Quiz 35 on Current Affairs 2014-15 for SSC CGL, UPSC, IBPS, MAT, CAT and other competitive exams

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ

Name the area of incursion where

Chinese and Indian troops faced a standoff

with each other for more than a weeks’

time?
Kunlun Mountain Range
Lamayuru Gompa
Phyang Gompa
Daulat Beg Oldi sector
Libya’s parliament on 5 May 2013

passed a comprehensive law which bans

anyone who served as a senior official

under Muammar Gaddafi during his 42 year-

long rule from working in government.

Which of the following statements related

to the Political Isolation Law in the

country is true?
I. The law was partially driven by the

unpopularity of Libya’s current crop of

politicians among many of the still-

powerful former rebels who toppled

Gaddafi, and others who say little has

improved since. Backers of the law say it

is necessary to complete the revolution.
II. The law will not affect a number of

ambassadors, heads of governmental

agencies, professors and media

professionals on government payrolls.
III. Security officials such as the

military’s chief of staff Maj. Gen.

Youssef Mangoush, once a Special Forces

commander under Gaddafi, may also come

under the law. He quit his post 10 years

before the uprising began and sided with

rebels during the war.
IV. The law states that parliamentarians

who lose their post will be replaced by

either the next name on the party list or

by the independent candidate who came in

second in a district. This could benefit

many Islamists, who trailed in the

elections and came in second in many

districts.
Statements I, II, and III are true
Statements I, III and IV are true
Statements I, II and IV are true
Statements II and III are true
Three Government ships of China in May

2013 entered into waters of Senkaku

islands, which are disputed and controlled

by Tokyo. The surveillance ships of China

sailed 12-nautical-mile zone off the

Senkaku islands that is also known as

__________ by China.
Hokkaido
Honshu
Diaoyu
Ryukyu
 Bermuda and other British overseas

territories on 1 May 2013 signed deals

with financial centres on

sharing___________.
Tax information
Tourism Activity
Budget Information
New laws to strengthen the economy of respective territories
Carbon Nanotubes
Carbon Aerogel
Lead
Granite
Name the first Indigenous developed

Rotavirus Vaccine of India.
Rotacid
Rotovac
Rotavac
Rotomid

64. Name the technique that was used in

generation of first Cloned Human Embryo by

the American Scientists?
Somatic Cell Nuclear transfer technique
Nuclear transfer Somatic Cell technique
None of the above
Nuclear transfer technique for Somatic Cell
Scientists of which country created

the smallest droplets of the world?
Poland
England
US
Switzerland
The European Union made decision in

May 2013 to impose a continent-wide ban on

the Pesticides namely neonicotinoids to

help which species of insects?
Honey Bees
Ants
Beetle
Lady Bird
Name the Legendary Footballer and

Former England captain who on 16 May 2013

announced his retirement from professional

football and gave an end to his

illustrious career of more than two

decades.
Ashley Cole
Wayne Rooney
Steven Gerrad
David Beckham
Which Cricketer from England was named the England cricketer-of-the-year for 2012-13, in an acknowledgement of the Sussex wicket-keeper\'s consistency with both bat and gloves?
Alastair Cook
Matt Prior
Stuart Board
James Anderson
59. Name the place, where the meet between

International Olympic Committee (IOC) and

Indian Olympic Association (IOA) was held

to identify the principle on a roadmap to

bring India back in the Olympic Fold?
New Delhi
Geneva
Lausanne
Kiruna
Name the IPL team from which the three

cricketers Shreesanth, Ajit Chadila and

Ankeet Chavan arrested by Special Cell of

Delhi Police belong?
Kings XI Punjab
Delhi Daredevils
Chennai Super Kings
Rajasthan Royals
 Name the three cricketers who were

arrested by the special cell of Delhi on

the alleged spot fixing charges during the

sixth edition of Indian Premier League?
Shreesanth, Ajit Chadila and Ankeet Chavan
Shreesanth, Ajit Chadila and Ajinkya Rahane
Shreesanth, Ajinkya Rahane and Ankeet Chavan
Shreesanth, Mohit Khurana and Ankeet Chavan
What is the name of six huge wildfires

that broke out in California on 2 May 2013

near Camarillo?
McNally Fire
Esperanza Fire
Camarillo Springs Wildfire
Cedar Fire
The scientists at the North Dakota

State University developed a process

called _________ which can help embed the

radio frequency identification (RFID)

chips on the paper. Fill in the blank with

an appropriate option.
Plasma Etcher Process
Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Process
Electromagnetic Induction Process
Laser Enabled Advanced Packaging
The IBM scientists on 1 May 2013

released the smallest movie of the world.

What is the name of this movie?
Atoms and Their Life
Atoms and a Boy
A Boy and His Atom
The Smallest Atom
US Scientists at the Harvard

University created a robot of the size of

fly. What is the name of this robot?
Robotic Fly
Robo-Fly
Fly-Robot
Fly Me
The US team of scientists found the

mechanism which is responsible for the

ageing process. Where is this mechanism

located?
Inside the face
Inside the skin
Inside the brain
Inside the heart
Name the body of Afghanistan appointed

by Hamid Karzai to negotiate with elements

of the Taliban for Afghanistan Peace and

Reintegration Program.
High Peace Council
Peace Council of Afghanistan
Afghanistan peace Council
The Peace Council for Afghan negotiation
United State of America on 18 June

2013 announced that it will held direct

peace talks with Taliban. The announcement

from US came after Taliban opened its

first political office at ______________.

The office has been opened to help in

ending the 12 years old conflict. To bring

the talks in process, US agreed to drop

the series of preconditions that have held

back the negotiations, previously.
Doha, Qatar
Dubai
Yemen
Oman
Name the school with which Indian

embassy signed an MoU to help in

development of the school building in

Nepal.
Nepal Higher Secondary School
Kapilvastu School for Secondary Education
Shree Higher Secondary School
Janak Higher Secondary School
When was the Nepal-India Economic

Cooperation Programme launched?
1964
2001
2011
1951
India signed an agreement for loan of

__________ million US dollars with World

Bank for the National AIDS Control Project

(NACP-IV) in New Delhi on 18 June 2013.

The Objective of the project is to

increase safe behaviors among high risk

groups in order to contribute to India’s

national goal of reversal of the HIV

epidemic by 2017.
300
255
225
150
Trail of the seven Pakistanis

including Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi LeT

Commander, who are the prime accused of

the 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacks in June

2013 was shifted to a new antiterrorism

court in ___________from the antiterrorism

court in Rawalpindi.
Lahore
Multan
Islamabad
Baluchistan
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