SET of 120 Quest--Mixed 1-Who was appointed as chairman of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)? Ans- Deepak Gupta 2. Who won F1 racing championship for the year 2014 ? Ans- Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain 3. Who defeats Indias Viswanathanr Anand at 2014 FIDE World Chess Championship in Sochi, Russia ? Ans- Magnus Carlsen of Norway 4. Who has won International Children’s Peace Prize 2014 ? Ans- Indian American Neha Gupta 5. Which company announced to name Shah Rukh Khan as its brand ambassador ? Ans- Housing finance company DHFL 6. Who has been appointed as the Advocate General (AG) of Maharashtra ? Ans- Sunil Manohar 7. Who is Sitara Devi who died recently? Ans- Legendary Kathak danseuse 8. Who has been chosen as the next chairperson of the Press Council of India? Ans- Justice Chandramauli Kumar (CK) Prasad 9. The report titled Future of India- The Winning Leap was released by........? Ans- PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. 10. Who defeated France to win their first-ever Davis Cup of Tennis? Ans- Switzerland 11. Asian Beach Games was held at.........? Ans- Phuket, Thailand 12. World Toilet Day was observed on......? Ans- 19 November 13. The Kisan Vikas Patra will available in denomination of .....? Ans- Rs 1000, 5000, 10000 and 50000 14. Which is the new headquarter of Coal India? Ans- Rajarhat, West Bengal earlier Kolkatta 15. Who won Delhi Half Marathon ? Ans- Male- Ethiopian runner Guye Adola of Ethiopia Female - Florence Kiplagat of Kenya 16. States which achieve 100 percent Financial Inclusion under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) are ......? Ans- Goa and Kerala 17. Union Territory which achieve 100 percent Financial Inclusion under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) are ......? Ans- Chandigarh, Puducherry and Lakshadweep 18. National Bal Swachhta Mission is Launched by which Ministry? Ans- Women and Child Development Ministry 19. Rosetta mission of European Space Agency (ESA) has landed its Philae probe on the surface of which comet........? Ans-Comet 67P/ Churyumov– Gerasimenko 20. Newton-Bhabha Fund programme” to scale up their bilateral research & innovation relationship announced by which countries? Ans- India and United Kingdom 21. Who will head the CBI probe in the 2G spectrum scam after the Supreme Court directed the agency Chief Ranjit Sinha to recuse from the investigation? Ans- R K Dutta 22. ING Vysya Bank will merge with..........? Ans- Kotak Mahindra Bank 23. Who will be the Chief Guest at 66th India’s Republic Day celebrations 2015? Ans- US President Barack Obama 24. Which is the capital of Myanmar? Ans-Nay pyi Taw 25. Which is the capital of Fiji? Ans- Suva 26. Who has won Sumitra Charat Ram Award 2014 for Lifetime Achievement? Ans- Pandit Jasraj 27. G-20 summit was held at........? Ans- Brisbane, Australia 28. When was World Pneumonia Day observed across world? Ans - 12 November 29. Who has been appointed as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia? Ans- sania mirza 30. Who was the winner of the ICC Peoples Choice award ? Ans- India seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar 31. Who has chosen for Indira Gandhi prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2014? Ans- Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) 32. Who is the President of Myanmar? Ans- U Thein Sein 33. 25th ASEAN Summit was held at.......? Ans- Myanmar 34. Who will be the new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Coal India Limited (CIL) ? Ans- Sutirtha Bhattacharya 35. World’s fastest supercomputer named was.......? Ans- Tianhe-2 36. Who is The Prime Minister of FIJI? Ans- Josiah V Bainimarama 37. Who has been nominated as Director on the Central Board of Directors of RBI ? Ans- Dr. Hasmukh Adhia 38. Who has been resigned as Chief Coach of Indian hockey team? Ans- Terry Walsh 39. Who was awarded with the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize 2014 ? Ans- Neha Gupta 40.Which Bank launched smart self- service terminal that enables customers to deposit as well as withdraw cash from the same machine ? Ans- Axis Bank 41.Which country launches remote sensing satellite Yaogan-23? Ans- China 42. Which country will host next G-20 Summit in 2015? Ans- Turkey 43. Who received IIM- JRD Tata Award for Excellence in Corporate leadership in Metallurgical Industries for the year 2014? Ans- Steel Authority of India (SAIL) Chairman CS Verma 44. Who won presidential elections in Romania? Ans- Klaus Werner Iohannis 45. Pravasi Bhartiya Divas will held in 2015 at.....? Ans- Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, Gujarat 46. Justice Nanavati Commission is related with ? Ans- 2002 Gujarat riots 47. Fourth India-China Joint Training Exercise began at Aundh Military Station in Pune, Maharashtra name was...? Ans- Hand-in-Hand 2014 48. International Buddhist Conference 2014 was