Quiz CA-2

Current Affairs Quiz

Ques. : 1 Who among the following will be conferred BCCI’s Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award for the year 2013?
1) Mohinder Amarnath
2) Sunil Gavaskar
3) Kapil Dev
4) Ravi Shastri
5) None of these


Ques. : 2 In which of the following countries, Indians have been charged with alleged rioting in the country’s worst outbreak of violence in over 40 years and 52 Indians have been deported recently?
1) Malaysia
2) Singapore
3) US
4) Italy
5) None of these

Ques. : 3 The novel titled ‘A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing’ has been authored by
1) Supriya Dravid
2) Eimear Mcbride
3) Fatima Bhutto
4) Juliet Reynolds
5) None of these

Ques. : 4 Which of the following auto majors operating in the country has announced to shift its entire export operations for the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia to India by
the end of the next fiscal year?
1) Suzuki Motor Corporation
2) General Motors
3) Toyota Motor Corporation
4) Ford Motors
5) None of these

Ques. : 5 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced its quarterly policy review on 18 Dec. Which of the following key policy rates are correctly matched after the review?
1) Repo rate – 7.75 per cent
2) Reverse repo rate – 6.50 per cent
3) CRR – 4 per cent
4) MSF – 8.75 per cent
5) None of these

Ques. : 6 What does the term ‘red herring’ refers to in the context of an IPO?
1) Minimum offer per share
2) No of shares offered
3) Preliminary prospectus
4) Size of IPO
5) None of these

Ques. : 7 Which of the following countries is hosting the 27th South East Asian Games, the biggest sporting event in South East Asia, for the first time in 40 years?
1) Nepal
2) Bangladesh
3) Myanmar
4) Singapore
5) None of these

Ques. : 8 Who among the following in not a recipient of the 2013 United Nations Human Rights Prize?
1) Khadija Ryadi
2) Liisa Kauppinen
3) Biram Dah Abeid
4) Nelson Mandela
5) Malala Yousafzai

Ques. : 9 Name the first indigenously designed and developed fighter aircraft which has reached closer to its induction in the Indian Air Force with the recent successful test of its weaponry system?
1) HAL HJT-36 Sitara
2) HAL HJT-16 Kiran
3) Saras
4) LCA Tejas
5) None of these

Ques. : 10 Under the provisions of the recently enacted Companies Act, 2013, which of the following bodies has been accorded statutory status?
1) Directorate General of Income Tax
2) Directorate of Revenue Intelligence Investigation
3) Serious Fraud Investigation Office
4) National Technical Research Organisation
5) None of these

Ques. : 11 The Indian squad crashed out of the Hero Junior Men's Hockey World Cup after a draw with which of the following teams in New Delhi recently?
1) South Korea
2) Japan
3) Malaysia
4) Indonesia
5) None of these

Ques. : 12 The new book ‘Unbreakable’ is an autobiography of who among the following?
1) Virat Kohli
2) Mary Kom
3) Saina Nehwal
4) Deepika Kumari
5) None of these



ANSWERS
1. 3) Kapil Dev
2. 2) Singapore
3. 2) Eimear Mcbride
4. 1) Suzuki Motor Corporation
5. 3) CRR
6. 3) Preliminary prospectus
7. 3) Myanmar
8. 4) Nelson Mandela
9. 4) LCA Tejas
10. 3) Serious Fraud Investigation Office
11. 1) South Korea
12. 2) Mary Kom