Current Affair

Compendium: February
2014
1. Who has been given additional charge
of Water Resources Ministry after
resignation by Water Resources Minister
Harish Rawat in Feb 2014?
A) Salman Khurshid
B) Kapil Sibal
C) Ghulam Nabi Azad
D) Sushilkumar Shinde
2.Who was sworn in as the new Chief
Minister of Uttarakhand in Feb 2014?
A) Harish Rawat
B) Vijay Bahuguna
C) Harish Rawat
D) B. C. Khanduri
3.Which movie won the Best Film
award in the BAFTA 2014 Awards
presented in February 2014?
A) 12 Years a slave
B) American Hustle
C) The Wolf of Wall Street
D) Dollas Buyers Club
4
US
President
Barack
Obama
nominated whom as the Director of the
National Security Agency (NSA) in Feb
2014?
A) Bob Riley
B) Michael Rogers
C) Mac Thornberry
D) None of These
5 Which Country won the ICC World Cup
Qualifier at the Bert Sutcliffe Oval,
Lincoln in Feb 2014 to be part of ICC
World Cup 2015?
A) Kenya
B) Scotland
C) United Arab Emirates (UAE)
D) Canada
6 Indias first Monorail service was
opened for public use in which of the
below cities?

A) Kolkata
B) Mumbai
C) Hyderabad
D) Mumbai
7. Central Excise Day is observed on?
A) 22nd Feb
B) 28th Feb
C) 24th Feb
D) 27th Feb
8.The RBI diluted rules for accelerated
provisioning it had proposed for nonperforming accounts in Feb 2014. As per
its notification, now lenders will make
_______ provision for unsecured loans
that remain unpaid for six months.
A) 30%
B) 25%
C) 20%
D) 15%
9 Which dbran has emerged as the most
trusted brand in India according to Brand
Trust Report, India Study 2014 (BTR
2014)?
A) Nokia
B) Tata
C) Sony
D) Samsung
10 Foreign direct investment (FDI)
inflows into India jumped stood at
_________
in
November
2013
(announced in Feb 2014).
A) USD 1.64 billion
B) USD 2.2 billion
C) USD 3.1 billion
D) USD 2.53 billion

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11 Which Social networking giant
celebrated its 10th birthday in Feb 2014?
A) Google Plus
B) LinedIn
C) Facebook

D) Orkut
12 India overtook Which country to
become the third largest crude oil
importer in the World, as per the data
released by Reuters in Feb 2014?
A) China
B) Japan
C) Germany
D) UK
13 The Chartered Accountants Institute
has appointed whom as its new VicePresident in for 2014-15 in Fe 2014?
A) Manoj Fadnis
B) Sirajuddin Qureshi
C) K Raghu
D) R. Chandrashekhar
14 Indias core sector output, consisting
of eight key sectors, growth stood at
______ in December (announced in Feb
2014).
A) -1.1%
B) 1.5%
C) 2.1%
D) 0.7%

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15 Who remains top of the mens ATP
tennis rankings released in Feb 2014?
A) David Ferrer
B) Novak Djokavic
C) Statislas Wawrinka
D) Rafael Nadal
16 National Science Day is observed
on?
A) 22nd Feb
B) 28th Feb
C) 24th Feb
D) 27th Feb

17 Who retained her top position in the

WTA womens tennis rankings issued in
Feb 2014?
A) Serena Williams
B) Victoria Azarenka
C) Maria Sharapova
D) Li Na
18 Which Oscar-winning actor was found
dead in his New York apartment in Feb
2014?
A) Paul Thomas Anderson
B) Philip Seymour Hoffman
C) Joaquin Phoenix
D) None of These
19
The Central Government has
appointed whom as Chairman and
Managing Director of Punjab & Sind Bank
(PSB) in Feb 2014?
A) B K Divakara
B) S.R. Bansal
C) Jatinder Bir Singh
D) DP Singh
20 Who has been appointed as the new
Country Director for India of the Asian
Development Bank in Feb 2014?
A) S.R. Bansal
B) Teresa Kho
C) Hun Kim
D) Takehiko Nakao
21 Which Indian state won their seventh
Ranji Trophy title in Feb 2014?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Sourashtra
C) Karnataka
D) Maharashtra
22 Who won the Best Actor award in
the BAFTA 2014 Awards presented in
February 2014?
A) Mathew Mc Conaughey
B) Alfonso Cuaron
C) Leonardo DiCaprio
D) Chiwetel Ejiofor

23 Global Software giant Microsoft has

named whom as its new CEO in Feb
2014?
A) Steve Ballmer
B) Satya Nadella
C) John Thompson
D) Sundar Pichai
24 Who has been sworn in as Chairman
of the Federal Reserve, the US Central
Bank and the most powerful Central
bank in the world, in Feb 2014?
A) Alan Greenspan
B) Ben Bernanke
C) Janet Yellen
D) Timothy Geithner
25 World Cancer Day is observed on
______________?
A) 22nd Feb
B) 28th Feb
C) 4th Feb
D) 7th Feb
26 Which Former Supreme Court Judge
has been appointed as the Chairman of
the 7th Pay Commission in Feb 2014?
A) Justice R. Banumathi
B) Justice N.P. Singh
C) Justice B.S. Chauhan
D) Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur
27 Which Google Inc executive has been
appointed new head of its YouTube
video business in Feb 2014?
A) Salar Kamangar
B) Susan Wojcicki
C) Steve Chen
D) Sundar Pichai
28 The European Central Bank (ECB) has
kept its benchmark interest rate
unchanged at ________ in Feb 2014.
A) 0.75%
B) 0.5%
C) 0.25%
D) 1%
29
Who been selected for the
prestigious Vyas Samman for the year
2013 (announced in Feb 2014)?

