Quiz 2010-11

1.      Who is the present Telecom Minister?

a)Manmohan Singh    b)A Raja     c)Kapil Sibal     d)Sachin Pilot   e)none

2.      Which organization has launched ‘Awaaz Do’ with the support of GOI?

a)UNESCO    b)UNICEF   c)UN   d)WHO    e)none

3.      Which Country will build country’s first industrial solar power station near Black sea?

a)Russia    b)China    c)India    d)Japan   e)none

4.      Which country has supplied F-16 combat jets to Pakistan?

a)China    b)Russia    c)US    d)France    e)Britain

5.      Which of the following countries has test fired intercontinental ballistic missile ‘Bulava’?

a)Russia    b)China    c)North Korea    d)Iran    e)none

6.      Which country has approved world’s biggest Solar Power Project?

a)US   b)India    c)Britain    d)China    e)Russia

7.      India has lifted ban on emigration clearance for employment on which of the following country?

a)Pakistan    b)Australia    c)Libya    d)Nepal    e)China

8.      ‘World Food Day’ is observed on which of the following days?

a)July 16    b)September 16     c)June 16    d)October 16    e)none

9.      In the recent past the name ‘Julian Assange’ has came in most of the news channels and news papers. He belongs to which of the following?

a)Facebook     b)Wikipidea     c)Google    d)Wikileaks    e)none

10. Which of the following is not a direct tax?

a)Income tax    b)Wealth tax    c)Corporate tax    d)a,b & c    e)Sales tax

Current Events - November 2010

1.      The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has emerged as the country's largest trading partner in term of total trade exchange in the first half of 2010.

2.      The Government has launched a special scheme for the health and well-being of adolescent girls as a pilot project in 200 most backward districts of the country. 'Sabla' or the 'Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Adolescent Girls' would be launched in 22 districts of Uttar Pradesh, 15 districts of Madhya Pradesh, 12 of Bihar, 12 of Sikkim, 11 districts of Maharashtra and 10 districts of Rajasthan.

3.      Former Test captain Anil Kumble elected as the President of the Karnataka State Cricket Association while former pace duo of Javagal Srinath and Venkatesh Prasad were elected as Secretary and Vice President respectively.

4.      Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan honoured with Teacher's People Achiever Award.

5.      India and Norway joined hands to set up a centre in Chennai to protect the bio-diversity to help tackle threats of climate change.

6.      India has pledged to provide a grant assistance of Rs 16.19 million to Nepal for construction of 350 tube-wells in the southern region of the country.

7.      State-run Coal India has become the third most powerful Indian company with a total market capitalisation (m-cap) of Rs 2,09,671.57 crore and is only lagging behind RIL and ONGC.

8.      Punjab Government has brought Sain Samaj under Shagun scheme to provide financial assistance of Rs 15000 to the daughters of Sain Samaj at the time of their marriage.

9.      Noted Malayalam film and stage actress Shanta Devi died.

10. Malaysia has emerged as one of the the most favourite destinations in the Asia Pacific for Indian travellers, according to a new survey.

Current Affairs Quiz 2010-11

1.      Who is the head of the committee constituted by Prime Minister to probe corruption in 2010 Commonwealth Games?

a)Sam Pitroda     b)Shantanu Consul    c)Pargat Singh    d)V K Shunglu  e)none

2.      2010 United Nations Climate Conference was held in ______?

a)Washington     b)Geneva     c)Cancun     d)New York    e)none

3.      Which Country has launched the World’s first Synthetic jet fuel?

a)US    b)France    c)South Africa     d)Japan   e)India

4.      Who won the 2010 ATP World Tour Title?

a)Rafael Nadal      b)Andy Murray    c)Andy Roddick    d)Roger Federer   e)none

5.      Tertiary sector contributes maximum to Indian GDP. Tertiary sector is also known as _________ sector?

a)Banking Sector     b)Primary Sector    c)Secondary Sector    d)Agriculture Sector    e)Service Sector

6.      Armando Emilio Guebuza recently visited India. He is the _______?

a)Prime Minister of Mozambique  

b)President of Madagascar

c)President of Mozambique

d)Prime Minister of Madagascar

e)none

7.      Who won the 2010 Mahatma Gandhi Peace Award?

a)John Brumby    b)Aund San Suu Kyi     c)Sheikh Hasina    d)Barack Obama   e)none

8.      Who is the author of the book ‘The Masque of Africa’?

a)V S Naipaul     b)Salman Rushdie     c)K R Narayanan     d)Nelson Mandela    e)none

9.      Which two countries have agreed to resume direct flights between their capitals for the first time in three decades?

a)India and Iran    b)Egypt and Iran     c)Cuba and US     d)US and Iran    e)none

10. Recently Shimla has been declared the fourth ‘smoking free’ city in India after Chandigarh, Kottayam and Sikkim?

November Current Affairs -2010

·        India has become Israel's second largest export destination after the United States, as the Jewish state focusses on tapping potential in the Asian markets.

