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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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[solved] ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATION FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR TECHNICAL INTERVIEW | APTITUDE TESTS | COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS | VIVA VOCE | QUIZ

1. The third generation mobile phones satisfy which specifications 
    of the International Telecommunication union?

2. What does the circle around a transistor indicate?

3. Which BJT transistor configuration is also known as 'Emitter Follower'?


4. To which category does the single side band modulation(SSB) technique fall? 
  Digital or analog?


5. What sort of an interfacing is provided by Intel 8259 to Intel 8085 microprocessor?

6. In network theory, what are the branches of a co-TREE 
     made out of the graph of a circuit called?


7. What is the laplace transform of an impulse signal?


8. What is the fundamental difference between Laplace transform and Z-transform?


9. What is the knee voltage of Schottky diodes?


10. What does IMEI number of a mobile phone stand for?


ANSWERS



1. International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) 
2. Indicates that the transistor is a discrete component. 
3. Common Collector
4. Analog
5. Programmable Interrupt Controller
6. Links
7. 1
8. Laplace transform is for continuous signals and Z-transform is for digital signals.
9. 0.2 V
10. International Mobile Equipment Identity number

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 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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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY QUIZ | BIOLOGY | IT | PHYSICS | MEDICINE

1. When somebody says that Adolf Hitler and Woody Allen were claustrophobic you should believe them.
   Dan Brown's Robert Langdon is also a claustrophobiac. But what the hell is this claustrophobia?

2. You might have heard of s-spectrum controversy. s-band refers to a range of frequencies in the microwave region. Which range of frequencies is denoted by s-band?

3. Eduardo Saverin is the co-founder of which web-based network?

4. The family name Spheniscidae includes which beautiful species?

5. What is the name of the new book written by the famous metaphysicist Stephen Hawking?

6. Which German geophysicist proposed the theory of continental drift that
     explains how the disintegration of land mass occured from the initial pangea?

7. In 1971 which famous invention was made by James Fergason?

8. Which two scientists are credited with the invention of ethernet?

9. Which disease is medically known as Lateral epicondylitis?
     [clue: He is the only man to score double ton in ODI's]

10. What is the meaning of the congenital defect named DEXTROCARDIA?
     [You won't hear heart beats of a dextrocardiac person if you don't understand its meaning]

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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?

ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATION FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR TECHNICAL INTERVIEW | APTITUDE TESTS | COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS | VIVA VOCE | QUIZ

1. What is the frequency at which bluetooth operates?
2. Give an example for a 1 port microwave network.

3. What is the basic difference between an active and passive device?

4. What is the multiple access and duplexing scheme used in GSM?


5.Is diode an active device or passive device?

6. If we tie up J and K ports of the JK flip flop, it will act like a______ flip flop.

7.In microprocessor terminology what does SIM stand for?


8. What all factors the resistance depends on?

9.Where is the energy stored in a capacitor?

10. What is the significance of 8 in 8-bit processor?

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ January 2011 FIRST EDITION

The new decade has sprouted out and there is no dearth for events in the world. Wish you all a happy new decade and as usual I have a new set of Questions for you. Have them.

1. Which famous European river is under the threat of highly toxic red sludge that ruptured from a dam 165 km south west of Budapest?

2. Which Australian opera legend was hailed as ‘La stupenda’ and ‘voice of the century’ after her death following an illness at the age of 83?

3. HP launched the industry’s first ePrint-enabled and web-connected printers for business. The customers can print from mobile device using HP’s ePrint technology. What does HP stand for?

4. Y.M. Deosthalee is the whole-time director and Chief Financial officer of which Engineering and Construction major?

5. Australia is envisaging a dire situation as the floods triggered by tropic cyclone forced the evacuation of a major town of Queensland. What is the name given to the cyclone which caused a disaster whose damage bill running into several billions of dollars?

6. In which channel did you see Richard Madly recently and related to what occasion?

7. Who is the first Muslim to play for Australia in test cricket?

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8. Which Urdu poet waspenalised by the Gujarat Urdu Sahitya Academy for including a defamatory paragraph on Narendra Modi in the foreword to his book of poems ‘Abhi Zinda Hoon Main’ ( I am still alive)?

9. Which country became the first former soviet republic to adopt the euro from January, 2011?

10. Who directed the recently released 3 dimentional movie Gulliver’s travels?

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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 JULY REVIEW

1. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) USA’s report which year has been chosen as the warmest ever in recorded history?

2. In which place the first ever ATM that dispenses gold has been built?

3. Which day is observed as World Zoo noses day?

4. Who wrote the novel ‘The monochrome madonna’ which has a murder mystery unraveling thread?

5. Which country got the first Arabic Domain name “.misr” written using Arabic letters?

6. Which country won the Twenty 20 world cup for women in the year 2010?

7. Who is the author of the book Orientalism, Empire and National Culture?

8.GAGAN is the most advanced technology aiding navigation. Expand it?

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Answers

1. 2010

2. Abu Dhabi, Dubai

3. July 6

4. Kalpana Swaminathan

5. Egypt

6. Australia,England bagged the same for men.

7.Michael S Dodson

8.GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY QUIZ

1. The place Copenhagen appeared recently in Headlines for the summit regarding Global Warming. Which element is named after that place?
ans: Hafnium

2. STM and AFM are the recently developed new generation instruments utilized for advanced laboratory experimentations. What do STM and AFM stand for?
ans: Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Atomic Force Microscope

3. Which product of coal has the largest quantity of carbon in it?
ans: Anthracite

4. Which chemical is the major ingredient of Superglue?
ans:Alphacyano Acrolene

5.P300 waves are used in what sort of fingerprinting method?
ans:Brain Fingerprinting

6.The death caused by the absence of oxygen in the respiratory organs is called?
ans: asphyxiation

READERS QUESTION
7. You might have watched the movies of the Simran, a gorgeous figure in the South Indian Film Industry. What you have to comment down is the expansion of SIMRAN.

8.Which is the fastest missile ship in the world?
ans: INS Prahar

9.Which part of a cell produces protein?
ans:Ribosome

10.Which two scientists are credited with the invention of microprocessor?
ans: Federico Faggin and Ted Hoff
[Disclaimer:The questions are collected from the quiz conducted by STIC,CUSAT in connection with National Science day.This is just a sharing platform and no claim exists on the publisher]

LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

Large hadron collider abbreviated as LHC is located in Geneva. This complex machinery belongs to CERN (conseil European pour la recherché nucleare) {in French}-European center for nuclear research. Scientists think that they can repeat the initial moments of the big bang in the laboratory using LHC. The success of this experiment may point out the existence of a vital high density energy particle that caused the origin of universe. That vital particle can be considered as the god's particle.

For this experiment, the proton particles are forced to collide at extremely high velocity from two poles of the LHC. The function of lhc is to initiate the collision. This collision will result the development of the high-energy particle. The big bang occurs there.

This LHC is explained well in the novel Angels and Demons by Dan brown. The important part of the novel takes place in the CERN. The author in this novel gives a thorough explanation of the experiment.

The doubts are not yet burnt off because some scientists still protests against the experiment saying that the experiment may result in the creation of black holes. If it happens, the future of earth is nothing less than a tremendous devastation.

The importance of this experiment is that its success will back up the theory of special creation, which was once ruled out. The existence of a god's particle will be a triumph of religions over science.

Still we have to think of another possibility too.
If there is a god's particle, why not there is a chance for an evil's particle because for every particle there should be an anti-particle?!