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1. Who became the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nokia on May 1
2014?
1) Rakesh Kapur 2) Satya Nadella 3) Rajeev Suri 4) Sunil Kaushal

2. Which is the first country in Southeast Asia to introduce a Sharia penal
code on a national level?
1) Indonesia 2) Brunei 3) Malaysia 4) Burma

3. What is the core sector growth in 2013-14?
1) 2.6 percent 2) 6.5 percent 3) 1.6 percent 4) 4.5 percent

4. Export Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) plans to set up a project
development company (PDC) in?
1) South America 2) North America 3) Africa 4) Australia

5. Rosneft is an oil company owned by the government of?
1) Romania 2) Venezuela 3) Indonesia 4) Russia

6. Which of the following has temporarily banned the import of Alphonso
mangoes and four vegetables from India from May 1, 2014?
1) USA 2) ASEAN 3) European Union 4) NATO

7. The Past as Present - Forging Contemporary Identities through History
is written by
1) Romila thapar 2) Sunanda sen 3) Rakita nanda 4) G. Pankajam

8. Nokia is based in which of the following countries?
1) Japan 2) South Korea 3) Norway 4) Finland

9. Who is the chairman and Managing Director of Exim bank?
1) R.K. Dubey 2) Yogesh Agarwal
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3) Anup wadhwan 4) Yaduvendra mathur

10. Three-time formula one world champion Ayrton Sennas 20
th
death
anniversary was observed on May 1 2014. Ayrton Senna belonged to?
1) Portugal 2) Brazil 3) Italy 4) Germany

11. Who was presented the 23
rd
Yudhrir memorial award on may 1, 2014?
1) Bilkees Latif 2) Narendra Luther
3) Suraiya Bose 4) Zahed Ali Khan

12. Akash missile was test fired on May 1, 2014, It is a?
1) SurfacetoSurface Missile 2) SurfacetoAir Missile
3) AirtoAir Missile 4) Subsonic Missile

13. Mark field will replace Alan Mulally as the chief executive officer of
1) Ford 2) Mazda 3) General Motors 4) Boeing

14. Manoj Vaish resigned as the managing Director and chief executive
officer of
1) BSE 2) MCX 3) NSE 4) NSEL

15. Mahendra Chowdhry was fined on tax charges in May 2014. He is the
former Prime Minister?
1) Mauritius 2) Nepal 3) Fiji 4) Malaysia

16. Who is the chairman and Managing Director of Bandhan Financial
services Limited, a micro finance institution?
1) R. Chandrasekhar 2) Chandra Sekhar Ghosh
3) Rana Kapoor 4) Siddarth Birla

17. Copa America football competition is held every four years. Which country
will host the 2015 Copa America?
1) Brazil 2) Uruguay 3) Chile 4) Argentina
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18. A special centenary edition of the Copa America football tournament

will be held in 2016 in?
1) Mexico 2) Uruguay 3) Paraguay 4) USA

19. Who won the womens singles title at ATP-WTA Portugal open in May
2014?
1) Carla Saurez navarro 2) Svetlana Kuznetsova
3) Elena Vesnina 4) Irina Begu

20. Who won the womens doubles title at the ATP-WTA Portugal open
tennis tournament in May 2014?
1) Sania Mirza & Cara Black 2) Liezel Huber & Lisa Raymond
3) Eva Hrdinova & Valeria Solovyeva 4) None of these

21. Tyson gay received a one- year doping ban and returned his 2012
London Olympics silver medal in May 2014. He is a sprinter from-
1) UK 2) Jamaica 3) USA 4) Ethiopia

22. Which city hosted to Li Ning BWF Thomas and Uber cups badminton
finals in May 2014?
1) Mumbai 2) New Delhi 3) Kolkata 4) Hyderabad

23. Who won the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield, England in May 2014?
1) Mark Selby 2) Ronnie O Sullivan
3) Barry Hawkins 4) Neil Robertson

24. National Film Awards are presented every year on?
1) May 2 2) May 1 3) May 3 4) May 4

25. The Board of Governors of Asian Development Bank held their 47
th

annual meeting in which of the following cities from 2-5 may, 2014?
1) Tokyo 2) Beijing
3) Astana 4) New Delhi
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26. Ahmed Matiq became the new prime minister of which of the following
countries on May 4, 2014?
1) Turkey 2) Libya 3) Somalia 4) Oman

27. Astra was successfully test fired from a fighter aircraft, the sukhoi-30-
MKI- on May 4, 2014. Astra is the name of Indias-
1) Air to Air missile 2) Surface to air missile
3) Surface to surface missile 4) None of these

28. Who was awarded the knight grand cross of the order of the British
Empire in May 2014?
1) N.R.Narayana Murthy 2) Azim Premji
3) Ratan Tata 4) Anil Ambani

29. King Bhumibol Adulyadej is the worlds longest- reigning monarch. He
is the king of-
1) Cambodia 2) Vietnam 3) Nepal 4) Thailand

30. Gerry Adams has been the president of Sinn Fein since 1983. Sinn Fein
is a political party active in?
1) Scotland 2) Wales 3) Ireland 4) England

31. An undocumented Wonder: The making of the great Indian election is
a book written by?
1) S.Y. Quraishi 2) V.S. Sampath
3) Naveen chawla 4) T.N.seshan

32. Which country won the mens and womens titles at the world team
table tennis championships on May 5, 2014 in Tokyo?
1) Japan 2) China 3) Germany 4) Malaysia

33. Elena Baltacha died of liver cancer at the age of 30 in May 2014. She
was the former British number one player in?
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1) Squash 2) Snooker 3) Tennis 4) Badminton

34. Sixty years back, on May 6, 1954 who became the first runner to break the 4-
minute barrier in the mile?
1) John Landy 2) Chris Brasher
3) Chris Chataway 4) Roger Bannister

35. Who is the author of the play In the Name of the Bully?
1) Anshyman Acharya 2) Sharon Puthur
3) Sarithri Chandrashekar 4) Arshia Sattar

36. Who was elected as the president of Rajasthan Cricket Association on May 6
2014?
1) Rampal Sharma 2) C.P. Joshi 3) Sachin Pilot 4) Lalit Modi

37. Minors above how many years can now open and operate savings bank
accounts independently.
1) 12 2) 11 3) 13 4) 10

38. Germanys Bayer will buy Merk & cos consumer care business for $
14.20 billion. Merk is headquarted in?
1) France 2) Italy 3) USA 4) Australia

39. Exide Life Insurance Company Limited is the new name of?
1) Bajaj Allianz 2) ING Vysya
3) Birla sun 4) ICICI prudential

40. Which tennis player was named the adopted son of Madrid on May 5,
2014?
1) Roger Federer 2) David Ferrer
3) Andy Murray 4) Rafael Nadal


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