Current Affairs Quiz 75 - 2010

1.      Which of the following Indian city has been named among the top four Livable cities in the world?

a)Mumbai     b)New Delhi     c)Ahmedabad     d)Bangalore    e)Hyderabad

2.      Recntly which country has become full fledge member of Financial Action Task Force(FATF)?

a)Bangladesh     b)Pakistan    c)China    d)India     e)none

3.      Which country is building the World’s largest telescope in Antarctica?

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

4.      Who won the Next Step Foundation 2010 Award?

a)Veerappa Moily     b)Sharad Pawar      c)Manmohan Singh    d)Sonia Gandhi   e)none

5.      Who has been sworn in as 59^th President of Colombia?

a)Michael Bloomberg     b)Julia Gillard    c)Christian Wulff     d)Juan Manuel Santos   e)none

6.      Who has been appointed as the new vice president of ICC?

a)John Howard      b)Sharad Pawar     c)Alan Isaac    d)Malcom Speed    e)none

7.      Who has been chosen for the Lal Bahadur Shastri Award for Excellence in public administration, academics and management for 2010?

a)Aditi Lahiri     b)Aruna Roy     c)Bharat Bhasker    d)Girish Tewari   e)none

8.      Ravindra Kelekar has been presented the coveted 2006 Jnanpith Award for his contribution to the world in Literature. He was a famous write in which language?

a)Konkani     b)Hindi     c)Bengali    d)Sanskrit     e)none

9.      Who among the following received the 2010 National Amity Award?

a)Yash Chopra     b)Amir Khan    c)Amitabh Bachchan    d)Kareena Kapoor    e)Sunil Dutt

10. Who has been conferred as Businessman of the Decade Award?

a)Narayana Murthy     b)Mukhesh Ambani    c)Ratan Tata    d)Lakshmi Mittal    e)Azim Premji

11. Which is the first state in the country to launch the Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana(PMAGY)?

a)Gujarat     b)Rajasthan     c)Uttar Pradesh     d)Bihar    e)Assam

12. With which country India has inked a deal for purchase of 57 Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer Aircraft?

a)US     b)Britain     c)Israel     d)Russia    e)none

13. What is the present Retirement age of High court judges?

a)58    b)60     c)62      d)65    e)none

14. Who is the head of National Innovation Council to prepare road map for the decade of Innovation 2010-2020?

a)Kapil Sibal     b)A S Murthy    c)Manmohan Singh     d)Sam Pitroda    e)none

15. How many crores has been allocated for the Leh Cloudburst Victims?

a)50    b)75      c)100   d)125     e)150

16. ‘2010Stand Up, Take Action’ is a campaign against ______?

a)Commonwealth Games      b)Poverty    c)Inflation    d)Per capita Income    e)Illiteracy

17. The Winner of 2010 Man Booker Prize?

a)Kiran Desai     b)Anne Enright    c)Hillary Mantel     d)Aravind Adiga     e)Howard Jacobson

18. The 2010 Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit was held in ______?

a)Beijing    b)Bangkok    c)Seoul    d)Brussels     e)London

19. Which Country has won highest gold  medals in XIX Common wealth Games 2010?

a)India    b)China     c)Australia    d)Canada    e)none

20. XX Commonwealth Games 2014 will be held at _____?

a)Rome     b)London      c)Beijing     d)Glasgow       e)Melbourne

June Current Affairs - 2010

·        India is expected to be the world's fastest growing economy by 2018, according to Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research arm of the Economist magazine.

·        Encouraged by faster growth in trade between India and South Africa, industry body CII forecast a $12-billion business by 2012 between the two nations.

·        Currency notes are used for the bulk of transactions in the country, despite the growing use of instruments like credit cards and electronic payments, RBI Regional Director Surekha Marandi said.

·        The UN Security Council has decided to pull out 2,000 troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this year and fully withdraw its contingent in June 2011.

·        China will soon launch its fourth orbiter into space as part of its indigenous satellite navigation and positioning network known as 'Beidou'.

·        Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said his government will invest Rs 36,000 crore in programmes for providing basic services to urban poor and development of slums.

·        Filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra will be honoured by the organisers of the Indian Film Festival of London (IFFL) for his contribution to cinema during the event which will be held in August.

