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CURRENT AFFAIRS 2011 MEGA CROSSWORD PUZZLE[solved]

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1.How is leptospirosis better known?

2. One of the greatest realistic painters of the post war era, Lucian Freud died in London on 20 July. Who was his renowned grandfather?

3.Identify the person(only surname needed)

4.Which Pakistani film directed by Shoaib Mansoor deals with the rights of women and treads no-go areas like homosexuality and the life of eunuchs which forced both Hollywood and bollywood films to take the backseat at the box office?

5. A book written by criminal lawyer R.K.Anand makes a close encounter with ___________?

6. Identify the person (surname not required)

7. The person who fought to bring to light the true story behind 2G scam, Dr.Subramanian Swamy is the president of which political party?

8. Indira Gandhi was posthumously awarded ‘Swadhinata Sammanona’. It is the highest honour of which country?

9. To which South Korean company can I relate ‘Life’s Good’?

10. In which movie Prakash Jha casted Deepika Padukone as Amitabh Bachchan’s daughter mainly because she is tall like Big B?

11. Dalai Lamas are the spiritual gurus of which plateau region in Asia?

12. Jackson is the capital of which southern US state?

27. Which modulation technique used in communication field uses the frequency range 87.5 to 108.0 MHz? (Only abbreviation)

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13. Who is the spouse of Rupert Murdoch?

14.Which Indian city has been chosen for hosting the global biodiversity meet next year?

15. The famous Indian cricket Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi who died recently was related to which animal to show his prowess in the game?

16. Who is the author of ‘Last Man in Tower’ which narrates suspense filled story of money, power, luxury and deprivation?(surname only)

17. The Ramganga national park was later renamed as __________ national park.

18. Which card game played on printed deck of cards was developed by Marle Robbins?

19. In which Bollywood movie in which the late Shammi Kapoor played the main role will you hear the song “Jhoomta Masoom, Mast Mahina"?

20. Which cricketer delivered a speech in Lord’s cricket ground that was accepted by a standing ovation which is now dubbed MCC spirit of cricket speech? I want the nick name of the person?

21. If Germans call it ‘Frosch’ and in Sanskrit it is called ‘plava’…..what is its name in English?

22. Identify the name of the currency to which the coin (in figure) belongs?

23. What is the name of the first chapter of Qu’ran? (avoid hyphen)

24. What was the name given to the prime ministers appointed to the Chattrapatis of Maratha Empire?

25. For the work in which language Indira Goswami won the Jnanapita award?

26. Kaziranga national park is famous for which species?

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ JUNE 2011 FIRST EDITION | M.F.HUSAIN | STRAUSS-KAHN | NIIRA RADIA | AIRTEL

Master of colours

1.     Eminent Indian M.F.Husain passed away while in exile in London. Some of his paintings have been criticized as anti-Hindu. Which movie directed by M.F.Husain, for which A.R.Rahman played score and soundtrack received widespread protests from Muslim organizations alleging the presence of blasphemous contents?



Identify the movie



2.     Who won the Man booker International prize for the year 2011?

3.     What is ANNA 4?

4.     Christine Lagarde announced her candidature for the post of Director General of International Monetary Fund to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Hopes to succeed

    

Which post is she having at present?

5.     Name the Indian lady residing in USA who was arrested on suspicion of sending obscene emails to her teacher but was later found not guilty?

6.     Which mobile software maker entered into a 5 year deal with  

       Airtel for providing value added service in African countries?

7.     What is so haunting about Grimsvoth?

8.     The Delhi high court stayed the release and circulation of ‘Close Encounter with Niira Radia’,

Behind the bars?

    

       the book on the corporate lobbyist. Name the author?

9.     Which website is seeking a world heritage site tag on the view that it is predestined to become the first ever digital world heritage site carrying the ancient idea of common and free knowledge into the third millennium?

    10. Connect:

        (a) TGV     (b) ICE 3     (c) Shinkansen    (d) Siemens Velaro     (e)   CRH380A


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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?

