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1. Which of the following cities made it to the 100 Resilient Cities project?
1) Bengaluru
2) Chennai
3) Surat
4) All 1,2 and 3
2. Who won the Malaysian Open Golf title in Kuala Lumpur on February 8, 2015?
1) Shiv Kapur
2) Anirban Lahiri
3) Arjun Atwal
4) SSP Chowrasia
3. Which state has launched the 'Himalaya Darshan' Programme to boost
tourism?
1) Uttar Pradesh
2) Himachal Pradesh
3) Uttarakhand
4) Jammu & Kashmir
4. Alice in Wonderland Turned 150 recently. It is a book written by1) Charles Dickens
2) O. Henry
3) Robert Frost
4) Lewis Carroll
5. Yash Bharti awards were revived in which of the following states?
1) Madhya Pradesh
2) West Bengal
3) Jharkhand
4) Uttar Pradesh
6. Who bagged the Best New Age Album trophy at the 57thAnnual Grammy
Awards in February 2015?
1) Norah Jones
2) Ricky Kej
3) Sanjaya Malakar
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4) None of these
7. Which of the following films won the Best Film Award at the 68thBAFTA
Awards in London on February 8, 2015?
1) Boyhood
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2) Birdman
3) The Grand Budapest Hotel
4) The Imitation Game
Who won the Best Director Award at the 68th BAFTA Awards?
1) Wes Anderson
2) James Marsh
3) Richard Linklater
4) Damien Chazelle
Which film won the most awards at the 68th British Academy Film Awards
or BAFTA?
1) Boyhood
2) The Grand Budapest Hotel
3) The Theory of Everything
4) Whiplash
India grew at what percent in the October - December Quarter of 2014-2015?
1) 7.1 percent
2) 6.9 per cent
3) 7.5 per cent
4) 6.5 per cent
Adani Enterprises Ltd signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with
which of the following states for developing solar parts with a capacity of
10,000 MW in the next ten years?

1) Gujarat
2) Karnataka
3) Chhattisgarh
4) Rajasthan
12. Which of the following companies launched Internet.org in India on February
10, 2015?
1) Google
2) Microsoft
3) Facebook
4) Twitter
13. How many seats did Aam Aadmi Party win in the Delhi Assembly elections?
1) 62
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2) 65
3) 67
4) 63
Who won the newly instituted Charleston EFH John Maynard Keynes prize?
1) Jean Tirole
2) Amartya Sen
3) Jagadish Bhagavathi
4) C.Rangarajan
Anwar Ibrahim was sent to jail for five years. He is the opposition leader in1) Indonesia
2) Iraq
3) Malaysia
4) Syria
Which is the first bank in India to launch a digital bank on mobile phone
'pockets'?
1) SBI
2) ICICI Bank
3) HDFC Bank
4) Axis Bank
Who won the Grenke chess classic on February 10, 2015?
1) Magnus Carlsen
2) Viswanathan Anand
3) Michael adams
4) Levon Aronian
18. The world's biggest solar telescope is being built in1) Ottawa
2) Hawaii
3) Philippines
4) Japan
19. The Supreme Court refused to Quash the appointment of Shashi Kant Sharma
as1) Attorney General
2) Solicitor General
3) UPSC Chairman
4) Comptroller and Auditor General
20. Who is the first minister of the Narendra Modi government to visit Pakistan?
1) Rajnath singh
2) Sushma Swaraj
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3) Dharmendra Pradhan
4) Ravi shankar prasad
21. The 20th steering committee meeting of the TAPI project was held in February
2015 in?
1) Islamabad
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2) New Delhi
3) Kabul
4) Peshawar
A peace summit aimed at ending 10 months of fighting in Ukraine was
organised on February 2015 in1) Moscow
2) Minsk
3) Kiev
4) Paris
INS Viraat will be decommissioned in 2016. It is a/an?
1) Warship
2) Submarine
3) Aircraft Carrier
4) None of these
The united states Treasury secretary visited India in February 2015. Name him1) Chuck Hagel
2) John Kerry
3) Joe Biden
4) Jacob Lew
Who will head the three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) for reinvestigation of the 1984 anti - sikh riot cases?
1) Pramod Asthana
2) Rakesh kapoor
3) Kumar Gyanesh
4) G.K.Pillai
Who attended the Ukraine Peace summit on February 11, 2015 in Belarus?
1) Angela Merkel
2) Vladimir Putin
3) Francois Hollande
4) All 1, 2 and 3
The first match of the ICC 2015 World Cup was played between New Zealand
and1) Scotland
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2) England
3) Sri Lanka
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4) Australia
Who is the Pakistan High Commissioner to India?
1) Nisar Ali khan
2) Abdul Basit
3) Ahsan Iqbal
4) Zaid Hamid
As per a statement issued by the union Minister for power, India will be power
surplus in1) 2016
2) 2018
3) 2019
4) 2020
Arvind Kejriwal took as Delhi's Chief Minister on1) February 14
2) February 15
3) February 12
4) February 11
Who is the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi?
1) Gopal Rai
2) Sandeep Kumar
3) Satyendar Jain
4) Manish sisodia
Dr.Y. Nayudamma Memorial Award 2014 has been given to1) Tessy Thomas
2) Geeta varadan
3) V.Shanta
4) Both 1 and 2
At the 35th National Games in kerala which team won 91 Gold medals and
topped the medals tally?
1) Services SCB
2) Kerala
3) Haryana
4) Maharashtra
In the 35th National Games Sajan Prakash of kerala won 6 gold medals in?
1) Shooting
2) Gymnastics
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3) Canoe & Kayak

4) Swimming
35. The 36th National Games will be held in1) Hyderabad
2) Goa
3) Haryana
4) Cuttalk
Answer Key
Explanatory Notes:
1. Bangalore, Chennai and Surat have made it to the 100 resilient cities project, run by
the New York- based non-profit organisation Rock Filler Foundation.
5. The Yash Bharti award is revived by the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh
to give awards to eminent persons from the state in the fields of art, culture, sports,
literature, medicine, Journalism and social service.
6. Ricky Kej is a composer of Indian origin. He won the Grammy Award for Best New Age
Album at the 57th annual Grammy Awards for his album Winds of Samsara in Los
Angeles on February 8, 2015.
8. Richard Linklater is the Director of the film Boyhood.
9. The Grand Budapest Hotel won five BAFTA awards.
12. Facebook announced a tie -up with Reliance Communications to launch Internet.org
in India.
13. The Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi party (AAP) won 67 seats in the 70 -member
Delhi Assembly. Bharatiya Janata Party won only three seats and Congress did not win a
single seat.
20. Dharmendra Pradhan is the Petroleum Minister.
21. TAPI Stands for Turkmenistan - Afghanistan- Pakistan - India.
32. Dr. Y. Natudamma Memorial Award 2014 has been announced to two women scientist
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Tessy Thomas (DRDO) and Geeta Varadan (ISRO).

33. Services Sports Control Board (SSCB) won 91 gold, 33 silver and 35 bronze medals.
Overall it won 159 medals.
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