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Current Affairs (January 08-14) Bit Bank

1. The three-day Pravasi Bharatiya Divas was held in- 1) New Delhi

2) Kolkata3) Hyderabad4) Gandhinagar

2. Who was the chief guest for the 13th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas?1) Kamla Bissessar2) Donald Ramotar

3) Anerood Jugnauth

4) Navin Ramgoolam

3. Non Resident Indians Day (NRI Day) is celebrated every year in- 1) January 82) January 9

3) January 10

4) January 12

4. Terrorist stormed the office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly and shot dead 12people in January 2015. This deadly attack happened in- 1) Berlin2) Bonn

3) Amsterdam

4) Paris

5. Who was appointed the United Nations Under – Secretary General?1) Richard Verma

2) Atul Khare

3) S.Jaishankar4) Shiv Shankar Menon

6. Rajeev Kher is India’s- 1) Finance secretary2) Commerce secretary

3) Revenue secretary

4) Home secretary

7. Which bank has launched India’s first contactless debit and credit cards?1) SBI

2) HDFC Bank

3) ICICI Bank

4) HSBC

8.

Who made four successive centuries in the first innings of a test?1) Shane Watson

2) David Warner3) Shaun Marsh

4) Steve Smith

9. Who made hundreds in four consecutive Tests of the same series?1) Don Bradman


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2) Jacques Kallis3) Stave Smith

4) All 1, 2 and 3

10. Krishan Kant Paul was sworn in as the Governor of- 1) Uttarakhand

2) Uttar Pradesh3) Kerala

4) Karnataka

11. At this year’s Pravasi Bharatiya Divas conclave, the coins of which denominationwere released in the memory of Mahatma Gandhi?

1) Rs. 102) Rs. 20

3) Rs. 100

4) Both 1 and 3

12. Who is only cricketer in test history to score hundreds in his first three innings as

captain?

1) Steve Smith2) Virat Kohli3) Michael Clarke

4) Brendon Mccullum

13. Which country won the Hopman Cup tennis title in Perth, Australia on January 10,

2015?1) Poland

2) USA

3) Czech Republic4) Italy

14. Who assumed charge as Sri Lanka’s sixth Executive President on January 9, 2015?

1) Mahinda Rajapaksa2) Maithripala Sirisena3) Chandrika Kumaratunga

4) None of these

15. Who was sworn in has Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister on January 9, 2015?1) Ranil Wickramasinghe

2) D.M.Jayaratne

3) Ratnasiri Wickremanayake4) D.B.Wijetunga

16. Which of the following states came under Governor’s rule on January 9, 2015?1) Jharkhand

2) Assam3) Manipur

4) Jammu and Kashmir

17. Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu launched ‘m –Indicator’, a mobile app for

safety of women passengers in- 1) New Delhi

2) Mumbai

3) Chennai


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4) Kolkata

18. Yaya Toure became the first player to win four successive African Footballer of theyear awards. He plays for- 1) Nigeria2) Cameroon

3) Ivory Coast4) Zambia

19. Who is the present Governor of Jammu and Kashmir?1) Ram Naik

2) Kaptan Singh Solanki

3) Mridula Sinha4) N.N.Vohra

20. Who was appointed the first Chief Executive officer of the National Institution for

Transforming India (NITI) Aayog?

1) Arvind Panagariya2) V.K.Saraswat

3) Sindhushree Khullar4) Radha Mohan Singh

21. Who was adjudged player of the series in the recently concluded Australia – IndiaTest series?

1) Virat Kohli

2) Steve Smith3) David Warner

4) Ajinkya Rahane

22. Which team won the federation cup football in Margao on January 11, 2015?1) Bengaluru FC

2) Dempo SC

3) Sporting Clube de Goa4) Salgaocar SC

23. Who won the Chennai Open tennis singles title on January11, 2015?1) Aljaz Bedene

2) Roberto Bautista3) Stanislas Wawrinka

4) David Goffin

24. Sun Edison Inc. will set up one of the world’s largest solar photovoltaic

manufacturing facilities in?1) Telangana

2) Andhra Pradesh

3) Rajasthan4) Gujarat

25. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon set which of the following years as the target

to provide universal access to energy to all seven billion people in the world?

1) 20202) 2022

3) 2030

4) 2025


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34. The 19th National Youth Festival was held in January 2015 in which of the

following cities?1) Gandhinagar

2) Kolkata3) Guwahati

4) Patna35. National Youth Day is celebrated on- 1) January 92) January 10

3) January 11

4) January 12

36. Kolinda Grabar – Kitarovic was elected which country’s first woman President onJanuary 11, 2015?

1) Lithuania

2) Latvia3) Croatia

4) Slovenia37. Ramesh Abhishek has been given a three – month extension as the chairman of - 1) SEBI

2) FMC

3) IRDA

4) TRAI

38. Who won the FIFA Ballon d’or award in January 2015?1) Cristiano Ronaldo

2) Lionel Mess3) Manuel Neuer

4) Andres Iniesta

39.

Which footballer won the FIFA Puskas Award for the goal of the year?1) Arjen Robben2) James Rodriguez

3) Lionel messi

4) Miroslav Klose

40. Who was appointed the new Chief Election Commissioner of India?1. S.Y. Quraishi

2. Syed Nasim Zaidi3. H.S.Brahma

4. None of these


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Answer Key

1. 4 1. 2 1. 2 1. 4 1. 2 1. 2 1. 3 1. 4 1. 4 1. 1

1. 4 1. 2 1. 1 1. 2 1. 1 1. 4 1. 2 1. 3 1. 4 1. 3

1. 2 1. 1 1. 3 1. 4 1. 3 1. 4 1. 1 1. 4 1. 3 1. 1

1. 1 1. 4 1. 2 1. 3 1. 4 1. 3 1. 2 1. 1 1. 2 1. 3

Explanatory Notes:

1. The 13th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas festival was held from January 7-9, 2015 at Mahatma

Mandir in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is organized by the Ministry of

Qverseas Indian Affairs.

2. The chief Guest for the 13th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is Guyana President Donald Ramotar.

He was also presented the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman.

3. NRI Day is celebrated every year on January 9 as it marks the return of Mahatma Gandhi

from South Africa in the year 1915 on January.

7. ICICI Bank launched the country’s first contactless debit and credit cards that use the near -

field communication technology, enabling one to make payments by just waving the card near

merchant terminals instead of swiping the same.

8. Steve Smith of Australia joined Jack Fingleton, Everton Weekes and Ken Barrington as theonly batsmen to make four successive centuries in the first innings of a test.

13. Hopman Cup is played every January in Perth, Australia, It is a mixed team tennis

championship. Poland won its maiden Hopman Cup title beating the USA in the final in January

2015.

15. United National Party (UNP) leader RanilWickramasinghe already served as Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister twice in 1993-94 and 2001-04.

23. Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland won his third Chennai open tennis title he beat Aljaz


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Bedene of Slovenia in the final.

24. Sun Edison Inc. U.S. headquartered solar energy services firm and India’s Adani Group

have came together to invest Rs. 25, 00 crore in setting up a mega solar energy park in Gujarat.

26. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and U.S.Secretary of State John Kerry participated in the vibrant Gujarat Summit 2015.

32. Roger Federer became only the third tennis player after Jimmy Connors and Iran Lendl to

win 1000 matches on the men’s tour.

33. Boyhood won three Golden Globe awards.

35. January 12 is swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary. It is celebrated as National Youth

Day.

38. Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo won the FIFA Ballon d'or for the second year in a row and thethird time in his career.

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