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Which space agency designed the Bed Rest research to study the effects of prolonged exposure to micro-gravity? |
NASA Under this study participant requires to remain horizontal for a period of 70 days. |
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Who emerged as winner of the 2015 Time magazine 100 reader’s poll? |
Vladimir Putin |
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Which country receives maximum inward remittances? |
India As per the report NRIs sent $70.4 billion to India in 2014, which is 12% of global remittances which stood at $583 billion. Top 5 remittance receiving countries are India, China, Philippines, Mexico and Nigeria. |
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Ramman is a religious festival and ritual theatre of ____? |
Uttarkhand
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Who among the following served as first Prime Minister of Nepal under the Panchayat System? |
Surya Bahadur Thapa |
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Meenakshi Madan Rai has been appointed as first woman judge of which court? |
Sikkim High Court |
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Who won the Laureus Sportsman of the Year award? |
Novak Djokovic This is for the second time Djokovic won the award. He was first bestowed the honour in 2011. |
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Who is the chairman of the Panel set up to look into various contentious issues relating to inter-linking of rivers? |
B N Navalawala |
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Which body publishes the Global Networked Readiness Index? |
World Economic Forum |
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Recently, which country has agreed to hold first ever joint military exercise with Pakistan? |
Russia The agreement was reached during a meeting in Moscow between Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu. |
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Which of the following stadia is India’s first solar powered sporting venue? |
Chinnaswamy stadium, Bengaluru |
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In terms of number of subscribers, the top telecom operator in the World is? |
China mobile |
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Who has been chosen for “Champions of Change” by US President? |
Satya Nadella |
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World’s largest single exposure of limestone bedrock “Nullarbor Plain” is in which country? |
Australia |
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Which Indian Cricketer has been inducted into Laureus Sports Academy recently? |
Sachin Tendulkar |
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What is the average Intelligence Quotient (IQ) of normal persons? |
90 to 110 |
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In which country Prime Minister Modi inaugurated Hannover Industrial Fair-2015? |
Germany The Hannover Fair is the world’s largest industrial fair held in Germany. |
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Apurvi Chandela is related to which among the following sports? |
Shooting |
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Which state of India is known for highest per capita alcohol consumption? |
Kerala |
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World Earth Day is observed on which of the following days? |
April 22 |
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Recently, the European Union has proposed a 10 point action plan to stem ___? |
Migrant crisis |
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The 13th United Nations congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice was concluded in ____? |
Doha, Qatar Doha declaration |
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As of 2015, how many Presidents of China have been conferred with the Pakistan’s highest civilian award Nishan-e-Pakistan? |
Three |
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The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action(VDPA) is a declaration related to ____? |
Human Rights |
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Which bank announced the launch of “Tap n Pay” new innovative NFC (Near Field Communication) based contactless payment system? |
ICICI Bank with Tech Mahindra |
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The Pollution Management and Environmental Health (PMEH) program has been launched by which of the following bodies? |
World Bank |
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Which state recently launched the campaign ‘Subodham’ to help people overcome alcohol, drug abuse? |
Kerala
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Which country in SAARC has the highest GDP (PPP) per capita ? |
Maldives |
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Which among the is highest urbanized country? |
Brazil |
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Under which project India is developing guided missile destroyers? |
Project 15B |
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The Titanium sponge is an ideal material to produce? |
Aircraft manufacture |
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Who has been awarded with Kalashree Award by the Dada Saheb Phalke Film Foundation? |
Jaya Prada |
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Recently, the first meeting of BRICS environment ministers was held in ______? |
Moscow |
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Who is the author of the novel “All the Light We Cannot See”? |
Anthony Doerr It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. |
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BRICS countries account for what fraction of global GDP? |
20% The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) five countries account for 26 per cent of the land area, 46 per cent of population and approximately 20% of the gross world product. |
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Which country generates highest per capita e-waste? |
Norway Norway topped the world’s electronic waste mountain in 2014, |
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Which of the following is Indian navy’s biggest guided missile destroyer? |
INS Visakhapatnam |
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Who among the following has won the 2015 Bahrain Grand Prix? |
Lewis Hamilton |
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Which is the highest e-waste generating country in Asia? |
China The top three Asian nations with the highest e-waste generation in absolute quantities are China (6.0Mt), Japan (2.2Mt) and India (1.7Mt). |
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Karot hydroelectric project is located in which country? |
Pakistan |
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E-Samiksha is an online project monitoring system launched by ____? |
Indian Railways an online project monitoring system with an aim of monitoring implementation of various ongoing projects including Rail Budget proposals. Apart from budget-related projects, the E-Samiksha can also be used for monitoring the infrastructure target and board meeting follow-up. |
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In which country a boycott Andaman and Nicobar Island campaign was launched?
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Britain |
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The NTCA has recently declared which two national parks as tiger reserves? |
Kudremukh(karnataka) and Rajaji(Uttrakand) |
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India is implementing “Capacity Building for Industrial Pollution Management (CBIPM)” project with the support of __? |
World Bank |
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The campaign Call to Action for TB free India aims to make country Tuberculosis free in how many years? |
Five |
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Who was awarded with the prestigious Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Award 2015? |
Anil Kapoor This was the 73rd edition of the awards. Besides Anil Kapoor, Marathi actor Dilip Prabhalkar was also conferred with the award. |
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Which state has maximum certified area under organic farming? |
Madhya Pradesh |
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India and which country finalised a draft pact on coastal shipping, recently? |
Bangladesh |
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Which country has been named happiest country in the world as per latest World Happiness Report? |
Switzerland/158 India comes in at the 117th |
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Which movie has won maximum awards at the International Indian Film Awards? |
Haider |
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Which state has been awarded best e-Panchayat state in 2015 on national Panchayati Raj diwas? |
Assam |
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To which Japanese automobile company, India has become the top global market both in terms of volumes as well as revenues? |
Suzuki |
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Who is the new chief of United Nations mission to fight Ebola (UNMEER)? |
Peter Jan Graaff |
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Who was the only U.S President to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize? |
John F. Kennedy |
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Recently, India has delivered three Cheetal military choppers to which neighbouring country? |
Afghanistan |