Current Affairs Questions & Answers (MCQ): 25 February 2016

Welcome to the Objective Questions Section of GK GS GYAN. These Multiple Choice questions are based on daily current affairs and news specially from Newspapers like ‘The Hindu’, The Indian Express and others. It will be helpful to prepare for UPSC, IBPS Bank PO, State PCS, CDS, Railways, and all other similar competitive examinations.

1) Which day was celebrated as the National Day of Estonia?

(A) February 23^rd

(B)February 24th

(C) February 25th

(D) None of the above

2) Which former Chief Justice of India was recently selected as the new Chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)?

(A) Justice P Sathasivam

(B) Justice Cyriac Joseph

(C) Justice H L Dattu

(D) None of these

3) Which city declared cleanest city in India?

 (A) Pune

(B) Mysuru

(C) Varanasi

(D) Nagpur

4) Who among the following appointed as IMF(International Monetary Fund) Chief ?

(A) Christian Lagarde

(B) Stephen Field

(C) Serge Dupont

(D) None of the above

5) India’s first indigenously built nuclear armed submarine ____ has recently successfully passed several deep sea diving drills as well as weapons launch tests?

(A) INS Virat

(B) INS Arihant

(C) INS Kalki

(D) INS Sindhurakshak

6) The 42nd edition of world famous Khajuraho Dance Festival began on 24 Feb at Khajuraho in Chhatrapur District of?

(A) Karnataka

(B) Madhya Pradesh

(C) Maharashtra

(D) Goa

7) RBI has extended currency Swap arrangement till November 2017 with SAARC Nations. This includes:

(A) Maldives

(B) Nepal

(C) China

(D) Both a and b

8) Which country's Parliament building recently became the first in the world to completely run on solar power?

(A) Japan

(B) Austria

(C) Canada

(D) Pakistan

9) Which year did NASA astronauts in the spacecraft hear outer space music on moon?

(A) 1967

(B) 1968

(C) 1969

(D) 1970

10) India is home to what percentage of the world’s tiger population?

(A) 60%

(B) 70%

(C) 80%

(D) 75%

11) Who appointed as Chairman of TERI?

 (A) Ashok Chawla

(B) Shilpa Mehara

(C) Hariprasad Varma

(D) K C Malik

12) National Arogya fair 2016 concluded in Which City ?

(A) Dehradun

(B) Ranchi

(C) Lucknow

(D) Kolkata

13) Ministry of Environment and Forest declared Wild boar as Vermin in Which state ?

(A) Goa

(B) Uttarakhand

(C) Karnataka

(D) Odisha

14) Writer Akbar Kakkatil passed away recently. he is famous as a writer in which language ?

(A) Telugu

(B)Kannada

(C) Hindi

(D) Malayalam

15) Kalikho pul sworn in as new Chief minister of Which of the following State ?

(A) Sikkim

(B)Nagaland

(C)Arunachal pradesh

(D) None of the above