Current
Affairs & General Knowledge Quiz: 29
December 2013
1) Jacques Kallis of South Africa overtook which
player to become 3rd highest Test run-getter in Test cricket history on 29
December 2013?
(A) Ricky Ponting
(B) Kumar
Sangakkara
(C) Brian Lara
(D) Rahul Dravid
2) Hirakund Dam at
Sambalpur in Orissa, the longest dam in India, is built across which river?
(A)Narmada
(B)Mahanadi
(C)Godavari
(D)Kaveri
3) On 29 December
2013, who was appointed as the Managing Director (Corporate Banking) of State
Bank of India (SBI), the biggest lender of the country?
(A) Arundhati
Bhattacharya
(B) P Pradeep Kumar
(C) Praneet Ojha
(D) Sidharth Birla
4) Soft toy 'Teddy
Bear' was named after which US president's nickname?
(A)Abraham Lincoln
(B)George
Washington
(C)Theodore
Roosevelt
(D)John F. Kennedy
5) Name the
seven-time Formula One champion, who is in a coma and remains in a
"critical" condition after striking his head in a ski accident in the
French Alps on 29 December 2013?
(A) Sebastian
Vettel
(B) Fernando Alonso
(C) Michael
Schumacher
(D) Nelson Piquet
6) Which close
associate of Mahatma Gandhi was popularly known as 'Deenbandhu'?
(A)C.F.Andrews
(B)Vinoba Bhave
(C)Jamnalal Bajaj
(D)Vallabhbhai
Patel
7) Which state
government has launched the first phase of providing free compact fluorescent
light bulbs to over hut-dwellers in the state recently?
(A) Kerala
(B) Tamil Nadu
(C) Punjab
(D) Uttar Pradesh
8) Who is the only
person to be honoured with both 'Bharat Ratna' and 'Nishan-e-Pakistan', the
highest civilian awards of India and Pakistan respectively?
(A)Mohammed Iqbal
(B)Khan Abdul
Gaffar Khan
(C)Maulana Abul
Kalam Azad
(D)Morarji Desai
9) A suicide attacker set off a bomb in the
entrance hall of train station of which
country on 29 December 2013 killing at least 16 people in the second deadly attack
within three days as the country prepares to host the Winter Olympics.?
(A) Italy
(B) Pakistan
(C) Russia
(D) France
10) 'The
Argumentative Indian' book was authored by which Indian ecomonist?
(A)Amartya Sen
(B)Jagdish Bhagwati
(C)Manmohan Singh
(D)Nani Palkhivala
Answers
1) Ans. (D) Rahul
Dravid
2) Ans. (B)Mahanadi
3) Ans. (B) P
Pradeep Kumar
4) Ans. (C)Theodore
Roosevelt
5) Ans. (C) Michael
Schumacher
6) Ans. (A)C.F.Andrews
7) Ans. (B) Tamil
Nadu
8) Ans. (D)Morarji
Desai
9) Ans. (C) Russia
10) Ans. (A)Amartya
Sen
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