Questions - --- ----- - 1. Who has recently won the first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering? ANSWER :- Tim Berners Lee 2. Which neighbouring country of India is constructed a temple for goddes Sitha? ANSWER :- Sri Lanka 3. Shanthi Prayas-II is the joint military exercise recently held between which countries? ANSWER :- Nepal and United States 4. Who has been named to lead the Indian women cricket team for limited-overs series against Bangladesh? ANSWER :- Harmanpreet Kaur 5. Who was recently in news as the first non-American Editor of Time International? ANSWER :- Bobby Ghosh 6. Which term is used for Convention on International Trade in Endagered Species (CITES)? ANSWER :- Washington Convention 7. Who was awarded the 2012-2013 Chameli Devi Jain Award for outstanding Women Mediaperson? ANSWER :- Alka Dhupkar 8. The famous quot Finance is the brain of economy was given by which Economist? ANSWER :- Joseph Stiglitz 9. The top secret Operation Lal Dora which is recently in news is related to which incident ? ANSWER :- Landing of Indian Troops in Mauritius 10. Who has been choosen for the prestigious Saraswathi Samman 2012 ? ANSWER :- Sugathakumari 11. Which company has launched its all- electrical Four seated passenger car,the e2o on India? ANSWER :- Mahindra and Mahindra 12. In which country, the worlds biggest dinosaur park is slated to come up? ANSWER :- Australia 13. Who is the first director of research for Brookings India? ANSWER :- Subir Gokarn 14. Which is the second male cloned buffalo calf in the world? ANSWER :- Swaran 15. Who heads the ministerial panel formed recently to discuss impactof retail FDI and minimum support prices? ANSWER :- Sharad Pawar 16. AS per first ever survey of slum housholds by the Census of India,which city has the most number of households in slums? ANSWER :- Vishakhapatnam 17. The rebel alliance Seleka has been making news frequently in context with which African Country? ANSWER :- Central African Republic 18. Who heads the Expert Committee for the purpose of reviewing theinstitutional frame work of Prasar Bharathi? ANSWER :- Sam Pitroda 19. Who has became the head of an interim government in Nepal and tasked with steering the country towards election by June? ANSWER :- Khilraj Regmi 20. Which is the first ever massive exercise conducted by the Indian Air Force to test battle efficiency in a wartime scenario? ANSWER :- Operation Livewire 21. The Chashma Nuclear Power Complex, which is often in news is located in which country? ANSWER :- Iran 22. Which Indian is the youngest cardinal Indian to take part in the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI? ANSWER :- Cleemis Thottunkal 23. Dholera, which the government is planning to develop as a new smart industial city is located in which state? ANSWER :- Gujarath 24. Who has been chosen for this years prestigious Abel Prize in Mathematics? ANSWER :- Pierre Deligne 25. Who is considered as the father of African literature has died recently? ANSWER :- Chinua Achebe 26. The United States has officially transferred the control of controversial Bagram prison to the local government of which country? ANSWER :- Afganisthan 27. A bank for the Buck is a book written by one of Indias top financial journalists Tamal Bandyopadhyay. The book is a story of which bank? ANSWER :- HDFC Bank 28. The space scientist and Planning Commission member who headed the panel which submitted its report asking for ban on mining in 37% of Western Ghats? ANSWER :- K.Kasturirangan 29. The Telgu writer who was selected for the Jnanpith Award for the year 2012? ANSWER :- Ravuri Bharadwaja 30.The Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) works under which ministry? ANSWER :- Ministry of Coporate Affairs 31. The Leveson Report reviewed the general culture and ethics of the media in which country? ANSWER :- Britain 32. The commercial production of oil and gas has started in the Aishwarya Oil Field. These fields are located in which state? ANSWER :- Rajasthan 33. Who has won the Femina Miss India 2013 contest? ANSWER :- Navneet Kaur Dhillon 34. Who has won Asias top literary prize, Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel The Garden of Evening Mists, for the year 2013? ANSWER :- Tan Twan Eng 35. Which European country claims sovereignty over the Falkland island? ANSWER :- Britain 36. The Test of My Life is the autobiography of which cricket player? ANSWER :- Yuvaraj Singh 37. Asias largest solar power project has been recently commissioned in which state? ANSWER :- Rajasthan 38. The lowest dropout rate of school students in the country is in which state? ANSWER :- Kerala (0.53%) 39. The Socialist and successor of the late leader Hugo Chavez who has won the Venezuelas President poll? ANSWER :- Nicolas Maduro 40. Violin Maestro son of Lalgudi Gopala Iyer and exponent of Lalgudi bahani style who died recently at the age of 80? ANSWER :- Lalgudi Jayaraman (April 22)
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