You Are On Question Answer Bank SET 23
1154. The mansion was pulled down to make way for a housing complex. The words italicized mean:
Answer: demolished
1155. Most of the people in India live from hand to mouth. The closest meaning to this idiom is:
Answer: without any provision for the future
1157. Mark stands well with his boss. Stands well closely me
Answer: Mark is well thought of by his boss
1163. Former IAF chief, Norman Anil Kumar Browne has recently been appointed as India’s ambassador to which country?
Answer: Norway
1164. What is the name of the HAL (Hindustan Aeronautical Limited) made Dornier light-weight aircraft, handed over to Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)?
Answer: Nabhratna
1165. Who won UNESCO/ Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2014?
Answer: Ahmet Sil ( World Press Freedom Day was celebrate on May 3
1166. What is the name given to India’s first indigenously developed beyond-visual-range air to air missile?
Answer: Astra
1168. Sania Mirza won the women’s doubles title at the WTA Portugal Open, along with which Zimbabwean player?
Answer: Cara Black
1170. Which Indian shooter has reached the third spot in international Shooting Sport Federation ranking in the men’s trap shooting?
Answer: Manavjit Singh Sandhu
1171. Which African country has purchased 3400 India- made Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) for use in the Presidential Election there?
Answer: Nabibia
1172. Who heads the Special Investigation team (SIT), reconstituted by the supreme Court to probe into cases related to black money
Answer: Justice M.B Shah (Justice Arijit Pasayat has been appointed as the SIT’s vice chairman.
1173. Alan Mulally who has recently announced his retirement, is currently the CEO of which automobile company?
Answer: Ford ( Mark Fields will be the new CEO of the company)
1174. In which state is the Rakhigarhi Village situated, where a granary built during the Harappan was discovered recently?
Answer: Haryana
1175. India reached the no.1 position in the ICC Twenty 20 ranking on May 1, replacing which country?
Answer: Srilanka
1176. Which Academy award winning Hollywood Actor stepped down as the UN ‘Messenger for peace’ after 6 years in position?
Answer: George Clooney
1177. Juan Carlos Varela has won the presidential election in which North American country?
Answer: Panama
1178. Which American economist and Nobel Prize winner of 1992 passed away on May 3?
Answer: Gray Backer
1179. Around 2700 people were killed in the landslides that took place in which neighboring country?
Answer: Afghanistan
1180. Which terrorist organization has kidnapped approximately 276 female students from a secondary school in Chibook, a town in Nigeria?
Answer: Boko Haram
1181. Alenka Bratusek, who resigned from her post recently, was the prime minister of which European country?
Answer: Slovenia
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