General Awareness Quiz 2010 - 70

1.      The Union ministry of information & broadcasting has constituted a committee to review existing television rating point system (TRP) in India. Who is the head of the committee?

a)Rajiv Mehrotra    b)Neeraja Choudhary    c)D S Mathur    d)Amit Mitra    e)none

2.      With which country India has signed an agreement for Rs 10,500 crore official development assistance (ODA)?

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

3.      According to the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), India is the ____ most eco-friendly nation with the best pollution control measures and natural resource management?

a)88^th     b)123^rd      c)134^th     d)143^rd     e)none

4.      Who won the Saraswati Samman 2009 award?

a)Naiyer Masud     b)Lakshmi Nandan Bora     c)Jagannath Prasad Das    d)Surjit Paatar    e)none

5.      Girija Prasad Koirala has passed away. He was the former ______________?

a)President of Nepal

b)President of Bangladesh

c)Prime Minister of England

d)Prime Minister of Bangladesh

e)none(Prime Minister of Nepal)

6.      Which state in India is the largest producer of cotton?

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

7.      What is the slogan of Census 2011?

a)Our Country, Our Future

b)Our Census, Our Future

c)Our Country, Our Census

d)Our Country, Our Population

e)none

8.      Bhairon Singh Shekhawat has recently passed away. Who is he?

a)Former President of India

b)Former Vice President of India

c)Former Prime Minister of India

d)Both a & b

e)none

9.      The Fourteenth G-15 summit was held in _________?

a)Cuba     b)Indonesia     c)Egypt     d)Iran    e)Srilanka

10. In which party, popular South Indian actress Khushboo joined politics in may 2010?

a)Congress     b)DMK     c)MDMK    d)AIADMK     e)none

11. Government is planning to provide education loans at _____ percent interest rate to help students from weaker sections of society to pursue higher studies?

a)1%     b)2%     c)3%      d)4%    e)none

12. Deandra Dottin scored the first century in a 2010 women's Twenty20 World Cup held in West Indies. He plays for which country?

a)West Indies    b)England     c)South Africa    d)New Zealand    e)none

13. World Press Freedom day is observed on?

a)April 3^rd    b)May 3^rd     c)June 3^rd     d)July 3^rd     e)none

14. Which state in India to launch country’s first mobile lok adalat to reach specifically rural poor to settle litigations at their doorstep without any cost to them?

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

15. Which Indian state had become the first state in the entire Asian sub-continent to pay for the procurement of plastic waste?

a)Andhra Pradesh     b)Uttar Pradesh     c)Himachal Pradesh    d)Arunachal Pradesh    e)none

16. According to a list compiled by the Forbes magazine, which Indian city has been named among the world's top ten billionaire cities?

a)Delhi     b)Bangalore      c)Pune     d)Mumbai    e)none

17. Which of the following has become India's First state to be declared as "Smoke Free State" on World No Tobacco day?

a)Uttaranchal      b)Kerala     c)Gujarat     d)Assam    e)Sikkim

18. Who among the following is India’s highest individual taxpayer?

a)Asim Ghosh    b)Mukhesh Ambani     c)Analjit Singh     d)Indrani Patnaik    e)none

19. How many teams are participated in the 2010 FIFA World Cup?

a)8     b)12     c)16     d)24    e)32

20. India announced a target of constructing _____km of road per day in the country in order to fill in the road infrastructure deficit.

a)20km     b)30km     c)15km     d)10km    e)none

March Current Affairs II - 2010

·        Sikkim has emerged as topper in utilizing maximum funds in tourism infrastructure in the Eleventh Five Year Plan. Sikkim is followed by Jammu and Kashmir which has spent Rs 141.70 crores for the development of tourism in the state.(Go for Part -I)

·        China, the most populous country in the world, said it would continue with its over three-decade-old one-child policy to maintain low birth rate and pledged to intensity its "strategic research" on coping with an ageing population.

·        Veteran actor-filmmaker Chandrashekhar will be honoured with the Legend Award by the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy at it's annual function on April 30, the birth anniversary of the founder of Indian cinema.

·        United States has provided an assistance of USD 5 million to Nepal to supply 3,500 tons of staple food to country's poorest.

·        Japan has pledged to provide a financial aid of USD 11 million to Nepal to improve community access and strengthen infrastructure in the rural areas.

·        India pledged USD five million support to Chile for relief and rehabilitation work.

·        The Uranium Corporation of India (UCI) has proposed new uranium mines and processing plants at two sites in Andhra Pradesh and Meghalaya.

·        Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, is among 19 members chosen by UN chief Ban Ki-moon for a high-level advisory group on Climate Change Financing tasked with mobilising funds pledged during the Copenhagen meet to tackle global warming.

·        UNDP chief Helen Clarke visited India to review important of areas of cooperation between the UN body and India, including programmes under the NREGA and capacity building of women panchayat representatives.

·        ADAG-promoted Reliance Capital was ranked the top-most retirement fund manager overall by the EPFO for providing good returns and investing money in quality assets, while the state-owned SBI finished at the bottom. HSBC AMC and ICICI Pru AMC, which are the two other retirement fund managers, have been ranked second and third.

