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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

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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

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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

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Current affairs aug 2013  updates

A. Who is the new foreign secretary of India ?

         Answer: Sujatha singh from 1st aug 2013

B. Newly appointed cj for delhi high court?
Justice Ramana

c. new chairman and managing director of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC)?
answer: dinesh k sharraf.

1. Who became the first player to win four successive ballon d'or awards ?
Answer: Lionel Messi


2. Who is the pm of Egypt ?
answer: *******

3. Who wrote the book What Young India Wants ?
Answer: Chetan Bhagat


4. Who is the United States Secretary of State ?
Answer: John Kerry


5. Who is appointed as Chinese ambassador to India ?
answer:  Wei Wei 


6. Who is the prime minister of Bangladesh ?
Answer: Sheikh Hasina


7.  Who is the miss earth 2012 ?
Answer: Tereza Fajksová


8. 2013 BRICS summit will be held at which place ?
Answer: Durban (South Africa)


9. Who is the present president of North korea ?
Answer: Kim Il-sung


10. What is the code name given to secret operation carried out by the special cell to unearth the IPL spot fixing racket ?
Answer: Operation U-Turn


11. What is the code name given to Ajmal Kasab's execution ?
Answer: Operation X


12. Who is the first  foreign national to hanged in India ?
Answer: Ajmal Kasab


13. What is the code name given to Afzal Guru's execution?
Answer: Operation Three Star


* 14. Who won 2013 Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award ?
answer: Amjad Ali Khan


* 15. Who won 2013 Lokmanya Tilak award ?
Answer: E Sreedharan

Who is known as Metro Man of India ?
ans: E Sreedharan


* 16. Who is the new foreign secretary of India ?
Answer: Sujatha Singh


* 17. Which country gave one year asylum to Edward Snowden, American intelligence leaker ?
  answer: Russia


* 18. Who is the new president of Iran ?
answer: Hassan Rouhani

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Current Affairs Questions : 2011 Census report

Current Affairs Questions from census 2011



These Current Affairs Questions and answers won't change till the year 2021, so you can study these questions without any hesitations.



1. What is the Total population of India according to 2011 census ?
Answer: 121 crore


2. Which is the most populous state in India ?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh


3. Which is the least populous state in India ?
Answer: Sikkim


4.What is the rate of growth of population of India according to 2011 census ?
Answer:  17.64 %


5. Which state has the highest fertility rate in India ?
Answer: Meghalaya


6. What is the percentage of worlds population having in India?
Answer: 17.5 %


7.  Literacy Rate in India according to Census 2011?
Answer: 74.04 %


8. Which is the most literate state in India ?
Answer: Kerala (93.9%)


9. Which is the least literate state in India ?
Answer: Bihar (63.82%)


10. Which is the most literate Union territory in India ?
Answer: Lakshadweep (92.2%)


 11. Which is the least literate Union territory in India ?
Answer: Dadra and Nagar Haveli


12. Which is the most Literate districts of India ?
Answer: Serchhip (Mizoram)



13. Which is the least Literate districts of India ?
Answer: Alirajpur (Madhya Pradesh)



14. Which Indian state has high density of population ?
Answer: Bihar (1102)


15. Which Indian state has low density of population ?
Answer: Arunachal Pradesh (17)



16. Which state in India has highest sex ratio ?
Answer: Kerala (1084/1000)


17. Which state in India has lowest sex ratio ?
Answer: Hariyana


18. What is the Density of Population of India ?
Answer: 382


19. What is the sex ratio of India ?
Answer: 940/1000


20. Which Union territory has highest sex ratio ?
Answer: Puducherry


* 21.Which Union territory has lowest population ?
Answer: Lakshadweep


* 22. What is the number of districts in India according to 2011 census  ?
Answer: 640


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RRB Important General knowledge question

Indian Railway Important GK questions ( updated on 2025)


First railway minister of India?
Answer: Jhon Mathai

1. Where is Railway Staff College situated ?
Answer: Baroda


2. What is the width of Broad gauge rail ?
Answer: 1.676


3. Which is the First Electric Train in India ?
Answer: Deccan Queen (Kalyan - Pune)


4. When did Life Line Express (Jeevan Rekha) Started ?
Answer: In 1991


5. Which year is declared as "Year of Rail Users" by the Indian Railways ?
Answer: 1995


6. Which is the Longest Railway Tunnel in India?
Answer: Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel (Banihal railway tunnel)



