CURRENT AFFAIRS / General awareness MAY 2013

1)The US Senate on 23 May 2013 approved ­_______was as the most senior US Judge of the South Asian descent to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

A.      Srikanth Srinivasan

B.      B.N. Sreenivasan

C.      Sreenivasa Guru Nath

D.      D.K. Sreekant

2) Indian National Defence University (INDU) was laid down by the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh at

A.      Udhampur,J&K

B.      Binola, Gurgaon

C.      Chandimandir,Haryana

D.      Banglore, Karnataka

3) _______was today sworn in as CAG by President Pranab Mukherjee in the Rashtrapati Bhavan here.

A.      Vinod Ray

B.      Ashok Chavla

C.      Shashi Kant Sharma

D.      Shanthi Bhushan

4) An 80-year-old Japanese mountain climber who has had four heart surgeries reached the top of Mount Everest becoming the oldest person to conquer the world's highest mountain. Who was he?

A.      Yuichiro Miura

B.      Yenluk gin

C.      Meu-ji-kin

D.      D.Feri-Ki

5) Who was the new chairman of Medical Council of India?

A.      R.K. Sreevastava

B.      Ram Krishna Murthy

C.      Ram Kiran

D.      Dr. Saji Kumar

6)The Big Apple is the nick name of which city

A.      A.Hong Kong

B.      New Delhi

C.      New York

D.      Singapore

7) The only satellite of Ecuador, collided with the Russian space debris, which is that satellite?

A.      Pegaso

B.      Equvax-I

C.      GOES-N

D.      ASTROSAT

8) The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee conferred the _____ Jnanpith Award for the year 2011 on Pratibha Ray on 22 May 2013 at Balyogi Auditorium in New Delhi.

A.      A.48^th

B.      B.47^th

C.      C.46^th

D.      D.49^th

9) Lydia Davis won 2013 Man Booker International Prize for her innovative and influential writing. She is from which country?

A.      England

B.      Germany

C.      America

D.      Canada

10) Which assembly celebrated its Golden Jubilee, on the occasion, the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee will become the second president to address special session of assembly?

A.      Haryana

B.      Rajastan

C.      Andra Pradesh

D.      Himachal Pradesh

11) Current Repo rate is?

A.      7.50

B.      6.75

C.      5.75

D.      7.75

12) Which research centre announced that it was developing the largest magnet of the world (weight would be 50000 tons)?

	A.	NASA, USA
	B.	Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India
	C.	CERN, Geneva
	D.	ISRO, India

13) Adam Johnson's novel _______won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013?

A.      The Orphan Master's son

B.      Last year, judges

C.      Wining A Hand

D.      With Out Destiny

14) The Chief Minister of Kerala, _______won United Nation's Public Service Award for his Mass Contact Programme on 22 May 2013.

A.      Ramesh Chennithala

B.      Oommen Chandy

C.      Ramesh Shettar

D.      Manoj Kumar

15) Union Government plans to roll out a _______rupees green energy corridor project to facilitate the flow of renewable energy into the national grid.

A.      A 43000-crore

B.      B.42000-crore

C.      C.41000-crore

D.      D.45000-crore

16) Mumbai Indians finally annexed their maiden Pepsi Indian Premier Legue title upstaging a jittery Chennai Super Kings by _____in the final here today to bring the curtains down to a tarnished sixth season of the cash-rich league.

A.      A.21 runs

B.      B.22 runs

C.      C.23 runs

D.      D.24 runs

17) Which country is staging of the 2019 Cricket World Cup has been rubber-stamped as the International Cricket Council confirmed the same

A.      Australia

B.      News land

C.      England

D.      South Africa

18) Manmohan Singh, accompanied by his wife Gursharan Kaur, arrived in Japan, his first halt in a two-nation tour that will also take him to_______

A.      South Korea

B.      North Korea

C.      Thailand

D.      Myanmar

19) Group of Ministers, headed by Agriculture Min Sharad Pawar approved merging of _______Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) into 70 across various sectors for efficient implementation and monitoring in the 12th Five Year Plan.

A.      147

B.      150

C.      200

D.      210

20) Riot police battled hundreds of protestors in Paris at the end of a largely peaceful march by tens of thousands of people opposed to France's__________.

A.      new job law

B.      new gay marriage law

C.      new arm procurement law

D.      new immigration law

21) A short film based on the project- affected people of Tarapur Atomic Power Station has won the_____ award at the Uranium Film Festival at Rio-de-Janeiro, Brazil.

A.      White Oscar

B.      Yellow Oscar

C.      Black Oscar

D.      Red Oscar

22) Archaeologists have found nearly 5,000 cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers in which country?

A.      Mexico

B.      India

C.      Kenya

D.      Germany

23) Scientists on Tuesday unveiled the first completely indigenous and affordable vaccine to prevent severe_______, which kills more than one lakh children under the age of five in India every year.

