Sports Update - 2010

FIFA World Cup 2010:

The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup that took lace in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The 2010 finals marked the first time a European nation had won the tournament outside of its home continent, as well as the first time that two different European teams had become world champions in succession.

Spain got their first ever FIFA world cup.

 The 19 tournaments that have been contested have been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won the World Cup a record five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament.

Titles by team so far:

Brazil – 5(1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002)

Italy – 4(1934, 1938, 1982, 2006)

Germany – 3(1954, 1974, 1990)

Argentina – 2(1978, 1986)

Uruguay – 2(1930, 1950)

France – 1(1998)

England – 1(1966)

Spain – 1(2010)

Final Positions of 2010 FIFA World Cup:

Champions: Spain

Runner-up: Netherlands

Third place: Germany

Fourth place: Uruguay

Awards:

Golden Ball Winner(best player): Diego Forlan (Uruguay)

Golden Boot Winner(top goal scorer) & Best Young Player(best player under 21 years): Thomas Mueller(Germany)

Golden Glove Winner(best goalkeeper): Iker Casillas(Spain)

FIFA Fair Play Award: Spain

Wimbledon Championship 2010:

The 2010 Wimbledon Championships took place in Wimbledon, London, UK.

Rafael Nadal won his second Wimbledon title against Tomas Berdych and his 8th Grand Slam title.

 Serena Williams won the ladies tennis Wimbledon 2010 final against the Russian Vera Zvonareva and notched up her fourth Wimbledon win together with her 13th Grand Slam title.

India's Leander Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe beat South African Wesley Moodie and Lisa Raymond of the US to win the Wimbledon mixed doubles title. With this victory, Paes surpassed his one-time doubles partner Mahesh Bhupathi in winning the most Grand Slam titles for India. Paes now has six doubles and six mixed-doubles titles. Bhupathi has 11 Grand Slam titles -- four doubles and seven mixed doubles titles.

List of 2010 winners:

S.no		Winners	Runners
1.	Men’s Single	Rafael Nadal(ESP)	Tomas Berdych(CZE)
2.	Women’s Single	Serena Williams(USA)	Vera Zvonareva(RUS)
3.	Mixed Doubles	Leander Paes (IND) / Cara Black (ZIM)	Wesley Moodie(RSA) / Lisa Raymond(USA)
4.	Men’s Doubles	Jurgen Melzer(AUT) / Philipp Petzschner(GER)	Robert Lindstedt(SWE)/ Horia Tecau(ROU)
5.	Women’s Doubles	Vania King(USA) / Yaroslava Shvedova(KAZ)	Elena Vesnina(RUS)/ Vera Zvonareva(RUS)

Current Affairs Quiz 2010 - 56

1.      Recently which country offered their nationality to the India’s most celebrated artist M.F. Hussain?

a)Saudi Arabia    b)Kuwait     c)South Africa    d)Qatar    e)UK

2.      To which Country India has given a $1 billion line of credit, the biggest it has given to any country?

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

3.      Viktor Yanukovych is newly elected President of _____________?

a)Libya   b)Uruguay   c)Bulgaria    d)Ukraine    e)none of these

4.      The index of six core industries registered a growth of ____ percent in January 2010?

a)4.2%    b)5.5%     c)6.9%   d)8.0%    e)9.4%

5.      Which country honored the Niwano Peace Prize 2010 to social worker Ela Bhatt for her contribution to uplift of poor women in India?

a)China    b)Japan    c)Singapore    d)Sweden   e)Maldives

6.      Recently Sachin Tendulkar created world record by scoring 200 runs in ODI’s. He scored against ______?

a)Srilanka    b)New Zealand    c) Bangladesh    d)South Africa   e)Australia

7.      The Indus Waters Treaty is a water-sharing treaty between the India and _______?

a)China    b)Bangladesh    c)Pakistan    d)Nepal    e)Bhutan

8.      Which State Government has decided to give up to Rs.1 crore to SC/ST Entrepreneurs without collateral security to encourage them as Industrialist?