held at .....? Ans- Lumbini, Nepal 49. Who will receive the C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for 2014? Ans- Dilip Vengsarkar 50. Myntra named Bollywood actress ........as its brand ambassador? Ans- Kangana Ranaut 51. Who has been appointed as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia? Ans- Bollywood Actor Farhan Akhtar 52. Who has been selected K.R. Narayanan award for his services to the nation? Ans- Eminent Jurist Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer 53. Surface-to-surface nuclear- capable ballistic missile tested by India named? Ans- Dhanush 54.Who has been named the Cricketer of the Year, as well as Test Cricketer of the Year By ICC? Ans- Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson 55. Who was named Emerging Cricketer of the Year by ICC? Ans- Englands Gary Ballance 56. Who has been selected as ODI Cricketer of the Year by ICC? Ans- South Africas AB de Villiers 57. 2014 G-20 Australia summit stated at.....? Ans- Brisbane Note- it is 9th G-20 summit 58. When was World Pneumonia Day observed across world? Ans - 12 November 59. Who launched a social gamified collaboration platform called SloPho? Ans - Kapil Dev 60. Who was the winner of the ICC Peoples Choice award ? Ans- India seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar 61. Who will host Modis event Allphones Arena Sydney? Ans-Miss India Australia Rashi Kapoor 62. Who scored Highest runs in ODIs? Ans- Rohit Sharma 264 runs 63. Who was the winner of the Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality of the Year? Ans- Rajinikanth 64. 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Co- operation (APEC) Summitheld at? Ans- Beijing, China 65. India Economic Summit was held at...? Ans- New Delhi 66. Who become the First Indian PM who travels 8 countries in six months? Ans- Narendra Modi 67. Which State will hold Global Investors Meet in May 2015? Ans- Tamil Nadu 68. The Seventh Summit on the Global Agenda was held at.......? Ans- UAE 69. Recently which state became Indias first state to make Voting compulsory in Local body elections? Ans- Gujarat 70. US and ....... sign agreement to cut emissions of greenhouse gases? Ans- China 71. National Education Day was observed on? Ans- 11 November 72. Who was appointed as the member of United Nations (UN) probe panel on Gaza? Ans- K C Reddy 73. Who tops the Forbes list of the Worlds Most Powerful People 2014? Ans- Vladimir Putin, Russia 74. Who has received Japan’s top national award The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers 2014? Ans- Former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh 75. Who is appointed as Chairman of Prasar Bharti Board? Ans- Surya Prakash 76. Who has become first Indian woman to win prestigious Wildscreen Panda Award? Ans- Ashwika Kapur 77. Who has recieved Global Diversity Award 2014 at the Britain’s House of Commons? Ans-Shah Rukh Khan 78. Who was appointed as chairman of India Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)? Ans- Lokesh Chandra 79. Swachhta Udyami Yojana is launched by which ministery? Ans- Social Justice and Empowerment 80. Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign will end on? Ans- 2019 81.Who won Durand Cup 2014 ? Ans- Salgaocar FC 82. Who acquired Cricbuzz com? Ans- Times Internet Ltd 83. Sixth World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) was held at .......? Ans- New Delhi with theme Health Challenges and Ayurveda. 84.What is the name of the missile co- developedt by India and Israel? Ans- Long Range Surface-to-Air Missile (LRSAM) Barak 8 missile 85.Which country lifts ban on social networking websites like Face book, Twitter for reporters? Ans- China 86. Who was Mathias Samuel Soundra Pandian? Ans- Noted scholar and JNU professor 87. Who was re-elected to the Bar Council of India (BCI) ? Ans- Mannan Kumar Mishra and S. Prabakaran 88. Jnanpith Award 2013 was given to.......? Ans- Hindi poet Kedarnath Singh for his outstanding contribution towards Indian literature. 89.Who was appointed as Chief Information Commissioner UP? Ans- Jawed Usmani 90. Which countries sign energy cooperation agreement? Ans- China and Russi 91) Who won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics on 13 October 2014? Ans. French economist Jean Tirole 92) Who was chosen as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of India’s Incheon Asian Games campaign at a felicitation of the medal winners by contingent sponsors, Samsung India on 13 October 2014? Ans. MC Mary Kom Note: She is the first Indian woman boxer to win a gold medal in Asian Games. 93) Who won the Man Booker Prize 2014 on 14 October 2014? Ans. Australian author Richard Flanagan Note: He won the Prize for his wartime novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. This was the first year that the Man Booker prize was open to all authors writing in English, regardless of nationality. 