G.K. QUIZ ON CURRENT AFFAIRS

1.    Recently International Monetary Fund (IMF) in at update to World Economic Outlook (WEO) projected global economic growth rate would be ____ in 2013?

(1) 3.2%                                        (2) 4.5%

(3) 4.2%                                        (4) 3.5%

(5) None of these

2.    Recently International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasted Indian Economic Growth Rate to be ___ percent in 2013?

(1) 6.9                                            (2) 4.5%

(3) 5.9%                                         (4) 7.9%

(5) None of these

3.    Who among the following selected for Kirti Chakra award which is the Second- Highest Peacetime Gallantry Award?

(1) Major Abup J Manjali

(2) Major Sandeep Baniyal

(3) Major Jishnu Krishnan

(4) Major Deepak Sekhawat

(5) None of these

4.    Recently In which of the following State India’s first village telecom incubator startup?

(1) Karnataka                                (2) Tamil Naidu

(3) Bihar                                        (4) Maharashtra

(5) Kerala

5.    Which among the following pair wins Womens Australian Open doubles title?

(1) Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua

(2) Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci

(3) Svetlana Kuznetsova and Vera Zvonareva

(4) Serena Williams and Venus Williams

(5) None of these

6.    Who among the following is the current chairman of University Grants

Commission (UGC)?

(1) Prabhu Prasad                         (2) Sukhadeo Thorat

(3) Ved Prakash                            (4) Suresh Mishra

(5) None of these

7.    The World Economic Forum held its annual meeting in Davos, which is located in ___?

(1) Canada                                    (2) Switzerland

(3) France                                     (4) Belgium

(5) None of these

8.    Which of the following Indian Scientists have been conferred with China's top science award for his important contributions in boosting China-India scientific cooperation?

(1) Madhvan Nair                          (2) Chandra Shekar

(3) CNR Rao                                 (4) C P Bhargava

(5) None of these

9.    Who is the quickest Indian and the second quickest in world to score 4000 ODI runs?

(1) Virat Kohli                                (2) Suresh Raina

(3) Gautam Gambir                        (4) Yuvraj Singh                     

(5) None of these

10.  Recenty SBI announced to open its second branch in which of the following cities of China?

(1) Shanghai                                 (2) Beijing

(3) Tianjin                                      (4) Guangzhou

(5) None of these

Answers with explantions:

1. (4) International Monetary Fund (IMF) in at update to World Economic Outlook (WEO) on 23 January 2013, projected that the global economic growth rate would be 3.5 percent in 2013.

Global growth would reach 3.5 percent in 2013, from 3.2 percent in 2012

2. (3) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 23 January 2013 projected that the economic growth rate of India in 2013 would be 5.9 percent.

The IMF also projected an increased growth rate of 6.4 percent for 2014 looking forward towards the gradual strengthening of the global expansion in India’s context.

3. (1) Major Abup J Manjali of the Rashtriya Rifles was selected for the award of Kirti Chakra for his extraordinary bravery efforts in counter- terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir.

4. (5) Kochi, Kerala, has become the first in India to get 1 gbps speed.

This kind of internet connectivity is available only at two places in the world—the Startup Village at Kansas City in US and the Startup Village in Kochi. The Kochi Startup Village is India’s first telecom incubator. It focuses primarily on student start-ups from college campuses.

5. (2) Top-seeded Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci of Italy beat Australian pair of Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 for the Australian Open women’s doubles championship.

6. (3)  The Government of India has appointed professor Ved Prakash as the chairman University Grants Commission on January 18, 2013.

Prakash, a recipient of the US Fulbright post-doctoral fellowship, has held a number of important positions in national and international organization and has been the acting chairman of UGC for over 23 months.

7. (2) The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva.

The Forum is best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland.

8. (3) CNR Rao

Recently, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) gave its 2012 Award for International Scientific Cooperation to three scientists from India, Germany, and Russia.

Rao, 79 is the founder of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research ( JNCASR), Bangalore.

9. (1) Virat Kohli became the quickest Indian to score 4000 runs. At world level he is the second quickest and follows Viv Richards, the cricketer from West Indies. Kohli in his 96th match and batting in 93rd innings reached this milestone. West Indies legend Vivian Richards reached there in 88 innings from 96 matches.

Sachin Tendulkar, who recently retired from ODIs, needed 112 innings to get to the feat.

10. (3) State Bank of India (SBI) will next month open its second branch in China in the north-eastern port city of Tianjin to cater to the growing trade with India, particularly from the northern part of the country.

SBI first branch is in Shanghai.