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1 Who has been selected for Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award in Aug 2014 for his

outstanding contribution towards the promotion of Communal harmony, peace and goodwill?

A) Rakesh Om Prakash Mehra

B) Gulzar

C) Muzaffar AliD) Farooq Sheikh

2 How many sportsperson was awarded with India's top most sports award, the "Rajiv Gandhi Khel

Ratna Award 2014" as announced in Aug 2014?

A) Zero

B) One

C) Two

D) Three

3 USA unemployment rate stood at ______ in July (announced in Aug 2014).

A) 6.3%

B) 7.1%

C) 6.6%

D) 6.1%

4 The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against the Chairman and Managing

Director of ____________, S K Jain for alleged bribery case in Aug 2014. As per allegation, the

CMD asked for bribe to extend credit facilities to certain companies.A) United Bank of India

B) Syndicate Bank

C) IDBI Bank

D) Allahabad Bank

5 The board of directors of India's largest milk federation, the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing

Federation (GCMMF), unanimously elected whom as the new Chairman in Aug 2014?

A) Vipul Chaudhary

B) Anandibhai Patel

C) Jethabhai Patel

D) None of These

6 "Hiroshima Day" is observed on __________________.

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A) 8-August

B) 6-August

C) 9-August

D) 18-August

7 Who took over as the new Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in Aug 2014?

A) R K Tewari

B) Shashi Kant Sharma

C) K V Chowdary

D) A P M Mohammed Hanish

8 Deputy National security Advisor __________ resigned and his resignation was accepted by Prime

Minister Narendra Modi on 31st July 2014.

A) Nehchal SandhuB) Arvind Gupta

C) R N Ravi

D) Shashi Kant Sharma

9 Abhishek Verma received the Arjuna award - 2014 in Aug 2014. He is associated with which sport?

A) Hockey

B) Wrestling

C) Shooting

D) Archery

10 Reserve Bank of India's new deputy governor __________ took charge of banking supervision,

currency management, financial stability and rural credit in Aug 2014.

A) S S Mundra

B) KC Chakrabarty

C) Anand Sinha

D) Harun Rashid Khan

11 The first Indian woman mountaineer to scale Mount Everest, Bachendri Pal was awarded with the

'Bharat Gaurav' award by the football East Bengal Club in Aug 2014. The football club is based in

which city?

A) Lucknow

B) Kolkata

C) Allahabad

D) Panaji

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12 Indian athlete ___________ won gold medal in men's discuss throw event at the 20th

Commonwealth Games in Aug 2014. This is also India's first gold medal in athletics in the

Commonwealth games 2014.

A) Renjith MaheshwaryB) Om Prakash Karhana

C) Vikas Gowda

D) Irfan Kolothum Thodi

13 "Organ Donation Day" is observed on __________________.

A) 12-August

B) 11-August

C) 9-August

D) 6-August

14 Who became the first Indian woman gymnast of India to win a medal at the Commonwealth

Games in Aug 2014? She won a bronze medal in the vault event and scripted history for and in

India.

A) Vijay Kumar

B) Prabhjot Bajw

C) Dipa Karmakar

D) Palak Kour Bijral

15 The prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Awards for year 2014 was announced in Aug 2014. Journalist

Hu Shuli whose work has led to the ouster of corrupt officials won the award. He belongs to which

country?

A) Indonesia

B) China

C) Japan

D) Thailand

16 How many Indian companies are placed in the list of Forbes' list of the world's 100 most

innovative companies that investors think are most likely to 'generate big, new growth ideas'',

published in Aug 2014?

A) Four

B) Five

C) Six

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D) Seven

17 The 20th Commonwealth Games was concluded at Glasgow in Aug 2014 through a glittering

concluding ceremony. India finished at _________ position as per medal tally after posting a

successful performance in the tournament. Indian athletes won 15 gold, 30 silver and 19 bronze for atotal haul of 64 medals to finish fifth

A) Third

B) Fourth

C) Fifth

D) Sixth

18 The 20th Commonwealth Games was concluded at Glasgow in Aug 2014. Which country leads

the medal tally with 58 Gold medals, 59 silver medals and 57 Bronze medals in the same.

A) AustraliaB) England

C) Canada

D) Scotland

19 Mathematician and Stanford University professor Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to

win the Fields Medal this year in Aug 2014. She is from which countr?

A) Syria

B) Iraq

C) IranD) Turkey

20 Who from Bandminton sports received the Arjuna award - 2014 in Aug 2014?

A) V. Diju

B) Aparna Balan

C) Jwala Gutta

D) PV Sindhu

21 India men's hockey team won a _________ medal on the final day of the 20th Commonwealth

Games at the Glasgow National Hockey Centre in Aug 2014.

A) Gold

B) Silver

C) Bronze

D) No Medal

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22 The World Bank has pledged ___________ in emergency funding to Ebola virus hit countries in

West Africa which include Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to contain the spread of the deadly virus

in Aug 2014.

A) USD 100 millionB) USD 200 million

C) USD 50 million

D) USD 300 million

23 "World Senior Citizen's Day" is observed on __________________.

A) 8-August

B) 6-August

C) 9-August

D) 18-August

24 Who was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court in Aug 2014? She also became

the first woman Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court.

A) Justice Dr. Manjula Chellur

B) Justice N.P. Singh

C) Justice S L Bhojegowda

D) Justice B.S. Chauhan

25 Who has been appointed as deputy National Security Adviser in Aug 2014?. He will also beSecretary, National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), an apex advisory body tasked with

suggesting to the government on political, economic and strategic security concerns.

A) Nehchal Sandhu

B) Arvind Gupta

C) R N Ravi

D) Shashi Kant Sharma

26 Who has taken over as the new Vice Chief of Army Staff in Aug 2014?

A) Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag

B) Bikram Singh

C) Lt Gen Philip Campose

D) Vijay Kumar Singh

27 The Reserve Bank of India has reduced the SLR rate by 50 bps to ________ during its

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announcement of August 2014 monetary policy review.

A) 23.5%

B) 22.5%

C) 23%

D) 22%

28 Union cabinet has approved a proposal in Aug 2014 to empower the Juvenile Justice Board to

decide whether a juvenile of above _________ involved in heinous crimes such as rape will be

considered as a juvenile or an adult to be tried in a regular court.

A) 14 Years

B) 15 Years

C) 16 Years

D) 17 Years

29 The union cabinet has also approved raising FDI limit in the defence sector to __________ in the

Cabinet meeting held in Aug 2014 headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This move will boost

the domestic defence industry as India import more than 70% of its military equipment.

A) 26%

B) 49%

C) 51%

D) 74%

30 The cabinet has opened up the railway infrastructure segment for FDI to push new reforms andattract more foreign investment. It has approved _________ FDI in areas such as high-speed train

systems, suburban corridors and dedicated freight line projects implemented in PPP mode in Aug

2014.

A) 26%

B) 49%

C) 74%

D) 100%

31 Famous cartoonist Pran Kumar Sharma, popularly known as Pran, passed away in Aug 2014?

What is the most popular chomic character he has created?

A) Baman

B) Pinki

C) Chacha Chaudhury

D) Naagraaj

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32 H.N. Girisha received the Arjuna award - 2014 in Aug 2014. He is associated with which sport?

