Current Affairs Questions 22 November 2014

Daily Current Affairs Quiz-33

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1. Who will be the Chief Guest at India’s 66th Republic Day celebrations 2015 ?

A. Barack Obama(USA)
B. Tony Abbott(Australia)
C. Dilma Rousseff(Brazil)
D. David Cameron(UK)

 

A. Barack Obama

He will be the first US President to attend the Republic Day Parade of India.
Obama will be the first US President to travel to India twice. Earlier, he had visited India at the invitation of then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2010.

2. Alexander Grothendieck died in France on 13 November 2014. He was well known as ____________________.

A. Environmental activist
B. Political thinker
C. Educationalist
D. Mathematician

 

D. Mathematician

He was one of the greatest mathematical minds in algebraic geometry of the twentieth century.

3. Which former cricketer received the prestigious BCCI-instituted Colonel C K Nayudu Lifetime achievement award 2014 for his contribution to Indian cricket ?

A. Sunil Gavaskar
B. Ravi Shastri
C. Dilip Vengsarkar
D. Kapil Dev

 

C. Dilip Vengsarkar

4. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Committee on 18 November 2014 adopted a resolution condemning which nation for human rights abuses and referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC)?

A. North Korea
B. Srilanka
C. Syria
D. Libya

 

A. North Korea

5. Which film personality was honoured with the centenary award for Indian Film Personality of the year 2014 at the 45th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) ?

A. Zohra Sehgal
B. Richard Attenborough
C. Amitabh Bachchan
D. Rajinikanth

 

D. Rajinikanth

6. American Foreign Policy Magazine released a list of 100 Global Thinkers. Narendra Modi has been placed at __________ position in the list of decision makers.

A. first
B. third
C. tenth
D. sixty third

 

A. first

7. Which organisation will be conferred the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2014 ?

A. DRDO
B. ISRO
C. CSIR
D. TIFR

 

B. ISRO

8. The Oxford Dictionary named ___________ as Word of the Year 2014 .

A. Normcore
B. Slacktivism
C. Indyref
D. Vape

 

D. Vape

9. Which NGO was conferred the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award, 2014 ?

A. Chintan
B. Parivartan
C. SRUTI
D. SEWA

 

A. Chintan

10. Finding "serious irregularities" in the functioning of which Stock Exchange, SEBI recently withdrew the recognition granted to it ?

A. Ahmedabad Stock Exchange
B. Delhi Stock Exchange
C. Mumbai Stock Exchange
D. Pune Stock Exchange

 

B. Delhi Stock Exchange