Current Affairs Questions and answers - Aug 24, 2014
Q1. Name the American journalist who has been released after being held captive by al-Nusra militants in Syria since 2012?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Peter Theo Curtis.
Q2. In which country, a major 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the on 24thAug’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ3. Name the Oscar-winning British filmmaker and actor, known for his critically-acclaimed biopic on Mahatma Gandhi, who passed away in London?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Richard Attenborough. He was 90years old.
Q4. Name the Maharashtra governor who has resigned from his post on 24thAug’14 as he was asked to move to Mizoram?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: K. Shankaranarayanan.
Q5. In which state, the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the first Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) of the country on 24thAug’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal.
Q6. Name the Hospital whose foundation stone laid by the President of India on 24thAug’14 at a function held in the Catholic Church of Palsanda, West Bengal on 24thAug’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Daya Duar Mini Hospital.
Q7. How many government medical college hospitals in Uttar Pradesh are to be modernised and converted into super-speciality institutions along the lines of the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ8. Name the senior Shiv-Sena leader & MLA who was awarded three years imprisonment in a disproportionate assets case, has been disqualified and banned for life from contesting any election?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ9. Against which leader a Pakistani court has issued fresh arrest warrants along with his 71 supporters?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Tahirul Qadri. The Court ordered police to produce them before it on August 29 for allegedly attacking policemen during a protest march against Nawaz Sharif Government.
Q10. Name the former CAG who alleged that he was under pressure during the UPA regime to drop some names in Commonwealth and Coal scams?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ11. In which city, Minister of State for External Affairs and for North Eastern Regional Development, Gen. Retired V.K.Singh inaugurated the India Bangladesh Business Conclave on 24thAug’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ12. In which city, the final leg of FIDE Women’s Chess Championship begins on 24thAug’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ13. Name the city in India, which gets India’s first ethanol-run bus?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ14. What is the new best time set by Usain Bolt for the rarely run 100m indoors at Warsaw’s National Football Stadium on 23rdAug’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ15. Name the Bollywood actor won the Sexiest Man of the Year Award?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Amitabh Bachchan.
