Current Affairs January 2014
Current Affairs January 2014 Questions and Answers for preparing
PSC | SSC | UPSC | Civil Services | Bank | RRB and all otherCompetitive Examinations.
1. Which former Bihar Chief Minister was sentenced to five years imprisonment in the fodder
scam case?
Answer: Lalu Prasad Yadav
2. Which organization won the Nobel Prize for Peace 2013?
Answer: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
3. Who won the FIDE World Chess Championship 2013?
Answer: Magnus Carlsen
4. What is the name of the official match ball of FIFA World Cup 2014 to be held in Brazil?
Answer: Brazuca
5. Who was selected for the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration 2013?
Answer: M.S Swaminathan
6. Where was the first branch of the Bharatiya Mahila Bank inaugurated?
Answer: Mumbai
7. Who is the current chairman of the Indian Premier League?
Answer: Ranjib Biswal
8. …………. was named as the ‘Word of the Year 2013’ by the Oxford English Dictionary?
Answer: Selfie
9. Who won the Miss Universe 2013 title?
Answer: Gabriela Isler
10. The first ‘customized pin code’ in the country was allotted to …………?
Answer: Supreme Court
11. Who has been named UNICEF’s brand ambassador for South Asia?
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar
12. …………….. has been declared as the first district in India with ‘Zero landless citizens’?
Answer: Kannur
13. Which Indian playback singer and recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke award 2007 passed
away recently?
Answer: Manna Dey
14. MAVEN, the Mars expedition spacecraft has been launched by:
Answer: NASA
15. Where was the Commonwealth Summit 2013 held?
Answer: Colombo
16. The new President of the Maldives?
Answer: Abdulla Yameen
17. Which scientist who had been the winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry twice, passed
away recently?
Answer: Frederick Sanger
18. Which nation won the 2013 Women’s Kabadi World Cup?
Answer: India
19. World Human Rights Day was observed on:
Answer: December 10
20. Which state’s legislative assembly has recently adopted a bill to tackle the illegal
activities of Chit funds?
Answer: West Bengal
21. The Union Labour Minister of India who passed away recently?
Answer: Sis Ram Ola
22. Which Indian won the best actor award at the Dubai International Film Festival?
Answer: Irfan Khan
23. Who won the Men’s Delhi half Marathon 2013?
Answer: Atsedu Tsegay (Ethiopia)
24. Which renowned Indian painter and former chairman of the Kerala Lalit Kala Academy
passed away recently?
Answer: C.N Karunakaran
25. Who was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh for the third consecutive term?
Answer: Raman Singh (BJP)
26. The recently released book Unbreakable is the autobiography of which sports person?
Answer: Mary Kom
27. Which party got the highest number of seats in the recently held assembly elections in
Delhi?
Answer: Aam Aadmi Party
28. Who has been chosen as the Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2013?
Answer: Pope Francis
29. Vijay Divas was observed across the country on:
Answer: December 16
30. Michelle Bachelet, the socialist candidate has won the Presidential election in which Latin
American country?
Answer: Chile
31. Which party won the Assembly elections in Mizoram?
Answer: Indian National Congress
32. Who was sworn in as the Chief Minister of the Madhya Pradesh for the third time in a
row?
Answer: Shivraj Singh Chouhan (BJP)
33. Vasundhara Raje has been sworn in as the Chief Minister of ……………?
Answer: Rajasthan
34. The Government of India has appointed Harsh Kumar Bhanwala as Chairman of which
bank?
Answer: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
35. Which nation won the 2013 Men’s Hockey Junior World Cup, held in New Delhi? Answer: Germany
36. The bill aimed at preventing communal violence in the country is named ………….?
Answer: Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill, 2013
37. International Mountain Day was observed on:
Answer: December 11
38. Which film was selected as India’s entry for the best foreign film to the 86th Academy
Awards?
Answer: The Good Road
39. Who has been elected for s third term as the Chancellor of Germany?
Answer: Angela Merkel
40. Man Booker Prize 2013 was won by …………?
Answer: Eleanor Catton
41. Who received the first National Yash Chopra Memorial Award?
Answer: Lata Mangeshkar
42. The naval variant of the surface to surface Prithvi missile, successfully test fired
recently.
Answer: Dhanush
43. The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP-19 was held in ………..
Answer: Warsaw
44. Which Bollywood actor has been appointed as the goodwill ambassador for South
Korea?
Answer: Shah Rukh Khan
45. Which distinguished Indian scientist has been elected honorary foreign member of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences?
Answer: Prof. C.N.R Rao
46. In which state was South India’s first high altitude cricket stadium inaugurated recently?
Answer: Kerala
47. The first talking robot sent to space has been named …………..
Answer: Kirobo
48. India is to host Under-17 FIFA World Cup in:
Answer: 2017
49. The first manmade object to go beyond the solar system and reach interstellar space.
Answer: Voyager 1
50. International Migrants Day was observed on ………….?
Answer: December 18
51. Which political party in India has been recognized by the Election Commission as state
party recently?
Answer: Aam Aadmi Party
52. Where was South India’s first high altitude cricket stadium inaugurated?
Answer: Krishnagiri, It is located in Wayanad district, kerala
53. Michiaki Takahashi, who invented the vaccine for …………. Passed away recently?
Answer: Chickenpox
54. Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed has been elected as the Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: Somalia
55. The indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) that received the initial
operational clearance for induction into the Indian Air Force?
Answer: Tejas
56. International Human Solidarity Day was observed on:
Answer: December 20
57. World’s first artificial heart transplant has been done recently in which country?
Answer: France
58. Kisan Divas was observed across the country on:
Answer: December 23
59. Who has been appointed India’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom?
Answer: Ranjan Mathai
60. Who got the Vayalar Ramavarma Award 2013?
Answer: Prabha Varma
61. Which country has given temporary asylum to Edward Snowden?
Answer: Russia
62. Who won the 2013 Indian Open Snooker title?
Answer: Ding Junhui
63. The Life Sciences Park to be set up near Thiruvananthapuram by the Kerala Government
is named ………….?
Answer: Bio 360
64. Who has been sworn in as the Chief Minister of Delhi?
Answer: Arvind Kejriwal
65. Who won the Soccer Club World Cup 2013?
Answer: Bayern Munich
66. Mikhail Kalashnikov who passed away recently, is known for the invention of ……….., the
world famous machine gun?
Answer: AK-47
67. The new category of vehicle sanctioned on Indian roads by the Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways?
Answer: Quadricycle
68. Vinod Kumar Duggal has been appointed as the Governor of ………….?
Answer: Manipur
69. World Soil Day was observed on:
Answer: December 5
70. The United Nations has declared 2014-2024 as the decade of:
Answer: Sustainable Energy for All
71. Which Manipuri art form entered the list of UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage of
humanity? Answer: Sankirtana
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