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1. Who won the Best Actor and Best Actress honours at the 62nd National Film Awards?
Vijay and Kangna Ranaut respectively
2. Which was the Best Hindi Film at the 62nd National Film Awards?
Court (Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati & English)
3. Who is the Director of Court, the winner of Best Feature Film award at the 62nd National
Film Awards?
Chaitanya Tamhane
4. Which award was won by Mary Kom at the 62nd National Film Awards?
Best Popular Film for Providing Wholesome Entertainment
5. Who is the Producer of Court, the winner of Best Feature Film award at the 62nd National
Film Awards?
Vivek Gomber
6. Who are the Producer and Director of 62nd National Film Award winning movie Mary Kom?
Producer: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Director: Omung Kumar
7. Who won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director for his critically
acclaimed Asha Jaoar Majhe (Bengali) at the 62nd National Film Awards?
Director: Aditya Vikram Sengupta
8. The ______ ________ Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration was not awarded at
the 62nd National Film Awards.
Nargis Dutt
9. Who won the award for Best Director at the 62nd National Film Awards?
Srijit Mukherji
10. Which movie won the Best Film on Social Issues award at the 62nd National Film Awards?
Chotoder Chobi (Bengali)
11. Who is the author of Silent Cinema: (1895-1930) which won the award for Best Book on
Cinema award at the 62nd National Film Awards?
Pasupuleti Purnachandra Rao
12. Dolly Ahluwalia won the Best Costume designer award for which movie at the 62nd
National Film Awards?
Haider (Hindi)
13. Who won the award for the Best Film Critic at the 62nd National Film Awards?
Tanul Thakur
14. Which award was won by the movie Elizabeth Ekadashi at the 62nd National Film
Awards?
BEST CHILDRENS FILM
15. Who won the Best Male Playback singer award at the 62nd National Film Awards?
Sukhwinder Singh (Song: Bismil)
16. Who won the Best Female Playback singer award at the 62nd National Film Awards?
Uttara Unnikrishanan (Song: Azhagu)
17. Who are the joint winners of the Best Child Artist award at the 62nd National Film Awards?
J. Vignesh & Ramesh
18. Who won the award for Best Music Direction (songs) at the 62nd National Film Awards?
Vishal Bhardwaj for Haider (Hindi)
Gopi Sundar for Nineteen Eighty Three (Malayalam)
19. Which was the Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation at the 62nd National
Film Awards?
Ottal (Malayalam)
20. Which of these does not come with Swarna Kamal at the National Film Awards
A.Best Feature Film
B.Best Film on Social Issues
C.Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director
D.Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment)?

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B is the Answer
21. WWAP is World _____ Assessment Programme.
World Water Assessment Program
22. Michel Jarraud is the head of which international organisation?
Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization
23. Irina Bokova is the head of which international organisation?
UNESCO, the United Nations' educational, scientific and cultural organisation.
24. Which state capital was the venue of the International Counter-Terrorism Conference
organised?
New Delhi
25. Which seven life-threatening diseases will be covered under Mission Indradhanush
vaccination programme for children?
Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Tetanus, Polio, Tuberculosis, Measles and Hepatitis B
26. Centre announced 33% quota for women in police force of which Union Territory?
All the union territory including Delhi
27. BVR air-to-air missile Astra was test fired successfully. BVR is:
Beyond Visual Range
28. The Ministry of Labour and Employment will transfer the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana
(RSBY) to the ______ Ministry from April 1, 2015.
Health and Family Welfare Ministry
29. The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) is a social security measure for workers in the
unorganised sector that provides a smart card based cashless health insurance cover of _____
per annum to BPL family of upto five members at an annual premium of Rs 30.
Rs 30,000 per annum
30. Who won the Life-Time Achievement Award at the 4th National Photography Awards?
Surendra R Patel
31. Who won the Laadli Voice of the Century award in Mumbai at the National Laadli Media
and Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity?
Singer Lata Mangeshkar
32. Who honoured author Aabid Surti with the lifetime achievement award in April?
The annual Comic Con India 2015 awards
33. Who won the Gollapudi Srinivas National Award for the Best Debut film?
Sanjeev Gupta
34. Who won the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Journalist?
Surpiya Sharma
35. Who received 2013 Karpoor Chandra Kulish International Journalism Awards in Jaipur?
Senior journalists Manu Pubby and Gerard Ryle
36. Who won the 2014 Saraswati Samman for Ramayana Mahanveshanam?
senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily
37. Which partys nominee Ramraje Nimbalkar was elected Chairman of Maharashtra
Legislative Council?
NCP Nationalist Congress Party
38. Who was appointed as the new chancellor of Visva Bharati University?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
39. Which former Chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith and winner of awards like Sahitya Academy
Award, Jamnalal Bajaj Award, UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance
and Non-Violence and the Moortidevi Award died in Surat at the age of 90?
Narayan Desai
40. NIMHANS founder Dr R. Marthanda Varma (93) died. NIMHANS is:
National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences
41. Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) Memorial is in :
A.Kandy
B.Jaffna
C.Batticaloa