·        India and Seychelles signed an agreement to promote and protect each other's investments on reciprocal basis to enhance bilateral economic ties.

·        The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted $5 million to the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) to strengthen the National Tobacco Control Programme in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh, over a three-year period.

·        China is entering into a new and powerful form of relationship with Pakistan. It has decided to allow Pakistan to participate in cross-border trade using the Chinese Yuan as the base currency in dealing with the western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

·        The World Bank approved two projects worth USD 407 million to India, consisting of a USD 300-million credit/loan for scaling up the Sustainable and Responsible Microfinance Project and a USD 107-million loan to strengthen statistical data base.

·        The MCD(Municipal Corporation of Delhi) claimed that it has become the first civic body in the country to win carbon credit through its municipal solid waste compost plant in Okhla area of south Delhi.

·        China has emerged as the world's second biggest arms spender for the second consecutive year after the US, splurging a whopping $100 billion despite the global financial crisis, according to a Swedish think-tank. Latest figures released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), also estimated that some 8,100 nuclear warheads were in operation worldwide in the US, Russia, China, Britain, France, India, Pakistan and Israel. SIPRI said that around 2,000 nuclear warheads were still on "high alert" or ready to be launched within minutes.

·        Prominent taxonomists V Jayachandran Nair and Ramakrishna have bagged the Environment Ministry's prestigious E K Janki Ammal award for plant and animal taxonomy.

·        The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) announced its huge dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong, which could be the world's largest-ever initial public offering, says a media report. ABC, the biggest bank in China by customers, plans to sell as many as 22.24 billion A shares in its IPO in Shanghai and another 25.4 billion shares in Hong Kong.

·        Former President and distinguished scientist Dr A P J Abdul Kalam said, India would be a developed country by 2020 with the support of science.

Latest Current Affairs Quiz - 2010

1.      Which of the following is the World’s fastest Supercomputer?

a)Jaguar     b)Roadrunner     c)Nebulae    d)Kraken XT5   e)none

2.      A/c to the latest notifications of Reserve Bank of India, how much amount of cash can Indians carry while travelling abroad?

a)$2000      b)$3000     c)$4000     d)$5000     e)none

3.      Who is the head of the 18 member high-level expert committee to suggest measures for efficient management of public expenditure?

a)C Rangarajan       b)Manmohan Singh     c)Deepak Parekh     d)Sam Pitroda    e)none

4.      Sunil Chhetri is associated to which of the following sport?

a)Cricket    b)Chess     c)Football    d)Badminton    e)none

5.      With which country India signed an agreement to establish a hotline between prime ministers of the two countries?

a)Pakistan    b)UK    c)Russia    d)Nepal    e)China

6.      Which country is the largest exporter of Cotton in 2009?

a)US    b)India     c)China    d)Brazil    e)none

7.      CryoSat 2, a satellite that will monitor variations in the extent and thickness of polar ice, launched by which country?

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

8.      With which country India has signed an agreement to boost cooperation in the education sector?

a)Maldives    b)Malaysia     c)Japan    d)Australia    e)none

9.      Which Srilankan cricketer has won a seat in parliament general elections?

a)Dharmasena      b)Sanath Jayasurya     c)Chaminda Vaas     d)M Jayawardene   e)none

10. Which of the following MP resigned in the wake of IPL controversy?

a)Sharad Pawar     b)Supriya Sule     c)Shashi Tharoor     d)M S Gill    e)none

11. The first of the new class of offshore patrol vessel indigenously designed and commissioned into Indian Coast Guard?

a)ICGS Vikram    b)ICGS Vishwast     c)ICGS Samar   d)ICGS Sankalp   e)none

12. After United States and Republic of Korea decided to eliminate travel restrictions based on HIV status, recently which of the following country done the same?

a)India      b)Australia      c)Malaysia     d)China    e)none

13. Reliance Industries has found a fourth oil discovery in the Cambay basin. Cambay basin is in which state?

a)Andhra Pradesh     b)Gujarat      c)Rajasthan     d)Maharashtra    e)none

14. With which Indian company Renault and Nissan are developing an ultra low cost car to take on Tata Nano?

a)Mahindra & Mahindra     b)TVS      c)Bajaj      d)Maruti Suzuki    e)none

15. New Moore or Purbasha island near the Bay of Bengal has been completely submerged into the sea. This island was claimed by both India and ___________?

