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Current Affairs (April 15 - 21) Bit bank
1 . Nare ndra Kot hari t ook for as t he ne w c hairman and managing dire c t or of
whic h of t he following public s e c t or e nt e rpris e s on April 2 1 , 2 0 1 4 ?
1) NMDC 2) SAIL 3) NTPC 4) ONGC

2 . Who won Ric hmond s quas h ope n he ld at Virginia, USA, in April 2 0 1 4 ?
1) Dipika pallikal 2) Joshna chinappa
3) Rachael Grinham 4) None of these

3 . Who won t he Mont e Carlo Mas t e rs t e nnis t it le in April 2 0 1 4 ?
1) Stanislas Wawrinka 2) Roger Federer
3) Rafael Nodal 4) Andy Murray

4 . India at a Turning Point - The Road t o Good Gove rnanc e is a book
writ t e n by whic h of t he following forme r c ivil s e rvant s ?
1) R.K. Singh 2) Ranjan Mathai
3) Nirupama Rao 4) T.S.R. Subramaniam

5 . Who was appoint e d t he ne w Navy Chie f in April 2 0 1 4 ?
1) Shekhar Sinha 2) R.K. Dhowan
3) D.K. Joshi 4) N.A.K. Browne

6 . Gyude Bryant die d in April 2 0 1 4 . He was t he forme r pre s ide nt of?
1) Liberia 2) Botswana
3) Mali 4) Burundi

7 . Whic h c ompany has e nt e re d int o an agre e me nt wit h Shriram Group t o
ac quire 2 0 % e quit y s t oc k in Shriram c apit al, a financ ial s e rvic e s
c ompany?
1) Ranbaxy 2) Piramal Enterprises
3) Sun Pharma 4) Godrej
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8 . Nobe l Prize winning aut hor Gabrie l Garuia Marque z pas s e d away in April
2 0 1 4 . He was from-
1) Bolivia 2) Argentina 3) Colombia 4) Brazil

9. Mahindra Shubhlabh Service (MSSL) has signed a joined venture agreement with
UNIVEG group. UNIVEG is a fresh produce company based in-
1) France 2) Germany 3) Belgium 4) Switzerland

1 0 . Single Man is t he t it le of t he book writ t e n by Sankars han Thakur.
This book is t he ac c ount of t he life and t ime s of-
1) Narendra Modi 2) Rahul Gandhi 3) Naveen patnaik 4) Nitish kumar

1 1 . Who won t he US me ns c lay c ourt t e nnis c hampions hip in April 2 0 1 4 ?
1) Fernando Verdasco 2) Nicolas Almagro
3) Fabio Fogmini 4) Radek Stepanek

1 2 . The ope ning mat c h of t he Indian Pre mie r Le ague -7 was playe d on April
1 6 , 2 0 1 4 at t he Zaye d Cric ke t St adium in-
1) Dubai 2) Abu Dhabi 3) Sharjah 4) Riyadh

1 3 . Who is t he aut hor of t he c ont rove rs ial book Crus ade r or
c ons pirat or? Coalgat e and ot he r t rut hs ?
1) Amit Baruah 2) T.S.R. Subramanian
3) P.C. Parakh 4) Sanjay Baru

1 4 . Pat ric k Se ale s a ve t e ran We s t As ia his t orian and e xpe rt on Syria die d in
April 2 0 1 4 ?
1) UK 2) USA 3) France 4) Belgium

1 5 . Ac c ording t o t he World Trade Organis at ion (WTO) t he global c omme rc e
will grow by what pe rc e nt in 2 0 1 4 ?
1) 4.2 2) 4.7 3) 5.2 4) 5.7
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1 6 . Who is t he pre s e nt Dire c t or Ge ne ral of World Trade Organis at ion?
1) Pascal Lamy 2) Margeret Chan
3) Roberto Azevedo 4) Jim Yong Kim

17. Who is appointed as new Finance secretary in April 2014?
1) R.S. Gujral 2) Rajiv Takru
3) Arvind Mayaram 4) Sumit Bose

1 8 . Who won t he Pulit ze r Prize for poe t ry in April 2 0 1 4 ?
1) Jhunpa Lahiri 2) Vijay Seshadri
3) Vikram Seth 4) Vikram Chandra

1 9 . Who won t he be s t ac t or award at t he 6 1
s t
Nat ional Film Awards ?
1) Rajkumar Rao 2) Suraj Venjaramoodu
3) Farhaan Akhtar 4) Both 1 and 2

