In continuation......, Day 22 :- Ques. : 561 The Defence Ministry has recommended the name of who among the following for the post of Chief of the army staffs recently? 1) Deepak Kapoor 2) Dalbir Singh Suhag 3) NC Vij 4) Joginder Jaswant Singh 5) None of these Ans.) 2 Ques. : 562 Which of the following teams clinched the 20th Senior National Womens Football Championships title recently? 1) Manipur 2) Odisha 3) West Bengal 4) Karnataka 5) Maharashtra Ans.) 1 Ques. : 563 After Crimea, which of the following provinces of Ukraine declared independence from the country in the recently held referendum? 1) Kiev 2) Donetsk 3) Moldova 4) Odessa 5) None of these Ans.) 2 Ques. : 564 The recently held elections recorded an all-time high voter turnout in the history of Lok Sabha elections with the overall turnout in all the nine phases of polling this year stood at _______. 1) 52.30 per cent 2) 55.34 per cent 3) 58.19 per cent 4) 66.38 per cent 5) 68.01 per cent Ans.) 4 Ques. : 565 The rumours were doing round in the retail world that Carrefour is planning to exit Indian market recently. This second largest retail chain in the world is based in which of the following countries? 1) UK 2) US 3) France 4) Germany 5) South Korea Ans.) 3 Ques. : 566 Khaled Choudhury died recently. He was an innovative artist, stage director and a Padma Bhushan awardee associated with 1) Hindi theatre 2) Marathi theatre 3) Tamil theatre 4) Bengali theatre 5) None of these Ans.) 4 Ques. : 567 Who among the following won the Spanish Grand Prix 2014 recently? 1) Nico Rosberg 2) Sebastian Vettel 3) Fernando Alonso 4) Jenson Button 5) Lewis Hamilton Ans.) 5 Ques. : 568 The worlds biggest Bio-bank imaging study is being conducted in which of the following countries under which 100,000 citizens are undergoing detailed imaging of their brain, heart and vital organs? 1) Japan 2) US 3) Germany 4) UK 5) China Ans.) 4 Ques. : 569 The book titled ‘The Last Word By’ has been written by who among the following? 1) Sidharth Bhatia 2) Hanif Qureishi 3) Noviolet Bulawayo 4) Malvika Singh 5) Pallavi Aiyar Ans.) 2 Ques. : 570 In which of the following countries at least 15 people were killed in a stampede at a football match in the Kinshasa city recently? The incident took place after police fired tear gas in the crowded stadium, causing panic. 1) Democratic Republic of Congo 2) Brazil 3) Indonesia 4) Malaysia 5) Spain Ans.) 1 Ques. : 571 In his recent visit to east African nations, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang signed a deal with which of the following countries to build a new railway with China financing 90 per cent of the 3.6 billion-dollar project? 1) Kenya 2) Uganda 3) Somalia 4) Rwanda 5) Ethiopia Ans.) 1 Ques. : 572 The former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years in prison for the first time in the history of which of the following countries recently? He was sentenced for corrupt practices in a real estate project. 1) Spain 2) Norway 3) Canada 4) Holland 5) Israel Ans.) 5 Ques. : 573 Name the leading Indian IT services company which paid a hefty sum of $34 mn to settle a US visa misuse case in 2013 and now, it will have to retain an independent third-party auditor at its expense to review its visa compliance until 2015. 1) Wipro 2) TCS 3) Infosys 4) HCL 5) Tech Mahindra Ans.) 3 Ques. : 574 The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed who among the following as the first woman to command a United Nations peacekeeping force? She will serve as commander of about 1,000 UN peacekeepers in Cyprus. 1) Kristin Lund 2) Ann Dunwoody 3) Terry Gabreski 4) Michelle Howard 5) Janet Wolfenbarger Ans.) 1 Ques. : 575 A banking company is required to transfer not less than what per cent out of the balance of profit of each year to the Reserve Fund created under provisions of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949? 1) 5 per cent 2) 10 per cent 3) 15 per cent 4) 20 per cent 5) None of these Ans.) 4 Ques. : 576 International Nurses Day (IND) is celebrated around the world on ______of each year. 1) 5 May 2) 8 May 3) 9 May 4) 12 May 5) 15 May Ans.) 4 Ques. : 577 Which of the following economies of the world have been declared world’s most expensive economies in a ranking released by the World Bank recently? 1) UK, Japan 2) Bermuda, Denmark 3) US, Australia 4) Switzerland, Norway 5) None of these Ans.) 4 Ques. : 578 Which of the following pairs of states and their best practices is NOT matched correctly with respect to the report prepared by consultancy firm Accenture on behalf of DIPP recently? 1) Best land acquisition model in the country – Gujarat 2) Integrated and comprehensive system for VAT – Karnataka 3) Labour management solution – Maharashtra 4) Single window clearance – Rajasthan and Punjab 5) None of these Ans.) 5 Ques. : 579 Which of the following companies tops the Forbes annual list of the worlds 2000 largest and most powerful public companies released recently? 1) China Construction Bank 2) Citigroup 3) JP Morgan 4) Industrial and Commercial Bank of China 5) Berkshire Hathaway Ans.) 4 Ques. : 580 Which of the following aviation academies was selected for the International Arch of Europe Award 2014 recently? 1) Ahmedabad Aviation and Aeronautics 2) Ahmedabad Aviation and Aeronautics 3) Indian Institute of Aeronautics 4) Rajiv Gandhi Aviation Academy 5) None of these Ans.) 2
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