Mega Quiz (Current Affairs) -31st Dec

 

Q 1:Click the wrong match
Rashtriya Lok Dal president--- Ajit Singh
Bharatiya Janata Party President-- Gopinath Munde
Indian National Lok Dal president--- Om Prakash Chautala

Q 2:DRDO successfully completes trials of big aerostat system.Who is the Director General of DRDO?

Madhavan Nair
V.K Saraswat
Dr. Vijay Bhatkar

Q 3:India is a net job creator for U.S. companies, not the other way around, NASSCOM chief .......... said on Dec30 strongly refuting the public perception here that outsourcing and free trade agreements are responsible for America’s current economic woes.
Shiv Nadar
Giriraj Poddar
Som Mittal

Q 4:In a late night development, Gujjar leader ............... has agreed to send the delegation to hold talks with the state ministers.
Sachin Pilot
Kirori Singh Bainsla
Jitendra Singh

Q 5:Latest development is that The Special Investigation Team probing the 2004 police encounter of Mumbai girl Ishrat Jahan and three others has filed an application in the Gujarat High Court seeking appointment of an amicus curie in the case.A report by Judicial Magistrate .............. had last year said the encounter was “fake” and carried out in cold blood by policemen for “selfish motives”.
Kirit Parekh
S P Tamang
Madhukar Chauhan

Q 6:Acting on Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh’s complaint about MPs lobbying for projects in which they have vested interests, Rajya Sabha Chairman .............on Thursday referred the issue to the Ethics Committee.
Veerappa Moily
Manish Tiwari
Hamid Ansari

Q 7:Dalit entrepreneurs will make a historic journey to Delhi next week for a pre-budget meeting with Planning Commission deputy chairman ............. This is the first time that business leaders from the country’s most marginalized communities will be included in the government’s budget consultation process.
Vijay Kanetkar
Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Ratibhai Makwana

Q 8:With airlines flying record loads since the Christmas weekend and the rush peaking now, airlines have advised passengers to check in earlier than usual at crowded airports. SpiceJet passengers flying out of Kolkata this weekend got text messages to report three hours before departure time — the reporting time for international flights! Jet Airways has asked flyers to reach airports two hours before departure time.However who brought the first aeroplane in India?
Nizam of Hyderabad
Maharaja of Patiala
Maharaja of Jodhpur

Q 9:The National Investigation Agency ( NIA) on Thursday filed a chargesheet against 17 persons — all from the banned Student Islamic Movement of India ( SIMI) — in a Kerala court for allegedly conspiring “to advocate, incite and abet unlawful activities for secession of Kashmir from India”.The Students Islamic Movement of India is a Islamic Student organization that was formed in ........ in April 1977.
Ajmer
Malkapur
Aligarh

Q 10:Moderate to heavy snow has been reported from Solang, Keylong, Patseo, Kalpa, Sangla, Udaipur, Narkanda, Kufri and Kharapattar, said MET director.Which state do this area lies?
Jammu and Kashmir
Himachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh

Q 11:In the battle between the environment ministry and Lavasa, the purportedly ‘common people’ owning the villas and houses in the luxury hill station have joined the battle.The environment ministry has been bombarded by exactly identical letters written by those claiming to own houses in the multi-thousand crore project pleading to not stop the project where their ‘life-time’s stakes’ are invested.Where is this project being undertaken?
Pune
Jaipur
Mumbai

Q 12:No new infrastructure projects will be allowed in the high-erosion coastal zone in the country, environment minister Jairam Ramesh has said.Click the right option.

The high erosion zone is where the shoreline moves towards the land more than 250 metres per year.
For medium erosion zone its 10-25 metres
low erosion zone it is less than 100 metres.

Q 13:Vicar General of Puducherry Archdiocese Rev Fr Arulanandam inaugurated the Mother Teresa Express Train, an exhibition on wheels highlighting the life and selfless services of Nobel Laureate and Founder of ....................., on its arrival at Puducherry Station from Madurai today.
Missionary for the downtrodden
Missionary of Hope
Missionary of Charities

Q 14:Who is the present Chief Minister of Pondicherry?
V Vaithilingam
V Narayansami
Mr Rangasamy

Q 15:The Deccan police have arrested a 48-year-old security guard for allegedly raping a 27-year-old woman in a destitute home located on Karve Road at Erandwane. The case was registered on Thursday after the incident came to light on Wednesday morning.Name the section related to Rape according to IPC
323
376
506