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D.Colombo
Answer : D
42. Who is the author of The Modi effect: Inside Narendra Modis Campaign to Transform
India?
Lance Price
43. Who is the author of Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy: Speakers Perspective?
Meira Kumar
44. Who is the author of Corrugated Slices: The Social Jalebi?
Shombit Sengupta
45. Which countrys National Day celebration on March 12 was attended as Chief Guest by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
Mauritius
46. Who is the President of Seychelles?
James Michel
47. Which state government has launched the Late Pramod Mahajan Skill Development
Scheme?
Maharashtra
48. What was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Talaimannar in Sri Lanka
A.university
B.Indian consulate
C.stadium
D.railway station
D is the Answer
49. Which Prime Minister sent the Indian Peace Keeping Force to Sri Lanka?
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
50. Shashi Kapoor is the _____ (26th/36th/46th/56th) winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
46th
51. The movie production company run by Ismail Merchant and_____ produced movies The
Householder (1963), Shakespeare Wallah (1965), Bombay Talkie (1970) and Heat and
Dust(1982) starring Shashi Kapoor.
James Ivory
52. Which was the movie production house started by Shashi Kapoor?
Film Valas
53. Which scheme run by Maharashtra government provides relief and rehabilitation of rape
survivors and those suffering violence against women?
Manodhairya
54. The government of India honoured Shashi Kapoor with Padma _______ in 2011.
Padma Bhushan
55. Shashi Kapoor won his only National Film Award for Best Actor in 1986 for which movie?
New Delhi Times
56. What is the cash prize associated with Dadasaheb Phalke award?
Rs.10 lakh
57. Which scheme has been launched by Maharashtra government in place of the Sukanya
scheme for girls from BPL families?
Bhagyashree
58. Which state assembly passed a resolution opposing the construction of Mekedatu dam on
Cauvery?
Karnataka
59. Which State/UT has banned sale, purchase and storage of all forms of chewable tobacco
from March end?
Delhi
60. The passage of the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2015 has paved the way for plying of
e-rickshaws on the roads of which metro/metros?
Noida-Greater Noida Metro link

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61. Which is the first state to fix a minimum educational qualification for contesting elections
to the Panchayati Raj Institutions?
Rajasthan
62. Which scheme was launched by Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar launched to combat the
problem of declining child sex ratio in the state?
'Aapki Beti Humari Beti'
63. What is the programme launched by Telangana CM K. Chandrashekar Rao for restoration
of water tanks across the state named?
Mission Kakatiya
64. G. Karthikeyan (66), who passed away in Bengaluru, was Speaker of:
Kerala
65. Which are worlds top three arms exporters in 2010-14 according to SIPRI 2015?
China , USA and Russia
66. What is the full form of abbreviation SIPRI?
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
67. Which was worlds top arms importer in 2010-14 according to SIPRI 2015?
India
68. What will be constructed by the UN with the names of all the slain UN peacekeepers since
1948 after a proposal was made in this regard by India?
A Memorial Wall
69. Which country has lost the most soldiers (158) in UN Peacekeeping operations since 1948?
India
70. Where in London was a nine foot tall bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi unveiled?
Parliament Square
71. IRNSS is Indian ______ Navigation Satellite System.
Regional
72. Which international NGO started Operation Collateral Freedom to unblock censored
websites in 11 countries?
GreatFire
73. Which Indian artistes 1932 self-portrait sold for USD 2.92 million in Sothebys auction in
New York?
Amrita Sher-Gil
74. Who was elected Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS)?
Jos Miguel Insulza
75. Which ex-President of Maldives was sentenced to 13-year imprisonment under the antiterrorism laws?
Mohamed Nasheed
76. Which ex-Prime Minister of Australia died at 84?
Malcolm Fraser
77. Who are the joint winners of the Abel Prize for 2015 given for excellence in mathematics
by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters?
John F Nash Jr and Louis Nirenberg
78. Who won the Pritzker Prize in architecture?
Frei Otto
79. Who are the joint winners of the Polar Music Prize, considered the Nobel Prize of music?
Emmylou Harris and Dame Evelyn Glennie
80. How many times have Australia won the ICC Cricket World Cup after their recent victory?
5
81. How many times has the ODI cricket World Cup organised including the recent edition?
11
82. Who was the best batsman with 547 runs in 9 matches at the ICC Cricket World Cup?
Martin Guptill. New Zealand
83. Who was the best bowler with 22 wickets in 8 matches at the ICC Cricket World Cup?
Mitchell Starc. Australia

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84. Who was the Man of the Tournament at the ICC Cricket World Cup?
Mitchell Starc
85. Who was the losing finalist in the Ranji Trophy won by Karnataka in Mumbai?
Tamil Nadu
86. Who was the captain of the Karnataka team that won the Ranji Trophy?
Vinay Kumar
87. Who was the losing finalist in the Irani Trophy won by Karnataka in Mumbai?
Rest of India
88. Who won the Mens title at the All England Badminton championship?
Chen Long
89. Who won the Womens Singles title at the All England Badminton championship?
Carolina Marin
90. Which title was won by Denmarks Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen at the All England
Badminton championship?
All-England title
91. Which title was won by Chinas Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan at the All England Badminton
championship?
All-England title
92. Which Indian player won the Mens Singles title at the Swiss Grand Prix Gold Badminton
championship?
Kidambi Srikanth
93. Who won the T1 Prima Truck Racing in the race held at Buddh International Circuit?
Stuart Oliver
94. Who won the F1 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne?
Lewis Hamilton
95. Which scheme has been launched by the Sports Ministry to provide funds for training to
2016 Olympics medal prospects?
TOP (Target Olympic Podium) Scheme
96. Which countrys Simona Halep won the Womens Singles at Indian Wells tennis?
Romania
97. Which country won the Womens Singles title at the 28th Asian Cup Table Tennis
tournament held in Jaipur?
Singapore
98. Which country won the Mens Singles title at the 28th Asian Cup Table Tennis tournament
held in Jaipur?
China
99. Where was the Santosh Trophy football final won by Services played?
Kolkata
100. Who won the Indian Open Snooker Championship in Mumbai?
Michael White

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