A) Vishwanath Tripathi
B) Ravuri Bharadwaja
C) Prathibha Ray
D) Narendra Kohli
30 Which Indian-American professor has
been appointed as the dean of the
prestigious
Princeton
University
Graduate School in Feb 2014?
A) Rakesh Khurana
B) Dipak C. Jain
C) Vijay K. Dhir
D) Sanjeev Kulkarni
31 The Central government has set up a
committee today to suggest suitable and
corrective measures to address concerns
regarding security of people from North
East in Feb 2014. The six-member panel
will be headed by ___________.
A) M P Bezbaruah
B) Montek Singh Ahluwalia
C) Sam Pitroda
D) Nachiket Mor

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32 Who in the below list was nominated
for the World Childrens Prize in Sweden
in Feb 2014?
A) Malala Yousafzai
B) Lyudmila Ulitskaya
C) Ai Xiaoming
D) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
33 World Radio Day is observed on
which date to increase awareness about
the importance of Radio?
A) 23rd Feb
B) 13th Feb
C) 11th Feb
D) 17th Feb
34 The global conversation organisation,
WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) has

appointed whom as director-general

(DG) of the WWF International in
February 2014?
A) Marco Lambertini
B) James Leape
C) Peter Schei
D) None of These
35 Who topped the Fortune list of 50
most powerful women in business:
Global edition announced in Feb 2014?
A) Mary Barra
B) Ginni Rometty
C) Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
D) Sheryl Sandberg
36 Which tech company released
Chromebox for video conferencing in Feb
2014?
A) Microsoft
B) Facebook
C) Google
D) Yahoo
37 Who won the Best Actress award in
the BAFTA 2014 Awards presented in
February 2014?
A) Amy Adams
B) Cate Blanchett
C) Jennifer Lawrence
D) None of These
38 The 22nd Winter Olympics was held
at ________ in February 2014.
A) Sochi
B) London
C) Beijing
D) Moscow
39 Which famous England batsmans
international career ended by England
Cricket Board in February 2014?
A) Kevin Pietersen
B) Monty Paneshar
C) Graeme Swann
D) Ian Bell
40 The Union Cabinet cleared the
Telangana Bill and Parliament passed the
same. With this, Telengana will be
Indias __________state.

A) 28th
B) 27th
C) 29th
D) 30th
41 Which famous actor been elected to
the upper house of the Parliament in Feb
2014 on Trinamool Congress ticket?
A) Mithun Chakraborty
B) Prasenjit
C) Tapas Pal
D) Raj Babbar
42 World Day of the Sick is observed
on ______________?
A) 12th Feb
B) 13th Feb
C) 14th Feb
D) 17th Feb
43 The Indian government pegged the
economic growth rate for 2013-14 at
________ in February 2014.
A) 5.1%
B) 4.5%
C) 4.9%
D) 5.3%
44 Finance ministry has extended
Upendra Kumar Sinhas tenure as SEBI
head for another ________ years in
February 2014.
A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) None of These

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45 Union Cabinet approved Vodafones
proposal in Feb 2014 to buy out minority
partners and own ________ of Vodafone
India in a USD 1.6 billion deal.
A) 90%
B) 100%
C) 76%
D) None of These

46 _________ CEO Indra Nooyi and ICICI

Bank Managing Director Chanda Kochhar
are ranked among Fortune magazines
list of 50 most powerful women in
business (published in Feb 2014). Indra
Nooyi was ranked 3rd in the same list.
A) General Motors
B) Coca Cola
C) PepsiCo
D) Nokia
47 All India Management Association
(AIMA), the national apex body of
management
professionals
in
the
country, has conferred the high
performance brand award for 2013 to
___________ (announced in Feb 2014).
A) Amul
B) Wipro
C) Merico
D) Mother Dairy
48 The Bank of England has kept
Interest rates unchanged at record low
of ________, as per the monetary policy
announcement in Feb 2014.
A) 0.75%
B) 0.5%
C) 0.25%
D) 1%
49 Indias largest paramilitary force
CRPF has appointed which sportsperson
as its brand ambassador in Feb 2014?
A) Sushil Kumar
B) Saina Nehawal
C) M C Mary Kom
D) Vijay Kumar
50 Who won the Best Director award
in the BAFTA 2014 Awards presented in
February 2014?
A) Alexander Payne
B) Alfonso Cuaron
C) Guillermo del Toro
D) Emmanuel Lubezki
51 Who became the next prime minister
of Nepal in Feb 2014?
A) Prachanda

B) Girija Prasad Koirala

C) Sushil Koirala
D) Sher Bahadur Deuba
52 ICC approved controversial structural
reform in Feb 2014 and has given most
power to 3 boards. Which in the list is
not one of them?
A) England
B) India
C) South Africa
D) Australia

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53 Kumar Sangakkara became only the

second player to hit a triple century and
a century in the same match while
playing against Bangladesh in February
2014. Earlier who achieved the same
feat?
A) Geoffrey Boycott
B) Mike Gatting
C) Ian Botham
D) Graham Gooch
54 World Day of Social Justice is
observed on ______________?
A) 21st Feb
B) 25th Feb
C) 24th Feb
D) 20th Feb
55 Which Tour operator announced
merger of its operations with resort
owner Sterling Holiday Resorts India Ltd
in a deal valued at Rs 870 crore in Feb
2014?
A) Yatra
B) MakeMyTrip
C) Thomas Cook India Ltd
D) None of These
56
Indian
Olympic
Association
conducted its polls in Feb 2014 and