A) Para-Athletics

B) Wrestling

C) Shooting

D) Archery

33 German ERP giant SAP has appointed ___________ as the Managing Director for SAP Labs

India, German company's third largest R&D center globally, in Aug 2014?

A) Anirban Dey

B) Dilipkumar Khandelwal

C) Vishal Sikka

D) None of These

34 The European Central Bank (ECB) has reduced its benchmark interest rate at record low of________ during its monetary policy review in Aug 2014.

A) 0.25%

B) 0.5%

C) 0.75%

D) 0.15%

35 The Bank of England has kept Interest rates unchanged at record low of ________, as per the

monetary policy announcement in Aug 2014.

A) 0.75%B) 0.5%

C) 0.25%

D) 1%

36 The 18th BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) ministerial meeting on climate change

held in __________ in Aug 2014.

A) Mumbai

B) New Delhi

C) Shanghai

D) Brasilia

37 "International Youth Day" is observed on __________________.

A) 21-August

B) 16-August

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C) 12 -August

D) 18-August

38 The Reserve Bank of India has kept marginal standing facility (MSF) rate unchanged at

________ during its announcement of August 2014 monetary policy review.A) 10%

B) 9%

C) 8%

D) 7%

39 Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptullah has announced that the government has launched a

scheme ___________ in Aug 2014 to provide interest subsidy on educational loans for overseas

studies for students belonging to the notified minority communities like Muslims, Christians, Sikhs,

Buddhists, Jains and Parsis.A) Padhai Pardesh

B) Sikhsha Pardesh

C) Padho Pardesh

D) None of These

40 The Reserve Bank of India has announced some measures to tighten the regulatory framework

for asset reconstruction companies. The RBI said ARCs will henceforth have to mandatorily invest

and hold minimum __________ compared to earlier 5% of the Security Receipts issued by them

against the assets acquired from banks on an ongoing basis till the redemption of all the receipts.A) 20%

B) 10%

C) 15%

D) 12%

41 Who has been nominated and appointed as the Vice-President of the Indian Chamber of

Commerce in Aug 2014?

A) Aditya Vardhan Agarwal

B) Sanjiv Goenka

C) Aniruddha Basu

D) None of These

42 India Ratings & Research (a Fitch group company) has increased Indian GDP growth project to

_______________ for the current financial year 1014-15 (announced in Aug 2014).

A) 5.3%

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B) 5.6%

C) 5.7%

D) 6.1%

43 Who has received the 'Entrepreneur of the Year' award from the All India ManagementAssociation (AIMA) in Aug 2014?

A) M G George Muthoot

B) Chandra Shekhar Ghosh

C) N Chandrasekaren

D) S. S. Badrinath

44 Who has received the 'Emerging Business Leader of the Year' award from the All India

Management Association (AIMA) in Aug 2014?

A) M G George MuthootB) Chandra Shekhar Ghosh

C) N Chandrasekaren

D) S. S. Badrinath

45 Which Indian Cricketer received the Arjuna award - 2014 in Aug 2014?

A) Suresh Raina

B) R. Ashwin

C) Sikhar Dhawan

D) Cheteshwar Pujara

46 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued draft guidelines for implementation of a new payment

system BBPS, an anytime anywhere bill payment system in Aug 2014. What is its full form?

A) Bharat Bill Payment Service

B) Bharat Bill Payment System

C) Better Bill Payment System

D) None of These

47 "Quit India Day" is observed on __________________.

A) 8-August

B) 6-August

C) 9-August

D) 18-August

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48 The Reserve Bank has issued revised guidelines for mortgage guarantee companies in Aug 2014

which said that guarantees provided by MGCs may be treated as contingent liabilities, for which

credit conversion factor would be considered as __________ compared to present consideration of

100%.

A) 40%B) 50%

C) 60%

D) 70%

49 Indian capital market regulator, SEBI has imposed a penalty of 13 crore rupees on which

company in Aug 2014 for alleged irregularities in issuance of warrants by the company to its

promoters. The case related to 2007 earnings and the company's repeatedly failed to disclose the

key earnings ratio.

A) Essar OilB) Reliance Communication

C) Reliance Industries

D) Bhushan Steel

50 Zeeshan Ali received the Dhyan Chand award - 2014 in Aug 2014. He is associated with which

sport?

A) Hockey

B) Tennis

C) ShootingD) Archery

51 Who joined infrastructure finance company IDFC as the head of Bharat Banking with effect from

8th August 2014. IDFC has recently won the commercial banking licence from the RBI recently and

plans to start banking operations by end of next year.

A) S S Mundra

B) KC Chakrabarty

C) Ravi Shankar

D) Harun Rashid Khan

52 Philips India has roped in which bollywood actress as its brand ambassador for its beauty

business, which includes a range of hair and depilation devices, in Aug 2014?

A) Pareneeti Chopra

B) Deepika Padukone

C) Alia Bhatt

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D) Priyanka Chopra

53 Who has won first direct presidential election of Turkey after securing 52% of the total votes in the

election held in Aug 2014?

A) Recep Tayyip ErdoganB) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

C) Kemal Kldarolu

D) Abdullah Gl

54 Famous striker Miroslav Klose, the broke record as the all-time World Cup top scorer in the

recently held FIFA world cup, announced his retirement from international football in Aug. He

belongs to which country?

A) Portugal

B) BrazilC) Germany

D) Italy

55 Who won the Toronto Masters Men's singles held in Aug 2014?

A) Novak Djokovic

B) Roger Federer

C) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

D) Stanislas Wawrinka

56 Who won the Women's singles title at the WTA Montreal tournament held in Aug 2014?

A) Sabine Lisicki

B) Ana Ivanovic

C) Venus Williams

D) Agnieszka Radwanska

57 Which Indian state has become the most favoured destination of foreign tourists in the north-

eastern states of the country, as per the latest figures published by the Central Tourism Ministry in

Aug 2014?

A) Sikkim

B) Arunachal Pradesh

C) Assam

D) Manipur

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58 Mahabir Prasad received the Dronacharya award - 2014 in Aug 2014. He is associated with

which sport?

A) Boxing

B) Wrestling

C) ShootingD) Archery

59 "Intl. Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples" is observed on __________________.

A) 8-August

B) 6-August

C) 9-August

D) 18-August

60 Which Indian archer won a Gold and two Bronze medals at the Archery World Cup Stage IV inWroclaw, Poland in Aug 2014? Indian team finished at fifth with a total of 5 medals.

A) Deepika Kumari

B) Bombayala Devi Lashram

C) akshmi Rani Manji

D) None of These

61 India's Retail inflation, measured by Consumer Price Index, stood at ______ in July (announced

in Aug 2014).

A) 7.96%

B) 8.90%C) 8.28%

D) 7.31%

62 India's overall inflation, measured by the Wholesale price index, stood at _______ in June 2014

(published in Aug 2014).

A) 4.8%

B) 6.01%

C) 5.7%

D) 3.4%

63 Who has been named as the new Prime Minister of Iraq in Aug 2014? He was given 30 days to

form the next government and present it for the approval of parliament.

