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QUESTIONS ON CURRENT AFFAIRS OF NOVEMBER 2014

1. In which city was the FIDE World (a) Kuchipudi (b) Bharat Natyam Championship match between Viswanathan (c) Kathak (d) Odissi Anand and Magnus Carlsen held? 8. Who of the following has been awarded (a) Moscow (b) Oslo BCCI’s Col. C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement (c) Sochi (d) Stockholm Award for 2013-14? 2. Who of the following has been chosen for the (a) Mohinder Amarnath (b) Ravi Shastri Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and (c) Dilip Vengsarkar (d) Eknath Solkar Development 2014? 9. Which of the following has become the first (a) Defence Research & Development state in the country to provide full banking Organisation coverage to all households under the Pradhan (b) Indian Space Research Organisation Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojna? (c) Angela Merkel (a) Kerala (b) Karnataka (d) Justice VR Krishna Iyer (c) Manipur (d) Rajasthan 3. At which of these places did Rohit Sharma 10. Jeevan Pramaan is scheme launched by the make the highest individual ODI score of 264 Prime Minister specifically for the benefit of runs against Sri Lanka? (a) Pensioners (b) Unemployed youth (a) Chennai (b) Kanpur (c) Farmers (d) Teachers (c) Visakhapatnam (d) Kolkata 11. Who of the following has taken over as the 4. Which film was awarded the Golden Peacock new Chief Minister of Goa following for the best film at the 45 th International Film appointment of Shri Manohar Parrikar as the Festival of India in November 2014? Defence Minister? (a) EK Hazarchi Note (b) Chotoder Chobi (a) Dayanand Mandrekar (c) Leviathan (d) The Kindergarten (b) Dilip Parulekar Teacher (c) Laxmikant Parsekar 5. What is the time period in which an amount (d) Francis D’Souza invested in Kisan Vikas Patra doubles itself? 12. What name has been given to the earth’s (a) 7 years 8 months (b) 8 years 6 months most abundant mineral which makes up about (c) 6 years 10 months (d) 8 years 4 months 38% of earth’s volume? 6. Which country has won the Davis Cup 2014 (a) Putnisite (b) Mojaveite (first time the country has won the Davis Cup)? (c) Maruyamaite (d) Bridgmanite (a) Serbia (b) France 13. Who of the following was awarded the (c) Switzerland (d) Belarus Cricketer of the Year (Sir Garfield Sobers 7. Sitara Devi, the renowned dancer who passed Trophy) for 2014? away recently was associated with form of (a) Mitchell Johnson dance? (b) AB de Villiers

(c) Bhuvaneshwar Kumar 17. Who of the following has been appointed to (d) Aaron Finch be the new Secretary General of Lok Sabha wef December 01? 14. Which company has launched the new e- (a) Sumitra Mahajan (b) TK Vishwanathan mail service named Verse? (c) PK Grover (d) Anoop Mishra (a) IBM (b) Microsoft (c) Yahoo (d) Google 18. Who of the following was awarded the Film Personality of the year at the 45 th International 15. Which state has become the first in the Film festival of India 2014 in Goa? country to make voting in local bodies elections (a) Rajinikanth (b) Amitabh Bachchan compulsory, empowering the election (c) Rajkumar (d) Dilip Kumar commission to declare a non-voter as defaulter and liable to punishment? 19. Who of the following was awarded the 2013 (a) Rajasthan (b) Gujarat Jnanpith Award? (c) Maharashtra (d) Karnataka (a) Pratibha Ray (b) Kedarnath Singh (c) Amarkant (d) Srilal Shukla 16. Which Indian sportsperson has been chosen to be the United nations Goodwill Ambassador 20. Which of the following villages has been for South Asian region by UN Women? adopted by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra (a) Mary Kom (b) Saina Nehwal Modi under the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana? (c) Sania Mirza (d) Vidya Pillai (a) Sitapur (b) Raval (c) Jayapur (d) Palri

Answers

1. (c) 2. (b) 3. (d) 4. (c) 5. (d) 6. (c) 7. (c) 8. (c) 9. (a) 10. (a)

11. (c) 12. (d) 13. (a) 14. (a) 15. (b) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (a) 19. (b) 20. (c)