General Awareness Test (March - 15) - Set 5

ANSWER: Kangana Ranaut

Explanation:
The Queen film has also been adjudged as the best feature film in Hindi category.

ANSWER: Mary Kom

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Bhubaneshwar

Explanation:
Strengthening maritime security and trade among Indian Ocean Rim countries will be the focus of an international conference to be attended by delegates from 20 nations in Bhubaneshwar.

ANSWER: France

Explanation:
France will also stage the Under-20 women's tournament in 2018.

ANSWER: Astra

Explanation:
The 3.8 metre tall Astra is the smallest of the DRDO-developed missiles and can be launched from different altitudes.

ANSWER: 20th March

Explanation:
The first World Sparrow Day was celebrated in 2010 in different parts of the world.

ANSWER: Janta Express

Explanation:
Two coaches of Dehradun-Varanasi Janta Express derailed claimed lives of many peoples.

ANSWER: Malcolm Fraser

Explanation:
He was Prime Minister from 1975-83.

ANSWER: Third

Explanation:
M.S. Dhoni joined the Australian Captain Ricky Ponting and Allan Border to become the third player to captain his team to 100 ODI victories.

ANSWER: 21st March

Explanation:
On the same day, Chaitra Sukladi, Ugadi, Gudi Padava, Chetti Chand, Navreh and Sajibu Cheiraoba is celebrated in different regions of India.

ANSWER: 33%

Explanation:
The Cabinet also approved that suitable enabling provisions in the Recruitment Rules should be made accordingly by all UTs police forces including Delhi Police. The reservation will be available to women against all such vacancies existing on the date of issue of the order after Cabinet approval and vacancies arising thereafter.

ANSWER: Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana

Explanation:
Under the scheme, a monetary reward is given to trainees on assessment and certification by third party assessment bodies. The average monetary reward would be around Rs.8000 per trainee.

ANSWER: Second

Explanation:
India showcased its rich cultural heritage at the fair. Brand India was projected to the whole world through marketing of the brand “Incredible India” with the help of outdoor media by branding buses and outdoor backlit billboards.

ANSWER: 7

Explanation:
The Seven CPSEs are HMT Bearings, HMT Watches, HMT Chinnar Watches, Tungabhadra Steel Products, Hindustan Photo Films Manufacturing Co., Hindustan Cables and Spices Trading Corporation Ltd.

ANSWER: China

Explanation:
The world's second and third-largest economies, China and Japan held their first security talks in four years and agreed to keep alive and foster a nascent recovery in bilateral ties plagued by the legacy of Japan's wartime aggression and a territorial dispute.

ANSWER: Misbah-Ul-Haq & Shahid Afridi

Explanation:
The 40-year-old Misbah served Pakistan cricket for long, but failed to register a single ODI century in 162 matches, since making his international debut in 2001 in a Test match against New Zealand.

ANSWER: Ramkumar Ramanathan-Arun Prakash

Explanation:
The third seeded pair defeated Anvit Bendre-Akash Wagh.

ANSWER: 23rd March 2015

Explanation:
A national level function is being organised at the National Martyrs Memorial at Hussainiwala in Ferozepur district of Punjab. It was on this day in 1931, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev was hanged in Lahore central jail and were cremated on the banks of the river Satluj at Hussainiwala where the memorial exists.

ANSWER: Andhra Pradesh

Explanation:
The foundation stone laid in National Kamadhenu Animal Breeding Centre at Chintaladeevi of Kondapur Mandal in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh. The Centre has already released 25 crore rupees for the 250 crore rupee project.

ANSWER: Cardiac & Cancer

Explanation:
She was addressing a press conference at Don Bosco Technical School in Shillong, in connection with an awareness campaign to combat cancer and cardiac diseases amongst women in Meghalaya.

ANSWER: Malayalam

Explanation:
He was known for his mystic lyrics on Hindu gods. He also dominated Malayalam films, along with ONV Kurup and P Bhaskaran as a top-notch lyricist and had penned hundreds of songs known for their mystic and romantic charm with a semi-classical touch.