_________ was elected as the president.

This also cleared Indias return to the
Olympic fold.
A) Anil Khanna
B) N Ramachandran
C) N. Srinivasan
D) Akhilesh Das Gupta
57 Which of the following countries will
host 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in
Feb 2018?
A) Norway
B) China
C) South Korea
D) Germany
58 Which film has won the Golden
Conch Award for the Best Documentary
Film at the Mumbai International Film
Festival in the Documentary, Short and
Animation Films category in Feb 2014?
A) In Between : Isang Yun in North and
South Korea
B) Tamaash
C) Are You Listening
D) None of These
59 USA unemployment rate stood at
______ in January (announced in Feb
2014).
A) 6.7%
B) 7.1%
C) 6.6%
D) 6.9%
60 Who has been named as the top US
philanthropists for 2013 who donated
shares worth of more than USD 970
million to a Silicon Valley foundation
(announced in Feb 2014)?
A) Dustin Moskovitz
B) Bill Gates
C) Mark Zuckerberg
D) Warren Buffett
61 Pakistans Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif has sacked ________ as the
Chairman of the PCB and suspended the
Governing board with immediate effect
on 10th February because of his

mishandling Pakistans case in

recent changes brought in the ICC.
A) Najam Sethi
B) Zaheer Abbas
C) Iqbal Qasim
D) Zaka Ashraf

the

62 Who became the youngest Russian

athlete to win a gold medal at the
Winter Olympics currently being held at
Sochi, Russia in Feb 2014?
A) Yulia Lipnitskaya
B) Adelina Sotnikova
C) Evgeni Plushenko
D) Carolina Kostner
63 Which Indian state becomes the first
state in India with 100% sanitation
coverage in Feb 2014? All 6,10,577
inhabitants have latrines with high
sanitation and hygiene standards.
A) Himachal Pradesh
B) Tripura
C) Sikkim
D) Nagaland

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64 BCCI chief N Srinivasans son-in-law
and
former
_____________
team
principal Gurunath Meiyappan was
indicted on charges of betting in Feb
2014 by the Justice Mukul Mudgal
committee, formed by the Supreme
Court to inquire into spot-fixing and
illegal betting in the Indian Premier
League last year.
A) Rajasthan Royals
B) Royal Challengers Bangalore
C) Chennai Super Kings
D) Pune Warriors
65 The Reserve Bank of India has
removed the ________ interest rate cap
on loans given by microfinance
companies regulated by it and linked the

interest rate to the cost of funds in Feb

2014.
A) 15%
B) 20%
C) 26%
D) 25%
66 Which movie won the Best British
film at the BAFTAs award in the BAFTA
2014 Awards presented in February
2014?
A) Gravity
B) American Hustle
C) The Wolf of Wall Street
D) Dollas Buyers Club
67 Indias largest passenger car maker,
Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) has
stopped producing its iconic car brand
_______ which was associated with
millions of middle class Indians since its
launch in 1980. The production is
stopped in January 2014.
A) Maruti 1000
B) Maruti 900
C) Maruti 800
D) None of These
68 India completes how many years
without reporting any case of polio in
Feb 2014? It is only the second time in
the history that a disease is being
eliminated in India through immunisation
after small pox in May 1980.
A) Four
B) Two
C) Three
D) Five
69 International Mother Language Day
is observed on ______________?
A) 21st Feb
B) 25th Feb
C) 24th Feb
D) 20th Feb
70 Who has been appointed as the new
chairman of Central Board of Direct
Taxes (CBDT) in Feb 2014?
A) Sudha Sharma
B) R.K.Tiwari

C) T. Nanda Kumar
D) S R Rao
71 India has been ranked at ________ in
the list of 180 countries in the World
Press Freedom Index 2014 published by
the Organisation Reporters Without
Border in its latest annual report in Feb
2014.
A) 140th
B) 121st
C) 158th
D) 110th
72 According to Indias IT Industry
watch body, Nasscom, the Indian IT and
Business Process Management (BPM)
industry will grow at rate of _______ in
next financial year 2014-15.
A) 11-13%
B) 12-15%
C) 13-17%
D) 13-15%
73 Yahoo India has appointed whom as
Managing Director, overseeing the
Internet majors business in India?
A) Nigel Harris
B) Satya Nadella
C) Gurmit Singh
D) Sundar Pichai
74 The Chartered Accountants Institute
has appointed whom as its new President
in for 2014-15 in Fe 2014?
A) Manoj Fadnis
B) Sirajuddin Qureshi
C) K Raghu
D) R. Chandrashekhar

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75 ICC approved controversial structural

reform to give most power to India,
England and Australia boards In Feb
2014. As per new structure, who is set to

become the first ICC chairman from July

for a period of two years?
A) Jagmohan Dalmiya
B) N Srinivasan
C) Shashank Manohar
D) Haroon Lorgat
76 The two day player auction for the
2014 edition of the Indian Premier
League held in Feb 2014. Indias Yuvraj
Singh attracted the biggest price of Rs
14 crore in the auction. Which team
bought him?
A) Rajasthan Royals
B) Royal Challengers Bangalore
C) Chennai Super Kings
D) Kings XI Punjab
77 Which state won the Irani Trophy for
the fifth time in Feb 2014?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Sourashtra
C) Karnataka
D) Maharashtra
78 Indias Retail inflation, measured by
Consumer Price Index, stood at _____ in
January (published in Feb 2014).
A) 8.79%
B) 9.87%
C) 8.07%
D) 9.13%
79
Indias
Index
of
Industrial
Production, growth stood at ________ in
December (published in Feb 2014).
A) -0.1%
B) -0.6%
C) 0.4%
D) 1.1%
80
Social
Netoworking
company
Facebook announced acquisition of
__________, a world leader in mobile
messaging over the internet, for USD 19
billion in Feb 2014.
A) LineChat
B) WeChat
C) WhatsApp
D) None of These