·        A/c to a World Bank study, India is the largest user of groundwater in the world, with an estimated use of 230 cubic kilometers of groundwater every year.

·        A nano satellite "Jugnu" built by students and faculty of IIT Kanpur, handed over to the Indian Space Research Organisation.

·        China and Pakistan will conduct a joint anti-terrorism military exercise in China this summer, the third such operation between the two countries. Top military officials of the two countries have already started discussions for the anti-terror exercise code-named "Friendship-2010,"

·        India ranks first in the world in exporting generic medicines. Orissa was the fifth state in the country and first in eastern India to have launched 'Jan Ausadhi Abhiyan', the national campaign to ensure universal reach of generic medicines. To provide cheaper medicinal drugs to the poor, the government will soon open 626 Jan Aushadhi outlets in state-run hospitals in all district headquarters of the country.

·        India ranked 56^th in Global Innovation Index, report launched by INSEAD in partnership with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Iceland tops the list. Sweden, Hongkong, Switzerland, Denmark as the second, third, fourth and fifth respectively. India rank 36^th in Company Spending on R&D. India ranks 41^st in Public Spending on R&D.

·        India ranked 123^rd position in environmental performance as indicated in 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), report by from Yale University and Columbia University.

·        China has become the second largest industrial manufacturer in the world, says a United Nations Industrial Development Organization report. According to the report 'International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2010', two more developing countries - India and Brazil - figure in the list of top 10 industrial manufacturers globally at the ninth and tenth positions. Germany ranks fourth, followed by France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Russia. With this development, China unseats Japan(3) and is trailing behind the United States(1).

·        Uttar Pradesh tops the list of States and Union Territories with the highest number of 900 child rape cases in 2008 followed by Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

·        On 8^th March 2010, World celebrated 100^th International Women Day.

February Current Affairs II - 2010

·         India has offered foodgrains and a soft loan of USD 250 million to Nepal when Ram Baran Yadav visited India, and the two countries signed four pacts, including one on opening up air traffic and another on building of railway infrastructure at five border points.

·         Documentary filmmaker M V Krishnawamy has been selected for V Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award.(Go for Part1)

·         India has retained its position as world's largest gold consumer overtaking China, the World Gold Council (WGC) has said.

·         Bharti Airtel said it has offered USD 10.7 billion (nearly Rs 50,000 crore) to buy Kuwait-based Zain telecom's mobile operations in Africa, in a deal that would catapult India's largest private telecom firm in the league of world's top 10 operators.

·         Delhi will host the next South Asian Games in 2012.

·         UK court allows Hindu-style funeral pyres. In a landmark judgement, Davender Ghai, an Indian-origin social and religious leader won his bid for the right to be cremated on a traditional open-air funeral pyre according to Hindu rituals.

·         Shane Watson beat Michael Clarke by a comfortable 15-vote margin to bag the Allan Border Medal besides being named Australia's ODI Player of the Year.

·         India plans to progressively base six surface-to-air Akash missile squadrons in the North-East to counter the threat posed by Chinese fighters, helicopters and drones in the region. 

·         Taiwan has eased its laws to allow visa-free entry to those Indians who hold valid visas of several countries including the US, the UK and Schengen states.

·         Noted litterateur C Raghavan, credited with bringing out the first authentic book on Tulu language passed away.

·         India and Maldives agreed to step up cooperation to meet the twin challenges of terrorism and radicalization.

·         France has agreed to sell Russia the 23,000-tonne Mistral class warship. It would be the first arms deal of its kind between Russia and a NATO member.

·         In most parts of the world, including India, women are way behind men in ownership of farm land, says the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The FAO report says out of the total 119 lakh farm land holders in the country, only 9.21 per cent are women.

·         The Hyderabad international airport has been named amongst the world's top five in the annual Airport Service Quality (ASQ) passenger. The survey, conducted by Airports Council International (ACI), an autonomous body representing world airports. The top five awards in the worldwide category go to Seoul Incheon International Airport, Singapore Changi Airport, Hong Kong International Airport, Beijing Capital International Airport, and Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International Airport respectively.

·         External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has been awarded with this year's Global Alumini Award by his alma mater Southern Methodist University of the United States for his distinguished career and accomplishments.

·         Parambikkulam wildlife sanctuary in central Kerala declared the country's 38th Tiger reserve as part of efforts to protect the big cat.

·         Against the backdrop of the two-month long agitation by teachers demanding payment of arrears, the Uttar Pradesh government announced a six-month long ban on strikes in all 12 state universities and 460 government-aided degree colleges in the state.

·         China tops among the leading countries emitting green house gas. China, which contributes 19.5 per cent of green house gas emission, is followed by the US (19.2 per cent), India (5.3 per cent), Russia (5.1 per cent), Japan (3.6 per cent) and Germany (2.6 per cent).

·         India has topped the list of export markets for Dubai for the second consecutive year with a share of 40.6 per cent at 21.3 billion dirhams (Rs 268.348 billion).

·         The Asian Development Bank will be providing up to USD 300 million to help India to develop and expand its micro, small and medium enterprises.