A) Ali alAdeeb

B) Mohammed Fuad Masum

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C) Haider al-Abadi

D) Ibrahim alJaafari

64 Oscar Winning veteran actor ______________ was found dead in his apartment in Aug 2014. He

was known as one of the best Comic heroes of Hollywood. He won Oscar as best supporting actorfor the movie 'Good Will Hunting'

A) Philip Seymour Hoffman

B) Robin Williams

C) Sally Field

D) Dustin Hoffman

65 Gurcharan Singh Gogi received the Lifetime Achievement Dronacharya award - 2014 in Aug

2014. He is associated with which sport?

A) BoxingB) Wrestling

C) Judo

D) Archery

66 The Reserve Bank of India has kept the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) unchanged at ________

during its announcement of August 2014 monetary policy review.

A) 5%

B) 4.5%

C) 4.25%D) 4%

67 Who has been appointed as the new Governor of Rajasthan in Aug 2014?

A) Kalyan Singh

B) Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala

C) C. Vidyasagar Rao

D) Mridula Sinha

68 Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the Leh Srinagar Transmission Line in Leh and Chutak

hydro-power project in ______________ to the nation In Aug 2014.

A) Leh

B) Jammu

C) Kargil

D) Sri Nagar

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69 Three MPS have been awarded wtih Outstanding Parliamentarian Awards in Aug 2014. President

Pranab Mukherjee conferred the awards at a function in Parliament library for the years 2010, 2011

and 2012. Who in the list is not among them.

A) Sharad YadavB) Arun Jaitley

C) Karan Singh

D) Kapil Sibal

70 Who has been elected unopposed as Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha in Aug 2014 after all major

parties extended support to him?

A) Arjun Charan Sethi

B) P. Kumar

C) M ThambiduraiD) V. Senthil Balaji

71 Which Indian businessperson has been conferred the 18th MMA Amalgamations Business

Leadership Award at a function in Chennai in Aug 2014 in recognition of his ability to foresee

economic trends, manage change, take bold initiatives, sustain values and for his contributions to

business, industry and society?

A) Adi Godrej

B) Azim Premji

C) Ratan Tata

D) N R Narayana Murthy

72 Which country secured No 1 position based on the Global Peace Index, 2014 published by the

Institute for Economics and Peace in Aug 2014?

A) Iceland

B) Denmark

C) Australia

D) Switzerland

73 Indian-origin mathematician ____________ has been awarded the prestigious Fields Medal at

the International Mathematical Union's (IMU) International Congress of Mathematicians in Aug 2014

in Seoul for developing powerful new methods in geometry of numbers.

A) Subhash Khot

B) Akshay Venkatesh

C) Manjul Bhargava

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D) Maryam Mirzakhani

74 "Photography Day" is observed on __________________.

A) 21-August

B) 16-AugustC) 19-August

D) 18-August

75 Gurmail Singh received the Dhyan Chand award - 2014 in Aug 2014. He is associated with which

sport?

A) Hockey

B) Wrestling

C) Shooting

D) Archery

76 Iranian-born mathematician and Stanford University professor _________________ became the

first woman and Iranian to win the Fields Medal this year in Aug 2014. Also Artur Avila became the

first Brazilian and Martin Hairer became the first Austrian to win the medal.

A) Maryam Mirzakhani

B) Martin Hairer

C) Artur Avila

D) None of These

77 Indian origin ___________ was awarded with the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize by the International

Mathematical Union, at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014 held in Seoul in Aug

2014. He was awarded for his 'prescient definition of the 'Unique Games' problem, and leading the

effort to understand its complexity and its pivotal role in the study of efficient approximation of

optimisation problems''.

A) Subhash Khot

B) Akshay Venkatesh

C) Manjul Bhargava

D) Maryam Mirzakhani

78 United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed three member to its Commission of

Inquiry to probe possible war crimes and human rights violations during a month long conflict in

Gaza on 12th August. The commission will be headed by ______________.

A) Amal Alamuddin

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B) William Schabas

C) Doudou Diene

D) None of These

79 Japan's economy was contracted by an annualized rate of ____________ during April-Junequarter due to a controversial sales tax increase by the Government recently (published in Aug

2014).

A) 4.8%

B) 5.1%

C) 6.8%

D) 7.9%

80 The Reserve Bank of India has kept repo rate unchanged at ________ during its announcement

of August 2014 monetary policy review.A) 8%

B) 7.75%

C) 7.25%

D) 7%

81 Justices Abhay Manohar Sapre, R Banumathi, Prafulla Chandra Pant and Uday Umesh Lalit have

been appointed as the new Supreme Court judges in Aug 2014. With this appointment, total strength

of Supreme Court judges touched ________ including Chief Justice R M Lodha.

A) 28

B) 29C) 30

D) 31

82 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set up Expenditure Management Commission headed by

former RBI Governor _____________ in Aug 2014. This committee will suggest ways to reduce food,

fertiliser and oil subsidies and narrow the fiscal deficit.

A) Bimal Jalan

B) Duvvuri Subbarao

C) YV Reddy

D) C. Rangarajan

83 ___________ Presidential candidate Eduardo Campos was killed in a plane crash in Aug 2014

raising doubt about the upcoming Presidential election scheduled to be held later this year.

A) Uruguay

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B) Columbia

C) Argentina

D) Brazil

84 Euro zone economic growth stood at ____________in the second quarter of the current year(announced in Aug 2014).

A) -0.3%

B) 0%

C) 0.2%

D) 0.8%

85 Which Football club won the UEFA Football Super Cup, the first European trophy of the season,

in Aug 2014?

A) BarcelonaB) Real Madrid

C) Manchester United

D) Manchester City

86 The reserve Bank of India has imposed a limit of 3 transactions per month from ATMs of other

banks and 5 from the same bank in hoa many metropolitan cities in Aug 2014?

A) Five

B) Six

C) SevenD) Eight

87 The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has reduced the rate of

interest on their refinance facilities to banks by 20-50 basis points to boost investments in the

agriculture sector. The new rates of interest on refinance will now be ___________ compared to

9.5% earlier for 5 years period.

A) 9.00%

B) 9.20%

C) 9.30%

D) 9.35%

88 India's overall inflation, measured by the Wholesale price index, stood at _______ in July 2014

(published in Aug 2014).

A) 4.8%

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B) 6.01%

C) 5.7%

D) 5.19%

89 "National Sports Day" is observed on __________________.A) 21-August

B) 29-August

C) 23-August

D) 27-August

90 Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned _____________, India's largest indigenously built

warship, at a ceremony held at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai in Aug 2014. 60% of the warship is

built in India and it is a symbol of self-reliance of Indian Navy.

A) INS KochinB) INS Kolkata

C) INS Bombay

D) INS Madras

91 Prime Minister Narendra Mod has announced a financial inclusion plan during his maiden

Independence Day speech, named as the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna. This will help the poor

open bank accounts and the main features of the scheme include a ____________ overdraft facility

for Aadhar-linked accounts, a Ru Pay Debit Card with an inbuilt Rs. 1 lakh accident insurance cover

and minimum monthly remuneration of Rs. 5,000 to business correspondents.A) Rs. 10,000

B) Rs. 5,000

C) Rs. 15,000

D) None of These

92 Which two state governments have signed an MoU for rural livelihood mission in Aug 2014?

A) Karnataka and Goa

B) Karnataka and Kerala

C) Karnataka and Maharashtra

D) Tamil Nadu and Kerala

93 The International Political Science Association has honoured Delhi University professor

______________ with the Global South Award for his outstanding work on the politics of the

developing world in Aug 2014.

