Current Affairs QUIZ: Feb 09, 2014

Current Affairs QUIZ: Feb 09, 2014

1. Which golf player won the Allianz Championship in payoff?

[A] David Frost

[B] Michael Allen

[C] John Cook

[D] Dan Forsman

2. Which among the following to draft Aam Aadmi Party’s Uttar Pradesh document vision for Lok Sabha elections?

[A] Yogendra Yadav

[B] Kumar Vishwas

[C] Prashant Bhushan

[D] Adarsh Shastri

3. At least 51 foreigners held with 22 satellite phones in-

[A] Haryana

[B] Delhi

[C] West Bengal

[D] Andhra Pradesh

4. Which among the following player won the first gold medal of Sochi Olympics?

[A] Sage Kotsenburg

[B] Torstein Horgmo

[C] Mark McMorris

[D] Sebastien Toutant

5. Name the United Kingdom Immigration minister who quit his post over illegal immigrant cleaner?

[A] Damian Green

[B] Mark Harper

[C] James Brokenshire

[D] Yvette Cooper

6. Who among the following has been nominated for the 2014 Children’s Nobel Prize?

[A] Kautilya Pandit

[B] Afsana Khan

[C] Gopal Verma

[D] Malala Yousafzai

7. Who has been likely to be appointed as new chief of BJP’s Delhi unit?

[A] Arun Jaitley

[B] Jagdish Mukhi

[C] Harsh Vardhan

[D] Sahib Singh Verma

8. Which among the following country gets its first McDonald restaurant?

[A] Vietnam

[B] Finland

[C] Angola

[D] Taliban

9. Name the Shakhtar Donetsk club striker who has been killed in a car crash on 8th February 2014?

[A] Dmytro Hrechyshkin

[B] Serhiy Hrybanov

[C] Maicon Pereira de Oliveira

[D] Tomáš Hübschman

10. Who among the following will become ICC’s first chairman from July 2014?

[A] Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar

[B] N. Srinivasan

[C] Giles Clarke

[D] Wally Edwards

11. Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) on 7 February 2014 announced that it has stopped the production of which car from 18th Jan 2014?
[A] Maruti Alto
[B] Maruti 800
[C] Maruti Zen
[D] Maruti Omni Van

12. Which player became second cricketer to hit triple century and a century in same test match on 7th feb 2014?
[A] Graham Gooch
[B] Ravindra Jadeja
[C] Kumar Sangakkara
[D] Angelo Mathews

13. Legendary bhajan singer, who was awarded with Padma Shri in 1972, died in Kolkata on 6 February 2014. Can you name her?
[A] Gitanjali Ray
[B] Arundita Banerjee
[C] Yashika Roy
[D] Juthika Roy

14. Name the Health Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, who on 7 February 2014 resigned from the Council of Ministers due to alleged molestation case?
[A] Shabir Khan
[B] Kabir Khan
[C] Yasir Khan
[D] Nawaz Khan

15. Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) on 7 February 2014 said that it is in the process of developing UAVs to track down Maoists in naxal hit states including Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. What does UAV stands for?
[A] Unidentified Arial Vehicles
[B] Unmanned Arial Vehicles
[C] Unmanned Airborne Vehicles
[D] Unidentified Air Vehicles

16. Who Inaugurated 32nd Annual Coast Guard Commanders Conference?

17. Which Aircraft inducted in Indian Air Force?

18. Which is India’s first Defence Satellite launched successfully?

19. Which University is to be established at Binola, Gurgaon?

20. Which Missile is recently successfully test fired by Indian Navy?

21. India could return to the Olympic fold after 14 months of suspension by its parent body IOC, after the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on 9 February 2014 successfully conducted its elections. Who was elected as the new President of IOA?

22. Till February 2014, the Reserve Bank of India has issued the certificate of authorisation to how many non-bank entities for setting up and operating white label ATMs (WLAs) in India?

23. BCCI President N. Srinivasan was selected as the first ever Chairman of International Cricket Council (ICC) on 8 February 2014. The decision was taken under a series of revolutionary changes and reforms made in the structure of ICC at its governing body’s meeting in Singapore, which effectively placed India (BCCI), England (ECB) and Australia (CA) in charge of the game. Which two cricket associations withheld their votes at this meeting?

24. Plastic notes in the denomination of Rs. 10 will be introduced on a trial basis in which five cities in the second half of 2014, as stated by the Union Government on 7 February 2014 in the Parliament?

25. Who was selected as the new President of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) on 7 February 2014?

26. Indian public sector banks went on a two-day strike from 10 February 2014 after the conciliation effort made by the Central Chief Labour Commissioner to avert the all-India bank strike scheduled failed. Which bank union made a call for this strike?

