General Awareness Test (Jan -15) - Set 1

ANSWER: Idukki

Explanation:
Idukki district of Kerala. National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) offers lot of people's friendly services like E-health, E-Commerce and E-Education. Under the Digital India programme, all 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats in the country will be connected on optical fibre.

ANSWER: Swami Vivekanand

Explanation:
Swami Vivekananda. It was the 152nd Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. He is best known for his inspiring speech which began, "Sisters and brothers of America, in which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893.

ANSWER: Water Literacy Mission

Explanation:
“Water Literacy Mission”. Acc. to Prakash Javdekar, Public awareness is most needed for water conservation and for protection of natural resources.

ANSWER: Central Pulp & Paper Research Institute (CPPRI)

Explanation:
Central Pulp & Paper Research Institute (CPPRI). It is a national level institute under the administrative control of Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Industry, and Government of India.

ANSWER: Shri Ram Sene

Explanation:
Shri Ram Sene. The outfit was banned on August 20, 2014, from entering Goa till December 2014. The organisation had hit the headlines in 2009 after its members attacked boys and girls at a pub in Mangalore.

ANSWER: Gandhinagar

Explanation:
Gandhinagar. Dandi Kutir' is located inside a 41-metre high salt-mound as a symbol of Gandhi's famous Dandi march against the salt tax provisions imposed by the British regime in March 1930.

ANSWER: Hamburger Morgen Post

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Joe Fraizer

Explanation:
Joe Frazier. He was born in Jan’12, 1944.

ANSWER: 25Lakh Crore

Explanation:
Rs. 25 lakh Crore. Two day Summit has inked 21 thousand Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) and 1,225 strategic partnership agreements.

ANSWER: Christiano Ronaldo

Explanation:
Christiano Ronaldo has won the FIFA Ballon d’Or for the best player in the world for the third time following previous wins in 2008 and 2013, while Germany midfielder Nadine Kessler has claimed her first-ever FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year award.

ANSWER: West Indies

Explanation:
West Indies completed the highest run chase in Twenty20 history as they beat South Africa by four wickets in a thrilling game in Johannesburg.

ANSWER: Maria Sharapova

Explanation:
Maria Sharapova claimed her 34th career title and closed the gap on the No. 1 ranking with win over Ana Ivanovic on in the Brisbane International final.

ANSWER: Ajay Makan

Explanation:
Mr Maken's name was announced by party leader P C Chacko at a briefing in New Delhi.

ANSWER: Arvind Panagariya

Explanation:
He is an Indian-American economist and Professor of Economics at Columbia University and an ex-Chief Economist at the Asian Development Bank.

ANSWER: Joachim Loew

Explanation:
He is a Coach of Germany Football Team.

ANSWER: It is a harvest festival celebrated by Tamil people at the end of the harvest season

Explanation:
Pongal is a four day festival which usually takes place from January 13 to 16 in the Gregorian calendar i.e., the last day of the Tamil month Margazhi to the third day of Tamil month Thai.

ANSWER: Central Banking

Explanation:
The jury cited Dr Rajan's "disciplined and focused approach" to tackling macroeconomic instability, his "deep understanding" of the root causes of economic problems and an "impressive leadership style" as reasons for him winning the award.

ANSWER: Bhopal

Explanation:
In the rally, the vehicle was driven by a sighted person and the navigator was a blind person, the route map in Braille was given to them on the spot.

ANSWER: C-DAC

Explanation:
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing developed the BOSS OS. It is derived from Debian for enhancing the use of Free/ Open Source Software throughout India.

ANSWER: Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Union Territory of Delhi

Explanation:
These four states contributed 62% of total health insurance premium; the rest 32 States/UTs contributed only 38% of total premium.

ANSWER: Justice S K Sinha

Explanation:
He will succeed Chief Justice Muzammel Hossain retiring on 16th Jan’15. Justice S K Sinha is known for a number of landmark judgements including those on the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the 5th and 13th amendments to the Constitution.

ANSWER: United States

Explanation:
For the first time US aviation regulator the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave its approval to two aircraft parts manufactured by Indian manufacturers.

ANSWER: A.S. Kiran Kumar

Explanation:
He will succeed K RadhaKrishnan retired in Dec’14.

ANSWER: ISRO

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: 15th January

Explanation:
It was on this day in 1949 when Lt. General (later Field Marshal) KM Cariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army post Independence.

ANSWER: Bhakti Sharma

Explanation:
She bettered the earlier record of British open water swimmer Lewis Pugh and American swimmer Lynne Cox. The 24-year old is now the first Asian girl and youngest in the world to have achieved this feat.

ANSWER: 2018

Explanation:
The Centre on 14th Jan’15 told the Supreme Court that it proposes to clean Ganga by 2018.

ANSWER: Avinash Chander

Explanation:
Avinash Chander known as the man behind the Agni series of missiles.

ANSWER: Harishankar Brahma

Explanation:
He is the second person from the North-East to become an Election Commissioner, after J. M. Lyngdoh.

ANSWER: Anirban Lahiri

Explanation:
Premier Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri on 12th Jan’15 voted the 2014 Players’ Player of the Year for his successful exploits on the Asian Tour where he won two titles and finished second on the Order of Merit.

ANSWER: Jospeh Vaz

Explanation:
He was born in 1651 in India’s Goa, then a Portuguese colony. He travelled south at the age of 36 to Sri Lanka.

ANSWER: Amar Pratap Singh

Explanation:
Mr. Singh resigned four years before the completion of his term.

ANSWER: Samsung Electronics

Explanation:
It is a key step in the company’s strategy to break free from the Android platform, which powers Samsung’s flagship Galaxy devices and most other smart phones on the market.

ANSWER: Cipla Ltd

Explanation:
Delhi High Court on 14th Jan’15 sought the response of Switzerland-based drug major Novartis AG on the plea of Indian pharma firm Cipla Ltd. against an order restraining it from making its respiratory disease drug, Indaflo, till it obtains a compulsory licence. Novartis has been selling the medicine in India as an inhalation powder and inhaler under the trademark name of "Onbrez" through its licencee Lupin Ltd, since 2010.

ANSWER: 25 basis points

Explanation:
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut the reverse repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.75%. The move comes at a time when inflation is steadily coming down and cries for a rate cut were growing loud.

ANSWER: Unchanged

Explanation:
Cash Reserve Ratio by Reserve bank of India keeps remains unchanged at 4%.

ANSWER: Japan

Explanation:
The defence budget includes plan to buy surveillance aircraft, drones and F-35 fighter jets to help counter rising assertiveness of China.

ANSWER: China

Explanation:
India-China trade increased all time high of 73.9 billion US dollars in 2011 but declined to 66.57 billion US dollars in 2012 and 65.49 billion US dollars in 2013.

ANSWER: BJP

Explanation:
She was inducted in the party in the presence of BJP president Amit Shah, Union Ministers Arun Jaitley and Dr. Harshvardhan in New Delhi.

ANSWER: Manjul Krishna Thakur

Explanation:
The State BJP President said that for the first time a State Minister has joined their party and this will lead to collapse of the ruling Trinamool Congress Government.