[QandA] Questions and Answers - Part 9

Date: Nov 26, 2014

(01) India’s K. Srikanth won China Open Super Series by defeating

Lin Dan

(02) Recently, who said that “Islam reached America before Columbus”?

Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogn (President of Turkey)

(03) The next edition (2015) of G20 Meet will be held in

Antalya (Turkey)

(04) 2014 Asian Beach Games was held in

Phuket (Thailand)

(05) Number of Gold medals won by India in 2014 Commonwealth Games

15

(06) “RADAR” was invented by

Austin

(07) DIPP (Department of industrial Policy and Promotion) comes under the Ministry of

Commerce and Industries

(08) In the tenure of which British Governor, the first railway line was laid down in India

Lord Dalhousie

(09) ‘Paracel Islands’ is the dispute between the countries of

China and Vietnam

(10) Capital of Fiji is

Suva

(11) “Operation Green Hunt” launched to combat

Naxalites

(12) Dual character of an electron was explained by

De-Brogile

  

(13) Countries in MINT group are

Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey

(14) Sodium thiosulphate is use din photography because of its

reducing behaviour

(15) “Peace Angle 2014” is a joint military exercise between the countries of

Pakistan and China

(16) Find the next number in the following series:

            2, 3, 6, 15, 45, ?

157.5
Explanation:
2 * 1.5 = 3; 3 * 2 = 6; 6 * 2.5 = 15; 15 * 3 = 45
So, 45 * 3.5 = 157.5

(17) If the radius of a circle is decreased by 50%, then its area is reduced by

75%

Explanation:
Assume, r = 10, then Area = 100∏
Now, r is decreased by 50% ==> r = 5
So area = ∏r² = 25∏

Reduced by =

 (100∏ - 25∏)

----------------  * 100

   100∏

= 75% (decrease)

(18) Article 263 of the Indian Constitution deals with

Inter – State Councils

(19) Oxford Dictionary’s “Word of the Year 2014” is

Vape

(20) Government formed a committee on how to use unclaimed money from post office, PPF etc for elderly welfare. Who heads the Committee?

HR Khan Committee

(21) Winner of World Food Prize 2014 is

Dr. Sanjay Rajaram

(22) The HQ of newly proposed AIIB is at

Beijing

(23) The HQ of newly proposed BRICS Bank is at

Shanghai

(24) B N Talukar Panel is for

to inquire for the delay of developing gas in KG basin

(25) Fill the series:

Aces, Masters, Dreams, Marathas, Raptors and _____

Marshalls (all are the teams of Champions Tennis League)

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Supplementary Questions

(01) Recently which country President said that, “Women and men are not equal”?

Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogn

(President of Turkey)

(02) What is the Operation name of which the lone terrorist (Ajmal Kasab) who got in 26/11 Mumbai terror attack was hanged to death?

Operation X

(03) In which jail, the terrorist Ajmal Kasab was buried?

Yerwada Jail in Pune

(04) On 29 November, 2008, India's National Security Guards (NSG) conducted ______ (Operation) to flush out the remaining attackers in the Mumbai Terror attack

Operation Black Tornado

(05) Author of “The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years”

Mr. Pranab Mukherjee

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