CURRENT AFFAIRS AND GK QUIZ - 4

CURRENT AFFAIRS AND GK QUIZ - 4

1. The 2013, SAARC literature festival was hosted by__:

[A]Agra                                   [B]Jaipur

[C]Thimpu                               [D]Khatmandu

2. Recently, which among the following countries was in news for a current designing of world's largest magnet, weighing 50,000 tonnes?

[A]China                                 [B]Japan

[C]India                                  [D]Australia

3. The Katchatheevu island belongs to which among the following countries?

[A]China                                 [B]India

[C]Bangladesh                         [D]Sri Lanka

4. Who among the following is the current chairman of the Goods and Services Tax ( GST) Network (As of March 2013)?

[A]Suresh Bharadwaj             [B]Navin Kumar

[C]Sushil Kumar Modi           [D]Pankaj Mishra

5. The nodal agency for estimating the number of percentage of people living below poverty line is__:

[A]Ministry of Rural Development

[B]Ministry of Finance

[C]National Development Council (NDC)

[D]Planning Commission

6. A recently released report by Tata Strategic Management Group, keeps which among the following states on highest place in the Female Security Index (FSI)?

[A]Andhra Pradesh                 [B]Himachal Pradesh

[C]Tamil Nadu                        [D]Gujarat

7.The Pan-STARRS, which is recently in news is a _?

[A]Dwarf star                         [B]Comet

[C]Asteroid                             [D]Planet

8. Who among the following is the head of the six-member committee constituted by the union government to prepare a blueprint for the proposed women's bank?

[A]Arundhati Bhattacharya    [B]K. Ramakrishnan

[C]M.B.N. Rao                       [D]Jayshree Vyas

9. Recently, which among the following State government has announce a new scheme called Kanyasri Prakalpa, to encourage girls towards higher education?

[A]Bihar                                  [B]Uttar Pradesh

[C]West Bengal                      [D]Odisha

10.The Nachiarkoil brass lamp, which recently obtained geographical indication (GI) tag is available in ____________?

[A]Karnataka                          [B]Kerala

[C]Tamil Nadu                        [D]Andhra Pradesh

11. Who among the following is known as “Father of Pentium Chip”?

[A]Sugata Mitra                      [B]Vinod Dham

[C]Ajit Balakrishnan               [D]Ajay V. Bhatt

12. Who among the following is known as “The father of India’s communication revolution“?

[A]Nandan Nilekani               [B]Azim Premji

[C]Narayana Murthy               [D]Sam Pitroda

13. Also sometimes known as ‘Father of fiber optics‘, which among the following Indian personalities has been honoured by the Fortune magazine as one of the

seven ‘Unsung Heroes‘?

[A]Narinder Singh Kapany     [B]Krishna Bharat

[C]Sashi Reddi                       [D]Vinod Khosla

14. Who among the following is appointed as the Mission Director for the ambitious Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) scheme?

[A]Deepak Kumar                   [B]Saurav Goel

[C]Sindhushree Khullar            [D]Akhil Batra

15. Who among the following is the head of the 16-member committee set by the SEBI to suggest new rules for dealing with insider trading?

[A]Rajeev Luthra                         [B]N K Sodhi

[C]Arundhati Bhattacharya           [D]Menaka Doshi

16. Hugo Chavez, who recently passed away was the President of ___________?

[A]Colombia               [B]Argentina

[C]Venezuela              [D]Chile

17. Which among the following is the first in India to receive Rs.25 lakh as carbon credits from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)?

[A]Dwarka composting plant

[B]Gurgaon composting plant

[C]Faridabad composting plant

[D]Okhla composting plant

18. Who among the following will become the second president in Africa to be indicted by the ICC - after Sudan's Omar al-Bashir?

[A]Raila Odinga                     [B]George Saitoti

[C]Uhuru Kenyatta                 [D]Joshua Sang

19. Recently, the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee has released the Commemorative Postage Stamp on Sahir Ludhianvi. Sahir Ludhianvi was a wellknown ?

[A]Urdu poet                          [B]Kannada poet

[C]Tamil poet                          [D]Malayalam poet

20. Which among the following countries is the 1st largest ‘spam spewing nation’ in world?

[A]United States                     [B]India

[C]China                                 [D]Russia

ANSWERS 

1	A		6	D	11	B	16     C
2	C		7	B	12	D	17     D
3	D		8	C	13	A	18     C
4	B		9	C	14	C	19     A
5	D		10	C	15	B	20     A