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

All about Burj Dubai - 2010

Burj Dubai

Burj Dubai(Dubai, UAE), the tallest tower in the world will be opened on 4^th January 2010.

Its Construction began on 21 September 2004.

Features of Burj Duai:

ü  It is also the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 818 m (2,684 ft) surpassing even the 2,063-ft KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota, America. 

ü  The total budget for the Burj Dubai project is about US $4.1 billion.

ü  160 floors(recorded most floors in a single building in the world) after World Trade Center(110)[which collapsed in 2001].

ü  Burj Dubai has been designed to be the centerpiece of a large-scale, mixed-use development

ü  It has the highest swimming pool in the world, on the 76th floor, and the most elevated place of worship with plans for a mosque on the 158th floor. 

ü  There are 900 studios and one-to-four-bedroom flats and 144 apartments in the Burj Dubai.

ü  Having world's highest elevator installation.

ü  Having Worlds fastest elevators at speed of 64 km/h (40 mph).

ü  The first world's tallest structure in history to include residential space.

ü  Its air-conditioning system is the equivalent of melting 12,500 tonnes of ice a day, and it will consume millions of gallons of desalinated water in a city that already has the world’s highest per capita carbon footprint. 

ü  Burj Dubai is being built primarily by immigrants from South Asia mainly from India and Pakistan, toiled round the clock for USD 5 a day. 

ü  The tower is being constructed by a South Korean company, Samsung Engineering & Construction, which also built the Petronas Twin Towers and the Taipei 101.

          Source : Wikipedia.