Awards and Current Affairs - RAILWAY RECRUITMENT BOARD ASSISTANT LOCO PILOT EXAMINATION

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11. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in the year 2013 ?

(A) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (B) Tawakkul Karman (C) Leymah Gbowee (D) O.P.C.W.

12. Which of the following has been selected for Padma Bhushan Award for 2014 ?

(A) R. A. Mashelkar (B) BKS Iyengar (C) Both(A)and(B) (D) None of these 13. The first Indian to win Nobel Prize was—

(A) C.V. Raman

(B) Rabindra Nath Tagore (C) Hargovind Khurana (D) Amartya Sen

14. Who was awarded the UNESCO Confucius Literacy Prize 2013 ?

(A) Non-formal and continuing Education Programme (Bhutan)

(B) The Saakshar Bharat (Literate India) Mission

15. Julianne Moore has begged best actress award in 66th International Film Festival of Cannes 2014 for the film—

(A) A Screaming Man (B) Of Gods and Men (C) Maps to the Star (D) Ano Bisiesto

16. Who has been awarded the Best Woman Player Award in FIFA Women’s World Cup Football 2011 ?

(A) Diego Forlan (B) Homare Sawa (C) Andres Iniesta (D) Iker Casillas 17. Who among the following won the Nobel

Prize for Medicine 2013 ? (A) Bruce A. Boutler (B) Jules A. Hoffmann (C) Ralph M. Steimman

(D) James E. Rothman and Randy Schekman 18. Which Indian Scientist has had the distinction of receiving not only the Nobel Prize, but also Bharat Ratna ?

(A) Dr. Homi Bhabha (B) Dr. J. C. Bose (C) Dr. C. V. Raman (D) Dr. Vikram Sarabhai

19. Who amongthefollowingwasawardedNobel Prize for Literature-2013 ?

(A) Alice Munro (B) Bill Clinton (C) Paul Lauterbur (D) Shirin Ebadi 20. Who got the Best Actor Award in the 61st

National Film Awards announced in March 2014 ?

(A) Amitabh Bachchan (B) Shahrukh Khan

21. The winner of Nobel Prize-2013 in Physics was—

(A) Saul Perlmutter (B) Brian P. Schmidt (C) Adam G. Riess

(D) Francois Englert and Peter Higgs 22. The G-7 Summit was held in 2014 in—

(A) Germany (B) USA (C) Brussels (D) Canada

23. Which of the following companies is the world’s number one car maker ?

(A) Honda Motor (B) Volvo Motor (C) Suzuki Motor (D) General Motor 24. With what game is the name of Cara Black

associated ?

(A) Lawn Tennis (B) Badminton (C) Table Tennis (D) Chess

25. India successfully launched its first moon mission Chandrayaan-1 ?

(A) 21st Nov., 2006 (B) 31st Jan., 2007 (C) 12th Feb., 2007 (D) 22nd Oct., 2008 26. Where does the 18th SAARC Summit will

held in Nov. 2014 ?

(A) Vientiane (B) Kuala Lumpur (C) Kathmandu (D) Hanoi

27. Which scientist received Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2013 for Mathematical Sciences ?

O.G.K. | 89A (A) Debashish Goswami

(B) Eknath Prabhakar Ghate (C) Both (A) and (B) (D) None of the above

28. Which of the following is a recipient of Dhyan Chand Award, announced in August 2013 ?

(A) Girraj Singh (B) Anil Mann (C) Syed Ali (D) All of the above

29. COP19 Summit concluded in November 2013 in—

(A) Kuala Lumpur (B) Warsaw (C) Beijing (D) Hanoi

30. World’s Least Developed Countries Summit was held in May 2011 in—

(A) Jakarta (B) Istanbul (C) Kuala Lumpur (D) Davos

31. India’s newly built and tested missile ‘Astra’

is meant for—

(A) Surface to air strike (B) Air to air strike (C) Ship to ship strike (D) Surface to surface strike

32. Who has been appointed the first woman Prime Minister of Thailand ?

(A) Kamla Das (B) Kamla Devi

33. Which of the following is a recipient of Dronacharya Award 2014 ?

(A) Yashvir Singh Ramphal (B) J. S. Bhatia

34. The Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the year 2013 was conferred on—

(A) Martin Karplus and Michael Levitt (B) Thomas A. Steitz

35. Who among the following is heading the SEBI’s Committee on Corporate governance?

(A) Ratan Tata (B) G. N. Bajpai (C) Narayan Murthy (D) J. S. Verma 36. As on December 31, 2013, the total foreign

debt on Indian economy stood at—

(A) $ 404·9 billion (B) $ 426·0 billion (C) $ 433·0 billion (D) $ 443·0 billion 37. The person who headed U. N. Weapons

Inspectors in Iraq was—

(A) Hans Blix (B) Aron Sorkin (C) Huge Jackson (D) Martin Sheen 38. Who won the Miss Universe 2013 ?