2 0 . Whic h film won t he be s t fe at ure film at t he 6 1
s t
Nat ional Film awards ?
1) Perariyathvar 2) Shahid
3) Ship of Theseus 4) Fandry

2 1 . At t he 6 1
s t
Nat ional film awards announc e d in April 2 0 1 4 , be s t popular
film providing whole s ome Ent e rt ainme nt award we nt t o-
1) Chennai Express 2) Bhaag Milka Bhaag
3) Shahid 4) Aashiqui-2

2 2 . At t he 6 1
s t
Nat ional Film Awards , Kaphal won t he -
1) Best Hindi film 2) Best feature film
3) Best Debut film of a director 4) Best children film

2 3 . Who won t he be s t Dire c t or award at t he 6 1
s t
Nat ional Film Awards ?
1) Anand Gandhi 2) Hansal Mehta
3) Reliance Capital 4) Batul Mukhtiar
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2 4 . Who won t he be s t ac t re s s award at t he 6 1
s t
Nat ional Film Awards ?
1) Astu 2) Anjali Patil
3) Geetanjali Thapa 4) Madhuri Dixit

2 5 . Whic h film won t he Be s t film on s oc ial is s ue s at t he 6 1
s t
Nat ional film
awards ?
1) Chasing the Rainbow 2) Gulabi Gang
3) Mandrake! Mandrake! 4) Katuyabaaz

2 6 . World He rit age Day is c e le brat e d on?
1) April 15 2) April 16 3) April 18 4) April 20

2 7 . Whic h one of t he following books was not writ t e n by Gabrie l Garvia
Marque z?
1) One Hundred years of Solitude 2) Love in the time of Cholera
3) The Autumn of the patriarch 4) Dance of the Happy Shades

2 8 . Sude rs han Se ne virat ne has be e n appoint e d as t he ne w e nvoy t o India
by?
1) Mauritius 2) Sri Lanka 3) Nepal 4) Malaysia

2 9 . Abde laziz Bout e flika won a fourt h t e rm as t he pre s ide nt of?
1) Algeria 2) Nigeria 3) Tunisia 4) Sierra leone

3 0 . Tre nds in vogue have e nt e re d int o a part wit h?
1) State Bank of India 2) Bharatiya Mahila Bank
3) State Bank of Hyderabad 4) Axis Bank

3 1 . Who has be e n appoint e d Che f-de -mis s ion for t he 2 0 1 4 Commonwe alt h
game s ?
1) Raj Singh 2) Raja K.S. Sindhu
3) S. Ragunathan 4) K. Murugan
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3 2 . Pe t e r Moore s has be e n appoint e d t he he ad c oac h of whic h of t he
following c ric ke t t e ams ?
1) Australia 2) India 3) England 4) South Africa

3 3 . Whic h bank launc he d a financ ing s c he me for woman fas hion bout ique
owne rs labe lle d Bout ique Financ ing in April 2 0 1 4 ?
1) Bharatiya Mahila Bank 2) Andhra Bank
3) State Bank of India 4) ICICI Bank

34. Which Indian fertiliser major got approval to set up $ 1.6 billion urea plant in
Canada?
1) IFFCO 2) KRIBHCO 3) FACT 4) RCF

3 5 . The BCCI forme d a c ommit t e e t o probe alle gat ions of be t t ing and s pot -
fixing during t he s ixt h e dit ion of IPL? Who among t he following is not
a me mbe r of t his c ommit t e e ?
1) Jai Narayan Patel 2) Ravi Shastri
3) R.K. Raghavan 4) Sunil Gavaskar

36. Indias first double-decker flyover was opened for public use on April 18,
2014 in-
1) Hyderabad 2) Kolkata 3) Mumbai 4) Nagpur

3 7 . Whic h of t he following ve t e ran voc alis t s was t he 2 0 1 4 M. S.
Subbulaks hmi award on April 1 9 , 2 0 1 4 ?
1) Sudha Ragunathan 2) Nithyashree Madhavan
3) Bombay Jayasri 4) Mathangi Sathyamoorthy

3 8 . Win Tin die d on April 2 1 , 2 0 1 4 . He was a ve t e ran journalis t and
Polit ic ian from-
1) Vietnam 2) China 3) Burma 4) Mongolia


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3 9 . Whic h t e am won t he I- le ague foot ball t it le in April 2 0 1 4 ?
1) Bengaluru FC 2) Dempo Sports Club
3) Mohan Bagan 4) None of these

4 0 . Hare ndra Singh has be e n appoint e d as t he c oac h of t he junior me ns
t e am of?
1) Cricket 2) Hockey
3) Football 4) Volleyball

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