Daily GK Quiz - 14th January 2015

Q. : 1 The govt on 13 Jan removed Avinash Chander as the chief of which of the following organisations 15 months before his contract was to end?

1) ISRO 

2) DRDO

3) OFB 

4) HAL

5) None of these 

Q. : 2 Which of the following central banks has received the central bank of the year award instituted by London-based website, centralbanking.com recently?

1) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) 

2) Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ)

3) Federal Reserve 

4) Bank of Japan (BOJ)

5) European Central Bank (ECB) 

Q. : 3 At the biennial Vibrant Gujarat Summit in Gandhinagar, corporates from India and abroad pledged to invest an astonishing ___________and signed 21,000 MoUs.

1) Rs 10 lakh cr 

2) Rs 12 lakh cr

3) Rs 17 lakh cr 

4) Rs 25 lakh cr

5) None of these 

Q. : 4 Who among the following governors of central bank has received the governor of the year award instituted by London-based website, centralbanking.com recently?

1) Haruhiko Kuroda 

2) Janet Yellen

3) Graeme Wheeler 

4) Raghuram Rajan

5) None of these 

Q. : 5 The global defence and aerospace company BAE Systems has appointed who among the following as a non-executive Director and Chairman of its Indian subsidiary?

1) Naina Lal Kidwai 

2) KV Kamath

3) Uday Kotak 

4) Aditya Puri

5) Deepak Parekh 

Q. : 6 The National Youth Day is celebrated in India every year on the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda which falls on

1) 1 Jan 

2) 3 Jan

3) 6 Jan 

4) 9 Jan

5) 12 Jan 

Q. : 7 The Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on 13 Jan flagged off country’s first compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered train from

1) Rewari, Haryana 

2) Thane, Maharashtra

3) Agra, Uttar Pradesh 

4) Porbandar, Gujarat

5) None of these 

Q. : 8 Which of the following teams has recorded the highest successful run chase (231) in T-20 history?

1) Pakistan 

2) West Indies

3) South Africa 

4) Australia

5) None of these 

Q. : 9 Which of the following teams has won the Federation Cup football title recently?

1) Dempo Sports Club 

2) Mohammedan SC

3) Bengaluru FC 

4) Kerala Blasters FC

5) FC Goa 

Q. : 10 Who among the following tennis players recorded 1000th win in the men's professional circuit winning the men’s singles title of the Brisbane International recently?

1) Roger Federer 

2) Stan Wawrinka

3) David Ferrer 

4) Rafael Nadal

5) Novak Djokovic 

Answer :-

1. (2) DRDO
2. (2) Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ)
3. (4) Rs 25 lakh cr
4. (4) Raghuram Rajan
5. (5) Deepak Parekh
6. (5) 12 Jan
7. (1) Rewari, Haryana
8. (2) West Indies
9. (3) Bengaluru FC
10. (1) Roger Federer