ANSWER: Delhi

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: 22nd March

Explanation:
Under the theme ‘Water and Sustainable Development', this year provides an important opportunity to highlight water's role in the sustainable development agenda. Countries all around the world launched events to echo the United Nation's call for the preservation of water. A UNESCO water report shows that about 884 million people still have no access to clean water, and around 3.5 million die each year due to an insufficient or unsanitary supply.

ANSWER: INS Viraat

Explanation:
It was initially commissioned in the Royal British Navy in 1957 and inducted in Indian Navy in 1987.

ANSWER: Martin Guptill

Explanation:
He scored 237 not out against the West Indies at Wellington in the 4th quarter-final of the ICC World Cup 2015 to make highest runs in a World Cup innings. Chris Gayle scored 215 runs against Zimbabwe in World Cup 2015.

ANSWER: Maharashtra

Explanation:
The two open-cast coal mines at Makardhokra and Bhanegaon, having a capacity of 2-million tonne and one million tonne respectively, were formally dedicated to the nation on 21 March by Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal.

ANSWER: 60

Explanation:
The farmers can avail of its benefit and may get five thousand rupees pension every month.

ANSWER: Shashi Kapoor

Explanation:
He is the 46th Dada Saheb Phalke Award Winner. In 2011, Mr Shashi Kapoor was honoured with Padma Bhushan. He is also a recipient of 3 National Film Awards. His cinematic journey as a lead actor started in 1961 with the movie Dharmputra and acted in more than 100 Hindi films.

ANSWER: 23rd March

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Fourth

Explanation:
The satellite which was among the seven of the constellation would provide navigational services to the region. The satellite will provide navigation, tracking and mapping services and will be the first one in the region of South Asia.

ANSWER: 23rd March

Explanation:
This was the first Republic Day celebration in last 7 years. The ceremony marks the anniversary of a 1940 resolution calling for a separate homeland for Muslims in India.

ANSWER: Singapore

Explanation:
Lee Kuan Yew served as the city-state's prime minister for 31 years. He was 91-year old led Singapore's transformation from a small port city to one of the wealthiest nations in the world.

ANSWER: Bhopal

Explanation:
A three day National Panorama Film Festival was organized by the Directorate of Film Festival and Madhya Pradesh Government’s Culture department. Eight feature films including Malyalee movie Kanyaka Talkies and Hindi film "Aankho dekhi" and two non-feature films werescreened during the festival.

ANSWER: India

Explanation:
Now India is behind China and Japan. Earlier India has been the fourth-largest steel producer for the past five years, behind China, Japan and the US.

ANSWER: Hepatitis B

Explanation:
He was appointed as the brand ambassador for India’s fight against Hepatitis B after his successful stint as UNICEF’s goodwill brand ambassador of pulse polio campaign in India.

ANSWER: Rajendra Singh

Explanation:
He is a well-known water conservationist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India and known as Waterman of India. The judges of the Stockholm Water Prize say his methods have also prevented floods, restored soil and rivers, and brought back wildlife. Stockholm Water Prize is commonly known as Nobel Prize for Water.

ANSWER: 21st March

Explanation:
The theme of the 2015 International Day of Forests (IDF) is Forests, Climate, Change, chosen purposely to highlight the ways in which forests and climate change are linked, and to rally global support for greater action and change.

ANSWER: Amaravati

Explanation:
Since Amaravati is also associated with Telugu heritage dating back to the Satavahana kingdom, CM Naidu felt that it would be the most appropriate name for the AP capital.

ANSWER: France

Explanation:
The Airbus A-320 belonging to GermanWings, an affiliate of German airline Lufthansa, was travelling from the Spanish coastal city of Barcelona to the German city of Duesseldorf when it went down.

ANSWER: 66A

Explanation:
Terming liberty of thought and expression as cardinal, a bench of justices J Chelameswar and R F Nariman said, the public's right to know is directly affected by section 66A which gives the police power to arrest a person for posting offensive content online and provides for a three-year jail term. The government has welcomed the Supreme Court decision to scrape the section 66 (A ) of the Information Technology, IT Act and said that the section 66( A) is unacceptable in current form.