·        Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan has been named the next Maharashtra Chief Minister. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar, nephew of party chief Sharad Pawar and a minister named Maharashtra's next deputy chief minister after Chhagan Bhujbal.

·        Iconic Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar, who is set to become only the second player(After Javed Miandad)  in the history of cricket to play six ODI World Cups, named the official ambassador of the event to be held in the sub-continent next year.

·        Rajkumar Hirani's "3 Idiots" continued with its award-winning spree bagging top honours at the Global Indian Music Awards (GIMA) which was held in Mumbai. The movie took home the best film album.

·        As part of its administrative reforms process, Punjab aims to become the first state in the country to achieve complete computerisation of land records by March 31, 2011.

·        India owns over 18,000 tonnes of above ground gold stocks worth approximately $ 800 billion and representing at least 11 per cent of global stock, according to estimates of World Gold Council. In 2009, total Indian gold demand reached $ 19 billion, or Rs 974 billion, which accounts for 15 per cent of the global gold market, according to WGC.

·        Noted Telugu film producer D V S Raju passed away.

·        India is set to become the fastest growing major economy in the world by 2012 and will be third largest by GDP-size in the next two decades, behind China and the USA, a global study by British banking giant Standard Chartered said.

·        China has overtaken US in the global supercomputing race as it has been confirmed as the creator of the world's fastest supercomputer, according to a latest survey. The Tianhe-1A, which means meaning Milky Way is capable of 2.67 quadrillions of computing operations per second, earning it the number one spot in the Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers.

·        Free trade agreement (FTA) between India and Canada will help push bilateral trade to USD 15 billion in 5 years. Bilateral trade was close to USD 4.2 billion last year.

Current Affairs 2010-11

1.      Who has been elected as the President of Indian Newspaper Society for the year 2010-11?

a)K.N Tilak Ram     b)Rakesh Sharma     c)Kundan R.Vyas     d)V.Shankaran      e)none

2.      Recently who among the following conferred with ‘Taj Enlighten Tareef Award’?

a)Leela Naidu     b)Shabana Azmi      c)Javed Akthar    d)Both a& b    e)none

3.      Base Rate of banks is fixed by ______?

a)RBI     b)Finance Minister     c)Both a & b     d)Banks    e)none

4.      India is the ___ Largest Producer of Vehicles in the World?

a)third       b)fifth     c)seventh     d)second     e)none of these

5.      ______ is a Insurance Regulator in India?

a) TRAI    b)SEBI     c)BSE      d)RBI     e)IRDA

6.      Micro Credit in India comes under ________?

a)Private Banking      b)NBFC    c)Rural Banking     d)Cooperative Banking    e)none

7.      What is the present limit for money transfer in RTGS?

a)`1,00,000     b)`1,50,000      c)`2,00,000    d)`2,50,000    e)`5,00,000

8.      Which is the only Asian country represented in the G-8 group?

a)India      b)South Korea     c)China    d)Japan   e)none

9.      Bad Loans can be described as NPA (Non Performing Assets) in banking terminology?

10. A/c to the recent report of ADB, what is India’s urbanization rank in Asia(% of population living in urban areas)? 34th.

Gk Quiz 2010

1.      RBI has approved the merger of ‘Bank of Rajasthan' with ICICI bank.

2.      Who got the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the book ‘Solo' - Rana Dasgupta.

3.      Which day has been observed as the International Day of Older Persons(IDOP) - Oct 1st.

4.      What is the India’s rank in the new Global Hunger Index by the International Food Policy Research Institute - 67.

