Current Affairs & General
Knowledge Quiz: 19 December 2013
1) Name the Indian
woman diplomat who was shifted to India’s Permanent Mission to the United
Nations in New York by the Indian Government on 18 Dec 2013, so as to entitle
her to all diplomatic privileges and immunity?
(A) Savitha
Halapanakar
(B) Devyani
Khobragade
(C) Srishti Rana
(D) Durga Sakti
Nagpal
2) `Dreams from My
Father' and `The Audicity of Hope' books are authored by which American
President?
(A)Bill Clinton
(B)George W. Bush
(C)Barack Obama
(D)Ronald Reagan
3) Name the man
behind the Britain’s Great Train Robbery in 1963 who died on 18-Dec-2013?
(A) Christopher
Pickard
(B) Jack Straw
(C) Jimmy White
(D) Ronnie Biggs
4) Ganymede, the
largest natural satellite in the Solar System, is a natural satellite (moon) of
which planet?
(A)Uranus
(B)Saturn
(C)Jupiter
(D)Mars
5) Lokpal Bill was
passed by the Parliament as the Lok Sabha on 18 December 2013 adopted the
measure as amended by the Rajya Sabha after a short discussion. Name the two
parties which opposed the bill in Loksabha?
(A) Congress and
DMK
(B) BJP and Shiv
Sena
(C) Samajwadi Party
and Shiv Sena
(D) BSP and NCP
6) Which is the
heaviest organ in the human body?
(A)Stomach
(B)Kidney
(C)Liver
(D)Heart
7) A nation-wide
strike by which public sector union on 18-Dec-2013 hit the normal life?
(A) Railways
(B) Bank
(C) Tourism
(D) Oil companies
8) Who was the
first law minister of independent India?
(A)Maulana Abul
Kalam Azad
(B)B.R.Ambedkar
(C)Rafi Ahmed
Kidwai
(D)Vallabhbhai
Patel
9) Which country
won the boy’s and girl’s team titles in the Asia-Pacific junior golf
championship at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC) on 18th Dec 2013?
(A) China
(B) Thailand
(C) India
(D) Pakistan
10) Which
co-founder of Infosys, wrote the book `Imagining India : Ideas for the New
Century'?
(A)N.R.Narayan
Murthy
(B)N.S.Raghavan
(C)Nandan Nilekani
(D)Kris
Gopalakrishnan
Answers
1) Ans. (B) Devyani
Khobragade
2) Ans. (C)Barack
Obama
3) Ans. (D) Ronnie
Biggs
4) Ans. (C)Jupiter
5) Ans. (C)
Samajwadi Party and Shiv Sena
6) Ans. (C)Liver
7) Ans. (B) Bank
8) Ans. (B)B.R.Ambedkar
9) Ans. (C) India
10) Ans. (C)Nandan
Nilekani
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