CURRENT AFFAIRS "STAR OF AUGUST"

INTRODUCED Bhuvan WHICH IS A GREAT LANDMARK AMONG THE
ACHIEVEMENTS OF ISRO.

SWINE FLU WAS A HEADLINE IN THE NEWSPAPERS LAST MONTH WITH A RED ALERT FROM W.H.O DECLARING IT A GLOBAL DISEASE

JASWANT,ONE OF THE SENIOR POLITICIANS OF BJP, HAD TO QUIT THE PARTY FOR HIS NEW BOOK WHICH HAS A SOFT CORNER TO JINNAH

SHARUKH KHAN ONE OF THE FAMOUS BOLLYWOOD STARS

WAS RIDICULED AT AMERICA

ACHIEVEMENT CAME TO GAUTHAM AS ARJUNA AWARD

AND TEST RANKING.1 LAST MONTH

VOTE FOR THE NEWS STAR OF LAST MONTH and add your comments about them

and those significant figures whom you think is missed out from the list.

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ- ANSWERS TO PREVIOUS QUIZS

1. Who was crowned the Miss Universe 2009 title?
ans: Stefania Fernandes

2. How is August 22 observed?
ans: World Folklore Day

ANSWERS TO STARRED QUESTIONS

QUIZ 1
*4. GREANPEACE

QUIZ 2

*5. Syed Sibty Razi ,governor of Arunachal Pradesh
*6. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg
*7. Charles Darwin's birthday anniversary

CURRENT AFFAIRS (Rajiv Gandhi 66th birthday anniversary)

1.Who is the famous filmmaker of USA who passed away this month?
He is commended for the screenplay of “Home Alone”.
Ans: John Hughes

2. Who is the present governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana?
He is an Indian-American to be elected as the youngest governor of the nation.
Ans: Bobby Jindal

3. Which placed is renowned as the grave-yard of Rajiv Gandhi?

ans: Veerbhumi

*4. Identify this emblem.To which organisation does it belong?

I expect its answer form the readers.

CURRENT AFFAIRS - "MUST KNOW" INFORMATION

1. In which country did the disease H1N1 influenza (swine flu) outbreak?
Ans: Mexico

2.Swine flu is the informal name for the disease caused by H1N1 influenza A virus.
What is H2N2 influenza called?
Ans: Asian flu

3.Book controversy is not new to Jaswant Singh.
In the previous book he alleged that there was a mole in the Prime Minister's Office in the nineties during the tenure of PV Narasimha Rao of the Congress who leaked information to American sources. Name the book.
Ans: "A Call to Honour: In Service of Emergent India in 2006"

4. Who is the present finance secretary of India?
Ans: Ashok Chawla







*5.Identify this personality (below)who was recently accused for corruption but rubbished the allegations against him. What is his official status?












*6. Who was awarded Philadelphia's 2009 Liberty Medal for artistic and humanitarian achievements?

*7. On whose birthday google introduces this logo on the home page?

I EXPECT THE ANSWERS OF THE STARRED QUESTIONS FROM THE READERS.

CURRENT AFFAIRS AUGUST(3RD EDITION)

1. Which is the new book written by the BJP party senior Jaswant Singh that secured profuse attention of media and party cofrares for blaming Nehru of the partition of India?
ANS: 'Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence'

2.Usain Bolt is an athlete who often make amendments in 100 m race records.
What is the new timing he has set?
ANS: 9.58sec

3. The leader of opposition of Rajasthan Vasundhara raje Sindhia is the sister of which Gwalior ruler?
ANS: Madhavraj Sindhia

4. Charles Coventry is recorded the highest ODI individual innings score getter in parallel with whom?
ans: Saeed Anwar

*5. Which is web tool launched by Indian Space Research Organization last week which has soon obtained the nick name "Google Earth Killer"?

GIVE ITS ANSWER AS A COMMENT

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ august

1. What is the name given to the typhoon that wrecks destruction in Taiwan?

ans: Typhoon Morakot

2.Who is the present FIFA president?

ans: Sepp Blatter

3.Who is the "man of the match" in the test match between Australia and England?

ans: Marques North

4.Where is this statue that has close resemblence to Jackson located?ans: Chicago Museum

**5.

GOOGLE EARTH has admitted that it has made few mistakes by

adding some parts of a state in India to another country's territory.

Which is the state and to which country its parts were joined?

try this and get me your answer as a comment.

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ

1.Who is the national security advisor of India?
Ans: M K narayanan
2. Who is the youngest minister in centre ?
ans: Agatha Sangma
Who is the cricket coach of Pakistan?
ans: Intikhab Alam
4.Which is the largest private bank in India
Ans:ICICI

*5. IDENTIFY THIS EMBLEM

I EXPECT ITS ANSWER FROM THE READERS.

"64th ANNIVERSARY HIROSHIMA DAY AUG:6 "QUIZ

1 . What is the name of the pilot who took off the flight for dropping the Atom Bomb?
ans: Paul.W.Tibbets

2. What was name of the bomb?
ans: Little boy

3. What was the name of the aeroplane?
ans: Enola Gay

4. What is the name of the people who suffer the aftermaths of atom bomb?
ans: Hibakusha

5. Who was the president of america at that time?
ans: Harry S Truman

6. Why was it called Enola Gay?
ans: It was named after Tibbet's mother.

7. Which was the explosive element used in little boy?
ans: uranium-235

8. In which year the Hiroshima Peace memorial was made a part of UNESCO world heritage site?
ans: 1996

9. ___________ was only two years old when the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. At the age of 11, she was diagnosed with Leukemia...........Who is that little girl?
ans: Sadako Sasaki

10. Who wrote the book "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes"
in memory of the little girl?
ans: Eleanor Coerr

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ for AUGUST

1.Rakhi Sawant got engaged to Elesh Parujanwala, whom she chose from among 16 bachelors of a reality show. What is the name of the show through which channel it is broadcasted?
ans: ‘Rakhi ka Swayamwar,’ NDTV imagine

2.Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the attack on Mumbai, has been allowed to remain free by the Pakistan court. He is the chief of which terrorist group?
ans: Jamaat-ud-Dawa

3.Who is the present Union health minister of India?
ans: Ghulam Nabi Azad

4. The recent controversy in the field of cricket is regarding the hesitation of Indian cricketers to accede to the WADA signatory. What does WADA stand for?
ans: World Anti-Doping Agency

5. "ULCA Slang"(University of California,Los Angels) is a slang lexicon released every four year.
This dictionary contains slang words used by the students there. In its latest edition(6th) "OBAMA" means what?
ans: COOL
eg: "He is obama" to mean "He is cool"