81 Which US company has announced its

acquisition of Time Warner Cable for
USD 45.2 billion in Feb 2014?
A) DIRECTV
B) DISH Network Corporation
C) Comcast Corporation
D) None of These
82 Who won the Best Supporting
Actress award in the BAFTA 2014
Awards presented in February 2014?
A) Amy Adams
B) Cate Blanchett
C) Jennifer Lawrence
D) None of These
83 National Womens Day is celebrated
on ________ across India.
A) 13-Feb
B) 17-Feb
C) 23-Feb
D) 18-Feb
84 Renowned _________ filmmaker Balu
Mahendra passed away in Feb 2014.
A) Odiya
B) Telegu
C) Tamil
D) Marathi
85 The eurozones economic growth
stood at ______ in the final quarter of
2013.
A) 0.1%
B) 0.3%
C) 0.5%
D) 0.4%
86 Delhi chief minister _______ resigned
today after failing to table the jan lokpal
bill, which was defeated in the
introduction stage itself. This decision
ends Aam Aadmi Party governments 49day run in power.
A) Manish Sisodia
B) Kumar Viswas
C) Arvind Kejriwal
D) Yogendra Yadav
87 Delhi Police has introduced a new
helpline number ________ for people of

North East residing in Delhi in Feb 2014

to register their complaints.
A) 1073
B) 1011
C) 1093
D) 1099
88 Who will take over as the new
chairperson of Broadcasting Content
Complaints Council (BCCC), a selfregulatory body for non-news channels
as per announcement in Feb 2014?
A) Ajit Prakash Shah
B) R. Banumathi
C) Mukul Mudgal
D) N.P. Singh
89 World Scout Day is observed on
______________?
A) 21st Feb
B) 22nd Feb
C) 24th Feb
D) 28th Feb
90 Indias overall inflation, measured by
the Wholesale price index, stood at
_______ in January 2014 (published in
Feb 2014).
A) 4.89%
B) 6.85%
C) 5.05%
D) 5.76%
91 Who was sworn in as new Prime
Minister of Italy in Feb 2014? Also
became the youngest ever prime
minister of Italy at the age of 39.
A) Angelino Alfano
B) Enrico Letta
C) Nichi Vendola
D) Matteo Renzi
92 Who has been appointed as the Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of Reliance
Communications (RCom) in February
2014?
A) Gurdeep Singh
B) Vinod Sawhny
C) Munish Sharda
D) Raj Jain

93 Which global internet giant has

acquired SlickLogin, an Israeli start-up
company which offers an alternative
process for login confirmation by using
sound based passwords, in Feb 2014?
A) Facebook
B) Google
C) Microsoft
D) Yahoo
94 The Japanese economy grew at an
annual rate of ______ in the OctoberDecember (Announced in Feb 2014).
A) 1.2%
B) 1.5%
C) 1%
D) 0.5%
95 Who won the Best Supporting
Actor award in the BAFTA 2014 Awards
presented in February 2014?
A) Mathew Mc Conaughey
B) Alfonso Cuaron
C) Barkhad Abdi
D) Jared Leto
96 Which Indian Telecom Company
acquired Loop Mobile for Rs 700-crore in
Feb 2014?
A) Vodafone
B) Bharti Airtel
C) Ideal Cellular
D) Reliance Comm
97 Finance minister P Chidambaram has
presented his interim budget for 2014 in
Feb 2014. As per him, Fiscal deficit will
be at ________ in 2013-14.
A) 5.1%
B) 4.6%
C) 4.9%
D) 5.5%
98 Which country emerged as the
worlds largest consumer market for gold
as per the data published by the World
Gold Council in February 2014?
A) USA
B) India
C) China
D) Brazil

99 Which Indian state has been declared

as the best state in the country for
implementing Rural Tourism Project
(announced in Feb 2014)?
A) Sikkim
B) Kerala
C) Gujarat
D) Madhya Pradesh
100 BJP leader Arun Jaitely unveiled a
book entitled ModiNomics: Inclusive
Economics, Inclusive Governance at the
Indian Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road in
New Delhi in Feb 2014. The book has
been authored by ___________.
A) Amartya Sen
B) Yashwant Sinha
C) Sameer Kochhar
D) None of These
101 Which film won the Crystal Bear
(Glasernen Bar) for the best film award
by the Childrens jury in Generation
Kplus section at the 64th Berlin
International Film Festival in February
2014?
A) In Between : Isang Yun in North and
South Korea
B) Tamaash
C) Are You Listening
D) Killa
102 Famous _________ R.K. Srikantan
passed away in Bangalore on 17th
February 2014.
A) Music Director
B) Actor
C) Carnatic music vocalist
D) Director
103
Which Indian Crickter(s) was
nominated for the ESPNcricinfo@20
Cricketer of the Generation award on
17th February.
A) Virendra Sehwag
B) Sachin Tendulkar
C) M S Dhoni
D) Both A and B

104 Central Excise Day is observed on

______________?
A) 21st Feb
B) 22nd Feb
C) 24th Feb
D) 28th Feb
105 A day after Telangana Bill was
passed in Lok Sabha, ____________
stepped down as Andhra Pradesh Chief
Minister in Feb 2014 protesting division
of the state.
A) Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
B) N. Chandrababu Naidu
C) N Kiran Kumar Reddy
D) Botsa Satyanarayana
106 Indian Institute of ManagementBangalore (IIM-B) has appointed whom as
the Chairperson of its board of governors
in Feb 2014?
A) Mukesh Ambani
B) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
C) Krish Gapalakrishnan
D) Mohandas Pai

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107 Chinas FDI investment stood at
_____________ in Jan 2014 (announced
in Feb 2014). China managed to get a
healthy USD 117.59 billion FDI last year.
A) USD 9.56 billion
B) USD 12.1 billion
C) USD 10.76 billion
D) USD 14.5 billion
108 India received _________ of foreign
direct investment (FDI) in December
2013 (announced in Feb 2014).
A) USD 1.6 billion
B) USD 1.1 billion
C) USD 1.9 billion
D) USD 2.3 billion

