Current Affairs Questions With Answers

Q1. What is the current number of members of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC)?
Ans. 20

Q2. Which place is the venue for 2014 winter Olympics?
Ans. Sochi, Russia

Q3. Recently, who has been appointed as National Security Advisor to the United States President?
Ans. Susan Rice

Q4. Which airline company has been awarded best low-cost airline in West Asia?
Ans. Air Arabia

Q5. Recently, Telecom commission of India approved the enhancement of the Foreign Direct Investment limit in the telecom sector from 74 percent to_____ percent.
Ans. 100

Q6. Father of the Computer Mouse, who passed away recently is_____?
Ans. Douglas Englebart

Q7. Who has been appointed as President of NASSCOM?
Ans. R Chandrashekar

Q8. The National Institute of Virology (NIV) is located in whichof the following place?
Ans. Pune

Q9. Vikas Gowda, who clinched India’s first gold at Asian Meet is associated with which Athletic sports?
Ans. Discus Throw

Q10. Recently, Pakistan Cricket Board imposed a life ban on which Pakistan Cricket Player?
Ans. Danish Kaneria

Q11. Recently, the construction of dam on Blue Nile River triggered the tension between which two countries?
Ans. Ethiopia and Egypt

Q12. The seventh regional Pravasi Bhartiya Divas will be held in____?
Ans. Sydney

Q13. Recently which Islands in India were declared as the World Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO under its MAB (Man and Biosphere) Programme?
Ans. Nicobar Islands

Q14. Who is the head of the expert committee set up by the Union government to evolve a composite index to measure the backwardness of States?
Ans. Raghuram Ranjan

Q15. In which state “Rajaji National Park” is located?
Ans. Uttarakhand

Q16. Who has won the Man Booker International Prize-2013?
Ans. Lydia Davis

Q17. In which state "Indian National Defence University" is coming up?
Ans. Haryana

Q18. Who won Wimbledon women’s singles title for2013?
Ans. Marion Bartoli of France

Q19. Which two countries recently offered political asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden?
Ans. Venezuela and Nicaragua

Q20. What the overall poverty incidence in India was during 2010 as declared in the latest data released under the report UN Millennium Development Goals for 2013?
Ans. 33%

Q21. Which famous Buddhist shrine was targetted on 7 July 2013 with a series of low intensity serial blasts?
Ans. Mahabodhi Temple, Bodhgaya, Bihar

Q22. Which Indian girl flipped the coin at the Wimbledon men’s singles final between Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon on 7 July 2013?
Ans. Pinki Sonkar

Q23. Who was appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of IDBI Bank by the Union Govt.?
Ans. M.S. Raghavan

Q24. Who won the German Formula One Grand Prix, final of which was held on 7 July 2013?
Ans. Sebastian Vettel

Q25. Two passengers were killed and 182 injured during the crash of a Korean jetliner while landing in San Francisco International Airport on 6 July 2013. This aircraft belonged to which airline?
Ans. Asiana Airlines


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