1.    Which city hosted the 9th East Asia Summit on November 13, 2014?
     1) Manila    2) Singapore
     3) Bandar Seri Begawan
     4) Nay Pyi Taw    5) Hanoi
 2.    Who delivered the MAK Pataudi Memorial lecture in Kolkata on November 12, 2014?
     1) Sourav Ganguly
     2) VVS Laxman
     3) Sachin Tendulkar
     4) Rahul Dravid
     5) Sunil Gavaskar
 3.    The two-day G20 Summit was held in which of the following cities in November 2014?
     1) Perth     2) Canberra
     3) Brisbane    4) Adelaide
     5) Melbourne
 4.    Who was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Goa on November 8, 2014?
     1) Francis D' Souza
     2) Dayanand Mandrekar
     3) Ramesh Tawadkar
     4) Laxmikant Parsekar
     5) Dilip Parulekar
 5.    Who took charge as the Union Rural Development Minister in November 2014?
     1) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
     2) Rajiv Pratap Rudy
     3) D.V. Sadanand Gowda
     4) Harsh Vardhan
     5) Birendra Singh
 6.    Pawan Chamling was sworn in as the Chief Minister of which of the following States for a record fifth consecutive term on May 21, 2014?    
     1) Arunachal Pradesh      
     2) Nagaland     3) Tripura   
     4) Sikkim    5) Mizoram
 7.    Who has been appointed the Chairman of Central Water Commission?
     1) A.B. Pandya    2) N.K. Verma          
     3) Sujit Choudhury
     4) Jawahar Kaliani
     5) None of these
 8.    Salvador Sanchez Ceren assumed office as the President of which of the following countries on June 1, 2014?     
     1) Panama     2) Guatemala
     3) Mexico         4) Uruguay  
     5) El Salvador
 9.    Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated which of the following teams to win the Indian Premier League- 7 Trophy at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on June 1, 2014?   
     1) Rajasthan Royals
     2) Kings XI Punjab
     3) Chennai Super Kings
     4) Royal Challengers Bangalore                    
     5) Mumbai Indians
 10.    Which team won the National Women's Football championship title for the 17th time in 2014?
     1) Manipur    2) Assam                   
     3) Odisha    4) Goa  
     5) Uttar Pradesh      
 11.    Peter Mutharika was sworn in as the President of which of the following African countries on May 31, 2014?
     1) Niger               2) Namibia
     3) Malawi    4)  Senegal
     5) Djibouti
 12.    Which country won the 2014 Thomas Cup badminton men's team event at Siri Fort complex in New Delhi?  
     1) Japan     2) Malaysia  
     3) China          4) Indonesia        
     5) India
 13.    Who is the author of the book "Anticipating India-The Best of National Interest"?
     1) Siddartha Varadarajan       
     2) N. Ram    3) Neena Vyas                
     4) Shekhar Gupta     
     5) Prabhu Chawla       
 14.    Who is the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister?
     1) Rajiv Mathur
     2) Nripendra Mishra     
     3) Harpreet Singh Puri
     4) R.K. Singh    
     5) None of these            
 15.    The Reserve Bank of India allowed minors above what age to independently open and operate savings bank accounts recently?   
     1) 10 years    2) 12 years
     3) 15 years       4) 16 years
     5) 14 years  
 16.    Which of the following statements is correct?
     1) President Pranab Mukherjee has launched India's own payment gateway 'RuPay'
     2) It is equivalent to Visa and MasterCard
     3) RuPay is developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)                  
     4) RuPay covers all the ATMs and most of the retail and e-commerce platforms    
     5) All are correct
 17.    The annual Cannes Film Festival is held in?
     1) France     2) Germany   
     3) Italy        4) UK
     5) Portugal
 18.    Indian consulate in Herat province was recently attacked by the terrorists. It is in?
     1) Iran   2) Afghanistan  3) Syria       
     4) Pakistan    5) Iraq
 19.    Surface Pro 3 tablet has been launched by?   
     1) Google    2) Amazon
     3) Microsoft    4) Flipkart                 
     5) Samsung          
 20.    Who is the youngest girl in the world to climb the world's highest peak, Mount Everest?  
     1) Samantha Larson
     2) Ming Kipa   3) Arunima Sinha            
     4) Malavath Purna
     5) None of these                      
 21.    The 2016 Thomas Cup badminton tournament will be held in?
     1) China       2) Indonesia
     3) India        4) South Korea    
     5) Singapore
     KEY
     1) 4;    2) 2;    3) 3;    4) 4;
     5) 5;    6) 4;    7) 1;    8) 5;
     9) 2;    10) 1;    11) 3;    12) 1;
     13) 4;    14) 2;    15) 1;    16) 5;
     17) 1;    18) 2;    19) 3;    20) 4;
     21) 1.