109 Which Tech company announced

acquisition of WhatsApp, a world leader
in mobile messaging over the internet,
for USD 19 billion in stock and cash in
Feb 2014?
A) Google
B) Microsoft
C) Facebook
D) Yahoo
110 Which Indian language became the
sixth language of India to get classical
language status in Feb 2014 after the
Union Cabinet conceded a long-pending
demand?
A) Gujrathi
B) Assamese
C) Bengali
D) Odia
111 Indias first Minority Cyber Village
was inaugurated in Chandoli in
_________ in Feb 2014. For pilot
project, Chandoli with over 80 % of
minority population has been selected as
the first village.
A) Rajasthan.
B) Gujarat
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Haryana
112 The Central Government has
appointed whom as Chairman and
Managing Director of Export-Import Bank
of India (Exim Bank) on deputation for
three years in Feb 2014?
A) B K Divakara
B) Yaduvendra Mathur
C) Jatinder Bir Singh
D) DP Singh
113 Who has been appointed as the new
Oil Secretary in Feb 2014?
A) V S Madan
B) Vivek Rae
C) A Vijayanand
D) Saurabh Chandra
114 Who was honoured as the Corporate
Strategist of the Year Award by Public
Relations Council of India (PRCI) in Feb

2014? PRCI gives this award as

recognition to those who have excelled
in their own field and contributed to
social justice and made a difference to
the nation in the last four years. This
award is also called as the Chanakya
Award.
A) B. Prasada Rao
B) V B Gadgil
C) P Dwarakanath
D) Arup Roy Choudhury
115 Tension between Ukraine and Russia
was escalated in Feb 2014 leading to
huge protest and selection of a new
Government there. What is the name of
area which is still under conflict
between these two nations?
A) Kherson
B) Crimea
C) Donetsk
D) Stavropol
116 Worlds longest free Wi-Fi zone was
launched in _____________ in February.
A 20km free Wi-Fi zone, the longest in
the world, was launched.
A) Mumbai
B) Patna
C) Bangalore
D) Hyderabad

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117 Which Indian PSU bank and New

India Assurance have inked a MoU in Feb
2014 to provide three customised
package health insurance policies from
the general insurance major? These
policies are named BMB Sakhee, BMB
Nirbhaya and BMB Parivar Suraksha.
A) State Bank of India
B) Central Bank of India
C) Bharatiya Mahila Bank
D) Punjab National Bank

118
The Chairman and Managing
Director (CMD) of United Bank of India
(UBI), ___________ resigned on 21
February 2014 after reporting high loss
and high NPA in its third quarter result.
A) Usha Ananthasubramanian
B) Archana Bhargava
C) Shubhalakshmi Panse
D) None of These
119 National Science Day is observed
on ______________?
A) 21st Feb
B) 22nd Feb
C) 24th Feb
D) 28th Feb
120 The International Monetary Fund
has Indias economic grwoth at ______ in
FY14 in Feb 2014, which would improve
to 5.4% in FY15.
A) 5.1%
B) 4.8%
C) 4.6%
D) 4.3%
121
G-20 financial leaders have
announced to generate ____________ in
extra output in next five years after its
2-day meeting held in Sydney on 22-23
February to give a much needed boost to
world economy.
A) USD 1 trillion
B) USD 2 trillion
C) USD 3 trillion
D) USD 1.5 trillion
122 Who was named as the interim
President of the country on 23 February
2014 till it choses its next President?
A) Oleksandr Turchynov
B) Viktor Yanukovych
C) Mykola Azarov
D) Arseniy Yatsenyuk
123 Sochi Winter Olympics concluded in
Feb 2014. Which country finished on top
of the medal table with 13 Gold, 11
Silver and 9 Bronze?
A) China

B) Norway
C) Russia
D) South Korea
124 Finance minister P Chidambaram
has presented his interim budget for
2014 in Feb 2014. As per him, Excise
duty on SUVs was reduced from 30 to
_______.
A) 24%
B) 25%
C) 20%
D) 18%
125 Who has been chosen for the Y
Nayudamma memorial award for the
year 2013 (announced in Feb 2014)? The
award is annually given to persons
chosen for their significant contributions
to the development of science and
technology in the country.
A) Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
B) Kavita Shukla
C) P.S. Veeraraghavan
D) None of These
126 Which Indias tennis player jumped
18 places to become world number 78 in
the latest ATP rankings published in Feb
2014?
A) Yuki Bhambri
B) Somdev Devvarman
C) Leander Paes
D) Mahesh Bhupati
127 Which team won Hockey India
League held at Ranchi in February 2014?
A) Ranchi Rhinos
B) Delhi Waveriders
C) Jaypee Punjab Warriors
D) Uttar Pradesh Wizards
128 The panel headed by _________
which was set up by the RBI to scrutinize
applications for new bank licences has
submitted its report in Feb 2014?
A) Nachiket Mor
B) Y. Venugopal Reddy
C) Vijay Kelkar
D) Bimal Jalan

