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Current Affairs (December 15-21) Bit Bank

1. Shinzo Abe was reelected as the prime minister of which of the following countries in December 2014?

1) Thailand

2) South Korea

3) Japan

4) Singapore

2. Laurent Lamothe resigned as the prime minister of which of the following countries in December 2014?

1) cuba

2) Haiti

3) Honduras

4) Panama

3. A gunman and two hostages were killed in a café siege in which of the following cities?

1) Adelaide

2) Brisbane

3) Sydney

4) Perth

4. Who was honored with a special award at the Orissa world ceremony for her charity work?

1) Priyanka Chopra

2) Diana Hayden

3) Yukta Mukhi

4) Aishwarya Rai

5. Who won the BBC sports personality of the year award on December 15, 2014?

1) Lewis Hamilton

2) Rory McElroy

3) Jo Pavey

4) Gareth Bale

6. Who was crowned the miss world 2014?

1) Reline Strauss

2) Carina Tyrrell

3) Elizabeth Safrit

4) Courtney Thorpe

7. The 25th annual conference of Indian Nuclear society was held on December 15, 2014 in?

1) Chennai

2) Hyderabad

3) Mumbai

4) Jaipur

8. The creator of the Rock Garden Nek Chand celebrated his 90th birthday recently. Rock Garden is in?

1) Mumbai

2) Shimla

3) Chandigarh

4) Srinagar


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9. Who was appointed the Australian cricket captain on December 15, 2014?

1) Brad Haddin

2) Steve Smith

3) David Warner

4) Mitchell Johnson

10. Who won the London Classic Chess title in December 2104?

1) Viswanathan Anand

2) Michael Adams

3) Vladimir Kramnik

4) Anish Giri

11. The Sangita Kalanidhi M.S. Subbulakshmi Award has given to?

1) T.V. Gopalakrishnan

2) Sudha Ragunathan

3) U.K. Sivaraman

4) Pappu Venugopala Rao

12. 132 students were massacred by the militants of the Tehreek –e-Taliban in an attack on the army public school in?

1) Rawalpindi

2) Peshawar

3) Islamabad

4) Kabul

13. Which Indian – American has been confirmed as the 19th surgeon – General of America by the U.S. Senate?

1) Siddhartha Mukherjee

2) Richard Verma

3) Vivek Murthy

4) Preet Bharara

14. Minorities Rights Day is celebrated on?

1) December 15

2) December 18

3) December 16

4) December 20

15. The Reserve Bank of India has imposed penalty on which of the following banks?

1) ICICI Bank

2) Bank of Baroda

3) Bank of India

4) Both 1 and 2

16. L. Sarita Devi has been banned for one year. She is a renowned player in which of the following sports?

1) Weight lifting

2) Wrestling

3) Boxing

4) Gymnastics

17. Maritime Silk Road is the brainchild of?

1) Narendra Modi

2) Xi Jinping


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3) Shinzo Abe

4) Abdulla Yameen

18. Who won the National premier chess title at Kottayam on December 18, 2014?

1) S.P. Sethuraman

2) Deep Sengupta

3) P. Karthikeyan

4) Vidit Gujrathi

19. Chunibhai Vaidya died on December 19, 2014. He was a renowned?

1) Poet

2) Playwright

3) Lyricist

4) Gandhian

20. Mount Vinson is the highest peak in?

1) Africa

2) South America

3) Antarctica

4) Europe

21. What is India’s rank in the Forbes 9th annual ranking of Best countries for Business?

1) 98

2) 97

3) 90

4) 93

22. Which country topped the Forbes 9th annual ranking of the Best countries for Business?

1) Denmark

2) Hong Kong

3) New Zealand

4) Ireland

23. Who has been appointed the new chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)?

1) Arvind Ranjan

2) Arvind Saxena

3) Rajinder Khanna

4) Aruna Bahuguna

24. Who is the new Director General of the central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)?

1) Prakash Mishra

2) Syed Asif Ibrahim

3) Ranjit Sinha

4) J.N. Choudhury

25. Telugu writer Rachapalem Chandrasekhar Reddy won the Central Sahitya Akademi award for 2014 for?

1) Poetry

2) Short stories

3) Autobiography

4) Literary criticism

26. Indian men’s team defeated which of the following teams to win the 5th Kabaddi world cup held in Punjab in December 2014?


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1) Pakistan

2) Iran

3) United states

4) Argentina

27. Indian women’s team won the Kabaddi world cup in December 2014 by defeating which of the following teams in the final?

1) Pakistan

2) New Zealand

3) Denmark

4) England

28. Which country’s central bank will print bank notes to honour Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a Nobel Prize winning author?

