Daily GK Current Affairs Quiz: 4 March 2014

1. Which Indian shuttler won the men’s singles German Open Grand Prix title against Danish Hans-Kristian Vittinghus 24-22 19-21 21-11 in Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany on 3 March 2014?
[Category: Sports Current Affairs]
[A] Pullela Gopichand
[B] Somdev Devvarman
[C] Nikhil Kanetkar
[D] Arvind Bhat


2. A Retired Supreme Court judge, who was unanimously chosen to head the Search Panel by the Lokpal Selection Committee on 21 February 2014, refused to head the Lokpal Committee Search panel on 3 March 2014. Can you name him?
[Category: India Current Affairs]
[A] K. T. Thomas
[B] Fali Nariman
[C] S.Y.Qureshi
[D] Mrinal Miri


3. Name the author of the book - "India at Risk – Mistakes, Misconceptions and Misadventures of security policy", which was released on 3 March 2014?
[Category: Recent GK Current Affairs]
[A] Jayaram Ramesh
[B] Jaswant Singh
[C] Yashwant Sinha
[D] Salman Khurshid


4. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports on 3 March 2014 declared Hockey India as the sole body responsible towards promoting the sport in India. With this Hockey India has been accorded with the status of a NSF for governing the sport of hockey (both men and women) in India. What does NSF stands for?
[Category: Sports Current Affairs]
[A] National Sole Functionary
[B] National Sports Functionary
[C] National Sports Federation
[D] Noted Sports Federation


5. Suspected militant Islamists group Boko Haram attacked a town and killed about 150 people in north-east of Borno State of which country on 2 March 2014?
[Category: World Current Affairs]
[A] Nigeria
[B] Ghana
[C] Lebanon
[D] Myanmar