129 Which Indian Oil and Gas company

will buy Malaysian firm Petronas 10%
stake in a shale-gas assets and liquefiednatural-gas (LNG) project in British
Columbia
for
USD
900
million
(announced in Feb 2014)?
A) GAIL
B) ONGC
C) Indian Oil Corp
D) Reliance Industries
130
Famous
__________
Prokash
Karmakar passed away on 24th February
in Kolkata due to age-related illness.
A) Painter
B) Actor
C) Author
D) Social Activist
131 Which International Political leader
has been awarded with Israels highest
civilian
honour,
the
Medal
of
Distinction in February 2014?
A) David Cameron
B) Barak Obama
C) Angela Merkel
D) None of These
132 Taking moral responsibility for the
submarine accident off the Mumbai
coast, Navy Chief Admiral _______- has
resigned in Feb 2014.
A) Norman Anil Kumar Browne
B) Robin Dhowan
C) DK Joshi
D) Nirmal Kumar Verma
133 Who has been appointed the new
head of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation,
Indias most profitable firm, in February
2014?
A) P. Madhusudan
B) Dinesh K. Sarraf
C) A Vijayanand
D) S.K. Sharma
134 Which Indian City has become the
worlds most affordable office locations
as per the paper published by the global
realty consultant DTZ in Feb 2014?
A) New Delhi

B) Kolkata
C) Hyderabad
D) Pune
135 Who was sworn in as new Egypt
Prime Minister in Feb 2014? He will head
Egypts sixth government since the 2011
uprising that ended autocratic rule of
Hosni Mubarak.
A) Ibrahim Mahlab
B) Hazem el-Beblawi
C) Mohamed ElBaradei
D) Adly Mansour
136 Famous ________ guitarist Paco de
Lucia passed away on 26 February 2014
due to a heart attack.
A) German
B) French
C) Spanish
D) British
137 Finance minister P Chidambaram
has presented his interim budget for
2014 in Feb 2014. He has allocated
________ estimated requirement for
implementing one-rank-one-pay scheme
for armed forces in 2014-15.
A) Rs 500 crore
B) Rs 1000 crore
C) Rs 300 crore
D) Rs 700 crore
138 Indias largest 130-MW Solar Power
Plant Welspun Solar MP Project was
launched in which Indian state in Feb
2014?
A) Rajasthan
B) Gujarat
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Uttar Pradesh
139 Which Indias IT Services Company
has acquired the software services unit
of Germany chemicals giant BASF in Feb
2014?
A) Tech Mahindra
B) Infosys
C) Wipro
D) TCS

140 Which Credit information solutions

provider launched a software solution
named as Bureau One to collate
various credit bureau responses and
deliver them seamlessly in Feb 2014?
A) CIBIL
B) DNV India
C) Equifax India
D) CRISIL
141 Who won the National Billiard
Championships held in Lucknow in Feb
2014?
A) Sourav Kothari
B) Alok Kumar
C) B. Bhaskar
D) Dhruv Sitwala
142
Union
Finance
Minister
P.
Chidambaram inaugurated Indias first
post office savings bank ATM in
___________ in February 2014. The ATM
was launched as a part of an Information
Technology (IT) modernisation project of
the Department of Posts in order to
boost its core banking network.
A) Bangalore
B) Hyderabad
C) Chennai
D) Kochin

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143 General Motors India has appointed
whom as its President and Managing
Director, effective from 1st March 2014?
A) Lowell Paddock
B) Arvind Saxena
C) Nigel Harris
D) Joginder Singh
144 India has joined the elite group of
nations when the Shore Based Test
Facility (SBTF) was commissioned into
the Indian Navy at INS Hansa in ________
in Feb 2014.
A) Mumbai

B) Visakhapatnam
C) Panaji
D) Kochin
145 Indian-origin hedge fund portfolio
manager Mathew Martoma has been
convicted for his role in the $275 million
insider trading scheme in Feb 2014. He
worked for which hedge fund?
A) S.A.C. Capital Advisors
B) Fairfax Financial Holdings
C) Brevan Howard
D) Fortress Investment Group
146 India was ranked _____ in the list of
ten countries in terms of digital
governance as per the report on digital
governance released by Accenture in
February 2014.
A) 7th
B) 10th
C) 8th
D) 9th
147 The President of India presented
the International Gandhi Award for the
year 2013 to Dr. Vijaykumar Vinayak
Dongre (VV Dongre) and Prof. Guocheng
Zhang in February 2014 for making
outstanding contributions in the field of
_______ to eradicate the disease
through
treatment,
training
and
research.
A) Polio
B) HIV-AIDS
C) Leprosy
D) Tuberculosis
148 Who has been conferred with the
Youth Achievers Award at the sixth
Global Marketing and Social Media award
ceremony held at Mumbai in Feb 2014?
A) Bharat Gupta
B) V. K. Hamzah Abbas
C) Shireen Bhan
D) Swapan Dasgupta
149 Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)
and _________ unveil 360-degree online
view of 30 monuments in Feb 2014 in
which 30 Indian monuments including

Taj Mahal can now be visited online

with a 360-degree panoramic view.
A) Yahoo
B) Microsoft
C) Facebook
D) Google
150
Which Indian Cricketer was
appointed as the brand ambassador of
the Gujarat State Election Commission in
Feb 2014?
A) Cheteshwar Pujara
B) Virat Kohli
C) Suresh Raina
D) Rohit Sharma
151 Which Indian-born scientist won the
Protein Science Young Investigator
Award
for
2014
at
Cambridge
(announced in Feb 2014)? The Protein
Science Young Investigator Award is
given by the Protein Society for
important contribution made in the
study of proteins.
A) Vijay Singh
B) Madan Babu
C) Utpal Bhadra
D) Obaid Siddiqi
152 Which social networking company
announced to launch of Chinese version
of its site in February 2014? The Chinese
language website will be a beta or test
version of the site.
A) Orkut
B) Facebook
C) LinkedIn
D) Google Plus
153 The only work of fiction ever
written by Charlie Chaplin, __________
was published in Feb 2014.
A) Footlight
B) Comedian
C) Limelight Actor
D) Chapline Time
154 Which team secured third place in
the Hockey India League held at Ranchi
in February 2014?
A) Ranchi Rhinos

