QUIZ : 01 - Current Affairs_2015 - Person in News Special_I
1. The president of ASSOCHAM is
a) Sunil Kanoria
b) R K Gupta
c) Ananya Birla
d) Jyotsna Suri
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2. Who among the following participated in Ganga Aarti at Dashashwamedh Ghat, Varanasi alongwith PM Narendra Modi in December, 2015
a) Francois Hollande, President of France
b) Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan
c) Ameenah Gurib, President of Mauritius
d) Ranil Wickremesinghe , Prime Minister of Srilanka
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3. Who was the chief guest for the 67th Republic day Parade of India held in 2016
a) Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan
b) Francois Hollande, President of France
c) Ashraf Ghani, President of Afghanistan
d) Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil
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4. Who has recently been appointed 43rd Chief Justice of India
a) Tirath Singh Thakur
b) Anil R Dave
c) Dipak Misra
d) Jagdish Singh Khehar
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5. Government of India has recently appointed a one member Judicial Committee to look into the implementation of ‘One Rank One Pension (OROP)’ scheme for ex-servicemen under
a) Justice Om Prakash
b) Justice Prakash Narain
c) Justice L Narasimha Reddy
d) Justice P N Khanna
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6. Time Magzine’s ‘Person of the year 2015’ is
a) Caitlyn Jenner
b) Vladimir Putin
c) Donald Trump
d) Angela Merkel
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7. Who has recently sworn in as Delhi’s Lokayukta
a) S N Shankar
b) Prithvi Raj
c) Reva Khetrapal
d) P D Kode
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8. National Tansen Award 2014-15, instituted by Madhya Pradesh Government was given to
a) Pandit Ajay Chakravarti
b) Pandit Shankar Upadhyay
c) Pandit Sharad Kumar
d) Pandit Narayan Das
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9. Which of the following is not correctly matched
a) CBDT Chairman – A K Jain
b) Chief Information Commissioner – R K Mathur
c) Wiki Leaks Founder – Julian Assange
d) Chief Election Commissioner – H S Brahma
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10. Who won the ‘Jnanpith Award’ for 2015
a) Raghuveer Chaudhary
b) Balchandra Nemade
c) K R Sridhar
d) Girija Devi
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11. Who won the crown of Miss World – 2015
a) Rolene Strauss
b) Mireia Lalaguna
c) Sofia Nikitchuk
d) Pia Wurtzbach
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12. Malcolm Turnbull, has recently scrapped knights and dames titles from the national honours system. He is the Prime Minister of
a) Romania
b) Australia
c) New Zealand
d) Scotland
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13. Which of the following is incorrectly matched
a) John Ashe – UN General Assembly Ex-chief held for bribery
b) Victor Ponta – Ex-Prime Minister of Poland, who was indicted on corruption charges and resigned c) Aqeela Asifi – Afghan educator of uprooted girls who won United Nations Refugee Award – the Nansen Prize
d) Ion Iliescu – Romania’s ex-president prosecuted for crime against humanity
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14. Which of the following is incorrectly matched
a) Vinod Raghavan – First Indian-origin mayor of German’s Bonn city
b) Syed Akbaruddin – India’s permanent representative at the United Nations (UN)
c) Hoesund Lee – Chief of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
d) Shashank Manohar – BCCI Chief
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15. Which of the following was elected as the new CEO of Google in 2015
a) Sundar Pichai
b) Satya Nadella
c) Seema Malhotra
d) Rajiv Mehrishi
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16. Which of the following is not correctly matched
a) Ram Nath Kovind – Governor of Bihar
b) Dr. Dev Vrat Acharya – Governor of Himachal Pradesh
c) Justice D H Waghela – Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court
d) Dr. Savita – First woman director of Forest Research Institute
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17. Who of the following won the Nobel Prize 2015 in Literature
a) Angus Deaton
b) Paul Modrich
c) Satoshi Omura
d) Svetlana Alexievich
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18. Who won the ‘Man Booker Prize – 2015’
a) Hanya Yanagihara
b) Sanjeev Sahota
c) Kiran Nagarkar
d) Marlon James
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19. Who among the following received Bharat Bharti Award, the most prestigious literary honour given by the Uttar Pradesh Government in Lucknow in 2015
a) Mandar Deshmukh
b) Pradyut Ghosh
c) Kashi Nath Singh
d) Goutam Narayan
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20. ‘Zia Haider Rahman’, who got the James Tait Black Prize, 2015 belongs to
a) India
b) Bangladesh
c) Pakistan
d) Syria
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Explanation:
1. The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), established in 1920 by promoter chambers, representing all regions of India, is one of the apex trade associations of India. The organisation represents the interests of trade and commerce in India, and acts as an interface between industry, government and other relevant stakeholders on policy issues and initiatives. The goal of this organisation is to promote both domestic andinternational trade, and reduce trade barriers while fostering conducive environment for the growth of trade and industry of India. The Association's head office is located in New Delhi and regional offices are located in the cities of Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, and Kolkata. Sunil Kanoria took charge of President of ASSOCHAM in November, 2015.
4. Justice Tirath Singh Thakur on December 3, 2015 was sworn in as the 43rd Chief Justice of India by President Pranab Mukherjee.
5. Government of India appointed a one member Judicial committee under Justice L Narasimha Reddy, former Chief Justice of Patna High Court on December 14, 2015 to look into the implementation of ‘One Rank One Pension (OROP)’ scheme for ex-servicemen.
9. Chief Election Commissioner of India is Nasim Zaidi.
11. Miss Spain Mireia Lalaguna Royo was declared the winner of the Miss World – 2015 crown.
13. Victor Ponta was the ex-prime minister of Romania.
14. 1) Ashok Sridharan became the first Indian-Origin man to hold the mayor's office in a German City after sweeping the election in Bonn. Sridharan represents the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Angela Merkel.
2) Syed Akbaruddin, an IFS officer of 1985 batch, has been appointed as India’s permanent representative at the UN. He replaced Ashok Mukherjee.
3) Hoesund Lee, South Korean climate change expert has been elected as the new chief of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He replaced R K Pachauri.
4) Shashank Manohar has recently been elected as the new president of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). His election fills the vacancy left by former International Cricket Council chief Jagmohan Dalmiya, who died in September, 2015.
15. Rajiv Mehrishi, 1978 IAS officer has recently been appointed as Union Home Secretary by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
16. Justice D H Waghela has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of Odisha High Court.
17. The Nobel Prize, is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian committees in recognition of academic, cultural and/or scientific advances.
1) The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895.
2) The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901. The related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was established by Sweden's central bank in 1968.
3) The prize ceremonies take place annually in Stockholm, Sweden, except for the peace prize which is held in Oslo, Norway.
4) Each recipient, or laureate, receives a gold medal, a diploma and a sum of money that has been decided by the Nobel Foundation.
5) The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; theSwedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature; and the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded not by a Swedish organisation but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
6) The prize is not awarded posthumously; however, if a person is awarded a prize and dies before receiving it, the prize may still be presented.
Nobel Prize 2015:
1) Physics – Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald
"for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass"
2) Chemistry – Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar
"for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"
3) Physiology or Medicine – William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura
"for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites"
Youyou Tu
"for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria"
4) Literature – Svetlana Alexievich
"for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time"
5) Peace - National Dialogue Quartet
"for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011"
6) The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Angus Deaton
"for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare"
18. Jamaican Novelist, Marlon James, won the Man Booker Prize 2015 for his novel ‘ A Brief History of Seven Killings’. He became the first Jamaican writer to win this award.