CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ APRIL 2011 FIRST EDITION | APRIL FOOL| ANNA HAZARE| ELIZABETH TAYLOR| INDIA'S CUP OF PRIDE

1. Which technology was introduced by Google to befoolen its Gmail users
on the day of April Fools this year(2011)?


2. Which American author is in the soup for allegedly writing negative remarks
in his book 'Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and hisstruggle with India'?


3. In which state the anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare was born?


4. Who was the top scorer for India in the final match of the ICC World Cup 2011?


5. Which Indian magician was honoured with the Merlin award, known as the
'oscar' for magicians to become the second Indian to bag it after P.C. Sarkar(1996)?


6. Who is the newly elected prime minister of the feud-struck Syria?


7. Which person's achievement was comemmorated by the journey
of Alexander Samokutyaev, Andri Borisenco and Ron Garren?


8. Who is the new president of Haiti, the country which hasn't yet
recovered from the aftermaths of an earthquake?


9. Who stepped down as the army chief of Myanmar?
He kept the nation under his tyranny for two decades.


10. Elizabeth Taylor, the icon of hollywood in the 1960's passed away.
What is the name of her debut movie?


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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ FEBRUARY 2011 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY | INTERNET | IT | GOOGLE | FACEBOOK

1. Google has accused Microsoft of cheating after discovering that the search engine of Microsoft named Bing is just displaying the copied results from Google search results. They conducted an investigation named _________________ and detected that for senseless searches like 'hggdfdr' Bing delivers the same results as that of Google. Fill in the blank which is nothing but the name of the operation.

2. The declaration to observe the year 2011 as  The International Year of ________ will launch on 2 February, 2011, at the General Assembly Hall in New York City.


3.What is the latest version of Google's Android OS which has been specifically optimised for tablets? They aim at ramping up the competition with Apple's iPad.


4. Who is the Sydney-based co-founder of Google Maps who quit his job and joined  Facebook recently?

5. Scientists of which university are a step closer to creating a cloaking device after   making an object visible to the naked eye disappear for the first time?
  They have successfully conducted experiments to make paper clips invisible.

6. Facebook is all set to launch their full-fledged email platform along with @facebook.com addresses for users. How is this revolutionary web email product known within Facebook?

Mark Zukerberg

7. Google recently settled a trademark dispute with Australian business Groggle and got their name changed to Drinkle. Again a new issue has risen. For which TM name Google is involved in dispute?

8.The IPV4 address collection (IP address: 121.66.xx.yy) had 4294967296 IP addresses. All of them were completely distributed recently. Which organisation is responsible for the distribution of IP address and domain names worldwide?

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ JANUARY 2011 SECOND EDITION (Internet, Google, Pakistan politics, Tunisia politics, Oscar and FIFA World Cup)

 

1. Google makes a very important change in its leadership expecting a defending move against the revolutionary reforms in the IT sector. Who is the new CEO of Google?

2. Vikram Pandit is associated with which giant in banking sector?

3. What is the name of the personal guard of Salman Taseer, governor of Punjab (Pakistan) who assassinated the latter recently? Salman Taseer was given a rap on his knuckles for making damning remarks on the blasphemy laws of Pakistan.

4. The season of Oscar is about to sprout. The movie that stands top is Leonardo Dicaprio starrer Inception. The movie elicits from the director of The Dark Knight. Name him:

"INCEPTION"

5. Tunisia is envisaging a situation of political chaos as the president of the country made an exile. What’s the name of the president of Tunisia?

6. In which year was Wikileaks founded?

7. Which country will host the 2022 football world cup?

8. What is the telecommunication system newly introduced by Microsoft which offers a complete Web communication platform by embedding a wide variety of media applications viz., e-mail, instant messaging and voice and video conferencing into a single application?

    9.  What is the name of the social networking website which was founded by 27 year  old Chris Hugs and aims at resolving social issues?

    10. What is the name of the Google product that provides a facility of web searching using the images captured in superior quality Android phones?

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ DECEMBER 2010 FIRST EDITION

1. Which Guinness world record was handed over from Ken Chaplin of Canada to the Pakistani soldier Muhammad Yousuf Jamil with a single day effort? 
    
2. What is common to Guadalupe Fur Seal, the bridled nail tail wallaby and the Banyan tree rat?
   
   
3. What is special about the number 782474317884? The clue you can take before clicking the answer link is that this number belongs to ‘Ranjana Sonawne’.
   
   
4. Google’s instant search technology helps netizen know the best possible search results. Which string should prefix the first term to prevent Google from guessing the search results?
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. After 60 years of litigation an interim verdict has come for the Ayodhya title suit case. Which general of the Mughal emperor Zahir-ud-Din Babar built the mosque in Ayodhya and in which year? 
    
6. The Nepal government appointed Khagendra Thapamagar, a seventeen year old Guinness world record winner as the goodwill ambassador to promote tourism in the country. What is the peculiarity of the record? 
    
7. Name the lady, the once brilliant scientist dubbed ‘Lady Qaeda’ by the US tabloids, guilty of the attempted murder of US military officers in Afghanistan in 2008? She got 80 year jail term.
   
   
8. Which commonwealth country has introduced Wi-Fi facility for its entire area?
   
   
9. How did Louise Pattern’s latest novel ‘Good as gold’ attract the media?
   
   
10. Which is the first Indian newspaper to introduce a “speaking advertisement”?

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ MARCH 2010

HAPPY HOLI!

55th filmfare awards

Best actor: Amitab Bachan
Best actress:Vidya Balan
Best film: "3 idoits”
best director :Rajkumar Hirani
best music director:A.R.Rahman[delhi6]
best singer(male): Mohit Chauhan[masakali]
best singers(female):Kavita Seth and Rekha Bhardwaj

*captain of indian hockey team that defeated pakistan in the first match against pakistan?

Ans: Rajpal Singh

*Who substituted the injured Goal keeper Baljeet singh in the match?

Ans:Sreejesh Raveendran

*Which vegetable is thought to be good preventive to breast cancer?

ans:Bittermelon

*BSNL commercially launched the country's first mobile broadband fourth generation Internet access network--Mobile WiMAX in Kerala.What does WiMAX stand for?

Ans: Worldwide Interoperatability for Microwave Access

*Google has launched a tool to help people locate friends and loved ones who might have been affected by Saturday's 8.8.-magnitude earthquake in Chile.
What is its name?

ans:Person finder