Wednesday, March 5, 2014

SSC:Professional Knowledge:Current Affairs

Q1 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

Q2 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

Q3 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

Q4 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

Q5 B K S Iyengar won "Padma Vibhushan Award 2014" from ______ field in January 2014.
   A) Public Affairs    B) Literature and Education    C) Yoga    D) Art—Cinema

Q6 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(Eyes should be on Face :D)    D) Apple

Q7 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

Q8 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

Q9 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

Q10 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

Q11 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)None of These

Q12 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

Q13 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

Q14 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

Q15 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

Q16 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

Q17 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

Q18 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

Q19 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

Q20 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

Q21 Which US states has become the first one to legalise selling of Marijuana in Jan 2014? 
   A) Illinois     B) Nevada    C) Colorado    D) Texas
    
Q22  Which Indian state launched free CFL bulbs scheme for hut dwellers in Jan 2014? 
   A) Tamil Nadu    B) Karnataka   C) Haryana     D) Gujarat

Q23 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


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