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16201. Who took over as the Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) on 30 December 2013?
Answer: Army chief General Bikram Singh.
16202. Which university won Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee all-India inter-university football tournament held on December 31, 2013?
Answer: University of Calicut. (Kerala)
16203. Who became the fastest batsman to score 5000 runs in one-day internationals when he scored 86 against West Indies?
Answer: Virat Kohli.
16204. Who became the fastest batsman in the history of ODI Cricket to score 17 one-day international hundreds?
Answer: Virat Kohli.
16205. Name the planet similar in size and composition to Earth which has been discovered by astronomers outside of our solar-system?
Answer: Kepler-78b.
16206. Ace basketball player who has been selected for the 25th Jimmy George Foundation award for the best sportsperson of Kerala?
Answer: Geethu Anna Jose
16207. Writer, critic and biographer who has been chosen for Ezhuthachan Puraskaram-2013, the highest literary honour given by the Kerala government?
Answer: Prof M K Sanu.
16208. Who becomes only the third batsman in the history of one-day cricket to score a double hundred?
Answer: Rohit Sharma.
16209. Which cricketer has created cricket history by hitting most number of sixes (16 sixes) in an ODI innings?
Answer: Rohit Sharma. (India).
16210. Who won the Player of the series award in the 5 ODI cricket matches played between South Africa and Pakistan held in UAE held in 2013?
Answer: Ryan McLaren (South Africa).
16211. Who is named as the new leader of Pakistan Taliban, after the death of Hakimullah Mehsud in a drone attack?
Answer: Mullah Fazlullah.
16212. Who won the Player of the Match award in the seventh ODI cricket played between India and Australia held in Bangalore on November 2, 2013?
Answer: Rohit Sharma (India).
16213. Who won the Player of the series award in the 7 ODI cricket matches between India and Australia held in India in 2013?
Answer: Rohit Sharma (India).
16214. Who won the Man of the match award in the third ODI cricket match between New Zealand and Bangladesh held in Fatullah on November 3, 2013?
Answer: Shamsur Rahman (Bangladesh).
16215. Who won the Player of the series award in the 3 ODI cricket matches between New Zealand and Bangladesh held in Bangladesh in 2013?
Answer: Mushfiqur Rahim (Bangladesh).
16216. Pakistan legendary folk singer who died on 3 November 2013 in Lahore, Pakistan, after suffering from throat cancer for several years?
Answer: Reshma.
16218. Which pair won the Paris Masters doubles title 2013 defeating Alexander Peya of Austria and Bruno Soares of Brazil in the final?
Answer: Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan.
16219. Who becomes the first Indian to win the FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship title?
Answer: Gaurav Gill.
16220. Who won the Paris Masters Men’s tennis title-2013 defeating David Ferrer in the final?
Answer: Novak Djokovic.
16222. Which country won the 2013 Fed Cup tennis title defeating the fourth-seeded Russia?
Answer: Italy.
16223. What s the name given to the Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)?
Answer: Mangalyaan.
16225. Who won the Player of the series award in the 2 Test Cricket matches played between India and West Indies held in India in November -2013?
Answer: Rohit Sharma (India).
16226. Who won the man of the match award in the only T20 cricket played between Bangladesh and New Zealand held in Dhaka on November 6, 2013?
Answer: Colin Munro (New Zealand).
16229. Which country have won the Fifa Under-17 World Cup for a record fourth time after beating Mexico 3-0 in the Final?
Answer: Nigeria.
16230. Name the powerful tropical cyclone which hit Philippines on November 8, 2013 killing at least 6,201 people?
Answer: Typhoon Haiyan.
16232. Which countries have signed 5 agreements on November 8, 2013, including one on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons?
Answer: India and Kuwait.
16233. Who has been listed as the world"s most powerful, influential and contemporary Sikh, according to the first edition of the annual "Sikh 100" published?
Answer: Manmohan Singh.
16234. Iran"s deputy minister of industry, trade and mines who has been shot dead in his car in Tehran on November 10, 2013?
Answer: Safdar Rahmatabadi.
16235. The Islamist Hamas group has recently appointed its first spokeswoman, a 23-year-old who used to live in Britain and speaks with a Yorkshire accent. Who is she?
Answer: Isra Al-Modallal.
16236. Name the 2,000-pound European satellite which is burned up as it re-entered Earth"s atmosphere in November 2013?
Answer: GOCE.
16237. Who won the ATP World Tour Finals title-2013 with a convincing win over Rafael Nadal?
Answer: Novak Djokovic.
16238. Which was the most-used word on the web in 2013 according to an annual survey by US-based Global Language Monitor?
Answer: 404
16239. Francis Bacon"s three-paneled painting which became the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction on November 12, 2013 when it soared to $ 4 million at Christie"s?
Answer: "Three Studies of Lucian Freud".
16240. Which country has been ranked the worst country in the Arab League states for women’s rights, according to a recent poll conducted by Thomson Reuters conduct a poll on women’s rights?
Answer: Egypt.
16241. The 23rd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) was held in?
Answer: Colombo, Sri Lanka.
16242. Who has become the fastest Indian bowler to complete hundred Test wickets during the second match against West Indies at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai?
Answer: Ravichandran Ashwin.
16243. Union Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) on 18 October 2013 approved a proposal for Western Ghats development. The proposal prepared by the panel is headed by?
Answer: K.Kasturirangan
16244. Name of the diamond auctioned by Sotheby"s in Geneva on November 13, 2013 which is sold for a World record price of USD 83,187,381?
Answer: The Pink Star.
16245. Which stadium has been selected as the venue for Sachin Tendulkar’s final Test (200th test) against the West Indies?
Answer: Wankhede stadium, Mumbai.
16246. Who are named for the Bharat Ratna for the year 2014?
Answer: C.N.R. Rao (scientist) and Sachin Tendulkar (Cricketer).
16247. Indian-American physician, who has been nominated by President Barack Obama as Surgeon General of the US?
Answer: Vivek Murthy.
16248. Name the Project 11430 modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier which entered into service with the Indian Navy in 2013?
Answer: INS Vikramaditya.
16250. India’s first women’s bank, the Bharatiya Mahila Bank has been inaugurated in?
Answer: Mumbai.
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