5.       ‘Gourde’ is the currency of which country?

a)Bhutan     b)Haiti     c)Norway    d)Chile     e)none

6.      India has won 101 medals in 2010 Commonwealth Games. In which sport India has won maximum no. of gold medals?

a)Wrestling      b)Boxing     c)Shooting     d)Badminton    e)Weightlifting

7.      Which of the following country is not elected to UNSC as a non-permanent member for a two year term on the council starting from Jan 1^st 2011?

a)India     b)Kazakhstan    c)South Africa    d)Germany    e)Portugal

8.      Which of the following ministry has re-launched the PURA(Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas) Scheme?

a)Ministry of Urban Development 

b)Ministry of Rural Development

c)Ministry of Health & Family Welfare

d)Ministry of Finance

e)Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

9.      Who among the following has been chosen for ICC Cricketer of the Year 2010?

a)Sachin Tendulkar     b)A B de Villiers     c)Virender Sehwag      d)M S Dhoni    e)none of these

10. Who won the 2010 Champions League Twenty20?

a)Mumbai Indians     b)Royal Challengers Bangalore     c)Warriors    d)Chennai Super Kings   e)none

General Awareness Quiz 76 - 2010

1.      Based on monthly wholesale price index (WPI), the annual rate of inflation stood at ___ percent for the month of September 2010?

a)8.51     b)5.44    c)8.6      d)11.6    e)none

2.      Who is the winner of 64^th edition of Santhosh Trophy?

a)Goa     b)Punjab     c)Tamil Nadu     d)Goa    e)West Bengal

3.      Who is the present Chief Minister of Jharkhand?

a)Shibu Soren     b)Madhu Koda     c)Arjun Munda     d)Sudesh Mahto    e)none of these

4.      Which of the following is the first team to play 900 Test matches in cricket history?

a)Australia     b)England     c)India    d)West Indies    e)none

5.      Who is the most powerful women in the world in 2010, compiled by Forbes?

a)Angela Merkel   b)Indra Nooyi    c)Sonia Gandhi    d)Michelle Obama   e)Irene Rosenfeld

6.      What is the present Repo rate?

a)5.75     b)6.00   c)6.25    d)5.25    e)none

7.      Howard Jacobson won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for his novel _____?

a)The Finkler Question     b)The Act of Love    c)Wolf Hall    d)Kalooki Nights   e)none

8.      Recently Pranab Mukherjee has won which of the following award?

a)World’s Best Finance Minister of the year 2010

b)Asia’s Best Finance Minister of the year 2010 

c)India’s Best Finance Minister of the year 2010

d)Both b & c

e)none

9.      Who among the following is the world’s highest paid female athlete by Forbes magazine?

a)Maria Sharapova     b)Serena Williams    c)Danika Patrick     d)Kim Yu-Na    e)none

10. Who has become the first Indian to qualify for 2012 London Olympics?

a)Abhinav Bhindra     b)Saina Nehwal    c)Mary Kom     d)Pankaj Advani    e)Gagan Narang

11. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has released a commemorative stamp on _________?

a) J S Mohammed Ali Shihab Thangal   b)Maulana Mohammad Ali    c)S Ubaidur Rahman    d)Syed Ahmad Khan    e)none

12. Which country has won the 2010 Women's Hockey World Cup?

a)Netherlands     b)England    c)Germany    d)Argentina     e)Australia   

13. What is present interest rate on Savings bank account?

a)3%    b)3.25%     c)3.5%    d)3.75%    e)4.0%

14. Who has been bagged the prestigious Akshaya Samman award for the year 2010?

a)Manna De      b)Ilaiyaraja     c)A R Rehman     d)Hari Prasad Chaurasia   e)none

15. Which of the following films has been nominated for 2011 Oscar awards in Best fim in Foreign Category?

a)Paa     b)Rajneeti     c)Kites    d)Peepli Live   e)none of these

16. Who among the following has been awarded with ‘The World Statesman Award’?

a)Manmohan Singh     b)Sonia Gandhi    c)Pratibha Patil     d)A P J Abdul Kalam    e)none

17. Who has been awarded 'Rabindranath Tagore Peace Prize' 2010?

a)Nafisa Ali     b)Irom Chanu Sharmila     c)Jyotirmoyee Devi     d)Anasuyaben Sarabhai    e)none

18. Who among the following has chosen for Jnanpith Award for the year 2008?

a)O.N.V.Kurup      b)Satya Vrat Shastri     c)Ravindra Kelekar      d)Akhlaq Khan Shahryar     e)none of these

19. Who among the following has chosen for 2009 Indira Gandhi National Integration Award?

a)A R Rehman       b)Balraj Puri      c)Ramakrishna Mission Ashram     d)Javed Akhtar     e)Both a & c

20. Recently Puttaraj Gawai has been passed away. He was a famous ______?

a)Social Activist      b)Hindustani Classical musician     c)Journalist    d)Politician   e)none

Nobel Prize Winners 2010

Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize in Economics was first awarded in the year 1969. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. Each recipient, or laureate, is presented with a gold medal, a diploma, and a sum of money which depends on the Nobel Foundation's income that year.

