Current Affairs Quiz - Aug 2014 ************************************************************************************** 1.) Recently, RBI has reduced the free transactions done on other bank’s ATM from 5 to ___. (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 1 (e) None of these Ans:- (b) The number of mandatory free ATM transactions for savings bank account customers at other banks ATMs is reduced from the present 5 to 3 transactions per month (inclusive of both financial and non-financial transactions) for transactions done at the ATMs located in 6 metro centers i.e. Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata and Hyderabad. So, if you are not from these six cities, you do not have to worry. 2.) ‘Half Girlfriend’ is a novel written by ____________. (a) Sadanand Swami (b) AP Jayant (c) Chetan Bhagat (d) Kirit Parekh (e) None of these Ans:- (c) His other books include : - a. What Young India Wants b. Revolution 2020 c. 2 States d. The 3 Mistakes of my Life e. One Night @ the Call Center f. Five Point Someone 3.) Being closet to Earth and having its full moon stage is called __________. This phenomenon happened recently. (a) Supermoon (b) Giant Moon (c) Perigee Moon (d) Hot Moon (e) None of these Ans:- (a) A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth. The technical name is the perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system. 4.) Presently, Turkey’s Prime Minister is Ahmed Davutoglu. Who is President? (a) Recep Tayyip Erdogan (b) Tynip Karloeno (c) Mohammed Yasunik (d) Piniyare Pichard (e) None of these Ans:- (a) RT Erdogan is the 12th President of Turkey. He assumed office when the entire world is expecting bold steps from him to stop and wipe out ISIS with help of other countries. 5.)‘Vistara’ is a brand name of _________. It was making news recently. (a) Mobile phone (b) Railway ticketing facility (c) Community radio (d) Airlines (e) None of these Ans:- (d) It is established as a joint venture between Indias Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines. The new carrier, announced in 2013, will be a full-service airline based in New Delhi. The two companies will initially invest a combined US$100 million to start the carrier, with Tata Sons owning 51 per cent and Singapore Airlines (SIA) owing the remaining 49 per cent. 6.) Consider the following matches? These are the names of women personalities who all are part of a list of most powerful women in India – 2014 prepared by Business Today. 1. Nishi Vasudeva – HPCL Ltd. 2. Chitra Ramakrishnan – CEO of NSE 3. Aruna Jayanti – Capgemini Ltd 4. Arundhati Bhattacharya – SBI (a) Only 4 is correct. (b) Only 2 & 4 are correct. (c) Only 1, 2 & 4 are correct. (d) Only 1, 3 & 4 are correct. (e) All are correct. Ans:- (e) Memorable facts. 7.) ‘Sindhu Sadhna’ is a ________. (a) Research ship (b) Irrigation project (c) Hydro-electric project (d) Anti-Malaria vaccine (e) None of these Ans:- (a) RV Sindhu Sadhana has facilities for online data collection and processing from single-beam and multi-beam echo sounders, water column and sub-bottom profiler, gravimeter, magnetometer, Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler and conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) profiler. It also has autonomous weather station (AWS), air quality monitors and sampling gears such as A-frame, Gamma frame, CTD winch and deep sea winches with supporting cranes. 8.) Which of the following sports institution has been awarded the prestigious Rashtritya Khel Protsahan Puraskar 2014? (a) Bhartiya Rail Khel Board (b) Guru Hanuman Akhara (c) Mary Kom Boxing Academy (d) Gopichand Badminton Academy (e) None of these Ans:- (b) This wrestling institution gave so many national and international wrestlers to Indian wrestling like Dara Singh, Guru Satpal, Anuj Chowdhary, Rajiv Tomer, Anil Mann, Sujit Mann, Naveen, Rakesh Goonga and the list is endless. The mentor to this Akhara is Late Guru Hanuman Ji. 9.) ‘IBM Simon’ is well known (a) First palmtop (b) First netbook (c) First smartphone (d) First laptop (e) None of these Ans:- (c) The IBM Simon Personal Communicator was a handheld, touch screen cellular phone and PDA designed and engineered by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM). The Simon Personal Communicator was the first cellular phone to include telephone and PDA features in one device. It turned 20 recently. 10.) Who has been elected as the head of Public Accounts Committee (PAC)? (a) Murli Manohar Joshi (b) KV Thomas (c) Dinesh Trivedi (d) V Moily (e) None of these Ans:- (b) The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is a committee of selected members of Parliament, constituted by the Parliament of India, for the auditing of the expenditure of the Government of India. The PAC is formed every year with a strength of not more than 22 members of which 15 are from Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament, and 7 from Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament. The term of office of the members is one year. The Chairman is appointed by the Speaker of Lok Sabha. Since 1967, the chairman of the committee is selected from the opposition. Earlier, it was headed by a member of the ruling party. Its chief function is to examine the audit report of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) after it is laid in the Parliament. CAG assists the committee during the course of investigation. None of the 22 members shall be a minister in the government.
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