B) Delhi Waveriders
C) Jaypee Punjab Warriors
D) Uttar Pradesh Wizards
155
The UNAIDS has announced
_____________ as Zero Discrimination
Day in Feb 2014.
A) 4-March
B) 1-March
C) 1-April
D) 12-April
156 Which Indian state was awarded
with the Krishi Karman award 2014 for
highest foodgrain production (announced
in Feb 2014)?
A) Punjab
B) West Bengal
C) Odissa
D) Madhya Pradesh

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157 Which Indian Origin ___________

developed a low cost Braille Printer
using lego Set in Feb 2014?
A) Geeta Chandran
B) Varun Arora
C) Bunker Roy
D) Shubham Banerjee
158 Which country announced its plan
to build the worlds longest underwater
tunnel beneath the Bohai Sea in Feb
2014 which will be completed by 2026?
A) Singapore
B) Japan
C) China
D) South Korea
159 Which country topped the list of
countries in terms of digital governance
as per the report on digital governance
released by Accenture in February 2014.
A) Singapore

B) Norway
C) UAE
D) Sweden
160 Finance minister P Chidambaram
has presented his interim budget for
2014 in Feb 2014. He has allocated
________ more to Nirbhaya Fund.
A) Rs 1500 crore
B) Rs 1000 crore
C) Rs 1300 crore
D) Rs 500 crore
161 Who was awarded with the Amazing
Indian Award 2014 (announced in Feb
2014)?
A) Tomas Halik
B) Chandi Prasad Bhatt
C) Arunima Sinha
D) None of These
162 Which country will host World
Bridge Championship 2015 for Bermuda
Bowl (men) and Venice Cup (women) as
per World Bridge Federation (WBF)
announcement in February 2014?
A) UK
B) Germany
C) Australia
D) India
163 Dr. Ali Mohamed Shein, President of
_________ was on an official visit to
India in February 2014.
A) Sudan
B) Libya
C) Zanzibar
D) Kenya
164 Global Software giant Microsoft has
named whom as its new Chairman in Feb
2014?
A) Steve Ballmer
B) Satya Nadella
C) John Thompson
D) Sundar Pichai
165 Who has been appointed Special
Advisor to United Nations to help steer
the multi-nation body frame a policy and
ensure its implementation in the area of

broadband and associated cyber security

issues in Feb 2014?
A) Sumit bose
B) M F Farooqui
C) Vivek Lall
D) Ratan P Watal
166 Indias National Womens day
celebrated on 13th February every year,
in the memory of which Indian woman?
A) Annie Besant
B) Indira Gandhi
C) Sarojini Naidu
D) Sucheta Kriplani
167 India has signed agreements on
Green Energy Corridors with which
country in Feb 2014?
A) UK
B) Germany
C) France
D) Sweden
168 Which Indian stock exchange
launched a new volatility index named
as India (VIX) which is based on the
index options prices of that exchange in
Feb 2014?
A) National Stock Exchange
B) Bombay Stock Exchange
C) MCX
D) None of These
169 According to Fortune Magazine
report published in Feb 2014, Which
company has been named as the best
company to work for the fifth
consecutive year?
A) Google
B) Microsoft
C) Facebook
D) Boston Consulting Group
170 Joachim Guack, President
________ visited India in Feb 2014.
A) France
B) Germany
C) Norway
D) Sweden

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171 Which Indian shooter has become

the first person to clinch three gold
medals in the Inter-Shoot Tri-series
Shooting in the Air Pistol event held at
Hague, Netherlands in Feb 2014?
A) Abhinav Bindra
B) Saurav Ghosal
C) Annu Raj Singh
D) Rahi Sarnobot
172 Which NGO won the Gold Shield and
Hall of Fame for Excellence award in
Financial Reporting for the year 2012-13
by
the
Institute
of
Chartered
Accountants of India (ICAI) in Feb 2014?
A) Care Promise Welfare Society
B) Alexis Centre For Womens
Development
C) Akshaya Patra Foundation
D) Comet Media Foundation
173 The 101st edition of annual Session
of Indian Science Congress (ISC) was held
in which university in Feb 2014? Dr.
Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
inaugurated the event.
A) Bombay University
B) Calcutta University
C) Delhi University
D) University of Jammu
174 Which Indian state has become the
first state to legally ban the
consumption of all forms of smokeless
tobacco including pan masala in Feb
2014?
A) Haryana
B) Guajarat
C) Maharashtra
D) Assam
175 Which Indian state announced to set
up
an
Automotive
Industrial
Development Centre named as Auto
City in Feb 2014 to offer investment
facilitation services to companies willing
to invest in the automotive industry?
A) Tamil Nadu
B) Guajarat
C) Maharashtra
D) Haryana

176 Prime Minister of India inaugurated

Indira Paryavaran Bhawan in ________ in
Feb 2014. This Bhawan will house the
Ministry of Environment and Forest and
will be Indias first on site Net Zero
Building.
A) Dehradun
B) Gurgaon
C) New Delhi
D) Hyderabad
177 Indian Government has set up a
one-man expert committee headed by
________ in Feb 2014 to study and
examine the demand of a separate
Bodoland state from Assam.
A) G K Pillai
B) Sam Pitroda
C) Sudarsanam Srinivasan
D) Arun Maira
178 IRCTC launched _______ Scheme in
February 2014 to make payment process
fast and to reduce transaction failures
due to bank payment related problems.
A) E-Paisa
B) E-Wallet
C) E-Money
D) E-Credit
179 Indian Government increased the
workdays under MNREGA from 100 days
to __________ for tribals in Feb 2014.
A) 120 days
B) 130 days
C) 150 days
D) 180 days
180 Which Indian publishing house has
agreed to withdraw American Indologist
Wendy Donigers book The Hindus: An
Alternative History from the Indian
market
following
an
out-of-court
settlement in Feb 2014?
A) Penguin India
B) Tata Mcgrow Hill
C) Pearson India
D) None of These
181 MP L. Rajagopal used a can of
pepper spray inside the Lok Sabha to

protest against the tabling of Telengana

Bill in Feb 2014. He belonged to which
political party at the time of the
incident?
A) Telugu Desam Party
B) YSR Congres
C) Indian National Congress
D) Telangana Rashtra Samithi

