Quiz on General Knowledge 64 - 2010

1.      Who is the new Chief Minister of Meghalaya?

a)D D Lapang   b)Khanduri     c)Mukul Sangma    d)Donkupar Roy   e)none

2.      Who has been voted as India Inc’s Most Powerful CEO for 2009 by Economic Times Corporate Dossier magazine?

a)Sunil Mittal     b)Anand Mahindra     c)Aditya Puri    d)Mukhesh Ambhani    e)Ratan Tata

3.      To which of the following neighbouring country India has decided to supply 50,000 tonnes of wheat, 25,000 tonnes of rice and 10,000 tonnes of yellow peas dal?

a)Pakistan    b)Afghanistan     c)Bangladesh     d)Nepal    e)none

4.      India's 18th Nuclear Power Plant Begins Commercial Operations in which of the following states?

a)Andhra Pradesh      b)Karnataka     c)Rajasthan    d)Gujarat    e)Tamilnadu

5.      Which Country hosted the 16^th SAARC summit?

a)Nepal    b)Srilanka     c)Pakistan    d)Bhutan     e)none

6.      India's first International Tourism police station has been opened in which state?

a)Kerala     b)Delhi     c)Maharashtra    d)Jammu and Kashmir   e)none

7.      Which Company has topped the list of Fortune’s most admired company in the world?

a)Google     b)Microsoft     c)Yahoo    d)P & G    e)Apple

8.      What is the full form of FCNR, term used in banking?

a)Foreign Capital for Nations and Region

b)Finance Capital Non Resident

c)Foreign Currency Non Resident

d)Finance Currency Non Resident

e)none

9.      Recently Rbi increased Policy rates and Reserve ratios. Why did Rbi increased these measures?

a)To Improve the Indian Economy

b)To control the Inflation

c)To control the deflation

d)Rbi wants more money to give to government 

e)because banks are gaining huge profits

10. Who has been named ‘Wisden Cricketer of the Year’ for the second time in a row?

a)Ricky Pointing   b)T Dilshan     c)Andrew Strauss    d)Sachin Tendulkar   e)V Sehwag

11. Which of the following received the ‘Boeing's Supplier of the Year Award for the year 2009’?

a)HAL    b)DRDO     c)ISRO     d)BEL    e)none

12. Chandrashekhar Rele has recently passed away. He was famous _____?

a)Carnatic Musician    b)Dancer      c)Vocalist     d)Hindustan Classical Musician   e)none

13. Who has been awarded the Tejaswini award for young women achievers?

a)Vidya balan    b)Priya Dutt    c)Mary Kom   d)All the bove    e)none

14. Bahraich district has become the first tribal village in the state to be converted into a revenue village under the Forest Rights Act. Bahraich is in which state?

a)Sikkim    b)Rajasthan   c)Maharashtra    d)Chhattisgarh    e)Uttar Pradesh

15. Who is the author of the book ‘Wide Angle’?

a)Tiger Woods     b)Anil Kumble     c)Adam Gilchrist    d)Rahul Dravid    e)none

16. Which is the first bank in India to get the Chinese approval to carry out business in the local currency – yuan?

a)ICICI     b)SBI     c)Punjab National Bank    d)Axis Bank   e)none

17. Which Organization has sanctioned USD 4.9-billion (over Rs 22,000 crore) loans to India in 2009-10 for 14 schemes and projects undertaken by the government?

a)ADB     b)UN     c)World Bank    d)IMF    e)none

18. Which State has decided to pioneer an e-waste policy to encourage green information technologies?

a)Tamilnadu    b)Karnataka    c)Kerala     d)Gujarat   e)none

19. Which Country will host the 11th International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA)?

a)India      b)Srilanka      c)UK    d)Maldives   e)none

20. Recently SEBI banned the 14 life insurance companies in India from circulating ULIP’s. what is the full form of ULIP?

a) Unit Linked Investment Plan

b) Unit Linked Insurance Policy

c) Unit Linked Insurance Plan

d)Unit Linked Investment Policy

e)none

Latest Current Affairs Quiz 2010 - 48

1.      Who is the Chief Guest in the 61st Republic Day of India?

a)Mohammad Nasheed    b)Vladimar Putin   c)Nursultan Nazarbayev    d)Lee Myung-bak   e)none of these

2.      Who is the new National Security Advisor for India?

a)Meera Shankar    b)K Shankarnarayanan     c)P Chidambaram     d)Shiv Shankar Menon   e)none of these

3.      Which state government has proposed to make voting compulsory in all local bodies elections?

a)Andhra Pradesh    b)Tamilnadu    c)Gujarat    d)Rajasthan    e)Karnataka

4.      A/c to National Crime Records bureau, which state records most number of farm suicides during 2003-08?

a)Andhra Pradesh    b)Maharashtra     c)Karnataka   d)Madhya Pradesh   e)Bihar

5.      According to Central Government, how many educational institutes in India failed to meet the standards and norms set by the University Grants Commission (UGC)?

a)25   b)36    c)44   d)45   e)51

6.      Recently which country tested its biggest and most powerful rocket motor called S-200?

a)India    b)US   c)Russia    d)North Korea   e)Israel

7.      Who has been honoured as ‘Order of Diplomatic Service Merit’ in recognition of his contribution in promoting India-Korea bilateral relations?

a)Narayana Murthy    b)Shashi Tharoor   c)Venu srinivasan   d)Azim Premji   e)S Ramadorai

8.      Who is the President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)?

a)Shyamala Gopinath    b)Venu Srinivasan    c)Chandrajit Banerjee    d)Y V Reddy   e)R Seshasayee

9.      The six core industries registered a growth of ____ in December 2009 as against a growth of 0.7% in the same month of previous year?

a)3.1%    b)4.0%     c)5.5%   d)6.0%   e)none of these

10. ONGC is planning to set-up a bio-diesel plant at vodalarevu, to meet the energy requirements. Vodalarevu is in which state?

a)Andhra Pradesh    b)Karnataka    c)Tamilnadu   d)Kerala    e)none of these.

11. Recently Election Commission of India celebrated ___________?

a)Silver Jubilee   b)Golden Jubilee   c)Diamond Jubilee   d)Platinum jubilee  e)none

12. Who is the author of the book ‘The Rediscovering of India’?

a)Jawaharlal Nehru   b)Meghnath Desai    c)Mithi Mukherjee   d)V.S.Naipaul   e)Indira Gandhi

13. How many crores the Union government is expecting from the 3G auction?

a)10,000    b)20,000    c)28,000    d)35,000    e)40,000

14. The Under-19 Cricket world Cup 2010 is held at _______________?

a)India    b)Australia    c)New Zealand    d)South Africa   e)West Indies

15. How many persons were awarded for the first “Tagore Literature Awards 2009’?

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

16. Recently government has decided to come up with the Whole Price Index (WPI) on the monthly basis. What is the base year for computing this data?

a)1993-94    b)2000-01    c)2004-05   d)2008-09   e)none of these

17. Which country unveiled a record of $1 trillion budget for the fiscal year 2010-11?

a)US   b)China    c)Japan    d)South Korea   e)UK

18. Who is the winner of CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2009?

a)A R Rehman    b)Venkataraman Ramakrishnan    c)Jyothi Basu    d)Manmohan Singh   e)none of these

19. Lionel Messi is the FIFA World Player of year 2009. He belongs to which country?

a)Brazil    b)Germany    c)Spain    d)Argentina    e)Italy

20. Recently which Country’s Airlines has filed for bankruptcy?

a)US   b)UK   c)Germany   d)Germany   e)Japan