current affairs mcq compendium-january 2014

Current Affairs

Compendium: January

2014

SET 1 1.Raghunath A Mashelkar won “Padma Vibhushan

Award 2014″ from ______ field in January 2014.

A) Public Affairs

B) Literature and Education

C) Science and Engineering

D) Art—Cinema

2.Which country formally joined the euro zone,

becoming the 18th member of the group of EU states

which uses the euro as its currency in Jan 2014?

A) Ukraine

B) Turkey

C) Latvia

D) Kazakisthan

3.Which news channel won the “Best News Channel

of the Year (English)” award in the ENBA Awards 2013

announced in Jan 2014?

A) Headlines Today

B) Times Now

C) NDTV 24X7

D) CNN-IBN

4.Who took over as the Air Force chief in Jan 2014?

A) Arup Raha

B) NAK Browne

C) Devendra Kumar Joshi

D) Pradeep Vasant Naik

5.Which film won the “Best Film” award in Film Fare

Award 2014 presented in January 2014?

A) The Lunchbox

B) Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

C) Chennai Express

D) Special 26

6.India’s National Voters Day was observed on?

A) 26th Jan

B) 15th Jan

C) 25th Jan

D) 30th Jan

7 .Market regulator SEBI has appointed whom as the

new MD and CEO of MCX-SX in Jan 2014?

A) Saurabh Sarkar

B) Jigneesh Shah

C) Manoj Vaish

D) Joseph Massey

8.Who was honoured with the Best Scientist Award of

Science-Tech Foundation (STF), Bangalore for the year

2013, announced in Jan 2014.

A) T. V. Ramakrishnan

B) CNR Rao

C) B. Mahipal Reddy

D) M. R. S. Rao

9.Indian government has cancelled a USD 753 million

helicopter deal with which company after allegations

of corruption in Jan 2014?

A) Boeing

B) Sukhoi

C) Lockhead Martin

D) Finmeccanica

10 .Who has been chosen for the South American

footballer of the year in the annual poll conducted by

the Uruguayan daily El Pais in Jan 2014?

A) Kaka

B) Lionel Messi

C) Ronaldinho

D) Neymar

11. Former ________ CFO and Board Member V

Balakrishnan joined the Aam Admi Party in Jan 2014.

A) TCS

B) HCL Technologies

C) Wipro

D) Infosys

12.Which has launched skill development program

named as ‘Udaan’ for youths in Jammu and Kashmir in

co-ordination with NSDC (National Skill Development

Corporation) and the Government of Jammu &

Kashmir (J&K) in Jan 2014?

A) State Bank of India

B) Canara Bank

C) Punjab National Bank

D) Central Bank of India

13 .Who took charge as the new Chairman and

Managing Director of PSU Company Rashtriya Ispat

Nigam Ltd (RINL) in Jan 2014?

A) P. Madhusudan

B) A.P Choudhury

C) S.K. Sharma

D) Arun Kumar Gupta

14.Who won “Best Director” award in Film Fare Award

2014 presented in January 2014?

A) Ritesh Batra

B) Abhishek Kapoor

C) Rohit Shetty

D) Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

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15 .Who took charge as the Chairman and Managing

Director of defence public sector Bharat Electronics

Ltd in Jan 2014?

A) P. Madhusudan

B) A.P Choudhury

C) S.K. Sharma

D) Arun Kumar Gupta

16 .India’s core sector output, consisting of eight key

sectors, growth stood at _______ in November

(announced in Jan 2014).

A) 2.4%

B) 5.8%

C) 1.7%

D) 3.1%

17 .Expert Committee constituted by Information and

Broadcasting Ministry to review the institutional

framework of Prasar Bharti has submitted its report.

The committee was headed by _________.

A) Ashok Hegde

B) Sam Pitroda

C) Montek Singh Ahluwalia

D) Arun Maira

18 .World anti Leprosy Day is observed on?

A) 10th Jan

B) 15th Jan

C) 25th Jan

D) 30th Jan

19 .Justice A.K. Ganguly resigned from the post of

honorary professor of the National University of

Juridical Sciences after allegations of sexual

harassment against him in Jan 2014. He was Human

Rights Commission chairman of which state?

A) Assam

B) Bihar

C) West Bengal

D) Oddisa

20.Which news channel won the “News Channel of

the Year (Hindi)” award in the ENBA Awards 2013

announced in Jan 2014?

A) Star News

B) Aaj Tak

C) NDTV

D) None of These

21.Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX) has

appointed whom as its new Managing Director and

Chief Executive Officer in Jan 2014?

A) Saurabh Sarkar

B) Jigneesh Shah

C) Manoj Vaish

D) Joseph Massey

22.Who won “Best Actor” award in Film Fare Award


A) Nawazuddin Siddiqui

B) Rajkumar Rao

C) Farhan Akhtar

D) Dhanush K Raja

23 .Bharti Retail has appointed whom as its Chief

Executive Officer in Jan 2014?

A) Raj Jain

B) Pankaj Madan

C) Munish Sharda

D) Manoj Vaish

24 .“World Braille Day” is observed on

_____________.

A) 12-Jan

B) 4-Jan

C) 24-Jan

D) 8-Jan

25. India’s largest software services company Tata

Consultancy Services (TCS) announced to set up the

world’s largest corporate learning and development

centre in __________ in Jan 2014.

A) Thiruvananthapuram,

B) Kochin

C) Mysore

D) Mangalore

26. Which country won the Under-19 Asia Cup Cricket

title held in Jan 2014?

A) Pakistan

B) India

C) Sri Lanka

D) Bangladesh

27. Who won the the recent Bangladesh Parliament

election held in Jan 2014?

A) Hussain Muhammad Ershad

B) Sheikh Hasina

C) Khaleda Zia

D) None of These

28. Legendary football player Eusebio da Silva Ferreira

passed away in Jan 2014. He played international

football for which country?

A) Spain

B) Portugal

C) France

D) Italy

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29. Who has been appointed as President of National

Association of Software and Service Companies

(NASSCOM) in January 2014?

A) Som Mittal

B) Krish Gopalakrishnan

C) R. Chandrashekhar

D) None of These

30 .Who won “Best Actor (Critics)” award in Film Fare

Award 2014 presented in January 2014?

A) Nawazuddin Siddiqui

B) Rajkumar Rao

C) Farhan Akhtar

D) Dhanush K Raja

31. B K S Iyengar won “Padma Vibhushan Award 2014″

from ______ field in January 2014.

A) Public Affairs


C) Yoga

D) Art—Cinema

32. India’s Martyrs’ Day is observed on?

A) 10th Jan

B) 15th Jan

C) 25th Jan

D) 30th Jan

33. Which Indian squash player won the Open du Gard

squash title, the PSA Challenger 5 event in Jan 2014?

A) Heena Sidhu

B) Saurav Ghosal

C) Mahesh Mangaonkar

D) Dipika Pallikal

34. Which Indian shuttler has become the first male

junior badminton player from India to be ranked top

in the world announced in Jan 2014?

A) Aditya Joshi

B) Parupalli Kashyap

C) Ajay Jayaram

D) Gurusai Datt

35. Who won the “Best Anchor (English)” award in the

ENBA Awards 2013 announced in Jan 2014?

A) Shereen Bhan

B) Rajdeep Sardesai

C) Arnab Goshwami

D) None of These

36. Begum Parveen Sultana won “Padma Bhushan

Award 2014″ from ______ field in January 2014.

A) Public Affairs


C) Art—Classical Singing

D) Art—Cinema

37 . The US Senate confirmed whom as the head of

the Federal Reserve in Jan 2014?

A) Lawrence Summers

B) Janet Yellen

C) Alan Greenspan

D) Stanley Fischer

38. The eurozone’s inflation rate stood at _______ in

December (announced in Jan 2014).

A) 1.2%

B) 0.8%

C) 1.4%

D) 1.1%

39 .Which film won the “Best Film (critics)” award in

Film Fare Award 2014 presented in January 2014?

A) The Lunchbox

B) Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

C) Chennai Express

D) Special 26

40. India has successfully test-fired its indigenously

developed nuclear-capable ______ missile in Jan 2014,

the first missile to be developed by DRDO under

India’s prestigious IGMDP which has a strike range of

350 km and is capable of carrying warheads of up to

1000 kg.

A) Prithvi-II

B) Agni-IV

C) Akash

D) Brahmos

41. The Central government announced to create an

Equal Opportunity Commission as recommended by

the ______________ in Jan 2014.

A) Gadgil Committee

B) Verma Committee

C) Sachar Committee

D) None of These

42 . Which movie won the “Best Motion Picture,

Drama” award in the 71st annual Golden Globes

Awards presented in January 2014?

A) 12 Years a slave

B) American Hustle

C) The Wolf of Wall Street

D) Dollas Buyers Club

43 .Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2014 was held in which city

in Jan 2014?

A) Hyderabad

B) Mumbai

C) Bangalore

D) New Delhi

44. The Centre will soon appoint whom as Chairman of

the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal to take up

pending applications (announed in Jan 2014).

A) Justice R. Banumathi

B) Justice N.P. Singh

C) Justice B.S. Chauhan

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D) Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai

45.An RBI panel headed by ________ has suggested

setting up of specialised banks to cater to low income

households to ensure that all citizens have bank

accounts by 2016 in Jan 2014 which will pave way for

significant changes in Indian banking structures.

A) Nachiket Mor

B) Urijit Patel

C) Usha Thorat

D) Narayanan Vaghul

46. Future Generali India Life Insurance Company Ltd

has appointed whom as the new Managing Director

& Chief Executive Officer in Jan 2014.

A) Raj Jain

B) Munish Sharda

C) Pankaj Madan

D) Joseph Massey

47. India’s Army Day is observed on?

A) 10th Jan

B) 15th Jan

C) 25th Jan

D) 30th Jan

48. The euro zone’s unemployment rate stood at

______ in November (announced in Jan 2014).

A) 13.5%

B) 12.1%

C) 11.5%

D) 12.8%

49 . The Telenor Group has nominated whom as the

new Chief Executive Officer of Uninor with immediate

effect in Jan 2014?

A) Nigel Harris

B) Joginder Singh

C) Morten Karlsen Sorby

D) Sigve Brekke

50. India has been ranked ______ out of 25 countries

with weapons-usable nuclear materials, as per the

2014 Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Nuclear Materials

Security Index released in Jan 2014.

A) 15th

B) 21st

C) 23rd

D) 18th

51. The high-level _________ Committee has favoured

the current production sharing regime for high-risk

deep sea oil and gas exploration over the revenue-

sharing model that is being considered for the next

round of auction in its two-part report on a road map

to enhance domestic oil and gas output submitted in

Jan 2014.

A) Nachiket Mor

B) Y. Venugopal Reddy

C) Vijay Kelkar

D) C. Rangarajan

52. Former BJP leader B S Yeddyurappa rejoined BJP

merging his formed party __________with BJP in Jan

2014.

A) Karnataka Janata Party

B) Karnataka Janata Dal

C) Karnataka Janata Paksha

D) None of These

53.Who won “Best Director (Critics)” award in Film

Fare Award 2014 presented in January 2014?

A) Ritesh Batra

B) Abhishek Kapoor

C) Rohit Shetty

D) Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

54.As per latest RBI guidelines published in Jan 2014,

NBFCs can now give up to ______ of the value of the

gold jewellery pledged as loan compared to earlier

60%.

A) 70%

B) 80%

C) 75%

D) 65%

55.Kamala Haasan won “Padma Bhushan Award 2014″


A) Public Affairs



D) Art—Cinema

56.Who won the Mayilamma Award named after the

`Plachimada Heroine’ who had campaigned against

the Coca-Cola company at Kerala’s Plachimada village

in Jan 2014?

A) Meena Kandasamy

B) Gullapalli N. Rao

C) Priti Patel

D) Gopal Sheshappanavar

57.Which movie won the “Best Motion Picture

Musical or Comedy” award in the 71st annual Golden

Globes Awards presented in January 2014?

A) 12 Years a slave

B) American Hustle

C) The Wolf of Wall Street

D) Dollas Buyers Club

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58. Which Global tech company acquired India-based

Little Eye Labs, a startup that builds performance

analysis and monitoring tools for mobile Android apps,

for nearly USD 15 million in Jan 2014?

A) Microsoft

B) Google

C) Facebook

D) Apple

59.The US unemployment rate stood at _______ in

December (announced in Jan 2014).

A) 7.1%

B) 6.2%

C) 6.7%

D) 7.5%

60 .The European Central Bank (ECB) has kept its

benchmark interest rate at a record low of ________

during its monetary policy announcement in Jan 2014.

A) 0.25%

B) 0.5%

C) 0.75%

D) None of These

61. Mahatma Gandhi’s grand-daughter Ela Gandhi

were among the 13 recipients of Pravasi Bharatiya

Samman Award conferred in Delhi in Jan 2014. She is

based in which country?

A) USA

B) Australia

C) South Africa

D) New Zealand

62. “National Youth Day” is observed on?

A) 10th Jan

B) 15th Jan

C) 12th Jan

D) 22th Jan

63. India’s Trade deficit stood at ________ in

December 2013 (announced in Jan 2014).

A) USD 12.5 billion

B) USD 10.14 billion

C) USD 10.89 billion

D) USD 9.25 billion

64. India’s Index of Industrial Production, the most

important parameter to judge performance of

industrial sector, growth stood at __________ in

November (announced in Jan 2014).

A) -2.1%

B) -1.8%

C) 1.2%

D) 0.3%

65.Which country has signed an Interim Nuclear deal

with six world powers from January 20, 2014 in order

to put concrete steps aimed at placing curbs on its

nuclear programme?

A) Iraq

B) Syria

C) Iran

D) North Korea

66. Who won the “Best Director – Motion Picture”

award in the 71st annual Golden Globes Awards

presented in January 2014?

A) Alexander Payne

B) Alfonso Cuaron

C) Guillermo del Toro

D) Emmanuel Lubezki

67.Ariel Sharon, who was in a coma for eight years

passed away in Jan 2014. He was Prime Minister of

which country before suffering a stroke?

A) Israel

B) Palestine

C) Turkey

D) France

68. India recently completed _______ years in Jan

2014 since its last case of polio was reported, a major

public health success for India that until recently

accounted for most of the world’s cases.

A) Two

B) One

C) Three

D) Four

69. India’s Retirement fund body EPFO has decided to

increase the rate of interest on Provident Fund

deposits to _________ for 2013-14 in Jan 2014.

A) 8.25%

B) 8.5%

C) 8.75%

D) 8%

70.Which railway station’s platform number one has

entered into the Limca Book of Records as longest rail

platform in the world in Jan 2014? The platform’s

length is 1355.40 meters and was inaugurated in 6

October 2013.

A) Allahabad

B) Mughal Sarai

C) Kanpur

D) Gorakhpur

71. Global Steel giant POSCO has received

environment clearance from the Union Ministry of

Environment and Forest (MoEF) in Jan 2014 for a steel

plant of Rs 52000 crore in Odisha with an annual

production capacity of 12 million tones. POSCO is from

which country?

A) South Korea

B) China

C) Japan

D) Taiwan

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72. “Global Family Day” is observed on?

A) 1-Jan

B) 11-Jan

C) 6-Jan

D) 22-Jan

73.Who has been appointed as the Additional

Secretary and Financial Adviser in Department of

Space in Jan 2014?

A) V S Madan

B) S R Rao

C) A Vijayanand

D) Sudhir Gupta

74.Who has been awarded the Best CFO Award,

conferred by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of

India (ICAI) in jan 2014?The award recognizes

chartered accountants who have demonstrated

excellence and have created value for their company’s

stakeholders on a sustainable basis and are exemplary

role model.

A) Raj Jain

B) P.K.Goyal

C) Munish Sharda

D) Rajiv Bansal

75.Who in the list won “Padma Bhushan Award 2014″

from Sports field in January 2014.

A) Prakash Padukone

B) Mahesh Bhupati

C) Leander Paes

D) None of These

76.Anjali Devi passed away in Chennai in Jan 2014. She

was a famous _________ .

A) Artist

B) Author

C) Singer

D) Actress

77.Which movie won the “Best Foreign Language

Film” award in the 71st annual Golden Globes Awards

presented in January 2014?

A) Blue Is the Warmest Colour

B) The Hunt

C) The Great Beauty

D) The Past

78. Famous _____ IIa Pathak passed away due to

prolonged illness in Ahmedabad on 9 January 2014.

A) Actress

B) Social Activist

C) Author

D) Professor

79. Who won “Best Actress” award in Film Fare Award


A) Kareena Kapoor

B) Priyanka Chopra

C) Deepika Padukone

D) Parineeti Chopra

80.Bansi Kaul won “Padma Shri Award 2014″ from

______ field in January 2014.

A) Art—Theatre



D) Art—Cinema

81. India’s Retail inflation, measured by Consumer

Price Index, stood at ________ in December


A) 10.12%

B) 9.5%

C) 9.87%

D) 9.19%

82. Which global tech company acquired smart

thermostat start-up Nest for USD 3.2 billion in Jan

2014?

A) Microsoft

B) Google

C) Facebook

D) Apple

83. “World Laughter Day” is observed on?

A) 1-Jan

B) 11-Jan

C) 6-Jan

D) 10-Jan

84 Which footballer won the world’s best

football player award for the year 2013, FIFA Ballon

d’Or 2013 (Presented in Jan 2014)?

A) Cristiano Ronaldo

B) Lionel Messi

C) Franck Ribéry

D) Kaka

85 National Bank for Agriculture and Rural

Development (NABARD) has reduced the refinance

rates for the banks and other lending agencies to

________ compared to earlier rate of 9.90% for next 5

years. (announced in Jan 2014)

A) 9.75%

B) 9.60%

C) 9.70%

D) 9.50%

86 Who won the “Best Actor in a Motion Picture,

Drama” award in the 71st annual Golden Globes

Awards presented in January 2014?

A) Mathew Mc Conaughey

B) Alfonso Cuaron

C) Leonardo DiCaprio

D) Jared Leto

87 Which Indian athlete became the first Indian

track and field athlete to win a gold medal in a major

world event after international governing body IAAF

upgraded her second place finish at the 2005 Monaco

World Athletics Final to the top spot in Jan 2014,

following a dope violation by a Russian competitor

Tatyana Kotova.

A) K. M. Beenamol

B) P. T. Usha

C) Anju Bobby George

D) Shiny Abraham

88 Who was selected as the Captain of India’s U-

19 Cricket World Cup team by the All-India Junior

Selection Committee in Jan 2014?

A) Unmukt Chand

B) Vijay Zol

C) Sanju Samson

D) Baba Aparajith

89 Who won “Best Actress (Critics)” award in

Film Fare Award 2014 presented in January 2014?

A) Shilpa Shukla

B) Supriya Pathak

C) Deepika Padukone

D) Parineeti Chopra

90 The World Bank has projected India’s

economy will grow over ________ in 2014-15 and

7.1% by 2016-17 in Jan 2014 as global demand

recovers and domestic investment increases.

A) 7%

B) 5%

C) 6%

D) None of These

91. The Union Government extended the term of

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)

Chairman __________ for a period of two years in Jan

2014.

A) C B Bhave

B) Raghuram Rajan

C) U K. Sinha

D) Deepak Sinha

92. Who in the list won “Padma Shri Award 2014″


A) Paresh Rawal

B) Om Puri

C) Asrani

D) None of These

93. “NRI Day” is observed on?

A) 9-Jan

B) 11-Jan

C) 14-Jan

D) 10-Jan

94. Which Indian state is the first state in the country

to provide universal health coverage for tertiary care

to all the sections of society afte covering 1.12 crore

people of Above Poverty Line families under the newly

launched Rajiv Arogya Bhagya?

A) Kerala

B) Tamil Nadu

C) Gujarat

D) Karnataka

95.Which writer won The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction

2013 for his second novel, “Vanity Bagh” for

consistent writing and humour and imagination

(announced in Jan 2014)?

A) Amitav Ghosh

B) Anees Salim

C) Jhumpa Lahiri

D) Arundhati Roy

96 Who won the “Best Actor in a Motion Picture

– Musical or Comedy” award in the 71st annual

Golden Globes Awards presented in January 2014?

A) Mathew Mc Conaughey

B) Alfonso Cuaron

C) Leonardo DiCaprio

D) Jared Leto

97 Who has been appointed Secretary in

Department of Commerce in Jan 2014?

A) Rajeev Kher

B) S R Rao

C) Sudhir Gupta

D) Shailendra Singh

98 Famous Padma Shri awardee Marathi

_______ Namdeo Dhasal passed away in Mumbai in

Jan 2014 after a prolonged illness.

A) Actor

B) Director

C) Poet

D) Artist

99 India’s overall inflation, measured by the

Wholesale price index, stood at _______ in December

2013 (announced in Jan 2014).

A) 6.16%

B) 5.85%

C) 6.92%

D) 7.11%

100 China’s total FDI jumped by 5.25% in 2013 to

__________ (announced in Jan 2014).

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A) USD 162.4 billion

B) USD 102.45 billion

C) USD 122.1 billion

D) USD 117.59 billion

Answers:

1 Ans) Science and Engineering

2 Ans) Latvia

3 Ans) NDTV 24X7

4 Ans) Arup Raha

5 Ans) Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

6 Ans) 25th Jan

7 Ans) Saurabh Sarkar

8 Ans) B. Mahipal Reddy

9 Ans) Finmeccanica

10 Ans) Ronaldinho

11 Ans) Infosys

12 Ans) Canara Bank

13 Ans) P. Madhusudan

14 Ans) Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

15 Ans) S.K. Sharma

16 Ans) 1.7%

17 Ans) Sam Pitroda

18 Ans) 30th Jan

19 Ans) West Bengal

20 Ans) Aaj Tak

21 Ans) Manoj Vaish

22 Ans) Farhan Akhtar

23 Ans) Raj Jain

24 Ans) 4-Jan

25 Ans) Thiruvananthapuram

26 Ans) India

27 Ans) Sheikh Hasina

28 Ans) Portugal

29 Ans) R. Chandrashekhar

30 Ans) Rajkumar Rao

31 Ans) Yoga

32 Ans) 30th Jan

33 Ans) Mahesh Mangaonkar

34 Ans) Aditya Joshi

35 Ans) Shereen Bhan

36 Ans) Art—Classical Singing

37 Ans) Janet Yellen

38 Ans) 0.8%

39 Ans) The Lunchbox

40 Ans) Prithvi-II

41 Ans) Sachar Committee

42 Ans) 12 Years a slave

43 Ans) New Delhi

44 Ans) Justice B.S. Chauhan

45 Ans) Nachiket Mor

46 Ans) Munish Sharda

47 Ans) 15th Jan

48 Ans) 12.1%

49 Ans) Morten Karlsen Sorby

50 Ans) 23rd

51 Ans) Vijay Kelkar

52 Ans) Karnataka Janata Paksha

53 Ans) Ritesh Batra

54 Ans) 75%

55 Ans) Art—Cinema

56 Ans) Meena Kandasamy

57 Ans) American Hustle

58 Ans) Facebook

59 Ans) 6.7%

60 Ans) 0.25%

61 Ans) South Africa

62 Ans) 12th Jan

63 Ans) USD 10.14 billion

64 Ans) -2.1%

65 Ans) Iran

66 Ans) Alfonso Cuaron

67 Ans) Israel

68 Ans) Three

69 Ans) 8.75%

70 Ans) Gorakhpur

71 Ans) South Korea

72 Ans) 1-Jan

73 Ans) A Vijayanand

74 Ans) P.K.Goyal

75 Ans) Leander Paes

76 Ans) Actress

77 Ans) The Great Beauty

78 Ans) Social Activist

79 Ans) Deepika Padukone

80 Ans) Art—Theatre

81 Ans) 9.87%

82 Ans) Google

83 Ans) 10-Jan

84 Ans) Cristiano Ronaldo

85 Ans) 9.70%

86 Ans) Mathew Mc Conaughey

87 Ans) Anju Bobby George

88 Ans) Vijay Zol

89 Ans) Shilpa Shukla

90 Ans) 6%

91 Ans) U K. Sinha

92 Ans) Paresh Rawal

93 Ans) 9-Jan

94 Ans) Karnataka

95 Ans) Anees Salim

96 Ans) Leonardo DiCaprio

97 Ans) Rajeev Kher

98 Ans) Poet

99 Ans) 6.16%

100 Ans) USD 117.59 billion

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SET 2

1. Park Geun-hye visited India in Jan 2014. He is

President of which Asian Country?

A) China

B) South Korea

C) Taiwan

D) Malaysia

2. Which golfer won the Sony Open golf

tournament held in Hawaii in Jan 2014?

A) Tiger Woods

B) Chris Kirk

C) Jimmy Walker

D) None of These

3. “National Tourism Day” is observed on?

A) 25-Jan

B) 21-Jan

C) 24-Jan

D) 10-Jan

4. Gary Kenneth Toomey resigned with

immediate effect in Jan 2014 just three

months after taking over as the CEO of which

Indian Airlines Company?

A) Indigo Airlines

B) Spice Jet

C) Jet Airways

D) Go Air

5. Who was re-elected as President of the

Badminton Association of India in Jan 2014?

A) Akhilesh Das Gupta

B) Vijai Sinha

C) Abdul Bari Siddique

D) Vishwapati Trivedi

6. Who was named coach of the year by FIFA in

January 2014 after leading Bayern Munich to

an unprecedented treble last season?

A) Alex Ferguson

B) Jürgen Klopp

C) Jupp Heynckes

D) Football team manager

7. Yushi was awarded with the Thiruvalluvar

award by the Tamil Nadu government in

Chennai on the occasion of Thiruvalluvar Day

of 15th January 2014. He is from which

country?

A) Thailand

B) South Korea

C) Taiwan

D) Malaysia

8. Legendary actress Suchitra Sen, who was

known as the _______ of Bengali cinema,

passed away in Jan 2014.

A) Joan Crawford

B) Jean Harlow

C) Greta Garbo

D) Audrey Hepburn

9. The spiritual leader of the Dawoodi Bohra

community 52nd Dai-al-Mutlaq __________

passed away in Mumbai in Jan 2014.

A) Mufaddal Saifuddin

B) Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin

C) Khuzaima Qutbuddin

D) None of These

10. Who won the “Best Actress in a Motion

Picture – Musical or Comedy” award in the

71st annual Golden Globes Awards presented

in January 2014?

A) Amy Adams

B) Cate Blanchett

C) Jennifer Lawrence

D) None of These

11. Which country won Hockey World League

held in New Delhi in jan 2014?

A) New Zealand

B) England

C) Netherlands

D) Australia

12. India has agreed to cooperate in the field of

renewable energy, especially in the areas of

solar and wind power with which country and

signed a MoU for this in Jan 2014?

A) UAE

B) Saudi Arabia

C) Iran

D) Afghanistan

13. Which famous playwright and journalist won

the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2014

(announced in Jan 2014) for the book “The

Chronicle of the Corpse Bearer”?

A) Arshia Sattar

B) Cyrus Mistry

C) Antara Dev Sen

D) Jeet Thayil

14. Which famous actor has been nominated to

the Rajya Sabha on a Trinamool Congress

ticket (announced his nomination in Jan

2014)?

A) Amitabh Bachchan

B) Shahrukh Khan

C) Kamal Hasan

D) Mithun Chakraborty

15. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni

became the first Indian wicketkeeper and the

________ overall to effect 300 dismissals in

One Day Internationals in Jan 2014.

A) Third

B) Fourth

C) Fifth

D) Second

16. Who has been appointed Member (Finance),

Atomic Energy, Space and Earth Commissions

in Jan 2014?

A) Sudarsanam Srinivasan

B) A P Joshi

C) Alok Sinha

D) Shailendra Singh

17. Which country is likely to join the World

Trade Organization (WTO) within the next

three months (announed in Jan 2014)?

A) Afghanistan

B) Iran

C) Iraq

D) North Korea

18. China’s economy grew by ________ in the

last year 2013, maintaining its slowest growth

in more than a decade (announced in Jan

2014).

A) 7.5%

B) 7.2%

C) 7.7%

D) 7.9%

19. India has successfully test-fired its nuclear-

capable strategic missile ____________, with

a strike range of about 4,000 km, from a test

range off the Odisha coast in Jan 2014.

A) Brahmos

B) Agni-IV

C) Agni-V

D) Trishul

20. National Urban Health Mission was launched

in Bangalore In Jan 2014. The programme

aims to provide health security to urban poor

and it envisages creation of necessary health

check up infrastructure and the manpower

requirement. Central Government will share

80% of the cost to implement the

programme. This comes under which

ministry?

A) Ministry for Human Resource

Development

B) Ministry for Health and Family

Welfare

C) Ministry for Rural Development

D) Ministry for Minority Affairs

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21. Which Indian state has been selected for

‘Krishi Karman’ Award for 2012-13 as the best

performing state in overall agricultural

production in the country (announced in Jan

2014)?

A) Andhra Pradesh

B) West Bengal

C) Maharashtra

D) Uttar Pradesh

22. Telecom regulator TRAI has appointed whom

as its new secretary in Jan 2014, ahead of it

releasing the final guidelines of spectrum

trading and auction of CDMA radiowaves?

A) S S Garbyal

B) K Jude Sekhar

C) Sudhir Gupta

D) Shailendra Singh

23. “International Customs Day” is observed on?

A) 25-Jan

B) 21-Jan

C) 24-Jan

D) 26-Jan

E) The Central Government has

granted minority status to the Jain

Community in Jan 2014. With this

announcement, Jains became the

______ community to have minority

status.

A) Third

B) Fourth

C) Fifth

D) Sixth

24. Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) has appointed

whom as its chief executive officer and

managing director in Jan 2014?

A) Saurabh Sarkar

B) Sudhir Gupta

C) S N Goel

D) Joseph Massey

25. Government has appointed which IPS officer

as the new chief of the Hyderabad-based

National Police Academy, alma mater for IPS

officers in the country in Jan 2014?

A) Aruna Bahuguna

B) Subhas Goswami

C) Ajay Chadha

D) K Vijay Kumar

26. The Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of

India, __________ retired in Jan 2014.

A) K.C. Chakrabarty

B) Anand Sinha

C) H.R. Khan

D) Urjit Patel

27. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) constituted

an expert committee to review governance of

boards of banks in Jan 2014 headed by

__________. The expert panel is expected to

submit its report within a period three

months from the date of its first meeting.

A) Nachiket Mor

B) Urijit Patel

C) Usha Thorat

D) P. J. Nayak

28. POSCO, the South Korean steel maker giant

has received environment clearance from the

Union Ministry of Environment and Forest

(MoEF) in Jan 2014 for a steel plant of Rs

52000 crore in which state with an annual

production capacity of 12 million tones?

A) Jharkhand

B) Madhya Pradesh

C) Odisha

D) Chattisgarh

29. Who won the “Best Actress in a Motion

Picture – Drama” award in the 71st annual

Golden Globes Awards presented in January

2014?

A) Amy Adams

B) Cate Blanchett

C) Jennifer Lawrence

D) None of These

30. Which global tech company acquired

Bengaluru based Impermium for USD 9

million in Jan 2014?

A) Microsoft

B) Google

C) Facebook

D) Apple

31. As per data published by the International

Monetary Fund (IMF) in Jan 2014, India’s

economic growth is expected to be ______

this financial year and the growth may

improve to 5.4% in the next financial year

2014-15.

A) 4.8%

B) 5.1%

C) 4.6%

D) 4.3%

32. The annual World Economic Forum 2014 held

in which city in Jan 2014 in which business

and political leaders gathered to discuss

about the strength of the global economic

recovery?

A) Davos

B) Geneva

C) Paris

D) London

33. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of __________.

paid official visit to New Delhi from January

25-27, 2014 and was the chief guest at this

year’s Republic Day celebrations.

A) Thailand

B) South Korea

C) Japan

D) Taiwan

34. Who has been appointed as the new

Chairman of the National Dairy Development

Board (NDDB) in Jan 2014?

A) Amrita Patel

B) T. Nanda Kumar

C) A Vijayanand

D) S R Rao

35. The Reserve Bank of India has advised in Jan

2014 that after 31st March this year it will

completely withdraw from circulation all

banknotes issued prior to ___________.

A) 2001

B) 2006

C) 2004

D) 2005

36. An expert committee, headed by _______

has suggested that the apex bank should

adopt the new CPI (consumer price index) as

the measure of the nominal anchor for policy

communication in Jan 2014. The nominal

anchor or the target for inflation should be

set at 4% with a band of +/- 2 per cent

around it.

A) Nachiket Mor

B) Deepak Sinha

C) Urjit R. Patel

D) Narayanan Vaghul

37. Which area in India has been named

‘destination flyways’ by United Nations World

Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in Jan 2014

after its inclusion in a list of eight such sites

worldwide?

A) Pushkar Lake

B) Dal lake

C) Chilika lagoon

D) Hussian Sagar

38. Which Indian American scientist has been

awarded the prestigious 2014 Marconi

Society Prize in jan 2014? He is the only India-

born scientist to receive both the Marconi

Prize and the Bell Medal, two top global IT

technology awards.

A) Aravind Joshi

B) Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj

C) Shwetak Patel

D) Avinash Kak

39. Famous _______ actor Akkineni Nageswara

Rao, also known as ANR, passed away in Jan

2014.

A) Malaylam

B) Tamil

C) Telegu

D) Kannada

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40. Which state tourism has been conferred the

United Nations Award for creating innovative

initiatives for sustainable tourism in Jan 2014,

the first time India has ever won the

recognition?

A) Gujarat Tourism

B) Kerala Tourism

C) Maharashtra Tourism

D) Karnataka Tourism

41. Who has been appointed as Joint Secretary

with the Department of Industrial Policy and

Promotion (DIPP), under Ministry of

Commerce in Jan 2014?

A) Anjali Prasad

B) A P Joshi

C) Alok Sinha

D) Shailendra Singh

42. Which Indian-origin academician has been

appointed dean of the prestigious Harvard

College in jan 2014 and will take over his new

role in July?

A) Marti G. Subrahmanyam

B) C.K. Prahalad

C) Rakesh Khurana

D) Avinash Kamalakar Dixit

43. India’s Olympic bronze medallist shuttler

Saina Nehwal dropped a place to be at

______ position in the latest Badminton

World Federation (BWF) ranking published in

Jan 2014.

A) 9th

B) 8th

C) 11th

D) 13th

44. UNWTO awarded __________ with the 2013

UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement in

Jan 2014 in recognition of his work as a

business journalist reporting on the tourism

industry?

A) Hala Gorani

B) Richard Quest

C) Christiane Amanpou

D) Isha Sesay

45. Which global PC/Laptop maker agreed to

acquire IBM’s low-end server business for

USD 2.3 billion in Jan 2014?

A) Acer

B) HP

C) Dell

D) Lenovo

46. FIFA have named a track “We Are One (Ole

Ola)” by _________ as the official anthem in

Jan 2014 for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

A) Pitbull and Christina Aguilera

B) Pitbull and Mariah Carey

C) Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez

D) Justic Timberlake and Christina

Aguilera

47. Latvia has formally joined the euro zone in

Jan 2014, becoming the _______ member of

the group of EU states which uses the euro as

its currency.

A) 17th

B) 18th

C) 23rd

D) 28th

48. Who won the Australian Open women’s

doubles title held in Jan 2014?

A) Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci

B) Ekaterina Makarova and Elena

Vesnina

C) Hsieh Su-Wei and Peng Shuai

D) None of These

49. National Girl Child Day is celebrated on

_________ across India.

A) 29-Jan

B) 26-Jan

C) 24-Jan

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D) 17-Jan

50. Tamil Nadu’s political party DMK suspended

Whom from being a member of the party and

also relieved him of the party posts in Jan

2014?

A) Stalin

B) Alagiri

C) Dayanidhi Maran

D) Kanimozhi

51. Who has been appointed as Director General

(Forests) and Special Secretary, Ministry of

Environment and Forests in Jan 2014?

A) S S Garbyal

B) K Jude Sekhar

C) A Vijayanand

D) V S Madan

52. Which Indian bank strengthened its social

media presence with the launch of its

channel on popular video sharing website

Youtube in Jan 2014?

A) State Bank of India

B) HDFC Bank

C) Punjab National Bank

D) Bank of Baroda

53. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of

Airports Authority of India (AAI) in Jan 2014,

he has been given additional charge of the

new post?

A) Sudarsanam Srinivasan

B) V P Agarwal

C) Alok Sinha

D) Anjali Prasad

54. Who has taken charge as Executive Director

of Central Bank of India in Jan 2014, taking

total number of EDs of Central Bank of India

to three?

A) Mushtaq Ahmad

B) S.R. Bansal

C) B K Divakara

D) Sushil Muhnot

55. Who has been named winner of the 2014

Othmer Gold Medal, a top award of the US-

based Chemical Heritage Foundation, in Jan

2014?

A) Yusuf Hamied

B) Kallam Anji Reddy

C) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

D) Devi Shetty

56. Who won the women’s singles title at the

Australian Open Tennis Championships held

in jan 2014?

A) Dominika Cibulkova

B) Li Na

C) Serena Williams

D) Maria Sharapova

57. The Election Commission of India celebrated

the 4th National voters Day on ___________

across the nation to commemorate the

foundation day of the Election Commission of

India and also to enhance the participation of

the voters.

A) 25-Jan

B) 26-Jan

C) 24-Jan

D) 17-Jan

58. Who has been awarded with the National

Communal Harmony Award in jan 2014 for

work done in the field of Peace and

Harmony?

A) N Radhakrishnan

B) Dr. Mohinder Singh

C) Both of them

D) None of These

59. Which Global tech company has acquired

DeepMind Technologies, an artificial

intelligence company in London, for USD 400

million in Jan 2014?

A) Microsoft

B) Google

C) Facebook

D) Apple

60. Who won the Australian Open Men’s single


A) Rafael Nadal

B) Roger Federar

C) Stanislas Wawrinka

D) Andy Murray

61. Who won the Men’s title in the Syed Modi

India Grand Prix Gold Badminton

Championship held in Jan 2014?

A) Xue Song

B) Srikanth K

C) Aditya Joshi

D) Chetan Anand

62. Karl Slym, the managing director

of_________ passed away in Jan 2014 after

falling from 22nd floor of the Shangri-La

Hotel to the fourth floor in Bangkok.

A) GM India

B) Mahindra and Mahindra

C) Tata Motors

D) JLR

63. Which Indian shuttler won the Women’s

Singles title at Syed Modi India Grand Prix

Gold Badminton Championship held in Jan

2014?

A) Saina Nehwal

B) PV Sindhu

C) Jwala Gutta

D) Aditi Mutatkar

64. Indian cricket team captain MS Dhoni

became the first captain to be played in

_______ tied One Day International matches

when India tied third ODI match against New

Zealand on 25th January 2014.

A) Five

B) Three

C) Four

D) Six

65. Which country secured No 1 rank in the 2014

Environmental Performance Index (EPI)

issued by Yale University in Jan 2014?

A) Singapore

B) Switzerland

C) Australia

D) Luxembourg

66. Which Rapper-turned-actress will be

honoured by the New York Women in

Communications with its 2014 Matrix Award

(announced in Jan 2014), which honours

females who change the world?

