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Current Affairs (Sep 22 to 30) Bit bank

1. Who assumed office as the President of Afghanistan on September 29,
2014?
1) Sarwar Danish 2) Ashraf Ghani
3) Habibullah Habib 4) Abdul Rashid Dostum

2. Safra Catz and Mark Hurd have been named as the new CEOs of -
1) Google 2) Twitter 3) Facebook 4) Oracle

3. Who was named as Director-General of the Pakistan’s Inter Services

Intelligence (ISI)?
1) Tahir - ul - Qadri 2) Rizwan Akhtar
3) Raheel Sharif 4) Abdul Basith

4. The G-20 Finance Minister and Central Banks heads meeting was held in
September 2014 in?
1) Seoul 2) London 3) Ankara 4) Cairns

5. Lamborghini has launched Huracan in Mumbai on September 22, 2014.

Lamborghini is the manufacturer of luxury sport cars, located in -
1) Italy 2) Germany 3) USA 4) France

6. Which country established a post of Chief Executive in September 2014?

1) Pakistan 2) Iran 3) Burma 4) Afghanistan

7. Which of the following films is India’s Nominations for the Best Foreign
Language Film at the 2015 Academy Awards?
1) Mardaani 2) Shahid 3) Liar’s 4) Queen

8. Saurav Ghosal won a silver medal at the 17th Asian Games in which of the
following sports?
1) Squash 2) Badminton 3) Boxing 4) Weightlifting

9. India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) entered the planet’s Orbit on?
1) September 22 2) September 24
3) September 26 4) September 28
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10. Ikea signed a memorandum of understanding with the Telangana

government to set up its first store in India in Hyderabad. Ikea is a furniture
major based in -
1) USA 2) France 3) UK 4) Sweden

11. Who is the author of the book “Reaching for the stars: India’s Journey to
Mars and beyond”?
1) Pallava Bagla 2) V. Keshav Raju
3) S. Arunan 4) K. Radhakrishnan

12. Vittorio Colao visited India in September 2014. He is the CEO of -

1) Aircel 2) Vodafone 2) Wal-Mart 4) Tesco

13. Which of the following has been selected to be the SAARC cultural capital
for a year beginning April 2015?
1) Kabul 2) Herat 3) Bamiyan 4) Kandahar

14. Which of the following was launched by the Prime Minister Narendra
Modi in New Delhi on September 25, 2014?
1) Jan Dhan Yojana 2) Swatch Bharat
3) Make in India 4) None of these

15. Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research

(JIPMER) celebrated Golden Jubilee in September 2014. It is in -
1) Chennai 2) New Delhi 3) Bangalore 4) Puducherry

16. Which cricketer has been honored with Indo-European Business Forum
Life time Achievement award in London?
1) Sunil Gavaskar 2) Kapil Dev
3) Sachin Tendulkar 4) Rahul Dravid

17. Which city will be the SAARC cultural capital in 2016 - 17?
1) Kathmandu 2) New Delhi 3) Dhaka 4) Colombo

18. The SAARC Culture Minister Conference was held in September 2014 in -
1) Kathmandu 2) New Delhi 3) Male 4) Islamabad

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19. According to Forbes, who is the second richest person in India?

1) Lakshmi Mittal 2) Dilip Shanghvi
3) Azim Premji 4) Pallonji Mistry

20. Which country produced colognes named ‘Ernesto’ and ‘Hugo’?

1) Venezuela 2) Colombia 3) Peru 4) Cuba

21. Who succeeded B. Muthuraman as the chairman of Tata International Ltd?

1) G.K.Pillai 2) N. Chandrasekaran
3) S. Ramadorai 4) T. K. Kurien

22. Name the judge who pronounced the verdict against the Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister Jayalalitha on September 27, 2014?
1) Benedict Victor Pinto 2) John Michael Cunha
3) Bijoor Manoher 4) V. Gopalagowda

23. The tree-time Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha was sentenced to?
1) Four years simple imprisonment
2) Two years’ simple imprisonment
3) Rs. 100 core fine
4) Both 1 and 3

24. Who will deliver the prestigious Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi Memorial
Lecture in Kolkata in October 2014?
1) Sourav Ganguly 2) Sachin Tendulkar
3) V.V.S. Laxman 4) Rahul Dravid

25. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a greater role for the G-4
Countries. Which of the following is not a G-4 Country?
1) India 2) Brazil 3) Germany 4) China

