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? 

answers are published in the ANSWERS tab. 

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 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).

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ AUGUST 2010 FIFTH EDITION

1.      The blackberry service is in point black for not disclosing the contents of their message and e-mail services to the security agencies. You would have come across the name of their manufacturers as RIM. Expand RIM: 

2.      ‘Alo Presidente’ is the weekly broadcast of which country’s president and name him?

3.      Which is the first Indian made web browser which has the kudos of being the only browser having an in-built anti-spyware system? 

4.      Who is the first canonized woman saint of India whose birthday centenary was celebrated recently?

5.      Who directed the movie ‘Expendables’ starred by fire-branded actors like Jetly, Bruce Willis and Statham?

6.      Felipe Calderon is the president of which country? 

7.      The superbug controversy was evoked by the discovery of NDM-1 bacteria. Expand it.

8.      Where is the largest clock in the world located?

9.       Which controversial place is associated with the zip code 10048?

10.  Who is the prime minister of Spain?

Answers

1.Research in Motion

2.Hugo Chavez(venezuela)

3.Epic

4.St. Alphonsa

5.Sylvester Stallone

6.Mexico

7.New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase

8.Atop Abraj Al-Bail towers, Macca,Saudi

9.Freedom tower,Newyork city where World trade centre stood.(9/11)

10.Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ AUGUST 2010 FOURTH EDITION

1.     Twitter recently had a JavaScript related problem and we now have a similar mess on Orkut. The service seems to have been hit by a worm injected by few Brazilian hackers. Name the worm?

2.     Huawei a famous telecom company is alleged of stealing trade secrets from the American giant Motorola. From which country does this telecom company hail?

3.     The international court of justice says that Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence in February 2008 did not violate international law. From which country did they secede?

4.     Who are ther winners of Ramnath Goenka Award this year?

5.     Which popular politician was given the Lokamanya Tilak Award this year?

6.     8^th international sand sculpture championship was held in Berlin. Which renowned Indian sand artist won the first prize ?

7.      Marc Mezvinsky was in news for becoming the new person in the life of which ex-president’s daughter?

8.      Who is the present chief of ICRC(International Committee of the Red Cross)?

9.     What is the mascot of ICC world cup 2011?

10. Which Indian born scientist working at HP labs in California proposed a solution to the crux ‘is P=NP?’ $1 million being one of the seven NP problems issued by Clay Mathematics institute?

 ANSWERS

1.      Bom Sabado.

2.      China

3.      Serbia

4.      1. journalist of the year in print category-Siddharth Varadarajan(The Hindu) 2.broadcast category-Arnab Goswami(Times now) 3.Journalism in courage-shekhar gupta (Indian Express)

5.      Sheila Dikshit

6.      Sudarsan Patnaik

7.      Bill Clinton. Marc Mezvinsky was married to Chelsea, the daughter of Bill Clinton and Hilary Clinton

8.      Jacob Kellenberger

9.      Stumpy elephant

10. Vinay Deolalikar

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