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 DECEMBER SECOND EDITION

 1.Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics. Which path breaking invention led to this honour?

                                

2.    Which language unknown to the external world so far was discovered by ‘Enduring Voices’ of National Geographic channel?

3.    Who won the Nobel Prize for literature this year to become the first Latin American to win the former after 1990?

                        

                                                                                        

4.    The Forbes magazine conducted a survey to find out the list of influential women in the world. According to them, the most influential lady of this year is………….?

5.    The BASIC group of large developing nations is striving hard to win the crucial support of AOSIS on the climate change debate. What does AOSIS stand for?

6.    Who won this year’s ‘Finance Minister of the year for Asia’ award given by ‘Emerging Markets’, the daily newspaper of record for the world bank and IMF?

7.    A new collection of Nelson Mandela’s private papers that reveals his agony and pang at missing his family while in prison and his wariness at being idolized has been published. Name the book.

               

                          

8.    The prayers from every nook and corner of the world converged into the San Jose mine and eventually the world rejoiced on the escape of all miners who were entrapped in the Chilean mine. The 71 cm diameter escape shaft was completed from a tent city. What is the name of that place?

                                 

9.    Which country would carry out a landmark field trial by releasing GM (genetically modified) mosquitoes designed to combat dengue fever by the end of the year?

10. People of which country held ceremonies to cap its capital _______ ‘s millennium celebrations? King Ly Thai moved the capital to _________ in 1010 A.D and called it Thang Long (‘Soaring Dragon’), symbolysing the desire for independence after a millennium of Chinese domination?

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ JUNE LAST WEEK 2010

1. We all know that the FIFA World Cup theme song was sung by Shakira. In which country was she born?

Ans: Colombia

2. What is the official name of the ball used in FIFA world Cup 2010?

Ans: Jabulani

3. What is the theme of the year of biodiversity?

Ans: “Many Species,One planet , One future”

4. In which country would you find the musical instrument Vuvuzela?

Ans: South Africa

5. India has been ranked as a “Tier II watch list” country in the 2010 Trafficking in Persons(TIP) report stating that the country do not fully comply with the TVPA minimum standards. What does TVPA stand for?

Ans: Trafficking Victims Protection Act

6. Who is re-elected to the post of president of Swimming Federation of India (SFI)?
Ans: Digamber V. Kamat (Goa Chief Minister)

7. Recent researches suggest that the AIDS fighting antiretroviral drug combination given to pregnant and breastfeeding women can prevent vertical HIV transmission (Transmission to infants). HAART is a term very much related in this context. Expand HAART.
Ans: Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

8. Which part of the body is used by Harbour Seal to track fishes?
Ans: Whiskers

9. The Portuguese Nobel laureate who wrote the famous book ‘The Blind’ passed away recently. He was a member of the Portuguese Communist Party. He was honoured with the pinnacle of literature ‘The Nobel prize’ in 1998. Name him.
Ans: Jose Saramago

10. Japanese researchers created a baby robot with 600 sensors attached around its body to stimulate the behaviour and development of a real infant. Name it.
Ans: Noby (Nine month Old Baby)

11. In which place would you find the ‘Jawara’ people
ans: Andaman

12. Who was honoured with the inaugural Classical Tamil Award instituted by the Tamil Nadu government?
Ans: Asko Parpola

Works: Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions, his magnum opus is Deciphering the Indus Script.

13. Which single celled organism has the major role in causing deaths due to malarial infection?
Ans: Plasmodium Falciparum

14. Who wrote the controversial The Gospel according to Jesus Christ which was denied the acknowledgement for an award in Portugal? This incident led to the exile of the author.

Ans: Jose Saramago

15. June 20 is celebrated as?
Ans:World Refugees Day across the globe.

16. Who wrote the book Jewish Portraits, Indian frames
ans: Joel Silliman

17.The year 2010 is declared as what by UNO?

Ans: Year of Biodiversity

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