February 2015 GK and current affairs

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Current Affairs February 2015 SET VII

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1) Who will chair the External Advisory Committee (EAC) of RBI to evaluate applications received for small finance banks, as announced recently? (A) Bimal Jalan (B) Usha Thorat (C) R Gandhi (D) Shyamala Gopinath 2) 12 year old, Saloni Dalal of which state became the youngest medal winner in the ongoing 35th National Games in Kerala on 3 February 2015? (A) Kerala (B) Mizoram (C) Karnataka (D) Maharashtra 3) Which country is set to become the first country to introduce laws to allow the creation of babies from three people? (A) France (B) UK (C) Canada (D) Australia 4) Which state government on 3 February 2015 decided to provide free education to Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and girl students till Post Graduation (PG) level in the state? (A) Gujarat (B) Madhya Pradesh (C) Bihar (D) Jharkhand 5) Government set to launch its own brand to sell low cost generic medicines from July 1 under the name? (A) 'Jan Raksha' (B) 'Jan Aushadhi' (C) 'Jan Arogya

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6) Which country on 1 February 2015 appointed Justice K Sripavan, an ethnic- Tamil, its new Chief Justice? (A) Singapore (B) Sri Lanka (C) Indonesia (D) Bangladesh 7) Australia recently won the cricket tri-series title involving England and India. Who was named Man of the Series? (A) Ian Bell (B) Steve Smith (C) Mitchell Starc (D) Glen Maxwell 8) 17th edition of Bharat Rang Mahotsav known as Asias biggest theatre festival was recently began at? (A) Kochi (B) Pune (C) Gandhinagar (D) New Delhi 9) Lydia Ko recently became the youngest world number one in golf history by reaching the top of the womens ranking. She is from which country? (A) Egypt (B) New Zealand (C) Pakistan (D) Australia 10) IRCTC recently announced plans to offer cash-on-delivery (CoD) option for railway tickets booked online in association with which entity? (A) Telespace (B) Anduril Technologies (C) Datawind Technologies (D) India Post

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11) Who won the Australian Open women's singles title 2015? (A) Maria Sharapova (B) Madison Keys (C) Ekaterina Makarova (D) Serena Williams 12) Which former DRDO chief on 30 January 2015 assumed charge as a full-time member of the NITI Aayog? (A) V K Saraswat (B) AvinashChander (C) BibekDebroy (D) Krishna Kumar 13) 35th National Games 2015 which started on 31 January 2015 is hosted by? (A) Goa (B) Jharkhand (C) Kerala (D) Haryana 14) Who among the following was the goodwill ambassador for the 35th National Games 2015? (A) Milkha Singh (B) P T Usha (C) Amitabh Bachchan (D) Sachin Tendulkar 15) 60th Filmfare Awards ceremony was held on January 31, 2015, at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai. Which was adjudged the Best Film? (A) PK (B) Queen (C) Haider (D) Two States 16) Novak Djokovic won his fifth Australian Open title on 1 February 2015 defeating?

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(A) Stan Wawrinka (B) Tomas Berdych (C) Andy Murray (D) Rafael Nadal 17) Which Department was recently awarded GOLD in National Award on e-governance 2014-15? (A) Department of Posts (B) Department of Food Processing (C) Department of Space (D) Income Tax Department 18) Name the Union Minister of Communications & IT who on 30 January 2015 released a set of Commemorative Postage stamps on Swachh Bharat? (A) SadanandaGowda (B) ArunJaitley (C) J P Nanda (D) Ravi Shankar Prasad 19) JayanthiNatarajan who quitted Congress Party on 30 January 2015 was the Union Minister of _____ in previous UPA government? (A) Information & Broadcasting (B) Environment and Forest (C) Water Resources (D) Chemical & Fertilizers 20) Minister for Railways Shri Suresh PrabhakarPrabhu, recently flagged off four Express trains from Bengaluru remotely through which service of RailTel, a PSU of Railways? (A) Telepresence (B) Multiflagger (C) Symbolgic (D) Train Connect