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Current Affairs (April 8 - 14) Bit bank

1. Which team won the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 cricket Trophy on April 14, 2014?

1) Baroda 2) Uttar Pradesh 3) Haryana 4) Rajasthan

2. Moussa Mora assumed office as the Prime Minister of which of the following African countries in April 2014?

1) Burkina Faso 2) Mali 3) Zambia 4) Mozambique

3. Who won the men’s trap gold in the shotgun world cup in Tueson, USA on April 11, 2014?

1) Mansher Singh 2) Ranjan Sodhi

3) Manavjit Singh Sandhu 4) Vijay Kumar

4. Abdullah al-Thani resigned on April 13, 2014 as the Prime Minister of?

1) Tunisia 2) Egypt 3) Sudan 4) Libya

5. Who won the men’s London Marathon on April 13 2014?

1) Wilson Kipsang (Kenya) 2) Stanley Biwatt (Kenya)

3) Tsegaye Kebede (Ethiopia) 4) Mo Farah (Britain)

6. Which team emerged as overall champions of the sixth mini national (under-14) archery Championship in Vijayawada in April 2014?

1) Andhra Pradesh 2) Maharashtra 3) Jharkhand 4) Assam

7. Which of the following films won the movie of the year award at MTV Movie Awards on April 13, 2014?

1) The Hunger games 2) 12 Years a Slave

3) American Hustle 4) The Wolf of the Wall Street



8. Who regained the masters Golf title at Augusta National on April 13, 2014?

1) Jordan Spieth 2) Bubba Watson

3) Lee Westwood 4) Miguel Angel Jimenez

9. Which of the following banks has been conferred the best PSU Bank by Dalal Street Investment Journal?

1) Bank of Baroda 2) Bank of Maharashtra

3) Bank of India 4) United Bank of India

10. Sue Townsend, the creator of Adrian mole character, passed away on

April 10, 2014. She was an author from?

1) USA 2) Australia 3) U.K. 4) Germany

11. Which eminent banker was appointed as special advisor to Sunil Gavaskar, interim president, BCCI for Pepsi IPL-7 in April 2014?

1) K.V. Kamath 2) K.R. Kamath

3) Aditya Puri 4) Deepak Parekh

12. Who was chosen for the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award, the highest film award in India in April 2014?

1) Dharmendra 2) Gulzar

3) Javed Akhtar 4) A.R. Rehman

13. The Supreme Court issued notice to the Union Ministry of youth Affairs and sports on denial of Arjuna Award to?

1) Abhijeet Gupta 2) Rupesh shah

3) Ranjit Maheshwary 4) Devender Dalal

14. The world’s largest swarm of genetically modified mosquitoes has been released in which of the following countries to combat dengue fever?

1) South Africa 2) Brazil

3) Ethiopia 4) Paraguay



15. Which government has topped the list of global government asking for censorship of content on social network Facebook?

1) Indian 2) Chinese

3) Russian 4) Japanese

16. Which of the following awards was not given to veteran film lyricist and director?

1) Padma Bhusan 2) Grammy 3) Oscar 4) Jnanpith

17. Who adorned the covers of the 151st edition of the Wisden Cricketer’s Almanac that was released in April 2014?

1) Virat Kohli 2) Sunil Gavaskar

3) Richord Hadlee 4) Sachin Tendulkar

18. “Lal Bahadur Shastri lessons in Lseadership” is a book written by-

1) Raj Mohan Gandhi 2) Ramchandra Guha

3) Bipin Chandra 4) Anil Shastri & Pavan Choudary

19. Former 100m world record holder Asafa Powell was banned for 18 months after he tested positive for a banned substance. Powell belongs to which country -

1) Kenya 2) Jamaica 3) UK 4) Canada

20. INS Shivalik, India’s naval stealth frigate participated in an international fleet review and maritime exercise in April 2014 which was hosted by the-

1) Chinese Navy 2) Indonesian Navy

3) South Korean Navy 4) Australian Navy

21. Who is the author of the book “Accidental Prime Minister-Making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh”?

