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Q: Which of the following countries has highest number of Nuclear Submarines?
1. Russia
2. China
3. USA
4. India
Q: Who of the following is honoured with Tipperary International Award for the year 2012?
1. Nelson Mandel
2. Benazir Bhutto
3. Bill Clinton
4. Malala
Q: Which of the following is the submarine that exploded and sank in Mumbai dockyard on August 14, 2013?
1. INS Sindhugosh
2. INS Sindhukirti
3. INS Sindhuvijay
4. INS Sindhurakshak
Q: Indian Navy acquired ‘INS Sindhurakshak’ from
1. USA
2. France
3. China
4. Russia
Q: Who of the following is honoured with RajivGandhi National Sadbhavana Award for the year 2013?
1. Amjad Ali Khan (Sarod Player)
2. Pandit Ravi Shankar (Sitar)
3. Pandit Bhim Sen Joshi
4. Lata Mangeshkar
Q: Who of the following is awarded the prestigious Moorthidevi Award for the year 2013?
1. Dr. Haraprasad Das
2. Dr. Prathibha Ray
3. Dr. C. Narayana Reddy
4. Chalam
Q: Which of the following is the first state in India to launch Tele- Radiology service facility that facilitates sending of images of CT scan and X-Rays done at regional diagnostic centres to any super speciality hospitals across the country to get them assessed by radiologists of those hospitals?
1. Meghalaya
2. Manipur
3. Assam
4. Arunachal Pradesh
Q: Who of the following was the first woman to become a member of New York Stock Exchange in 1967 and passed away in the year 2013?
1. Muriel Siebert
2. Jennifer
3. Patricia
4. Nancy
Q: Who of the following was the anti-superstition activist shot dead in Maharashtra in the year 2013?
1. Narayana Rane
2. Narendra Dhabolkar
3. Vilasa Rao Deshmukh
4. Ashok Chavan
Q: Which of the following state government created 7 new districts in 2013 and raised the number of districts from 26 to 33?
1. Rajasthan
2. Maharashtra
3. Punjab
4. Gujarat
Q: Which of the following states established the country’s second breast milk bank (first being Maharashtra (Mumbai) in 1989) in the year 2013 and the milk can be used to feed babies whose mothers fall ill during the 6 month lactating period after pregnancy and also facilitates to rescue abandoned babies and those born premature?
1. Gujarat
2. Tamil Nadu
3. Andhra Pradesh
4. West Bengal
Q: Who of the following is honoured with prestigious Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation for the year 2013?
1. Nelson Mandela
2. Brigalia Bam
3. Bank-Ki- Moon
4. Girija Prasad Koirala
Q: Who of the following is the winner of the International Children’s Peace Prize 2013?
1. Malala Yousuf Jah
2. Peterson
3. Chetan Sharma
4. Marion Bartoli
Q: Who of the following is awarded with Mahatir Award for Global Peace (2013)?
1. Barack Obama
2. Nelson Mandela
3. Benazir Bhutto
4. Bill Clinton
Q: What percentage of the Indian population is covered under the newly enacted National Food Security Act?
1. 50%
2. 67%
3. 75%
4. 80%
Q: The winner of Asia cup Hockey in 2013
1. India
2. Pakistan
3. Malaysia
4. South Korea
Q: In which of the following Assembly constituencies in India the VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) system was used for the first time?
1. Mandya (Karnataka)
2. Noksen (Nagaland)
3. Tekkali (Andhra Pradesh)
4. Dhar (Madhya Pradesh)
Q: Which of the following Ministries of Government of India launched a project called ‘Ahimsa Messenger’ that aimed at preventing violence against women and children and generating awareness about basic legal rights and also the problems of violence against women?
1. Ministry of Minority Affairs
2. Ministry of Social Justice
3. Ministry of Women and Child Welfare
4. Ministry of Law and Justice
Q: Which of the following countries is developing a surveillance system called Biometric Optical Surveillance System (BOSS) to scan crowds and identify people by their faces?
1. China
2. France
3. USA
4. Russia
Q: Which of the following is India’s first dedicated Military Satellite that provides the Navy with an almost 2,000 nautical mile foot print over the Indian Ocean Rim (IOR)?
1. Rukmini
2. Vikrant
3. Arihant
4. Sindhurakshak
Q: Which of the following is India’s first indigenous Aircraft carrier that joins the fleet by 2018 and India joins a select club of four nations USA, UK, France and Russia that have the capability to build and operate warships?
1. INS Arihant
2. INS Vikrant
3. INS Sindhurakshak
4. INS Vijay
Q: The co-existence of Current Account Deficit and Fiscal Deficit is called
1. Double deficit
2. Dual Deficit
3. Twin Deficit
4. Budget Deficit
Q: Who of the following important leaders was suspended from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) by the party President Karunanidhi in January 2014?
1. Stalin
2. Kanimozhi
3. A. Raja
4. Alagiri
Q: Which of the following issues led to the resignation of the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal?
1. Free water supply
2. Reduction of power tariff
3. Jan Lokpal Bill
4. Regularization of contract staff
Q: Which of the following countries ship was seized by Indian Coast Guards in 2013 and the crew has been detained for allegedly trespassing into Indian waters and possessing weapons?
1. Italy
2. France
3. Britain
4. America
Q: Keshav Desiraju the Union Health Secretary who was asked to relinquish the office unceremoniously after he objected the entry Ketan Desai who was accused of corruption in the past to a key position has been transferred as Secretary of
1. Department of Home
2. Department of Social Welfare
3. Department of Finance
4. Department of Consumer Affairs
Q: Which of the following years has a record high of food grain production in India with 263.30 million tonnes?
1. 2009-10
2. 2010-11
3. 2011-12
4. 2012-13
Q: Which of the following countries has provided a temporary asylum to whistleblower Edward Snowden who in the year 2013 exposed National Security Agency (NSA) of USA’s mass global surveillance of internet and telecommunication that led to heightened pressure on US government and anger expressed by leaders of other nations such as Brazil and Germany?
1. Ecuador
2. Russia
3. Peru
4. Brazil
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