Daily GK Quiz 23rd March 2015

Q. : 1 Name the author with Indian roots who has won DSC Prize for Literature, one of South Asia's top literary awards for her book ‘The Lowland’.

1) Anita Desai 

2) Arundhati Roy

3) Jhumpa Lahiri 

4) Kiran Desai

5) None of these 

Q. : 2 China is planning to build a 7000 km-long high-speed railway line, costing USD 250 bn, to connect Beijing with which of the following capital cities?

1) Dhaka 

2) Naypyidaw

3) Kathmandu 

4) Moscow

5) None of these 

Q. : 3 The PM Narendra Modi on 22 Jan launched a deposit scheme for girl child named Sukanya Samridhi Yojna, as part of the ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ campaign from _______, which is amongst the lowest child sex ratios in the country.

1) Panipat, Haryana 

2) Amritsar, Punjab

3) Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 

4) Nasik, Maharashtra

5) None of these 

Q. : 4 The govt has launched HRIDAY project which is aimed at

1) Rejuvenating rich cultural heritage of India 

2) Establishing old age homes

3) Welfare of handicapped 

4) Saving girl child

5) None of these 

Q. : 5 For the first time, AWACS are likely to be deployed in New Delh on the Republic Day for vigil. It is a/an

1) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle 

2) Airborne Warning System

3) US fighter jet 

4) Anti-aircraft gun

5) None of these 

Q. : 6 Sunil Sood has taken over as the new MD & CEO of which of the following telecom firms operating in India?

1) Bharti Airtel 

2) Idea

3) Reliance Communications 

4) Vodafone

5) None of these 

Q. : 7 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 20 Jan said India is expected to grow at _______ in 2016, crossing China's projected growth rate by then.

1) 5.3 per cent 

2) 5.8 per cent

3) 6.5 per cent 

4) 7.8 per cent

5) None of these 

Q. : 8 The European Central Bank (ECB) on 22 Jan launched a govt bond-buying programme. Who among the following is the present President of ECB?

1) Mario Draghi 

2) Ben Bernanke

3) Jean-Claude Trichet 

4) Mario Monti

5) None of these 

Q. : 9 The Pakistan govt for the first time officially announced on 22 Jan to have frozen all assets and accounts of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD). This terrorist organisation belongs to

1) Masood Azhar 

2) Dawood Ibrahim

3) Hafiz Muhammad Saeed 

4) Yasin Malik

5) None of these 

Q. : 10 The Union Govt has extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 for another one year in

1) Assam 

2) Chhattisgarh

3) Jharkhand 

4) Punjab

5) None of these 

Answer:- 

1. (3) Jhumpa Lahiri
2. (4) Moscow
3. (1) Panipat, Haryana
4. (1) Rejuvenating rich cultural heritage of India
5. (2) Airborne Warning System
6. (4) Vodafone
7. (3) 6.5 per cent
8. (1) Mario Draghi
9. (3) Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
10. (1) Assam