GK QUESTION AND ANSWERS

1) Which city has been selected to host the World Trade Fair 2020 (Expo 2020)?
Answer :- Dubai

2) Where was India’s first synthetic rubber plant opened?
Answer :- Panipat (Haryana)

3) Which country is to host Commonwealth summit in 2015?
Answer :- Malta

4) Who were named the World Athletes of the Year for 2013 by the International Athletic Foundation?
Answer :- Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce

5) Who have recently been selected for Bharat Ratna, nation’s highest civilian honour?
Answer :- Prof. CNR Rao and Sachin Tendulkar

6) Who won the FIDE World Chess Championship 2013?
Answer :- Magnus Carlsen (Norway)

7) The naval variant of the surface to surface Prithvi missile, successfully test fired on November 23?
Answer :- Dhanush

8.) Which Indian became the joint fastest with Vivian Richards to reach 5000 One Day International runs?
Answer :- Virat Kohli

9) Who is the new Chairman of the Law Commission of India?
Answer :- Justice (Rtd.) Ajit Prakash Shah

10) Where was the first branch of the Bharatiya Mahila Bank inaugurated?
Answer :- Mumbai

11) What is the name given to the World’s first noiseless and emission free helicopter, which had its first successful test flight in Germany?
Answer :- Volocopter

12) …………… was named as the ‘Word of the Year 2013’ by the Oxford English Dictionary?
Answer :- Selfie