26. Mount Ontake erupted recently in -

1) Philippines 2) Japan 3) Vietnam 4) Italy

27. The Year 2016 - 17 is declared the SAARC year of -

1) South Asian Tourism 2) Literary
3) Green South Asia 4) Cultural Heritage
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28. Catalonia called for an independence referendum. Catalonia is a region in –

1) Spain 2) U.K 3) Germany 4) Ukraine

29. India won a gold medal in which of the following events at the 17th Asian
games in Incheon?
1) Women’s team event squash
2) Men’s team event squash
3) Women’s volleyball team
4) Men’s Volleyball team

30. India won a gold medal in the men’s compound archery team event at the
2014 Asian Games. Who among the following is not a member of the
team?
1) Abhishek Verma 2) Sandeep Kumar
3) Rajat Chauhan 4) Harinder Pal singh

31. Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a speech at Madison Square Garden in
1) Washington D.C. 2) Chicago
3) Houston 4) New York

32. Jeff Bezos visited Bangalore in September 2014. He is the founder and
CEO of -
1) Flipkart 2) Google 3) Amazon 4) Twitter

33. Who was sworn in as the 42nd Chief Justice of India on September 28,
2014?
1) T.S. Thakur 2) J.S. Khehar
3) H.L. Dattu 4) Dipak Misra

34. Syed Muazzem Ali has been appointed the new High Commissioner of
which of the following countries to India?
1) Pakistan 2) Maldives 3) Iran 4) Bangladesh

35. Who was sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for a second time on
September 29, 2014?
1) R. Viswanathan 2) R. Vaithilingam
3) O. Panneerselvam 4) P. Palaniappan
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36. World Heart Day was observed on -

1) September 28 2) September 29
3) September 30 4) September 27

37. Who won the gold medal in the men’s 65kg freestyle wrestling at the 2014
Asian Games?
1) Bajrang 2) Satyawart Kadian
3) Sumit Kumar Sahu 4) Yogeshwar Dutt

38. Who won India’s first – ever women’s silver in the 20 km walk at the
Asiad?
1) Khushbir Kaur 2) Manju Bala
3) Shardha Narayana 4) M.R. Poovamma

39. Seema Punia earned India its first athletics gold medal in the 2014 Asian
Games by winning the women’s –
1) Long Jump 2) Discus Throw
3) 400 m hurdles 4) 800m hurdles

40. Prime Minter Narendra Modi met Benjamin Netanyahu in New York. He is
the Prime Minister of –
1) Canada 2) Spain 3) Israel 4) Libya

Answers
1) 2 2) 4 3) 2 4) 4 5) 1 6) 4 7) 3
8) 1 9) 2 10) 4 11) 1 12) 2 13) 3 14) 3
15) 4 16) 2 17) 3 18) 2 19) 2 20) 4 21) 1
22) 2 23) 4 24) 3 25) 4 26) 2 27) 4 28) 1
29) 2 30) 4 31) 4 32) 3 33) 3 34) 4 35) 3
36) 2 37) 4 38) 1 39) 2 40) 3

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Explanatory Notes
2. Safra Catz and Mark Hurd succeeded Larry Ellison as the Co-CEOs of
Oracle Corporation. Larry Ellison became the executive chairman and
CTO of Oracle.

4. The meeting of G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Banks Chiefs was held
in Cairns, Australia. The Minister of state for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman
and the RBI Government Raghuram Rajan attended the meeting.

6. Abdullah Abdullah is the chief executive of Afghanistan.

7. Liar’s Dice is a Hindi film directed by Geetu Mohandas. This film won two
national awards, for best actress for Geetanjali Thapa and best
cinematographer for Rajeev Ravi.

9. India is the first Asian nation and fourth space power to reach Mars orbit
with $ 74 million cost, it is the world’s cheapest interplanetary mission.

13. Bamiyan is a town in Afghanistan which shot into prominence when the
Taliban blew up two ancient statues of the Buddha in 2001.

19. RIL chief Mukesh Ambani topped the Forbes 100 billionaires in India list
for the eighth consecutive year.

Dilip Shanghvi is the founder and managing Director of Sun

pharmaceuticals, India’s most valuable drug company.

20. ‘Ernesto’ is named after Che Guevara and ‘Hugo’ honours the late
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

33. Justice Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu assumed office as the 42nd

Chief Justice of India on September 28, 2014. He succeeded Justice R.M.
Lodha. He is from Karnataka. Justice H.L.Dattu will retire on December 2,
2015.

37. London Olympic bronze medalist Yogeshwar Dutt won the gold medal for
India. This is India’s first Asian Games wrestling gold after 1986 when
Kartar Singh won it in Seoul.

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