7. Which is the Longest Railway platform in the World ?
Answer: Hubballi Junction in India


8. Which is the train running between India and Bangladesh ?
Answer: Maitree Express, Bandhan Express


9. Which are the states have no Railway ?
Answer: Sikkim (building new railway lines)


10. Which is the Worlds oldest working steam locomotive engine (train) ?
Answer: Fairy Queen runs in India


11.  What is the width of Narrow gauge rail ?
Answer: 0.762


12. Where is the Headquarters of Konkan railway ?
Answer: Bilapur


13. Which is the fastest train in India ?
Answer: Vande Bharat Express


14. In which year Indian Railway board established ?
Answer: 1905


15. Which is the first Railway station in India ?
Answer: Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Victoria terminal)


* 16. Who is the first Indian to present Railway Budget  ?
Answer: John Mathai


* 17. Who is the first railway minister in India ?
Answer: John Matthai 


* 18. Who is the first lady Railway minister of India ?
Answer: Mamta Benergy


* 19. Which is the highest railway station in India ?
Answer: Ghum railway station


* 20. Which is the longest Railway bridge in India ?
Answer: Bogibeel Bridge assam


* 21. What is the slogan of Indian Railway ?
Answer: lifeline of the nation


* 22. Where is the Museum of Indian Railway situated?
Answer:  Chanakyapuri (New Delhi)

* 23. first indian double-decker train coach factory situated?
Answer: Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala

*24. which is  the longest train route in India?
Answer: Dibrugarh-Kanyakumari Vivek Express

*25. khulna kolkata train runs between which countries?
Answer: India and Bangladesh 

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General knowledge questions for bank exams

Important General knowledge questions about State Bank Of India 

Previously asked gk questions about SBI for IBPS and Bank clerk exams


1. Which is the Biggest public bank in India ?
Answer: SBI


2. What was the old name of State Bank Of India ?
Answer:  Imperial Bank of India

2a. At which year Imperial bank was renamed as State Bank of India?
Answer: 30 April 1955

2b.  Imperial bank was formed at which year?
Answer: 27 January 1921

3. Which bank has the most branches in India ?
Answer: SBI


4. Which Committee recommended the formation of State Bank of India ?
Answer: Gorwala committee


5. Where is the headquarters of SBI ?
Answer:  Mumbai


6. Which is the biggest commercial bank in India ?
Answer:  State Bank of India





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Important general knowledge questions about Banks for 2013 competitive exams like  Bank Clerk, Bank Po and IBPS exam



1. Which is the First Bank in India ?
Answer: Bank of Hindustan


2. Which is the first Bank managed by Indians ?
Answer: Oudh Commercial Bank


3. Which is the first bank started with Indian capital (Indian owned bank) ?
Answer: Punjab National Bank


4. Which is the first foreign Bank in India ?
Answer:  Chartered Bank


5. Which is the first bank to get ISO certificate ?
Answer: Canara Bank


6. Which is the first  bank in India to start its branches outside India ?
Answer: Bank of India


7. Which is the first bank in India to introduce ATM ?
Answer: H.S.B.C bank


8. Which is the oldest public bank in India ?
Answer: Allahabad Bank


9. Which is the paper used for making Indian currency ?
Answer: Rag


10. The currency of IMF is known as ?
Answer: SDR (Special Drawing Rights)


11. Which is known as Artificial currency or Paper Gold ?
Answer: SDR


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General knowledge questions for IBPS, Bank clerk, Postal assistant, SSC and RRB



1. Destruction of RBC takes place in ?
Answer: Spleen


2. Who is the founder of Girl Guides ?
Answer: Agnes Powell


3. Who is the founder of Boy Scout ?
Answer: Robert Baden-Powell


4. Which Place is known as Little Tibet ?
Answer: Ladakh


5. Which Article in Indian Constitution that exempts Jammu & Kashmir from the catagory of ordinary states ?
Answer: Article 152


* 6. Which is the coal containing highest percentage of carbon ?
Answer:  Anthracite


* 7. How many types of writ can be issued by the Supreme Court ?
Answer: 5


*8. Which is the first UN agency to admit Palestine as a full member ?
Answer: UNESCO


*9.  Who is the first Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission ?
Answer: Rangnath Misra


* 10. Which of the following Union Territories has a Legislative Assembly ?

a. Puducherry
b. Chandigarh
c. Lakshadweep
d. Dadra and Nagar Haveli




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