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Quiz 63: on Current Affairs 2014-15 for SSC CGL, UPSC, IBPS, MAT, CAT and other competitive exams









GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ


Dr. C. Chandra Mouli is the current …………… of India.


Foreign Secretary

Chairman of Investment Commission

Chairman of National Forest Commission

Registrar-General and Census Commissioner

Name the Padma Shri awardee who is also the Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

Prof. Shantha Sinha

Prof. K. Subba Rao

Prof. Bikash Chandra Sinha

Prof. Amitav Malik

Which former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of  India is the current Chairman of National Forest Commission?

Justice (retd.) R.C. Lahoti

Justice (retd.) K.G. Balakrishnan

Justice (retd.) B.N. Kirpal

Justice (retd.) Gopal Ballav Pattanaik

…………… is the current Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

G. Madhavan Nair

K. Radhakrishnan

K. Kasturirangan

None of the above

Name the Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes.

Justice M.N. Rao

Urmila Singh

P.L. Punia

None of the above

Yulia Tymoshenko is the ex-Prime Minister of …………… who was arrested recently on charges of contempt of court.

Nigeria

Nicaragua

South Africa

Ukraine

M.S. Rana is the newly appointed CMD of

NMDC

ICICI

BHEL

SAIL

Jaydeep N Shah is the newly appointed head of

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)

Bar Council of India (BCI)

Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI)

Medical Council of India (MCI)

Lt. Gen. Ramesh Halgali has been appointed as the new …………… of the Indian Army.

Chief

Deputy Chief

General Officer Commanding-in-Chief

None of the above

Emil Boc, a prominent politician, recently resigned as
the Prime Minister of ?


Egypt

Somalia

South Sudan

Romania

Name the newly appointed Director General Military
Operations (DGMO) of India ?


Lt. Gen. Anand Mohan Verma

Lt. Gen. K.T. Parnaik

Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh

Lt. Gen. Ashok Kumar Chaudhary

Cristina Fernandez has recently been re-elected as the President of

Indonesia

Argentina

Trinidad and Tobago

Thailand

Otto Perez Molina has recently been elected as the President of

Barbados

Guatemala

Haiti

Papua New Guinea

Abdelilah Benkirane was recently appointed as the
Prime Minister of …………… in November, 2011.


Norway

Austria

Morocco

Australia

Who has been reappointed as the Secretary General of the  Commonwealth of Nations for the 2nd consecutive term?

Kamalesh Sharma

Sir Don McKinnon

Chief Emeka Anyaoku

none of these

Sudhir Vasudeva is the newly appointed Chairman and Managing Director of

ONGC

BHEL

SAIL

GAIL

 Name the Chairman of London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) which is overseeing the planning and development of London Olympics, 2012?

Sir Keith Mills

Meredith Alexander

Sebastian Coe

Sir Philip Craven

 Name the current Prime Minister of Iraq.

Nouri al-Maliki

Ayad Allawi

Ibrahim al-Jaafari

None of the above

Who will head the SEBI Investor Protection and Education Fund, the eight member advisory committee formed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India ?

Dr. S.K. Sarin

M.V. Kamath

K.V. Kamath

Atul Naik

Who was recently elected as the President of Ireland?

Martin McGuiness

Sean Gallagher

Michael D. Higgins

Gay Mitchell

Gurudas Kamat resigned after the recent Cabinet reshuffle. What was his new responsibility?

Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation

Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology

Minister of State for Railways

Minister of State for Environment and Forests

Who is the current External Affairs Minister of India?

F.S. Nariman

S.M. Krishna

Pranab Mukherjee

Natwar Singh

 Muhammad Yunus, Noble Prize winner and the Founder and Managing Director of …………… was recently ousted from the bank on allegations of irregularities.

Bandhan

Grameen Koota

Grameen Bank

Microcredit Foundation of India

 Who was asked to form a new government in Italy, following the  resignation of the erstwhile Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi?

Giorgio Napolitano

Mario Monti

Neelie Kroes

Karel Van Miert

Name the President of the World Bank, who has decided to step down in June, 2012.

Robert Zoellick

Hillary Clinton

Paul Wolfowitz

None of the above




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