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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BIBLE QUIZ [QUIZ ON RELIGIONS Part 1 - CHRISTIANITY]

1. Sermon on the Mount is one of the important sections of Bible. The Sermon on the Mount can be compared to Sermon on the Plane with regard to the preaching of Jesus Christ. We know that Sermon on the Mount is recounted by the Gospel of Matthews. In which Gospel would you find Sermon on the Plane?

2. Identify the name of Christogram(combination of letters that forms an abbreviation for the name of Jesus Christ)

3. Who is said to have been the first person to see Jesus Christ after he rose from the dead?

4. One of the contentious issues in Bible is the identity of ‘Beloved Disciple’. In New Testament accounts, the word Beloved Disciple is mentioned five times only in a single Gospel. Which sole Gospel uses the pronoun ‘Beloved Disciple’, the identity of whom remains a hard thing to conclude even for learned scholars?

5. In which river was Jesus Christ baptized by John the Baptist?

ANSWERS

1. Gospel of Luke
2. Chi Rho
3. Mary Magdalene
4. Gospel of John
5. Jordan river

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ JULY 2011 FIRST EDITION | COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA| TREASURE TEMPLE| DELHI BELLY| CRICKET

MARKING THE 90th ANNIVERSARY

1. The communist party of China (CPC) is celebrating the 90^th anniversary of its inception. Mao Zedong is considered to be the greatest leader in the making of China after the Second World War. After the death of Mao Zedong which successor introduced market reforms which helped turn China into the world's second-largest economy?

2. Which dish prepared by the Mumbai-born Chef Floyd Cardoz won the first price in “Top Chef Masters Contest” held in Los Angeles?

3. Which material was officially declared a good bye on 30^th June 2011 in India?

4. Which Indian writer’s latest book is ‘River of Smoke’?

5. Which Indian priest is nominated for the Nobel Prize for peace in recognition of his initiatives to bring harmony among ethnic communities of North East?

6. Which temple of South India has emerged the richest temple in India in view of the recent inventory of thousands of crores of wealth concealed during the age of foreign colonization to prevent massive robbery?

7. Who is the newly elected Charge d’Affaires of the U.S.Embassy after the resignation of Tomithy Roemer?
8. Aamir Khan’s new film ‘Delhi Belly’ is humorously criticized as India’s first X-rated film. Who is the music director of the movie?

9. Name the newly elected coach of Indian hockey team?
10. Identify the duo and what is their new post in cricket?

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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 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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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 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 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 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?