1) Name the veteran South Africa cricketer
who on 30 July 2014 announced his retirement from all formats of cricket?
(A) Hashim Amla
(B) Jacques Kallis
(C) Herschelle Gibbs
(D) Graeme Smith
2) At least 20 persons were crushed to
death and 126 others trapped under debris on 30 July 2014, after a landslide
triggered by the relentless rain hit the remote tribal village of Malin in?
(A) Pune
(B) Jharkhand
(C) Chennai
(D) Mumbai
3) IAF chief ......... on 30 July 2014 took
over as the Chairman, Chiefs of Staffs Committee from incumbent Gen Bikram
Singh on 30 July 2014?
(A) R.K. Dhowan
(B) Dalbir Singh Suhag
(C) Arup Raha
(D) DK Joshi
4) Fuad Masum was recently (July 2014)
elected as the president of?
(A) Iraq
(B) Israel
(C) Afghanistan
(D) Syria
5) Who among the following is tipped to be
the new Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the apex
authority of the Income Tax Department?
(A) R K Tewari
(B) Nripendra Mishra
(C) M Gandhi
(D) K V Chowdary
6) NASA's which space vehicle has now
clocked more miles on Mars than any man-made vehicle to reach another celestial
body as announced by NASA on 30 July 2014?
(A) Opportunity
(B) Curiosity
(C) Magalyaan
(D) Lunokhod 2
7) International Tiger Day 2014 was
observed across the world on?
(A) 29 July
(B) 30 July
(C) 28 July
(D) 27 July
8) Name the london-based indian writer
whose recently published novel, The Lives of Others, which won rave reviews,
has been long-listed for the Man Booker prize 2014 on 29 Jul 2014?
(A) Aravind Adiga
(B) Ali Smith
(C) Neel Mukherjee
(D) David Mitchell
9) Which company on 29 July 2014 announced
that it has raised $1 billion (Rs 6,000 crore), the largest ever fund-raising
by an Indian internet company?
(A) Amazon
(B) Myntra
(C) Flipkart
(D) eBay
10) Moeen Ali who has been recently banned
by ICC from wearing wristbands featuring the slogans "Save Gaza" and
"Free Palestine", is the cricketer from?
(A) Pakistan
(B) South Africa
(C) England
(D) Bangladesh
Answers
1) Ans. (B) Jacques Kallis
2) Ans. (A) Pune
3) Ans. (C) Arup Raha
4) Ans. (A) Iraq
5) Ans. (D) K V Chowdary
6) Ans. (A) Opportunity. It surpassed the
previous record, held by the Soviet Union's Lunokhod 2 rover, which landed on
the Moon in 1973.
7) Ans. (A) 29 July
8) Ans. (C) Neel Mukherjee
9) Ans. (C) Flipkart
10) Ans. (C) England
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