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Current Affairs (January 22-31) Bit Bank

1. Who won the 2015 DSC prize for Literature at the Jaipur LiteratureFestival (JLF)?

1) Vijay Seshadri2) Jeet Thayil3) Jhumpa Lahiri4) Shehan Karunatilaka

2. Who is the U.S-India Business Council (US IBC) President visited India inJanuary 2015? 1) Ginni Rometty2) Diane Farrell3) Indra Nooyi4) Mary Barra

3. ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ scheme was inaugurated on January 22, 2015

in which of following states? 1) Gujarat2) Punjab3) Haryana4) Rajasthan

4. Who is the brand ambassador for the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ scheme? 1) Aishwarya Rai2) Priyanka Chopra3) Sri Devi4) Madhuri Dixit

5. Under ‘Sukanya Samrudhi’ Scheme accounts could be ope ned for girls

from the time of their birth till their attaining the age of - 1) 52) 83) 124) 10

6. The National Girl Child Day is celebrated on- 1) January 222) January 233) January 244) January 21

7. King Abdullah passed away on January 23, 2015. He was the king of -

1) Yemen2) Saudi Arabia3) Turkey4) Kuwait

8. Who got the national award under the Best Electoral Practices Award,2014 in the area of Expenditure Monitoring and tackling Money Power? 1) C.V. Anand2) Bhanwar Lal


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3) Anurag Sharma4) G. Kishan

9. National Voters’ Day was celebrated on which of the following dates in2015? 1) January 25

2) January 283) January 304) January 29

10. Who won the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry? 1) Sridala Swami2) Joy Goswami3) Arundhathi Subramaniam4) Ranjit Hoskote

11. Which country scrapped compulsory military training for school teachersand undergraduates in January 2015? 1) Sri Lanka

2) Myanmar3) Pakistan4) Bangladesh

12. Who won the Senior National Snooker men’s title in Kolkata on January24, 2015? 1) Varun Madan2) Dharminder Lilly3) Manan Chandra4) Pankaj Advani

13. Amee Kamani is the Senior National Champion in which of the followingSports?

1) Table tennis2) Tennis3) Snooker4) Arcany

14. How many persons were chosen for this year’s Padma Vibhushan? 1) 52) 93) 144) 20

15. Who among the following is not a Padma Vibhushan awardee? 1) L.K. Advani

2) Dilip Kumar3) Amitabh Bachchan4) Subhash Kashyap

16. The Chief Minister of which of the following states was conferred thePadma Vibhushan award this year? 1) Rajasthan2) Madhya Pradesh3) Punjab


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4) Chhattisgarh17. Manjul Bhargava is one of the Padma Bhushan winners. He is an

eminent- 1) Scientist2) Poet

3) Journalist4) Mathematician18. Which of the following sports persons won the Padma Shri award?

1) Mithali Raj2) P.V.Sindhu3) Saba Anjum4) All the above

19. Ashok chakra was awarded to- 1) Neeraj Kumar Singh2) Mukund Varadarajan3) Both 1 and 2

4) None of these20. Which is India’s highest peacetime gal lantry award?1) Ashok Chakra2) Param Vir Chakra3) Maha Vir Chakra4) Kirti Chakra

21. Who won the Syed Modi International India Masters badminton women’ssingles title in Lucknow on January 25, 2015? 1) Saina Nehwal2) Caroline Marin3) P.V.Sindhu

4) Ashwini Ponnappa22. Who regained the men’s singles title at the Syed Modi International IndiaMasters Badminton tournament in Lucknow? 1) P. Kashyap2) K.Srikanth3) H.S. Prannoy4) Sai Praneeth

23. The first U.S. President to be the chief guest of the Indian Republic Daywas- 1) George Bush2) Bill Clinton

3) Jimmy Carter4) Barack Obama24. Alexis Tsipras is the new Prime Minister of?

