General Awareness Quiz 2010 - 50

1. India’s first Commercial Solar Plant was inaugurated in which state?

a)Andhra Pradesh   b)Gujarat    c)Maharashtra    d)Punjab   e)none of these

2. The 12^th Ministerial meet of BIMSTEC held in December 2009 at __________?

a)Bangladesh     b)Thailand    c)Nepal   d)Myanmar    e)Srilanka

3.Which Organization has given a fund of $1 billion to National Ganga River Basin Authority(NGRBA)?

a)ADB    b)world Bank    c)IMF    d)RBS   e)none of these

4.Which country won the Under-19 Cricket World Cup held in New Zealand?

a)India    b)Pakistan    c)Australia    d)New Zealand   e)England

5.Who has been appointed as the new Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)?

a)A.S Gill    b)Raman Srivastava   c)R.L Bhatia   d)Vikram Srivastava    e)none

6. Which country has announced that it is building Worlds Longest Sea Bridge of around 50km?

a)Japan    b)China   c)UAE    d)US   e)UK

7. Which country has put a 50% tax on fat bank bonuses?

a)UK   b)US   c)Japan   d)India   e)none

8. Which state has awarded the ‘2010 Akkineni Nageshwar Rao’ award to Lata Mangeshkar?

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

9. Which country has supplied the sophisticated surveillance aircraft, AWACS to Pakistan in December 2009?

a)Russia    b)Israel    c)Sweden    d)US   e)China

10. Which country has decided to Phase out Cheques by 2018?

a)Switzerland    b)France    c)UK    d)Germany   e)US   

11. Which country has become the first to legally recognize same sex marriages?

a)Mexico    b)Sweden    c)US   d)Norway    e)none of these

12. Which Country has overtaken US as the World’s biggest individual Producers of Carbon dioxide?

a)China    b)UK    c)Russia    d)Germany    e)Australia

13. With which country India set to begin new Security dialogue in a “two-plus-two” format?

a)Russia    b)China   c)US   d)Japan   e)Australia

14. Which of the following countries is still a ‘Sick Man of Europe’?

a)Italy    b)Germany    c)Sweden   e)Britain   e)Russia

15. Which Organization has initiated a $7 million, to promote energy efficiency in micro, small and medium enterprises(MSME) clusters across India?

a)World Bank    b)UNIDO    c)UNCTAD   d)ADB   e)IMF

16. Which country hosted the 11^th South Asian Games?

a)Nepal    b)Srilanka     c)Maldives    d)India    e)Bangladesh

17. In which of the following states US will build nuclear power plants in India?

a)Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka

b)Karnataka, Maharashtra

c)Maharashtra, Tamilnadu

d)Tamilnadu, Gujarat

e)Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh

18. With which country India had signed an agreement for transfer of prisoners in January 2010?

a)Nepal   b)Bangladesh    c)Israel   d)Iran   e)Srilanka

19. RBI has increased the limit of banking transactions through mobile phones from Rs 15,000 to Rs __________?

a)20,000    b)30,000   c)40,000   d)45,000   e)50,000

20. Who was sworn in as CM of Jharkhand in December 2009, ending 11months of president’s rule in the state?

a)Madhu Koda    b)Raghvur Das    c)Shibu Soren   d)Dorjee Khandu   e)Ashok Chavan

Note: 11Q answer Denmark.

ICC-Awards-2009

M S Dhoni(wiki)

The LG ICC Awards were held on 1st October 2009 in Johannesburg in South Africa.International Cricket Council has been hosting ICC Awards since 2004 and now is in its sixth year. The previous ones were held in London, Sydney, Mumbai, Johannesburg and Dubai. ICC awards Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy to the Cricketer of the Year which is considered the most prestigious award in world cricket.

The Awards:

1. Cricketer of the Year: Mitchell Johnson (Australia)
2. Test Player of the Year: Gautam Gambhir (Ind)
3. One-Day Player of the Year: M S Dhoni (India)
4. Twenty20 International Performance of the Year: Tillekratne Dilshan (SL).
5. Umpire of the Year: Aleem Dar (Pakistan)
6. Spirit of Team Award: New Zealand 
7. Emerging Player of Year: Peter Siddle (Australia)
8. Associate and Affiliate Player of Year Award: William Porterfield (Ireland)
9. Women Cricketer of Year: Claire Taylor (England).

ICC World Test Team of the Year: Gautam Gambhir (India), Andrew Strauss (Eng), AB de Villiers (SA), Sachin Tendulkar (Ind), Thilan Samraweera (Sri Lanka), Michael Clarke (Aus), MS Dhoni (India-captain), Shakib al Hasan (Bangladesh), Mitchell Johnson (Aus), Stuart Broad (Eng), Dale Steyn (SA) and Harbhajan Singh ( 12th man; India).

ICC World ODI Team of the Year: Virender Sehwag (India), Chris Gayle (West Indies), Kevin Pietersen (England), Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka), Yuvraj Singh (India), Martin Guptill (New Zealand), MS Dhoni (Ind; capt., wk), Andrew Flintoff (England), Nuwan Kulasekara (Sri Lanka), Ajantha Mendis (Sri Lanka), Umar Gul (Pakistan). 12th man: Thilan Thushara (Sri Lanka).