Ans: Floyd Mayweather
2. Who won this year's World Food Prize?
Ans: Fazle Hasan Abed (Bangladesh)
3. As per the recent studies published by the World Economic Forum, which two Indian organisations are among the top ten lists of worlds biggest employers?
3. As per the recent studies published by the World Economic Forum, which two Indian organisations are among the top ten lists of worlds biggest employers?
Ans: Indian Railways (8th position) and Indian Armed Forces (9th position)
4. Who was selected for the 2014 GD Birla Award for Scientific Research?
Ans: Prof. Sanjeev Galande
5. Which Finnish engineer, known as the pioneer of SMS technology, passed away recently?
Ans: Matti Makkonen
6. Integrated Security System to avert terror attacks has recently been launched at six railway stations in which Indian city?
Ans: Mumbai.
The stations are Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), Dadar, Kuria, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT), Kalyan and Thane.
7. Who are the winners of the 2015 COPA America football title?
Ans: Chile.
They defeated Argentina in the final.
8. The Meiji era industrial revolution sites located in which country have been included in the UNESCO World Heritage list?
Ans: Japan
9. Which Indian won the 19th Commonwealth Chess Championship?
Ans: Abhijeet Gupta
10. Which Indian American has been selected for the 2015 World Agricultural Prize?
Ans: R Paul Singh
11. Which eminent Indian biologist has been elected as Fellow to Royal Society, London?
Ans: Kamal Bawa
12. According to the World Health Organisation, which became the first country to eliminate mother to ' child HIV transmission?
Ans: Cuba
13. Which country retained the South Asian Basketball Championship?
Ans: India
14. What does the PMKSY, the social welfare scheme recently approved by the union cabinet, stand for?
Ans: Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana
15. Which Indian company has signed a pact with Airbus Helicopters to form a joint venture company to manufacture helicopters in India?
Ans: Mahindra Defence.
It is a subsidiary of Mahindra Group
16. Who won the 2015 Formula One British Grand Prix?
Ans: Lewis Hamilton
17. The Reserve Bank of India issued a notification banning, foreign direct investment in the manufacture of?
Ans: Tobacco Products
18. Which country won the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup?
Ans: United States.
19. The 1839 km World Bank assisted Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor by the Indian Railways extends from Ludhiana (Punjab) to?
Ans: Dankuni (Near Kolkata, West Bengal).
The 1486 km Western Corridor extends from Dadri, near Delhi, to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), Navi Mumbai
20. International Day of Cooperatives was observed on:
Ans: July 4
Ø The worlds biggest employer, according to the WEF, is the US Department of Defence, (3.2 million employees). The next in the list is the People's Liberation Army of China with 2.3 million employees. Walmart occupies the third spot (2.1 million). The Indian Railways has 1.4 million staff. The Indian Armed Forces employs 1.3 million people.
Ø World Food Prize was established by Norman Borlaug in 1987.
Ø G D Birla Award for scientific research, instituted by the K K Birla Foundation in 1991, is given annually to an original and outstanding work undertaken by Indian scientists below the age of 50, living and working in India.