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A) Pradeep Kapur

B) Sunil Kumar

C) Aditi Chowdhury

D) Prabhu Mohapatra

94 India was ranked at ____________ position based on the Global Peace Index, 2014 published by

the Institute for Economics and Peace in Aug 2014.

A) 134th

B) 143th

C) 105th

D) 162nd

95 The Reserve Bank of India has kept Reverse Repo rate unchanged at ________ during its

announcement of August 2014 monetary policy review.A) 6.75%

B) 7.75%

C) 7.25%

D) 7%

96 Who won the Men's singles title at the Cincinnati Open Singles Tennis tournament held in Aug

2014?

A) Novak Djokovic

B) Roger FedererC) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

D) Stanislas Wawrinka

97 FDI in China dropped by 16.95% in July compared to same month last year to ____________

(announced in Aug 2014).

A) USD 5.95 billion

B) USD 9.12 billion

C) USD 7.81 billion

D) None of These

98 Former Sri Lanka Skipper ____________ ended his 17-year Test career on a victorious note In

Aug 2014 as Sri Lanka won the second and final Test against Pakistan by 105 runs to win the series

2-0.

A) Kumar Sangakkara

B) Tillakaratne Dilshan

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C) Mahela Jayawardene

D) Angelo Mathews

99 Who won the Women's singles title at the Cincinnati Open Singles Tennis tournament held in Aug

2014?A) Sabine Lisicki

B) Ana Ivanovic

C) Serena Williams

D) Agnieszka Radwanska

100 Who has been appointed as the new chairman of Union Public Service Commission in Aug

2014?

A) Rajni Razdan

B) D P AgrawalC) Venkatarami Reddy Y

D) Alka Sirohi

101 How many sportsperson was awarded with the sports award, the "Arjuna Award 2014" as

announced in Aug 2014?

A) Sixteen

B) Fourteen

C) Twelve

D) Fifteen

102 __________________ has become the first IIM to obtain the Association to Advance Collegiate

Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation in business programmes for a period of 5 years in Aug

2014.

A) Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

B) Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

C) Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

D) Indian Institute of Management Indore

103 "World Humanitarian Day" is observed on __________________.

A) 21-August

B) 26-August

C) 19-August

D) 18-August

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104 Which Indian squash player became the first Indian reach the semifinals of World Junior Squash

Championship held in Windhoek, Namibia in Aug 2014?

A) Kush Kumar

B) Saurav GhosalC) Mahesh Mangaonkar

D) None of These

105 Which global IT company bought the startup behind a Jetpac mobile application that creates

insightful travel guides by analyzing pictures from social networks such as Instagram in Aug 2014?

A) Microsoft

B) Facebook

C) Google

D) Apple

106 After a humiliating defeat in the recently concluded Pataudi Trophy test-series against England,

India's ranking dropped to ___________ position in the latest ICC Test team rankings published in

Dubai in Aug 2014.

A) Third

B) Fourth

C) Fifth

D) Sixth

107 India was ranked at ___________ position in the list of top ten wind power producers in the

world by adding 1,700 MW capacity in 2013, as per the Renewables 2014 Global Status Report

published in Aug 2014.

A) Third

B) Fourth

C) Fifth

D) Sixth

108 Which mobile company leads the Indian handset market in India with market share of 17%, as

per the latest report published by IDC in Aug 2014?

A) Micromax

B) Samsung

C) Nokia

D) Karbonn

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109 Which IT company has announced to spend 200 crore rupees for Clean India Campaign as a

part of their CSR activities in Aug 2014?

A) Infosys Limited

B) Tata Consultancy ServicesC) Wipro

D) HCL Technologies

110 The BCCI has appointed former captain ______________ as the Team Director in Aug 2014

post India's humiliating 3-1 series loss against England in the recently concluded Pataudi Trophy

test-series.

A) Sunil Gavaskar

B) Kapil Dev

C) Ravi ShastriD) Dilip Vengsarkar

111 India's Trade deficit stood at ________ in July 2014 (announced in Aug 2014).

A) USD 12.2 billion

B) USD 10 billion

C) USD 11.23 billion

D) USD 9.25 billion

112 Indian capital Delhi has been ranked at ____________ position out of 140 world cities in the

Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) 'Global Liveability Ranking' released in Aug 2014. This dismalranking indicates to the lack of urban planning across India's polluted and chaotic cities.

A) 91st

B) 111th

C) 126th

D) 85th

113 Which city has been ranked as No 1 out of 140 world cities in the Economist Intelligence Unit's

(EIU) 'Global Liveability Ranking' released in Aug 2014?

A) London

B) Melbourne

C) Vienna

D) Tokyo

114 An Indian neuroscientist in the US, ___________, has been awarded Early Concept Grants for

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Exploratory Research (EAGER) under President Barack Obama's multi-year Brain Initiative to map

the human brain in Aug 2014.

A) Deepak Pandya

B) Anirvan Ghosh

C) Partha MitraD) Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

115 "Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Divas" is observed on __________________.

A) 21-August

B) 20-August

C) 29-August

D) 24-August

116 Sixteen-year-old Max Verstappen will become the youngest driver in Formula One history in2015 season after being singed in Aug 2014 for the season. He was signed for which Formula One

team?

A) Marcedez

B) Ferrari

C) Red Bull

D) McLaren

117 Senior Congress leader _____________ has been appointed as the Chairman of Parliament's

Public Accounts Committee, PAC in Aug 2014.A) Kapil Sibal

B) P Chidambaram

C) K V Thomas

D) Ajay Maken

118 The Government has constituted a high-level committee to recommend restructuring of Food

Corporation of India (FCI) in Aug 2014. This will be headed by ____________ and the committee will

submit its report to the Government within three months.

A) Hari Gautam

B) RK Singh

C) Shanta Kumar

D) Sivaramakrishnan

119 World-famous ___________ BKS Iyengar passed away following illness in Aug 2014. He was

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honoured with Padma Vibhushan by Indian Government.

A) Author

B) Yoga guru

C) Actor

D) Musician

120 Thailand coup leader, Army Chief ___________, has been elected as the 29th Prime Minister of

Thailand in Aug 2014.

A) Anupong Paochinda

B) Thaksin Shinawatra

C) Prayuth Chan-ocha

D) None of These

121 Which India's neighbour country has decided to join the newly formed BRICS development Bank

in AUg 2014, an initiative taken by the five emerging countries of the world - Brazil, Russia, India,China and South Africa?

A) Bhutan

B) Bangladesh

C) Nepal

D) Sri Lanka

122 "Earth Overshoot Day 2013" was observed on __________________.

A) 21-August

B) 26-AugustC) 20-August

D) 18-August

123 Which company secured the first rank in the list of Forbes' list of the world's 100 most innovative

companies for the fourth consecutive time that investors think are most likely to 'generate big, new

growth ideas'', published in Aug 2014?

A) Alexion Pharmaceuticals

B) Salesforce

C) ARM Holdings

D) Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

124 Cyril Baldock has set the world record for being the oldest person to cross the English Channel

in Aug 2014. The 70 year old swimmer completed the swim between England and France in 12

hours and 45 minutes. He is from which country?

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A) France

B) New Zealand

C) Australia

D) USA

125 Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated NTPC's thermal power station at Mouda to the nation in

Aug 2014. This power station is in which Indian state?