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

9.      Recently which country approved the genetically modified Potatoes?

a)Europe    b)Srilanka    c)South Africa    d)US  e)Brazil

10. Which state launched the scheme ‘Kalaignar Housing Scheme’ aimed at providing concrete houses to poor?

a)Kerala    b)Karnataka     c)Chhattisgarh  d)Uttarakhand     e)Tamilnadu

11. Which team lifted the 2010 Vijay Hazare Trophy?

a)Bengal    b)Karnataka    c)Tamilnadu   d)Maharashtra    e)none

12. Which of the following is the largest selling car in India in 2009?

a)Maruti Alto     b)Hyundai i10    c)Tata Indica    d)Maruti Swift   e)Hyundai Santro

13. Recently which State Government has declared Sanskrit as the second official language of the State?

a)Kerala     b)Tamilnadu     c)Uttarakhand    d)Andhra Pradesh    e)Karnataka

14. In which country Ministry of Tourism held an Incredible India Road show to promote Commonwealth Games 2010 in January 2010?

a)US    b)UK    c)Trinidad    d)South Africa   e)France

15. According to the 2010 Quality of Life Index, published by travel magazine International Living, India is ____ best country to live?

a)34^th    b)49^th    c)54^th    d)73^rd   e)88^th

16. Who is the Chairman of the Committee on Comprehensive Regulation for Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs), set up by the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance?

a)Kaushik Basu    b)K.P Krishnan    c)A. Vasudevan    d)Rakesh Mohan  e)None

17. The world's first On-Line Electric Vehicle (OLEV) was introduced in ________?

a)Japan    b)China    c)South Korea    d)Singapore   e)Malaysia

18. A high-level committee headed by Sam Pitroda has submitted its report on state-run telecom operator BSNL to the Department of Telecom (DoT). Which of the following is true regarding the report?

a)Disinvestment of 30% government equity

b)Recommended that four independent business units for fixedline, mobility, enterprise and new business should be created.

c)To reduce the Staff by one-third from the present 3 lakhs employees.

d)Both A & B

e)All the above

19. Nisar Ahmed Kukru is appointed as the Chief Justice of ______________?

a)Andhra Pradesh    b)Rajasthan     c)Jammu and Kashmir    d)Delhi   e)None

20. Which Country has agreed to sell four Mishral warships to Russia?

a)Israel    b)France    c)US    d)UK   e)China

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

Current Affairs Quiz 2010 - 51

1.  Horst Koehler is on a week-long visit to India, he was the president of _______?

a)Canada     b)Russia    c)Italy    d)Argentina   e)Germany

2.  A/c to the Latest State of Forest Report (SFR), India’s forest cover rises to over ____?

a)19%    b)21%    c)24%    d)26%   e)28%

3.  A/c to the data published by the WAN-IFRA, which among the following Country is the Biggest Newspaper Market in the World?

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

4.  A/c to a Report, how many Crores needed for MSME(micro, small and medium enterprises) to help it recover from the aftermath of the Global economic Slowdown?

a)1,000    b)2,000   c)3,500   d)5,500   e)8,000

5.  With which country India has signed an agreement for oil and gas exploration and decided to strengthen cooperation in Information Technology in February 2010?

a)Hungary    b)Norway    c)Algeria   d)South Africa   e)UAE

6.  Which Life Insurance Company has launched the Child Plan ‘I-Genius’?

a)SBI Life Insurance   b)Max New York Life Insurance    c)LIC   d)Tata AIG Life Insurance   e)ICICI Prudential Life Insurance

7.  Which City hosted the 11^th International Communists and Workers meet?

a)Kolkata    b) Thiruvananthapuram    c)Chennai   d)Delhi   e)Shimla

8.  India stands at which place in the Latest Corruption Index, released by Transparency International?

a)34^th    b)123^rd    c)134^th    d)49^th   e)84^th

9.  Which of the following is a Light Combat Aircraft(LCA)?

a)Astra    b)Akash    c)Tejas   d)Pruthvi   e)Brahmos

10. Which Country had announced that it had decided to construct 10 more Uranium enrichment plants in the country?

a)North Korea    b)India    c)Iran    d)South Korea   e)China

11. Which country tested the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile(Dongfeng 31-A)?

a)China   b)North Korea    c)Taiwan    d)Sweden   e)Australia

12. The European Commission granted a $1 billion loan to which trouble-torn African nation?

a)Lebanon   b)Nigeria    c)Sudan    d)Botswana   e)Zimbabwe

13. Recently Union government has banned the prepaid mobile phones in which of the following state?

a)Arunachal Pradesh    b)Sikkim   c)Jammu & Kashmir   d)Assam   e)Meghalaya

14. What is the amount fixed by the TRAI for availing Mobile Number Portability(MNP) facility?

a)Rs. 11   b)Rs. 19   c)Rs. 21   d)Rs. 25   e)none of these.

