Current Affairs : December Quiz 2015 (Multiple choice questions) - 65

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 Sharad Yadav

1. Which country on 17 December 2015 launched the Wukong satellite to seek evidence of dark matter decay?
a) China
b) Japan
c) South Korea
d) North Korea

Answer . a) China

2. On which of the following day the National Mathematics Day was observed across the country to commemorate the birth anniversary of great Indian Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan?
a) 20 December
b) 21 December
c) 22 December
d) 23 December

Answer . c) 22 December

3. Which hyperlocal grocery delivery startup on 21 December 2015 was acquired by on-demand grocery service PepperTap?
a) Jiffstore
b) BigZop
c) Shadowfax
d) Dyscover

Answer . a) Jiffstore

4. UDigital’s digital media brand Arre on 21 December 2015 announced the acquisition of which video delivery company?
a) Harmonic Inc.
b) Cine Dream
c) Anupama Technologies
d) Apalya Technologies 

Answer . d) Apalya Technologies

5. Cow on 21 December 2015 was named as the Personality of the Year for India by which search engine giant?
a) Google
b) Bing
c) Yahoo
d) DuckDuckGo

Answer . c) Yahoo

6. Which state government on 21 December 2015 launched Anwesha scheme to provide free education to SC/ST students?
a) Bihar
b) Odisha
c) Karnataka
d) Madhya Pradesh

Answer . b) Odisha 

7. Which shipyard on 21 December 2015 became the first licensed Indian shipyard to make LNG Ships?
a) Cochin Shipyard Limited
b) Mazagon Dock Limited-Mumbai
c) Goa Shipyard Limited
d) Hindustan Shipyard Limited- Visakhapatnam

Answer . a) Cochin Shipyard Limited

8. Scientist at James Cook University, Australia re-discovered two species of sea snake also known as short-nosed sea snake and leaf-scaled sea snakes. Their scientific name are
a) Gymnothorax mishrai & Aipysurus foliosquama
b) Haplogenys bengalensis & Aipysurus foliosquama
c) Aipysurus foliosquama & Aipysurus apraefrontalis
d) Aipysurus apraefrontalis & Haplogenys bengalensis 

Answer . d) Aipysurus apraefrontalis & Haplogenys bengalensis 

9. Scientists of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) discovered a new species of eel along the coast of Digha in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district. Its scientific name is
a) Gymnothorax mishrai
b) Haplogenys bengalensis
c) Aipysurus apraefrontalis
d) Aipysurus apraefrontalis

Answer . a) Gymnothorax mishrai

10. Identify the famous conductor renowned for serving as the music director of the New York Philharmonic who died on 19 December 2015 due to Parkinson’s disease.
a) Kurt Masur
b) Thomas Beecham
c) Claudio Abbado
d) Lorin Maazel

Answer . a) Kurt Masur

11. In which area of Gujarat the three-day long 50th Annual Conference of DGs/IGs of Police of States and UTs and Heads of Central Police Organisations concluded on 20 December 2015?
a) Rann of Kutch
b) Surat
c) Ahmedabad
d) Vadodara

Answer . a) Rann of Kutch

12. Vice President Mohd. Hamid Ansari on 21 December 2015 released a Coffee Table Book on the political journey of a political leader at a function in New Delhi. The book is related to whom of the following?
a) Sitaram Yechury
b) L K Advani
c) Sharad Yadav
d) Nitish Kumar

Answer . c) Sharad Yadav

13. Which club on 20 December 2015 won the 2015 FIFA Club World Cup title?
a) River Plate (Argentina)
b) Barcelona (Spain)
c) Bayern Munich (Germany)
d) Manchester United (the UK)

Answer . b) Barcelona (Spain) 

14. Which country on 20 December 2015 held the national level beauty pageant after a gap of over four decades?
a) Iran
b) Jordan
c) Saudi Arabia
d) Iraq 

Answer . d) Iraq

15. Union Ministry of Human Resource Development and UNSECO on the occasion of National Mathematics agreed to hold a Conference on the “Zero” at 

a) Paris and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
b) Paris and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
c) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
d) UNESCO headquarters, Paris

Answer . 

a) Paris and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore