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8/22/2019 Current Affairs Questions From Kerala Psc Blog

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APRIL 2013

1. Which team won the Vijay Hazare trophy 2013?

Answer. Delhi

3. Who won the Celebrity Cricket League 2013?

Answer. Karnataka Bulldozers

4. Who won the WGC Cadillac Championship 2013?

Answer. Tiger Woods

5. Who is sworn in as the new governor of Bihar?

Answer. DY Patil

6. Who is sworn in as the new governor of Tripura?

Answer. Devanand Konwar

7. Who is sworn in as the new governor of Kerala?

Answer. Nikhil Kumar

8. Who is sworn in as the new governor of Odisha?

Answer. SC Jamir

9. Who is sworn in as the new governor of Nagaland?

Answer. Ashwani Kumar, He was the former Director of the CBI.


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10. Who is honoured with Indira Gandhi Peace Prize recently?

Answer. Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self Employed Womens Association

(SEWA), was presented with theby the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee.

11. Who won the 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix?

Answer. Sebastian Vettel

12. Which are the two elements that added to the Periodic Table recently?

Answer. Flerovium and Livermorium

13. Who was crowned the Femina Miss India World 2013?

Answer. Navneet Kaur Dhilon

14. Who won the Miss India International 2013?

Answer. Zoya Arfoz

15. Who is the Chairman of National Innovation Council in India?

Answer. Sam Pitroda

16. Who is the present Chief Justice of Orissa high court?

Answer. Chokalingam Nagappan

17. Name the personalities who have launched global sim card Jaxtr SIM for

international travelers:

Answer. Sabeer Bhatia and Yogesh Patel


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18. When is the First International Happiness Day celebrated?

Answer. 20th March 2013

19. Who is chosen for Saraswati Samman award 2013?

Answer. Sugathakumari

20. Which Indian state made Malayalam must for its government jobs?

Answer. Kerala

21. Who is named as worlds richest footballer with a net worth of $260Million?

Answer. David Beckham

22. Where in China 48 metre high Buddha statue was built?

Answer. Xingzi County of Jiujiang City

23. Who was named Sportsperson of the year by Tata Steel for her

achievements on the occasion of 174th birth anniversary of Jamsetji

Nusserwanji Tata?

Answer. Deepika Kumari

24. Who won the inaugural Physics Journalism Prize sponsored by the

Institute of Physics and Science and Technology Facilities Council?

Answer. Anil Ananthaswamy

25. Who was sworn in as Kenyas 4th president?

Answer. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta


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26. Which former British Prime Minister popularly known as the Iron Lady

passed away on April 8?

Answer. Margaret Thatcher.

Note: She was the longest serving British prime minister (1979-1990) of the

20th century and is the only woman to have held the office.

27. Who is appointed as Prime Minister of Lebanon?

Answer. Tamam Salam

28. Which country will host ICC World T20 2014?

Answer. Bangladesh

29. Who won the gold medal in the mens triple jump in the season opening

Indian Grand Prix?

Answer. Renjith Maheswary

30. Who is appointed as President of International Chamber of Commerce?

Answer. Rajan Bharti Mittal

31. Who is elected as president of Paraguay?

Answer. Horacio Cartes

32. Who is the lady popularly known as "Human Computer", she died on 21st

April 2013?

Answer. Shakuntala Devi


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33. Who developed the worlds lightest substance recently?

Answer. Chinese scientists have developed the worlds lightest substance

carbon aerogel with a density only one sixth of that of the air. Scientists at

Zhejiang University produced the solid material which has a density of only

0.16 mg/cubic centimetre, breaking the previous record of the worlds lightestmaterial held by graphite aerogel. The graphite aerogel was developed by

German scientists last year with a density of 0.18 mg/cubic centimetre.

34. Who won the Prestigious Templeton Prize 2013?

Answer. Desmond Tutu.

Note: South Africas Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has won 2013

Templeton Prize for his lifelong work in promoting love and forgiveness.

35. Rahi Sarnobat won a Gold medal in 25-M Pistol Event

Note: Rahi Sarnobat clinched the first gold for India in International Shooting

Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Korea on 5 April 2013. She defeated

Kyeongae Kim 8-6 in 25m pistol final. She is the first pistol shooter from India

who won the Gold in World Cup.

36. World Health Day was Celebrated on 7th April.

Note: World Health Day is celebrated every year on April 7, under the

sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO).

37. Who got the Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2012?

Answer. Hindi film actor Pran Krishan Sikand got the prestigious Dadasaheb

Phalke Award for 2012. The 93 year old actor, popularly known as Pran, will

be the 44th recipient of the top most film award in India.

