Current Affairs Quiz 30 October 2014

Daily Current Affairs Quiz-21

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1. Who was appointed as Chairman of Prasar Bharti Board ?

A. Surya Prakash
B. Mrinal Pande
C. Markandey Katju
D. Akhilesh Bharti

A. Surya Prakash

Surya Prakash on 28 October 2014 was appointed as the Chairman of Prasar Bharti Board for a term of three years.

He succeeded Mrinal Pande whose term ended on April 2014.

Surya Prakash authored What Ails Indian Parliament was published in 1995.He was Editor, Zee News; Executive Editor, The Pioneer; India Editor, Asia Times, a business and political daily published from Bangkok and Singapore; Political Editor, Eenadu Group of Newspapers and Chief of Bureau, Indian Express, New Delhi.

2. World Polio Day was observed across the world on ________________.

A. 21 October
B. 24 October
C. 27 October
D. 29 October

 

B. 24 October

World Polio Day was established by Rotary International over a decade ago to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis.

3. Harvard Business Review (HBR), in the issue of November 2014, named which CEO as best-performing CEO in the world ?

A. Jeff Bezos ( Amazon )
B. Pierre Nanterme (Accenture)
C. Tim Cook (Apple Inc.)
D. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook )

 

A. Jeff Bezos ( Amazon )

4. Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on 28 October 2014 announced TB-____________ to eliminate Tuberculosis (TB) from India.

A. Mission 2017
B. Mission Possible
C. Mission 2020
D. Mission Eliminator

 

C. Mission 2020

5. Which cricketers recently entered Bradman Hall of Fame ?

A. Sachin Tendulkar and Steve Waugh
B. Waqar Younis and MS Dhoni
C. Bob Simpson and Sir Garry Sobers
D. Rahul Dravid and Shane Warne

 

A. Sachin Tendulkar and Steve Waugh

The cricketers were inducted as the 2014 Bradman Honourees at a gala dinner held at the historic Sydney Cricket Ground.

6. Who won the 2014 World’s Children Prize on 29 October 2014 after a global vote involving millions of children ?

A. Malala Yousafzai
B. Kailash Satyarthi
C. Samantha Smith
D. Shirin Ebadi

 

A. Malala Yousafzai

Remember:Indira Ranamagar and John Wood won the 2014 World's Children's honorary awards. Whereas Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in history was nominated for the 2014 World’s Children’s Prize for her courageous and dangerous fight for girls’ right to education. She received 50000 US dollar as award.

7. Read following sentences carefully.

I .Finance ministers and tax chiefs from fifty-one countries signed an agreement on 29 October 2014 to automatically swap tax information beginning in 2017.

II. The agreement that was reached in Berlin will help the participant countries to share financial data and boost efforts to crackdown on tax evasion.

III. United States hasn’t signed the deal but said that it will share information as part of bilateral deals, while India has deferred from signing the agreement.

Which of these statements are correct.

A. Only I,II
B. Only I,III
C. Only II,III
D. I,II,III

 

D. I,II,III

8. On October 2014 which Union ministry has launched Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana (VKY) ?

A. Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs
B. Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
C. Union Ministry of Rural Development
D. Union Ministry of Women and Child Development

 

A. Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs
The scheme was launched on pilot basis in one block each of the States of Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Gujarat.

9.The Kamarajar Port Ltd (KPL) announced to set up a Free Trade and Warehousing Zone (FTWZ) on 100 acres, adjacent to its premises. Kamarajar port will became the first port on the eastern coast to set up FTWZ. This port is located in which Indian State?

A. Kerala
B. Odisha
C. West Bengal
D. Tamilnadu

 

D. Tamilnadu

10. According to recent report Released by Inter-American Development Bank, India ranks _________ among 55 developing nations in clean energy investment .

A. first
B. fourth
C. tenth
D. thirty-fifth

B. fourth