A) Andhra Pradesh

B) Kerala

C) Karnataka

D) Maharashtra

126 The Reserve Bank of India introduced a minimum set of guidelines for non-banking finance

companies (NBFCs) on lending against shares in order to reduce volatility in the capital market dueto NBFCs offloading shares pledged by borrowers who have defaulted on loans. As per the new

guidelines, NBFCs with asset size of Rs 100 crore and above, the NBFCs have to maintain a loan-to-

value (of shares pledged) of _________ and accept only Group 1 securities as collateral for loans of

a value more than Rs 5 lakh.

A) 60%

B) 75%

C) 50%

D) 80%

127 Which Indian brand/company has been ranked as India's most valuable brand with a brand

value of USD 9.4 billion, as per the first edition of the BrandZ Top 50 Most Valuable Indian Brands

ranking published in Mumbai in Aug 2014?

A) ICICI Bank

B) HDFC Bank

C) Bharti Airtel

D) State Bank of India

128 Five Indian companies are placed in the list of Forbes' list of the world's 100 most innovative

companies that investors think are most likely to 'generate big, new growth ideas'', published in Aug

2014. Which Indian company leads the list among Indian copanies?

A) Larsen & Toubro

B) Tata Consultancy Services

C) Sun Pharma Industries

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D) Hindustan Unilever

129 How many Indian companies are placed in the list of Forbes' list of the world's 100 most

innovative companies that investors think are most likely to 'generate big, new growth ideas'',

published in Aug 2014?A) Four

B) Five

C) Six

D) Seven

130 The Central Government is all set of appoint ___________ as the new Chief Economic Advisor

(CEA) as per announcement made in Aug 2014.

A) Kaushik Basu

B) Raghuram RajanC) Arvind Subramanian

D) Arvind Panagariya

131 The Reserve Bank has projected India's economic growth at _________ in the current financial

year due to improvement in manufacturing activity and investment, in its annual report for the

Financial Year 2013-14 published in Aug 2014.

A) 4.8%

B) 5.1%

C) 5.5%D) 5.9%

132 The Indian Banks' Association has elected ____________ as the Chairman of the Association

for 2014-15 at its 67th annual general meeting in Aug 2014.

A) KR Kamath

B) TM Bhasin

C) Arun Kaul

D) SL Bansal

133 Jnanpith award winner and famous ____________ writer U R Ananthamurthy passed away in

Aug 2014. He was awarded with the Padma Bhushan in 1998, Jnanpith award in 1994, the state

Rajyothsava award in 1984. He was also nominated for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize.

A) Marathi

B) Telugu

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C) Kannada

D) Malayalam

134 Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Pradhan Mantri Krishi Seenchayi Yojana to meet the

irrigation needs of all farmers across the country in Aug 2014. Total __________ has been allocatedfor implementation of the scheme.

A) Rs 100 crore

B) Rs 500 crore

C) Rs 1000 crore

D) Rs 1500 crore

135 An indigenously built anti-submarine warfare corvette named as __________ was inducted into

the Eastern Fleet of the Indian Navy in Aug 2014. This is the first of four ASW stealth corvettes

designed by the Navy's in-house organisation, the Directorate of Naval Design (DND), under Project28.

A) INS Kochin

B) INS Kamorta

C) INS Kolkata

D) None of These

136 __________-based wrestling academy, Guru Hanuman Akhara, has been chosen for Rashtriya

Khel Protsahan Puraskar (RKPP) award for this year, as per a Sports Ministry release in Aug 2014.

A) PunjabB) Haryana

C) Delhi

D) Rajasthan

137 Online restaurant and food discovery site ____________ acquired Czech Republic's and

Slovakia's restaurant guides Lunchtime.cz and Obedovat.sk respectively for a total amount of USD

3.25 million in Aug 2014.

A)Foodpanda.com

B)Burp.com

C) Zomato

D) None of These

138 Oscar-winning British actor, film director and producer Richard Attenborough, famous for his

critically-acclaimed biopic on ____________, has passed away. Lord Attenborough won an Academy

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Award for best director for the biopic film in 1983. He also won four BAFTA Awards and four Golden

Globe Awards

A) Oskar Schindler

B) Mahatma Gandhi

C) Nelson MandelaD) Abraham Lincoln

139 Who won the Belgian Grand Prix held in Aug 2014?

A) Nico Rosberg

B) Lewis Hamilton

C) Daniel Ricciardo

D) Valtteri Bottas

140 In a significant ruling, India's higher court the Supreme Court has ruled in Aug 2014 that all coalmining licences awarded between __________ are illegal. During this period, different governments

gave rights to mine coal to state and private companies in a manner which was "not fair and

transparent" and without competitive bidding, said a bench headed by Chief Justice R.M Lodha.

A) 1991 and 2012

B) 1995 and 2010

C) 1993 and 2010

D) 1998 and 2012

141 Textiles Ministry has inked a pact with which domestic e-commerce company in Aug 2014 toprovide an online marketing platform to handloom weavers across the country in order to boost the

handloom sector, empower the weavers and uplift manufacturing in the country?

A) Amazon.in

B) Snapdeal

C) Flipkart

D) Zomato

142 Central Government has appointed ____________ as the new chief of Joint Intelligence

Committee, a body tasked to assess intelligence gathered by various intelligence agencies including

IB and RAW and functions under the National Security Council Secretariat, in Aug 2014.

A) Nehchal Sandhu

B) Arvind Gupta

C) R N Ravi

D) Shashi Kant Sharma

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143 Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has awarded ____________ with the ICSI Life

Time Achievement Award 2013 for Excellence in Corporate Governance in Aug 2014.

A) Azim Premji

B) Ratan TataC) N R Narayana Murthy

D) Shiv Nadar

144 Which Global company ___________ announced acquisition of the videogame platform Twitch

for USD 1 billion in AUg 2014 which will enable millions of people to watch games being played on

the site.

A) Google

B) eBay

C) AmazonD) Yahoo

145 South Africa's economy grew by ________ during April-June quarter of the current year, which

helps the economy to avoid recession (announced in Aug 2014).

A) 0.2%

B) 0.6%

C) 0.9%

D) 1.7%

146 Who has been appointed as the new Governor of Karnataka in Aug 2014?

A) Kalyan Singh

B) Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala

C) C. Vidyasagar Rao

D) Mridula Sinha

147 Bhartiya Janata Party has announced a ___________-member Parliamentary Board in Aug

2014 which includes names of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Arun

Jaitley, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and BJP general Secretary J P Nadda among others. Veteran party

leaders LK Advani and MM Joshi were not included in the board but were included in a new body,

the 'Margdarshak Mandal'. The 'Margdarshak Mandal' (guiding body) is a five-member body that

consitutes of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Narendra Modi, LK Advani, MM Joshi and Rajnath Singh.

A) Ten

B) Twelve

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C) Fourteen

D) Fifteen

148 Who has been elected as First President of Indian Steel Association (ISA), which was formally

launched by Major domestic steel producers on 26th August 2014?A) Sajjan Jinda

B) TV Narendran

C) C.S.Verma

D) P Madhusudan

149 India's telecom major __________ andGrow-Trees.comwill come together to plant 3,00,000

saplings under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative to develop country's first private

wildlife corridor between Kanha and Pench Tiger Reserve. Both the companies have announced this

campaign in Aug 2014.A) Aircel

B) Vodafone

C) Bharti Airtel

D) Reliance Communication

150 Indian women cricket captain ___________ has retained No 1 rank for batters in the latest ICC

women's rankings published in Aug 2014.