38. Who is elected as the President of Venezuela recently?

Answer. Nicolas Maduro


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40. The 2013 SAARC literature festival was hosted by which place?

Answer. Agra

41. The President of Bangladesh who passed away recently?

Answer. Zillur Rahman

42. Which are the three North Eastern states where new High Courts have

been set up?

Answer. Tripura, Meghalaya and Manipur

43. World Earth Hour was observed from 8.30PM to 9.30PM On:

Answer. March 23

44. World Water Day was observed on:

Answer. March 22

45. World Tuberculosis Day was observed on:

Answer. March 24

46. Najib Mikati, who resigned recently was the Prime Minister of:

Answer. Lebanon

47. The recently announced National Tourism Award 2011-12 for the Best

Rural Tourism Project has been bagged by:

Answer. Kumarakom


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48. The president of Egypt who visited India recently?

Answer. Mohamed Morsi

49. The renowned African novelist and author of Things Fall Apart whopassed away recently?

Answer. Chinua Achebe

50. Who is appointed as Indias new permanent representative to the United

Nations?

Answer. Asoke Kumar Mukerji

51. Who has been appointed as the chairman of Lalit Kala Academy?

Answer. Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty

52. Who are the three personalities recently selected by the Indian

Parliamentary Group for the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award?

Answer. Arun Jaitley (2010), Karan Singh (2011) and Sharad Yadav (2012)

53. Who is the richest person of the world, as per the ranking released by the

Forbes Magazine?

Answer. Carlos Slim (Mexico)

54. The famous Kathakali artist and Padmabhushan recipient who passed

away recently?

Answer. Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair

55. Which team won the recently held Santosh Trophy Football tournament?

Answer. Services


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56. Who has been sworn in as the Chief Minister of Tripura for the fourth

consecutive time?

Answer. Manik Sarkar

57. Which Indian Research Centre has announced that it is currently

developing the largest magnet in the World?

Answer. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. The magnet, weighing 50,000

tonnes, is being developed for the Neutrino Observatory to be set up in

Tamilnadu.

58. The newly released Book, Walking With Lions, Tales from a Diplomatic

Past is written by:

Answer. K. Natwar Singh

59. The president of India was the Chief Guest at the Independence Day

celebrations of .. on March 2012.

Answer. Mauritius

61. Indias first indigenously developed subsonic cruise missile:

Answer. Nirbhay. The test firing of the missile on March 12 achieved partial

success.

62. . was selected as the best feature film for the 60th National FilmAwards?

Answer. Paan Singh Tomar (Hindi) directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia

63. Which state assembly has started year long celebrations to mark 50


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years of its inception?

Answer. Goa

64. Who has been appointed as the President of the Peoples Republic ofChina?

Answer. Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang has been appointed as the countrys new

Prime Minister.

65. Who has been elected as the new chairman of the Confederation of Indian

Industry (CII)?

Answer. S. Gopalakrishnan

66. The Indian who has been appointed as the World Editor of the Time

Magazine?

Answer. Bobby Ghosh, He is the first non American World Editor in TIMEs

history.

67. The current winners of Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament?

Answer. Australia

69. Which Malayalam film bagged the National award for the best film on

social issues?

Answer. Spirit, directed by Renjith

70. The worlds largest biogas plant has been inaugurated in?

Answer. Finland, It has a capacity of 140 MW.


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71. Which state celebrated its foundation day as Utkal Divas on April 1?

Answer. Odisha.

Note: It was established as a province in the British India on April 1, 1936.

72. The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) commissioned its first

solar power plant in:

Answer. Dadri, Uttar Pradesh

73. The 5th BRICS summit was recently held at:

Answer. Durban, South Africa (March 26-27).

Note: The member states of BRICS are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South

Africa.

75. The Italian foreign minister who resigned over the governments decision

to return the two Italian marines to India?

Answer. Giulio Terzi

76. The Supreme Court of India rejected the plea of the Swiss based drug

company to patent the cancer drug called Glivec.

Answer. Novartis

77. Which gulf country has recently enforced the new labour law named

Nitaqat (Naturalisation), which affects a huge number of Indians working

there?

Answer. Saudi Arabia

78. Sukumari, the veteran film actor who passed away recently, had made

her debut at the age of 10 through the Tamil movie..

Answer. Oru Iravu


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79. Malala Yousafzai has recently signed a deal to publish her autobiography

titled ..

Answer. I Am Malala

80. World Autism Awareness Day was observed on:

Answer. April 2

81. In which state has the NTPC decided to set up Indias first geothermal

plant?

