Q. 52 Floyd Mayweather Jr. who has on 3 May 2015 won the unified World Welterweight title of World Boxing Council, World Boxing Organisation and World Boxing Association defeating Manny Pacquiao is from which country?
(A) Philippines
(B) Kenya
(C) Australia
(D) USA
ANSWER: D. USA
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Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is an American professional boxer. He is undefeated as a professional and is a five-division world champion, having won eleven world titles and the lineal championship in four different weight classes
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Q. 53 Which Indian has recently acquired a stake in Xiaomi Technology, the No. 3 global smartphone maker?
(A) Azim Premji
(B) Mukesh Ambani
(C) Sunil Bharti Mittal
(D) Ratan Tata
ANSWER: D. Ratan Tata
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Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus of the holding company of the Tata conglomerate, has acquired a stake in Xiaomi Technology, a deal that is likely to bolster the Chinese phone maker's presence in the world's third-largest smartphone market. Financial details of the unspecified stake bought by Tata in Xiaomi, the first by an Indian, were not disclosed in the statement issued by the Chinese company. Xiaomi, the No. 3 global smartphone maker, was valued at $45 billion after a December funding round.
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Q. 54 Who has recently received Golden Medal for Merit in Work of Spain?
(A) Rafael Nadal
(B) Roger Federe
(C) Usain Bolt
(D) Floyd Mayweather
ANSWER: A. Rafael Nadal
Q. 55 Ashraf Ghani who arrived in India recently on his first state visit to India is the President of which country?
(A) Bangladesh
(B) Afghanistan
(C) Maldives
(D) Saudi Arabia
ANSWER: B. Afghanistan
Q. 56 Mazen Darwish who was recently honoured with UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2015 is the journalist from which country?
(A) Yemen
(B) Egypt
(C) Peru
(D) Syria
ANSWER: D. Syria
Q. 57 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who was recently in news as dead was the chief of which terrorist organization?
(A) ISIS
(B) Boko Haram
(C) Hamas
(D) Hizbul Mujahideen
ANSWER: A. ISIS
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi born as Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri, is the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an Islamic extremist group in western Iraq, Libya, northeast Nigeria and Syria self-styled as the "Islamic State". It is believed that he has been proclaimed by his followers to be a Caliph.
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Q. 58 Dr Prannoy Roy who was recently conferred the RedInk Award for lifetime achievement is the executive co-chairman of?
(A) CNN-IBN
(B) Time Now
(C) NDTV
(D) Doordarshan
ANSWER: C. NDTV
Q. 59 World Press Freedom Day is observed on?
(A) May 1
(B) May 2
(C) May 3
(D) May 4
ANSWER: C. May 3
Q. 60 Capgemini has recently acquired IGATE for $4 bn. Capgemini is a Management consulting company headquartered at?
(A) Tokyo
(B) Paris
(C) New Jersey
(D) Mumbai
ANSWER: B. Paris
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The Paris-headquartered Capgemini has announced the acquisition of New Jersey-based IGATE, which has operations in India, for $4 billion in cash. The markets gave a thumbs up to the acquisition: While the Capgemini stock was up 7.6 per cent, the IGATE stock opened 3.45 per cent higher.
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Q. 61 Shuttler Lee Chong Wei who was recently handed a backdated eight-month ban for doping by the Badminton World Federation on 27 April 2015 is from which country?
(A) Malaysia
(B) China
(C) Singapore
(D) Japan
ANSWER: A. Malaysia
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Malaysian shuttler Lee Chong Wei was handed a backdated eight-month ban for doping by the Badminton World Federation on Monday (Apr 27), keeping alive the former world number one's dream of winning gold at the Rio Olympics next year. The 32-year-old Malaysian, twice an Olympic silver medalist, had been under a provisional suspension since November after testing positive for anti-inflammatory drug dexamethasone during the world championships three months earlier.
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