Current Affairs Quiz – August, 2015 – Set 5

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Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here is the 5th Set of Current Affairs Quiz – August, 2015.

1. Hisao Tanaka
recently resigned as CEO and President of which company?

1) Hyundai

2) Honda

3) Nintendo

4) Lenovo

5) Toshiba

2. With which of the
following country did India sign an agreement on sharing white-shipping information to enhance maritime
cooperation?

1) Japan

2) Australia

3) Bangladesh

4) Thailand

5) Singapore

3. DRISHTI, the
indigenously designed and developed Visibility Measuring System was recently
installed in which airport?

1) Goa International Airport

2) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport

3) Indira Gandhi International Airport

4) Trivandrum International Airport

5) Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport

4. For which of the
following film did film-maker Benoy Behl win the Best Documentary Producer
award at Madrid International Film
Festival?

1) Buddha in a Traffic Jam

2) Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain

3) Talvar

4) Indian Roots of Tibetan Buddhism

5) None of these

5. Which of the
following country’s cabinet recently approved “Defence White Paper 2015”?

1) China

2) South Korea

3) Singapore

4) Malaysiya

5) Japan

6. Book titled
“Locale, Everyday Islam and Modernity” is written by _________.

1) Upamanyu Chatterjee

2) Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman

3) M. Raisur Rahman

4) Anand Neelakantan

5) None of them

7. Yuki Bhambri is
related to which sport?

1) Shooting

2) Badminton

3) Tennis

4) Table Tennis

5) Golf

8. Chaudhary Charan
Singh Excellence Award is given for ____________.

1) Research and Discovery in the field of Biochemistry

2) Journalism in Agricultural Research and Development

3) Journalism in Science Research and Development

4) Research and Development in Agriculture

5) None of the above

9. Who was recently
conferred with Royal Society’s Copley Medal?

1) Irwin Rose

2) Hans Baumann

3) Ian Agol

4) Peter Higgs

5) François Englert

10. In which city PM
Narendra Modi recently laid the foundation stone for Incubation Centre for
Medical Electronics?

1) Varanasi

2) Ahmedabad

3) Ranchi

4) Guwahati

5) Patna

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