Daily GK Quiz 11th Feb 2015

Q. : 1 The Time magazine on 10 Dec named who among the following as its “Person of the Year 2014”?

1) Jack Ma 

2) The medics treating the Ebola

3) Protesters in Ferguson 

4) Taylor Swift

5) Vladimir Putin 

Q. : 2 India is all set to export its first warship, an off-shore patrol vehicle named ‘CGS Barracuda,’ to which of the following countries in about Rs 300 cr?

1) Sri Lanka 

2) Iraq

3) Myanmar 

4) Mauritius

5) Singapore 

Q. : 3 The Union Cabinet has given its nod to PSBs to bring down govt holding in a phased manner to raise funds in order to comply with the Basel III norms, which will come into effect from

1) Mar 31, 2016 

2) Mar 31, 2017

3) Mar 31, 2018 

4) Mar 31, 2019

5) Mar 31, 2020 

Q. : 4 Andhra Pradesh has signed an MoU with which of the following countries for the development of its new capital that is set to come up near Vijawayada?

1) Singapore 

2) UK

3) Germany 

4) France

5) Japan 

Q. : 5 Robert Mugabe is the present president of

1) Kenya 

2) Zimbabwe

3) Nigeria 

4) Algeria

5) Tunisia 

Q. : 6 You will have read about Uber in connection with different controversies in recent time. It is a

1) luxury automaker 

2) online hotel booking company

3) online taxi booking company 

4) multilevel marketing company

5) None of these 

Q. : 7 What is Arjun Mark-I?

1) An automatic rifle used by the Indian Army 

2) India’s first nuclear submarine

3) An indigenous attack helicopter 

4) Indigenously developed main battle tank

5) None of these 

Q. : 8 The Appellate Body of the WTO, recently, ruled against which of the following countries which had imposed high duty on imports of certain steel products from India?

1) China 

2) US

3) UK 

4) Pakistan

5) France

Q. : 9 Identify the one who is NOT among the eight Indians who have so far won the prestigious Nobel Prize?

1) Rabindranath Tagore 

2) Mahatma Gandhi

3) Mother Teresa 

4) CV Raman

5) None of these 

Q. : 10 The United States senate on 10 Dec confirmed the nomination of who among the following as the next US ambassador to India?

1) Kathleen Stephens 

2) Richard Rahul Verma

3) Nisha Desai Biswal 

4) Christopher R Hill

5) Sung Kim 

Answer :-

1. (2) The medics treating the Ebola
2. (4) Mauritius
3. (4) Mar 31, 2019
4. (1) Singapore
5. (2) Zimbabwe
6. (3) online taxi booking company
7. (4) Indigenously developed main battle tank
8. (2) US
9. (2) Mahatma Gandhi
10. (2) Richard Rahul Verma