Latest Current affairs questions 2013
Important current affairs gk questions and General awareness questions for all competitive exams
Find the 2014 Grand slam winners from here
1. Who is the winner of Australian Open 2013 Women's title ?
Answer: Victoria Azarenka
2. Who is the winner of Australian Open 2013 men's title ?
Answer: Novak Djokovic
Did you know who are the winners of Australian Open 2012 ?
3. Who is the chief guest of 2013 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas ?
Answer: Rajkeswur Purryag, President of Mauritius (Held in Kochi)
4. Who is the chief guest of republic day 2013 ?
Answer: Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, King of Bhutan
5. Who is first female President of South Korea ?
Answer: Park Guen-hye
6. Who is the first female Chief Justice of Sri Lanka ?
Answer: Shirani Bandaranayake (recently impeached)
7. Who is the winner of DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013 ?
Answer: Jeet Thayil (book - Narcopolis)
8. Which is the Longest Railway Tunnel in India?
Answer: Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel (Banihal railway tunnel)
9. Where did the World Economic Forum annual meeting held ?
Answer: Davos, Switzerland
10. Who has been conferred won Keerthi Chakra (the second highest among peace time gallantry awards of the country) ?
Answer: Major Anoop Joseph
11. Which Indian scientist conferred with China's top science award ?
Answer: CNR Rao
12. Who is the winner of Ranji Trophy 2012-2013 ?
Answer: Mumbai
13. Which country recently test fired Hatf-9 (Nasr) missile ?
Answer: Pakistan
14. Who is the new Chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi ?
Answer: Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty
15. Who is the new President of Sahitya Akademi ?
Answer: Dr. Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari
16. Who is appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations ?
Answer: Asoke Kumar Mukerji
17. Who is the worlds oldest Marathon runner ?
Answer: Fauja Singh
OSCAR Winners 2013 (85th Academy Awards Winners)
17. Which film won this year's Best Picture Oscar ?
Answer: Argo
18. Which actor won this year's Best Actor (in a Leading Role) Oscar ?
Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
19. Which actress won this year's Best Actress (in a Leading Role) Oscar ?
Answer: Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
20. Who won this year's Best Director Oscar ?
Answer: Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
21. Who is the first person to win Best Actor Oscar thrice ?
Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis
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22. What is the theme of 2013 International Women’s Day (march 8) ?
Answer: A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women
23. New Governor of Nagaland ?
Answer: Ashwani Kumar
24. New Governor of Kerala ?
Answer: Nikhil Kumar
25. New Governor of Odisha ?
Answer: S C Jamir
26. Who is the new President of Kenya ?
Answer: Uhuru Kenyatta
27. Who is the new PM ( Premier of the People's Republic of China) of China ?
Answer: Li Keqiang
28. Who is the new Pope?
Answer: Pope Francis
29. What is the name of India's first regional navigational satellite ?
Answer: IRNSS-1
30. Who scored fastest hundred on debut in test cricket ?
Answer: Shikhar Dhawan
31. Where is India's first all women post office inaugurated on women's day ?
Answer: Delhi
32. What is the theme of 2013 world water day (march 22) ?
Answer: Water Cooperation
33. Which year is declared by UN as International Year of Water Cooperation ?
Answer: 2013
34. Who is the winner of 2013 miss India ?
answer: Navneet Kaur Dhillon
35. who is the winner of 2013 Saraswati Samman ?
Answer: Sugathakumari (Manalezhuthu)
36. Who is recently reelected as IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Director general ?
Answer: Yukiya Amano
37. Who is the new Prime Minister of Nepal ?
Answer: Khil Raj Regmi
38. Who is the first female Prime minister of UK who recently passed away ?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
39. Who is the new pm of North Korea ?
Answer: Pak Pong-ju
40. Who is the new venezuela president ?
Answer: Nicolas Maduro
41. Who is the new president of Bangladesh ?
Answer: Abdul Hamid
42. What is the theme of 2013 World Earth day (April 22) ?
Answer: The face of climate change
43. Who is the new Governor of Jammu and Kashmir ?
answer: Narinder Nath Vohra
44. Who is the new president of ADB (Asian Development Bank) ?
Answer: Takehiko Nakao
45. Who is the new prime minister of Italy ?
Answer: Enrico Letta
46. Who is the first woman speaker of Bangladesh ?
Answer: Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury
47. Who is the new Comptroller and Auditor General of India ?
Answer: Shashi Kant Sharma
48. Who is the first Indian amputee to scale Everest ?
Answer: Arunima Sinha
49. Who is the first Pakistani women to scale the Everest ?
Answer: Samina Baig
50. Who is the first US women in space ?
Answer: Sally Ride (Recently she won highest civilian honour of USA, Presidential medal of Freedom)
