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Q1. Name the author of the book “Seal of the Surya”?

ANSWER: Sri Amritanshu.

Q2. Name the author of the book ‘China – Confucius in the Shadows’ released by the Vice President
of India on 1st May’15?

ANSWER: Smt. Poonam Surie

Q3. Which country became the 161st Member of World Trade Organization (WTO)?

ANSWER: Seychelles

Q4. Name the person appointed as the new chairman of Children’s Film Society of India?

ANSWER: Mukesh Khanna

Q5. Name the country that won the Women’s World Team Chess Championship 2015 held in China?

ANSWER: Georgia

Q6. Name the Indian who won the Whitley Award 2015 for using innovative communication systems
to enable human-elephant coexistence in southern India?

ANSWER: Dr. Ananda Kumar

Q7. Name the Indian who won the Whitley Award 2015 for his work to protect the iconic Great
Indian Bustard in the Thar Desert?

ANSWER: Dr. Pramod Patil

Q8. Name the new system to access TV viewership that has replaced the 15 year old Television
Audience Measurement (TAM)?

ANSWER: Broadcast Audience Research Council

Q9. Name the NASA’s spacecraft that ended a four-year mission to Mercury by crashing into
Mercury after running out of fuel?

ANSWER: Messenger

Q10. In which country, up to 5,000 NATO troops would take part in anti-submarine warfare
exercises off its coast amid growing regional tension over alleged submarine sightings?

ANSWER: Norway