Daily GK Update - 12th January 2015

Ques. : 1 Phee Teik Yeoh is the present CEO of which of the following airlines operating in India as of now?

1) Vistara 

2) AirAsia India

3) Spicejet 

4) Jet Airways

5) IndiGo 

Ques. : 2 Who among the following is the current Director General of the WTO?

1) Jacques Delors 

2) Pascal Lamy

3) Roberto Azevedo 

4) Janet Yellen

5) Christine Lagarde 

Ques. : 3 Aziz Qureshi has been sworn in as the new Governor of which of the following states?

1) Uttarakhand 

2) Odisha

3) Mizoram 

4) Manipur

5) Tripura 

Ques. : 4 As per the World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, the World Bank has set a __________target to achieve the goal of eradicating extreme poverty.

1) 2020 

2) 2024

3) 2026 

4) 2030

5) None of these 

Ques. : 5 After the success of LCA Tejas fighter plane, India plans to develop its own fifth generation fighter plane. Till date which of the following is the only fully-operational fifth generation fighter plane in the world?

1) F/A-22 Raptor 

2) Gripen

3) Sukhoi 30MKI 

4) Eurofighter Typhon

5) F/A Super Hornet 

Ques. : 6 Who among the following has joined an elite group of cricketers becoming only the fifth to make 12,000 runs in his career?

1) Rohit Sharma 

2) Mahendra Singh Dhoni

3) Virat Kohli 

4) Angelo Mathews

5) Kumar Sangakkara 

Ques. : 7 Who among the following has won the Brisbane International 2015 tennis tournament?

1) Milos Raonic 

2) Roger Federer

3) Andy Murray 

4) Novak Djokovic

5) None of these 

Ques. : 8 Who among the following is the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka?

1) Ranil Wickremasinghe 

2) Chandrika Kumaratunga

3) Mahinda Rajapaksa 

4) Maithripala Sirisena

5) None of these 

Ques. : 9 PM Narendra Modi on 8 Jan inaugurated the state-of-the-art Dandi Kutir, a museum on the life and works of Mahatma Gandhi in

1) Gandhinagar 

2) Kolkata

3) Mumbai 

4) Guwahati

5) None of these 

Ques. : 10 Name the person who won the men’s singles title of the Chennai Open on 11 Jan.

1) Leander Paes 

2) Mahesh Bhupathi

3) Aljaz Bedene 

4) Stanislas Wawrinka

5) Kei Nishikori 

Answer :-

1. (1) Vistara
2. (3) Roberto Azevedo
3. (3) Mizoram
4. (4) 2030
5. (1) F/A-22 Raptor
6. (5) Kumar Sangakkara
7. (2) Roger Federer
8. (1) Ranil Wickremasinghe
9. (1) Gandhinagar
10. (4) Stanislas Wawrinka