Current Affairs

February 2015

SET VII

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1) Who will chair the External Advisory Committee (EAC) of RBI to evaluate
applications received for small finance banks, as announced recently?

(A) Bimal Jalan
(B) Usha Thorat
(C) R Gandhi
(D) Shyamala Gopinath


2) 12 year old, Saloni Dalal of which state became the youngest medal winner in
the ongoing 35th National Games in Kerala on 3 February 2015?

(A) Kerala
(B) Mizoram
(C) Karnataka
(D) Maharashtra


3) Which country is set to become the first country to introduce laws to allow the
creation of babies from three people?

(A) France
(B) UK
(C) Canada
(D) Australia


4) Which state government on 3 February 2015 decided to provide free education
to Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and girl students till Post Graduation
(PG) level in the state?

(A) Gujarat
(B) Madhya Pradesh
(C) Bihar
(D) Jharkhand


5) Government set to launch its own brand to sell low cost generic medicines from
July 1 under the name?

(A) 'Jan Raksha'
(B) 'Jan Aushadhi'
(C) 'Jan Arogya

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6) Which country on 1 February 2015 appointed Justice K Sripavan, an ethnic- Tamil,

its new Chief Justice?

(A) Singapore
(B) Sri Lanka
(C) Indonesia
(D) Bangladesh


7) Australia recently won the cricket tri-series title involving England and India.
Who was named Man of the Series?

(A) Ian Bell
(B) Steve Smith
(C) Mitchell Starc
(D) Glen Maxwell


8) 17th edition of Bharat Rang Mahotsav known as Asias biggest theatre festival was
recently began at?

(A) Kochi
(B) Pune
(C) Gandhinagar
(D) New Delhi


9) Lydia Ko recently became the youngest world number one in golf history by
reaching the top of the womens ranking. She is from which country?

(A) Egypt
(B) New Zealand
(C) Pakistan
(D) Australia


10) IRCTC recently announced plans to offer cash-on-delivery (CoD) option for
railway tickets booked online in association with which entity?

(A) Telespace
(B) Anduril Technologies
(C) Datawind Technologies
(D) India Post

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11) Who won the Australian Open women's singles title 2015?

(A) Maria Sharapova
(B) Madison Keys
(C) Ekaterina Makarova
(D) Serena Williams


12) Which former DRDO chief on 30 January 2015 assumed charge as a full-time
member of the NITI Aayog?

(A) V K Saraswat
(B) AvinashChander
(C) BibekDebroy
(D) Krishna Kumar


13) 35th National Games 2015 which started on 31 January 2015 is hosted by?

(A) Goa
(B) Jharkhand
(C) Kerala
(D) Haryana

14) Who among the following was the goodwill ambassador for the 35th National
Games 2015?

(A) Milkha Singh
(B) P T Usha
(C) Amitabh Bachchan
(D) Sachin Tendulkar


15) 60th Filmfare Awards ceremony was held on January 31, 2015, at the Yash Raj
Studios in Mumbai. Which was adjudged the Best Film?

(A) PK
(B) Queen
(C) Haider
(D) Two States


16) Novak Djokovic won his fifth Australian Open title on 1 February 2015 defeating?

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(A) Stan Wawrinka

(B) Tomas Berdych
(C) Andy Murray
(D) Rafael Nadal


17) Which Department was recently awarded GOLD in National Award on e-
governance 2014-15?

(A) Department of Posts
(B) Department of Food Processing
(C) Department of Space
(D) Income Tax Department


18) Name the Union Minister of Communications & IT who on 30 January 2015
released a set of Commemorative Postage stamps on Swachh Bharat?

(A) SadanandaGowda
(B) ArunJaitley
(C) J P Nanda
(D) Ravi Shankar Prasad


19) JayanthiNatarajan who quitted Congress Party on 30 January 2015 was the
Union Minister of _____ in previous UPA government?

(A) Information & Broadcasting
(B) Environment and Forest
(C) Water Resources
(D) Chemical & Fertilizers


20) Minister for Railways Shri Suresh PrabhakarPrabhu, recently flagged off four
Express trains from Bengaluru remotely through which service of RailTel, a PSU of
Railways?

(A) Telepresence
(B) Multiflagger
(C) Symbolgic
(D) Train Connect

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