51. What is the theme of 2013 International Biological diversity Day (May 22) ?
Answer: Water and Biodiversity
52. Who is the winner of 2013 Man Booker International Prize ?
Answer: Lydia Davis
53. What is the theme of 2013 World No- Tobacco Day ( May 31 ) ?
Answer: Ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship
54. Who is the new Director General of DRDO ?
Answer: Avinash Chander
55. Who is the new prime minister of Pakistan ?
Answer: Nawaz Sharif
56. Who were the first twins to scale mount Everest ?
Answer: Tashi and Nancy Malik
57. What is the theme of 2013 World Environment Day (June 5) ?
Answer: Think, Eat, Save
58. Who won the 2013 Templeton Prize ?
Answer: Desmond Tutu
59. Who is the longest serving defence minister in India ?
Answer: A.K Antony
60. Who is the winner of 2013 French open women's title ?
Answer: Serena Williams
61. Who is the winner of 2013 French open men's title ?
Answer: Rafael Nadal
Wanted to know more gk questions about Tennis visit http://importantquestionsabout.blogspot.in/2012/09/generalknowledgequestions-sports.html
62. Who is the new prime minister of Australia ?
Answer: Kevin Rudd
63. Who is the present chief justice of India ?
answer: P Sathasivam
64. Which is the first smoke free state of India ?
Answer: Himachal Pradesh
65. Which is India's first navigational satellite ?
Answer: IRNSS-1A
* 66. Who is the present foreign secretary of India ?
answer: Sujata Singh
* 67. Who won 2013 Wimbledon Men's Title ?
Answer: Andy Murray
* 68. Who won 2013 Wimbledon Women's Title ?
Answer: Marion Bartoli
* 69. what is the theme of 2013 World population day (July 11)?
Answer: Adolescent pregnancy with an aspiration of safe childbirth and that each pregnancy is wanted
*70. Who is the Recently elected Miss world 2013 ?
Answer: Megan Young (Miss Philippines)
*71. Who will represent India in Miss Universe 2013?
answer : Mansi Moghe(Miss Diva 2013)
* 72) Winner of 2013 Nobel prize in physics ?
Answer: Martin Karplus , Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel
*74) 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner
Answer: Alice Munro
*75) 2013 Nobel Peace Prize winner
Answer: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
*76)winner of 2013 Nobel prize for Medicine ?
Answer: James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Sudhof
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *77) Cyclone Phailin is expected to hit which indian state ?
Did you know which is the coldest planet in our solar system ?
Current affairs are added as Comment to save time and effort , .
Important current affairs gk questions and General awareness questions for all competitive exams
Find the 2014 Grand slam winners from here
1. Who is the winner of Australian Open 2013 Women's title ?
Answer: Victoria Azarenka
2. Who is the winner of Australian Open 2013 men's title ?
Answer: Novak Djokovic
Did you know who are the winners of Australian Open 2012 ?
3. Who is the chief guest of 2013 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas ?
Answer: Rajkeswur Purryag, President of Mauritius (Held in Kochi)
4. Who is the chief guest of republic day 2013 ?
Answer: Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, King of Bhutan
5. Who is first female President of South Korea ?
Answer: Park Guen-hye
6. Who is the first female Chief Justice of Sri Lanka ?
Answer: Shirani Bandaranayake (recently impeached)
7. Who is the winner of DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013 ?
Answer: Jeet Thayil (book - Narcopolis)
8. Which is the Longest Railway Tunnel in India?
Answer: Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel (Banihal railway tunnel)
Answer: Davos, Switzerland
10. Who has been conferred won Keerthi Chakra (the second highest among peace time gallantry awards of the country) ?
Answer: Major Anoop Joseph
11. Which Indian scientist conferred with China's top science award ?
Answer: CNR Rao
12. Who is the winner of Ranji Trophy 2012-2013 ?
Answer: Mumbai
13. Which country recently test fired Hatf-9 (Nasr) missile ?
Answer: Pakistan
14. Who is the new Chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi ?
Answer: Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty
15. Who is the new President of Sahitya Akademi ?
Answer: Dr. Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari
16. Who is appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations ?
Answer: Asoke Kumar Mukerji
17. Who is the worlds oldest Marathon runner ?
Answer: Fauja Singh
OSCAR Winners 2013 (85th Academy Awards Winners)
