Quiz on General Awareness 2010 - 62

1.   Who has been nominated as the India Abroad Person of the Year 2009?

a)Indra Nooyi     b)V Ramakrishnan     c)Fareed Zakaria    d)Bobby Jindal    e)none

2.   Recently to which gulf country Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited and signed bilateral agreement in February 2010?

a)Kuwait    b)Saudi Arabia   c)Iran   d)Dubai    e)none

3.   What is India’s position in Global Innovation Index, report launched by INSEAD in partnership with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)?

a)36^th     b)44^th     c)56^th     d)88^th    e)none

4.   Laura Chinchilla has been elected as the first woman President of __________?

a)Libya     b)Ukraine    c)Spain    d)Costa Rica   e)none

5.   A/c to the ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan, ISRO’s budget is ____ percent of that of its US counterpart NASA?

a)21%     b)16%    c)12%    d)6%    e)3%

6.   Recently which country dropped a proposal to change the country's national anthem by making it more gender- inclusive?

a)Germany     b)UK     c)France    d)Canada   e)none

7.   A/c to the Livability Index 2010 prepared jointly by CII and Institute for Competitiveness, which is the best Indian city to live?

a)Delhi     b)Mumbai     c)Bangalore    d)Jamshedpur     e)Pune

8.   The 108^th Constitutional Amendment Bill deals with which of the following?

a)Right to Education     b)Right to Vote    c)SC/ST reservation    d)Women Reservation   e)none

9.   India offered a $250 million line of credit to which of the following country?

a)Nepal    b)Srilanka     c)Bangladesh    d)Haiti    e)none

10. Abdullah Gul recently visited India and signed a joint declaration on Terrorism with India. He was the President of ____________?

a)Saudi Arabia     b)Dubai    c)Turkey    d)Kuwait    e)Palestine

11. Mahmoud Abbas has visited India in February 2010. He was the president of ________?

a)Yugoslavia    b)Israel     c)Palestine    d)Libya    e)none

12. Who won the Dubai Open title 2010 by defeating Mikhail Youzhny?

a)Novak Djokovic     b)Rafael Nadal    c)Andy Roddick    d)Andy Murray   e)none

13. Who has been nominated as the ‘Best Actor in a leading role’ in the Filmfare Awards 2010?

a)Amir Khan    b)Sharukh Khan     c)Hrithik Roshan    d)Amitabh Bachchan   e)Ranbir Kapoor

14. Which state government has given Lifetime Achievement for Habib Tanvir and Pandit Bhimsen Joshi?

a)Maharashtra    b)West Bengal     c)New Delhi    d)Rajasthan    e)none

15. The 15^th Conference of India and US Air Forces meeting was held in __________?

a)Delhi     b)Bangalore     c)Goa     d)Mumbai    e)Thiruvananthapuram

16. Which of the following countries is the largest producer of jute in the World?

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

17. Which European Country has introduced a new package of tax increases and spending cuts to save 4.8bn euro’s and ease its budget crisis?

a)Sweden    b)Greece    c)Spain    d)Portugal    e)none

18. India is the _______ most affected country in the world for spam mail attacks, in the annual security report by Cisco?

a)first     b)second     c)third    d)fourth   e)fifth

19. Which Country has launched the poppy eradication programme to wipe out opium poppies across the country?

a)Srilanka     b)India    c)Pakistan    d)Afghanistan    e)China

20. Syed Mushtaque Ali has recently passed away. He belongs to which filed?

a)Painting     b)Sports    c)Politics     d)Social Service    e)none