Expected Questions – World News – 1 – 15 April, 2015



Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here are the Expected Questions from news around the world between April 1 to April 15, 2015.

1. Recently a minor
planet was named after which Indian chess grandmaster?
– Vishwanathan Anand
2. Name the minor
planet named after Indian chess grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand.
– 4538 Vishyanand
3. Who will head
ninth meet of International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Council?
– India
4. The ninth meet of International
Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Council will be held in which city?
– Abu Dhabi
5. Which city won the
title Global Earth hour Capital 2015?
– Seoul
6. Seoul city won the
title Global Earth hour Capital 2015. It is the capital city of which country?
– South Korea
7. Who won the Earth
Hour City Challenge (EHCC) of World Wildlife Fund (WWF)?
– Seoul city
8. The 2015 Earth
Hour City Challenge (EHCC) was organised by ________________.
– World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
9. Earth Hour 2015
was held on which date?
– 28 March
10. What was the
local time held as the Earth Hour 2015 on March 28?
– 8.30 to 9.30 PM
11. What was the
theme of Earth Hour 2015?
– Change Climate Change
12. In how many
United Nations agencies India was elected recently?
– 4
Note:  These agencies are United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICEF), World Food Program (WFP), Commission on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) and the Governing Council of UN–Habitat.
13. Narendra Modi was
in the list of 100 Most Influential People of 20145 by which magazine?
– TIME
14. Who wrote the
biography of PM Narendra Modi in TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2014?
– The US President Barrack Obama
15. Who won the Time
100 readers’ poll this year?
– Vladmir Putin
16. A statue of
Mahatma  Gandhi as a young lawyer in his
court robes was defaced in which city
recently?
– Johannesburg
17. How many
countries are there in Normandy format?
– 4 (Germany, Russia, Ukrain & France)
18. An asteroid was
recently named after which Nobel prize winner?
– Malala Yousafzai
19. Who topped the
list 2015 FM Global Resilience Index?
– Norway
20. Gunter Grass who
passed away recently won Nobel Prize in ___________.
– Literature

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