Quiz 45 on Current Affairs 2014-15 for SSC CGL, UPSC, IBPS, MAT, CAT and other competitive exams

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ

Piyush “Bobby” Jindal, a Republican U.S.

politician of Indian origin, has recently been

re-elected as the Governor of
Minnesota
Texas
Alaska
Louisiana
Indo-Canadian Karna Gupta has been

appointed as the President and CEO of ?
Certicom Corp.
Bell Canada
Softchoice Corp.
Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC)
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.N. Kaul
V.K. Shunglu
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
Which Indian company has recently been

awarded the American Society for Training and

Development (ASTD) BEST award?
Infosys
Wipro
InfoTech
TCS
A.K. Khan, the acting President of ……………. Stepped down in March, 2012 in wake of allegations of financial mismanagement.
Cricket South Africa
Pakistan Cricket Board
Afghanistan Cricket Board
New Zealand Cricket
Which country recently dissolved its cricket board amidst allegations of corruption and mismanagement?
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Zimbabwe
England
Novak Djokovic defeated ............... to win the Serbia Open.
Feliciano Lopez
Del Potro
Rafael Nadal
None of the above
Which of the following Indian cricketers was not in the ‘All Time Greatest Test Team’ released by ICC recently?
Sachin Tendulkar
Virender Sehwag
Anil Kumble
All of the above cricketers were in the list.
Who recently became the first Indian to win the Canadian Junior World Tennis Championships?
Ambika Khursheed
Ambika Pande
Tanushree Charkha
None of the above
Jacques Rogge is the current President of ?
London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG)
International Olympic Committee
International Paralympic Committee
Only (a) and (b)
Who won the 1st Hangzhou Women Grandmaster Chess Tournament, concluded in China?
Ju Wenjun
Dronavalli Harika
Koneru Humpy
Padmini Rout
Vijay Hazare Cricket Trophy, also known as the Ranji One Day Trophy, was lifted by ……………. in 2012 by defeating Mumbai in the finals.
Rajasthan
Madhya Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
West Bengal
Who has been appointed as the coach of the Argentinean National Football team after their early exit from Copa America?
Diego Maradona
Kliaster Campbell
Alejandro Sabella
None of the above
 Ogrodnik, India’s athletics coach who was fired due to the doping fiasco, is from which country?
Ukraine
Jamaica
USA
Cuba
............... was recently re-elected as the Secretary General of Olympic Council of Asia for the sixth consecutive term.
Randhir Singh
A.B. Yadav
Nirupama Sen
None of the above
Who was recently appointed as the coach of the Sri Lankan Cricket Team?
Arjuna Ranatunga
Sanath Jayasuriya
Rumesh Ratnayake
Trevor Bayliss
Which U.S. football coach was removed recently, thus paving way for Jurger Klinsmann?
Bob Bradley
Carlos Bocanegra
Cabi Jones
None of the above
The newly appointed Manager of West Indies under-19 cricket team is ?
Courtney Walsh
Brian Lara
Michael Holding
Garry Sobers
Who was recently elected as the President of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA)?v
Dilip Vengsarkar
Ravi Shastri
Sunil Gavaskar
Vilasrao Deshmukh
 Name the newly appointed assistant coach of the Indian National Hockey team.
Mukesh Kumar
Dhanraaj Pillai
None of the above
Michael Nobbs
 Who has been appointed as the official ambassador of the FIFA World Cup, 2014?
Ronaldinho
Zico
Pele
Ronaldo
India’s new hockey coach is ?
Jack Nobbs
Sean Collings
Dhanraj Pillai
Joaquim Carvalho
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