G.K. Quiz

1.The theme of National Youth Festival-2015, which began in Guwahati recently (January 2015) is __?
[A]Celebrating Diversity in Unity
[B]Youth For Drugs Free World
[C]Youth for Clean, Green and Progressive India
[D]Youth For Better India

2.The Union Government is planning to launch Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan to create awareness among the students in _____?
[A]Science and Mathematics      

[B]Science and Social 

[C]Ancient History                           

[D]Classical Music

3.Who among the following has become the first to make three Test centuries in his first three innings as captain?
[A]Virat Kohli                                     

[B]M S Dhoni
[C]Steve Smith                                  

[D]Hashim Amla

4.Recently, which among the following banks has launched the countries first contactless debit and credit cards?
[A]ICICI Bank                                     

[B]Axis Bank
[C]Corporation Bank      

[D]State Bank of Mysore

5.The strategic oil- and gas bearing region called “Yamala Peninsula” is located in which country?
[A]Russia                                             

[B]Norway
[C]Vietnam                                         

[D]China

6.Which city is the host of International Hindi Conference (April 2015)?
[A]New York                                      

[B]Chicago
[C]New Jersey                                  

[D]California

7.According to Fortune magazine, the Business Person of the Year-2014 is __?
[A]Mark Zuckerberg                       

[B]Jack Ma
[C]Larry Page                                     

[D]Laxmi Mittal

8.The largest monolith of granite in the world called “El Capitan” is located in __?
[A]USA                                                                 

[B]France
[C]Switzerland                                  

[D]Germany

9.Teixobactin, which is news recently, is a ____?
[A]A new antibiotic                        

[B]A new bacterial disease
[C]Nanofiber cloth
[D]Drug resistant bacteria

10.Maithripala Sirisena, has been elected as new President of which country?
[A]Sri Lanka                                        

[B]Mauritius
[C]Singapore                                      

[D]Indonesia 

Answer

1.       Youth for Clean, Green and Progressive India

2.       Science and Mathematics

3.       Virat Kohli

4.       ICICI Bank

5.       Russia

6.       New Jersey

7.       Larry Page

8.       USA

9.       A new antibiotic

10.   Sri Lanka