Current Affairs QUIZ: Feb 08, 2014

Current Affairs QUIZ: Feb 08, 2014

1. Which among the following appointed as the first women special director of CBI?

[A] Meena Kulkarni

[B] Archana Sundaram

[C] Deepika Kumari

[D] Nitu Gupta

2. Which country’s economy is estimated to grow at 4.9% in 2013-14, a tad lower than the government’s projection of 5-5.5%?

[A] Pakistan

[B] Japan

[C] Malaysia

[D] India

3. Name the Jammu & Kashmir Health Minister who resigned from his post after the police filed a complaint against him for sexually assaulting?

[A] Bijendra Prasad Yadav

[B] Shahid Ali Khan

[C] Iqbal Shafiq

[D] Shabir Khan

4. Name the advisor in the Union ministry of home affairs who resigned from his post on 7th February 2014?

[A] Kuldeep Sharma

[B] Shiv Raj Shekhar

[C] Nitish Verma

[D] Vilas Dogra

5. Which Indian states Chief Minister has removed the red beacon from his car, cut his security cover by 20%?

[A] Uttar Pradesh

[B] Delhi

[C] Maharashtra

[D] Tamil Nadu

6. Who became the first legistor to avail the “None of the above” (NOTA) option?

[A] Daggubati Venkateshwara Rao

[B] Manish Tewari

[C] Rahul Gandhi

[D] Sandeep Dixit

7. Which among the following nation’s scientists found 800,000 year old rare humar footprints?

[A] Austria

[B] Japan

[C] Netherland

[D] United Kingdom

8. Which among the following political scientist passes away on 7th February 2014?

[A] Zhang Quihal

[B] Robert Dahl

[C] B N Yugandhar

[D] David Cameron

9. Which among the following Indian shooter won his second gold Medal on Friday at the Inter Shoot tri-series shooting competition?

[A] Gagan Narang

[B] Ronjan Sodhi

[C] Abhinav Bindra

[D] Vijay Kumar

10. Indraprastha Gas Limited reduced the price of CNG by 14.90 per kg and PNG by Rs 5 per unit in-

[A] Delhi

[B] Haryana

[C] Andhra Pradesh

[D] Gujarat

11. The Pong Dam reservoir is known to be one of the largest man-made wetlands in the foothills of the Himalayas. In which among the following states, Pong Dam reservoir is located?

[A] Jammu & Kashmir

[B] Himachal Pradesh

[C] Uttarakhand

[D] Sikkim

12. According to the Lokpal & Lokayukta Act 2013, who among the following is not a part of the selection committee for choosing the Lokpal chairperson?

[A] Prime Minister

[B] Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha

[C] Speaker of Lok Sabha

[D] Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha

13. Recently, the Supreme Court of India upheld recommendations made by the Justice Majithia wage board. The Majithia wage board is related to hiking salaries for ____?

[A] Tea Plantation workers

[B] Journalists and non-journalists

[C] Mining workers

[D] Contractual labours in Cooperative societies

14. In which year, DRDO was established to achieve self-reliance in critical defence technologies and systems?

[A] 1955

[B] 1958

[C] 1959

[D] 1963

15. The nine-dotted line or nine-dash map refers to the demarcation line in South China Sea using by ___?

[A] Japan

[B] Vietnam

[C] China

[D] Philippines

16. Juthika Roy, who passed away recently, was a ____?

[A] Bhajan Singer

[B] Human Right activist

[C] Folk Singer

[D] Environmentalist Bhajan

17. The Lombok strait, is a straight which connects the Java Sea to the ____?

[A] Bay of Bengal

[B] Indian Ocean

[C] Pacific Ocean

[D] Mediterranean Sea

18. Who among the following has become the fastest batsman to score 11,000 test runs, recently?

[A] M S Dhoni

[B] Kevin Peterson

[C] Kumar Sangakkara

[D] Ashim Hamla Kumar

19. Recently, with which one of the following countries India has signed agreements on “green energy corridors”?

[A] Russia

[B] Germany

[C] South Korea

[D] Japan Germany

20. The “Hallikar” cattle, a popular draft breed of India, is indigenous to which state?

[A] Kerala

[B] Haryana

[C] Karnataka

[D] Uttar Pradesh

21. Who has been appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of private insurer Future Generali India Life Insurance on 7 January 2014?

[A] Pankaj Razdan

[B] Ashish Jena

[C] Vineet Khare

[D] Munish Sharda

22. A panel set up by RBI, on Wednesday 8th Jan 2014, has recommended a special category of banks to exclusively cater to low-income households and small business by providing payment and deposit products to the target customers. This panel has given a series of recommendations to further financial inclusion that includes separate licences to existing banks or new banks to function as ‘Payments Banks'. These banks may have a minimum entry capital of R50 crore against R500 crore required by a full-service bank as the exposure would be risk free. Who is heading this panel?