Answer. Chhattisgarh

82. Hamadi Jebali, the Prime Minister of ., has resigned after failing to

form a non-partisan government.

Answer. Tunisia

83. The Government of Kerala has recently amended the Kerala Abkari Act by

raising the age for buying and selling liquor to .

Answer. Twenty One. The age limit was previously eighteen.

84. Who was presented with Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, Kerala Governments

highest literary honour, on Feb 18?

Answer. Atoor Ravi Varma

85. has been declared as the first e-district in Kerala?

Answer. Ernakulam

86. The Kerala State award for the Best feature film was bagged by the movie


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Answer. Celluloid.

Read more about Kerala State Film Awards 2013 Here.

87. Angelo Mathews has been appointed as the captain of the Cricket team

of:

Answer. Srilanka. He replaced Mahela Jayawardene.

88. Indias new stock exchange, . Started trading shares on February

11.

Answer. MCX-Stock Exchange (MCX-SX)

Note: MCX stands for Multi Commodity Exchange. This is Indias third national

level stock exchange, after Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National

Stock Exchange (NSE).

89. The code name given to the entire plan of the execution of Afsal Guru, the

parliament attack convict:

Answer. Operation Three Star

90. The Ministry of Forests and Environment of India has given clearance to

the Tawang Hydroelectric Project Phase II. In which state is the project

situated?

Answer. Arunachal Pradesh

91. The Special Olympics World Winter Games was held from Jan 29 to Feb 5in:

Answer. Pyeong Chang, South Korea.

92. Worlds tallest Mahatma Gandhi statue was unveiled on Feb 15 in:


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Answer. Patna, Bihar

94. Rafael Correa has been re-elected for a third time as President of:

Answer. Ecuador

95. World Health Day was observed on:

Answer. April 7

96. Who has taken over as the new Chairman of NASSCOM (NationalAssociation of Software Services Companies)?

Answer. Krishnakumar Natarajan

98. India started Visa on Arrival (VoA) facility from April 1 for the senior

citizens of which neighboring country?

Answer. Pakistan

99. NPHCE, the newly launched programme by the Ministry of Health &

Family Welfare of India stands for:

Answer. National Programme for the Health Care of the Elderly.

100. Which Booker prize winning novelist and screenwriter known for the

novel Heat and Dust passed away recently?

Answer. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

102. Miss Universe 2012 is:


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Answer. Olivia Culpo

103. The recipient of Bharath Muni Samman 2012 is:

Answer. Hema Malini

104. Pranab Mukherjee: The All Season Man was written by whom?

Answer. Sukhendu Sekar Ray

105. The new Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh is:

Answer. Virbhadra Singh

106. The Director of Film Life of Pi?

Answer. Ang Lee

107. The new Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is:

Answer. Ranjith Sinha

108. The new Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF) is:

Answer. Subash Joshi

109. Controversially Yours was written by:

Answer. Shuhaib Aktar

110. Broken Republic was written by:

Answer. Arundhati Roy


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111. I.K Gujrals autobiography is:

Answer. Matters of Discretion

112. Which country is set to launch first solid fuel rocket by 2016?

Answer. China

113. At which location, Indias first all Women Post Office was recently

inaugurated?

Answer. New Delhi

114. Which was the theme for International Womens Day 2013?

Answer. A Promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against

women.

115. Which Indian was awarded SAARC Literature Award in 2013?

Answer. Abhay. K

116. Recently, which state government has announced a new scheme called

Kanyasri Prakalpa, to encourage girls towards higher education?

Answer. West Bengal

117. Recently, who was re-elected for a second term as IAEA Chief?

Answer. Yukiya Amano

118. Recently, which country, the giant Atacama Large Millimeter/sub

millimeter Array (ALMA) telescope is unveiled?

Answer. Chile


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119. Who is selected for the prestigious Jnanpith award for the year 2012?

Answer. Ravuri Bharadhwaja for his contributions to Telugu literature.

MAY 2013

1. Who has been elected as the chairman of Asian Forum of Parliamentarians

on Population and Development (AFPPD)?

Answer: P.J Kurien

2. .........., the developer of the first successful oral vaccination for Polio

passed away recently?

Answer: Hilary Koprowski

3. The international Monetary Fund has recently recognized the Government

of .......... After 22 years?

Answer: Somalia

4. The Indian-American economist who won the John Bates Clark Medal 2013?

Answer: Raj Chetty John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American

Economic Association. The award often described as the Baby Nobel, is

considered by many economists to be second only to the Nobel Prize.

5. What is the full form of NOFN?

Answer: National Optical Fibre Network. The scheme recently approved by the

Union Government will connect 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats in the country

through Optical Fibre Cable.


