Current Affairs Quiz

1) Who was elected as the fifth general secretary of the Marxist Communist Party of India in April 2015?
a) Prakash Karat
b) Sitaram Yechury
c) Pinarayi Vijayan
d) Ramachandran Pillai
e) None of these

2) In April 2015 Supreme Court appointed _________ as the head of the new investigating team to probe into the IPL-6 spot fixing and betting?
a) Ranjib Biswal
b) Vivek Murthy
c) Vivek Priyadarshi
d) Sunil Kumar Sinha
e) None of these

3) Six political parties namely Samajwadi Janata Party, Janata Dal United, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Samajwadi Party, Janata Dal Secular and Indian National Lok Dal together announced the formation of a new party by merging themselves. Who was announced as the head of the newly formed party?
a) Sharad Yadav
b) Deve Gowda
c) Nitish Kumar
d) Mulayam Singh Yadav
e) None of these

4) Who resigned from the post of President of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in April 2015?
a) Mahbubul Anman
b) N Sreenivasan
c) Mustafa Kamal
d) David Richardson
e) None of these

5) Who has been appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner of India in April 2015?
a) Nasim Zaidi
b) S Jaishankar
c) H. S. Barhma
d) V. S. Sampath
e) None of these

6) Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation has constituted a ‘task force’ on interlinking the rivers which will be headed by ________.
a) Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
b) T. S. R. Subramanian
c) B. N. Navalwala
d) Madav Gadgi
e) None of these

7) Who took charge as India’s 1st cyber security chief under the Prime Minister’s Office in April 2015?
a) Ramesh Negi
b) Ram Sewak Sharma
c) Nasim Zaidi
d) Gulshan Rai
e) None of these

8) Who among the following cricketers has been reappointed as the chairman of the IPL Governing Council?
a) Sunil Gavaskar
b) Saurav Ganguly
c) Rajeev Shukla
d) Sandeep Patil
e) None of these

9) Who was appointed as the Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly in April 2015?
a) Vijender Gupta
b) Jagdish Pradhan
c) Syed Akbaruddin
d) Om Prakash Sharma
e) None of these

10) Who among the following was elected as the President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2015-16?
a) Sumit Mazumder
b) Rana Kapoor
c) Shobana Kaminent
d) Ajay Shriram
e) None of these

11) Who took charge as the new spokesperson of External Affairs Ministry in 2015?
a) S Jaishankar
b) Arun Kumar Singh
c) Syed Akbaruddin
d) Vikas Swarup
e) None of these

12) Name the Indian-American who was recently sworn in as the US Surgeon-General?
a) John Davis
b) Raja Rajeshwari
c) Vivek Murthy
d) Krishna Krishnakumar
e) None of these

13) Who was appointed as the Director General of Railway Protection Force (RPF)?
a) Rajiva Ranjan Verma
b) P. K. Mehta
c) Ranjit Sinha
d) Krishna Choudhary
e) None of these

14) Who among the following is the Satyam founder who was sentenced to 7 years in jail after he was proved guilty of criminal cheating and conspiracy?
a) Mahindra Satyam
b) Raju Vegesna
c) Ramalinga Raju
d) All of the above
e) None of these

15) Who was appointed as the Chief advisor of the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s Anti Corruption & Security Unit (ACSU) in April 2015?
a) Vikrant Raju
b) Karun Sebastain
c) Vivek Murthy
d) Neeraj Kumar
e) None of these

Answers..

1). b   
2). c   
3). d   
4). c   
5). a   
6). c   
7). d   
8). c   
9). a   
10). a  
11). d  
12). c  
13). a  
14). c  

15). d