27. Which Chennai-headquartered vacation ownership company merged into Thomas Cook (India) Ltd. (TCIL) in a Rs 870-crore merger deal announced on 8 February 2014?

1. Michael Allen

Michael Allen won the Allianz Championship on Sunday for his sixth Champions Tour title, beating Duffy Waldorf with a two-putt birdie on the second hole of a playoff.

2. Adarsh Shastri

Former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s grandson Adarsh Shastri, who quit a cushy MNC job to join Aam Aadmi Party, will draft party’s vision document for UP and manifestoes of 80 constituencies for Lok Sabha elections.

3. West Bengal

Police raided a resort in the Dooars on Saturday and seized 22 satellite phones from a group of foreign tourists. At least 51 foreigners were held under detention at the resort along with 33 Indians.

4. Sage Kotsenburg

Sage Kotsenburg tamed the treacherous slopestyle course at the Extreme Park on Saturday with a daring move called the ‘Holy Crail’ and grabbed the first gold medal of the Sochi Olympics.

5. Mark Harper

Immigration minister Mark Harper has resigned from the government after it emerged his cleaner did not have permission to work in the United Kingdom.

6. Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai has been nominated for the World Children’s Prize in Sweden for her crusade for education rights for girls.

7. Harsh Vardhan

Leader of opposition Harsh Vardhan is likely to be appointed as chief of BJP’s Delhi unit, holding the dual charge till the Lok Sabha election.

8. Vietnam

Four decades after the Vietnam War ended US fast-food giant McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in the communist country, aiming to lure a rising middle class away from rice and noodles.

9. Maicon Pereira de Oliveira

Shakhtar Donetsk striker Maicon Pereira de Oliveira died in a car crash in the Ukrainian city on Saturday.

10. N. Srinivasan

The International Cricket Council Board on Saturday approved a comprehensive resolution relating to the governance. BCCI president N. Srinivasan will become ICC’s fsirst chairman from July 2014.

11. Maruti 800

12. Kumar Sangakkara

13. Juthika Roy

14. Shabir Khan

15. Unmanned Arial Vehicles

16. Defence Secretary

17. C-17 Globemaster III

18. GSAT–7

19. Indian National Defence University (INDU)

20. Brahmos Missile

21. N Ramachandran (N Ramachandran is the President of World Squash Federation and younger brother of BCCI chief N Srinivasan. Kho Kho Federation of India president Rajeev Mehta and All India Tennis Association chief Anil Khanna were elected unopposed as secretary general and treasurer respectively. Abhay Singh Chautala and Lalit Bhanot were elected as president and secretary general in the IOA polls on 5 December 2012, a day after the IOC suspended India for government interference and for allowing tainted persons in the election process. The IOC had declared the elections null and void. Chautala and Bhanot were barred from contesting on the ground that they have been charge-framed by a court of law)

22. Four (The entities which got the permission are Tata Communications Payment Solutions; Prizm Payment Services, Mumbai; Muthoot Finance , Kochi and Vakrangee Limited, Mumbai. In June 2012, the RBI issued guidelines permitting non-bank entities to set up and operate WLAs in the country after seeking the RBI’s authorisation under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007. Prior to this, only banks were permitted to set up and operate ATMs in India. As many as 17 entities had sought the RBI nod for WLAs.  WLAs serve customers from all banks and will be connected with the entire ATM network in the country)

23. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) – PCB and SLC abstained from voting, citing need for more time to discuss the proposals, while other eight full members backed the reforms. N. Srinivasan will take his charge from July 2014.

24. Kochi, Mysore, Jaipur, Shimla and Bhubaneswar

25. R Sridharan (Sridharan, a Chennai-based practicing company secretary, replaced S.N.Ananthasubramnian as ICSI President. This is the first time in several years that an incumbent ICSI Vice-President has not gone on to become the President of ICSI. It is tradition for the Vice-President to become the President of the ICSI)

26. United Forum of Bank Unions – UFBU (The talks between the UFBU and the Indian Banks’ Association over a five-year wage revision package, held in New Delhi on 6 February 2014 failed as UFBU alleged that the bank managements had nothing new to offer)

27. Sterling Holiday Resorts (India) – Post-merger, Sterling will be a 100% subsidiary of TCIL. It will continue, however, to retain its name, and be run independently by its Managing Director, Ramesh Ramanathan, and his team. The transaction is expected to close by the fourth quarter of 2014, and the open offer price will be announced later. The merger with TCIL is expected to strengthen Sterling market position as there are multiple natural synergies which both companies will mutually benefit from)