CURRENT AFFAIRS

VEHARI ACADEMY OF SCIENCES & SERVICES (VASS) 

CURRENT AFFAIRS MCQS EVENTS IN AUGUST 2013

By

MUHAMMAD SUFDAR SAHIR 03007727047

• US temporarily closed diplomatic missions after intercepting al Qaeda threats.

• Zimbabwe parliamentary election 2013: Zanu-PF, the party of Robert Mugabe declared winner.

• China blocked import of milk powder from New Zealand.

• Hassan Rouhani sworn in as the new president of Iran.

6 August 2013

• Colombo South Harbour declared open by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse.

• Konkan Railway to scrap Skybus project.

• Supreme Court rejected Abu Salem’s plea for quashing all proceedings against him.

• Former Turkish army chief among 19 people handed life term for coup plot.

7 August 2013

• Japan unveiled its biggest warship called Izumo.

8 August 2013

• India announced 150 thousand Dollar assistance to Afghan

bomb attack victims.

• Japan pledged huge spending cuts amounting to 83 Billion US Dollars.

9 August 2013

• Royal Yacht Squadron Club lifted its 200-year ban on women members.

• US Presidential Medal of Freedom to be conferred on Bill Clinton & Oprah Winfrey.

• International Day of the World’s Indigenous People observed on 9 August.

10 August 2013

• IEA warned that oil supplies from OPEC may decline.

• Sri Lankan President felicitated tribal community, the Veddas on World Indigenous PeoplesDay.

11 August 2013

• One lakh people applied to go on one way trip to Mars under Mars One Project

Q. Name the first ever indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier launched by India on

12 August 2013?

Ans. INS Vikrant

Q. Name the indigenously-developed nuclear-capable surface-to-surface missile successfully test-fired by India on 12 August 2013? Ans. Prithvi

Q. Name the Wimbled

on 2013 Women’s Singles winner who announced her retirement from Lawn Tennis on 14 August 2013? Ans. Marion Bartoli

Q. Name the Indian submarine which sank with 18 crewmen after explosion on 14 August

2013 at the high-security naval dockyard in Mumbai? Ans. INS Sindhurakshak

Q. Who won the 100 metre sprint title at the 14th IAAF World Championships 2013 held in

Moscow on 11 August 2013? Ans. Usain Bolt

Q. Who won Women’s Rogers Cup 2013? Ans. Serena Williams

Q. Who won Men’s Singles Title in Rogers Cup 2013? Ans. Rafael Nadal

Q. Name the Egypt’s Vice President who resigned in protest over the attacks on pro

Mohamed Morsi supporters in Cairo on 14 August 2013?Ans. Mohamed Elbaradei

Q. Who won Mali’s Presidential elections on 12 August 2013?

Ans. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita

Q. Who won the Gold medal in Women’s pole vault final at World Athletic Championship

in Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia?

Ans. Isinbayeva

Q. International Youth Day was observed on 12th August. What was the theme of the day

this year?

Ans. Youth Migration: Moving Development Forward.

Q. Which country has declared one month emergency following political violence

occupied by supporters of ousted President Mohammed

Morsi?

Ans. Egypt

Q. Name the oldest penguin of the world which turned 36

years old on 12 August 2013?

Ans. King Penguin Missy

Q. Mars one in the first week of August 2013 announced that more than ………… lakh people

have applied for a one-way trip the Mars (the red planet)?

Ans.one lakh

Q. Name the New App developed by German Scientists to find lost things?

Ans. FindMyStuff

Q. Indian-American Trio won top honours at the 11th National Geographic World

Championship. Where was it held?

Ans. Russia’s St. Petersburg city.

Q. Name the first British to perform a spacewalk who retired from NASA in the second

week of August 2013?

Ans. Colin Michael Foale

1. Recently three astronauts reached International Space Station in six hours from Earth.

Which spaceship is used by them?

Answer: Suyuz-TMA

2. Which country was making news recently as it’s privately owned newspapers go on sale

for the first time since 1964?

