Current Affairs QUIZ: JAN 27, 2014 1. Who won womens title of the Syed Modi International India Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament on Sunday, 26 Jan 2014? [A] Ksenia Polikarpova [B] Saina Nehwal [C] PV Sindhu [D] Yi Fan Jia 2. Which city on 25 January 2014 became the first in India to offer free Wi-Fi spots for the public? 3. Republic Day is celebrated every year on 26 January to commemorate the date and moment when the Constitution of India came into effect. Since 1950, for Republic Day celebrations India has been inviting guests of high dignitaries of another country as the state guest of honour. Who was the guest in 65th Republic day on 26th Jan 2014? [A] Shinzo Abe [B] David Camroon [C] Hillary Clinton [D] Angela Merkel 4. Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka claimed his first Grand Slam title in dramatic fashion on 26 January 2014 when he upset injury-troubled world number one Rafael Nadal of Spain in the Australian Open men’s singles final. He defeated Nadal by 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 to win his maiden Grand Slam tennis title. Stanislas Wawrinka has earlier in January 2014 won which ATP title in India? 5. The Union Government of India on the eve of the 65th Republic Day function announced the Padma Awards 2014. Pranab Mukherjee, the President of Union of India on 25 January 2013 approved 127 Padma Awards. Two people were conferred with Padma Vibhusan, twenty four were conferred with Padma Bhushan and 101 people were given Padma Shree. Who were given Padma Vibhusan this year? [A] Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar and T.H. Vinayakram [B] T.H. Vinayakram and B.K.S. Iyengar [C] Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar and B.K.S. Iyengar [D] Prof. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh and Begum Parveen Sultana 6. The third one-day international (ODI) of the India-New Zealand series at Auckland on 25 January 2014 ended in a nail-biting tie with India scoring exactly 314 runs, the same scored by the Kiwis. It was India’s 7th tie in an ODI match. What record was added to the name of Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni for this tied match? 7. An indigenous High Performance Computing System was inaugurated by Avinash Chander, DG DRDO and Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister at Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group (ANURAG) in Hyderabad on 25 January 2014. Can you name the system? [A] Dhruva-1 [B] Dhruva-2 [C] Dhruva-3 [D] Dhruva-4 8. Karl Slym, who passed away on 26 January 2014 in Bangkok, was the top executive associated with which Indian automobile company? 9. Vakrangee Ltd., which is engaged in providing e-governance solutions, recently came to news for banking related activities. Why? 10. The reclusive North Korean leader kim Jong-lI, who died recently ruled his country for? : [A] 10 years [B] 12 years [C] 15 years [D] 17 years 11. According to the State of Food Insecurity: (SOFI) Report 2012, what is the percentage of the chronically undernourished people in the world? [A] 8 percent [B] 10 percent [C] 5 percent [D] 8 percent 12. Because of which one of the following factors, clouds do not precipitate in deserts? [A] Low Pressure [B] Low humidity [C] High temperature [D] High wind velocity 13. “Swayamsidha” is a scheme launched by the government of India to help [A] Senior citizens without any regular income [B] School children only [C] Health workers only [D] Women only 14. According to the United Nations figures released in October 2012, in the Sectarian violence (clashes between Muslims and Buddhists) in Myanmar, the number of displaced people was over [A] 25,000 [B] 27,000 [C] 28,000 [D] 0 15. According to a report released in September-2012 by the well-known organization “Save the children”, the percentage of women and kids in India suffering from serious nutritional problems like anemia is [A] 30 percent [B] 40 percent [C] 60 percent [D] 70 percent 16. Under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), the Union Health Ministry has ; cleared a corpus for the states to support their purchase of medicines to the tune of. [A] Rs. 1,200 crore [B] Rs. 1,300 crore [C] Rs. 1,400 crore [D] Rs. 1,500 crore 17. As announced by the International Cricket Council, which country will host 2016 World Twenty 20, 2021 World Test Championship and 2023 edition of the 50-over World Cup ? [A] England [B] Australia [C] India [D] South Africa 18. Who among the following was appointed as Director General (DC), National Disaster Response Force and Civil Defence on 25 June 2013? [A] RM. Nair [B] Krishna Chaudhary [C] Alok Kumar [D] Vijay Kumar 19. Who sworn in as Australia’s Prime Minister for second time replacing Julia Gil lard on 27 June 2013? [A] Kevin Rudd [B] Paul Keating [C] John Howard [D] Anthony Albanese 20. During the UNESCO meeting held in the Cambodian Capital Phnom Penh for its 37th annual session, how many sites were added to the UNESCO’s World Heritage List 2013 of places of “Outstanding Universal Value’? [A] 19 [B] 15 [C] 12 [D] 10 21. Which team did India defeat in the final match to win the Champions Trophy 2013? [A] Sri Lanka [B] West Indies [C] South Africa [D] England 22. Tianhe-2, a Supercomputer develop by which country’s National University of Defence Technology earned the number one spot of fastest computer in the TOP 500 survey on 18, June 2013? [A] South Korea [B] China [C] Japan [D] Taiwan ANSWERS 1. [B] Saina Nehwal 2. Bangalore (Karnataka Government’s Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology, Science & Technology launched the ‘Namma Wi-Fi’ hotspots across six spots in the city. Usage will be limited to three hours per day or up to 50 MB data. The total number of access points would be 23 in the coverage area which will accommodate 2,000 users at the same time. To use this service, users should have an authentication password which would be sent to their mobile after they register on the network) 3. [A] Shinzo Abe 4. Chennai Open (Wawarinka had won the men’s singles title of Chennai Open on 5 January 2014) 5. [A] Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar and T.H. Vinayakram 6. MS Dhoni created history by becoming the first ODI captain to have participated in four tied matches (Richie Richardson (West Indies), Steve Waugh (Australia) and Shaun Pollock (South Africa) were involved in three ties each. The first tie for Dhoni was in the 2011 ICC World Cup against England in Bangalore. His second was also against England at Lord’s on 11 September 2011. The third occasion was against Sri Lanka in Adelaide in February 2012) 7. [C] Dhruva-3 8. Tata Motors (He was the Managing Director of Tata Motors. He died in Bangkok on 26 January 2014 where he had gone to attend a board meeting of the company’s Thailand arm. The UK-born Slym was brought to the company in 2012 to turn around the company’s domestic business as Tata Motors was fully dependent on profits generated by the company’s UK-based subsidiary Jaguar Land Rover till the end of the last quarter. 9. It has received final authorization for operating White Label ATM (WLA) license from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) - Under, the RBI license, the company is entitled to set up and run minimum 15,000 ATMs across the country in next three years. White label ATMs are those which are not run by the Banks but by a non- banking entity in its own brand name (like Vakrangee ATM) after passing through all the stringent qualification and due-diligence process undertaken by RBI 10. [D] 11. [C] 12. [B] 13. [D] 14. [C] 15. [D] 16. [B] 17. [C] 18. [B] 19. [A] 20. [A] 21. [D] 22. [B]
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