Monday, 18 August 2014

Quiz: Current Affairs 1

Q.1 Who was appointed as Deputy National Security Adviser (NSA)?
Ans - Arvind Gupta, former Indian Foreign Service Office
Q.2 Who was awarded with Copley Medal 2014 by Royal Society of London?
Ans - Sir Alec Jefreys
Q.3 Name the author of the book 'Munger through the age'?
Ans - D P Yadav

Q.4 T V Gopalkrishnan who recently was chosen for the Sangita Kalanidhi award of Music Academy for 2014 an eminent exponent of the
Ans - Violinist
Q. 5 Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters was recently by which international agency
Ans - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Q. 6 The committee to look into the issue Cost Records and Cost Audit constituted by the Union Government on 19 July 2014 will be headed by
Ans - R S Sharma

Q. 7 River Baki was in news recently due to recovery of four dead bodies that led to tensions in State of
Ans - Assam
Q.8 Resolution 2165 adopted by the 15 member United Nations Security Council on 14 July 2014 is concerned with which war-torn country?
Ans - Syria
Q.9 Bab-a-Salam and Bab-al-Hawa re border crossing in which country through which recently UNSC allowed relief delivery to Syrian Citizens for 180 days?
Ans - Turkey
Q.10 The Union Civil Aviation Ministry on 7 July 2014 constituted an Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) to examine the maximum potential of the indigenous GPS Navigation system. Name of the system?
Ans - GAGAN

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