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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Quiz 64: on Current Affairs 2014-15 for SSC CGL, UPSC, IBPS, MAT, CAT and other competitive exams









GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ


‘Non-Stop India’ is the recently released book authored by which BBC presenter?


Charlie Stayt

Susanna Reid

Riz Lateef

Mark Tully

‘Bhagwad Gita As It Is’, which was put on trial on the llegations of religious extremism, is the Russian translation of Bhagwad Gita, and has been authored by

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Hunsadatta Swami

Tamal Krishna Goswami

Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

 Anjali Joseph bagged the Desmond Elliot prize for which of the following books?

The Empty Family

Saraswati Park

A Palace of Old Village

None of the above

Mamoni Baideo is/was another name of which Assamese poet and writer?

Navakanta Barua

Samir Tanti

Indira Goswami

Jiban Narah

‘My Kashmir: The Dying of a Light’ is authored by

Satyanand Mishra

Dhiraj Mittal

Wajahat Habibullah

None of the above

Which Indian politician is the author of the recently launched book ‘Vikas ke Path’?

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Nitin Gadkari

Shivraj Singh Chauhan

Narendra Modi

Who is the CEO of the Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee (CGOC) of India?

Suresh Kalmadi

Anshul Grover

V.K. Malhotra

Jarnail Singh

 Name the present Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).

Prakash Chandra

Laxman Das

M.C. Joshi

U.C. Sarangi

Herman Van Rompuy is the President of ……………. and represented European Union in the 12th India-EU Summit, held in New Delhi in February, 2012.

European Union

European Council

European Commission

European Central Bank

R.K. Tyagi is the newly appointed Chairman of ……………., one of Asia’s largest aerospace companies.

Indian Space Research Organization

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

ESA

JAXA

Who is the current Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)?

W. Ashwini Kumar

Amar Pratap Singh

U.S. Mishra

Hemant Priyadarshy

Pakistan has appointed Lieutenant-General Zahirul Islam as the new Director-General of

ISI

Supplies and Disposal

Shipping

Pakistan Armed Forces

Who was recently appointed as the first Managing Director of BrahMos Aerospace Thiruvananthapuram Limited (BATL) in January, 2012?

J.N. Shah

Rear Admiral (retd.) Julius Zacharias

Rear Admiral Deepak Bali

Rear Admiral G. Ashok Kumar

how much money has been sanctioned for development of kole land

170.54 crore

176.98 crore

180.21 crore

183.76 crore

Manohar Parrikar has recently been elected as the Chief Minister of …………… for the third time.

Goa

Jharkhand

Uttar Pradesh

Uttarakhand

Gopalkrishna Gandhi, former Governor, has recently been appointed as the Chairman of

Indian Institute of Advanced Study

Indian Institute of Banking and Finance

Indian Institute of Science

Institute of Company Secretaries of India

Who amongst the following is the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in India?

Kumari Selja

Salman Khurshid

Rajeev Shukla

G.K. Vasan

James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, recently stepped down as the Executive Chairman of ?

News Corp

News International

News of the World

Times Newspapers Ltd.

 Who has been appointed as the Chief of Army Staff, the position whose charge he will be taking from May 31st, 2012?

Gen. V.K. Singh

Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh

Gen. Deepak Kapoor

None of the above

 C.K. Matthew has recently been appointed as the Chief Secretary of

Madhya Pradesh

Assam

Himachal Pradesh

Rajasthan

Irina Bokova is the current Director-General of ?

NATO

WHO

UNCTAD

UNESCO

Salil Shetty is the current Secretary-General of ?

International Labour Organization (ILO)

International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Amnesty International

None of the above

Mr. Juan Somavia is the current Director-General ofMr. Juan Somavia is the current Director-General of

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

International Labour Organization (ILO)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

 Name the current Chairperson of the Children Film Society of India.

Nandita Das

Leela Samson

Shabana Azmiv

Madhuri Dixit

Vijay Bahuguna, recently sworn in as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, belongs to which political party?

Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)

Indian National Congress

Bahujan Samaj Party

Communist Party of India (Marxist)




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