Answer: Myanmar

3. Who has become Kenya’s fourth President?

Answer: Uhuru Kenyatta

4. The code name given to the electronic surveillance program operated by the United States

which is said to have had direct access to the communications passed through Google,

Facebook, Apple and many other internet companies?

Answer: PRISM

5. According to the data released by the World Steel Association, India is ranked …………..

in the world steel production?

Answer: Fourth. The world No.1 producer is China.

6. World Ocean Day was celebrated on …………?

Answer: June 8

7Who has registered a record 8th win in the Men’s Singles title in the French Open Tennis

Tournament?

Answer: Rafael Nadal (Spain), with this win he has become the only male player to win

Any Grand Slam tournament eight times, and the first man to win at least one grand slam tournamentfor nine consecutive years.

8. Who won the Women’s Singles in the French Open Tennis Tournament?

Answer: Serena Williams (US). This is her 16th Grand Slam title.

9. Who is appointed as the new Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan?

Answer: TCA Raghavan

10. The founder of the famous Sulabh Project, who has been presented with the French

award, ‘Legend of Planet’?

Answer: Bindeshwar Pathak

Sulabh International is a

social service organization which works mainly in the field ofsanitation to improve public health.

1. Infinity Tower, the World’s tallest twisted tower (306 meter) was inaugurated in:

Answer: Dubai

2. The young Indian shuttler who

won the Thailand Open Grand Prix Badminton Trophy?

Answer: K. Srikanth

3. The multi agency body to be established by the Government of India to carry out real-time assessment of cyber security threats?

Answer: National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC)

4. A newly discovered layer of the Human cornea?

Answer: Dua’s Layer

5. World Blood Donor Day was observed on:

Answer: June 14

6. Which country launched ‘Shenzhou 10’, their fifth manned space mission?

Answer: China

7. The 160 year old communication

service recently discontinued by the Government of India?

Answer: Telegram. It stopped working on July 14, 2013.

8. Where was this year’s G-8 summit held?

Answer: Lough Erne, Northern Ireland in United Kingdom

9. Who won this year’s Walter Scott Prize?

Answer: Tan Twan Eng. The Malaysian author got the award for his novel ‘The Garden of

Evening Mists’.

10. As per the United Nations World Populations Prospects Report released recently, India

will emerge as the most populous country in …………?

Answer: 2028

1 China has recently developed the World’s fastest supercomputer named ………….?

Answer: Tianhe-2

2. Petr Necas, who resigned recently amidst accusations of corruption, was the Prime

Minister of …………….?

Answer: Czech Republic

3. Which International award has recently been conferred on the biotechnologists, Marry-

Dell Chilton, Rober Fraley and Marc Van Montagu?

Answer: World Food Prize 2013

4. The United

Nations has designated …………. as Public Service Day?

Answer: June 23

5. Darren Lehmann has been appointed as the coach of which national Cricket team?

Answer: Australia

6 The hornbill, selected as the official mascot of the 35th National Games has been nam?

Answer: Ammu. The Games will be hosted by Kerala in February 2014.

7. Which micro blogging platform and social networking website has recently been bought

by Yahoo?

Answer: Tumblr

8  Has become the first European country to introduce compulsory military service

for women?

Answer: Norway

9. World Refugee Day

was observed on …………? Answer: June 20

10. Who is elected as the new Prime Minister of Australia, replacing Julia Gillard?

Answer: Kevin Rudd

1. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj has been re-elected as the President of ……….?

Answer: Mongolia

2. Which country is to launch ‘Kirobo’, the World’s first talking Robot-astronaut to space?

Answer: Japan

3. Who won the FIFA Confederation Cup 2013?

Answer: Brazil

4. National Doctor’s Day was observed on ………….?

Answer: July 1,

it is the Birth anniversary of Dr. B.C Roy

5. Asian Athletic Championship has been held at ……….?

Answer: Pune

6. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has named the two recently found smallest

moons of Pluto as ………. and ………..?

Answer: Kerberos and Styx

7. National Statistics Day was observed on …………?

Answer: June 29, The day is celebrated on the occasion on the birth anniversary of Late Prof. P

C Mahalanobis.

