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Quiz 83: on Current Affairs 2014-15 for SSC CGL, UPSC, IBPS, MAT, CAT and other competitive exams









GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ


Who recently became the first Indian to win the
‘Special Book Award’, the highest literary award of China?


Arundhati Roy

Chetan Bhagat

Prof. B.R. Deepak

Prof. K.P. Sudheer

Which Indian-American has recently been appointed
as the Senior Advisor to the U.S. State Department?   


Mitul Desai

Naveen Junaid

Nikki Haley

Kamala Harris

Which Indian movie found a place in the list of the ‘All
Time 25-Best Sports Movies’, compiled by Time
Magazine?


Chak de India

Lagaan

Iqbal

42 Kms

Who amongst the following do not figure in the list of
the 50 most influential people released by New
Statesman?


Ratan Tata

Anil Ambani

Sonia Gandhi

Tim Cook

Rajat Kumar Gupta was recently arrested by the FBI
on insider trading charges. He was the former Managing
Director of:


Bain and Company

The Boston Consulting Group

McKinsey & Company

All of the above

Name the newly appointed British Deputy High
Commissioner representing United Kingdom in
Karnataka.


Richard Hyde

Ross Reid

Ian Felton

None of the above

Name the President of the Centre for American
Progress, a public policy research and advocacy
organization of the United States of America.


Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Satish K. Tripathi

C.M. Naim

Neera Tandon

Vikramjit Singh Sahney, Corporate President of Sun
International, has recently been selected as the President
of:


FICCI

SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry

ILO

None of the above

Piyush “Bobby” Jindal, a Republican U.S. politician of
Indian origin, has recently been re-elected as the
Governor of:


Minnesota

Texas

Alaska

Louisiana

Who was recently appointed as the first Sikh judge of
the Royal Courts of Justice in U.K.?


Rabinder Singh QC

Mota Singh QC

Harendra Singh QC

None of the above

Who has recently been appointed by the United
Nations as the Chairman of its panel of external auditors?


V.K. Shunglu

V.N. Kaul

Vinod Rai

C.G. Somiah

Who has recently been appointed as the new
Chairman of the Asian Organization of Supreme Audit
Institutions (ASOSAI)?


Vinod Rai

Pranab Mukherjee

V.N. Kaul

V.K. Shunglu

 Who recently became the first Indian officer to be
inducted into the ‘Hall of Fame’ of U.S. Army War College,
Carlisle, USA?


Gen. J.J. Singh

Gen. V.K. Singh

Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh

None of the above

R.C. Bhargava, the Chairman of …………… has been
awarded ‘The Order of Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star’ by
The Emperor of Japan in November, 2011.


Hyundai India

Maruti Suzuki India

Mahindra and Mahindra

Tata Motors

Planning commission claimed that poverty in India is reduced. Which poverty measurement it used?

tendulkar committee poverty index

N C Saxena poverty definition

socio economic caste census 2011

word bank poverty index

which Hindi movie was released first time in 10 different languages?

3 idiots

ek tha tiger

chennai express

dabangg 2

what is correct about Food Security Bill?

A. It provide food entitlement based on Household approach.
B. It provide food entitlement based on Per Capita approach


A

B

Both

None

who is appointed new Governor of RBI on august 2013 for 3 years?

C rangarajan

shubba rao

raghuram rajan

Bimal Jalan

the nodal agency for estimating the number of percentage of people living below poverty line is-------- ?

ministry of rural development

ministry of finance

national development council (NDC)

planning commission

the kathchatheevu island belongs to which among the folllowing countries ?

china

india

Bangladesh

sri lanka

the 2013 , SAARC literature festival was hosted by____   ?

agra

jaipur

kathmandu

thimpu

barauni thermal power project is located in ?

bihar

rajasthan

Himachal Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

tagore award for cultural harmony for the year 2012 was coferred on ______?

Zakir hussain

Pandit Ravi Shankar

Hariprasad Chaurasia

Amjad Ali Khan

pandit ravi shankar , who died recently ,was a well known exponent of 

santoor

sarod

sitar tabla

sitar

which among the following ministries have recently launched the rajiv rinn yojana (RRY) ?

Ministry of social justice and empowerment

minisries of rural development

Ministry of housing & urban poverty alleviation (HUPA)

Ministy of Panchayat raj




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