Quiz 17 on Current Affairs 2014-15 for SSC CGL, UPSC, IBPS, MAT, CAT and other competitive exams

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ

World Press Freedom Day was celebrated on:
4 May
7 May
2 May
3 May
What is a GDP growth percent does Reserve Bank of India has projected for 2013-14?
5.6%
5.7%
4.5%
4.6%
Who become the first Pakistani women to scale the Everest?
Samina Baig
Khalida Begam
Shabina khan
Noor Bano
Who is the new Comptroller and Auditor General of India?
Deepak Agarwal
Mayank Nagar
Shashi Kant Sharna
none
Who becomes the first woman speaker of Bangladesh?
Shabana Khan
Salma Hayak
Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury
Zia khan
Who is the new president of Bangladesh?
Abdul Hamid
Wasim khan
Hamid Zia
Mohammad Akhtar
Who is the new Prime Minister of North Korea?
Zen Chung
Ziang Jhe
Pak Pong-ju
none
Who is the new Prime Minister of Nepal?
Phiel Nunja
Khil Raj Regmi
Josa Akbi
Huyte Gute
Where in Haryana India’s first defence university is to be setup?
Bhivani
Gurgaon
Chandigad
none
The Reserve Bank of India on May 4 reduced the Repo rate to:
7.00%
6.25%
7.25%
none
World Asthma Day was observed on:
7 May
6 May
9 May
8 May
The sixth commodity platform that went live on 19 April 2013 with 100 members on board.
Multi Commodity Exchange
Universal Commodity Exchange
Ace Commodity Exchange
National Multi Commodity Exchange
 The company’s retail outlet entered into the Guinness World Records when it opened record 315 outlets in 10 states of India, just at one time on 1 April 2013?
Reliance
TaTa
Mahindra and Mahindra
Sahara India Pariwar
The Railway Budget 2013-14 has proposed to introduce a new hyper luxury class to be called
Udaan
Anand
Apoorva
Anubhuti
The film has won the award in the best film category at the BAFTA award 2013.
Life of Pie
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Argo
World Press Freedom Day is observed on ____?
ISRO
NASA
Japanese Space Agency
European Space Agency
World Press Freedom Day is observed on ____?
3 may
13 may
2 april
6 june
Who among the following has won the Whitley Award for a project to conserve “Hornbill” bird in Arunachal Pradesh State?
Ravindra Sakia
Anupam Sarmah
Aparajita Datta
NeeraJ Baunthiyal
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station in Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu with a capacity of generating ____?
2000mw
3000mw
5000mw
10000mw

Recently which among the following government has introduced ‘Shiksha Setu cards ’..... a report card to assess the performance of students to teachers and guardians/parents in Government schools?

Rajasthan
Bihar
Panjab
Hariyana
Indian Govt. has approved the proposal of providing loans to Woman Self-Help Groups (SHGs) at a lower interest rate of ___% to eradicate poverty through women empowerment Recently
7
8
7.5
8.5

which service was recently stopped permanently by Indian post?
money order
ppf
telegram
international letters
which statements are CORRECT about CAG of India?

(i) Shashi Kant Sharma is appointed as 12th CAG of india.
(ii) CAG is appointed for only 5 years
(i) and (ii)
(i) only
(ii) only
none of these
who gave the ruling that "Human DNA segments" can not be patented?
Supreme court of India
France supreme court
U.K. Supreme court
supreme court of USA
who was chairman of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) during uttarakhand floods of 2013?
Shashidhar Reddy
Man Mohan Singh
P. Chidambram
Sushil kumar Shinde
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