a)Bhutan   b)Srilanka     c)Myanmar     d)Bangladesh   e)Maldives

16. The Tsunami Early Warning System (TEWS) has won the Platinum Icon award for innovative use of technology in Web Ratna Awards, 2009. It is developed by ___________?

a)Infosys     b)HP     c)Wipro     d)TCS    e)none

17. The first Non-Latin web address launched in which of the following language?

a)Tamil    b)Thai    c)Mandarin     d)Urdu    e)Arab

18. What is the maximum limit that foreign investors can hold in state-run banks?

a)10%    b)15%     c)20%    d)30%    e)49%

19. What is the full form of ECB in banking?

a)External Commercial Borrowings

b)Electronic Commercial Borrowings

c)Export Commercial Borrowings

d)Enterprise Commercial Borrowings

e)none

20. Veselin Topalov, a famous player associated with which of the following sport?

a)Badminton    b)Chess     c)Tennis     d)Football    e)none

Current Affairs April 2010- III

·        The World Bank 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. In the last financial year (April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010), the World Bank has extended 14 loans to the government schemes or projects with total assistance of USD 4,901.8 million.(Go for April CA Part -I,II)

·        Lin Dan wins Asian badminton men's singles title, while compatriot Xuerui Li won the title in the women's singles at the Siri Fort stadium in Delhi.

·        To mark the completion of 60 years of diplomatic relations with India, the 'Year of Germany in India' will be held in 2011.

·        The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, announced that India has decided to set up a 'Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership'. The centre will consist of four schools dealing with advanced nuclear energy system studies, nuclear security, radiation safety, and the application of radioisotopes and radiation technology in the areas of healthcare, agriculture and food.

·        Veteran Hindustani vocalist Dr Chandrashekhar Rele passed away.

·        Bollywood actress Vidya Balan, parliamentarian Priya Dutt and boxer MaryKom were among those who were honoured with the 'Tejaswini' award for young women achievers. The awards, an initiative of the Young FICCI Ladies Organisation, honours women for their achievements in various fields, from social activism to entrepreneurship.

·        Pankaj Advani completed a hat-trick of titles at the Asian Billiards championship after edging past Singapore's Peter Gilchrist 6-5 in the closely fought final.

·        Ratan Tata retains his position as India Inc’s top dog. The Economic Times Corporate Dossier magazine not only voted Mr Tata as India Inc’s Most Powerful CEO for 2009, second year running, but also India Inc’s CEO of the Decade.

·        Maharashtra has outnumbered Britain and Mexico in receiving queries under the RTI Act, the State Information Commission has said. "In 2009, Maharashtra received 4,40,728 queries of RTI while Britain received 90,000 and Mexico 1,25,000 under a similar legislation," the Commission said in a recent report.

·        Globally renowned management guru C K Prahalad passed away.

·        Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata launched ‘Kamorta’ the first Anti Submarine Warfare Corvette (ASWC) for the Indian Navy on April 19.

·        Surat, which polishes almost more than 95 per cent of the world's diamonds, is poised to become the assorting and trading hub for the precious jewel stone in the next 3-4 years.

·        Indian government has constructed four schools in remote Nepalese districts at a cost of Rs 37.75 million and extended an additional grant of Rs 11 million for building another educational institution in the country.

·        The Tamil Nadu government announced a self-employment scheme with a project outlay of Rs 100 crore, targeting 10,000 persons even as it brought 15 vocations under the ambit of government subsidy for this purpose

·        Noted Indian author Amitav Ghosh has won the prestigious Dan David Prize for his remarkable reworking of the great tradition of the Western novel in transnational terms.

·        Indonesia aims to double its bilateral trade with India to around USD 20 billion in the next five years.

·        The government is understood to have approved India's commitment to opening up trade in commercial services and investment with members of the Asia Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA), including China. APTA, earlier known as the Bangkok Agreement, is the oldest but least known Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) among the developing countries of Asia Pacific. Signed in 1975, its members include Bangladesh, China, India, Laos, South Korea and Sri Lanka.