187 Indian government has scrapped a

multi billion helicopter deal with
AgustaWestland due to corruption in Feb
2014. This company is from which
country?
A) France
B) Spain
C) Italy
D) Germany

182 Which Musician/Music Director has

been appointed the goodwill ambassador
of Unesco Nepals Education For All in
Feb 2014?
A) Shankar Mahadevan
B) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
C) A R Rahman
D) Bappi Lahiri

188 Which movie won the Best Film

award in the BAFTA 2014 Awards
presented in February 2014?
A) 12 Years a slave
B) American Hustle
C) The Wolf of Wall Street
D) Dollas Buyers Club

183
Rishang Keishing, the oldest
Parliamentarian of India decided to
retire in February at an age of 94. He
belonged to which political party?
A) Manipur Peoples Party
B) Indian National Congress
C) Naga National Party
D) Peoples Liberation Army of Manipur

189 The Central Government has

appointed whom as Chairman and
Managing Director of Punjab & Sind Bank
(PSB) in Feb 2014?
A) B K Divakara
B) S.R. Bansal
C) Jatinder Bir Singh
D) DP Singh

184 India has signed two agreements

with which country for fighting against
international terrorism as well as
avoiding double taxation in Feb 2014?
A) Malaysia
B) China
C) Sri Lanka
D) Bangladesh

190
Indian
Olympic
Association
conducted its polls in Feb 2014 and
_________ was elected as the president.
This also cleared Indias return to the
Olympic fold.
A) Anil Khanna
B) N Ramachandran
C) N. Srinivasan
D) Akhilesh Das Gupta

185 Who has been appointed as the new

captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore
in Feb 2014?
A) Virat Kohli
B) Chris Gayle
C) Daniel Vettori
D) None of These
186 Which chess player won the Grenke
Chess Classic title 2013 held in Feb 2014?
A) Magnus Carlsen
B) Vladimir Kramnik
C) Viswanathan Anand
D) Arkadij Naiditsch

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1 Ans) Ghulam Nabi Azad
2 Ans) Harish Rawat
3 Ans) 12 Years a slave
4 Ans) Michael Rogers
5 Ans) Scotland
6 Ans) Mumbai
7 Ans) 24th Feb
8 Ans) 25%
9 Ans) Samsung
10 Ans) USD 1.64 billion
11 Ans) Facebook
12 Ans) Japan
13 Ans) Manoj Fadnis
14 Ans) 2.1%
15 Ans) Rafael Nadal
16 Ans) 28th Feb
17 Ans) Serena Williams
18 Ans) Philip Seymour Hoffman
19 Ans) Jatinder Bir Singh
20 Ans) Teresa Kho
21 Ans) Karnataka
22 Ans) Chiwetel Ejiofor
23 Ans) Satya Nadella
24 Ans) Janet Yellen
25 Ans) 4th Feb
26 Ans) Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur
27 Ans) Susan Wojcicki
28 Ans) 0.25%
29 Ans) Vishwanath Tripathi
30 Ans) Sanjeev Kulkarni
31 Ans) M P Bezbaruah
32 Ans) Malala Yousafzai
33 Ans) 13th Feb
34 Ans) Marco Lambertini
35 Ans) Mary Barra
36 Ans) Google
37 Ans) Cate Blanchett
38 Ans) Sochi
39 Ans) Kevin Pietersen
40 Ans) 29th
41 Ans) Mithun Chakraborty
42 Ans) 12th Feb
43 Ans) 4.9%
44 Ans) One
45 Ans) 100%
46 Ans) PepsiCo
47 Ans) Amul
48 Ans) 0.5%
49 Ans) M C Mary Kom
50 Ans) Alfonso Cuaron

51 Ans) Sushil Koirala

52 Ans) South Africa
53 Ans) Graham Gooch
54 Ans) 20th Feb
55 Ans) Thomas Cook India Ltd
56 Ans) N Ramachandran
57 Ans) South Korea
58 Ans) Are You Listening
59 Ans) 6.6%
60 Ans) Mark Zuckerberg
61 Ans) Zaka Ashraf
62 Ans) Yulia Lipnitskaya
63 Ans) Sikkim
64 Ans) Chennai Super Kings
65 Ans) 26%
66 Ans) Gravity
67 Ans) Maruti 800
68 Ans) Three
69 Ans) 21st Feb
70 Ans) R.K.Tiwari
71 Ans) 140th
72 Ans) 13-15%
73 Ans) Gurmit Singh
74 Ans) K Raghu
75 Ans) N Srinivasan
76 Ans) Royal Challengers Bangalore
77 Ans) Karnataka
78 Ans) 8.79%
79 Ans) -0.6%
80 Ans) WhatsApp
81 Ans) Comcast Corporation
82 Ans) Jennifer Lawrence
83 Ans) 13-Feb
84 Ans) Tamil
85 Ans) 0.3%
86 Ans) Arvind Kejriwal
87 Ans) 1093
88 Ans) Mukul Mudgal
89 Ans) 22nd Feb
90 Ans) 5.05%
91 Ans) Matteo Renzi
92 Ans) Vinod Sawhny
93 Ans) Google
94 Ans) 1%
95 Ans) Barkhad Abdi
96 Ans) Bharti Airtel
97 Ans) 4.6%
98 Ans) China
99 Ans) Sikkim
100 Ans) Sameer Kochhar
101 Ans) Killa

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