A) Dolly Parton

B) Queen Latifah

C) MC Lyte

D) Whoopi Goldberg

67. The UK economy grew by _______in 2013

which the highest growth rate since 2007, as

per the Office for National Statistics (ONS)

announced in Jan 2014.

A) 2.3%

B) 1.9%

C) 2.1%

D) 1.6%

68. India ranks at ______ out of 178 countries in

the 2014 Environmental Performance Index

(EPI) issued by Yale University in Jan 2014

A) 135th

B) 155th

C) 121st

D) 138th

69. ______________ Minister Kumari Selja has

quit Union Council of Ministers in Jan 2014 to

work for the Congress party.

A) Rural Development

B) Human Resource and Development

C) Social Justice and Empowerment

D) Environment and Forest

70. Who has been appointed as the Secretary

Security in the Cabinet Secretariat in Jan

2014?

A) H C Meena

B) Mahboob Alam

C) Ajay Chadha

D) K Vijay Kumar

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71. The Reserve Bank of India has increased the

repo rate to ________ during its

announcement of January 2014 monetary

policy review.

A) 8%

B) 7.75%

C) 7.25%

D) 7%

72. Which country received the highest (28.5%)

overall score in the International Intellectual

Property (IP) Index released by the US

Chamber of Commerce in Jan 2014?

A) France

B) UK

C) United States

D) Canada

73. Who won the Australian open mixed doubles


A) Kristina Mladenovic and Daniel

Nestor

B) Lucie Hradecka and Frantisek

Cermak

C) Sania Mirza and Horia Tecau

D) None of These

74. The ICC Board has approved the introduction

of an International Women’s Championship

in Jan 2014. The Competing countries will

play the others in a series of matches

between mid-2014 and the end of 2016. The

top teams will qualify automatically for the

ICC Women’s World Cup to be held in 2017 in

_________.

A) Australia

B) England

C) South Africa

D) New Zealand

75. FDI flows into India stood as _________ in

2013 as per the latest United Nations report

published in Jan 2014.

A) USD 28 billion

B) USD 42 billion

C) USD 21 billion

D) USD 32 billion

76. Bharti Airtel has appointed whom as MD of

Bharti Enterprises of all non-telecom

businesses of the group retail insurance, food

and agriculture, realty and other businesses

of the group in Jan 2014?

A) Akhil Gupta

B) Manoj Kohli

C) DS Rawat

D) Gopal Vittal

77. Which Tech company acquired Google Inc’s

Motorola handset division for USD 2.91

billion in Jan 2014?

A) Microsoft

B) Lenovo

C) Samsung

D) Apple


Reverse Repo rate to ________ during its


policy review.

A) 6.75%

B) 7.75%

C) 7.25%

D) 7%

79. The US economic growth stood at ________

in the final quarter of 2013 compared to

same quarter last year (announced in Jan

2013).

A) 3.6%

B) 2.8%

C) 3.2%

D) 2.1%

80. Kathy Cross became the first woman to be

inducted in an ICC umpires’ panel when she

was elected as an Associate and Affiliate

International official in Jan 2014. She is from

which country?

A) New Zealand

B) Australia

C) England

D) South Africa

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81. The Indian government raised quota of

subsidised LPG cylinders to ________ per

household in a year from the current 9 in Jan

2014. The hike will be effective from 1st of

April.

A) 14 cylinders

B) 15 cylinders

C) 12 cylinders

D) None of These

82. Anand Kumar, a mathematician and founder

of _______classes was awarded with the

2014 Ramanujan Mathematics Award in

Rajkot in Jan 2014.

A) Spectacular30

B) Super40

C) Super30

D) Great25

83. Who assumed charge as the Chairman and

Managing Director of Shipping Corporation of

India (SCI), a navratna public sector

undertaking under the aegis of the Ministry

of Shipping, in Jan 2014?

A) P. Madhusudan

B) A.P Choudhury

C) Arun Kumar Gupta

D) S.K. Sharma

84. US auto major, Ford has appointed whom as

President of its Indian business in Jan 2014?

A) Nigel Harris

B) Joginder Singh

C) Morten Karlsen Sorby

D) Sigve Brekke

85. Which state in the list became First state to

withdraw Foreign Domestic Investment (FDI)

in Multibrand Retail in Jan 2014 after it had

agreed earlier?

A) Karnataka

B) Uttar Pradesh

C) Delhi

D) Maharashtra

86. Raymond Weil, the pioneer of _________

passed away in Jan 2014.

A) Italian Fasion

B) Swiss watch

C) German Auto

D) None of These

87. Who has been chosen for prestigious

journalism Lokmanya Tilak National Award in

Jan 2014?

A) Mammen Mathew

B) V. K. Hamzah Abbas

C) Shireen Bhan

D) Swapan Dasgupta

88. The Reserve Bank of India has kept the Cash

Reserve Ratio (CRR) unchanged at ________

during its announcement of January 2014

monetary policy review.

A) 5%

B) 4.5%

C) 4.25%

D) 4%

89. Who was declared as the new President of

Madagascar in Jan 2014?

A) Hery Rajaonarimampianina

B) Jean-Louis Robinson

C) Omer Beriziky

D) Andry Rajoelina

90. ____________ film actor Uday Kiran passed

away in Jan 2014.

A) Malaylam

B) Tamil

C) Telegu

D) Kannada

91. Who scored the fastest-ever ODI century (in

36 balls) in Cricket History in Jan 2014?

A) Jesse Ryder

B) Brendon McCullum

C) Ross Taylor

D) Corey Anderson

92. Seventh Global Insurance Summit was held at

which Indian City in January 2014?

A) Bangalore

B) New Delhi

C) Hyderabad

D) Chennai

93. World Hindi Day observed on

_____________.

A) 21-Jan

B) 20-Jan

C) 12-Jan

D) 10-Jan

94. Who was elected as the President of The

Indian Islamic Cultural Centre (IICC) in Jan

2014?

A) Sirajuddin Qureshi

B) Safdar H. Khan

C) Qamar Ahmad

D) Abrar Ahmed

95. Which football club lifted the 35th Football

Federation Cup in Jan 2014?

A) Sporting Club de Goa

B) East Bengal

C) Churchill Brothers

D) Mohan Bagan

96. India overtook which country in Jan 2014 to

become the third largest crude oil importer in

the World?

A) Japan

B) England

C) Germany

D) China

97. India’s first gun for women, _________ was

launched in January 2014. The Gun has been

manufactured by the Indian Ordnance

Factory, Kanpur and is also the smallest

revolver made in India.

A) Sahas

B) Nirbhay

C) Nirbheek

D) Himmat

98. The Petroleum Conservation Research

Association under the Ministry of Petroleum

and Natural Gas has selected Which state for

the award of best performing State amongst

the big states for the oil and gas conservation

programmes in jan 2014?

