Current Affairs and General Knowledge Quiz Questions: 29 May 2014

1) Who has won a landslide victory in the Egyptian presidential election recently?

(A) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

(B) Adly Mansour

(C) Mohamed Morsi

(D) Hosni Mubarak

2) The Nobel Prize was instituted by which country?

(A) USA

(B) UK

(C) Russia

(D) Sweden

3) Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on 29 May 2014 decided to acquire control in Network 18 Media & Investments Ltd, including its subsidiary TV18 Broadcast Ltd, for Rs 4,000 crore. Which among the following popular television news channel will thus come under the control of Reliance?

(A) NDTV

(B) Times Now

(C) CNN-IBN

(D) Headlines Today

4) World Tourism Day, is observed on?

(A) September 27

(B) November 14

(C) January 25

(D) December 10

5) Who will be the next Solicitor General of India and succeed Mohan Parasaran, who has resigned following the change of government at the Centre recently?

(A) Ranjit Kumar

(B) Mukul Rohatgi

(C) Maninder Singh

(D) Rohinton Fali Nariman

6) A Mughal Queen whose name was written on all the Mughal Firmans and inscribed on the coins was?

(A) MahamAnanga

(B) NurJahan

(C) Mumtaz Mahal

(D) Mariam Makani

7) Who has topped the five women from India featured in Forbes’ 100 most powerful women in the world (except India-born PepsiCo’s Chief Indra Nooyi at 13th) , in the list released on 29 May 2014?

(A) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

(B) Padmasree Warrior

(C) Chanda Kochhar

(D) Arundhati Bhattacharya

8) Haldia refinery is located in?

(A) Paschim Banga

(B) Bihar

(C) Andhra Pradesh

(D) Odisha

9) Who on 29 May 2014 took charge as the Home Minister of India?

(A) Arun Jaitley

(B) Sushma Swaraj

(C) Rajnath Singh

(D) Nithin Gadkari

10) Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected from two Lok Sabha constituencies in the LS elections 2014. On 29th May 2014 he has quit Vadodara constituency and will henceforth represent which constituency in the Parliament?

(A) Lucknow

(B) Varanasi

(C) Gandhinagar

(D) Vidisha