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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 APRIL 2011 SECOND EDITION | ROYAL WEDDING | SAI BABA | PULITZER

Amul Ad featuring the royal wedding

1. The royal wedding of Prince Williams and Kate Middleton
    is at the doorstep. The royal wedding of Queen Elizabeth
    was in 1947 with Philip Mountbatten. What was the wedding
    gift given by Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru to the royal bride?

2. Which royal wedding was the first to be broadcasted live?

3. How is the chemical with molecular formula C9H6Cl6O3S
    better known?

4. Which politician is cartooned in this Amul Ad along with
     Rahul Gandhi for describing Rahul an "Amul Baby" in repartee
     to his statement about the age of the former? 

Identify the politician in this Amul Ad

  
5.Duncan Fletcher has been appointed coach of the Indian cricket
   team. For which country he skippered in the 1983 world cup?

6. Most influential spiritual leader of India Sathya Sai Baba
    passed away. Apart from being a spiritual mentor he has done
    a lot of social service activities like establishment of hospitals,
    universities, water canal projects etc. Nevertheless he was
    criticised severely for his magic tricks to convince the common
    man that he was an incarnation of God. The question is that
    what was his actual name?

Sathya Sai Baba

7. What is the name of the Indian-American whose book on
   cancer 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A biography of Cancer'
   won the coveted 2011 Pulitzer prize in the general non-fiction
    category?

8. Which newspaper won its only Pulitzer for an editorial on the
    debate over health care legislation?

9. What is the name of the first indigenous micro-satellite of
   Singapore launched by India with the aid of its PSLV-C16
   mission?

10. The "suwoni festival" organised as a part of the Rangoli Bihu
   festival exhibits vibrant elephant fights. Bihu is the traditional
   festival of which Indian state?

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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 THIRD EDITION | AIR INDIA | ARAB UNREST | INTERNET | INDIA |

1. What is the name of the first humanoid robot to be taken off to
    the International Space Station(ISS) along with the Discovery space shuttle
    which is poised for final launch? 

2. 'Matters of Discretion' is the autobiography of which former prime minister of India?

3. Which day is celebrated as the international 'Mother tongue day'?

4. Which microblogging website, equivalent to twitter, in China became the focus of 
    China's vast censorship apparatus in order to prevent even the minute 
    probability of anti-governmantal discussions?

5. What is the name of the president of Uganda who won another term
    despite the allegations from opposition that the elections were fraudulent? 

6. Which party of West Bengal is strongly demanding a separate state of Gorkhaland?
    Their demand was turned down by the Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.

7. What is the name of the president of Libya who threatened retribution 
    against Libyans involved in the revolt through his furious address on state TV? 

8. Which country developes cold feet owing to the likelihood of unrest 
    after calls for a "Jasmine Revolution" circulated on the Internet saying that the people has 
    "a common aspiration for stability and development"?

9. Give the name of the Malkangiri district collector who was abducted by Maoists
   and was freed after 8 days?

10. We know that Indian Airlines was merged with Air India 4 years ago.
     Now, India's flag carrier is all set to have a single code for its domestic 
     international flights from February 27. What is that single code? 

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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 OCTOBER 2010 THIRD EDITION

1.     The United Kingdom ended its long summering row with Iran over one of the its most prized possessions of Persian provenance, a terracotta document written by a Persian king 2500 years ago and described as the first charter of human rights. What’s the name of that invaluable Babylon document which is now handed over to Tehran from the British museum?

                                   

                                 

2.     Who won the Jnanapith award for the year 2007 for his exquisite contribution to the Indian poetry through his mother-tongue? He is a phenomenal lyricist and has been honored with National award as well.

3.     Even 3 decades after the Vietnam War, this country bears the headache of clearing a huge number of unexploded ordnance (UXO) dropped by USA during the war. Name the world’s most bombed country whose tonnage of dropped bombs exceeds the same in the entire Europe during Second World War?

4.     Which two countries signed the Artic border pact ending a 40 year dispute over an energy rich area in the Barents Sea?

5.     In which country was the 2800 year old burial chamber belonging to the priest Karakhamun (755 B.C) uncovered by a team led by Dr. Elena Pischikova?

6.     World’s largest wind farm is located in which place?

7.     Which is the world’s biggest solar powered boat?

8.     The gene which is supposed to be the root cause of myopia (Short sightedness) has been discovered by biologists. What’s the name given to that gene?

