CURRENT AFFAIRS SEPTEMBER 2009 AND ANSWERS TO PREVIOUS QUIZ

1. Who is the currently elected Anglo-Indian representative of Lok Sabha ?
ans: Charles Dias

2.Which experimental equipment in Chandrayaan-1 gave the evidence for the presence of water molecules in moon?
Ans: M3(moon mineralogy mapper)

3.In the volcanic lava excavated from moon 46 ppm water content was found out.
What does ppm stand for?
Ans: Parts per Million

4. Ramesh Kumar bagged a bronze medal in the World Wrestling Championship(free style) after 42 years. Who was his predecessor to achieve a silver medal in the same 42 years ago?
Ans: Viswambhar Singh

5.Who is elected as the new president of Indian Newspaper Society?
Ans: Venkataram Reddy

answer to previous quiz
*1.The person in which status is referred to as ‘First Civil Servant In The World’?
ans: UNO general secretary

*2. Shreya Ghoshal won the national award 2007 for the best female singer.
Which state was she born in?
ans: She was born in Rajastan

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ SEPTEMBER 2009- 3RD EDITION

1.From which station was the Oceansat-2 launched on 23rd September?
Ans: Satish Dhavan Space Centre

2.Which ground station receives the signals from Oceansat-2?
Ans: ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) Banglore

3.Soudi Arabia opened the first mixed gender university in the country. It is named as KAUST. What is its expansion?
Ans: King Abdulla University of Science and Technology

4.Shashi Tharoor made a contraversal ‘tweet’ last week. Who is the founder of this social community, microblogging network which is also called the ‘SMS in internet?
Ans: Jack Dorsey

*5.World / India / Karnataka / Ramanagaram, 5 km from center, Coordinates: 12°44'41"N 77°18'42"E. Byalalu . What is the importance of this location?

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ SEPTEMBER 2009 WITH LATEST UPDATES AND ANSWERS TO PREVIOUS QUIZ

1. Who is the new chairperson of the children’s film society of India?

ans: Nanditha Das

2.Leon wrote the biography “The man who fed the world” about which famous Nobel laureate? Ans: Norman Borlaug

3.Who is the director of the film ‘Kancheevaram’ which won the national award 2007 for the best film?

Ans: Priyadarsan

4.Who is the author of the book ‘ In the line of fire: A Memoir’ ?

ans: Parvez Musharaf

5. The newly released movie in Tamil ‘unnaippol oruvan’ is remade from which Bollywood movie?

ans: ‘A Wednesday’

ANSWERS TO QUIZ ON SEPTEMBER 18,2009

*6.What do H and N stand for in the H1N1 virus?

H-Hemaglutinin

N-Neuraminidase

*7. C.B.I recently decided to terminate a case of theft of the memorial materials and a prize due to lack of evidence. Which is that case and related to which famous personality?

ans: Rabindranath Tagore. His nobel medal and some memorial collections were stolen from Culcutta years ago.

Try these

*1.The person in which status is referred to as ‘First Civil Servant In The World’?

*2. Shreya Ghoshal won the national award 2007 for the best female singer. Which state was she born in?

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ SEPTEMBER 2009 and AUGUST review

1. September 15 is observed as Engineer’s day in memory of which famous Indian?
Ans: Dr.M.Viswesharayya

2. Pakistan’s cricket star had a love affair with Benazir Bhutto whilst she was in London. Who wrote the biography of Imran which revealed this ‘gossip’?
Ans: Chistopher Stanford

3. Who is known as the “lion Of Senet” in the US, who passed away on August 26?
Ans: Edward Kennedy

4. The renowned American novelist Elmor Kelton was 83 years old when he slipped off to death recently. Which is his first work?
ans: Hot Iron

5.Forbes magazine declared the list of the strongest women in the world. Who holds the position in the crest?
ans: Angela Marchel

*6.What do H and N stand for in the H1N1 virus?

*7. C.B.I recently decided to terminate a case of theft of the memorial materials and a prize due to lack of evidence. Which is that case and related to which famous personality?