(A) Shandi Finnessey (B) Alba Reyes (C) Natalie Glebova (D) Maria Gabriela Isler

39. Which of the following entrepreneur has been awarded Entrepreneur of the year Award 2013, in February 2014 ?

(A) Udai Kotak (B) Siddharth Birla (C) Rajan Bharti (D) S. Gopal Krishnan

40. Who was appointed the first Chief Infor-mation Commissioner following the coming into force of the Right to Information Act, 2005 ?

(A) Dalvir Chandra Bhandari (B) G. Madhavan

41. In which of the following states has the Tata Tele-service (TTSL) started its first operation underthenewnameTata Indicom?

(A) Goa (B) Kerala

Foreign Secretary or Secretary of State follo-wing Presidential elections in Nov. 2012 ? (A) James Rumsfeld

(B) John Kerry (C) Armitage

(D) None of the above

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43. Which company recently hit the business headlines for striking a historic natural gas discovery near Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh ? (A) Gas Authority of India Ltd.

(B) ONGC (C) Oil India Ltd.

(D) Reliance Industries

44. Who became the first Indian women to cross Gobi Desert in July 2011 ?

(A) Amrita Singh (B) Ankita Singh (C) Sucheta Kadethanker (D) None of the above

45. How many states in the country have been chosen for a pilot project to introduce a new multipurpose National Identity Card ?

(A) 16 (B) 15

46. Who among the following was the Indian flag bearer at the 30th Olympic Games held at London, Greece in July/August 2012 ? (A) Jaspal Rana (B) Anjali Bhagwat (C) Sushil Kumar (D) Mahesh Bhupati 47. On which of the following grounds did

Sachin Tendulkar play his 100th test ?

(A) Mumbai (B) Kandy

48. Which of the following airports has been declared risky for landing by the Civil Avia-tion ministry ?

(A) Lucknow Airport (B) Chandigarh Airport (C) Patna Airport (D) Ranchi Airport

49. Which country along with India has begun its first ever joint co-ordinated patrols in the Andaman Sea to check poaching, smuggling and drug trafficking in the region ?

(A) USA (B) Sri Lanka

50. May 22, 2014 was celebratest throughout the world as World Water Day. This year’s theme was—

(A) Water is Life (B) Water and Energy

51. With the admission of a new members into the European Union on July 2013, the membership of the organisation has now risen to—

(A) 25 (B) 19

52. The famous Akshardham Temple is situated in the city of—

(A) Madurai (B) Gandhi Nagar (C) Jammu (D) Srinagar

53. With the admission of one new nations into the SAARC countries, the membership of the organisation has now risen to—

(A) 8 (B) 12

54. Which International Telecom Company uses the baseline ‘Intelligence Everywhere’ ? (A) Motorola (B) Alcatel (C) Nokia (D) Ericsson

55. The 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas was cele-brated in India on January 7–9, 2014 at—

(A) Hyderabad (B) Delhi (C) Bengaluru (D) Chennai

56. The XIIIth India-EU Summit was held in 2013 at—

(A) Beijing (B) Brussels (C) Saint Petersburg (D) Dhaka

57. The multinational company which has laun-ched‘BioColourTelevision’inIndianmarket?

(A) L.G. (B) Samsung

58. ‘Power’ a variety of petrol has been intro-duced in the market by—

(A) BPCL (B) ONGC

59. Who is the new President of the European Council ?

(A) Leszek Miller (B) Marek Belka (C) Gerhard Schroeder (D) Herman Van Rompuy

O.G.K. | 91A 60. Who was awarded the 86th Oscar Award for

the Best Actor on 24th February, 2014 ? (A) Jamie Foxx

(B) Daniel Day—Lewis (C) Morgan Freeman (D) Matthew Mc Conaughey

61. Which one of the following countries of the world is worst affected by the economic meltdown currently plaguing the world ? (A) China (B) India

62. Name the magazine which has been circulated on the board of Indian Airlines after replacing

‘Swagat.’