[A] Nachiket Mor

[B] Shikha Gupta

[C] Chanda Kocchar

[D] B N Rangaswamy

23. The Delhi High Court ruled that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) can audit the books of accounts of private sector __________ companies on 6 January 2014.

[A] Power Distribution

[B] Telecom

[C] Insurance

[D] Banking

24. India on 7 January 2014 launched which phase of its housing project in Sri Lanka (The project has been expanded its category of beneficiaries and has included the Indian origin Tamils who are settled in the central part of Sri Lanka as plantation laborers)?

[A] First

[B] Second

[C] Third

[D] Fourth

25. Which company has reportedly unveiled what is touted as the world's lightest, thinnest, pocketable and fully-rugged Windows tablet at the ongoing CES 2014 in Las Vegas on Tuesday, 7th Jan 2013?

[A] Samsung

[B] Nokia

[C] Panasonic

[D] Motorola

26. The 2014 Winter Olympics commenced officially on 7 February 2014 at Sochi (Russia) with a breath-taking opening ceremony at Fisht Olympic Stadium. This is which edition of Winter Olympics?

27. Which city is India’s official bid for the status of UNESCO World Heritage Site?

28. Which company will become India’s first telecom player to be fully owned by a foreign company following approval of company’s FDI proposal by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on 6 February 2014?

29. The Indian Newspaper Society (INS), an umbrella association of the Indian newspaper industry on 5 February 2014 rejected the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2013 after the Media Research Users’ Council (MRUC), which carries out the survey, refused to withdraw the controversial report. What was the controversy associated with IRS 2013?

30. As protests continued to rage over attacks on people from the Northeast, the Central Government on 6 February 2014 announced the formation of a committee that will examine the reasons behind such attacks and suggest remedial measures. Who was appointed as the head of this 6-member committee?

31. In a victory for working journalists and newspaper employees, Supreme Court on 7 February 2014 upheld the validity of the Majithia Wage Board, saying that its recommendation are based on genuine consideration. It also dismissed newspaper organisations’ challenge to the constitutional validity of the working journalists and newspaper employees act. Now the recommendations of Majithia Wage Board comes into effect from

32. Which company launched its Celerio hatchback featuring automatic transmission at the ongoing Auto Expo at Greater Noida?

33. What is the name of Google’s new corporate video-conferencing product which was launched on 6 February 2014?

1. Archana Sundaram: Archana Sundaram, a 1980 batch IPS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre, has been appointed special director in the CBI.

2. India: The country’s economy is estimated to grow at 4.9% in 2013-14, a tad lower than the government’s projection of 5-5.5% but marginally above the 4.5% clocked last year.

3. Shabir Khan: Jammu & Kashmir minister Shabir Khan quit on Friday after the police filed a complaint against him for sexually assaulting the doctor-wife of a separatist leader.

4. Kuldeep Sharma: Retired Gujarat cadre IPS officer Kuldeep Sharma, who was serving as advisor in the Union ministry of home affairs, has resigned from his post. Sources said he is likely to join the Gujarat unit of Aam Aadmi Party.

5. Maharashtra: Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan has removed the red beacon from his car, cut his security cover by 20% and removed the wall of the antechamber in his office at his official residence.

6. Daggubati Venkateshwara Rao: Congress’s Daggubati Venkateshwara Rao became the first legistor to avail the “None Of the Above” (NOTA) option, introduced for the first time in the history of the Rajya Sabha elections.

7. United Kingdom: Receding ocean waves have exposed the oldest human footprints in Europe from as far back as 800,000 years ago. Only three other sets of footprints, discovered in Africa, are more ancient.

8. Robert Dahl: One of the country’s esteemed political scientists, Robert A Dahl, has died. His daughter Sara Conor says that Dahl died Wednesday at a nursing home in Connecticut. He was 98.

9. Abhinav Bindra: Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra won his second gold Medal on Friday at the Inter Shoot tri-series shooting competition being held at Hague, Netherlands.

10. Delhi: Indraprastha Gas Limited reduced the price of CNG, or compressed natural gas by Rs. 14.90 per kg to Rs. 35.20 per kg form RS. 50.10 per kg. PNG (piped natural gas in kitchen) price was reduced by Rs 5 per unit for both comsumption slabs.

11. Himachal Pradesh

12. Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha The Lokpal Bill provides for a selection committee consisting of the Prime Minister, the Lok Sabha Speaker, the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, the CJI or “a sitting Supreme Court judge nominated by the CJI”, and a fifth member selected by these four members. This five-member selection committee will choose Lokpal and other members.

