GK & Current Affairs: August 21, 2013
1. Ryder Cup and Curtis Cup are associated with which of the following sports?
[A]Soccer
[B]Volleyball
[C]Golf
[D]Tennis
Golf
Ryder Cup and Curtis Cup are associated with Golf.
2. Sindhurakshak, which was recently in news, is a/an ____?
[A]Aircraft carrier
[B]Submarine
[C]Anti-aircraft gun
[D]Multi-purpose fighter
Submarine
INS Sindhurakshak is a submarine of the Indian Navy. Commissioned on 24 December 1997, it was the ninth of the ten Kilo-class submarines in the Indian Navy. The submarine suffered a major fire on 14 August 2013, which resulted in its sinking at Mumbai’s naval dockyard.
3. Recently (August, 2013), which of the followings has organized “Sair-e-Watan” an educational-cum-motivational tour?
[A]Rastriya Rifles Battalion
[B]National Cadet Corps
[C]National Security Guard
[D]Assam Rifles
Rastriya Rifles Battalion
The tour named “Sair-e-Watan” has been organized by Rastriya Rifles Battalion and was flagged off at Chanderkot in Ramban. The tour would help create friendly bonds among local sports persons and students from the mainland. This tour will enable the students to spread messages of peace and communal harmony and witness rapid development being made in the fields of information technology, medical science and other sectors in other parts of the country.
4. Which among the SAARC countries is the largest producer of Jute?
[A]India
[B]Bangladesh
[C]Nepal
[D]Bhutan
Bangladesh
Bangladesh is the largest producer of Jute among SAARC countries.
5. The Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary is located in which state?
[A]Assam
[B]Arunachal Pradesh
[C]Himachal Pradesh
[D]Uttarakhand
Arunachal Pradesh
Eaglenest is a protected area in the foothills of West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh. Eaglenest is notable as a prime birding site due to extraordinary variety, numbers and accessibility of bird species there.
6. Which of the followings is the latest company to entered agriculture insurance area by launching the weather and yield-based crop insurance in scheme in some states of India?
[A]Reliance
[B]Tata
[C]SBI
[D]Aviva
Reliance
Reliance General Insurance entered into the agriculture area by launching the weather-and yield-based crop insurance schemes in five different states of India. These schemes will focus on the farmers in the five states- Uttarkhand, Haryana, Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
7. In which year, India’s first Economic Survey was released?
[A]1952-53
[B]1957-58
[C]1961-62
[D]1978-79
1957-58
While the first Economic Survey was released in the year 1957-58, the Mid-Year Review was begun by Ashok Lahiri in the year 2002.
8. Which among the following cities of India has earned the sobriquet of Dollar City due to knitwear exports of over $2 billion a year?
[A]Trichi
[B]Surat
[C]Tirupur
[D]Ahamedabad
Tirupur
With knitwear exports of over $2 billion a year, India’s garment manufacturing hub Tirupur has earned the nickname “Dollar City”.
9. Charon, which has been spotted for the first time, is the largest moon of __?
[A]Pluto
[B]Uranus
[C]Saturn
[D]Venus
Pluto
Pluto’s largest moon Charon has been spotted for the first time, in a cosmic snapshot captured from nearly 885 million kilometres away. Nasa’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft, using its highest resolution telescopic camera spotted the dwarf planet’s Texas-sized, ice-covered moon.
10. The intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian (zero degrees latitude and longitude) is in which among the following?
[A]Mozambique Channel
[B]Gulf of Guinea
[C]Gulf of Aden
[D]Ivory Coast
Gulf of Guinea
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dhan
August 21, 2013 at 8:27 pmsir/madam,
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Zerogravity
August 21, 2013 at 9:45 pmmmh
abcd
August 26, 2013 at 11:06 amHighest jute producer is India according to FAOSTAT data of 2011.
http://faostat.fao.org/site/339/default.aspx
See countries by commodity.
Please correct if wrong.