Current Affairs Quiz: 04 February 2014

1) Who has been appointed as the Chairman of 7th Central Pay Commission by Union Government on 4 February 2014?

(A)  Justice B.N.Srikrishna

(B) Justice Raghubir Dayal

(C) Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur

(D) Justice K G Balakrishnan

2) Who has been appointed Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on 4 Feb 2014?

(A) Steve Ballmer

(B) Sundar Pichai

(C) Alan Mulally

(D) Satya Nadella

3) Bharat Ratna was conferred on Sachin Tendulkar & Prof CNR Rao by President of India on 4 Feb 2014. Bharat Ratna was announced after a gap of four years. Who was the last recipient in 2009?

(A) Bismillah Khan

(B) Bhimsen Joshi

(C) Lata Mangeshkar

(D) Pandit Ravi Shankar

4) Which among the following day was observed across the world on 4 February every year to reduce stigma and dispel myths about that disease?

(A) World Cancer Day

(B) World Leprosy Day

(C) World AIDS Day

(D) World Tuberculosis Day

5) Who has been sworn in as chair of the US central bank, the Federal Reserve on 4 February 2014?

(A) Ben Bernanke

(B) Janet Yellen

(C) Alan Greenspan

(D) Paul Volcker

6) Shri Kapil Sibal, Minister of Communications & Information Technology on 4 Feb 2014 launched a special service of the Speed Post for booking and delivery of Notices/ Summons of which High Court with ‘Proof of Delivery’ (PoD) facility?

(A) Kerala High Court

(B) Allahabad High Court

(C) Calcutta High Court

(D) Delhi High Court

7) Karnataka won their ...... Ranji Trophy title on 2 February 2014?

(A) 6th

(B) 7th

(C) 8th

(D) 9th

8) Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology launched the National Cloud, implemented by National Information Centre (NIC), under which Initiative on 4 February 2014?

(A) MeghRaj

(B) Cloudin

(C) MeghDoot

(D) Megh

9)  Joachim Guack, President of ................... has arrived in New Delhi on a six day visit recently?

(A) Australia

(B) Brazil

(C) Germany

(D) France

10) Which country has topped in terms of intellectual property (IP) environment in the list of 25 countries released recently?

(A) US

(B) India

(C) China

(D) Singapore