CURRENT AFFAIRS TILL October Part -2
1. Dr. Jim Yong Kim, who concluded his three-day visit to India, recently, is the President of ____.
(a) World Trade Organization
(b) European Commission
(c) World Bank
(d) Asian Development Bank
2. Recently, Samina Baig became the first woman of her country to climb seven highest peaks in seven continents in under eight months. She belongs to which of the following countries?
(a) Iran (b) Iraq
(c) Pakistan (d) Saudi Arabia
3. UN General Assembly, on 7 June 2014, announced an award in honour of ______.
(a) Nelson Mandela (b) Mother Terresa
(c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) None of the above
4. Petro Poroshenko was elected as President on 25 May 2014 with more than 54 percent of the votes. He was sworn-in as the President of _______.
(a) Ukraine (b) Malaysia
(c) Russia (d) Jordan
5. Consider the following statements about reduction of poverty based on the UN Millennium Development Goals report 2014.
1. Poverty rates in Southern Asia fell from 51% in 1990 to 30% two decades later with China leading the way
2. Extreme poverty in China came down from 60% in 1990 to 16% in 2005 and 12% in 2010
3. In India poverty reduction was sluggish in comparison coming down from 49.4% in 1994 to 42% in 2005 and 32.7% in 2010.
4. One-third of the extreme poor (those who live on income less than $1 a day) live in India, China, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Congo.
Which of the above statements is/are not correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) 1 and 3 (d) 4 only
6. Which city has become the world's second most populous city (25 million) after Tokyo (38 million), according to a UN report?
(a) Mumbai (b) Delhi
(c) Kolkata (d) Chennai
7. Which country had the highest number of under-five deaths in the world in 2012, with 1.4 million children dying before reaching their fifth birthday, according to the UN Millennium Development Goals report 2014?
(a) India (b) Congo
(c) Nigeria (d) Bangladesh
8. Syrian President Bashar Assad was sworn in as President on July 16, 2014 for the ______ time for seven year term despite mass uprising against his rule.
(a) 2nd (b) 3rd
(c) 4th (d) 5th
9. Typhoon Matrno which struck east of _____ on 22 July 2014, with a wind gust of 173 kilometers per hour, was the first tropical storm of 2014 to make landfall in the country.
(a) Indonesia (b) Taiwan
(c) China (d) Japan
10. Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo, won the Indonesia Presidential elections on 22 July 2014, with _______ of the vote casted in favour of him.
(a) 53% (b) 76%
(c) 67% (d) 60%
11. Which among the following countries will host the Seventh BRICS Summit in 2015?
(a) South Africa (b) India
(c) Russia (d) Brazil
12. Which of the following countries has become the first country in the world to abolish carbon tax?
(a) Poland (b) Canada
(c) Britain (d) Australia
13. Which country has made forced marriages a criminal offence under a new law that has come into effect from June 16, 2014?
(a) Japan (b) Germany
(c) U.K. (d) France
14. 52-years-old, prominent Indian-origin entrepreneur, Karan Bilimoria, has been installed as the seventh Chancellor of the _____, one of Britain's research–intensive universities, on July 17, 2014.
(a) University of Birmingham
(b) Bradford University
(c) University of Edinburgh
(d) Nottingham University
15. In a first, Indian-origin, highly-regarded constitutional scholar, Sujit Choudhary, became Dean of one of US' top law schools. He was born in which of the following cities in India?
(a) New Delhi (b) Lucknow
(c) Jaipur (d) Mumbai
16. In which of the following cities 7th India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) summit will be held in 2015?
(a) Kolkata (b) New Delhi
(c) Bangalore (d) Chennai
17. Lithuania's Iron Lady' Dalia Grybauskaite won an unprecedented ________ term on May 25, 2014 in a presidential runoff.
(a) 2nd (b) 3rd
(c) 4th (d) None of these
18. Abdel Fattah-al-Sisi achieved landslide victory, in the recently held presidential election in which country?
(a) Iran (b) Syria
(c) Egypt (d) Thailand
19. Name Spain's newly crowned king.
(a) Felipe IV (b) Felipe V
(c) Felipe VI (d) Felipe VII
20. India has extended the ban on Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LITE) for another _____ years with effect from May 14, 2014.
(a) 3 (b) 4
(c) 5 (d) 6
21. Tanishq Abraham, a home-schooled 10-year-old Indian-origin genius has recently surprised one and all by becoming one of the youngest ever to graduate high school in ________.
(a) U.S.A. (b) Germany
(c) France (d) Japan
22. Which country's new legislation announced on June 5, 2014 will allow voters to sack misbehaving MPs?
(a) U.K. (b) U.S.A.
(c) France (d) Germany
23. To qualify as Malaria-free, a country has to go through four phases: control, pre-elimination, elimination and prevention of re-introduction each with its own set of interventional programmes. The WHOS World Malaria Report 2013 lists which of the following countries as being in the control phase?
(a) Nepal and Bangladesh
(b) Bangladesh & Pakistan
(c) India and China
(d) Bhutan and Srilanka
24. Which former Chief Justice of India has recently been appointed as arbitrator in the 20,000 crore tax dispute with UK telecom major Vodafone?
(a) R. C. Lahoti (b) Altmas Kabir
(c) P. Sathasivam (d) RM Lodha
25. On 14th May 2014, which of the following countries has announced its decision to abolish its controversial sponsorship system (Kafala system) and to replace it with a system based on employment contracts as part of a package of labour reforms?
(a) Qatar (b) Oman
(c) Libya (d) None of these
26. South Africa's Ruling African National Congress (ANC) on May 9, 2014 notched up a commanding victory in the _____ post apartheid election, giving President Jacob Zuma a second term in office.
(a) 3rd (b) 4th
(c) 5th (d) 6th
27. Over 2.5 lakh Indians have registered for courses on edX, the Massive Open Online Course (MOCC) platform founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University in May 2014 to host online university-level courses because___
(a) The course have been put together and are led by some of the finest professors in the world
(b) Students require just an internet connection. The course are free, can be normally completed within a duration of 4 weeks to 12 weeks, and those who complete them receive a certificate from the university that provides the course.
(c) edX offers some 160 courses including in science, engineering, business, law, history, social sciences, and artificial intelligence.
All of the above
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