Daily GK Quiz - 21st January 2015

Q. : 1 As part of the tourism promotion initiatives, the Flamingo festival was held from Jan 9-11 at the Pulicat lake in which of the following states?

1) Andhra Pradesh 

2) Karnataka

3) Odisha 

4) Kerala

5) Nagaland 

Q. : 2 The central govt has cleared Damanganga-Pinjal interstate river link project. This project involves which two states?

1) Maharashtra, Gujarat 

2) Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh

3) Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh 

4) Gujarat, Rajasthan

5) None of these 

Q. : 3 The ‘Popular Resistance’ militia, which is a pro-govt militia, is active in

1) Pakistan 

2) Syria

3) Egypt 

4) Malaysia

5) Nigeria 

Q. : 4 Which of the following pairs won the men’s doubles title of the Apia Sydney International recently?

1) Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna 

2) Leander Paes and Raven Klaasen

3) Rohan Bopanna and Daniel Nestor 

4) Raven Klaasen and Daniel Nestor

5) None of these 

Q. : 5 The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar handed over first indigenously-built Tejas fighter aircraft to the Air Force on 17 Jan. The entire LCA project including the final induction in the Air Force and Navy, is estimated to cost over

1) Rs 8,000 cr 

2) Rs 15,000 cr

3) Rs 30,000 cr 

4) Rs 60,000 cr

5) Rs 80,000 cr 

Q. : 6 Hara Patnaik, who died recently, was a popular actor-director of the ________cinema.

1) Bengali 

2) Assamese

3) Odia 

4) Tamil

5) None of these 

Q. : 7 Naresh Goyal pledges his entire 51 per cent stake to Punjab National Bank (PNB) was the news published in financial newspapers recently. He is the promoter of

1) Spicejet 

2) Jet Airways

3) Vistara 

4) Indigo

5) GoAir 

Q. : 8 Nepal has named who among the following as its new envoy to India?

1) Deep Kumar Upadhyay 

2) Bhek Bahadur Thapa

3) Durgesh Man Singh 

4) Rukma Shumsher Rana

5) None of these 

Q. : 9 The 45th annual summit of the World Economic Forum (WEF) started on 20 Jan in

1) Manila 

2) Buenos Aires

3) Davos 

4) Santiago

5) None of these 

Q. : 10 Who among the following has been appointed the new chief of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC)?

1) Ashok Pandit 

2) Chandra Prakash Dwivedi

3) David Dhawan 

4) Pahlaj Nihalani

5) None of these 

Answer :-

1. (1) Andhra Pradesh
2. (1) Maharashtra, Gujarat
3. (2) Syria
4. (3) Rohan Bopanna and Daniel Nestor
5. (3) Rs 30,000 cr
6. (3) Odia
7. (2) Jet Airways
8. (1) Deep Kumar Upadhyay
9. (3) Davos
10. (4) Pahlaj Nihalani