisionally selected as venue for FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017 recently?

Ans: Goa

13. Yevgeny Primakov, who died recently, was a former Prime Minister of which country?

Ans: Russia

14. Ha person wants to enrol for the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana his/her age must be between?

Ans: 18-70 years

15. The proposed Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) corridor will link Kolkata to which part of China?

Ans: Kunming

16. Andrzej Duda has been elected as new president of which country?

Ans: Poland

17. Which two countries kicked off Silk Route-2015 military exercise, recently?

Ans: China and Sri Lanka

18. Who is the highest paid CEO of Indian Banks currently (June 2015)

Ans: Aditya Puri

19. Who became the first India born basketball player to picked in National Basketball Association (NBA)?

Ans: Satnam Singh

20. Who has been recently chosen for Columbia's highest civilian award?

Ans: Sri Pandit Ravi Shankar

21. Which bank has launched a voice password facility service to its customer on May 26, 2015?

Ans: ICICI Bank

22. Who is author of the book 'Nehru: A Troubled Legacy'?

Ans: RNP Singh

23. Which city is the venue for the International Conference on string Theory-2015?

Ans: Bengaluru

24. Which country has become first in the world to legalise same sex marriage and its constitutional protection?

Ans: Ireland

25. Gunther Schuller, who passed away recently, was a Pulitzer winning composer from which country?

Ans: USA

26. The Yulin festival or annual dog meat festival is celebrated in which country?

Ans: China

27. Which country has been named the most peaceful country in the world?

Ans: Iceland

28. Who has been chosen for the 2015 Liberty Medal for human right work?

Ans: Dalai Lama

29. Who has been appointed as president of Japan's telecommunication giant Soft Bank?

Ans: Nikesh Arora

30. Wess Hall, who was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, represents which country?

Ans: West Indies

31. Jose Ely de Miranda, who died recently, was a legendary footballer from which country?

Ans: Brazil

32. Which country successfully tested the Wu-14, a hyper sonic nuclear delivery vehicle?

Ans: China

33. Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) released Global Peace Index 2015 on June- 16, 2015.What is India's rank?

Ans: 143

34. Mogens Lykketoft was elected as President of the United Nations General Assembly in June 2015. He belongs to?

Ans: Denmark

35. UNO declared 2015 as the International Year of?

Ans: Light and Light based Technologies

36. The 2017 women's cricket world cup will be held in?

Ans: England

37. Who was named as the Governor of the Year in the Central Banking Awards for 2015?

Ans: Raghuram Rajan

38. Sukanya Samridhi Account will enable parents to open bank accounts of girls who are under?

Ans: 10 years

39. On which date, World Ocean Day is observed?

Ans: June 8

40. In June, 2015, World Health Organisation has declared India free of which disease?

Ans: Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus

41. The Nairobi Convention is for protection, management and development related to:

Ans: Marine environment

42. In June, 2015, twenty six countries from which region have agreed to create the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA)?

Ans: Africa

43. The ONE Campaign is a nonprofit organisation that fights extreme poverty particularly in which region?

Ans: Africa

44. Who has won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015?

Ans: All Smith

45. Which has been named Worlds most valuable football brand?

Ans: Manchester United

46. Who has been named India's special envoy for counter terrorism and extremism?

Ans: Syed Asif Ibrahim

47. The 25th African Union Summit is scheduled to be held in which country?

Ans: South Africa

48. Who is the current Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) of India?

Ans: K V Chowdary

49. Which country has registered top source of foreign direct investment (FDI) into India in 2014-15?

Ans: Mauritius

50. Who has been appointed as India Under-19 and A teams cricket coach?

Ans: Rahul Dravid