17. Which film won this year's Best Picture Oscar ?
Answer: Argo
18. Which actor won this year's Best Actor (in a Leading Role) Oscar ?
Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
19. Which actress won this year's Best Actress (in a Leading Role) Oscar ?
20. Who won this year's Best Director Oscar ?
Answer: Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
21. Who is the first person to win Best Actor Oscar thrice ?
Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis
_____________________________________________________
22. What is the theme of 2013 International Women’s Day (march 8) ?
Answer: A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women
23. New Governor of Nagaland ?
Answer: Ashwani Kumar
24. New Governor of Kerala ?
Answer: Nikhil Kumar
25. New Governor of Odisha ?
Answer: S C Jamir
26. Who is the new President of Kenya ?
Answer: Uhuru Kenyatta
27. Who is the new PM ( Premier of the People's Republic of China) of China ?
Answer: Li Keqiang
28. Who is the new Pope?
Answer: Pope Francis
29. What is the name of India's first regional navigational satellite ?
Answer: IRNSS-1
30. Who scored fastest hundred on debut in test cricket ?
Answer: Shikhar Dhawan
31. Where is India's first all women post office inaugurated on women's day ?
Answer: Delhi
32. What is the theme of 2013 world water day (march 22) ?
Answer: Water Cooperation
33. Which year is declared by UN as International Year of Water Cooperation ?
Answer: 2013
34. Who is the winner of 2013 miss India ?
35. who is the winner of 2013 Saraswati Samman ?
Answer: Sugathakumari (Manalezhuthu)
36. Who is recently reelected as IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Director general ?
Answer: Yukiya Amano
37. Who is the new Prime Minister of Nepal ?
Answer: Khil Raj Regmi
38. Who is the first female Prime minister of UK who recently passed away ?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
39. Who is the new pm of North Korea ?
Answer: Pak Pong-ju
40. Who is the new venezuela president ?
Answer: Nicolas Maduro
41. Who is the new president of Bangladesh ?
Answer: Abdul Hamid
42. What is the theme of 2013 World Earth day (April 22) ?
Answer: The face of climate change
43. Who is the new Governor of Jammu and Kashmir ?
answer: Narinder Nath Vohra
44. Who is the new president of ADB (Asian Development Bank) ?
Answer: Takehiko Nakao
45. Who is the new prime minister of Italy ?
Answer: Enrico Letta
46. Who is the first woman speaker of Bangladesh ?
Answer: Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury
47. Who is the new Comptroller and Auditor General of India ?
Answer: Shashi Kant Sharma
48. Who is the first Indian amputee to scale Everest ?
Answer: Arunima Sinha
49. Who is the first Pakistani women to scale the Everest ?
Answer: Samina Baig
50. Who is the first US women in space ?
Answer: Sally Ride (Recently she won highest civilian honour of USA, Presidential medal of Freedom)
51. What is the theme of 2013 International Biological diversity Day (May 22) ?
Answer: Water and Biodiversity
52. Who is the winner of 2013 Man Booker International Prize ?
Answer: Lydia Davis
53. What is the theme of 2013 World No- Tobacco Day ( May 31 ) ?
Answer: Ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship
54. Who is the new Director General of DRDO ?
Answer: Avinash Chander
55. Who is the new prime minister of Pakistan ?
Answer: Nawaz Sharif
56. Who were the first twins to scale mount Everest ?
Answer: Tashi and Nancy Malik
57. What is the theme of 2013 World Environment Day (June 5) ?
Answer: Think, Eat, Save
58. Who won the 2013 Templeton Prize ?
Answer: Desmond Tutu
59. Who is the longest serving defence minister in India ?Answer: A.K Antony
60. Who is the winner of 2013 French open women's title ?
Answer: Serena Williams
61. Who is the winner of 2013 French open men's title ?
Answer: Rafael Nadal
Wanted to know more gk questions about Tennis visit http://importantquestionsabout.blogspot.in/2012/09/generalknowledgequestions-sports.html
62. Who is the new prime minister of Australia ?
Answer: Kevin Rudd
63. Who is the present chief justice of India ?
answer: P Sathasivam
64. Which is the first smoke free state of India ?
Answer: Himachal Pradesh
65. Which is India's first navigational satellite ?
Answer: IRNSS-1A
* 66. Who is the present foreign secretary of India ?answer: Sujata Singh
* 67. Who won 2013 Wimbledon Men's Title ?
Answer: Andy Murray
* 68. Who won 2013 Wimbledon Women's Title ?
Answer: Marion Bartoli
* 69. what is the theme of 2013 World population day (July 11)?
Answer: Adolescent pregnancy with an aspiration of safe childbirth and that each pregnancy is wanted
*70. Who is the Recently elected Miss world 2013 ?
Answer: Megan Young (Miss Philippines)
*71. Who will represent India in Miss Universe 2013?
answer : Mansi Moghe(Miss Diva 2013)
2013 Nobel prize
* 72) Winner of 2013 Nobel prize in physics ?
Answer: François Englert and Peter W. Higgs
*73) winner of 2013 chemistry Nobel prize ?Answer: Martin Karplus , Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel
*74) 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner
Answer: Alice Munro
*75) 2013 Nobel Peace Prize winner
Answer: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
*76)winner of 2013 Nobel prize for Medicine ?
Answer: James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Sudhof
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *77) Cyclone Phailin is expected to hit which indian state ?
Answer: Odisha
*78) Current ADB President ?
Answer:Takehiko Nakao
*78) Current ADB President ?
Answer:Takehiko Nakao
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