CSS General Knowledge Chapter 2 Current Affairs With Answers

CSS General Knowledge Chapter 2 Current Affairs

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1 On March 30, North Korea declared it was in a "state of war" with ______.
 UK USA <br> South Korea <br> Taiwan <br>
2 Qatar proposed the creation of a $1 billion ________ fund for East Jerusalem.
UN IMF World <br> Arab <br>
3 India's Supreme Court sentenced popular film actor Sanjay Dutt in the _______ Mumbai  blasts case.
1993 1997 1999 2008
4 The opposition group in _________ elected Ghassan Hitto as interim prime minister of the country.
Libya <br> Venezuela <br> Jordan <br> Syria <br>
5 The Court of Cessation is ________ court of last report having jurisdiction over all matters triable in the judicial stream.
Germany's <br> Italy's <br> Belgium's <br> France's <br>
6 Chinua Achebe, who authored "Things Fall Apart" and was the reserved "father of modern African literature", belonged to _______.
S. Africa <br> Kenya <br> Algeria <br> Nigeria <br>
7 On March 22, the UN Human Rights Council approved unanimously a probe into __________ for crimes against humanity .
 North Korea <br> Syria <br> Palestine <br> Egypt <br>
8 Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan told his fighters to lay down arms and withdraw from the ______ soil.
Iraqi <br> Russian <br> Cypriot <br> Turkish <br>
9 European Union foreign policy chief is _______.
Ghassan Hitto <br> Anders Fogh Rasmussen <br> Catherine Ashton <br> Julia Gillard <br>
10 The world's fifth largest arms exporter is __________.
China <br> India <br> Great Britain <br> Russia <br>
11 _________ has established the country's first "social media lab" to monitor Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites.
Myanmar <br> Pakistan <br> Maldives <br> India <br>
12 To support electoral process in Pakistan, the ________ government agreed to extend a grant of $2 million through the UNDP.
Chinese <br> Russian <br> Japanese <br> Swedish <br>
13 The World's largest Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant namely Shams 1 has been opened in ________.
Riyadh <br> Doha <br> Kuwait <br> Abu Dhabi <br>
14 Muhammad Salman Faruqi is the acting _______ Mohtasib.
Wafaqi <br> Sindh <br> Balochistan <br> Khyber PK<br>
15 Li Keqiang is the current Prime Minister of _______.
Taiwan <br> Thailand <br> South Korea <br> China <br>
16 Tan Twang Eng became the first _______ author to win the $30, 000 Man Asian Literary Prize.
Thai <br> China <br> Malaysian <br> S.Korea <br>
17 China's parliament has named Xi Jinping as president and ______ as Prime minister of the country.
Li Bin <br> Yang Jing <br> Lou Jiwei <br> Li Keqiang <br>
18 On March 14, ______ overtook Japan as the world's second biggest economy.
China <br> USA UK Brazil
19 On March 13, The world's largest ground-based observatory, the ALMA space observatory, opened in ______.
Chile <br> Lithuania <br> France <br> Eritrea <br>
20 On March 13, Jorge Mario Bergoglio of ______ was elected as the new Pope taking the name Francis I.
Italy <br> Argentina <br> Switzerland <br> Germany <br>
21 According to a UN report, ________ million Syrians have fled their homeland since a revolt erupted two year ago.
One <br> Two <br> Three Four <br>
22 On March 9, Uhuru Kenyatta was elected as President of ________.
Venezuela <br> Kenya <br> Nigeria <br> Somalia <br>
23 On March 8, ____took oath of office as the new director for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Chuck Hagel<br> Jack Lew<br> Susan Rice <br> John Brenman <br>
24 Yukiya Amano of _________ was approved by the IAEA board of governors as DG for a new four year term.
China Japan South Korea Thailand <br>
25 Delwar Hossain Sayedee, the vice president of Bangladesh's ______ party is the third person to be convicted by the controversial domestic tribunal.
Shabab-ul-Islam Awami League <br> Muslim Front <br> Jamaat-e-Islami <br>
26 On Feb 27, Chuk Hagel became the ___________United States Secretary of Defense.
24th 27th 29th 30th
27 On Feb 25, Park Geun-hye became __________ first female president.
Philippine's <br> Japan's <br> South Korea's <br> Singapore's <br>
28 Benigno Aquino is the current president of ________.
Hong Kong <br> Indonesia <br> Philippine <br> Malaysia <br>
29 The Iranian-set rescue thriller _________ was declared the winner of Best Picture Award at the Oscars 2013.
 Lincoln <br> Silver Linings <br> Argo <br> Life of Pi <br>
30 On Feb 24, Nicos Anastasiades won presidential election in __________.
Kenya <br> Cyprus <br> Italy <br> Libya <br>
31 Facebook's and _______ founders created the "Breakthrough Prize" for science that's worth more than double the value of the Nobel Prize.
Google's <br> Yahoo's Samsung's Apple's
32 Saudi Arabia's King Abduallah swore in the country's first female members of the Shura Council on ______.
Feb 15<br> Feb 17 Feb 19 Feb 24<br>
33 Moncef Marzouki is the current President of _________.
 Libya <br> Lebanon <br> Tunisia <br> Palestine <br>
34 On Feb 18, European Union foreign ministers approved to launch a 500-storng EU military mission to train the ________army.
Malian <br> Somalian <br> Syrian <br> Afghan <br>
35 "Argo" is directed by ________.
Grant Heslov <br> Alan Arkin <br> Ang Lee <br> Ben Affleck <br>
36 On Feb 15, a plunging meteor exploded above central _________.
 Israel <br> America <br> Lebanon <br> Russia <br>
37 The capital of Maldives is _________.
Male <br> Abidjan <br> Thimphu <br> Naypyidaw <br>
38 North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on _________.
Feb 1<br> Feb 4<br> Feb 6<br> Feb 12
39 World Press Photo award 2012 went to a Dagens Nyheter, a _________ photographer.
Spanish <br> Swedish <br> Swiss <br> French <br>
40 Yasir Naqvi became _________ first minister of Pakistan descent.
Yemen's <br> Bosnia's <br> China's <br> Canada's <br>
41 The Tabqa Dam, the largest dam in Syria, was constructed between 1968 and 1973 with help from the Soviet Union on _____ river.
Blue Nile <br> Euphrates <br> Yarmouk <br> Khabur <br>
42 The real name of Pope Benedict XVI, who became the first pontiff in 600 years to step down, is _____________.
Joseph Ratzinger <br> Josef Stangl <br> Christoph Schonborn <br> Georg Ratzinger <br>
43 The ambassador of Indian music, Pandit Ravi Shankar, was a _____ virtuoso.
Flute <br> Tabla <br> Sarangi <br> Sitar <br>
44 On Feb 9, India hanged Muhammad afzal Guru for plotting a botched attack on parliament in __________.
Dec 2000<br> Dec 2001 Dec 2004 Dec 2008
45 _______ is the current president and CEO of Yahoo!
 Jerry Yang <br> David Filo <br> Marissa Mayer <br> Sue James <br>
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