Doctor's Day is Observed On ..?
1. Who was reappointed as the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India for a further period of two years with effect from 2014 July 4?
1) Harun Rashid Khan
2) Urjit Patel 3) R. Gandhi
4) Anand Sinha
5) K.C. Chakrabarthy
2. M.K. Narayanan resigned as the Governor of which of the following States in June 2014?
1) Chhattisgarh
2) West Bengal 3) Uttar Pradesh
4) Gujarat 5) Jharkhand
3. Which State has declared Camel as the State animal?
1) Gujarat 2) Himachal Pradesh
3) Rajasthan
4) Jammu and Kashmir
5) Haryana
4. Which of the following countries became the 160th member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 2014 June 26?
1) Russia 2) Tajikistan
3) Saudi Arabia
4) Yemen 5) Nepal
5. Which country reached its first-ever world cup quarterfinal in the FIFA World Cup in July 2014?
1) Brazil 2) Argentina
3) Germany 4) France
5) Colombia
6. Doctors' Day is observed on?
1) June 29 2) April 7
3) July 1 4) June 30
5) June 1
7. Who has been appointed as the head of Advisory Group for Int-egrated Development of Power, Coal and Renewable Energy?
1) Suresh Prabhu
2) Pratyush Sinha
3) Anil Baijal
4) Partha Bhattacharya
5) None of these
8. Facebook Chief Operating Officer (COO) met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 2014 July 3. Name her?
1) Marissa Mayer
2) Indra Nooyi 3) Mary Barra
4) Sheryl Sandberg
5) Ginni Rometty
9. Who was appointed as the first female judge to the national sharia court of Pakistan which hears cases under the country's Islamic legislation?
1) Maryam Nawaz
2) Kashmala Tariq
3) Sumaira Malik
4) Ashraf Jehan
5) Hina Rabbani Khar
10. Classical singer Begum Parveen Sultana was awarded which of the following awards in 2014?
1) Padma Vibhushan
2) Padma Bhushan
3) Padma Sri
4) National Communal Harm-ony Award
5) None of these
11. Who has been appointed as the new chairman of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)? (He replaced Amrita Patel who held the post for 15 years)
1) Ashok Rajgopal
2) Narendra Kumar Pandey
3) T. Nanda Kumar
4) Rakesh Kumar
5) None of these
12. Who headed a Committee on Financial Benchmarks?
1) U.K. Sinha 2) R. Damodaran
3) C.B. Bhave
4) P.Vijaya Bhaskar
5) None of these
13. Agni IV was test fired from the Wheeler Island in Odisha on 2014 January 20. It has a range of?
1) 700 km 2) 2,000 km
3) 3,000 km 4) 4,000 km
5) 1,000 km
14. P.J.Nayak Committee was constituted by the Reserve Bank of India to?
1) Review governance of boards of banks
2) Revise and strengthen the monetary policy framework
3) Review financial inclusion
4) Review non performing assets
5) None of these
15. Datuk Seri Palanivel was the chief guest at the 12th edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas held in New Delhi. He is the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of which of the following countries?
1) Mauritius 2) Maldives
3) Singapore 4) Sri Lanka
5) Malaysia
16. Liaoning is the first aircraft carrier of?
1) China 2) Vietnam
3) UK 4) South Korea
5) North Korea
17. Which of the following was set up by the Government of India in February 1964 on the recommendations of the K. Santhanam Committee?
1) CBI 2) IB 3) RAW
4) NIA 5) CVC
18. The 18th National Youth Festival was held from 2014 January 12 to16 in?
1) Jaipur 2) Chandigarh
3) Ludhiana 4) Karnal
5) Lucknow
19. The Indian and Japan Coast Guard conducted a joint exercise off Kochi in January 2014. It is called?
1) INDRA 2) Malabar
3) Hand in Hand
4) Sahayog-Kaijin
5) None of these
20. Who has been appointed as the first woman Director of the Hyderabad based Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA)?