1) Prabhu Chawla 2) Arun Poorie

3) Sanjay Baru 4) Arun Jaitley



22. In its first trial, the Agni I surface-to-surface nuclear-capable ballistic missile was test fired from the wheeler island off the Odisha coast on April 11, 2014. Its range is-

1) 700 km 2) 290km 3) 350km 4) 1000km

23. Who is the present Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister?

1) V.G. Sekaran 2) C.N.R. Rao

3) V.K. Saraswat 4) Avinash Chander

24. Kathleen Sebelius resigned on April 10, 2014. She is the United States’-

1) Secretary of state 2) Treasury Secretary 3) Agriculture Secretary 4) Health and Human services secretary

25. The Dabbawalas, the famous food delivery workforce in the metropolis, have joined hands with which of the following organisations to promote awareness about malaria, dengue and chikungunya among mumbaikars?

1) UNICEF 2) UNESCO 3) FAO 4) WHO

26. Indian Navy sold which of the following ships to IB commercial private Ltd, a ship-breaking company in Mumbai, in April 2014?

1) INS Vikrant 2) INS Shivalik

3) INS Vijay 4) INS Sindhurakshak

27. Facebook has crossed 100 million active users in which of the following countries, its largest base outside the United States of America?

1) China 2) India 3) Germany 4) Russia

28. According to which of the following Institutions India’s growth is expected to recover to 5.4 percent in 2014?

1) World Bank 2) ADB 3) IMF 4) WTO

29. Who is the captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team that won the twenty-20 world cup in April 2014?

1) Kurmar Sangakkara 2) Lasith Malinga



3) Angelo Mathews 4) Mahela Jayawardane

30. India will meet which of the following countries in the Davis Cup Tennis world Group play- off to be played in India from September 12 to 14, 2014?

1) Serbia 2) Switzerland 3) Czech Republic 4) Australia

31. Shyam Saran Negi has voted in every general election since 1951. He is from-

1) Punjab 2) Haryana

3) Himachal Pradesh 4) Uttar Pradesh

32. Twin car bombs killed 25 people in Homs in April 2014. Homs is a city in-

1) Iran 2) Iraq 3) Pakistan 4) Syria

33. World Economic Outlook is a survey conducted and published by the-

1) World Economic forum 2) World Trade Organisation

3) World Bank 4) International Monetary Fund

34. V. Kannan is the chairman and managing director of which of the following nationalised banks?

1) Vijaya Bank 2) Canara Bank 3) Indian Bank 4) Andhra Bank

35. Maria Miller resigned over parliamentary expenses scandal in April 2014. She was the culture secretary of which of the following countries?

1) Canada 2) Latria 3) UK 4) USA

36. Who was appointed as the chairman of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) for 2014-15?

1) S.D. Shibulal 2) B.V.R. Mohan Reddy

3) N.R. Narayana Murthy 4) R. Chandrasekaran



37. World Bank projected an economic growth rate of what percent is fiscal year 2014 for India?

1) 4.4% 2) 5.7% 3) 4.8% 4) 5.5

38. World Youth Boxing Championship was held in April 2014 in which city?

1) Sofia, Bulgaria 2) Ankara, Turkey

3) Sochi, Russia 4) New Delhi, India

39. Who was named as the icon of Mumbai Indians IPL team?

1) Rahul Dravid 2) Sachin Tendulkar

3) Ricky Ponting 4) Adam Gilchrist

40. Which Indian batsman was named one of the five cricketers of the year by wisdom magazine for his performance in 2013?

1) Shikhar Dhawan 2) Virat Kohli

3) Cheteshwar Pujara 4) Rohit Sharma

Answers

1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 1 6) 1 7) 1 8) 2

9) 1 10) 3 11) 4 12) 2 13) 3 14) 2 15) 1 16) 4

17) 4 18) 4 19) 2 20) 1 21) 3 22) 1 23) 4 24) 4

25) 4 26) 1 27) 2 28) 3 29) 2 30) 1 31) 3 32) 4

33) 4 34) 1 35) 3 36) 4 37) 2 38) 1 39) 2 40) 1

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