1) Cube

2) Bolivia

3) Colombia

4) Venezuela

29. Abdul Hamid visited India in December 2014. He is the president of?

1) Maldives

2) Afghanistan

3) Pakistan

4) Bangladesh

30. The mid-year Economic Review Projected that 2014-15 growth will be?

1) 5.3 percent

2) 5.5 percent

3) 5.7 percent

4) 5.9 percent

31. Vistara airline is a joint venture between Tata sons and?

1) Malaysia airlines

2) Brunei Airlines

3) Singapore Airlines

4) None of these

32. India’s first bilateral advance pricing Agreement (APA) was signed with?

1) Bhutan

2) Nepal

3) Japan

4) USA

33. What percent of India’s farmers have less than two hectares of land according to a survey conducted by the National Sample Survey

Office (NSSO)?

1) Nearly 70 percent




34. Ganga University will come up in?

1) Lucknow

2) Ayodhya


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3) Jhansi

4) Varanasi

35. Who was elected the president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of commerce and Industry (FICCI) on December 20, 2014?

1) Naina Lal Kidwai

2) Aruna Jayanthi

3) Jyotsna suri

4) Preetha Reddy

36. Shyam Srinivasan has been appointed chairman of the Indian Banks Association committee on Private sector banks for 2014-15. He is the

MD and CFO of?

1) Yes Bank

2) Federal Bank

3) Kotak Mahindra Bank

4) South Indian Bank

37. Which team won the inaugural Indian super league (ISL) football Tournament at the D.Y.Patil stadium in Navi Mumbai on December 20,

2014?

1) Atletico de Kolkata

2) Kerala Blasters

3) Chennaiyin FC

4) FC Goa

38. Who won the Dubai open golf tournament on December 21, 2014?

1) Shiv Kapur

2) Anirban Lahiri

3) Arjun Atwal

4) Gaganjeet Bhullar

39. Who is the author of the book “An undocumented wonder: The making of the great Indian Election”?

1) S.Y. Quraishi

2) Naveen Chawla

3) V.S.Sampath

4) T.N. Seshan

40. Who among the following cricketers is the co - owner of Atletico de kolkata football team?

1) Sachin Tendulkar

2) M.S. Dhoni

3) V.V.S. Laxman

4) Sourav Ganguly

KEY :

1) 3; 2) 2; 3) 3 4) 4; 5) 1; 6) 1; 7) 2; 8) 3; 9) 2; 10) 1;

11) 1; 12) 2; 13) 3; 14) 2; 15) 4; 16) 3; 17) 2; 18) 1; 19) 4; 20) 3;

21) 4; 22) 1; 23) 3; 24) 1; 25) 4; 26) 1; 27) 2; 28) 3; 29) 4; 30) 2;

31) 3; 32) 3; 33) 4; 34) 4; 35) 3; 36) 2; 37) 1; 38) 3; 39) 1; 40) 4;


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Explanatory notes:

3. Iranian – born Man Haron Monis held many hostages in a café in Sydney Australia i n December 2014. Two hostages and gunman were killed by the police

during rescue operation.

4. Aishwarya Rai was honoured with a special award at the miss world 2014 ceremony being crowned miss world in 1994.

5. Lewis Hamilton was named 2014 BBC sports personality of the year. He is the 2014 Formula are world champion.

Lewis Hamilton of UK is a Mercedes driver who won his second formula 1 world title this season.

6. Miss world 2014, the 64th edition of the miss world pageant, was held in London, UK. Rolene Strauss of South Africa was crowned the miss world 2014. Koyal

Rana represented India. She made it to the top 10.

9. Steve smith replaced Michael Clarke as the captain of Australia for the remaining three tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series. For the first test Michael

Clarke was the captain.

15. RBI imposed a monetary penalty on ICICI Bank (Rs. 50 lakh) and Bank of Baroda (Rs. 25 lakh) for violation of its instruction on know your customer (KYC)

and anti-money laundering (AML) norms.

16. The International Boxing Association has suspended L.Sarita Devi from all levels of boxing activities for one year. Sarita did not accept her bronze medal at

the presentation ceremony in the 2014 Incheon Asian Games.

19. 97 –year old Chunibhai Vaidya died in Ahmadabad. He was an eminent Gandhian and land right s crusader. He participated in the freedom struggle and in

Vinoba Bhave‟s Bhoodan Movement. He was the author of “Assassination of Gandhi: Facts and Falsehood”.

22. Denmark topped the list of 146 countries. Guinea was ranked last.

23. Rajinder Khanna succeeds Alok Joshi as the new chief of Research and Analysis wing (RAW) RAW i s India‟s external intelligence agency.

24. Prakash Mishra succeeded Dilip Trivedi as the new chief of the central reserve police Force (CRPF). CRPF is India‟s largest para-military force.

25. Rachapalem Chandrasekhar Reddy was chosen for his book „Mana Navalalu – Mana kathaigal‟.

26. Jyotsna Suri is the chairperson of Bharat Hotels.

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