Current Affairs QUIZ: FEB 12, 2014

Current Affairs QUIZ: FEB 12, 2014

1. Which player won the Asia’s first gold medal at the Sochi Olympic Games?

[A] Mo Tae-Bum

[B] Wang Beixing

[C] Shusil Kumar

[D] Lee Sang Hwa

2. Which among the following nation returns to Olympic fold after IOC lifts ban?

[A] Australia

[B] Pakistan

[C] India

[D] Malaysia

3. Name the Hollywood actress who passes away at the age of 85 on 11th February 2014?

[A] Judy Garland

[B] Shirley MacLaine

[C] Shirley Temple

[D] Myrna Loy

4. Who has been appointed as co-head of the Goldman Sachs’ securities division?

[A] Ashok Varadhan

[B] Michael Houseman

[C] Wyatt Harrison

[D] V.N. Rao

5. Which among the following country’s ambassador to meet BJP candidate for Prime Minister Narendra Modi after 12 years?

[A] United States

[B] Pakistan

[C] China

[D] Bhutan

6. Which Indian state police filled chargesheet against bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda in 1994 case?

[A] Bihar

[B] Maharashtra

[C] Himachal Pradesh

[D] Delhi

7. Name the first officer from northeast to become Lieutenant General?

[A] Nirmal Chander Vij

[B] Konsam Himalay Singh

[C] Shankar Roychowdhury

[D] Joginder Jaswant Singh

8. Which country held their highest level talks for more than 60 years with China?

[A] Russia

[B] Scotland

[C] Uganda

[D] Taiwan

9. Who has been appointed as head coach of the Pakistan national cricket team?

[A] Waqar Younis

[B] Moin Khan

[C] Dav Whatmore

[D] Saeed Anwar

10. Which country records its first polio case since 2001?

[A] China

[B] Japan

[C] Malaysia

[D] Afghanistan

11. Who was conferred Award of Honour of Rotary International by Ron Burton, President of Rotary International on 11 February 2014 in New Delhi?

[A] Pranab Mukherjee

[B] Manmohan Singh

[C] Arvind Kejriwal

[D] Anna Hazare

12. Sammakkaa Saarakka Fair, the largest tribal religious congregation of the world began in Andhra Pradesh at Medaram in Warangal district of the Telangana region on 12 February 2014. This fair is also known by what other name?

[A] Samalakha

[B] Samaira

[C] Jatara

[D] Tribara

13. Penguin India, the publisher of book The Hindus: An Alternative History on 11 February 2014 agreed to withdraw the book from the Indian market. Who is the author of this book?

[A] Nancy Powell

[B] Gabriela Sabatini

[C] Sarah Rukhsar

[D] Wendy Doniger

14. India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with which country for intensifying cooperation on renewable energy on 11 February 2014?

[A] Germany

[B] Netherlands

[C] Kenya

[D] France

15. Railway minister Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday, 12th Feb 2014, kept passenger fares and freight rates unchanged, introduced new trains and announced connectivity to two more northeastern states in the interim budget. How many new trains are announced by Railway Minister?

[A] 54

[B] 61

[C] 72

[D] 81

16. Who is the author of the controversial book “The Hindus: An Alternative History”, which was withdrawn from India by its publisher Penguin Books India on 11 February 2014?

17. India’s anti-corruption watchdog Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) completed how many years of its establishment on 11 February 2014?

18. More than a year after being shunted out of the Olympic movement due to tainted officials, India was on 11 February 2014 welcomed back by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) within days of conducting a fresh election in the IOA (Indian Olympic Association). When IOC had imposed a ban on IOA for adhering to the government’s Sports Code and for allowing tainted persons to take part in the election process?

19. What is the name of the Commissioner of the US Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) who came to India on 10 February 2014 and whose visit assumed tremendous significance in the wake of the recent string of punitive actions by the USFDA against Indian pharmaceutical companies?

20. Which railway recently launched a new android-based smartphone app named ‘HYLITES’, which is claimed to be the first of its kind of app on Indian Railways offering most of the enquiry needs of city-based passengers?

21. What is the name of the Indian-origin executive who has been appointed co-head of the Goldman Sachs’ securities division?

1. Lee Sang Hwa: South Korean Lee Sang Hwa won Asia’s first gold medal at the Sochi Olympic Games as she claimed the women’s 500m speed skating event on Tuesday.

2. India: India has returned to the Olympic fold after the IOC lifted a ban on the country’s Olympic Association on Tuesday.

3. Shirley Temple: Shirley Temple Black, who rose to fame as arguably the most popular child star in Hollywood history, died late Monday night. She was 85.

4. Ashok Varadhan: Indian-origin Ashok Varadhan has been appointed co-head of the Goldman Sachs’ securities division, the largest and most profitable of the global investment bank’s four units.

5. United States: Nancy Powell, the US ambassador to India, will meet BJP candidate for prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, signaling a turnaround by Washington after years of shunning him over the 2002 Gujarat riots.

6. Delhi: Delhi Police today filed its charge sheet before a court here against top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda in a case lodged in 1994 in connection with recovery of explosive substances.

7. Konsam Himalay Singh: Konsam Himalay Singh (56) has become the first Army officer from the northeast to be promoted to the Lieutenant General rank.

8. Taiwan: China and Taiwan held their first government-to-government talks since they split 65 years ago after a brutal civil war a symbolic yet historic move between the former bitter rivals.

9. Moin Khan: Pakistan on Tuesday appointed former captain Moin Khan as the head coach of the national team for the upcoming Asia Cup and World T20 Cup tournaments in Bangladesh.

10. Afghanistan: Afghanistan officials have launched a polio vaccination campaign after a young girl from Kabul was diagnosed with the disease the capital’s first case since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

11. Pranab Mukherjee

12. Jatara

13. Wendy Doniger

14. Netherlands

15. 72

16. Wendy Doniger(Wendy Doniger is a U.S. Indologist who wrote this book, which published in 2009, elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. The book was withdrawn by Penguin India following a court-backed settlement with a Delhi-based voluntary group (Shiksha Bachao Andolan Committee) which had objected to several inaccuracies and biases in it)

17. 50 years (CVC, the apex anti-corruption institution of the country, was set up on 11 February 1964. On this occasion President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the 2-day Golden Jubilee Celebrations of CVC at New Delhi which was presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh)

18. On 4 December 2012 (The IOC lifted the 14-month old ban on India after the IOA barred charge-framed officials from its fresh election held on 9 February in which World Squash Federation chief N. Ramachandran, was elected as the President)

19. Margaret A. Hamburg (On the occasion of this visit, India and the U.S. on 10 February signed a pact under which the USFDA and India’s domestic drug regulator will now share information before undertaking inspections of companies and collaborate on inspection of drug units for Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) compliance)

20. South Central Railway – SCR (SCR launched the ‘HYLITES’ app, which stands for Hyderabad Live Train Enquiry System. This is a GPS/GPRS-based smartphone application on android platform for disseminating real time train information via smartphones to the rail users in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. By downloading HYLITES app into their smart phones, the passengers can have access to the real time running status of MMTS (Multi-Modal Transport System) trains on the move. At present SCR operates 121 MMTS services, ferrying 1.5 lakh commuters on an average per day. Using this app, the MMTS users will be able to get the present location of all MMTS trains on run at that moment and the expected arrival timings at any boarding station of their choice, to the selected destination stations)

21. Ashok Varadhan (Varadhan is currently the head of macro trading in Goldman’s Securities Division and will join Isabelle Ealet and Pablo Salame as co-head of the division. Goldman Sachs’ securities division is the largest and most profitable of the global investment bank’s four units)