15. The Total number(approximately) of mobile subscribes in India at end of the December 2009 is ________?

a)49 crores    b)52 crores    c)56 crores    d)61 crores   e)none

16. India has signed an Extradition Treaty in January 2010 with _________?

a)Nepal    b)Malaysia    c)Bangladesh    d)Singapore   e)none of these

17. Which state government adopted the Public Property Bill in November 2009?

a)Gujarat    b)Rajasthan  c)Tamilnadu   d)Andhra Pradesh   e)none of these

18. Lafarge is the World’s largest cement manufacturer. It belongs to which country?

a)France   b)Switzerland   c)Germany    d)Mexico   e)Italy

19. Who is the author of the book ‘The Grasshopper’s Run’?

a)Sujan Kaur    b)Nitasha Kaul    c)Sarah Palin    d)Vinita Kamte   e)Siddhartha Sarma

20. Recently which cricketer completed 11,000 runs in Test cricket?

a)Jacques Kallis    b)Rahul Dravid    c)Ricky Pointing   d)M Jayawardene   e)none of these.

General Knowledge 2009 quiz - 41

1. With which country India has signed a Social Security Agreement on Sep 03, 2009?

a)Malaysia    b)Singapore    c)Switzerland    d)Hongkong    e)US

2. Which state is planning to start 64 model schools in backward districts under Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)?

a)Gujarat    b)Uttar Pradesh    c)Madhya Pradesh    d)Haryana   e)Karnataka

3. Who has been awarded male Golfer of the Year in the annual Golf Writers of America Awards?

a)Steve Sticker    b)Jack Nicklaus    c)Ben Hogan   d)Tiger Woods   e)Bobby Jones

4. Who has been conferred the prestigious Indira Gandhi Gold Plaque 2009 for significant contribution towards human progress?

a)Kofi Annan    b)Sheikh Hasina    c)Sujitha Koirala     d)Mahmood Nasheed   e)Aung San Suu Kyi

5. How many Indian films were nominees for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film (Oscar awards) till now?

a)one    b)two     c)three   d)four   e)five

6. Where is the headquarters of International Cricket Council (ICC)?

a)Australia    b)England    c)West Indies    d)South Africa   e)none of these

7. Which is the first Indian bank to open its branches outside India?

a)SBI     b)ICICI     c)Bank of India   d)PNB   e)none of these

8. The 35^th National Games will be held at which of the following states?

a)Kerala    b)Bihar    c)Jharkhand     d)Gujarat    e)Rajasthan

9. Which bank has been awarded Golden Peacock National Training Award 2009?

a)Indian Bank    b)Canara Bank    c)PNB    d)Corporation Bank   e)Bank of Baroda

10)Which Islamic Country to setup its first ever co-educational university?

a)Pakistan    b)Iran    c)Afghanistan    d)Saudi Arabia    e)Turkey

11. Recently which country has taken steps to take finger prints from all adult foreign visitors by 2012 to lighten immigration controls and prevent criminals?

a)US    b)UK     c)South Korea    d)Australia   e)India

12. Recently President Prathiba Patil visited which of the following countries in September 2009?

a)Russia   b)Spain    c)Tajikistan   d)Kyrgyzstan   e)both a & c

13. Meenakshi Mukherjee recently passed away. She was a famous _____________?

a)Literature    b)Sports person    c)Journalist    d)Economist   e)none of these

14. Which bank has been adjudged the Best Bank for the year 2009 on Quality of Assets by Business Today-KPMG Study?

a)Canara Bank   b)Andhra Bank    c)HDFC    d)PNB   e)SBI

15. The Codename ‘Western Bridge’ is a joint Air exercise between India and ________?

a)Maldives     b)Japan    c)Oman    d)US    e)Russia

16. What is the proposed percent of reservation for women in urban local bodies?

a)31%    b)51%    c)33%    d)50%   e)49%

17. With which country India signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the area of Climate Change on October 22, 2009?

a)US    b)Japan   c)Canada   d)Maldives   e)Norway

18. ‘Human Rights Day’ is observed on _________?

a)Sep 10^th    b)Dec 10^th    c)Dec 4^th    d)Sep 18^th   e)Nov 7^th

19. Dorjee Khandu was in news recently.He was the chief minister of _________?

a)Himachal Pradesh    b)Madhya Pradesh    c)Sikkim    d)Arunachal Pradesh   e)Assam

20. Which country won the Fed Cup?

a)Italy    b)Argentina    c)Russia    d)US   e)none of these

Note:

5 Q : 1)Mother India(1957)  2)Salaam Bombay(1988)   3)Lagaan(2001)

6 Q : Dubai