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 MAY 2011 FIRST EDITION | OSAMA BIN LADEN | ANTI-VIRUS INVENTOR | INFOSYS | BIRTH ANNIVERSARY

1. It was a nerve biting commando operation that led to the
    end of the world's most feared terrorist, Osama Bin Laden.
    US President Barak Obama was stone-faced and Joe Biden
   was fingering his rosary beads when they witnessed the
   operation in Pakistan.

   What was the code name used by the
   US officials for Osama Bin Laden?

2. Which title is adorned by Kate Middleton after being married
   to Prince Charles?

3. Which fictional character created a furore by renouncing his U.S
    citizenship after being caught in the middle of a diplomatic
   row between the U.S and Iran?

4. Which Russian software mogul's son was abducted and later
   freed as a result of an operation recently? He invented a famous
   anti-virus software.

5.On 7th of May we celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of which
   renowned Indian?

6. What is the unit of radiation limit (exposure to  uclear radiation)?

Fukushima plant

7. Who is the newly elected chairman of Infosys?





8. Which renowned writer drew flak by comparing Peru's
    presidential candidates to cancer and AIDS?

9. Which adept filmmaker was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke
     award 2011?

10. What is the peculiarity of the place Arecibo in Puerto Rico?

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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 FEBRUARY 2011 SECOND EDITION | PROTESTS IN ARAB WORLD| HOTTEST CHILLI | GRAMMY AWARDS | WIKILEAKS

1. World is witnessing a sequnce of revolutionary clampdowns in the
    Arab world. The pearl square of Bahrain has been renamed as
    'Tahrir square' by the protesters since this place was the cradle of
   unrest against monopoly in the Arab world. What does the word 'Tahrir'
   mean?

2. NASA said that a powerful solar eruption that triggered a huge geomagnetic storm has disturbed radio communication and could disrupt electric power grids, radio and satellite communiction in the next days. It has already disrupted radio communication in Southern China. Under which category of solar flares does this disastrous solar effect fall?

3. Protests have begun in Yemen to oust the US allied president Ali Abdullah
   Saleh. Which is the capital city of Yemen?

4. What is the name of the hottest chilli in the world?
   This one is marked 11.7 lakh points in the Scoville scale ( Measure of hotness of chilli) and was invented recently at Grantham in England. It overtook the Indian chilli 'Bhut Jolokia' found in Assam, Nagaland and Manipur in terms of hotness. 

5. What is the name of the German minister in power who has been accused   of copying a thesis in order to achieve his doctorate? 

6. Where is the oldest edible cake in the world located?

7. Who is the new nuclear department head of Iran?

8. Which album won 5 Grammy awards (best country album, best record, best song, best country performance, best country song)?

9. Which Hindu festival of Kerala (South India) achieved a guiness world record as the
   'Largest annual gathering of women' where more than 2.5 million women gather in a single place
   on a particular day? Which temple organises this sacred ceremony? 

10. Who wrote the book ' Inside Wikileaks' which talks about Julian Assange's hobbies and other unrevealed facts in building and developing Wikileaks?
 

 
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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 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?

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ AUGUST 2010 SIXTH EDITION

"A rare blend of tennis and beauty"

1.     Which tennis beauty has been United Nations Development Project Goodwill Ambassador, concerned specifically with the Chernobyl Recovery and Development Programme since 2007?

Ans: Maria Sharapova

2.     Who is the first person in history to walk to both north and South Pole?

Ans: Robert Swan (British Explorer)

3.     Which country did China overtake to become the second largest economic power in the world?

Ans: Japan

4.     Skoda is the car making company of which country?

Ans: Czech Republic

5.     German car maker Mercedes-Benz launched a new E-class in India; a four seater priced at Rs. 64.50 lakh. What is the name given to this luxury car which is equipped with ‘Air Cap’ and has 272 hp of power?

Ans: Cabriolet

6.     Who is the chief executive of the UK based oil major ‘Cairn Energy’?

Ans: Bill Gammell

7.      This former Israeli soldier had to change her Facebook privacy settings because she posted pictures of herself on duty posing next to handcuffed, blindfolded Palestinians that provoked outrage?

Ans: Eden Abergil

8.     Farmers came out with strong protest in UP against the new Expressway project saying that it would adversely affect the eco-system. This project was earlier known as Taj project. What is the present name of this project which evoked wide violence in its provinces?

Ans: Yamuna Expressway Project

9.     Who is the chairman of the Nalanda Mento Group (NMG) that is awaiting a resurrection of its ancient glories after being approved in the parliament?

Ans: Amartya Sen (Nobel laureate Economics)

10.Which country launched Vanguard 2010 a major air defense exercise along its eastern coast in order tosecure its territories and improve communication between different military regions?

Ans: China

11.World’s highest railway line was opened in July 2006. Which places are connected by this line running at an altitude of 5000 metres?

Ans: Qinghai province (China) to Lhasa (Tibet)

12.Who is the new Chief Election commissioner of India?

Ans: S.Y.Quraishi

13.The opposition parties are making a row over the AFSPA bill in the parliament saying that the bill will give undesirable freedom to the soldiers in the Kashmir valley. Expand AFSPA:

Ans: Armed Forces Special Powers Act

14.Which Haitian American hip-hop singer plans to seek the presidency of the earthquake battered country?

Ans: Wyclef Jean

15.Which country recently conducted a vote for approval of its new constitution that curtails the power of an imperial style presidency and paves the way for much needed reforms in the country?

Ans: Kenya

16.Who is the president of Kenya?

Ans: Mwai Kibaki

17.In which museum at Times square(New York) would you find the black suited wax statue of Shah Rukh Khan?

Ans: Madame Tussads

18. Who is the president of Bolivia?

Ans: Evo Morales

19.Japan’s PM, Naoto Kan and his cabinet recently shunned a visit to a war shrine that bears the memoirs of the second world war on the 65^th anniversary of the end of the former.What is the name of the shrine?

Ans: Yasukuni War Shrine,Tokyo

20.Who is the president of Tajikistan?

Ans: Emomali Rakhmon

21.Who was honoured with the outstanding parliamentarian award of 2009? Ans:Murali Manohar Joshi (BJP),

Mohan Singh of SP(2008),

Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi(2007).