9.     Amir Khan Production’s PEEPLI [Live] has been elected as the Indian entry to the Oscar award nomination for the best foreign movie. Who is the director of the movie?

10.Which movie made Gloria Stewart famous? She died at the age of 100 recently. She is the oldest academy award nominee for acting.

11.How did Tembhali village in Nandurbar district of Maharashtra reach headlines?

12.Who wrote the book ‘Obama Wars’?

13.Who is UK’s first Asian judge who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II earlier this year and received the Pride of India award for 2010?

14.Britain’s labour party showed an extraordinary streak of boldness by replacing Gordon Brown as its leader and electing a young, left-of centre person. He is the youngest leader in the party’s modern history overtaking Tony Blair by few months. Name this person in news who is a non-Marxist son of a Marxist theorist?

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ OCTOBER 2010 SECOND EDITON including Turkey politics, New appointments, Tiger population, Awards, China's moon mission

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1.     The Turkish voters have backed a constitutional reform which aims at abridging the powers vested in military by making armed forces more accountable to civil courts. This package was led by the Turkish prime minister.

                                      

           Name him?

2.     Which national park in Madhya Pradesh is reported to have lost its entire tiger population by the end of September 2010?

"Endangered!"

                                    

3.     Who is the chairman of PTI (Press trust of India)?

4.     Which international world cup competition will be hosted by India at Chennai in 2011?

5.     Former CMD of Goodyear India and founder trustee of Chennai Willington Corporation Foundation passed away recently. Name him?

6.     Who secured the Dada Saheb Falke award this year?

7.     IAF’s gigabyte digital information grid was dedicated to the nation by A.K.Antony in its quest to achieving a capability for network centric operation in collaborations with BSNL, HCL and CISCO. What is the name of the network?

8.     Who won the lifetime achievement award given by the Indian Journalist association?

9.     The Archaeological survey of India has made a good progress in the restoration and conservation of a temple in Cambodia through a 17 crore project which made the temple complex accessible and safe to the tourists. Name the temple which was built by Jayavarman VII in 12^th century?

10.What is the name of the new moon mission project of China?

11.Which movie won the national award (India) for the best film as well as the best director?

12.Who is the chairman of ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulation)?

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ OCTOBER 2010 including books, POLITICS, RECORDS, MOTHET TERESA, DEATH, notorious, APPOINTMENTS, MOVIE and AWARDS



"Looking for peace..."

                                                         

1.     Tony Blair’s memoirs published recently expresses his anguish over the loss of innocent lives in Iraq. The book also reveals that his mindset is on a path of redemption which he thinks would be achieved through his peace efforts in West Asia. Which book reveals these anecdotes?

2.     Sonia Gandhi has been elected unopposed for a record fourth time as the congress president. Which person was replaced by Sonia Gandhi in 1998 after which the leadership stood safe in her hands?

"It's the fourth time.."

                                 

3.     What is special about the birthday celebrations of Walter Breening?

4.     In connection with the death anniversary of Mother Teresa a new cathedral was inaugurated after her. In which place was it built to be the first of its kind in the country?

5.     By which ill-motivated activity Pastor Terry Jones become infamous?

6.     Which person is constructing a mosque at Ground Zero, the place where the WTC stood?

7.     World’s oldest stock certificate has been unearthed by a Dutch history student. It dates back to 1606. Which company issued it?

8.     Who is the present director general of DRDO?

9.     Name the French director who was one of the leaders of the new wave movement in 1950s and directed films viz., Le Beau Serge(first) , Bellany(last). He passed away on 13^th September 2010.

10.Which film won the Gold Lion prize in the 67^th Venice Film festival? Who directed the film?

"Award winning work"

                                                 

11.This Keralite became famous when a bench of High Court of which he was a member gave a verdict in 1999 banning smoking in public places. He is now promoting “Say no to tobacco” by a documentary named “Battling for epidemic”. Name him?

12.Which Indian parliamentarian’s autobiography is ‘Keeping the faith’?

13.Which video won the MTV award for the best video of the year?