Current Affairs: Current Affairs Practice Paper

Current Affairs Practice Paper

1) Who of the following was appointed the Chairperson of National Commission for Woman (NCW) ?

1. Kalpana Morparia
2. Lalitha Kumaramangalam
3. Partima Dharm
4. Antara Haldar

2) Who of the following was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Fiji ?

1. Epeli Nailatikau
2. Jona Senilagakali
3. Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara
4. Voreqe Bainimarama

3) Who of the following was recently elected the President of Afghanistan ?

1. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai
2. Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani
3. Addulla Addulla
4. Hamid Karzia

4) Govind Mishra, the renowned Hindi author, was recently given the Saraswati Samman for which of his following novels?

1. Lal Peeli Zameen
2. Dhool Paudhon Par
3. O Prakriti Maan
4. Utarti Hui Dhoop

5) Who of the following was recently appointed the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of Kerala-based South Indian Bank Ltd. by RBI ?

1. V.G. Mathew
2. Mayank Pareek
3. Suresh Kumar
4. Rajat Sharma

6) Prithviraj Chavan, who has recently resigned from his post, was the Chief Minister of  which of the following states ?

1. Sikkim
2. Odisha
3. Kerala
4. Maharashtra

7) Who of the following was recently appointed the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu ?

1. J. Jayalaletha
2. Manik Sarkar
3. O Pannerselvam
4. Naveen Partkar

8) Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura have won the 2014 Noebl Prize for Physics for inventing efficient blue Light-Emitting Diodes (LED) lamps that work as bright and energy-saving white light sources. They belong to which of the following countries ?

1. China
2. Japan
3. France
4. Germany

9) Who of the following was recently awarded with the 2014 Nobel Prize in medicine for his/their work related to discovery of the brain's GPS system ?

1. John O Keefe
2. Edvard Moser
3. May-Britt Moser
4. All of the Above

10) Who of the following has recently been conferred with the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management for the year 2014 ?

1. Dr. A. Sivathanu Pillai
2. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
3. Satish Dhawan
4. None of these