General Awareness Test (May - 15) - Set 1

ANSWER: 1st May

Explanation:
International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some places, is a celebration of laborers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labor movement, anarchists, socialists, and communists and occurs every year on May Day.

ANSWER: Andhra Pradesh

Explanation:
Under the new Accident Insurance Scheme, the registered unorganised sector labourers and transport drivers will get a Rs 5 lakh insurance cover. The enrolled will get an accident death insurance of Rs 2 lakh under the Pradhan Mantri Bima Suraksha Yojana by opening a Jan Dhan Yojana account and Insurer will give Rs 3 lakh for which the state government will have an MoU.

ANSWER: Haryana

Explanation:
This measure, designed at the behest of the Chief Minister Manohar Lal, will not only help monitor delivery of all welfare and health-related benefits to an infant but will also help in tracking the child from birth to immunization to school admission. Besides, it will seek to serve as a data-base of children for timely and assured delivery of services.

ANSWER: 1st May

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: 1st May

Explanation:
Maharashtra Day, commonly known as Maharashtra Diwas. Maharashtra is commemorating the formation of the state of Maharashtra from the division of the Bombay State on 1 May 1960.

ANSWER: Riskometer

Explanation:
SEBI has said that the existing colour codes would be replaced by pictorial meter named "riskometer" and this meter would appropriately depict the level of risk in any specific scheme. SEBI has increased the risk category from three to five levels namely low, moderately low, moderate, moderately high and high.

ANSWER: Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Explanation:
He is a noted Islamic scholar and peace activist. He has received, among others, the Demiurgus Peace International Award, under the patronage of the former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev; the Padma Bhushan, in January 2000; the National Citizen’s Award, presented by Mother Teresa and the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award (2009).

ANSWER: Nadia

Explanation:
UNICEF India representative David Mcloughlin congratulated the people of the district for achieving the goal.

ANSWER: Rohit Sharma

Explanation:
The decision to recommend ODI opener Rohit for the prestigious award was taken at the Indian cricket board's Working Committee meeting in Mumbai on 26th Apr’15.

ANSWER: Sri Amritanshu

Explanation:
The book is a story of the first King of our lands – the founder of Suryavansha – of betrayal and loyalty, of dynasties and destruction.

ANSWER: Smt. Poonam Surie

Explanation:
The book highlights that in the evolving socio political milieu of China, interpreting Confucian philosophy as being non-confrontationist, benevolent and with values such as filial piety and harmony could help the current political regime deal with such problems as corruption and rising inequalities.

ANSWER: Seychelles

Explanation:
Seychelles on 26th April 2015 became the 161st member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). With this, Seychelles archipelago of 90000 inhabitants became one of its smallest members.

ANSWER: Mukesh Khanna

Explanation:
He will succeed Amole Gupte. The appointment was made by Information and Broadcasting Ministry.

ANSWER: Georgia

Explanation:
Georgia won the Women’s World Team Chess Championship by defeating Russia. Mariya Muzychuk was declared the world champion 2015.

ANSWER: Dr. Ananda Kumar

Explanation:
Dr. Ananda has developed an Elephant Information Network (EIN) which acts as an early warning mechanism to alert people when elephants are nearby, minimise negative human-elephant interactions, and increase people's tolerance towards elephants.

ANSWER: Dr. Pramod Patil

Explanation:
Pramod was a doctor at the time, made the decision to leave medicine and devote his life to conserving the great Indian bustard.

ANSWER: Broadcast Audience Research Council

Explanation:
The data released by BARC, a joint venture between the TV and advertising industry, shows Star Plus as the leading Hindi general entertainment channel in the country (Hindi-speaking markets), Zee as strong in regional channels like Telugu and Marathi, Aaj Tak leading in Hindi news (Hindi-speaking markets) and Times Now on top in English news category (All India).

ANSWER: Messenger

Explanation:
Its demise was confirmed by flight controllers when it failed to emerge from the far sight. Messenger was launched in 2004 and was only expected to orbit Mercury for a year.

ANSWER: VARUNA

Explanation:
The 14th edition of Indo-French naval exercise VARUNA concluded on 2nd May’15 in the presence of Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, along with Vice Admiral SPS Cheema, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Naval Command reviewing the progress of the exercise form on board French Navy’s Aircraft Carrier, Charles de Gaulle. The Indian Navy and the French Navy have been conducting naval exercises since 1983 and following the establishment of a strategic partnership, these exercises were christened as VARUN in 2001.

