Sunday, October 11, 2009

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ OCTOBER (plenty of awards...october rocks for G.K collectors)

1.Who bagged the Man Booker Prize for the current year and for which book?
Ans: Hilary Mantle for ‘Wolf Hall’

2.IPI award for excellence in journalism was awarded to which lady?
Ans: Bidisha Ghoshal, The Week(Mumbai)

3.This person was the chairman of National Knowledge Commission. Now he holds the post of advisor to PM (IT,communication, basic facilities etc.). Name this person(with white foolscap HAIR and black bulgan)
ans: Sam Pitroda

4.Who is the first Israeli woman to get a Nobel prize?
ANS: Ada Yonath ,
She is the fourth woman in the world to get a nobel prize for Chemistry

5.Which marine being is chosen as the National Aquatic Animal of India?
Ans: Dolphin

6.Who was the awarded the Nobel prize for literature 2009?
Ans: Hertha Mueller
ATTEMPT THIS QUESTION. iF u aRE a rEGULAR gOOGLE vISTOR u wILL dEFINITELY cRACK iT!
The logos of Google are relevant and fantastic.
Hats off to Mr.Dennis Google....
On what occasion google introduced this logo?

1 comment:

Nishad Sanzagiri said...

the logo was used to commemorate the 400th anniversary of galelio's telescope
on 25 august 2009
........ commemoratting 2009 year of astronomy