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6. Which power generation company has recently been conferred with the

Mini Ratna Category 1 status by the Government of India?

Answer: North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO)

7. Who wrote the novel The Orphan Masters Son, which won the Pulitzer

Prize for fiction in 2013?

Answer: Adam Johnson

8. The veteran play back singer .......... who had sung around 3000 songs in

Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam and Tulu passed away on 14th

April?

Answer: P.B Srinivas

9. World Earth Day was observed on:

Answer: April 22

10. What was the theme of 2013 World Earth day (April 22)?

Answer: The face of climate change

11. Who has been elected as the President of the Asian Development Bank

(ADB)?

Answer: Takehiko Nakao (Japan)

12. Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the State Child Rights

Commission, Kerala?

Answer: Neela Gangadharan

13. The 200th birth anniversary of .........., the ruler of the erstwhile kingdom

of Travancore is being celebrated now?


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Answer: Swati Tirunal

14. Which Indian has been appointed as the Vice Chairman of the

International Chamber of Commerce?

Answer: Sunil Bharti Mittal

15. The famous Indian Violinist who passed away on April 22?

Answer: Lalgudi Jayaraman

16. Who is sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Italy?

Answer: Enrico Letta

17. The space observatory of the European Space Agency which stopped

functioning recently?

Answer: Herschel. It is the largest infrared space telescope ever built.

18. National Civil Services Day was observed on:

Answer: April 21

19. According to the data released by the TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority

of India), which state accounts for the largest number of mobile subscribers

in India?

Answer: Uttar Pradesh

20. Who has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary of Kerala?

Answer: E.K Bharat Bhooshan


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21. World Asthma Day was observed on:

Answer: May 7

Note: The First Tuesday of May is observed every year as World Asthma Day.

22. The Reserve Bank of India on May 4 reduced the Repo rate to:

Answer: 7.25%

23. Where in Haryana Indias first defence university is to be setup?

Answer: Gurgaon

24. Who is the new Prime Minister of Nepal?

Answer: Khil Raj Regmi

25. Who is the new Prime Minister of North Korea?

Answer: Pak Pong-ju

26. Who is the new president of Bangladesh?

Answer: Abdul Hamid

27. Who becomes the first woman speaker of Bangladesh?

Answer: Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury

28. Who is the new Comptroller and Auditor General of India?

Answer: Shashi Kant Sharma


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29. Who become the first Pakistani women to scale the Everest?

Answer: Samina Baig

30. What was the theme of 2013 International Biological diversity Day (May22)?

Answer: Water and Biodiversity

31. The Reserve Bank of India has projected a GDP growth percent of ..........

for 2013-14?

Answer: 5.7%

32. World Press Freedom Day was celebrated on:

Answer: May 3

33. Who was honoured by this years UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press

Freedom Award?

Answer: Reeyot Alemu (Ethiopia). She has been imprisoned for more than a

year branded as Terrorist.

34. The movie named produced by IBM Research, has been recognized

as the Worlds smallest movie ever created?

Answer: A Boy and His Atom. The one minute movie was made by moving

carbon monoxide atoms viewed through a Scanning Tunneling Microscope,

magnifying them 100 million times.

35. Najib Razak has been sworn in for a second term as the Prime Minister of:

Answer: Malaysia

36. Which Indian shuttler has won the Malaysia Open Womens title?


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Answer: P. Sindhu

37. .......... and .......... Are nominated by India for World Heritage Site status in

2013.

Answer: Hill Forts in Rajasthan and the Great Himalayan National Park.

38. The Indian discus thrower who clinched gold in the IAAF (International

Association of Athletics Federations) Challenge Meet held in Kingston?

Answer: Vikas Gowda

39. Who got the ISRO Young Scientist Award 2013?

Answer: Jenita Mary Nongkynrih from Meghalaya

40. Who is sworn in as the 22nd Chief Minister of Karnataka?

Answer: Siddaramaiah

41. Government of India will observe Year 2013 as:

Answer: Water Conservation Year

42. Who becomes the first Indian amputee to conquer Mt Everest?

Answer: Arunima Sinha

43. Which country signed new constitution into law on 22nd May 2013?

Answer: Zimbabwe

44. Who won the 5th Man Booker International Prize?

Answer: Lydia Davis


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45. Who is crowned as the Miss India Worldwide 2013?

Answer: Nehal Bhogaita. Britains Nehal Bhogaita has won the title of Miss

India Worldwide, making her the first deaf to win the beauty pageant.

46. Who is appointed as the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court?

Answer: Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta

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