<center>Currant Affairs March 2014 - Questions and Answers</center>

 Currant Affairs March 2014 Based Questions and Answers

• The South African cricket captain who has recently announced his retirement?

Ans:Graeme Smith
 

• Which former Union minister wrote the book India at Risk?

Ans:Jessant Singh
        

• World’s longest aircraft recently unveiled in Britain is named…?

Ans:Madhya Pradesh

• World’s longest aircraft recently unveiled in Britain is named…?

Ans:Airlander

•  Name the eminent Hindi writer who has boon selected for Vyas Samman in 2013?

Ans:Viswanath Thripathi

• Which popular American author of non- fiction novels, popular for his book fatal Vision passed away on 10 March?

Ans:Joe McGinniss

• What is the name given to the biggest virus ever found, recently discovered in Siberia?

Ans:Pithovirus sibericum

• Which team bagged the 68th Santosh Trophy Football title?

Ans:Mizoram
  
 

• Which Indian writer won the "Windham Campbell" Literature Prize?

Ans:Pankaj Mishra
  

• Which country has recently declared Muslim Brotherhood, Al- Nurse Front, Hezbollah and the Islamic State of lraq and Syria (ISIS) as terrorist organizations?

Ans:Saudi Arabia
 

• International Women’s day............?

Ans:March 8

• The assembly election in which states are going to be held simultaneously with the Look Sabha polls?

Ans:Sikkim Obisha Andhra Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh

• World Dentist Day was observed on ………?

Ans:March 6
 

• National Cycling Academy was inaugurated at…….?

Ans:New Deli

• Who appointed as the new Governor of Kerala?

Ans:Sheila Dayshift
 

• Who regained the title as world’s richest person according to Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of global billionaires?

Ans:Bill Gates
 

• Which Indian shutter claimed German Open Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament?

Ans:Arvin Bhatt
 

• Which island country in the Pacific Ocean has decided to hold a referendum on whether to change their national flag?

Ans:New Zealand

• Which Indian won the SAIL- SBI Open golf title 2014?

 Ans:Rashid Khan

• _______has become the first state in India to observe Child Protection Day?

Ans:Assam.
       

• World Wildlife Day was observed on ………?

Ans:March 3
 

• Which Institute under the Government of India has decided to launch a mega project of documenting almost 500 endangered languages in India? Ans:Central institute of Indian Languages (Mysore)

• Dinesh Sarraf has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing Director of…?

Ans:Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Ltd
 

• The mortal remains of about 282 soldiers who were killed in the 1857 uprising have been exhumed from a well in which state?

Ans:Punjab