1) Archana Ramasundaram
2) Letika Saran 3) B. Sandhya
4) Aruna Bahuguna
5) Soumya Mishra
21. Stanley Fischer is the vice chair of the United States Federal Reserve. He served as the Governor of which of the following countries' central banks from 2005 to 2013?
1) Zambia 2) Germany
3) Israel 4) France
5) United Kingdom
22. Pran Chopra passed away recently. He was an eminent?
1) Journalist 2) Social activist
3) Human rights activist
4) Film actor 5) Poet
23. Sakala scheme won the national award on e-governance in January 2014. Sakala scheme has been launched by?
1) Kerala 2) Karnataka
3) Maharashtra 4) Tamil Nadu
5) Goa
24. Which of the following books is written by Fatima Bhutto?
1) A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
2) Finding Neema
3) A Cool, Dark Place
4) The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
5) Scandal Point
25. The Reserve Bank of India releases the Financial Stability Report (FSR) every?
1) Two months 2) Three months
3) Six months 4) One year
5) One month
26. Which of the following panels recommended that Reserve Bank of India should adopt the new consumer price index (CPI) for anchoring the monetary policy?
1) Usha Thorat 2) Bimal Jalan
3) K.C. Chakrabarty
4) Urjit Patel 5) None of these
27. Little Eye Labs, a Bangalore based software company, was acquired by?
1) Facebook 2) Google
3) Microsoft 4) Oracle
5) Amazon
28. Which of the following companies recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Institute of Rural Management-Anand (IRMA) for dairying?
1) IOC 2) OIL 3) BPCL
4) HPCL 5) None of these
29. Who is the chairman of the committee that was set up to review the Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) and Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCBs)?
1) G. Padmanabhan
2) S. Ravindran
3) Pratik Gupta 4) M.S. Sahoo
5) Ajay Shah
30. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has set a deadline of which of the following dates for globally phasing out all non-Machine Readable Passports?
1) 2014 November 24
2) 2015 November 24
3) 2014 October 24
4) 2015 October 24
5) 2016 January 1
31. Nachiket Mor committee recommended raising priority sector lending cap for banks to 50 per cent from the current?
1) 25 per cent 2) 30 per cent
3) 40 per cent 4) 20 per cent
5) None of these
32. NABARD on 2014 January 10 reduced refinance rate for banks and other lending agencies by? (This is done to promote rural credit and rural infrastructure)
1) 0.10 percent 2) 0.20 percent
3) 0.25 percent 4) 0.30 percent
5) 0.50 percent
33. Which of the following is the capital city of Iraq?
1) Tehran 2) Mashad
3) Basra 4) Baghdad
5) Mosul
34. Who, among the following winners of Pravasi Bharatiya Samman for 2014, is the chancellor of University of Houston System, USA?
1) Kurian Varghese
2) Renu Khator 3) Ela Gandhi
4) Bikas Chandra Sanyal
5) None of these
35. Abdulla Yameen paid an official visit to India in January 2014. He is the President of?
1) Malaysia 2) Indonesia
3) Maldives 4) Afghanistan
5) None of these
36. Matthew McConaughey won the Golden Globe Award for which of the following films?
1) American Hustle
2) 12 Years a Slave
3) The Wolf of Wall Street
4) Dallas Buyers Club
5) Blue Jasmine
37. Among the following Padma Shri Award winners, who is the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited (TAFE)?
1) Sabitri Chatterjee
2) Bansi Kaul 3) Supriya Devi
4) M. Subhadra Nair
5) Mallika Srinivasan
38. Which of the following is the sixth community to be granted minority status in January 2014?
1) Sikhs 2) Buddhists
3) Parsis 4) Jains
5) None of these
39. Which of the following is the currency of Afghanistan?
1) Dinar 2) Rufiyaa
3) Dirham 4) Rupiah
5) Afghani
40. Gorakhpur has the world's longest railway platform (1,355 meters). It is in?
1) West Bengal 2) Haryana
3) Odisha 4) Bihar
5) Uttar Pradesh
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