Daily GK Quiz : 27 June 2014

The Modi-led Government has appointed whom as the new Attorney General of India, the top law officer of the country, in May 2014?

  A) Mukul Rohatgi

  B) Goolam Vahanvati

  C) Mohan Parasaran

  D) None of These

   

Who has been appointed as Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May 2014?

  A) Syamal Kumar Sarkar

  B) Anil Goswami

  C) Nripendra Misra

  D) Ajit Doval

   

State Bank of India Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya and ICICI Bank Managing Director Chanda Kochhar are among the five women from India who are featured in Forbes’ 100 most powerful women in the world published in May 2014. Bhattacharya is ranked _______ on the power list, while Kochhar is ranked at 43rd.

  A) 36th

  B) 31st

  C) 40th

  D) 23rd

   

Infosys Ltd President __________-, widely considered to be the next CEO to succeed S D Shibulal when he retires in January 2015, has resigned from the Company in May 2014.

  A) U B Pravin Rao

  B) Ashok Vemuri

  C) Basab Pradhan

  D) B.G. Srinivas

   

Who took oath as the new Minister of State of Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge) as a part of Modi Government in May 2014?

  A) Shripad Yesso Naik

  B) Santosh Kumar Gangwar

  C) Inderjit Singh Rao

  D) Dharmendra Pradhan

   

Who has been elected as the Captain of the Indian Cricket team for the One Day series (ODI) in Bangladesh which will be held from 15th June (announced in May 2014).

  A) Virat Kohli

  B) Shikhar Dhawan

  C) Suresh Raina

  D) Gautam Gambhir

   

Which Global tech company announced that it would buy Beats for about USD 3 billion in may 2014?

  A) Apple

  B) Facebook

  C) Google

  D) Microsoft

   

US economic growth stood at ________ in the first quarter of the current year 2014 (announced in May 2014).

  A) 2.6%

  B) 0.2%

  C) 1.5%

  D) -1%

   

Prime Minister Narendra Modi quit his ___________ Lok Sabha seat in May 2014. As per rule, a member who has been elected from two Lok Sabha constituencies, has to vacate one of the seats within 14 days of the declaration of result.

  A) Varanasi

  B) Vadodara

  C) Ahmedabad

  D) Lucknow

   

India’s indigenously developed ________ rockets were successfully test-fired thrice  from a multi-barrel rocket launcher at an armament base in Chandipur in May 2014. The rockets with a range of 40 km and capable of acting as a force-multiplier, were developed to supplement artillery guns.

  A) Brahmos

  B) Akaash

  C) Pinaka

  D) Agni