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 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 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