List of 2010 Nobel Prize Winners:

·        The Nobel Prize in Peace has been given to Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".

·        The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been given to Robert G. Edwards "for the development of in vitro fertilization".

·        The Nobel Prize in Literature has been given to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".

·        The Nobel Prize in Physics has been given to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene".

·        The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been given to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"

·        The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been given to Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides "for their analysis of markets with search frictions".

Current Affairs Quiz 75 - 2010

1.      Which of the following Indian city has been named among the top four Livable cities in the world?

a)Mumbai     b)New Delhi     c)Ahmedabad     d)Bangalore    e)Hyderabad

2.      Recntly which country has become full fledge member of Financial Action Task Force(FATF)?

a)Bangladesh     b)Pakistan    c)China    d)India     e)none

3.      Which country is building the World’s largest telescope in Antarctica?

a)China     b)US    c)Russia    d)India    e)Britain

4.      Who won the Next Step Foundation 2010 Award?

a)Veerappa Moily     b)Sharad Pawar      c)Manmohan Singh    d)Sonia Gandhi   e)none

5.      Who has been sworn in as 59^th President of Colombia?

a)Michael Bloomberg     b)Julia Gillard    c)Christian Wulff     d)Juan Manuel Santos   e)none

6.      Who has been appointed as the new vice president of ICC?

a)John Howard      b)Sharad Pawar     c)Alan Isaac    d)Malcom Speed    e)none

7.      Who has been chosen for the Lal Bahadur Shastri Award for Excellence in public administration, academics and management for 2010?

a)Aditi Lahiri     b)Aruna Roy     c)Bharat Bhasker    d)Girish Tewari   e)none

8.      Ravindra Kelekar has been presented the coveted 2006 Jnanpith Award for his contribution to the world in Literature. He was a famous write in which language?

a)Konkani     b)Hindi     c)Bengali    d)Sanskrit     e)none

9.      Who among the following received the 2010 National Amity Award?

a)Yash Chopra     b)Amir Khan    c)Amitabh Bachchan    d)Kareena Kapoor    e)Sunil Dutt

10. Who has been conferred as Businessman of the Decade Award?

a)Narayana Murthy     b)Mukhesh Ambani    c)Ratan Tata    d)Lakshmi Mittal    e)Azim Premji

11. Which is the first state in the country to launch the Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana(PMAGY)?

a)Gujarat     b)Rajasthan     c)Uttar Pradesh     d)Bihar    e)Assam

12. With which country India has inked a deal for purchase of 57 Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer Aircraft?

a)US     b)Britain     c)Israel     d)Russia    e)none

13. What is the present Retirement age of High court judges?

a)58    b)60     c)62      d)65    e)none

14. Who is the head of National Innovation Council to prepare road map for the decade of Innovation 2010-2020?

a)Kapil Sibal     b)A S Murthy    c)Manmohan Singh     d)Sam Pitroda    e)none

15. How many crores has been allocated for the Leh Cloudburst Victims?

a)50    b)75      c)100   d)125     e)150

16. ‘2010Stand Up, Take Action’ is a campaign against ______?

a)Commonwealth Games      b)Poverty    c)Inflation    d)Per capita Income    e)Illiteracy

17. The Winner of 2010 Man Booker Prize?

a)Kiran Desai     b)Anne Enright    c)Hillary Mantel     d)Aravind Adiga     e)Howard Jacobson

18. The 2010 Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit was held in ______?

a)Beijing    b)Bangkok    c)Seoul    d)Brussels     e)London

19. Which Country has won highest gold  medals in XIX Common wealth Games 2010?

a)India    b)China     c)Australia    d)Canada    e)none

20. XX Commonwealth Games 2014 will be held at _____?

a)Rome     b)London      c)Beijing     d)Glasgow       e)Melbourne