General Knowledge Quiz 2010 - 53

1. Palakkad is the country’s first fully electrified district in India. Palakkad is in which state?

a)Uttar Pradesh    b)Delhi    c)Tamilnadu    d)Kerala   e)Gujarat

2. Recently RBI approved the currency futures in ___________?

a)Euro    b)Pound    c)Yen    d)All the above    e)none

3. Which country unveiled the $81 billion stimulus package to prevent the country’s economy slipping back into recession?

a)UK    b)France    c)US    d)Germany    e)Japan

4.  Matti Vanhanen recently visited India. He was the Prime minister of _________?

a)Netherlands   b)Sweden   c)Hungary   d)Finland   e)Spain

5. Which Country has agreed to supply coal to Worlds largest consumer of Coal(China), of a record $60 billion deal for the next 20 years?

a)India   b)US   c)Australia   d)South Africa   e)Mongolia

6. Recently which domestic cricket team created a world record chase of 541runs in First class cricket?

a)South Zone   b)Rest of India  c)Central zone   d)North zone   e)West Zone

7. Which Year has been declared as the Warmest Year since 1901, by Indian Meteorological Department(IMD)?

a)2009   b)2008   c)2002   d)2000  e)none of these

8. Which Indian has been appointed as the member of U.S President Barack Obama’s committee on Arts and Humanities?

a)Jhumpa Lahiri    b)Arvind Adiga    c)Arundathi Roy   d)Kiran Desai   e)none of these

9.  J.D Salinger has recently passed away. He was a famous ________?

a)Journalist    b)Economist    c)Writer   d)Painter    e)none of these

10. Which Country has offered to help the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) to strengthen its quality control system?

a)US    b)European Union    c)Japan   d)Maldives   e)none

11. Paramananda Jha is the first vice president of which country?

a)India    b)Pakistan   c)Bhutan   d)Srilanka   e)Nepal

12. In which Country the first state funded Hindu school started its operations in Jan 2010?

a)US    b)UK    c)Bangladesh     d)South Africa    e)Pakistan

13. Who among the following visited the three nation tour of Zambia, Malawai and Botswana in January 2010?

a)Prathibha Patel    b)Manmohan Singh    c)S M Krishna    d)Hamid Ansari   e)P Chidambaram

14. Letika Saran has become the second woman to head a state police force in the country after Kanchan Chaudry Bhattacharya in Uttarakhand. She was the DGP of ___________?

a)Andhra Pradesh    b)Tamilnadu    c)Delhi    d)Madhya Pradesh    e)none of these

15. Who won the Ranji Trophy?

a)Karnataka    b)Tamilnadu    c)Mumbai    d)Hyderabad   e)Uttar Pradesh

16. Who won the Chennai Open Tennis Tournament?

a)Maric Cilic     b)Stansila Wawrinka   c)Marcel Granollers   d)Santigao Ventura  e)none

17. India’s first Aero Sports Centre was inaugurated in which state?

a)Karnataka    b)Bihar    c)Chattisgarh    d)delhi   e)Haryana

18. Which Organization decided to ban the sale of Enrichment and Reprocessing Technology(ENR) to countries that had not signed Non-proliferation Treaty(NPT)?

a)G-5    b)G-8    c)G-77    d)G-20   e)none of these

19. Who is the author of the book ‘A Passage to India’?

a)Bankin Chandra    b)Sarojini Naidu     c)E.M Foster    d)Abdul Fazal   e)Louis Fischer

20. Vineet Nayyar is associated with ______________?

a)Mahindra Satyam     b)RBI    c)RCom     d)TRAI   e)Infosys