Sunday, April 6, 2014

Current Affairs daily Quiz: 30 March & 01 April 2014

1) Name the US ambassador to India who resigned on 31 March 2014?
(A) Nancy Powell
(B) Albert Peter Burleigh
(C) Timothy J. Roemer
(D) David Campbell Mulford


2) Reserve Bank of India, on 1 April 2014, kept the indicative policy rate (repo) unchanged at ....... per cent in its first bi-monthly monetary policy?
(A) 6
(B) 6.5
(C) 7
(D) 8


3) Who has recently (March 2014) became the first female mayor of Paris?
(A) Marie-Louise
(B) Coleiro Preca
(C) Anne Hidalgo
(D) George Abela


4) Who is the new Prime Minister of France?
(A) Francois Hollande
(B) Nicolas Sarkozy
(C) Jean Mark Heyrault
(D) Manuel Valls


5) After its ten and half years service in orbit, on 1st April 2014 ISRO decommissioned which Communication Satellite?
(A) INSAT-3B
(B) INSAT-3E
(C) INSAT-5B
(D) INSAT-3C


6) Viswanathan Anand was ranked at which position in the latest ranking released by FIDE (Fédération internationale des échecs or World Chess Federation) on 1 April 2014?
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 4


7) Name the candidate of BJP who will be contesting from Amethi against Rahul Gandhi in the ensuing Lok Sabha Elections?
(A) Sushma Swaraj
(B) Hema Malini
(C) Smriti Irani
(D) Rakhi Sawant


8) Which Indian men badminton player lost in the final of the Malaysia Grand Prix Gold tournament on 30 March 2014?
(A) Pankaj Advani
(B) Parupalli Kashyap
(C) Chetan Anand
(D) Sourabh Varma


9) Finance Ministry has recently rejected the recommendation of the Parliamentary Standing Committee headed whom on raising the income tax exemption limit to Rs 3 lakh?
(A) Yashwant Sinha
(B) M M Joshi
(C) P C Chako
(D) A K Antony


10) Who was recently elected as the new President of Slovakia?
(A) Robert Fico
(B) Andrej Kiska
(C) Manuel Valls
(D) Robert Scott

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