Night Class: General Awareness Quiz

Ques. : 1 Which of the following teams won 2015 Beighton Cup hockey title recently?

1) PNB 

2) Punjab and Sind Bank

3) Punjab Police 

4) ONGC

5) IOC

Ques. : 2 Which of the following footballers won a record fourth Golden Boot award as Europe's top scorer recently? He netted 61 times in all competitions in 2014-15.

1) Sergio Ramos 

2) Neymar

3) Gareth Bale 

4) Lionel Messi

5) Cristiano Ronaldo

Ques. : 3 "Mission Abaas" was launched in which state recently to provide affordable houses to urban poor?

1) Kerala 

2) Odisha

3) West Bengal 

4) Assam

5) Jharkhand

Ques. : 4 Which of the following pairs won women’s doubles title of 2015 China Open tennis tournament recently?

1) Chen Liang and Yafan Wang 

2) Hao-Ching Chan and Yung-Jan Chan

3) Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis 

4) Julia Goerges and Karolina Pliskova

5) None of these

Ques. : 5 Who won the women’s singles final of 2015 China Open tennis tournament?

1) Timea Bacsinszky 

2) Venus Williams

3) Garbine Muguruza 

4) Serena Williams

5) Maria Sharapova

Ques. : 6 Veteran actor Manorama, who died, recently, was associated with ________ cinema.

1) Tamil 

2) Telugu

3) Kannada 

4) Malayalam

5) Bengali

Ques. : 7 Who won the Man Booker prize 2015 for fiction recently for his novel “A Brief History of Seven Killings”?

1) Marlon James 

2) Richard Flanagan

3) Joshua Ferris 

4) Neel Mukherjee

5) Karen Joy Fowler

Ques. : 8 Which of the following cricketers became the highest run-getter in Tests for Pakistan recently?

1) Saeed Ajmal 

2) Ahmed Shehzad

3) Shahid Afridi 

4) Younis Khan

5) Misbah-ul-Haq

Ques. : 9 __________ is the present President of the State of Palestine and Palestinian National Authority. India offered $5-mn budgetary support to it recently.

1) Khaled Mashal 

2) Ismail Haniyeh

3) Rami Hamdallah 

4) Mohammed Dahlan

5) Mahmoud Abbas 

Ques. : 10 What is India’s ranking on the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global Competitiveness Index of world’s most competitive economies for the year 2015-16?

1) 91st 

2) 81st

3) 71st 

4) 60th

5) 55th 

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