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December - 2014 GK - 2

December 2014 GK Week - 2

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following won the Hero Women's Indian Golf Open 2014?

  1. Gwladys Nocera
  2. Hannah Burke
  3. Fabienne In-Albon
  4. Hyeon Seo Kang
  5. Vaishavi Sinha
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the author of the book 'Sea of Poppies'?

  1. Vikram Seth
  2. Aravind Adiga
  3. Amitav Ghosh
  4. Arundhati Roy
  5. Jhumpa Lahiri
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 11th Dubai International Film Festival held in Dubai?

  1. Martin Sheen
  2. Samir Farid
  3. Lata Mangeshkar
  4. Asha Bhosle
  5. Mahmoud Abdel Aziz
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, which country launched a Nuclear Power Expansion Scheme to expand its large network of nuclear plants?

  1. Iran
  2. China
  3. Iraq
  4. Syria
  5. Japan
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Manthan Awards South Asia 2014 was given in December 2014. This award is given for outstanding contributions in

  1. digital content creation
  2. film industry
  3. literature
  4. sports
  5. social service
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

On which day was the 'Armed Forces Flag Day' observed across the nation?

  1. 3rd December
  2. 7th December
  3. 15th December
  4. 21st December
  5. 16th December
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, whom did Warren Buffet replace to become the second richest person in the world?

  1. Bill Gates
  2. Amancio Ortega
  3. Carlos Slim
  4. Larry Ellison
  5. Charles Koch
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, which country became the member of Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)?

  1. Myanmar
  2. Bhutan
  3. Comoros
  4. Niger
  5. South Africa
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which minister introduced the Textile Undertakings (Nationalisation) Laws (Amendment and Validation) Bill in the Lok Sabha, which was passed by the Rajya Sabha in December 2014?

  1. Kavuri Samba Siva Rao
  2. Dayanidhi Maran
  3. Santosh Gangwar
  4. Kashiram Rana
  5. Kamal Nath
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, which bank advised Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilisers (MCF) that it will be difficult for them to lend money to MCF with a willful defaulter Mallya on the board?

  1. ICICI Bank
  2. PNB
  3. Syndicate Bank
  4. SBI
  5. HDFC Bank
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, who among the following auctioned his Nobel Prize medal for 4.8 million US dollars?

  1. Wole Soyinka
  2. E.J. Corey
  3. Dario Fo
  4. Hideki Shirakawa
  5. James Dewey Watson
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, which of the following aircrafts completed the world's first flight using green diesel as aviation biofuel?

  1. Boeing 787
  2. Boeing 757
  3. Boeing 707
  4. Boeing 777
  5. Boeing 767
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which country was the first Arabic translation of the Indian Constitution launched in December 2014?

  1. Morocco
  2. Tunisia
  3. Egypt
  4. Somalia
  5. Libya
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following satellites carries a total of 48 communication transponders, the largest by a communication satellite developed by the ISRO so far?

  1. GSAT-14
  2. GSAT-16
  3. GSAT-7
  4. GSAT-10
  5. INSAT-4D
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which country won the fourth edition of the Blind Cricket World Cup (BCWC) 2014 played in Cape Town, South Africa?

  1. Sri Lanka
  2. Australia
  3. South Africa
  4. India
  5. Pakistan
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following was awarded the Swiss Ambassador's Award in December 2014?

  1. R. V. Kanoria
  2. Glenn Saldanha
  3. Ratan Tata
  4. Azim Premji
  5. Mukesh Ambani
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How much FDI in railway infrastructure sector under the automatic route subject to conditions was permitted in the revised Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy notified by the Reserve Bank of India in December 2014?

  1. 49 percent
  2. 75 percent
  3. 100 percent
  4. 63 percent
  5. 85 percent
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, who among the following was appointed as the mentor and batting consultant for Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)?

  1. Andre Russell
  2. Chris Lynn
  3. Jacques Kallis
  4. Ryan ten Doeschate
  5. Morne Morkel
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which country topped the Web Index 2014, released in December 2014?

  1. Sweden
  2. Norway
  3. Finland
  4. Denmark
  5. Netherlands
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Whose nomination as the next US Ambassador to India was confirmed by the US Senate in December 2014, making him the first Indian-American to be the US Ambassador to India?

  1. Bobby Jindal
  2. Subra Suresh
  3. Gopal Khanna
  4. Shekar Narasimhan
  5. Richard Verma
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, who among the following was appointed as President of Southwest Asia headquarters of Samsung Electronics Ltd?

  1. B. D. Park
  2. HyunChil Hong
  3. Jong-Kyun Shin
  4. Kwang-Soo Song
  5. Han-Joong Kim
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

According to the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index 2013, released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in December 2014, which country topped the list in terms of travel and tourism competitiveness?

  1. France
  2. Switzerland
  3. Singapore
  4. Australia
  5. Sweden
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, which of the following companies signed a 10 billion US dollars contract to import crude oil over ten years from Russia?

  1. Bharat Petroleum
  2. Indian Oil Corporation
  3. Essar Group
  4. Reliance Petroleum Limited
  5. Cairn India
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following was/were named as the TIME's person of the year 2014?

  1. Pope Francis
  2. Barack Obama
  3. Ebola fighters
  4. Vladimir Putin
  5. Ben Bernanke
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In association with which of the following fancial companies did ICCI Bank launch India’s first transparent credit card?

  1. BNP Paribas
  2. Credit Swiss
  3. American Express
  4. Standard Chartered Bank
  5. Goldman Sachs
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