Questions on Current Affairs of April 2014
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www.leadthecompetition.in QUESTIONS ON CURRENT AFFAIRS OF APRIL 2014 1. What kind of an animal was Polo, which died 8. Whale hunting programme Jarpa II, which recently at Mysore zoo? was stopped by United nations recently was (a) Gorilla (b) White Tiger (c) Tortoise (d) Horse launched by which of the following countries? 2. Chief Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha who took (a) Canada (b) Denmark (c) Japan (d) China over in April 2014 is the _______ Chief Justice 9. Who of the following has been crowned of India? Femina Miss India 2014? (a) 35 th (b) 39 th (c) 40 th (d) 41 st (a) Jatalekha Malhotra (b) Gail Nicole Da Silva 3. Which of the following is/are true in respect (c) Koyal Rana (d) Lopamudra Raut of ICC T-20 Cricket tournament? 10. Why was Vijay Seshadri in news recently? A. England won the Women’s T-20 (a) He won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry championship. category B. Sri Lanka won the T-20 World Cup (b) He was appointed as Indian envoy to ASEAN tournament. (c) He won the Goldman Environment Prize (a) Only A (b) Only B (d) He won the World Snooker Men’s Title (c) Both A and B (d) Neither A nor B 11. Which of the following companies is in the 4. Which of the following films has been process of acquiring Ranbaxy Laboratories? awarded the Best Feature Film National award (a) Biocon Limited for 2013? (b) Sun Pharmaceuticals (a) Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (b) Fandry (c) Cipla Limited (c) Ship of Theseus (d) Kaphal (d) Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories 5. With which of the following sports is Chitra 12. Who is the author of the novel The Magimairaj associated? Goldfinch, which was chosen for 2014 Pulitzer (a) Archery (b) Squash Prize in fiction category? (c)Badminton (d) Snooker (a) Annie Baker (b) Vijay Seshadri 6. Which of the following companies has now (c) Kevin Siers (d) Donna Tartt been renamed Mondelez India Foods Ltd? 13. Which Indian Cricketer is among the (a) Cadbury India (b) Nestle India Wisden’s Five Cricketers of year 2014? (c) Parle Products (d) Monginis (a) Shikhar Diwan (b) Virat Kohli 7. To mark which of the following days, were (c) Rohit Sharma (d) M.S. Dhoni iconic buildings across the world were lit up in 14. Who of the following shooters became blue colour on 02 April 2014? world No. 1 in 10 metres air pistol event in April (a) World Health Day 2014? (b) World Autism Day (a) Heena Sidhu (b) Lajja Goswami (c) International Ozone Day (c) Kavita Yadav (d) Rahi Sarnobat (d) World Water Day 15. India’s first aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, 18. Which of the following Indian which was sold in April to a ship-breaking firm communication satellite launched in September was originally named – 2003 went out of service in April 2014? (a) HMS Ulysses (b) HMS Hercules (a) INSAT 3E (b) INSAT 2B (c) Admiral Gorshkov (d) Admiral Moskva (c) INSAT 2A (d) INSAT 3C 16. Which of these countries filed a suit in the 19. Which of the following NBFCs was granted international Court of Justice against United permission by RBI to set up a bank in April States and eight other countries for allegedly 2014? breaching a 46-year-old treaty to dismantle (a) Armaan Financial Services their nuclear arsenals? (b) Kuldip Financial Services (a) Japan (b) Indonesia (c) Bandhan Financial Services (c) Marshall Islands (d) Finland (d) Sharadha Financial Services 17. Who of the following was awarded the 20. Which of the following cities was for the Goldman Environment Prize for his efforts first time put on Indian Railways map when a against coal mining in Chhattisgarh? passenger train of about 400 commuters (a) Suresh Reddy (b) Rajendra Singh arrived at a nearby station Naharlagun? (c) Medha Patkar (d) Ramesh Agarwal (a) Aizwal (b) Itanagar (c) Kohima (d) Agartala. Answers 1. (a) 2. (d) 3. (b) 4. (c) 5. (d) 6. (a) 7. (b) 8. (c) 9. (c) 10. (a) 11. (b) 12. (d) 13. (a) 14. (a) 15. (b) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (a) 19. (c) 20. (b) .