june 2014 current affair
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GENERAL AWARENESS FOR JUNE...TRANSCRIPT
1. Which of the following teams won the Indian premier League 7 (IPL -7) on June 1, 2014? 1) Kolkata Knight Riders2) Kings XI Punjab 3) Chennai Super Kings4) Mumbai Indians
2. Which of the following teams finished runner-up in the 2014 IPL? 1) Rajasthan Royals2) Sun Risers Hyderabad 3) Delhi Daredevils4) Kings XI Punjab
3. IPL - 7 was hosted by India and _______. 1) Singapore2) Afghanistan 3) UAE4) Bangladesh
4. Who scored 660 Runs in the IPL - 7 and won the Orange Cap? 1) Wriddhiman Saha2) Glen Maxwell 3) Virender Sehwag4) Robin Uthappa
5. Who took 23 wickets in the IPL -7 and won the Purple Cap? 1) Mitchell Johnson2) Sunil Narine 3) Mohit Sharma4) Morne Morkel
6. In the Indian Premier League – 7, who was declared the most valuable player? 1) Glenn Maxwell2) Robin Uthappa 3) Kieran Pollard4) Manish Pandey
7. The 29th state of India was born on which of the following dates? 1) June 1 2) June 2 3) June 3 4) June 4
8. Who was appointed as Leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha on June 2, 2014? 1) Kamal Nath2) M. Veerappa Moily 3) Mallikarjun Kharge4) Rahul Gandhi
9. The Centre has extended the tenure of Cabinet Secretary for six months. Name him? 1) R.K Singh2) Anil Goswamy 3) Ajit Kumar Seth4) Shiv Shankar Menon
10. The United Nations has condemned the gang rape and murders of two sisters in a Badaun village in __________. 1) Maharashtra2) West Bengal 3) Bihar4) Uttar Pradesh 11. Garuda - V was held in Jodhpur in June 2014. It is the fifth bilateral air exercise of India and ________. 1) France
2) USA 3) Malaysia4) Indonesia
12. Juan Carlos announced his abdication on June 2, 2014. He was the King of ___________. 1) Norway2) Spain 3) Belgium4) Sweden
13. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has been appointed on the Board of Governors of the __________. 1) World Bank2) IMF 3) ADB4) WTO
14. Who is the author of the book My Years with Rajiv and Sonia? 1) R.D. Pradhan 2) Natwar singh 3) Pavan Duggal 4) H. Maheshwari
15. The Destruction of Hyderabad is written by __________. 1) Kuldip Nayar 2) A.G. Noorari 3) M.J Akbar 4) Romila Thapar
16. Which team won the boys’ title in the 65th National junior basketball championship at the Rajiv Gandhi indoor Stadium in Kochi in June 2014? 1) Punjab 2) Delhi 3) Tamil Nadu 4) Maharashtra
17. Which team won the girls’ title in the 65th National Junior Basketball Championship in Kochi in June 2014? 1) Chhattisgarh 2) Kerala 3) Uttar Pradesh 4) Punjab
18. Who was named South Africa’s Test captain on June 3, 2014? 1) A.B. Devilliers 2) Hashim Amla 3) Faf du Plessis 4) Morne Morkel
19. Who won the ‘Cricket of the year’ award at the CEAT awards function in Mumbai on June 2, 2014? 1) M.S Dhoni 2) Mitchell Johnson 3) Virat Kohli 4) Michael Clarke
20. Who received the ‘Indian player of the year’ award at the CEAT awards function on June 2, 2014? 1) Shikhar Dhawan 2) Murali Vijay 3) Ishant Sharma
4) R. Ashwin
21. K. Chandrasekhar Rao was sworn in the first Chief Minister of Telangana on _________. 1) June 1 2) June 2 3) June 3 4) June 4
22. Gopinath Munde died in a road accident in New Delhi on June 3, 2014. He was the Union minister for _____________. 1) Civil Aviation2) Rural Development 3) Agriculture 4) Health and Family welfare
23. The 25th anniversary of the 1989 Prodemocracy Protests at Tiananmen Square was observed in June 2014 in ______. 1) Thailand 2) Vietnam 3) China 4) Russia
24. The Reserve Bank of India reduced the statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) by 50 basis points to ________. 1) 22.5 percent 2) 23percent 3) 23.5 percent 4) 24 percent
25. In its bimonthly monetary policy statement, the RBI kept the repo rate
unchanged at __________.
1) 9 percent
2) 9.5 percent
3) 8.5 percent
4) 8 percent
26. The Reserve Bank of India has approved the re-appointment of K.
Venkataraman as the MD and CEO of which of the following private
banks for a further period of three years from June 1, 2014 to may 31,
2017?
1) ING Vysya Bank
2) Karur Vysya Bank
3) Federal Bank
4) South Indian Bank
27. World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year on _______.
1) June1
2) June2
3) June5
4) June 8
28. The G -7 Summit was held on June 5 and 6, 2014 in ________.
1) Sochi
2) Frankfurt
3) London
4) Brussels
29. Who was named South Africa’s Cricketer of the year 2014 in June
2014?
1) A.B. Devilliers
2) Quinton de Kock
3) Imran Tahir
4) Dale Steyn
30. Who was unanimously elected as the 16th Lok Sabha Speaker?
1) Smriti Irani
2) Sushma Swaraj
3) Sumitra Mahajan
4) Uma Bharti
31. The Madhya Pradesh government has appointed who among the
following as the brand ambassador for its Mamta Abhiyan Campaign?
1) Vidya Balan
2) Sri Devi
3) Juhi Chawla
4) Madhuri Dixit
32. Justin Gatlin won the men's 100m at the IAAF Diamond League in
Rome on June 5, 2014. He belongs to ________.
1) Jamaica
2) Great Britain
3) USA
4) Cuba
33. Which of the following Indian Coast Guard ships was/were
commissioned in Mumbai on June 7, 2014?
1) Achook
2) Agrim
3) Both land 2
4) None of these
34. How many Nuclear power reactors ore there in India?
1) 20
2) 21
3) 19
4) 18
35. The first Unit at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP)
reached its full power generation capacity of __________.
1) 500 MWe
2) 700 MWe
2) 750 MWe
4) 1,000 MWe
36. Who is the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission?
1) R.S. Sundar
2) Shekar Basu
3) R.K. Sinha
4) Anil Kakodkar
37. Which Country introduced military service, compulsory for men aged
between 18 and 30, on June 7, 2014?
1) Jordan
2) Iran
3) Syria
4) UAE
38. Petro Poroshenko Sworn in as the President of which of the following
countries on June 7, 2014?
1) Georgia
2) Latvia
3) Ukraine
4) Lithuania
39. Who won the French Open women’s singles tennis title in Paris on
June 7, 2014?
1) Serena Williams
2) Li Na
3) Ana Ivanovic
4) Maria Sharapova
40. Who was the runner-up at the French Open women’s singles tennis
championship at Roland Garros in Paris in June 2014?
1) Dominica Cibulkova
2) Andrea Petkovic
3) Simona Halep
4) Eugenie Bouchard
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