[CA/GK] Books & Authors - Part 11

Books & Authors – Part 11

#	Books	Authors
01	Food For All	Uma Lele
02	Kalam Effect	P M Nair
03	India Central Asia Relations: The Economic Dimension	Amiya Chandra
04	Benazir Bhutto: A multidimensional Portrait	Anna Suvorova
05	Midnight's Furies	Nisid Hajari
06	Grey	El James
07	Rise of Kali	Anand Neelakantan
08	Indira Gandhi in my Eyes	Suvra Mukherjee
09	The Sinless Victim	Yaseer Abbasi
10	To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Reforms Story	Jairam Ramesh
11	Mrs Funnybones: She’s Just Like You and a Lot Like Me	Twinkle Khanna
12	Modern Thought Leaders- Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Lectures (1997-2014)	Anil Shastri
13	1965, Turning the Tide: How India Won the War	Nitin Gokhale
14	1965 : Stories from the Second Indo-Pak War	Rachna Bisht Rawat
15	Globalisation, Democratization and Distributive Justice	Prof. Mool Chand Sharma
16	Crowds and Power	Elias Canetti
National Award-winning filmmaker Kamal Swaroop's documentary film ‘Battle for Banaras’ is the latest to face the ire of the Censor Board of Film Certification (CBFC) It is inspired by Nobel laureate Elias Canetti's book ‘Crowds and Power’
17	30 Women in Power: Their Voices, Their Stories	Naina Lal Kidwai
18	The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle	Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
19	Globalisation, Democratization and Distributive Justice	Prof (Dr.) Mool Chand Sharma
20	Making India Awesome	Chetan Baghat
21	Midnight’s Furies	Nisid Hajari
22	Farthest Field (An Indian Story of the Second World War)	Raghu Karnad
23	Dear Mrs. Naidu	Mathangi Subramanian
24	God help the Child	Toni Morrison
25	Don’t Let Him Know	Sandip Roy

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[QandA] Questions and Answers - Part 11

Date: Dec 10, 2014

(01) 12 spiritual leaders (including an Indian) across the globe met at Vatican and vowed to end modern day slavery by ___ (year)

2020

(02) Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi flagged off passenger train from ____ in Meghalaya to Guwahati in Assam, following which Meghalaya found a place in the country’s railway map

Mendipathur

(03) What is “Swantah Sukhaya”?

A new scheme launched by the Government of India. Government officials is allowed to take up social or charitable nature

(04) The number of international airports in India is (as mentioned in the new Draft Civil Aviation policy)

15

(05) The State that signed US$100 million agreement with Asian Development Bank, to increase the employability of school and college students by providing English fluency and IT skills is

Kerala

(06) In a bid to give push to its new Silk Route policy, China launched a cargo train service connecting Yiwu with Madrid in Spain. The 13000 km line passes how many countries apart from China and Spain?

6 (Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, France and Germany)

(07) ___ (country) will partner with India in Delhi International Book Fair 2016

China

(08) If it is Mitchell Johnson for ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year, then who is for ICC Women’s ODI cricketer of the Year?

Sarah Taylor (England)

(09) American geologist have named Earth’s most abundant mineral as ____

Bridgmanite

(10) “Koala Diplomacy” is associated with which Summit/Event?

G20 Summit 2014 (Brisbane)

(11) In a row of boys, Sudarshan is seventh from the left and Venkat is 12th from the right. If they interchange their positions, Sudharshan becomes 22nd form the left. How many boys are there in the row?

33

(12) Fill the series:

            1          2          3

            4          5          6

            7          8          9

            27        38        ?

51

Exp:

(7*4) – 1 = 27; (8*5) – 2 = 32; and so (6*9) – 3 = 51

(13) The sum of four consecutive even numbers A, B, C and D is 180. What is the sum of the set of next four consecutive even numbers?

212

Exp:

Let the numbers be: A = a; B = a+2; C = a+4; D=a+6

So A+B+C+D = a+a+2+a+4+a+6= 180

4a+12 = 180

4a = 168

So, a = 42

The next four “Consecutive even” numbers must be:

a+8, a+10, a+12 and a+14

Adding all these,

4a+44 = (4 * 42) + 44 = 212

(14) The average of 8 numbers is A and the average of four of these is B. If the average of remaining four is C. then B+C is

2A

Exp:

Let the 8 numbers be a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6, a7 and a8

Average of a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6, a7 and a8 is A

So, a1 + a2 + a3 + a4 + a5 + a6 + a7 + a8 = 8A à (1)

Average of four (a1, a2, a3 and a4) of these is B

So, a1 + a2 + a3 + a4 = 4B à (2)

Average of remaining four (a5, a6, a7 and a8) is C

So, a5 + a6 + a7 + a8 = 4C à (3)

Put the values of (2) and (3) in (1)

4B + 4C = 8A

4(B+C) = 8A

So, (B+C) = 2A

(15) A number when divided by 2, 3 or 5 gives remainder 1. The number is

31

Exp:

LCM of (2, 3 and 5) + 1 = 30 +1 = 31

(16) Union Government constituted ______ committee to provide bankruptcy code for small and medium enterprises (SMEs)

Viswanathan

(17) How many Lok Sabha Constituencies in India witnessed the introduction of VVPAT system in 2014 General Elections?

7

Exp:

Central Chennai, South Bengaluru, Lucknow, Raipur, Gandhinagar, Patna Sahib and Javadpur

(18) UN decided to celebrate 2015 as International Year of _____

(i) Light and light based technologies

(ii) Soils

(19) The man who is behind the National Planning Committee and the monthly science journal “Science and Culture” is

Meghnad Saha

(20) Who said the following statement?

“Science is not a matter merely of looking at test tubes and mixing different gases and producing things a big or small or gadgets. Science ultimately is a way of training the minds and mind’s working and their whole life functioning according to the ways and methods of science”

Jawaharlal Nehru

(21) Author of the book, “India – China Boundary Issues: Quest for Settlement” is

Ranjit Singh Kalha

(22) Phillip Hughes (cricketer) was injured by a bowler in Australia, which caused a vertebral artery dissection that led to a ____  (medical term) resulting in the death of Hughes

Subarachnoid haemorrhage

(23) What is “green diesel”?

A sustainable biofuel made from vegetable oils, waste cooking oil and animal fats

(24) _____ to become the European Green Capital next year

Bristol (England)

(25) The country which is to legalise same sex marriages on Jan 01, 2015 is

Luxembourg

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