1) Spain2) Greece3) Italy4) Portugal

25. ‘Common Man’ was created by -


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1) Mullapudi Venkataramana2) R.K.Narayan3) Pran4) R.K. Laxman

26. Who was crowned Miss Universe in Florida on January 25, 2015?

1) Nia Sanchez2) Diana Harkusha3) Paulina Vega4) Luz Marin

27. An army officer who was awarded the Yudh Seva medal on the occasionof Republic Day was killed in a gun battle with militants in Jammu &Kashmir on January 27, 2015. Name him- 1) M.N. Rai2) Sanjeevan Singh3) N.N.Joshi4) M.L.Joshi

28. Which Australian cricketer won the Allan Border medal on January 27,2015? 1) David Warner2) Mitchell Johnson3) Michael Clarke4) Steve Smith

29. Who was named the Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year? 1) William Bosisto2) Sean Abbott3) Ashton Agar4) Gurinder Sandhu

30. N.R. Narayana Murthy, cofounder of Infosys donated 2, 00,000 for theerection of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Parliament Square in - 1) New York2) Washington D.C3) London4) Tokyo

31. Who was appointed as the new Foreign Secretary? 1) Nirupama Rao2) Shiv Shankar3) Ranjan mathai4) S. Jaishankar

32. Barbara Hendricks visited India in January 2015. She is the minister ofEnvironment, Nature conservation, Building and Nuclear safety of - 1) Spain2) Germany3) Australia4) New Zealand

33. Shirani Bandaranayake has been reinstated as the Chief Justice of- 1) Nepal


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2) Bangladesh3) Sri Lanka4) Burma

34. Who won the Australian Open women’s singles t ennis title on January 31,2015?

1) Maria Sharapova2) Madison Keys3) Serena Williams4) Ekaterina Makarova

35. Which country will host the 2016 Twenty 20 World Cup Cricket? 1) South Africa2) India3) England4) Australia

36. Which of the following pairs won t he Australia Open women’s doublestitle?

1) Bethanie Mattek – Sands & Lucie Safarova2) Chan Yung – Jan & Zheng Jie3) Martina Hingis & Sania Mirza4) None of these

37. Paul van as has been named as coach of the National Men’s Hockey team.He belongs to- 1) Spain2) Netherlands3) Germany4) Poland

38. The centre has raised Rs. 22, 557.63 crore from the sale of its 10 percent

share holding in- 1) BHEL2) HPCL3) CIL4) BPCL

39. Jayanthi Natarajan resigned from congress party on January 30, 2015.She was the Union Minister of- 1) Commerce2) Information & Broadcasting3) Rural Development4) Environment

40. India’s Inter – Continental Ballistic Missile Agni V was launched onJanuary 31, 2015. Its range is- 1) 2,500 km2) 3,000 km3) 3,500 km4) 5,000km


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11. 1 12. 4 13. 3 14. 2 15. 4 16. 3 17. 4 18. 4 19. 3 20. 1

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Explanations Notes:1. Indian- American author Jhumpa Lahiri won the 2015 DSC prize for South AsianLiterature for her book „The lowland‟. The book was also shortlisted for the 2013Man Booker Prize. Jhumpa Lahiri was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for„Interpreter of Maladies‟.

3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the „Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao‟ scheme inPanipat, Haryana on January 22, 2015. The scheme seeks to address gender imbalanceand discrimination against the girl child.

7. King Abdullah was replaced by Salman as the absolute ruler of Saudi Arabia.

10. Arundhathi Subramaniam won the Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for poetryfor her work “When God is a Traveller”.

14. 104 persons were conferred Padma awards. They include 9 Padma Vibhushan, 20Padma Bhushan and 75 Padma Shri.

16. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has been conferred the PadmaVibhushan this year under the public affairs category.

17. Manjul Bhargava is the winner of the 2014 Fields Medal in Mathematics.

25. The legendary cartoonist and creator of the „Common Man‟, R.K. Laxman, died in pure on January 26, 2015.

26. Colombia‟s Paulina Vega was crowned the 2014 Miss Universe the 63rd held inFlorida, USA on January 25, 2015.

28. Steve Smith won the Allan Border medal and also the one day and test playerawards. Glenn Maxwell won the Twenty 20 player of the year award.

31. S.Jaishankar replaced Sujatha Singh as the new Foreign Secretary.

34. Serena Williams of USA beat Maria sharapova of Russia in the final at Melbourneto clinch her sixth Australian Open singles title.

40. The maiden canister- based trial of India‟s Agni V was a success. It was launched


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from the Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast.

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