Q 16:Never before have the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) witnessed such success in breaking the drug mafia’s stronghold on the New Year’s party scene in the city.
In the last 16-odd months, raids and seizures of drugs worth Rs. 9 crore have broken the backbone of smack suppliers.World Anti-Narcotics Day is celebrated across the world on?
AUGUST 26
JULY 26
JUNE 26

Q 17:Home Minister P Chidambaram arrived in Guwahati on Thursday night while on his way to Arunachal Pradesh.He will visit Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh today on the Sino-Indian border and review the development projects along the frontier areas.Tawang Monastery was founded by the .............. in accordance to the wishes of the 5th Dalai Lama
Mera Lama Lodre Gyasto
Nagwang Lobsang Gyatso
Dalai Lama

Q 18:Kashmir Valley has been cut off from rest of the country as incessant snowfall forced closure of Jammu-Srinagar National highway and cancellation of all flights to and from the international airport in Srinagar.Click the wrong option below.
NH 1A: Jalandhar - Madhopur - Jammu - Banihal - Srinagar - Baramula - Uri
NH 1B: Pasighat - Dambuk - Roing - Paya - Tezu - Wakro - Namsai
NH 1C: Domel - Katra
NH 1D: Srinagar - Kargil - Leh

Q 19:Twelve-year-old Chhoti can consider herself lucky. She has miraculously survived a near-fatal accident.It took a team of four doctors over three hours to remove the branch of a tree that had pierced through her stomach as she fell off a tree recently. Thankfully, the surgery has been successful.The stomach is located between the oesophagus and the ................
pancreas
lungs
small intestine

Q 20:The rupee gained 11 paise to Rs. 44.84 a dollar in early trade at the Interbank Foreign Exchange today.How many languages are their on an Indian banknote has?
15
18
22

Q 21:The BSE benchmark Sensex today extended its winning streak of past two sessions and opened 93 points higher on the last day of 2010, on sustained buying led by a firming trend on other Asian bourses.Clcik the wrong option.
End of Day Session in BSE : 18:30
The BSE SENSEX (SENSitive indEX), also called the "BSE 30", is a widely used market index in India and Asia
The Bombay Stock Exchange is the oldest exchange in Asia.

Q 22:Perhaps this is a sort of New Year’s resolution to bury the hatchet. Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa drove to Raj Bhavan in Bangalore on Friday morning to meet Governor ....................

ND Tiwari
HR Bharadwaj
DY Patil

Q 23:Over 400 people stranded inside the Jawahar Tunnel near Qazigund, the gateway town to the Kashmir Valley, due to heavy snowfall have been evacuated by the civil administration assisted by the Army.The length of this tunnel is around .....km?
5.6
0.5
2.5

Q 24:On December 23, the Reserve Bank of India stopped facilitating payments for crude oil imported from Iran. “We are working on an alternative settlement mechanism. It is being discussed at length with the Ministry of Finance, and a solution will be found in the next few days,” Petroleum Secretary ................told
S. Sundareshan
Murli Deora
G. K. Pillai

Q 25:Protests against a sharp increase in fuel prices intensified and turned violent in Bolivia on Thursday, as thousands of demonstrators demanded President ......................’ government repeal the hike.
Sacha Llorenti
Evo Morales
Santa Cruz

Current Affairs Quiz (Last Week December 2010)

 

Q 1:Name the committe responsible for submitting the report on Telangana issue?
K G Balkrishna Committee
Sri Krishna Committee
Mukhopadhya Committee

Q 2:................ of Punjab has been elected as the president of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) at its governing body meeting here recently.

Baljit Singh Sethi
Raninder Singh
Digvijay Singh

Q 3:Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on 29/12/10 ruled out review of the conditional environmental clearance given to the Jaitapur nuclear power plant, and urged ‘interest groups' not to use environment as an issue to target the government.Where is Jaitapur?
Orissa
West Bengal
Maharashtra

Q 4:The Central Committee of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) has called for an all-India “protest week” from January 2 to 8 to protest against the life sentence handed down to physician and human rights activist Binayak Sen, businessman Pijush Guha and alleged Maoist leader Narayan Sanyal.Binayak Sen is the national Vice-President of the .............?
Communist Party of India (Maoist)
People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)
Socialist Party of India

Q 5:......................., a former President of Argentina, is sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of crimes against humanity.
Isabel Martínez de Perón
Jorge Rafael Videla
Leandro Anaya

