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Q: Who of the following is appointed as the Chairman of the SIT (Special Investigation Team) to probe in the cases of Black Money as directed by the Supreme Court?

1. Justice Arijit Pasayat
2. Justice Swatanter Kumar
3. Justice Sathashivam
4. Justice M B Shah




Q: Which of the following states Chief Minister announced that there will be no power cuts in the state from June 1st, 2014?

1. Kerala
2. Karnataka
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Odisha





Q: Who of the following is appointed as the Attorney-General of India?
1. G.E. Vahanavati
2. Mukul Rohatgi
3. Ram Jetlamani
4. P. Sathasivam






Q. Who is the Human Resources Development Minister of India?

1. Nirmala Sitaraman
2. Smriti Irani
3. Uma Bharati
4. Sushma Swaraj





Q: Who of the following is appointed as the National Security Advisor?

1. Ajit Kumar Doval
2. Ranjit Sinha
3. Brajesh Mishra
4. Shivshankar Menon






Q: Interceptor (C – 407) that was commissioned into the Indian Coastguard on May 30, 2014 is a 

1. Air plane
2. Train
3. Boat
4. Submarine






Q: Who of the following has requested the SPG (Special Protection Group) for the withdrawal of special airport exemptions?

1. Rahul Gandhi
2. Priyanka Gandhi
3. Kumara Swamy
4. Manmohan Singh





Q: From which of the following countries the first super Jumbo Airbus A – 380 landed in New Delhi on May 30, 2014?

1. Malaysia
2. Thailand
3. Australia
4. Singapore






Q: Which of the following is the most polluted city in the world according to the world health organization?

1. New York
2. New Delhi
3. Beijing
4. Tokyo





Q: Which of the following is the 29th state that came into existence in June 2nd, 2014?

1. Vidharbha
2. Andhra
3. Telengana
4. Harita Pradesh





Q: What is the Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) proposed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced on June 3, 2014 and comes into force from June 14, 2014?

1. 24 percent
2. 23 percent 
3. 22.5 percent
4. 22 percent





Q: Which of the following is the first Nuclear Power Plant in India to touch 1,000 MW power generation? 

1. Kaiga (Karnataka) 
2. Kudankulam (Tamil Nadu)
3. C. Kakrapar (Gujarat)
4. D. Tarapur (Maharashtra) 






Q: ‘Sumitra Mahajan’ the Speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha was elected as the member of the Lok Sabha from which of the following states?

1. Uttar Pradesh 
2. Maharashtra
3. Gujarat
4. Madhya Pradesh 





Q: Who of the following was the first Women Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

1. Sumitra Mahajan
2. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
3. Uma Bharati
4. Meira Kumar





Q: In which of the following years ‘Ganga Action Plan’ (GAP) was launched to reduce the pollution loads on the river?

1. 1980
2. 1986
3. 1990
4. 1995





Q: Who of the following was the winner of the Women’s singles of French Open 2014?

1. Serena Williams (USA)
2. Lina  (China)
3. Maria Sharapova (Russia)
4. Simona Halep (Romania)





Q: Which of the following state in the country runs ‘KARUNYA’ a chain of pharmacies where more than 8500 branded drugs were being made available at 35 to 95 percent discount? 

1. Gujarat
2. Madhya Pradesh
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Kerala





Q: What is the nick name that is given to an asteroid that is designated as ‘2014HQ124’ that was discovered on April 23, 2014 and passes the earth safely on June 8th 2014 and would have caused an explosion measured in megatons and wiped out a city if it had hit earth?

1. Explode
2. Bear
3. Beast
4. Disaster





Q: Which of the following former Indian Cricketer joined the Supreme Court appointed Mudgal Committee on June 8th, 2014 that is probing the IPL (Indian Premier League) betting and spot fixing scandal?

1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Kapil Dev
3. Ravi Shastri
4. Sourav Ganguly





Q: Who of the following was the winner of the Men’s singles of French Open 2014?

1. Novok Djokovic 
2. Andy Murray
3. Rafael Nadal 
4. David Ferrer 





Q: Which of the following International airport has been attacked by the terrorists in June 2014?

1. Karachi
2. Kabul
3. Dhaka
4. New Delhi




Q: Who of the following has been appointed as the first Chief Minister of newly created Telengana state that was bifurcated from Andhra Pradesh?

1. N. Chandrababu Naidu
2. K. Chandra Shekar Rao
3. N. Kiran Kumar Reddy 
4. Jana Reddy





Q: Who of the following has been appointed as the first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh after it was bifurcated in 2014?

1. N. Chandrababu Naidu
2. K. Chandra Shekar Rao
3. N. Kiran Kumar Reddy 
4. Jana Reddy





Q: Which of the following city is the Joint capital for both Andhra Pradesh and Telengana for a period of 10 years?

1. Tirupati
2. Kurnool
3. Vishakapatnam
4. Hyderabad





Q: How many times so far Rafael Nadal has won the French Open? (including 2014)

1. 6
2. 7
3. 8
4. 9





Q: Some of the students from Hyderabad were feared drowned in ‘Beas’ river on June 8th 2014. In which of the following states the incident occurred?
1. Andhra Pradesh
2. Madhya Pradesh
3. Uttar Pradesh
4. Himachal Pradesh





Q: In which year India became a member of INTERPOL (International Police Organization) that is located in Lyon, France?

1. 1945
2. 1947
3. 1949
4. 1952





Q: Who of the following is the head of the National Central Bureau (NCB) of Interpol located in New Delhi?

1. Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) 
2. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director 
3. Director-General of National Investigation Agency (NIA)
4. Chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)





Q: Who is the author of the book “The Accidental Prime Minister – The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh”?

1. General V K Singh
2. Chetan Bhagat
3. A B Vajpayee
4. Sanjay Baru





Q: Malavat Poorna the youngest women ever to climb the Mount Everest on May 25th, 2014 at the age of 13 years and 11 months belongs to the state of 

1. Tamil Nadu
2. Kerala
3. Andhra Pradesh
4. Telengana





Q: The Nirmal Bharat Abhitan (NBA) which is a community led total sanitation programme initiated by the government in the year 1999. This is a campaign to eradicate the practice of open defecation by which of the following years?

1. 2014
2. 2015
3. 2017
4. 2020





Q: Which of the following is the first state to achieve total sanitation under the scheme of Nimal Bharat Abhiyan?

1. Himachal Pradesh
2. Sikkim
3. Manipur
4. Meghalaya




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