A.      rotavirus diarrhea

B.      Streptococcus

C.      Sinbu virus

D.      Melenchitis

24) The 45th Session of the Indian Labour Conference was held at

A.      Chennai

B.      Mumbai

C.      New Delhi

D.      Thiruvananthapuram

25) Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta of Uttarakhand High Court had been appointed as the Chief Justice of the_________.

A.      Karnataka

B.      Andhra Pradesh

C.      Tamil Nadu

D.      Maharashtra

26) New OBC creamy layer limit is about ?

A.      4.5 lack

B.      5 lack

C.      5.5 lack

D.      6 lack

27) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday filed his nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha elections from_______

A.      Arunachal Pradesh

B.      Sikkim

C.      Assam

D.      Punjab

28) Arctic nations are Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, United States and the________

A.      Cananda

B.      News land

C.      Germany

D.      Argentina

29) India with which country signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Technical Cooperation in the field of Spatial Planning, Water Management, and Mobility Management

A.      USA

B.      Russia

C.      Netherland

D.      Japan

30) Meira Kumar, the Speaker of Lok Sabha (Lower House of the Parliament) on 7 May 2013 unveiled the statue of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister. He was the founder of ?

A.      Telugu Desam Party

B.      Bahujan Samaj Party

C.      YSR Congress Party

D.      Asom Gana Parishad

31) Indian-origin politician _______elected as the first woman Speaker of Singapore’s Parliament

A.      Halimah Yacob

B.      Fathima Bevi

C.      Hamita Fikr

D.      Nehrum Nisa

32) The Ministry of Women and Child Development appointed ___________as the Chairperson of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights

A.      Kushal Singh

B.      Vikram Seth

C.      Varun Raj

D.      Danveer Singh

34)  Which country ranked first on list of countries which distribute spam all over the world, according to new report of SophosLabs?

A. China
B. India
C. US
D. Spain

35) Which telecom company in the month of March 2013 launched high quality voice service for its subscribers in Kenya, Rwanda, Malawi and Nigeria in the African sub-continent?

A. Vodafone
B. Reliance
C. Idea Cellular
D. Bharti Airtel

36) Microsoft launched the new version of which software for the businesses running in India? This software will facilitate sharing the data seamlessly across the computers and mobiles with the help of cloud computing technology.

A. MS Office 2009
B. MS Office 365
C. MS Office 2013
D. MS Office 2010

37) Rajasthan Royals was penalized with a fine amount of around 100 crore Rupees for violating the Forex laws in February 2013. Name the body that slapped the fine on the IPL team?

A. BCCI
B.  Competition Commission of India
C. Enforcement Directorate
D. None of these

38) When world health day was celebrated recently?

A. 25 march
B.  30 march
C.  2nd April
D. 7th April

39) The World Bank in the month of March 2013 barred which company from doing any business with it or the projects funded by it for a period of six months?

A. Punj Lloyd Group
B.  Lanco Infratech Limited
C. Larsen & Toubro
D. IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects Ltd

40) Agha Khan Cup is related to ?

               

A. Hockey

B. Cricket 
C. Tennis

D. Hand Ball

41) 5 meter line is connected with which game?

               

 A. Hockey

 B. Tennis

 C. Water Polo

 D. Volley Ball

42) Who was presented the NTR National Literary Award ?

A. Sugatha Kumari

B. Manoj Das

C. Arundathy Roy

D. Aravind Adiga

43) Rich tributes were paid to revolutionary leader Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar on Tuesday at his birth place Bhagur in the district on his ______birth anniversary.

A. 130^th

B. 140^th

C. 150^th

D. 125^th

44) The Indian telecom sector became the second largest telephone network in the world. Which country possesses the name of first telecom network in the world?

A. Russia

B. America

C. China

D. Japan

45) India joined hand with which other countries to produce climate resilient crops?

A. USA & England

B.  USA & Russia

C. England & Australia

D. USA & Australia

46) 15th Asian Youth Weightlifting Championships are organized in which country?

A. Qatar

B. Afghanistan

C. Bangladesh

D. India

47) Which is the capital of Azerbaijan ?

A. Nassau

B. Belmopan

C. Baku

D. Gaborone

48) Riel is the currency of which country?

A. Jordan

B. Cambodia

C. Canada

D. Bhutan

49) Lakulish Yoga University is inaugurated in which state of India?

A. Kerala

B. West Bengal

C. Jammu Kashmir

D. Gujarat

50) Which is the latest language to get classical status?

A. Tamil

B. Malayalam

C. Urdu

D. Konkani

Answer to general awareness

1.A         2.B          3.C          4.A         5.A         6.C          7.A         8.B          9.C          10.D       11.A       12.B       13.A

14.B       15.A       16.B       17.C       18.C       19.A       20.B       21.B       22.A       23.A       24.C       25.B       26.D

27.C       28.A       29.C       30.A       31.A       32. A      33.          34.C       35.D       36.B       37.C       38.D       39.C

40.A       41.C       42.B       43.A       44.C       45.D       46.A       47.C       48.B       49.D       50.B