A) Mithali Raj

B) Jhulan GoswamiC) Poonam Raut

D) Amita Sharma

151 The government announced the minimum monthly pension of __________ and a higher wage

ceiling of Rs. 15,000 for social security schemes run by retirement fund manager EPFO in Aug 2014

which will be implemented from 1st September.

A) Rs. 7000

B) Rs. 1,000

C) Rs. 1,500

D) Rs. 2,000

152 Which bollywood actor has been roped in as Ambassador of Interpol's initiative 'Turn Back

Crime' campaign to promote awareness about prevention of crime in Aug 2014? With this, he has

become the first Indian to be roped in as Ambassador of Interpol.

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A) Amitabh Bachchan

B) Anupam Kher

C) Amir Khan

D) Shahrukh Khan

153 Who has been sworn in as the President of Turkey after winning the country's first public vote

after serving three terms as Prime Minister in Aug 2014?

A) Recep Tayyip Erdogan

B) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

C) Kemal Kldarolu

D) Abdullah Gl

154 US actor and singer _________ has been named for the honorary Jean Hersholt Humanitarian

Oscar Award in Aug 2014. This is one of the three Governor's Award given by the Academy ofMotion Pictures Arts and Sciences for lifetime achievement. He will recieve the award in November

this year.

A) Dorothy Dandridge

B) Harry Belafonte

C) Sidney Poitier

D) Stephen Belafonte

155 Eurozone inflation stood at __________ in August which is the lowest level since the recent

financial crisis and poses significant risk for deflation.A) 0.2%

B) 0.3%

C) 0.5%

D) 0.7%

156 Brazilian economy fallen into recession as its economy was conracted by ________ during

second quarter of current year following a 0.2% contraction in the previous quarter (announced in

Aug 2014).

A) 0.2%

B) 0.3%

C) 0.6%

D) 1.1%

157 Famous footballer ___________ was named the UEFA Best Player in Europe in Aug 2014, his

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second after he won the same in 2008.

A) Cristiano Ronaldo

B) Manuel Neuer

C) Arjen Robben

D) Lionel Messi

158 National Sports Day was celebrated on ___________ across the country. The National Sports

Day is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of famous hockey player Dhyan Chand who was

India's greatest hockey player.

A) 21-August

B) 23-August

C) 25-August

D) 29-August

159 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during his 5

day visit to Japan in Aug 2014 and both the countries signed a MoU to develop ____________ into a

'smart city' by using the experience of Kyoto, the 'smart city' of Japan.

A) Surat

B) Allahabad

C) Varanasi

D) Lucknow

160 Chairman of Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) __________ was appointed as Naga interlocutoron 29th August 2014, as per notification released by the PMO. He will be representing Govt of India

in Naga peace talks.

A) Nehchal Sandhu

B) Arvind Gupta

C) R N Ravi

D) Shashi Kant Sharma

161 Who has been appointed as the new Governor of Maharashtra in Aug 2014?

A) Kalyan Singh

B) Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala

C) C. Vidyasagar Rao

D) Mridula Sinha

162 After Governors, the Narendra Modi government planned to remove independent directors

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appointed by the previous UPA regime on PSU boards. NDA government recerntly sacked four

directors on the board of which PSU?

A) NTPC

B) ONGC

C) Indian Oil CorpD) BHEL

163 In a rare honour, the US Post Service will issue a special postage stamp to commemorate

legendary Indian actor _______________ in Aug 2014. The Telugu actor, who has spent 70 years in

the industry, was awarded with all the top honours of the Indian film industry including the top most

honour 'Dada Saheb Phalke Award'.

A) Rajkumar

B) Akkineni Nageswara Rao

C) N. T. Rama RaoD) None of These

164 Famous __________ Bipin Chandra passed away at his residence in Aug 2014 after prolonged

illness.

A) Author

B) Politician

C) Historian

D) Actor

165 India's economic growth rebounded sharply in the first quarter (April-June) of the current

financial year to ___________ due to strong output by manufacturing and services sectors

(announced in Aug 2014).

A) 5.1%

B) 4.9%

C) 5.7%

D) 6.1%

166 The manufacturing sector, which accounts for nearly 14% of the economy, grew by

___________ in the first quarter compared to 1.4% contraction in the previous quarter (announced

in Aug 2014).

A) 3.1%

B) 3.5%

C) 4.4%

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D) 4.9%

167 "One Life is Not Enough: An Autobiography" written by ormer External Affairs Minister and

senior Congress Party leader _______________ was published on 1 August 2014.

A) P ChidambaramB) Kapil Sibal

C) Kunwar Natwar Singh

D) Kamal Nath

168 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cancelled the licence of The Which co-operative urban bank

based in Hyderabad in Aug 2014?

A) Vasavi Coop Urban Bank LImited.

B) Andhra Pradesh Mahesh Co-Op Urban Bank Ltd

C) Vasai Co-operative Urban BankD) None of These

169 Dick Wagner, the famous ______________ passed away due to respiratory failure in Arizona in

Aug 2014.

A) Director

B) Actor

C) Rock Guitarist

D) Music Director

170 Which Indian private bank opened its branch in Dubai at the International Financial Centre in

Aug 2014 and will provide wealth management services to non-resident Indians based in the UAE.

A) ICICI Bank

B) HDFC Bank

C) Yes Bank

D) Axis Bank

171 Which indian state tops the list of percentage of growth in employment as per the provisional

results of the Sixth Economic Census released by the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme

Implementation (MoSPI) in Aug 2014?

A) Manipur

B) Assam

C) Uttar Pradesh

D) Sikkim

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172 _____________, the Foreign Office minister of Britain resigned from the government in August

2014 in protest of Britain's policy on Gaza.

A) Sajid Javid

B) Sayeeda WarsiC) Nazir Ahmed

D) Sadiq Khan

173 Which Indian private sector bank has announced the launch of the 'Student Travel Card' in Aug

2014, which enables students going abroad for higher studies to take care of their expenses?

A) ICICI Bank

B) HDFC Bank

C) Yes Bank

D) Axis Bank

174 Who has taken over as Managing Director and CEO of SBI Life Insurance in Aug 2014?

A) V Narsi Reddy

B) Arijit Basu

C) Atanu Sen

D) Rajiv Lall

175 Who has been appointed as the new Governor of Goa in Aug 2014?

A) Kalyan SinghB) Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala

C) C. Vidyasagar Rao

D) Mridula Sinha

176 __________ striker Didier Drogba announced his international retirement after scoring 61 goals

in 103 appearances for his country. The Chelsea forward was a fixture in the national side for 12

years, playing in three World Cups and twice helping the team finish runners-up at the African

Nations Cup.

A) Cameron

B) Ivory Coast

C) Nigeria

D) South Africa

177 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting was held in ___________in Aug

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2014.

A) Nay Pyi Taw

B) Shanghai

C) Bangkok

D) Kualalampur

178 Former India cricket captain __________ headed the Arjuna Awards selection committee for

choosing this year's outstanding sportspersons of the country (announced in Aug 2014).