·        Bangladesh has lifted a four-decade ban on Indian films in a bid to boost attendances at cinemas.

·        A leading Indian-origin Labour MP, Virendra Sharma has been chosen for the V K Krishna Menon Award 2010, for his outstanding contribution towards political, social and economic advancement of the deprived sections of the British community.

·        The United Nations has honoured President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives with its highest award for environmental leadership. Nasheed was among six people to receive the 2010 Champions of the Earth award at the Business 4 Environment conference in Seoul.

Corporation Bank PO GK Paper 2010

1. SAARC Summit held at - Bhutan

2. FCCB stand for - Foreign Currency Convertible Bond.

3. MAT stand for – Minimum Alternate Tax..

4. Indira Gandhi Award 2009 for peace given to – Sheikh Hasina.

5. Rawatbhata is in – Rajasthan.(Go for 2009 Corporation Bank PO GK paper.)

6. Moortidevi Award was given - M Veerappa Moily

7. Asian Development Bank (ADB) to give $850 million loan to India.

8. Term not related to Hockey - Downswing related to Golf.

9. Legion d'Honneur of France given to - Lata Mangeshkar.

10. Sanya Richards belong to – USA.

11. Bullet Train from – China.

12. Apni Mandi scheme launched in – Punjab.

13. In 15th Copenhagen Summit, India is led by - Manmohan Singh.

14. Green Revolution II relate to - Eastern Areas.

15. Indian makes nuclear deal with – Britan.

16. Spain will be next Greece/Portugal/Italy - means all 3's are heavily effected during global eco. Crisis.

17. Between The Assassinations written by Aravind Adiga .

18. Invisible book is written by – Paul Auster.

19. Monetary Policy include - CRR and SLR.

20. After 5 yrs USA setup embassy in – Syria.

21. K-G gas from- Krishna Godavari basin.

22. Fiscal deficit reduce to 5.5% by March 2011/ 2010-11

23. Lufthansa's is not a bank/financial institution.

24. Snow Leopard found in - U.P.-Uttarakhand.

25. Russia Vows to Supply Oil Despite Dispute with Ukraine

26. Zain is telecom - Kuwait

27. Usain Bolt was named Laureus World Sportsman 2009

28. Between the assassination – Arvind Adiga.

29. C. Srither, Ratan Singh and Isiah R Sanam relate to the game – Archerya

30. Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission aims to generate power - bijali sab ke liye

31. Voting compulsory in elections to all the local bodies in – Gujarat.

32. Government is set to provide Rs.16500 Cr to public sector banks to boost capital.

33. European Footballer Award for the year 2009 – Lionel Messi.

34. India export jewellry to usa.

35. In Sports - Arjun Award is given.

36. In Literature - Man Booker Prize is given.

37. Goodluck Jonathan has been elected as a president of which country – Nigeria.

Note: Some of the Answers/questions might be wrong/incorrect. This is submitted by one of our blog follower named ‘Narendra’ and others.

List of Newly Elected President/PM's of a Country in 2009

1)     Indonesia President - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

2)     Congo President - Denis Sassou Nguesso

3)     Kyrgyzstan President - Kurmanbek Saliyevich Bakiyev

4)     Afghanistan President – Hamid Karzai

5)     Japan Prime Minister – Yukio Hatoyama

6)     Norway Prime Minister – Jens Stoltenberg

7)     Denmark Prime Minister – Lars Lokke Rasmussen

8)     Iran President – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

9)     Slovakia President – Ivan Gasparovic

10)South Africa President – Jacob Zuma

11)India Prime Minister – Manmohan Singh

12)Iceland Prime Minister – Johanna Siguroardottir

13)Bangladesh President – Zillur Rahman

14)Bangladesh Prime Minister – Sheikh Hasina

15)Nepal Prime Minister – Madhav Kumar Nepal

16)Zimbabwe Prime Minister – Morgan Tsvangirai

17)Somalia President – Sharif Ahmed

18)Germany President – Horst Kohler

19)Madagaskar President – Andry Rajoelina

20)Greece Prime Minister – George Papandreou

21)Honduras President – Profirio Lobo Sosa

22)Israel Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu

23)Greenland Prime Minister – Kuupik Kleist

24)USA President- Barack Obama

25)Romania President – Traian Basescu

26)Bolivia President - Evo Moralis

Quiz on General Awareness 18

1.Who Crowned the Femina Miss India 2009 ?

a)Ekta Chowdary    b)Shriya Kishore    c)Pooja Chopra    d) Parvathy Omanakuttan   e)none.