A) Madhya Pradesh

B) Andhra Pradesh

C) Rajashthan

D) Gujarat


Marginal Standing Facility to ________ during

its announcement of January 2014 monetary

policy review.

A) 9%

B) 9.5%

C) 9.25%

D) 8.75%

100. Which company/brand launched “Any Time

Milk” vending machines for Milk in Jan 2014?

A) Amul

B) Mother Dairy

C) Nestle

D) Danone

101. First Climate Change theatre was opened at

Pushpa Gujral Science City in ___________ in

Jan 2014. The theatre will educate people on

climate change.

A) Kapurthala

B) Ludhiana

C) Chandigarh

D) New Delhi

102. Which European football club retained the

title of the world’s richest soccer club in 2013

in the annual Football Money League

compiled by accountants Deloitte and

published in Jan 2014?

A) Bayern Munich

B) Barcelona

C) Manchester United

D) Real Madrid

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103. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has

named Which country as the country with

the best overall cricket development

programme in Africa in Jan 2014?

A) Nigeria

B) Zambia

C) Kenya

D) None of These

104. Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh

inaugurated National Waqf Development

Corporation Limited (NAWADCO) that is a

new Central Public Sector Enterprise in New

Delhi in January 2014 and it will remain under

which ministry?

A) Ministry of Minority Affairs

B) Ministry of Human Resource and

Development

C) Ministry of Social Justice and

Empowerment

D) None of These

105. The Ministry of Railways announced to set up

a Rail coach factory at Kolar in Jan 2014. Kolar

is in which state?

A) Karnataka

B) Maharashtra

C) Andhra Pradesh

D) Kerala

106. Which Indian two wheeler company, unveiled

a 150cc hybrid diesel concept motorcycle

RNT at the auto expo in Jan 2014?

A) Honda Motors

B) Hero MotoCorp

C) Bajaj Auto

D) TVS Auto

107. The 22nd African Union summit was held in

which City on Jan 30-31 2014?

A) Lusaka

B) Addis Ababa

C) Nairobi

D) Johannesburg

108. Which country has the lowest unemployment

rate among euro zone countries at 4.8%


A) Germany

B) Austria

C) Greece

D) Switzerland

109. Who was named women’s player of the year

by FIFA in Jan 2014?

A) Silvia Neid

B) Abby Wambach

C) Nadine Angerer

D) Kerstin Garefrekes

110. Which country was runners up in the Hockey

World League held in New Delhi in jan 2014?

A) New Zealand

B) England

C) Netherlands

D) Australia

111. The Reserve Bank of India has kept the SLR

unchanged at ________ during its


policy review.

A) 25%

B) 24%

C) 23%

D) 22%

112. As per the UN report published in Jan 2014,

India was ranked ________ among the top 20

global economies receiving the most FDI.

A) 20th

B) 16th

C) 12th

D) 15th

113. Which US states has become the first one to

legalise selling of Marijuana in Jan 2014?

A) Illinois

B) Nevada

C) Colorado

D) Texas

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114. Which Indian state launched free CFL bulbs

scheme for hut dwellers in Jan 2014?

A) Tamil Nadu

B) Karnataka

C) Haryana

D) Gujarat

115. World’s first Bitcoin storage service that

insures deposits of the digital currency was

launched in which city in Jan 2014?

A) Paris

B) New York

C) Geneva

D) London

116. Which country was ranked as No 1 in the FIFA

ranking published in Jan 2014?

A) Spain

B) Germany

C) Argentina

D) Italy

117. India’s only and first hospital for fish will be

set up in which city (announced in Jan 2014)?

A) Puducherry

B) Chennai

C) Kochi

D) Panaji

118. India’s largest software services company

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced to

set up the world’s largest corporate learning

and development centre in __________ in

Jan 2014.

A) Thiruvananthapuram,

B) Kochin

C) Mysore

D) Mangalore

ANSWERS

1. South Korea

2. Jimmy Walker

3. 25-Jan

4. Jet Airways

5. Akhilesh Das Gupta

6. Jupp Heynckes

7. Taiwan

8. Greta Garbo

9. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin

10. Amy Adams

11. Netherlands

12. UAE

13. Cyrus Mistry

14. Mithun Chakraborty

15. Fourth

16. Sudarsanam Srinivasan

17. Afghanistan

18. 7.7%

19. Agni-IV

20. Ministry for Health and Family Welfare

21. West Bengal

22. Sudhir Gupta

23. Sixth

24. S N Goel

25. Aruna Bahuguna ( first woman to head

National Police Academy)

26. Anand Sinha

27. P. J. Nayak

28. Odisha

29. Cate Blanchett

30. Google

31. 4.6%

32. Davos

33. Japan

34. T. Nanda Kumar

35. 2005

36. Urjit R. Patel

37. Chilika lagoon

38. Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj

39. Telegu

40. Kerala Tourism

41. Shailendra Singh

42. Rakesh Khurana

43. 9th

44. Richard Quest

45. Lenovo

46. Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez

47. 26-Jan

48. 18th

49. Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci

50. 24-Jan

51. Alagiri

52. S S Garbyal

53. State Bank of India

54. Alok Sinha

55. B K Divakara

56. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

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57. Li Na

58. 25-Jan

59. Dr. Mohinder Singh and N Radhakrishnan

60. Google

61. Stanislas Wawrinka

62. Xue Song

63. Tata Motors

64. Saina Nehwal

65. Four

66. Switzerland

67. Queen Latifah

68. 1.9%

69. 155th

70. Social Justice and Empowerment

71. H C Meena

72. 8%

73. United States

74. Kristina Mladenovic and Daniel Nestor

75. England

76. USD 28 billion

77. Manoj Kohli

78. Lenovo

79. 7%

80. 3.2%

81. New Zealand

82. 12 cylinders

83. Super30

84. Arun Kumar Gupta

85. Nigel Harris

86. Delhi

87. Swiss watch

88. Mammen Mathew

89. 4%

90. Hery Rajaonarimampianina

91. Telegu

92. Corey Anderson

93. Hyderabad

94. 10-Jan

95. Sirajuddin Qureshi

96. Churchill Brothers

97. Japan

98. Nirbheek

99. Andhra Pradesh

100. 9%

101. Amul

102. Kapurthala

103. Real Madrid

104. Zambia

105. Ministry of Minority Affairs

106. Karnataka

107. Hero MotoCorp

108. Addis Ababa

109. Austria

110. Nadine Angerer

111. New Zealand

112. 23%

113. 16th

114. Colorado

115. Tamil Nadu

116. London

117. Spain

118. Kochi

119. Thiruvananthapuram

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