Current Affairs Quiz 13 December 2014

Daily Current Affairs Questions

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1. 18th South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit was held at Rastriya Sabha Griha Sanandan Raj in Kathmandu, Nepal. The next summit will now be held in _____________________.

A. New Delhi, 2016
B. Islamabad, 2016
C. Colombo, 2015
D. Dhaka, 2015

B. Islamabad, 2016

2. What was the theme of 18th Kathmandu SAARC summit ?

A. Building Bridges
B. Deeper Integration for Peace and Prosperity
C. Connectivity For Shared Prosperity
D. SAARC for everyone

B. Deeper Integration for Peace and Prosperity

3. Who was appointed as new Secretary General of Lok Sabha ?

A. Arup Sahwny
B. Anoop Mishra
C. Abhishesk Pandey
D. Brijesh Awasthi

B. Anoop Mishra

4. On 28 November 2014, NASA celebrated the 50th anniversary of its first mission to Mars, __________________.

A. Mariner 4 Mission
B. Mars Observer
C. Beagle 2
D. Viking 2 Mission

A. Mariner 4 mission

5. Which Pakistani actress was sentenced to 26 years in jail on 26 November 2014 by an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) of the Gilgit region of Pakistan for blasphemy ?

A. Musarrat Nazir
B. Rubya Chaudhry
C. Aamina Sheikh
D. Veena Malik

D. Veena Malik

6. The book "Next China-India War - World's First Water War – 2029" written by which former Indian Army General ?

A. General Sundarajan Padmanabhan
B. General Nirmal Chander Vij
C. General Joginder Jaswant Singh
D. General Deepak Kapoor

A. General Sundarajan Padmanabhan

The book has predicted that the two countries will conflict over the Brahmaputra.

7. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) 26 November 2014 scarpped which scheme to cut smuggling of gold and raise legal shipments into India ?

A. 20:80 scheme
B. 10:90 scheme
C. 25:75 scheme
D. 50:50 scheme

A. 20:80 scheme

Under the scheme, 20 percent of the imported gold had to be mandatorily exported as finished products like jewellery. Initially only public sector firms and banks were allowed to import gold and later in May 2014 these rules were slightly eased to star and premier export houses.

8. Who was appointed as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia ?

A. Saina Nehwal
B. Sania Mirza
C. Jwala Gutta
D. Pusarla Venkata Sindhu

B. Sania Mirza

She became the first South Asian woman to be appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador.

9. Which state to have country's first highway patrol force ?

A. Maharashtra
B. MadhyaPradesh
C. Tamilnadu
D. Uttar Pradesh

D. Uttar Pradesh

With financial aid of Rs 250-crore from World Bank, Uttar Pradesh Highway Patrol will be raised whose jurisdiction will be limited to the highways it patrols

10. Under which schme Central Government plans retrofitting of historic buildings in 7 cities ?

A. HRIDAY
B. HEART
C. PUNRANIRMAN
D. ZEST

A. HRIDAY

HRIDAY will be a Central scheme, the first of its kind in urban development under which the central government would support entire expenditure.

The Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) will be implemented in seven ancient cities including Varanasi, Ajmer, and Gaya.