A) Sunil Gavaskar

B) Kapil Dev

C) Ravi Shastri

D) Dilip Bengsarkar

179 Former Hockey Captain ___________ was selected as the Chairman of the Dronacharya AwardSelection Committee in August 2014.

A) Ajitpal Singh

B) Zafar Iqbal

C) Gagan Ajit Singh

D) Aslam Sher Khan

180 Tata-Singapore Airlines (SIA) named its upcoming joint venture airline as ___________ in Aug

2014.

A) VishalB) Vistara

C) Air-Tata

D) Viscara

181 Which Country unveiled its next generation Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Dongfeng -

41 (DF-41) in Aug 2014? The missile with an operation range varying between 12000 km to 15000

km is amongst the world's longest range missiles.

A) USA

B) France

C) Russia

D) China

182 World Elephant Day is observed on _________ across the globe. It is an international annual

event and is dedicated towards the preservation and protection of the world's elephants.

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A) 12-August

B) 15-August

C) 22-August

D) 30-August

183 Athletics Federation of India President ____________ has been appointed the Chef-de-Mission

of the Indian contingent in Aug 2014 for next month's Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.

A) Maharaja Yadvindra Singh

B) CK Valson

C) Adille Sumariwala

D) None of These

184 Which Indian private sector bank has launched EMI (equated monthly instalments) facility on

debit cards to enable its customers to convert their high value transactions into easy instalments inAug 2014?

A) ICICI Bank

B) HDFC Bank

C) Yes Bank

D) Axis Bank

185 Which Indian state will host Football Federation Cup scheduled to be held in August 2015?

The Federation Cup is an annual club level football tournament of India. It was started in 1977.

A) PunjabB) Haryana

C) Jammu and Kashmir

D) Himachal Pradesh

186 _____________ Legend of Pakistan Hashim Khan passed away in Aug 2014.

A) Hockey

B) Cricket

C) Squash

D) Football

187 Government hiked the import duty on raw and refined sugar from 15% to ________ in Aug 2014

to help the sugar industry clear cane arrears to farmers.

A) 18%

B) 25%

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C) 20%

D) 30%

188 Hockey India inducts Which indian state as its 23rd associate member in Aug 2014?

A) BiharB) Uttar Pradesh

C) Madhya Pradesh

D) Chattisgarh

189 Weightlifter ______________won India's first medal of the second Youth Olympic Games in

Nanjing, China in Aug 2014.

A) Ngangbam Soniya Chanu

B) Valluri Srinivasa Rao

C) Ragala Venkat RahulD) Katulu Ravi Kumar

190 Veteran ______________ leader Amitava Nandy passed away in Aug 2014.

A) Indian Congress Party

B) Communist Party of India

C) Bhartiya Janata Party

D) Janata Dal

191 Gandhinagar-based Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute (GERMI) Director,_______________ has been conferred with 'Energy and Environment Foundation Global Excellence

Award-2014 in Renewable Energy Sector' in August 2014.

A) Prof. T. Harinarayana

B) Dr. Syed Zaheer Hasan

C) D.J. Pandian

D) Prof. Dr. N.S. Varandani

192 India's first ever Ethanol-run environment-friendly public buses were launched by Union

Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari in which city in Aug 2014?

A) Pune

B) Mumbai

C) Nagpur

D) Indore

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193 Who has been chosen for the fifth Indira Sivasailam Endowment Medal and Concert in Aug

2014?

A) T. N. Seshagopalan

B) R. K. Shriramkumar

C) T. M. KrishnaD) Sanjay Subrahmanyan

194 Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has decided to retain interest rate on provident

fund at __________ for the current fiscal (announced in Aug 2014).

A) 8.25%

B) 8.5%

C) 8.75%

D) 9%

195 Indian origin _____________ has been appointed as Shadow Minister in U.K.on 25 August 2014

to become the first MP from any party to be shadow Minister.

A) Yasmin Qureshi

B) Seema Malhotra

C) Virendra Sharma

D) Sadiq Khan

196 BJP today announced the name of _______________ as its candidate for the Vadodara Lok

Sabha seat in Aug 2014 vacated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.A) Amit Shah

B) Anandiben Patel

C) Ranjan Ben Bhatta

D) None of These

197 Dairy products major Mother Dairy and the _____________ announced the launch of the

'SmartChange Card' for Mother Dairy booths in the National Capital Region in Aug 2014.

A) Punjab National Bank

B) State Bank of India

C) Bank of Baroda

D) Bank of India

198 The prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Awards for year 2014 was announced in Aug 2014. Winner

list includes an NGO named the "Citizens Foundation" from _________ which was recognized for

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building 1000 schools over hundreds of cities and towns in the country with the world's second

highest number of children who are out of school.

A) Indonesia

B) Afghanisthan

C) BangladeshD) Pakistan

199 Famous _________ drama and film actor Chemancherry Narayanan Nair passed away in

August 2014.

A) Tamil

B) Telugu

C) Kannada

D) Malayalam

200 Which committee was constituted by the Union Government to suggest the place to build

the capital city of Andhra Pradesh which has also submitted its report in Aug 2014 to Union Home

Ministry?

A) Verma

B) Mehra

C) Sivaramakrishnan

D) Ramanujam

201 The prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Awards for year 2014 was announced in Aug 2014. Winnersinclude anthropologist Saur Marlina Manurung from ____________, who put up a 'Jungle School'

program for children or forest people.

A) Indonesia

B) China

C) Japan

D) Thailand

202 Prime Minister Narendra Modi set up ______________ committee to identify obsolete laws in

Aug 2014.

A) Verma

B) Mehra

C) Sivaramakrishnan

D) Ramanujam

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203 Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan appointed a committee under the chairmanship of

___________ to review Parliament security in Aug 2014.

A) Hari Gautam

B) RK Singh

C) Shanta KumarD) Sivaramakrishnan

204 The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development set up a four member committee headed

by former UGC chairman ____________ to review the present status of Universities Grants

Commission in Aug 2014.

A) Hari Gautam

B) RK Singh

C) Shanta Kumar

D) Sivaramakrishnan

205 India signed loan agreement with ______________ for Mizoram State Roads Project (MSRP II)

in Aug 2014.

A) IMF

B) Asia Development Bank

C) World Bank

D) BRICS development Bank

206 Senior Congress leader _____________ has been appointed as the Chairman of Parliament'sPublic Accounts Committee, PAC in Aug 2014.

A) Kapil Sibal

B) P Chidambaram

C) K V Thomas

D) Ajay Maken

207 Which IT company has announced to spend 200 crore rupees for Clean India Campaign as a

part of their CSR activities in Aug 2014?

A) Infosys Limited

B) Tata Consultancy Services

C) Wipro

D) HCL Technologies

208 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set up Expenditure Management Commission headed by

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former RBI Governor _____________ in Aug 2014. This committee will suggest ways to reduce food,

fertiliser and oil subsidies and narrow the fiscal deficit.

A) Bimal Jalan

B) Duvvuri Subbarao

C) YV ReddyD) C. Rangarajan

209 Indian-origin mathematician ____________ has been awarded the prestigious Fields Medal at

the International Mathematical Union's (IMU) International Congress of Mathematicians in Aug 2014

in Seoul for developing powerful new methods in geometry of numbers.

A) Subhash Khot

B) Akshay Venkatesh

C) Manjul Bhargava

D) Maryam Mirzakhani

210 The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against the Chairman and Managing

Director of ____________, S K Jain for alleged bribery case in Aug 2014. As per allegation, the

CMD asked for bribe to extend credit facilities to certain companies.