13. Journalists and non-journalists Majithia wage board recommendations were first notified in 2011 by the Labour and Employment Ministry. The board headed by Justice G.R. Majithia recommended revised wages for journalists and other employees of the newspapers/news agencies. The Supreme Court upheld recommendations made by the Justice Majithia Wage Board hiking salaries for journalists and non-journalists in print media. The apex court ordered that recommendations should be implemented from April 2014.

14. 1958 DRDO is the research and development wing of Ministry of Defence. The organization was established in the year 1958 with a vision to empower India's cutting edge defence technologies and a mission to achieve self-reliance in critical defence technologies and systems.

15. China The nine-dotted line refers to the demarcation line used by the governments of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) for their claims of part of the South China Sea.

16. Singer Juthika Roy was a bhajan (devotional) singer. She had sung more than 200 Hindi and 100 Bengali songs in her four decade long career. She recorded devotional songs for Hindi film industry also. She was awarded Padma Shri in 1972.

17. Indian Ocean The Lombok Strait, is a strait connecting the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean, and is located between the islands of Bali and Lombok in Indonesia.

18. Sangakkara Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara has become the ninth batsman to score 11,000 Test runs against Bangladesh. The 36-year-old batsman is fastest to the 11000 Test run club, having battered West Indies batting great Brian Lara’s record by five innings.

19. India and Germany signed two agreements on “green energy corridors” under which Delhi will receive almost 9000 million Euros loan from the European nation. The agreements were signed as German President Joachim Gauck, who is currently visiting India, met PM Manmohan Singh in New Delhi.

20. Karnataka

The Hallikar is a Bos indicus breed selected primarily for draft purpose. They are found primarily in the southern region of Karnataka state, in the area surrounding Mysore.

21. [D] Munish Sharda

22. [A] Nachiket Mor

23. [B] Telecom

24. [C] Third

25. [C] Panasonic

26. 22^nd(The official name for this game is XXII Olympic Winter Games. The motto of these games is – “Hot. Cool. Yours”. Sochi is situated on the Black Sea coast bordering Georgia)

27. Delhi (Delhi’s bid for this prestigious status focuses on Old Delhi’s Shahjahanabad area – which served as the capital under Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan from 1638 to 1648 – and the British capital planned by architect Edwin Lutyens. The deadline for submitting entries ended on 31 January 2014. Initially, of the seven historical cities in Delhi, four figured in the dossier prepared for the bid. Following consultations with international experts and in line with UNESCO guidelines, the list was pruned to just Shahjahanabad and Lutyens’ Delhi. Mumbai is also in contention as an alternative)

28. Vodafone (The CCEA on 6 February approved the telecom major Vodafone’s Rs 10,141 crore (or $1.6 billion) proposal to buy out minority shareholders in its Indian unit. This is the single largest foreign investment in the telecom sector)

29. Numerous newspaper groups claimed that IRS 2013 was riddled with serious anomalies and did not reflect ground realities (The IRS, conducted by research firm Nielsen, is used by advertisers and media agencies as a metric to decide in which newspapers to advertise in. 18 leading publishers strongly condemned the survey in a joint statement, citing glaring inconsistencies that included wild swings in overall newspaper readership across states. The entire advertising revenue of the print industry depends on this survey)

30. M.P. Bezbaruah (Bezbaruah is a retired bureaucrat belonging to the Northeast. The committee headed by him will examine various kinds of concerns, including those regarding security of people from the northeastern states. This committee has been established to ensure that the rights of the people from the northeast are ensured and such incidents do not happen in future)

31. April 2014 (The court held that the wage board will be implemented from 11 Nov 2011 when it was notified by the government and the arrears from 11 Nov 2011 to March 2014 will be paid to the employees in four equal instalments spread over a period of one year and the revised pay scales under the recommendation of the board)

32. Maruti Suzuki (With the Celerio Automatic, Maruti Suzuki has stirred up the market for automatics. The Celerio has a 1-litre petrol engine. The base variant of the manual transmission version (LXi) has been priced at Rs. 3.90 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi) while the VXi has a price tag of Rs. 4.20 lakh and the ZXi, Rs. 4.50 lakh. The ZXi (optional) is being offered for Rs. 4.96 lakh. According to automobile experts, automatics were not popular because of their lower mileage in comparison with manual transmission cars. However, with Maruti claiming uniform mileage for the manual and automatic transmission variants of the Celerio, that perception may change)

33. Chromebox (Chromebox video-conferencing tool is available in the US at a starting price of $999 and is to be released later this year in Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Japan, New Zealand, and Spain. As many as 15 people can take part in a Chromebox video conference using smartphones, tablets, laptops or other Internet linked computers.