Persons in News Current Affairs Quiz - March 2015

1. 1998 Asian Games gold‚­medallist Dingko Singh has been included in 10-Member National Boxing Selection panel that will be headed by Arjuna awardee _____ and will remain in office till 2016 ?

Gopal N Devang Sardar Singh Dhanraj Pillay Gagan Narang None of These

2. 3 ‚­year‚­old archer Dolly Shivani Cherukuri of ____ entered Indian Book of Records by scoring 388 points in the recurve segment in seven and five meters distances. ?

Uttar Pradesh Andhra Pradesh Meghalaya Goa Tripura

3. George Zambellas Chief of Navy of _____ visited India ?

USA Russia United Kingdom China Germany

4. Akram Chehayeb, Agriculture Minister of ____ Visited India. ?

Cuba Egypt Syria Lebanon Nigeria

5. Baburam Bhattarai, former Prime Minister of ____ Visited India ?

Mauritius Seychelles Nepal Myammar Vietnam

6. Christine Lagarde, chief of IMF (_____ )visited India. ?

International Monetary Fund International Mutual Fund Integrated Monetary Fund Integrated Mutual Fund Incremantal Monetary Fund

7._____'s Vice President Miguel Daz‚­Canel Visited India. ?

Lebanon Cuba South Korea Albania Croatia

8. Indian Defence Minister Recently ____ Visited Japan ?

Arun Jaitley Smriti Irani Rajnath Singh Manohar Parrikar None of These

9. Dick Costolo, CEO of Social Network ____, Visited India. ?

Facebook Google Yahoo Linkedin Twitter

10. Famous _____ Recently K Baskaran Passed Away ?

Writer Politician Sports Journalist Industrialist None of These

11. Famous ____ Vinod Mehta recently Passed Away ?

Journalist Writer Singer Actor None of These

12. Forbes annual Global Billionaires 2015 list has ranked _____ at the top for the 16th time with worth of 79.2 billion USD dollars ?

Warren Buffett Bill Gates Carlos Slim Gurbaksh Chahal Sergey Brin

13. Foreign Secretary _______ completed his SAARC Yatra during which he visited Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan. ?

Omita Paul Ajit Kumar Seth S Jaishankar Divya Prakash Sinha‚  Ajit Doval

14. Malcolm Fraser, Former Prime Minister of _____ passed away. ?

USA UK France Spain Australia

15. Ram Sundar Das , Former Chief Minister of _____ passed away ?

Mizoram Meghalaya Bihar Goa None of These

16. Brig Thenphunga Sailo, Former Chief Minister of ____ Passed Away ?

Kerala Mizoram Uttar Pradesh Mizoram Rajasthan

17. Jack Ma, Chief of E‚­Commerce Giant Alibaba of _____, Visited India ?

Japan China USA UK None of These

18. _______ Assembly speaker G Karthikeyan passed away ?

Kerala Uttar Pradesh Bihar Rajasthan Haryana

19. ____has become first Indian‚­ American to be elected to a US state legislature and will run for the US Congress in the 2016 elections. ?

Bobby Jindal Sunil Mittal Vijay Kumar Gurbaksh Chahal Kumar P Barve

20. Lee Kuan Yew, Former Prime Minister of _______ Passed Away. ?

Vietnam Singapore Myammar China Japan

21. _________ government announced to rename Mumbai's Girgaum Chowpatty as 'Swaraj Bhoomi' in honour of freedom fighter Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak ?

Maharashtra Gujarat Kerala Goa None of These

22. Marek Sawicki, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of _____, visited India ?

Spain Croatia SWeden Scotland Poland

23. Mr. Ramkumar Prasad Shah, the Chief Justice of _____, visited India ?

Nepal Seychelles Myammar Sri Lanka Mauritius

24. ______, Noted Gandhian and former Chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith passed away ?

Baba Amte Narayan Desai Swami Anand Morarji Desai Mahadev Desai

25. PM Narendra Modi Visited Three island countries in Indian Ocean ‚­ Seychelles, Mauritius and ____?

Vietnam Myammar Bangladesh Vanuatu Sri Lanka

26. Pedro Morenes, Defence Minister of _______ Visited India ?

Germany Spain Russia USA UK

27. Renowned _____K.S. Lavkumar Khachar Passed Away. ?

Biologist Ornithologist (a type of zoologist who focuses on birds) Philanthropist Ecologist Physicist

28. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al‚­Thani, the Emir of _____ visited India ?

Qatar Kuwait Libya UAE Brunei

29. _____'s Renowned fantasy author Terence David John Pratchett passed away. ?

USA Germany Spain Feance UK

30. Union Minister of _________ Raosaheb Dadarao Danve resigned ?

Human Resource Development State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Road and Transport Defence Finance

31. ____, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Visited India ?

Yukiya Amano Christine Lagrade Takehiko Nakao Jim Yong Kim Ban Ki-moon

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