Quiz 42 on Current Affairs 2014-15 for SSC CGL, UPSC, IBPS, MAT, CAT and other competitive exams

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, who recently

became the first woman to climb K2 without

supplementary oxygen, is the resident of
New Zealand
England
Australia
Austria
 Chandra Bahadur Dangi, at 21.5 inches

(54.6 cm) has recently been declared as the

World’s Shortest Living Man by the Guinness

World Records. He is a/an ……………
resident.
Indian
Nepalese
Pakistani
British
Baluarte Bridge, the highest cable

stayed bridge in the world, was recently

unveiled in
India
Sri Lanka
USA
Mexico
Which country test launched the first 3

-D television broadcast in the world on

January 1, 2012?
Japan
Taiwan
China
Malaysia
Jyoti Amge has been named as the world’s

shortest woman by the Guinness Book of World

Records. She suffers from a condition named

…………… which makes it almost
impossible for her to grow further.
Achondroplasia
Polio
Hypochondroplasia
None of the above
Which Indian singer recently entered the

Guinness Book of World Records for most

Single Studio Recordings?
Lata Mangeshkar
Asha Bhosle
Jagjit Singh
Banumathi
Who recently became the first woman to

command warship in the United Kingdom naval

history?
Lieutenant Commander Eileen Kripps
Lieutenant Commander Riya S. Crimson
Lieutenant Commander Sarah West
None of the above
Which technology giant recently dethroned

Exxon to become the most valuable public

company in the world?
Apple
Google
Amazon
Groupon
Which Chinese swimmer recently broke the

oldest World record in the history of the

sport, to win 1500 meters freestyle in 14

minutes 34.14 seconds at the FINA World

Championships in Shanghai?
Ryan Cochrane
Gergo Kis
None of these
Sun Yang
Asia’s longest solar power plant,

recently inaugurated in Gujarat, is built

by ?
Moser Baer
Tata-BP Solar
Astonfield
None of the above
The world’s longest periscope was

recently built for Indira Gandhi Centre for

Atomic Research (IGCAR) at
Chennai
Kalpakkam
Sivakasi
Hyderabad
According to the social networking

website Twitter, which of the following

events created the world record of 7,196

tweets per second?
Copa America quarterfinal match between Brazil and Paraguay
Women’s World Cup final between Japan and United States
Osama Bin Laden’s death
Super Bowl
Who was recently elected as Thailand’s

first woman Prime Minister?
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
Dilma Rousseff
Julia Gillard
Yingluck Shinawatra
The third edition of India Aviation

2012, international exhibition and

conference on civil aviation was organized

in ?
New Delhi
Chandigarh
Hyderabad
Chennai
 Kyoto Protocol, the first phase of which

will end in 2012, came into force in ?
1997
2000
2005
2009
2014 Commonwealth Games will be held in ?
Glasgow (Scotland)
New Delhi (India)
Islamabad (Pakistan)
none of these
17. The first ever Indo-US Higher Education

Summit was held in ?
Washington, D.C.
Houston
New York
Los Angeles
Gangasagar Mela, known as the second

largest congregation of mankind, second only

to the Kumbha Mela, was recently held at ?
Haridwar
Nasik
Ujjain
Sagar Island
The 18th Annual Congress of the Indian

Society of Critical Care Medicine, or

CritiCare 2012, was recently held in ?
Nagpur
Ahmadabad
Pune
Darbhanga
The 15th World Sanskrit Conference

organized jointly by Rashtriya Sanskrit

Sansthan and Indian Association of Sanskrit

Studies was recently held in ?
Haridwar
Coimbatore
New Delhi
Amritsar
 Which country became a major non-NATO

ally of the United States recently.
Japan
Israel
Pakistan
Afganistan
The International Conference on

Nanoscience and Technology (ICONSET – 2012)

was recently held in ?
Bangalore
Indore
Hyderabad
New Delhi
Name the 14th Dalai Lama, who was in

India recently to attend a Buddhist

Conference in New Delhi.
Thubten Gyatso
Tenzin Gyatso
Khedrup Gyatso
Trinley Gyatso
India, United States of America and

…………… held the first of its kind trilateral

meeting in Washington on December 19.
China
Japan
Russia
Sweden
Who among the following has been

appointed as chairman of expert Committee on

GAAR for examining issues ion General Anti-

Avoidance rules (GAAR)?
Sudhir Gupta
C. Rangrajan
N. Rangachary
Parthasarathi Shome
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