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

New President,Prime Ministers of Countries

·        South Africa new President is Jacob Zuma (African National Congress).

·        Ivan Gasparovic became the first Slovak President to be reelected overcoming opposition candidate IvetaRadicova in second round.

·        Najib razak was recently sworn as Malaysia Prime Minister.

·        Nancy Pelosi is the first woman to serve as speaker of the house in President Obama’s team.

·        New Prime Minister Of Israel was Benjamin Netanyahu.

·        Veerappa moily removed from AICC media head(chief spokesman) and AICC general Secretary janardhandwivedi has been asked to look after the work.

·        Abdul-Aziz Bouteflika is reelected as President of Algeria.

·        Prachanda (Pushpakamal damahal) (Maoist party)Resigned his Prime Minister post due to the reasons of sacking the Nepalese army chief General Rukmangud Katawal.Opposition leader (CPM-UML)party

·        President Ram Bharan Yadav.

·        BJP’s karia Munda to be Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker

·        Manea Mănescu Romanian Prime Minister (b. 1916)

·        Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the world's first openlygay head of government.

·        Anna Bligh of the Labor Party is reelected Premier of Queensland, Australia

Former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is inaugurated as Prime Minister.

·        Senior Congress leader DD Lapang was sworn in as Chief Minister of Meghalaya. 

·        2009 Assembly elections held in 3 states.

a)Andhra Pradesh-new CM::Y.S.Rajeshekar Reddy->party:INC.

b)Orissa-new CM::Naveen Patnaik->party:bjd(biju janata dal).

c)Sikkim-new CM::Pawan Kumar Chamling->party:SDF(Sikkim Democratic Front).

·        Dalia Grybauskaite is elected as the first female president of Lithuania.

·        In 15th Lok Sabha elections: i)Oldest MP=Ram Sundar Das(88) from JD(U)(bihar) and ii)Youngest MP=Muhammed Hamdulla Sayeed(26) from Congress(Lakshadweep).

·        New Nepal Prime Minister is Madhav Kumar.

·        South Koreans were in shock on Saturday over the apparent suicide of former president Roh Moo-Hyun, with his successor describing the case as a national tragedy.

·        Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj of the Democratic Party is elected as President of Mongolia.

·        Meera Kumar will make history as the first woman speaker of the Lok Sabha

·        German President Horst Koehler was elected for a second five-year term

·        Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is re-elected as President of Iran for Second Term.

·        Ramesh Pokhriyal is the new Uttarakhand CM.

·        H R Bhardwaj is the new Governor of Karnataka.

·        Rameshwar Thakur is the new Governor of Madhya Pradesh.

·        Devanand konwar is the new Governor of Bihar.

·        New Prime minister of Czech Republic: Jab Fischer.

·        Interim Prime Minister of Fiji: Frank Bainimarama.

·        New Prime Minister of Hungary: Gordon bajnai.

·        New Prime Minister of Denmark: Lars Looke Rasmussen.

·        New President of Indonesia: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

·        New President of Iran is Mohmoud Ahmedinejad.

·        Japan's new Prime minister is Yukio Hatoyama.