Currant Affairs 2014 Januvary Based Questions and Answers
1. Who has been named UNICEF’s brand ambassador for South Asia?
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar
2._________ has been declared as the first district in India with ‘Zero landless citizens’?
Answer: Kannur
3. Which Indian playback singer and recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke award 2007 passed away recently?
Answer: Manna Dey
4. MAVEN, the Mars expedition spacecraft has been launched by:
Answer: NASA
5. Where was the Commonwealth Summit 2013 held?
Answer: Colombo
6. The new President of the Maldives?
Answer: Abdulla Yameen
7. Which scientist who had been the winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry twice, passed away recently?
Answer: Frederick Sanger
8. Which nation won the 2013 Women’s Kabadi World Cup?
Answer: India
9. World Human Rights Day was observed on:
Answer: December 10
10. Which state’s legislative assembly has recently adopted a bill to tackle the illegal activities of Chit funds?
Answer: West Bengal
11. Which former Bihar Chief Minister was sentenced to five years imprisonment in the fodder scam case?
Answer: Lalu Prasad Yadav
12. Which organization won the Nobel Prize for Peace 2013?
Answer: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
13. Who won the FIDE World Chess Championship 2013?
Answer: Magnus Carlsen
14. What is the name of the official match ball of FIFA World Cup 2014 to be held in Brazil?
Answer: Brazuca
15. Who was selected for the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration 2013?
Answer: M.S Swaminathan
16. Where was the first branch of the Bharatiya Mahila Bank inaugurated?
Answer: Mumbai
17. Who is the current chairman of the Indian Premier League?
Answer: Ranjib Biswal
8.________ was named as the ‘Word of the Year 2013’ by the Oxford English Dictionary?
Answer: Selfie
19. Who won the Miss Universe 2013 title?
Answer: Gabriela Isler
20. The first ‘customized pin code’ in the country was allotted to …………?
Answer: Supreme Court
21. The Union Labour Minister of India who passed away recently?
Answer: Sis Ram Ola
22. Which Indian won the best actor award at the Dubai International Film Festival?
Answer: Irfan Khan
23. Who won the Men’s Delhi half Marathon 2013?
Answer: Atsedu Tsegay (Ethiopia)
24. Which renowned Indian painter and former chairman of the Kerala Lalit Kala Academy passed away recently?
Answer: C.N Karunakaran
25. Who was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh for the third consecutive term?
Answer: Raman Singh (BJP)
26. The recently released book Unbreakable is the autobiography of which sports person?
Answer: Mary Kom
27. Which party got the highest number of seats in the recently held assembly elections in Delhi?
Answer: Aam Aadmi Party
28. Who has been chosen as the Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2013?
Answer: Pope Francis
29. Vijay Divas was observed across the country on:
Answer: December 16
30. Michelle Bachelet, the socialist candidate has won the Presidential election in which Latin American country?
Answer: Chile
31. Which party won the Assembly elections in Mizoram?
Answer: Indian National Congress
32. Who was sworn in as the Chief Minister of the Madhya Pradesh for the third time in a row?
Answer: Shivraj Singh Chouhan (BJP)
33. Vasundhara Raje has been sworn in as the Chief Minister of ……………?
Answer: Rajasthan
34. The Government of India has appointed Harsh Kumar Bhanwala as Chairman of which bank?
Answer: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
35. Which nation won the 2013 Men’s Hockey Junior World Cup, held in New Delhi?
Answer: Germany
36. The bill aimed at preventing communal violence in the country is named ………….?
Answer: Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill, 2013
37. International Mountain Day was observed on:
Answer: December 11
38. Which film was selected as India’s entry for the best foreign film to the 86th Academy Awards?
Answer: The Good Road
39. Who has been elected for s third term as the Chancellor of Germany?
Answer: Angela Merkel
40. Man Booker Prize 2013 was won by …………?
Answer: Eleanor Catton
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