CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ MAY 2011 SECOND EDITION | Al-qaeda | fastest super computer | microsoft | Tagore

1. What is the meaning of the word 'Al-Qaeda'?

2. Maria Shriver has announced her separation from a famous   
American after 25 years of marriage. Name him?

Split apart

3. Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion in cash. Who is the CEO of
Skype?

4. Who won the Jawaharlal Nehru award 2011?

DIRECT ANSWER

5. Which country released a postal stamp to honour Rabindranath
Tagore on the occasion of his 150th birthday anniversary
celebrations on May 7?

The poet par excellence

6. What does the word 'bhalobasha' mean in Bengali?

7. Manuel Sagovia and Isidro Velazquez are the only persons in the
world who have Ayapaneco. But they refuse to use that. What am I
talking about?

8. Which self-taught seismologist predicted an earth quake in Rome
on May 11 that according to him would shatter more than 2000 years
worth of monumental architecture including colosseum?

Hot spot of Europe

9. Who is America's first recipient of a full face transplant?

10. ISRO unveiled a super computer with the kudos of becoming
India's fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220
TeraFLOPs. Name it:

NEW CHIEF MINISTERS

West Bengal - Mamata Banerjee
Tamilnadu - Jayalalithaa
Kerala - Oommen Chandy
Assam - Tharun Gogoi

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ NOVEMBER 2009--try to solve the STARRED QUESTIONS

1.Which cricketer holds the record of “the highest score by any ODI captain against Australia”?
Ans: M S Dhoni

2. Who produced the documentary movie ‘Inconvenient Truth’?
ans: Al Gore

3. The book ‘Towards a Socialist Order’ was written by which Indian prime minister? Ans: Jawaharlal Nehru

4.Who won the first Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Ans: U Thant-
He is the first General Secretary of United Nations Organization fron Asia

*5. This famous person was born on November 12. He took charge as the leader of BNHS when the British left India. Name him and what does BNHS stand for?

*6. In 1999, at Budapest the world science congress was organized. The idea of World Science day took its birth there. Which day in November is honoured with this idea?

7. This famous freedom fighter was born on November 11. He was the first Educational Minister of Independent India. Who is he?
Ans: Moulana Abdul Kalam Azad

8. The national football team goalkeeper of Germany committed suicide by leaping onto a train. Name that person.
Ans: Robert Enke

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