ANSWER: Haryana

Explanation:
The services includes e-Stamping; Jeevan Pramaan; Revised State Portal; Aadhaar-enabled biometric Attendance System; Mobile app; and Aadhaar-linked registration of birth.

ANSWER: 3rd May

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Nurusultan Nazarbayev

Explanation:
Kazakhstan election officials announced on the 28th of April, that the incumbent, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev of the Nur Otan Party, won his fifth successive term, securing 97.7% of the vote. The two opposing candidates, Abelgazi Kasainov and Turgun Syzdykov, got 0.7% and 1.6% of the votes respectively.

ANSWER: Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Explanation:
He is an American Boxer. The legendary bout termed as ‘Fight of the Century’, took place at iconic MGM Grand, Las Vegas and witnessed 12 rounds of intense boxing. This fight was the highest watched and most revenue generating almost 400 million dollars of all time.

ANSWER: Odisha

Explanation:
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on 1st May’15 launched free medicine scheme 'Niramaya' at Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar. The state government has made a budgetary allocation of Rs.200 crore for distribution of free medicine.

ANSWER: Surender Singh

Explanation:
Surender Singh is a 1980-batch police officer of West Bengal Cadre, is at present serving as a Special Director in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and will take over the new charge as incumbent Director General Arvind Ranjan retired on 30th Apr’15.

ANSWER: C N R Rao

Explanation:
Prof. C N R Rao is also the only Indian to be elected as a foreign member of the Japan Academy in Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research.

ANSWER: Indira Gandhi International Airport

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Microsoft

Explanation:
Edge is lighter and faster and will come with many new features like distraction free reading mode, built in notation tool and so on. Earlier we browser of Microsoft was Internet Explorer launched in 1995.

ANSWER: Maharashtra

Explanation:
The Circular stated "It encourages people to honk every time you pass a truck or tempo. It sends an extremely wrong message to the people".

ANSWER: 5th May

Explanation:
The theme for this year is You can control your Asthma. According to the World Health Organisation, WHO there are 235 million people currently suffering from asthma around the world. India has an estimated 15-20 million asthmatics and 15 percent of them die every year.

ANSWER: Michael Blake

Explanation:
The novel "Dances With Wolves", became a major hit movie and earned Blake an Academy Award for the screenplay.

ANSWER: Bihar

Explanation:
In a statement in New Delhi today BHEL said, this is the first 195 MW unit to be commissioned by it. The second 195 MW unit is expected to be commissioned in the current financial year, the statement added.

ANSWER: Sina Weibo

Explanation:
He is the first Indian leader to open an account on the popular miocroblog with over 500 million users to reach out to the Chinese people.

ANSWER: Sandeep Jajodia

Explanation:
The SGM, which was attended by 64 members of the BI, passed a No Confidence Motion in a Special Genral Meeting (SGM) of the Boxing India (BI) on 3 May 2015 removed Sandeep Jajodia as its president.

ANSWER: Rajasthan

Explanation:
For the research on cow products, a scientific approach will be adopted for Indian traditional system of medicine. The refinery will prepare cow-urine extract for use in the formulation of various products.

ANSWER: Port of Chabahar

Explanation:
The MoU was signed by Minister for Shipping and Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari and Iranian Minister for Transport and Urban Development Abbas Ahmad Akhoundi in Tehran on 6th May’15. Under the contract, Indian firms will lease two existing berths at the Port and operationalize them as container and multi-purpose cargo terminals.

ANSWER: Surface to Air Missile

Explanation:
Akash Missile is able to target a multitude of aerial threats of upto a range of 25 km. Akash has been developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation and is being built by Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL). It was originally planned as part of the five missiles under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme initiated in 1984.

ANSWER: Bangladesh

Explanation:
The Bill was passed with historic unanimity in the Upper House with 180 members giving their nod to the issue hanging fire since 1974.

ANSWER: Future Retail

Explanation:
Kishore Biyani-promoted Future Retail will merge its retail operations with Bharti Retail to create one of India's largest retail networks with 570 stores across the country.

ANSWER: Chelsea

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!