A) United Bank of India

B) Syndicate Bank

C) IDBI Bank

D) Allahabad Bank

Answers:1 Ans) Muzaffar Ali

2 Ans) Zero

3 Ans) 6.2%

4 Ans) Syndicate Bank

5 Ans) Jethabhai Patel

6 Ans) 6-Aug

7 Ans) K V Chowdary

8 Ans) Nehchal Sandhu

9 Ans) Archery

10 Ans) S S Mundra

11 Ans) Kolkata

12 Ans) Vikas Gowda

13 Ans) 6-August

14 Ans) Dipa Karmakar

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15 Ans) China

16 Ans) Five

17 Ans) Fifth

18 Ans) England

19 Ans) Iran20 Ans) V. Diju

21 Ans) Silver

22 Ans) USD 200 million

23 Ans) 8-Aug

24 Ans) Justice Dr. Manjula Chellur

25 Ans) Arvind Gupta

26 Ans) Lt Gen Philip Campose

27 Ans) 22%

28 Ans) 16 years29 Ans) 49%

30 Ans) 100%

31 Ans) Chacha Chaudhury

32 Ans) Para-Athletics

33 Ans) Dilipkumar Khandelwal

34 Ans) 0.15%

35 Ans) 0.5%

36 Ans) New Delhi

37 Ans) 12 -August38 Ans) 9%

39 Ans) Padho Pardesh

40 Ans) 15%

41 Ans) Aditya Vardhan Agarwal

42 Ans) 5.7%

43 Ans) Chandra Shekhar Ghosh

44 Ans) M G George Muthoot

45 Ans) R. Ashwin

46 Ans) Bharat Bill Payment System

47 Ans) 9-August

48 Ans) 50%

49 Ans) Reliance Industries

50 Ans) Tennis

51 Ans) Ravi Shankar

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52 Ans) Alia Bhatt

53 Ans) Recep Tayyip Erdogan

54 Ans) Germany

55 Ans) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

56 Ans) Agnieszka Radwanska57 Ans) Sikkim

58 Ans) Wrestling

59 Ans) 18-August

60 Ans) Deepika Kumari

61 Ans) 7.96%

62 Ans) 3.4%

63 Ans) Haider al-Abadi

64 Ans) Robin Williams

65 Ans) Judo66 Ans) 4%

67 Ans) Kalyan Singh

68 Ans) Kargil

69 Ans) Kapil Sibal

70 Ans) M Thambidurai

71 Ans) Ratan Tata

72 Ans) Iceland

73 Ans) Manjul Bhargava

74 Ans) 19-August75 Ans) Hockey

76 Ans) Maryam Mirzakhani

77 Ans) Subhash Khot

78 Ans) William Schabas

79 Ans) 6.8%

80 Ans) 8%

81 Ans) 30

82 Ans) Bimal Jalan

83 Ans) Brazil

84 Ans) 0%

85 Ans) Real Madrid

86 Ans) Six (Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata and Hyderabad.)

87 Ans) 9.30%

88 Ans) 5.19%

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89 Ans) 29-August

90 Ans) INS Kolkata

91 Ans) Rs. 5,000

92 Ans) Karnataka and Kerala

93 Ans) Sunil Kumar94 Ans) 143th

95 Ans) 7%

96 Ans) Roger Federer

97 Ans) USD 7.81 billion

98 Ans) Mahela Jayawardene

99 Ans) Serena Williams

100 Ans) Rajni Razdan

101 Ans) Fifteen

102 Ans) Indian Institute of Management Calcutta103 Ans) 19-August

104 Ans) Kush Kumar

105 Ans) Google

106 Ans) Fifth

107 Ans) Fifth

108 Ans) Samsung

109 Ans) Tata Consultancy Services

110 Ans) Ravi Shastri

111 Ans) USD 12.2 billion112 Ans) 111th

113 Ans) Melbourne

114 Ans) Partha Mitra

115 Ans) 20-August

116 Ans) Red Bull

117 Ans) K V Thomas

118 Ans) Shanta Kumar

119 Ans) Yoga guru

120 Ans) Prayuth Chan-ocha

121 Ans) Bangladesh

122 Ans) 20-August

123 Ans) Salesforce

124 Ans) Australia

125 Ans) Maharashtra

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126 Ans) 50%

127 Ans) HDFC Bank

128 Ans) Hindustan Unilever

129 Ans) Five

130 Ans) Arvind Subramanian131 Ans) 5.5%

132 Ans) TM Bhasin

133 Ans) Kannada

134 Ans) Rs 1000 crore

135 Ans) INS Kamorta

136 Ans) Delhi

137 Ans) Zomato

138 Ans) Mahatma Gandhi

139 Ans) Daniel Ricciardo140 Ans) 1993 and 2010

141 Ans) Flipkart

142 Ans) R N Ravi

143 Ans) Shiv Nadar

144 Ans) Amazon

145 Ans) 0.6%

146 Ans) Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala

147 Ans) Twelve

148 Ans) C.S.Verma149 Ans) Vodafone

150 Ans) Mithali Raj

151 Ans) Rs. 1,000

152 Ans) Shah Rukh Khan

153 Ans) Recep Tayyip Erdogan

154 Ans) Harry Belafonte

155 Ans) 0.3%

156 Ans) 0.6%

157 Ans) Cristiano Ronaldo

158 Ans) 29-August

159 Ans) Varanasi

160 Ans) RN Ravi

161 Ans) C. Vidyasagar Rao

162 Ans) Indian Oil Corp

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163 Ans) Akkineni Nageswara Rao

164 Ans) Historian

165 Ans) 5.7%

166 Ans) 3.5%

167 Ans) Kunwar Natwar Singh168 Ans) Vasai Co-operative Urban Bank

169 Ans) Rock Guitarist

170 Ans) HDFC Bank

171 Ans) Manipur

172 Ans) Sayeeda Warsi

173 Ans) ICICI Bank

174 Ans) Arijit Basu

175 Ans) Mridula Sinha

176 Ans) Ivory Coast177 Ans) Nay Pyi Taw

178 Ans) Kapil Dev

179 Ans) Ajitpal Singh

180 Ans) Vistara

181 Ans) China

182 Ans) 12-August

183 Ans) Adille Sumariwala

184 Ans) ICICI Bank

185 Ans) Jammu and Kashmir186 Ans) Squash

187 Ans) 25%

188 Ans) Madhya Pradesh

189 Ans) Ragala Venkat Rahul

190 Ans) Communist Party of India

191 Ans) Prof T Harinarayana

192 Ans) Nagpur

193 Ans) T. M. Krishna

194 Ans) 8.75%

195 Ans) Seema Malhotra

196 Ans) Ranjan Ben Bhatta

197 Ans) State Bank of India

198 Ans) Pakistan

199 Ans) Malayalam

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200 Ans) Sivaramakrishnan

201 Ans) Indonesia

202 Ans) Ramanujam

203 Ans) RK Singh

204 Ans) Hari Gautam205 Ans) World Bank

206 Ans) K V Thomas

207 Ans) Tata Consultancy Services

208 Ans) Bimal Jalan

209 Ans) Manjul Bhargava

210 Ans) Syndicate Bank