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QUESTIONS ON CURRENT AFFAIRS OF AUGUST 2014

1. Who of the following was awarded the Rajiv 8. Which of the following is an indigenously
Gandhi Sadbhawna Award for the year 2014? built stealth antisubmarine warfare corvette
(a) Muzaffar Ali (b) Amjad Ali Khan which was commissioned into the Indian Navy
(c) Gulzar (d) Javed Akhtar recently?
(a) INS Kolkata (b) INS Kripan
2. B.K.S. Iyengar, who was awarded Padma
(c) INS Kamorta (d) INS Khukri
Vibhushan in 2014 died in August 2014. He was
associated with 9. With which of the following awards was
(a) Bharat Natyam (b) Kathakali Subhash Khot, a mathematician of Indian origin
(c) Ayurveda (d) Yoga honoured recently?
3. Which of the following is/are true in respect (a) Chern Medal Award 2014
of RBIs directive on use of ATMs? (b) Fields Medal 2014
A. Free transactions at other-bank ATMs have (c) Rolf Nevanlinna Prize 2014
been reduced to 5. (d) Leelavati Prize 2014
B Transaction charges above the free limit not
10. The Citizens Foundation, an NGO which has
to exceed Rs. 20/-
been awarded the Magsaysay Award this year is
(a) Only A (b) Only B
based in
(c) Both A and B (d) Neither A nor B
(a) Pakistan (b) India
4. Shri Kalyan Singh has recently been (c) Bangladesh (d) China
appointed as the new Governor of which State?
11. Which Indian badminton player won a
(a) Uttarakhand (b) Goa
bronze medal at the World Badminton
(c) Rajasthan (d) Kerala
Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark?
5. What is the amount of insurance available to
(a) Saina Nehwal (b) PV Sindhu
a person opening an account under the Pradhan
(c) P Kashyap (d) Jwala Gutta
Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana?
(a) Rs. 25,000/- (b) Rs. 50,000/- 12. How many languages have been covered by
(c) Rs. 75,000/- (d) Rs. 1,00,000/- the new bharat domain launched by the
Government of India in Devanagari script?
6. Which team won inaugural STAR Prokabaddi
(a) Five (b) Six
League tournament in August 2014?
(c) Seven (d) Eight
(a) Jaipur Pink Panthers (b) U Mumba
(c) Bengaluru Bulls (d) Puneri Paltan 13. Which of the following probes launched by
NASA in 2006 passed by the planet Neptune
7. Who of the following cricketers has been
recently?
awarded the Arjuna Award for the year 2014?
(a) New Horizons (b) Voyager 2
(a) R Jadeja (b) R Ashwin
(c) Rosetta (d) New Orleans
(c) Cheteshwar Pujara (d) Bhuvneshwar Kumar
14. Who of the following was the creator of well 18. Which of the following universities has been
known cartoon character Chacha Choudhrary, awarded the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy
who passed away recently? for 2014?
(a) Pran Kumar Sharma (b) Kedarnath Singh (a) Punjabi University
(c) Anant Pai (d) Mario (b) Delhi University
(c) Osmania University
15. Who of the following is the new Chairman
(d) Patna University
of Central Board of Direct Taxes?
(a) Shri RK Tiwari (b) Shri KV Chaudhary 19. Who headed the selection committee for
(c) Shri UK Sinha (d) Shri Rajiv Mathur Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and Arjuna Awards for
the year 2014?
16. Shri Mahabir Prasad, who has been awarded
(a) Michael Ferreira
the Dronacharya Award this year is associated
(b) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
with
(c) Kapil Dev
(a) Rowing (b) Boxing
(d) Sharad Pawar
(c) Wrestling (d) Kabaddi
20. Which mathematician of Indian origin was
17. In which west-African country was the
recently awarded the Fields Medal at the
current outbreak of the viral disease Ebola first
International Congress of Mathematicians?
reported?
(a) Subhash Khot (b) Manjul Bharghava
(a) Liberia (b) Sierra Leone
(c) Akhouri Sinha (d) CR Rao
(c) Nigeria (d) Guinea

Answers

1. (a) 2. (d) 3. (b) 4. (c) 5. (d) 6. (a) 7. (b) 8. (c) 9. (c) 10. (a)

11. (b) 12. (d) 13. (a) 14. (a) 15. (b) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (a) 19. (c) 20. (b)