Quiz on Current Affairs - 2011

1.      Which state government has renamed the Brookside Bungalow to Rabindranath Art Gallery?

a)Mizoram     b)Assam   c)Meghalaya     d)Uttaranchal    e)none

2.      Who wrote the book “India - Pakistan: Coming To Terms”?

a)Ajit Pawar     b)Ashutosh Misra     c)K R Narayana    d)Shashi Tharoor    e)none

3.      Who has been elected as President of Karnataka State Cricket Association(KSCA)?

a)Rahul Dravid      b)Vijay Mallya    c)Javagal Srinath     d)Venkates Prasad    e)Anil Kumble  

4.      Which animal has been declared as National Heritage Animal by GOI - Elephant.

5.      Which of the following nation is the recent one to join Non Aligned Movement(NAM)?

a)Fiji    b)Cuba     c)Iran    d)Colombia   e)Egypt

6.      DIPP is the nodal agency in the field of foreign investments? what is the full form of DIPP - Department Of Industrial Policy and Promotion.

7.      RBI was considering the proposal to set up satellite banks and ATMs to provide banking facilities to the villagers in which state?

a)Bihar    b)Jharkhand     c)Uttar Pradesh     d)Assam   e)none

8.      National Voters Day is observed on _________?

a)Jan 6th     b)April 1^st     c)May 25^st     d)Jan 25^th     e)Oct 6^th

9.      Which country has opened World’s first nuclear bank - Russia?

10. Minimum Support Prices(MSP) is increased based on the recommendation of ?

a)Ministry of Finance     b)Ministry of Agriculture    c)Agriculture Cost and Price Commission    d)both a & c     e)Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs

General Knowledge 2010 quiz - 47

1.      Which among the following constitutes maximum share in power generation in India?

a)Nuclear power   b)Solar power   c)Hydro Power    d)Wind Power   e)Thermal Power

2.      The 2009 APEC Summit held in ________?

a)Thailand   b)Hong Kong   c)Malaysia   d)Singapore   e)Vietnam

3.      Fiscal policy means ______________?

a)Credit policy   b)Planning policy    c)taxation policy   d)Subsidy Policy   e)Foreign Policy

4.      Which of the following is the largest exporter of Tea?

a)India   b)Brazil   c)China   d)Srilanka   e)none of these

5.      ‘Majlis’ is the parliament of which of the following countries?

a)Iran   b)Pakistan    c)Afghanistan    d)Turkey   e)Iraq

6.      Which of the following is India’s first indigenously built multi-barrel rocket launcher?

a)Akash   b)Pinaka   c)Trishul    d)Nishant    e)Arjun

7.      Who became the third batsmen to reach 12,000 ODI runs?

a)Sanath Jayasuriya    b)Sachin Tendulkar   c)Ricky Pointing   d)Rahul Dravid   e)none

8.      Who is the first Indian to win the World’s Billiards Championship?

a)Subhash Agarwal    b)Geeth Sethi   c)Pankaj Advani   d)Manan Chandra   e)Anuja Thakur

9.      Recently Barack Obama completed one year term as the President of US. He belongs to which party?

a)Republican Party   b)Labour Party    c)African American Party   d)Peoples Party   e)Democratic Party

10. Who is the newly elected President of Croatia?

a)Zlatko Tomcic   b)Ivo Josipovic    c)Stjepan Mesic    d)Vlatko Pavletic   e)none of these

11. A/c to UNESCO, which of the following is the Largest University in the World?

a)IGNOU    b)California State University    c)Islamic Azad University   d)B R Ambedkar Open University    e)Osmania University

12. Which of the following won the Gold in Men’s category in the World Team Chess Championship held in Turkey?

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

13. ‘Open’ is the Autobiography of __________?

a)Michael Jackson   b)Cristiano Ronaldo    c)Barack Obama   d)Andre Agassi   e)none of these

14. Who won the Doha WTA Championship?

a)Venus Williams   b)Kim Clijsters   c)Justin Henin   d)Ana Ivanovic   e)Serena Williams

15. Which of the following countries having World’s Largest Uranium Reserves?

a)Australia   b)Canada    c)Russia   d)Kazakhstan   e)France

16. The Union Government approved the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) that aims at adding 20,000MW of power in India by _______?

a)2012    b)2015   c)2020   d)2025   e)2022

17. Stephen Harper has visited India in November 2009. He was the Prime minister of _______?

a)Mongolia   b)Russia   c)New Zealand   d)Canada   e)Argentina

18. Global Fund has approved USD 2.4 billion Grant for India to fight ________?

a)Climate Change   b)AIDS   c)Malaria   d)Tuberculosis   e)b, c & d.

19. The government has reconstituted the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister, who is the Chairman of the Committee?

a)Venu Srinivasan    b)C.N.R. Rao   c)A.K.Sood   d)R.A.Mashelkar   e)Madhavan

20. Ashok K.Kantha has been appointed India’s High Commissioner to _______?

a)Australia    b)Maldives   c)Srilanka   d)Thailand   e)Malaysia