Saturday, August 14, 2010

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ JULY 2010 ROUND UP


CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2010
Best director => Mathieu Amalric(French) movie- “on tour”
Best actor => Javier Bardem(Spain) movie- “Biutiful”
Best actress => Juliette Binoche(French) movie- “Certified copy
Readers' Quiz
1. In the Cannes film festival 2010 which Thai director was awarded the Palme d’or top prize?
2.Scientist recently decoded genes that can control ageing. What is the name given to them?
3.Who is the youngest to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop, without help?
4.Who is the first Indian to circumnavigate globe solo?
5.NASA is set to fly a plasma powered superfast rocket to save an asteroid. It is named as VASIMR. Expand it.
6. New largest unit of data storage has been found out by scientists. What is its terminology?
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Answers
1.Apichatpong Weerasethakui
for the movie
“Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives”
2.Methuselah
3.Jessica Watson, born in Australia, almost 17 years old
4.A naval officer called Cdr. Dilip Donde.
5.Variable Specific Impulse Magneto-plasma Rocket.
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1 comment:

appu said...

6. Carbon Nanoballs