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Current Affairs (December 22-31) Bit Bank

1. Beji Caid Essebsi became the President of which of the following countries on December 31, 2014?

1) Tunisia

2) Algeria

3) Nigeria

4) Libya

2. Princess Christina will be fried for tax fraud. She belongs to?

1) Austria

2) Spain

3) Netherlands

4) Argentina

3. GMR Infrastructure will construct, develop, reno vate, expand and operate the Mactan Cebu international ai rport in?

1) Singapore

2) Maldives

3) Vietnam

4) Philippines

4. The final report of the advisory group for Integrated Development of Power, Coal and Renewable Energy for suggesting measures for

enhancement of coal production was presented. Who is the chairman of this group?

1) Pratyush Sinha

2) Anil Baijal

3) Suresh Prabhu

4) Partha Bhattacharya

5. Who is the present power and coal minister?

1) Ravishankar Prasad

2) Nirmala Sitharaman

3) Piyush Goyal

4) V.K.Singh

6. Who is the author of the book “Destruction of the Babri Masjid – A National Dishonour”?

1) A.G.Noorani

2) Shekhar Gupta

3) Vinod Mehta

4) R.V. Shahi

7. Who has been named the 2015 w orld cup cricket Ambassador?

1) Ricky ponting

2) Sachin Tendulkar

3) Brian Lara

4) Shane Warne

8. Veteran director K. Balachander passed away on December 23, 2014. He was the recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke aw ard in?

1) 2009

2) 2010

3) 2012


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4) 2013

9. Kisan Diwas was observed on?

1) December 22

2) December 24

3) December 26

4) December 23

10. Kisan Diwas is observed to mark the birth anniversary of which of the following prime ministers?

1) Lal Bahadur Shastri

2) Morarji Desai

3) Charan Singh

4) I.K.Gujral

11. A committee to look into various grievances related to the 1984 anti – sikh riots is constituted. Who is its chairman?

1) G.P. Mathur

2) J.P.Agarwal

3) R.K. Singh

4) G.K. Pillai

12. Which of the following companies lurched online „Agri Store‟ for f armers?

1) Flipkart

2) Snapdeal

3) Amazon

4) Myntra

13. The deadline to exchange pre-2005 currency notes has been extended till?

1) June 1, 2015

2) June 30, 2015

3) April 1, 2015

4) April 30, 2015

14. Who has overtaken Sachin Tendulkar as the most followed sportsperson on Twitter?

1) M.S.Dhoni

2) Viswanathan Anand

3) Virat Kohli

4) Sania Mirza

15. In the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections, w hich party has emerged as the single l argest party?

1) National Conference

2) Bharatiya Janata Party

3) Congress

4) People’s Democratic Party

16. Which party secured a majority in the Jharkhand Assembly elections?

1) Congress

2) JMM

3) BJP

4) JVM

17. Which of the following former Chief Ministers of Jharkhand state lost the election?

1) Arjun Munda


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2) Madhu Koda

3) Babulal Marandi

4) All 1, 2 and 3

18. On December 24, 2014 Bharat Ratna was announced to?

1) Atal Bihari Vajpayee

2) Madan Mohan Malaviya

3) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

4) Both 1 and 2

19. National Good Governance Day was observed on?

1) December 22

2) December 23

3) December 24

4) December 25

20. Senior IAS officer S. Bhattacharya has been appointed as the chairman and Managing Director of?

1) BHEL

2) ONGC

3) Coal India Ltd

4) Indian Oil Ltd

21. Four public sector Undertakings (PSUs) will set up an integrated coal gasification – cum – fertilizer complex at Talcher in?

1) Odisha

2) Bihar

3) Jharkhand

4) Chhattisgarh

22. Who is one of the 2014 top ten scientists chosen by the journal „Nature‟?

1) V.K.Saraswat

2) K. Radhakrishnan

3) M.Y.S.Prasad

4) Sekhar Basu

23. The prime minister Narendra Modi launched the National Mission on Teachers and Teaching on December 25, 2014. It is named after?

1) S. Radhakrishnan

2) Atal Bihari Vajpayee

3) Lal Bahadur Shastri

4) Madan Mohan Malviya

24. The wheeled version of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Nishant was test flight recently. What is its name?

1) Dhruv

2) Tejas

3) Panchi

4) Nirbhay

25. Which of the following political parties has the most MLAs nationwide?

1) Congress

2) BJP

3) CPI (M)

4) SP


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26. The 10th anniversary of the Tsunami which killed 2, 20,000 people was observed on?

1) December 25, 2014




27. Who became the first New Zealander to score 1,000 runs in tests in a calendar year on December 26, 2014?

1) Ross Taylor

2) Kane Williamson

3) Brendon Mccullum

4) Jimmy Neesham

28. The ANR award was presented on December 27, 2014 to?

1) Dilip Kumar

2) Manoj Kumar

3) Shabana Azmi

4) Amitabh Bachchan

29. Who has been named the All India Football Federation (AIFF) 2014 Player of the Year?

1) Subrata Paul

2) Sunil Chhetri

3) Syed Rahim Nabi

4) Tomba Singh

30. Air Asia Flight QZ8501 with 162 people on board went missing on December 28, 2014. It belongs to?

1) Singapore

2) India

3) South Korea

4) Indonesia

31. Who was sworn in as Chief Minister of Jharkhand in Ranchi on December 28, 2014?

1) Neelkanth Munda

2) C.P.Singh

3) Louis Marandi

4) Raghubar Das

32. Congress celebrated its 130th Foundation Day on?





33. Former world Footballer of the year George Weah has won a seat in which Country‟s senate?

1) Liberia

2) Nigeria

3) Ivory coast

4) South Africa

34. NATO formally ended its war in which of the following countries on December 28, 2014?

1) North Korea


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8. Tamil film director K. Balachander introduced many top stars, including kamal Haasan and

Rajinikanth.

10. Charan Singh was the Indian Prime Minister from July 28, 1979 to Ja nuary 14, 1980. His birthday on December 23 is celebrated as kisan Diwas or Farmers

Day.

11. The Committee constituted by the central government will oversee implementation of the payment of Rs. 5 lak h per person killed during the 1984 anti-sikh

riots.

12. Snapdeal.com launched ‘Agri store’ offering products like seeds, fertilizer. Irrigation tools, etc. to farmers.

13. Currency notes issued before 2005 do not have the year of printing on the reverse side.

15. The People ’s Democratic Party (PDP) won 28 seats and is t he single largest party in Jammu and Kashmir. PDP President is Mehbooba Mufti, BJP got 25

seats while the National conference won just 15 seats. Jammu and Kashmir Assembly has 87 seats.

19. Former, Prime Min ister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birthday is on December 25. It is observed as Good Governance Day.

25. 2014 is the first year in which BJP, with 1058 MLAS, has more state – level representatives than the Congress, with 949.

31. Raghubar Das of BJP is the first non tribal chief minister of Jharkhand.

39. Aziz Qureshi, the governor of Uttarakhand, was transferred to Mizoram.

40. B.G. Verghese was the former editor of the Hindustan Times and the Indian Express. He was a Magsaysay award winner.

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