CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ AUGUST 2010 FOURTH EDITION

1.     Twitter recently had a JavaScript related problem and we now have a similar mess on Orkut. The service seems to have been hit by a worm injected by few Brazilian hackers. Name the worm?

2.     Huawei a famous telecom company is alleged of stealing trade secrets from the American giant Motorola. From which country does this telecom company hail?

3.     The international court of justice says that Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence in February 2008 did not violate international law. From which country did they secede?

4.     Who are ther winners of Ramnath Goenka Award this year?

5.     Which popular politician was given the Lokamanya Tilak Award this year?

6.     8^th international sand sculpture championship was held in Berlin. Which renowned Indian sand artist won the first prize ?

7.      Marc Mezvinsky was in news for becoming the new person in the life of which ex-president’s daughter?

8.      Who is the present chief of ICRC(International Committee of the Red Cross)?

9.     What is the mascot of ICC world cup 2011?

10. Which Indian born scientist working at HP labs in California proposed a solution to the crux ‘is P=NP?’ $1 million being one of the seven NP problems issued by Clay Mathematics institute?

 ANSWERS

1.      Bom Sabado.

2.      China

3.      Serbia

4.      1. journalist of the year in print category-Siddharth Varadarajan(The Hindu) 2.broadcast category-Arnab Goswami(Times now) 3.Journalism in courage-shekhar gupta (Indian Express)

5.      Sheila Dikshit

6.      Sudarsan Patnaik

7.      Bill Clinton. Marc Mezvinsky was married to Chelsea, the daughter of Bill Clinton and Hilary Clinton

8.      Jacob Kellenberger

9.      Stumpy elephant

10. Vinay Deolalikar

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ AUGUST 2010 SECOND EDITION

1. The British petroleum company is on the hook in the wake of the hazardous oil spill took place in the Gulf of Mexico. Who is the CEO of BP?

2. These two famous characters’ 70th anniversary was celebrated in 2010. They were earlier called Jasper and Jinx. Their debut was through “Puss gets the boot” in 1940. Who are they and name their founders?

3. Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation stone of the 8.8 km long Rohtang tunnel that would be the longest tunnel in the world at its altitude. Near which tourist resort is it located?

4. Which lady is the president of Kyrgyzstan who also holds the record of the first woman president from central Asia?

5. Indira Gandhi International airport at Delhi is the 6th largest airport in the world. The first four in the list of largest airports are located in Asia viz., Dubai, Beijing, Singapore and Bangkok. Where is the fifth largest on located? As a matter of fact, it’s outside Asia.

6. Name the author of the book “The birthday boys” who passed away on 2nd July 2010 in the age of 77. She was nominated for the booker prize for a record 5 times but destined to lose.

7. The eminent Russian mathematician who proved the Poincare conjecture rejected a $ 1 million prize considered equivalent to the Nobel Prize stating that he got the flame from the US math whiz Richard Hamilton who first suggested a program for the solution. Name him.

8. A strong 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific nation of Vanuatu last July. Fortunately the chance of Tsunami was ruled out. What is the name of its capital city?

9. Who has the kudos of compiling the book ‘The Agronomy and economy of important tree crops of developing world’ which is the first e-book on agriculture in the world?

10. Which island observed 30th of March as Indian Arrival day since Indian servants were transported to that place in 1845 following the abolition of slavery in the British Empire?

Answers

1. Tony Hayward

2. Tom & Jerry.

Founders William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

7 Oscars- first 1943 for the yanker doodle mouse.

3. Manali in Himachal Pradesh

4. Roza Otunbayeva

5. Mexico city

6. Beryl Bainbridge

7. Grigory Perelman

8. Port Villa

9. K.P. Prabhakaran Nair

10. Trinidad and Tobago

Readers Quiz

1.Paul the world cup fame octopus foreteller has set to retire from his “experiments with fortune”. In which aquarium does this mollusk live?

2. India’s first Pico satellite (weighing less than 1 kg) designed, developed and tested by students was launched with PSLV-C15. What is the name of the satellite?


3. ‘Spind Pigmi’ as its second name indicates is the smallest species of a family in the marine animals’ kingdom. To which family of species do they belong?


4. “The face of the world would have changed, if the nose of ____________ were a bit smaller”. Renowned French mathematician and philosopher Blais Pascal made this comment about which personality?


5. Drug watch was a TV show aimed at discouraging the youth of the consumption and sale of drugs. In which channel was this broadcasted?


6. Identify the country from the clues:


a. drunk tea first


b. grant channel connects its two rivers


c. ‘divine threshold of peace’


d. Marco Polo has visited this country.


7. What is actual name of this series whose Indian version is called “Chooha billi chor police”?

Readers Quiz Answers
1. Sealife Aquarium,Oberhausen,Germany
2.STUDSAT
3.Shark,25 cm length
4.Cleopatra
5.BBC
6.China
7.Tom & Jerry

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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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ APRIL 2010

1..com celebrates its 25th anniversary. Which is the first dot com domain name to be registered?

Ans: symbolics.com

2.SEBI stands for what?

Ans: Securities and Exchange Board of India

3.Who are elected as the prestigious sportspersons of the year 2010 in Laureus World Sports Awards?
Ans: Usain Bolt and Serena Williams

4.USA and Russia concluded a treaty that was a positive step in disarmament movement. It is called START. Expand it.

Ans: Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

5.Nobel Peace Laureate Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi decided not to take part in the general elections. What is the name of her political party?

Ans: National League for Democracy

6.CRPF stands for what?
Ans: Central Reserve Police Force

7.Who won the Vyas Samman for 2009?

Ans: Amar Kant for ‘Inhin Hathiyaron Se’

8.Who won the Moorthidevi award of Bharathiya Jnanapith in the function presided over the President of India, Smt. Prathibha Patil?

Ans: Veerappa Moily for ‘Sree Ramayana Mahanveshanam’

9.Who won the Pritzker prize 2010?This award is known as the nobel prize for architecture.

Ans: Japanese duo Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa

10.Who won the Abel prize 2010 which is awarded in the field of Mathematics? Ans: The famous American number theorist John Torrence Tate