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December 2014 Current Affairs

Key news and events from December 2014 covering politics, economy, sports, technology, and international developments

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

By how much did the government hike the excise duty on petrol (per litre) in December 2014?

  1. Rs. 2.00
  2. Rs. 2.25
  3. Rs. 2.55
  4. Rs. 2.80
  5. Rs. 2.90
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Jarbom Gamlin died in December 2014. In which year was he the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh?

  1. 1999
  2. 2000
  3. 2011
  4. 2012
  5. 2013
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following won the 2014-15 Deodhar Trophy in December 2014?

  1. East Zone
  2. Central Zone
  3. South Zone
  4. North Zone
  5. West Zone
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following banks lowered its term deposit rates by 25 basis points in December 2014?

  1. SBI
  2. PNB
  3. ICICI
  4. Axis Bank
  5. Yes Bank
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, which of the following companies appointed Stanford Professor John W. Etchemendy as an independent member of its board of directors?

  1. Infosys
  2. TCS
  3. Aditya Birla Group
  4. Reliance Power
  5. HCL Technologies
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, the appointment of which of the following persons as Director General of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was approved?

  1. Mahboob Alam
  2. A. P. Maheshwari
  3. D. K. Pandey
  4. O. P. Singh
  5. R. K. Pachnanda
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, which newspaper of Singapore named Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the Asian of the Year 2014?

  1. Good Paper
  2. The Straits Time
  3. Business Times
  4. Weekend Today
  5. The New Paper
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, which of the following companies acquired PasswordBox, a Montreal-based identity management service?

  1. Accenture
  2. Cisco
  3. Google
  4. Intel Corp
  5. Microsoft
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What was India's rank in the 20th edition of the Corruption Perceptions Index 2014, which was released in December 2014?

  1. 41
  2. 63
  3. 85
  4. 106
  5. 133
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery is observed annually on

  1. 2nd December
  2. 9th December
  3. 15th December
  4. 21st December
  5. 27th December
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Abdul Rehman Antulay, who passed away in December 2014, was a former Chief Minister of which state?

  1. Jammu and Kashmir
  2. Assam
  3. Maharashtra
  4. Kerala
  5. Lakshadweep
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following nuclear capable missiles was test-fired in December 2014?

  1. Agni-III
  2. Agni-IV
  3. Agni-V
  4. Agni-VI
  5. Surya
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which country did a terrorist attack on a UN convoy take place in December 2014?

  1. Somalia
  2. Syria
  3. Iraq
  4. Israel
  5. Afghanistan
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, in which of the following countries did a bus powered entirely by human and food waste become operational?

  1. Japan
  2. The US
  3. China
  4. The UK
  5. France
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, which of the following policy rates was/were kept unchanged in the fifth bi-monthly monetary policy statement announced by RBI?

  1. Repo Rate
  2. Reverse Repo Rate
  3. Marginal Standing Facility
  4. All of the above
  5. Cash Reserve Ratio
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In December 2014, which country launched the asteroid explorer Hayabusa 2 to explore origin of Earth?

  1. China
  2. South Korea
  3. Japan
  4. India
  5. The US
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