Quiz Questions on Current Affairs: 31 January 2015

1) Who among the following was appointed as the new chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi on 29 January 2015?

(A) Shekhar Sen

(B) N Gopalaswami

(C) Leela Samson

(D) S Jayasankar

2) Which country was confirmed as the host for the 2016 Twenty20 World Cup recently?

(A) Bangladesh

(B) West Indies

(C) Australia

(D) India

3) On 28 January 2015, nation paid tributes to which national martyr of freedom movement on his 150th birth anniversary?

(A) Mangal Panday

(B) Lala Lajpat Rai

(C) Subhash Chandra Bose

(D) Bhagath Singh

4) Shirani Bandaranayake, who was reinstated by the new government led by President Maithripala Sirisena on 28 January 2015, was the first woman Chief Justice of which country?

(A) Bangladesh

(B) Pakistan

(C) Srilanka

(D) Nepal

5) Who has assumed charge as the new Chairman and Managing Director of National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) recently?

(A) Rehman Khan

(B) Hanumanthu Purushotham

(C) DP Sinha

(D) Rohit Upadhyaya

6) Nation on 29 January 2015 paid rich tributes to ______, who was martyred in an encounter with militants a day after he got his gallantry award on Republic Day?

(A) Col. MN Rai

(B) Major Mukund Varadarajan

(C) Major Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh

(D) None of these

7) Which Messenger service has recently rolled out free voice-calling, a month after its first acquisition of a free calling app - Zip Phone?

(A) Whatsapp

(B) We Chat

(C) Hike

(D) Viber

8) Kalyan Singh took additional charge as Himachal Governor on 28 January 2015. He was originally the Governor of which state?

(A) Goa

(B) West Bengal

(C) Punjab

(D) Rajasthan

9) Which company reported quarterly profits of $18 billion on 27 January 2015 which is the largest profit in global corporate history?

(A) Microsoft

(B) Facebook

(C) Apple

(D) Google

10) Veteran actor Mala Aravindan who passed away on 28 January 2015 is from which industry?

(A) Malayalam

(B) Telugu

(C) Tamil

(D) Kannada

Answers Key:

1) Ans. (A) Shekhar Sen

2) Ans. (D) India

3) Ans. (B) Lala Lajpat Rai

4) Ans. (C) Srilanka

5) Ans. (B) Hanumanthu Purushotham

6) Ans. (A) Col. MN Rai

7) Ans. (C) Hike

8) Ans. (D) Rajasthan

9) Ans. (C) Apple

10) Ans. (A) Malayalam