101 US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc made its final attempt to take over competitor AstraZeneca Plc in May 2014. AstraZeneca is pharma company headquartered in ________.

  A) Germany

  B) United Kingdom

  C) France

  D) Switzerland

   

102 Which global telecom company is set to acquire satellite television provider DirecTV in a USD 48.5 billion deal (announced in May 2014).

  A) CableVision

  B) AT&T

  C) Verizon

  D) Level 3 Communications

   

103 Who was sworn-in as the eighth Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh for the second consecutive term in May 2014?

  A) Takam Sanjoy

  B) Dorjee Khandu

  C) Nabam Tuki

  D) Jarbom Gamlin

   

104 Who was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Bihar after Nitish Kumar resigned from the post in May 2014?

  A) Sharad Yadav

  B) Shivanand Tiwari

  C) K.C. Tyagi

  D) Jitan Ram Manjhi

   

105 “Anti-tobacco Day” is observed on __________.

  A) 31-May

  B) 17-May

  C) 21-May

  D) 25-May

1 Narendra Modi was sworn as the _______ Prime Minister of India by President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on 26th May 2014.

  A) 16th

  B) 15th

  C) 14th

  D) 17th

   

2 Who took oath as the new Home Minister as a part of Modi Government in May 2014.

  A) Rajnath Singh

  B) Arun Jaitley

  C) Sushma Swaraj

  D) Nitin Gadkari

   

3 Which University topped the 2014 league table for the third consecutive time of ’100 Under 50′ institutions published by the ‘Times Higher Education’ (THE) magazine in May 2014?

  A) Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

  B) Pohang University of Science and Technology

  C) National University of Singapore

  D) None of These

   

4 The US Federal Reserve reduced its massive bond-buying stimulus by USD 10 billion to ____________ in May 2014 as US economy continues to grow.

  A) USD 55 billion

  B) USD 45 billion

  C) USD 65 billion

  D) USD 35 billion

   

5 “International Labour Day” is observed on __________.

  A) 8-May

  B) 3-May

  C) 11-May

  D) 1-May