94) Which bank on 14 October 2014 launched Facebook-based funds transfer platform KayPay? Ans. Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) 95) Who was appointed as the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) in the Union Finance Ministry on 16 October 2014? Ans. Arvind Subramanian 96) ISRO on 16 October 2014 successfully launched third navigation satellite in IRNSS series named? Ans. IRNSS 1C. Note: IRNSS- Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C26 injected IRNSS 1C into the designated orbit from the first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. This was the 27th consecutive successful flight of PSLV. 97) Union government on 16 October 2014 launched Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Jayate Karyakram. What is the aim of the scheme? Ans. Scheme is aimed at creating conducive environment for industrial development and doing business with ease. 98) Who was appointment as the Union Finance Secretary on 16 October 2014? Ans. Rajiv Mehrishi Note: Mehrishi, an IAS of the 1978- batch of Rajasthan Cadre, replaced his batch-mate Arvind Mayaram, who was appointed as the Union Tourism Secretary . 99) Who was conferred with Euromoney’s Central Bank Governor of the Year Award 2014 in Washington 10 October 2014? Ans. Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor of Reserve Bank of India 100) Name the Cyclonic Storm which struck the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha on 12 October 2014? Ans. Hudhud 101) India on 30 September 2014 signed which convention on Mercury? Ans. Minamata Convention Note: The convention is named after the Japanese city Minamata that has become synonymous with deadly mercury contamination since 1950. 102) Which Indian shuttler won the Dutch Open Grand Prix badminton tournament on 12 October 2014? Ans. Ajay Jayaram 103) What was Indias rank in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) which was released on 13 October 2014 by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)? Ans. 55 104) World Food Day was observed across the world on 16 October 2014 with the theme? Ans. Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth. 105) Name the Indian-born scientist who received the World Food Prize 2014 on 16 October 2014? Ans. Sanjaya Rajaram 106) International Day for the Eradication of Poverty was observed across the world on? Ans. 17 October 2014 Note: The theme for the day was Leave no one behind: think, decide and act together against extreme poverty. 107) India on 17 October 2014 successfully test fired its first long range subsonic cruise missile named? Ans. Nirbhay 108) International Cricket Council (ICC) on 10 October 2014 awarded the global broadcast agreement rights for ICC Events from 2015 to 2023 to? Ans. Star India and Star Middle East. 109) Which countries were elected as non-permanent members of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on 16 October 2014? Ans. Venezuela, Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand and Spain 110) Global Handwashing Day (GHD) was observed across the world on? Ans. 15 October 2014 Note: Theme for 2014 is Clean Hands Save Lives. 111) Srilankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on 13 October 2014 flagged off which train from Palai after 25 years? Ans. Yal Devi Express 112) Which country will host first leg of Asia Cup Archery Tournament in Delhi in January 2015 as announced recently? Ans. India Note: Asia Cup will replace the Asian GP. The first leg will be conducted in Delhi in January 2015 while the second and third legs was allotted to Bangkok and Tehran. 113) Which MP of present Lok Sabha died on 13 October 2014 in Kolkata following a lung failure? Ans. Kapil Krishna Thakur 114) Who was appointed as the new Managing Director (MD) of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL) on 14 October 2014? Ans. Gautham Roy 115) Union Home Ministry on 17 October 2014 announced to rename 12 cities and towns of which state? Ans. Karnataka Note: Cities will be named as per pronunciation in Kannada language. 116) Who was appointed as Prime Minister of Yemen on 13 October 2014? Ans. Khaled Bahah 117) NASA on 21 September 2014 successfully installed and activated its first Earth-observing instrument ............... on the International Space Station (ISS)? Ans. ISS-RapidScat (ISS Rapid Scatterometer) 118) Who was honoured with the National Kishore Kumar Award for the year 2012-13 on 13 October 2014? Ans. Noted lyricist Sameer 119) Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) on 11 October 2014 removed whom as its President? Ans. Lalit Modi Note: He was removed after a no— confidence motion against him was passed in Jaipur in which 23 of the 33 districts voted against Lalit Modi . 120) Who won the inaugural Russian Grand Prix of Formula One on 12 October 2014? Ans. Lewis Hamilton
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