(A) Cosmopolitan (B) Darpan (C) Welcome (D) Flying World 63. Government of India formed a new

South-Western Command of the Indian land army.

With this the number of commands will be raised to—

(A) 6 (B) 8

64. Per Capital milk availability is highest in the state of—

(A) Uttar Pradesh (B) Gujarat (C) Punjab (D) Haryana

65. Who has set a new record for the fastest century in 30 balls ?

(A) M. S. Dhoni (B) Sachin (C) Chris Gayle (D) None of these 66. How many seats did the Bahujan Samaj

Party (BSP) bag on its own in the Lok Sabha election in 2014 ?

(A) 14 (B) 13

67. How many seats did the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) bag on its own in the Lok Sabha election in 2014 ?

(A) 244 (B) 285

68. ‘India’s Gateway to the World’ the famous slogan is of—

(A) Air India (B) BSNL

69. ‘Vision India 2020’ is a book written by—

(A) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (B) I. K. Gujral

70. The company which sponsored the Wisden Indian Cricketer of the century is—

(A) Birla (B) Onida

71. Who among the following has been honoured with Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarma-ment and DevelopDisarma-ment for the year 2013 ? (A) Mohd. El Baradei

(B) Dalai Lama (C) Angela Merkel (D) Barack Obama

72. Which of the following states is planning to set up India’s first Agri Export Zone (AEZ) for Soyabean ?

(A) Maharashtra (B) Madhya Pradesh (C) Rajasthan (D) Uttar Pradesh 73. The centre is planning to set up the National

Institute of Animal Welfare in the state of—

(A) Rajasthan (B) Haryana

74. Britain’s Virgin Atlantic has ended code-share agreement with—

(A) Indian Airlines (B) Air India

75. Which of the following Universities will hold the ‘ISRO Chair’ for the research related to the area of space science ?

(A) Delhi University (B) J.L.N. University (C) Pune University

(D) Vishwa Bharati University

76. Who has been appointed as Chairman of ICC?

(A) Suresh Kalmadi (B) Sunil Gavaskar (C) N. Srinivasan (D) Alan Isaac

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77. Laura Chinchilla is—

(A) Governor of Tamil Nadu

(B) Chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification

(C) First Woman President of Costa Rica (D) Chairman of Jnanpith Award Committee 78. Which of the following was crowned Miss

World 2013 ?

(A) Ms. Jovana Marjanovic (Serbia and Montenegro)

(B) Ms. Kataizyna Borowicz (Poland) (C) Megan Young (Philippines)

(D) Ms. Amell Santa (Domintcan Republic) 79. African Union Summit was held in June 2014

in—

(A) Adis Ababa (B) Moscow

80. Who has been appointed as Director General of National Investigation Agency ?

(A) Dr. Surjit S. Bhalla (B) Sarad Kumar (C) M. N. Prasad (D) Pradeep Kapoor

81. Who is the Chief Justice of India ? (A) Justice K. G. Balakrishnan (B) Justice R. M. Lodha (C) Justice B. D. Anand (D) Justice V. N. Khare

82. Who has been chosen Laureus Sportsman of the year 2013 ?

(A) Usen Bolt (B) Roger Federer (C) Both (A) and (B) (D) None of the above

83. Who is the New Election Commissioner of India ?

(A) N. Gopalaswami (B) V. S. Sampat (C) M. S. Swaminathan (D) None of the above

84. Which of the following is not a member of IBSA ?

(A) India (B) Brazil (C) S. Africa (D) Sri Lanka

85. The first World Hindi Day was celebrated for the time on—

(A) 1st January, 2006 (B) 15th August, 2006 (C) 1st December, 2006 (D) 10th January, 2007 86. Identify Mullaithivu—

(A) It is the name of the town which was one of the strong holds of the LTTE in Sri Lanka

(B) It is a terrorist organisation in Sri Lanka (C) It is a place of pilgrimage in Tamil Nadu (D) None of the above

87. Which of the following is not a member of G-20 developing nations ?

(A) Argentina (B) India (C) Pakistan (D) USA

88. Which of the following was crowned Femina Miss India World 2014 ?

(A) Niharica Raizada (B) Navneet Kaur Dhillon (C) Cher Merchand (D) Koyal Rana

Answers

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