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

Quiz on General Awareness 30

1. Which State has been awarded as “Best e-governance Award” for the year 2009?

a)Delhi   b)Haryana   c)Kerala   d)Madhya Pradesh   e)Karnataka

2. Which of the following is Oxfords Dictionary’s “Word of the Year 2009”?

a)Friend   b)freemium   c)Unfriend   d)Paywall   e)Sexting

3. The Five Year Plan is approved by ______________?

a)Planning Commission

b)President

c)National Development Council

d)Prime Minister

e)President

4. Who penned the book “Unleashing India”?

a)S M Krishna   b)Veerappa Moily   c)Shashi Tharoor   d)Chidambaram.P   e)A K Antony

5. Which Country won the Federation Tennis cup 2009?

a)Italy   b)Spain   c)Swizerland   d)Russia   e)US

6. Who has been elected as first permanent President of European Council?

a)Fredrik Reinfeldt   b)Jose Manuel Barroso   c)Romani Prodi   d)Tony Blair   e)Herman Van Rompuy

7. Recently the Centre has released 40,000 crore for which of the following purposes?

a)To remove female illiteracy

b)For better development of School & College Educations

c)For Rural Development in India

d)For Developing National Highways in India

e)Credit for the Farmers

8. A/c to the latest FIFA rankings which country topped the first rank?

a)Brazil   b)Spain   c)Italy   d)Argentina   e)none of these

9. Indian-European Summit 2009 was held in _____________?

a)Brussels   b)Italy   c)London   d)Delhi   e)Egypt

10. What would be the ‘C’ in FCCB (Foreign C……….. Convertible Bonds)?

a)Capital   b)Consumer  c)Currency   d)Customer   e)Current

11. Subhas Chander Kalia has been appointed as Executive Director of which of the following banks?

a)Union Bank of India   b)Dena Bank    c)Vijaya Bank    d)Andhra Bank   e)Indian Bank

12. “Siddarth Tiwari” belongs to which field?

a)Politician   b)Industrialist   c)Sports   d)Economist   e)Theater Director

13. Klaus Schwab was the founder of which of the following Organizations?

a)WTO   b)UNESCO   c)ILO   d)WEF   e)UNICEF

14. India test-fired its nuclear capable Agni-II Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) during night for the first time(24-11-09) from  _________?

a)Balasore   b)Chandipur   c)Dhamara   d)Wheelers Island   e)Bhubaneswar

15. Who was crowned as the World Athlete of the year 2009?

a)Sanya Richards   b)Yelena Isinbayeva   c)Usain Bolt   d)both b & c   e)both a & c

16. The Union government has granted _________ crore for development of road network in Jammu & Kashmir?

a)500   b)1000   c)1500   d)2000   e)none

17. President Pratibha Patil became the first woman head of the state(country) to fly in ___________?

a)MIG-29   b)Sukhoi-47   c)F-16   d)F-18   e)Sukhoi-30

18. Navy Day is recognized on ____________?

a)Jan 4^th   b)Feb 9^th   c)Dec 4^th   d)Jan 19^th   e)none

19. Who among the following is not the recipient award of Arjuna Award?

a)Pullala Gopichand   b)Gautam Gambhir   c)Saina Nehwal   d)Satish Jhoshi   e)All of the above

20. Baichang Bhutia is related to which of the following sport?

a)Hockey   b)Football   c)Badminton   d)Golf   e)Snooker