2. Computerization of Banks was suggested by which of the following committee ?

a)Rangarajan Committee  

b)Tandaon Committee   

c)Janikiraman   Committee   

d)Manmohan Singh Committee   

e)Shetty Committee

3.India signed a civil nuclear agreements with seven countries, In which of the following countries did India has not signed a civil nuclear agreement ?

a)Kazakhstan    b)Mongolia    c)Namibia    d)UK   e)Argentina

4.Which of the following countries is the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide(CO2) ?

a)US(2)   b)China(1)    c)India(3)    d)Russia(4)    e)Pakistan

5.Who has been elected as the president of the Indian Languages Newspapers Association (ILNA) ?

a)Uttam Chand Sharma   b)V K Chopra    c)Dinesh Shakti Trikha   d)VenkataRam Reddy  e)none

6.Expand NELP ?

a)Nominal Equal Liquidity policy

b)New Exploration Land Programme

c)New Education Lightning Programme

d)New Exploration Licensing policy

e)Newly Equated Lending Policy

7.The Fourth East Asian Summit is slated to be held in _____________ ?

a)Thailand    b)Malaysia    c)Singapore   d)Philippines     e)Vietnam

8.Which of the following cities in India will have a world class research institute on climate change ?

a)Mumbai    b)Hyderabad    c)Pune   d)Delhi    e)Bangalore

9.Yukhio Hatoyama, the new Prime Minister of Japan belongs to the which of the following  political parties ?

a)Liberal Democratic party    b)Japenese Communist Party    c)People’s new party  d)Democratic party of Japan   e)Social Democratic party

10.Latin American Countries decided to launch a new regional currency __________  in 2010 , replacing US Dollar ?

a)Boliviano    b)Sucre   c)Peso   d)Lempiras    e)cordoba

11.Which of the following has become the first African country to win the FIFA U-20 World Cup-2009 that was held in Egypt ?

a)South Africa   b)Egypt   c)Ghana    d)Botswana   e)Algeria

12.Rajiv Swagruha Scheme, a scheme for middle-class housing launched by ___________ government ?

a)Andhra Pradesh   b)Maharashtra    c)Rajasthan    d)Haryana   e)Punjab

13.’COPE India 2009’ is a joint Air Force exercise between India and _________ recently held in Agra ?

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

14.Which is the first country in the World to keep the Cabinet Meeting Under water ?

a)US    b)Srilanka     c)Australia    c)New Zealand    e)Maldives

15. P V Narasimha Rao Elevated Expressway, country's longest fly-over which covers 11.6 km, is located in which of the following states ?

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

16.Which of the following Company/Organisation is not a Public Sector Unit (PSU) ?

a)MTNL   b)CMC    c)VSNL    d)NALCO   e)none

17.Indirect Tax is a tax on ___________ ?

a)Income   b)Wealth   c)Labour    d)Commodities   e)Housing

18.Which of the following is the first state to implement VAT (Value Added Tax) in India ?

a)Kerala    b)Punjab    c)Haryana    d)Andhra Pradesh    e)Gujarat

19. Recently Indian government decided to give an extra amount of Rs.______  crore to the Sri Lankan government towards rehabilitating Tamils displaced by the civil war.

a)500   c)600   b)750   d)1000   e)1500

20.”Dreams from my Father” is book written by _________ ?

a)A P J Abdul Kalam   b)George W.Bush   c)Sachin Tendulkar    d)Barack Obama  e)none

Imp Points:

->3rd Q:India signed civil nuclear agreements with US,France,Russia,Kazakhstan,Mongolia,Namibia,Argentina.

->9th Q:First non-Liberal Democratic Party to win in Japan.

->10th Q:Single Regional Payment Compensation System(Sucre).

->19th Q:India had already given 500 crores for Rehabil........ !!!

->20th Q:"Audacity of Hope","Dreams from my Father" are the two books written by Barack Obama.