Quiz 50 on Current Affairs 2014-15 for SSC CGL, UPSC, IBPS, MAT, CAT and other competitive exams

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ

Which tennis player won the Sony Ericsson Open on 4 March 2010?
Tomas Berdych
Andy Roddick
Nicolas Almagro
Viktor Troicki
Abhijeet Gupta
Sethuraman
Hari Krishna
Neelotpal
Who became the Grand Club volleyball men's champion in the final at Koradacheri on 25 April 2010?
ONGC
HPCL
BPCL
Chennai Customs
Which broadcast media rights holder of the Indian Premier League paid a ‘facilitation fee' of Rs. 425 crore to the World Sports Group, Mauritius to extend the rights from 2006 till 2010?
Multi Screen Media (MSM)
IMG
Sahara One Media And Entertainment Ltd.
Star TV
Which of the countries were not clubbed in the same group, Group C
with India in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup football finals?
Australia
South Korea
Bahrain
United Arab Emirates
Who did the Union Sports Ministry recently ask to remove a “restrictive
clause” in its constitution in order to gain Government's “annual recognition”?
Athletics Federation of India
Indian OlympicAssociation
Badminton Association of India
Indian Amateur Boxing Federation
 Name the first Indian woman along with Saina Nehwal to reach the quarterfinals of the Badminton Asia Championships recently?
Aditi Mutatkar
Gayatri Vartak
P.C. Thulasi
Sara Khan
Who won the sixth consecutive trophy at the Monte Carlo Masters on 18 April 2010?
Rafael Nadal
Fernando Verdasco
Juan Carlos Ferrero
Daniel Nestor
He completed a hat-trick of titles at the Asian Billiards Championship after edging past Singapore’s Peter Gilchrist 6-5 in a closely fought final on 14 April. Who is this sportsperson?
Peter Gilchrist
Pankaj Advani
Liu Chuang
Thanawat Thiraphongpaiboon
Who is the first Indian national on a Major League Soccer team who started and played the first half for Kansas City in a US Open Cup qualifier on 13 April 2010?
Sunil Chhetri
Sukhvinder Singh
Syed Nayeemuddin
Peter Thangaraj
The Supreme Court Bench comprising Chief Justice K. G. Balakrishnan and Justice Deepak Verma on 5 April 2010 rejected which Airways’ offer to pay $5.25 million within six months in instalments to the U.K.-based lessor?
Jet Airways
Kingfisher Airlines
Deccan Airways
Paramount Airways
According to a recent report/study which district stood first in the country in fund utilisation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)?
Tavinjal grama panchayat in Wayanad district (Kerela)
Edavaka panchayat in Wayanad district (Kerela)
Agaly panchayat in Palakkad district (Tamil Nadu)
Adimaly panchayat in Idukki district (kerela)
A project was launched in Feb 2010 to tend the 47 tears and holes that ‘The Last Supper’ created by a German neoclassical painter in the 223 years since its creation. Name the painter.
Johann Zoffany
Giuseppe Abbati
Willem van Aelst
Tarsila do Amaral
An untitled oil-on-canvas work, with four horses and a woman rider was sold for Rs. 2.01 crore, the highest at the spring sale of online auctioneer Saffronart in March 2010, is a created by which famous
painter?
S.H. Raza
Akbar Padamsee
Subodh Gupta
M.F. Husain
The Clay Mathematics Institute for the Millennium Prize listed seven mathematical problems to be solved and declared a prize sum of $ 1 million for those who would solve the problems. The problem, “Is
P=NP?” was solved by which of the following mathematicians?
Grigoriy Perelman
Vinay Deolalikar
Daniel Bernoulli
Algirdas Javtokas
amir khan’s latest movie “Peepli Live” is set in the Peepli of which village of Madhya Pradesh?
Ratangarh
Bandholi
Udankhedi
Bhadwai
The Bharatiya Jnanpith on 3 August 2010 removed the V-C Vibhuti Narain Rai of a deemed university from the selection pannel of Jnanpith awardees for making derogatory comments on women writes.  To
which university did Rai belong to?
International Hindi University
Amity University
Biswabharati University
Kannur University
 The Bangladeshi anti-poverty banker Muhammad Yunus is to feature in an episode of hit US TV show The Simpsons. Yunus is also the founder of Grameen Bank. In which year had he along with the bank win the Nobel Prize for "their efforts to create economic and social development from below"
2000
1990
2006
1985
Which Pakistani aircraft flying from Karachi to Islamabad that crashed on 28 July 2010 killing 152 people on board?
Airblue flight ED 202
JianJiao-7
Airbus A310-300/ET
Boeing 777-200ER
Name the Australian driver of Formula One team Lotus who won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix 2013 on 17 March 2013.
Romain Grosjean
Nicolas Prost
Davide Valsechhi
Kimi Raikkonen
 World cancer day was observed on 4

February 2013 in order to raise awareness

about this illness as well as to promote

the measures, early detection, prevention

and treatment of the disease. What was the

theme for World Cancer Day, 2013?

Global burden of cancer
Cancer - Did you know?
Together it is possible
Teach children and teenagers to avoid UV exposure by being "sun smart"
Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport is located at?
Hyderabad
Kochi
Mumbai
Chennai
India Post in the last week of March 2013 decided to establish third Automated Mail Processing Centre in which city by April 2013.
Delhi
Mumbai
Ahmadabad
Hyderabad
Name the person who was appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in February 2013.
Dilip Sinha
Nirupam Sen
Asoke Kumar Mukerji
Hardeep Singh Puri
"Half a Life" is a novel by which of

the following author?
V. S. Naipaul
Salman Rushdi
Tasleema Nasreen
Arundhati Roy
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