8. Who is appointed as the new director of CIA?

Answer: John O. Brennan

9. The first Malayali woman to get first rank in Civil Services Examination?

Answer: Harita V. Kumar

10. Which company is offering the world’s first smart phone with the Firefox operating system?

Answer: Telefonica

11.Who became the youngest Indian to win a gold medal at the Asian Boxing

Championships?

Answer: Shiva Thapa

12. Name the Afghan governor and Myanmar women who won Magsaysay awards?

Answer: Habiba Sarabi and Lahpai Seng Raw

13. Which country celebrated its national day on 21st July and who was sworn in as 7th king?

Answer: Belgium, Prince Philippe

14. Who is the inventor of the Computer mouse he died recently?

Answer: Douglas Engelbart

15. Who is the Winner of Women’s Singles Wimbledon Tennis Tournament 2013?

Answer: Marion Bartoli

16. Who is the Winner of Men’s Singles Wimbledon Tennis Tournament 2013?

Answer: Andy Murray

Men’s Doubles winners are Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan.

Women’s Doubles winners are Hsieh Su-wei (Taiwan) and Peng Shuai (China)

17. Who becomes the new Prime Minister of Egypt?

Answer: Hazem El-Beblawi

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE SOLVED MCQS PRACTICE TEST

1. The river Danube rises in which country?
Germany.

2. Which US state has the sugar maple as its state tree and is the leading US producer of maple sugar?
Vermont.

3. Which country is nicknamed ‘The Cockpit of Europe’ because of the number of battles throughout history fought on its soil?
Belgium.

4. What is the capital of Libya?
Tripoli.

5. Apart from French, German and Romansch, what is the fourth official language of the Switzerland?
Italian.

6. Which country is the world’s largest producer of coffee?
Brazil.

7. In which city was the world’s first underground train was service opened in 1863?
London.

8. How many pairs of ribs are there in the human body?
12.

9. Which country is separated form Ethiopia by the Red Sea?
Yemen.

10. What is the main port of Italy?
Genoa.

11. Mount Logan is the highest peak in which country?
Canada.

12. In which state is Harvard University?
New Jersey.

13. Which is larger: Norway or Finland?
Finland.

14. Which city was the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy until 1865?
Turin.

15. What is measured by an ammeter?
Electric current.

16. What is a rhinoceros horn made of?
Hair.

17. Which three countries, apart from the former Yugoslavia, share borders with Greece?
Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey.

18. The Palk Strait separates which two countries?
India and Sri Lanka.

19. Ga is the symbol for which element?
Gallium.

20. In the Greek alphabet, what is the name for the letter O?
Omicron.

21. What, in the 16th and 17th century, was a pavana?
A dance.

22. A nephron is the functional unit of which organ in the human body?
Kidney.

23. In which country is the ancient city of Tarsus?
Turkey.

24. The Khyber Pass links which two countries?
Afghanistan and Pakistan.

25. Name the six US states that comprise New England.
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts.

26. Which musical instrument is played by both exhaling and inhaling?
Harmonica (or mouth organ).

27. The northern part of which country is called Oesling?
Luxembourg.

28. Napier is a city in which country?
New Zealand.

29. What is the Hook of Holland?
A port in the southeast Netherlands,

30. The river Douro forms part of the border between which two countries?
Spain and Portugal.

31. In which country is the Great Slave Lake?
Canada.

32. Which six countries border the Black Sea?
Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine.

33. Kathmandu is the capital of which country?
Nepal.

34. What name is given to a mixture of bicarbonate of soda and tartaric acid used in cooking?
Baking powder.

35. AOL are an internet service provider. What does AOL stand for?
America Online.

61. Quantas is the national airline of which country?
Australia.

62. What in Scotland is the meaning of the prefix ‘Inver’?
River mouth.

63. Which US state has the lowest population?
Alaska.

64. Which county is nicknamed the Garden of England?
Kent.

65. Which African country was formerly called French Sudan?
Mali.