Q 6:The Indian Overseas Congress in the US has urged the Indian government to confer the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, on the Air India Kanishka inquiry head for the far-reaching recommendations in his report. Former Canadian Chief Justice,............, who headed the public inquiry into the lapses that led to the bombing of the Kanishka flight 25 years ago -- which killed all 329 passengers on board -- recommended a major overhaul of Canadian security to avoid such tragedies in the future.
Stephen Harper
Jarnail Singh
John Major

Q 7:The government will decide on developer Lavasa Corp's township project near Pune by Jan 10, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said on Wednesday. Last month, the ministry had asked Lavasa, 65% owned by .............., to stop construction work at the site and sought clarification on
related stories

GTL Ltd
Hindustan Construction Co
IRB Infrastructure

Q 8:The ............. water dispute tribunal has given its verdict on the 43-year-old Krishna water dispute.Andhra Pradesh will get 1000 TMC-ft of surplus water, Karnataka gets 911 TMC-ft and Maharashtra will get 666 TMC-ft.




Godavari
Krishna
Vainganga

Q 9:Against the backdrop of unease in BJP over pursuance of 2G probe by Parliament's Public Accounts Committee , its Chairman ............ on 30/12/10 associated himself with his party's demand for JPC into the issue of corruption during UPA-II, saying he was "fully committed" to it.
Jaswant Singh
Sushil Modi
M.M. Joshi

Q 10:ULFA 'chairman' ............. was 30/12/10 granted bail by a designated TADA court.
Raju Baruah
Arabinda Rajkhowa
Umakanta Rajkonwar

Current Affairs Quiz---(2010)

1:Name the person who was recently in news as was arrested by the Mumbai police for stealing an EVM and proving that it can be tampered with?
Hari Prasad
Arun Duggal
Durga Prasad

2:India consumes about one-lakh tonnes of coffee annually. India is world's ......... largest producer of coffee.

2th
6th
7th

3:.................. was appointed as the new Election Commissioner of India recently.
SS Menon
Navin Chawla
Harishankar Brahma

4:...........based Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to collaborate with Indian institutions for research in applied and pure sciences as decided this August.
UK
US
Australia

5:The ..................... put off plans to partially revoke the Armed Forced Special Powers Act (AFSPA), following fresh violence in the Kashmir Valley over alleged desecration of Koran in the US.
Ministry of Home Affairs
Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS)
President

6:Mother Theresa's biography has been published and the first copy has been given to Prathiba patil................... is the biographer of the centenary edition.
Agi Guttadauro
Sister M. Nirmala
Navin Chwala

7:Miss ................. Jimena Navarreta has been crowned Miss Universe in Las Vegas.
Mexico
Venezuala
Columbia

8:Pakistan cricketers caught for match fixing scam. They have been playing against ............at that time.
Australia
England
South Africa

9:India’s GDP growth rate in 2009-10 (as per economic survey 2009-10) was …??
6.8%
7.5%
7.2%

10:The 40th World Economic Forum 2010 annual meeting was held in ?
Davos
Shanghai
Geneva

Current Affairs Quiz (Aug 5,6 2010)

Q 1:The special CBI court on Wednesday rejected an application for remand of the former Gujarat Minister of State for Home, ............., in the Soharabuddin fake encounter case, stating the investigating agency did not properly avail itself of the opportunities it had to question him.
Amit Shah
Vanzara
Raghuvansi

Q 2:The Lok Sabha on Wednesday adopted a motion, urging the government to take further effective action to contain the adverse impact of ........... on the common man.

naxalism
inflation
crimes

Q 3:The United Naga Council (UNC), ignoring an appeal from the ............government, reimposed its blockade from Wednesday morning.
Nagaland
Arunachal Pradesh
Manipur

Q 4:A one-member Tribunal, headed by a ............... Judge, on Wednesday confirmed the extension of the ban on the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) for two more years.
Delhi High Court
Bombay High Court
Supreme Court

Q 5:Niranjan Hiranandani, who has a look-out notice against him from the........, was on Wednesday granted interim bail till August 13 on a personal bond of Rs. 1 lakh
SIT
CBI
CID

Q 6:Union Law Minister ..................., on Wednesday, asked women's groups fighting for justice for marginalised women not to aim for utopia but to direct their movement towards procuring vehicles for getting the various laws implemented.
The Minister was addressing a three-day conference of women leaders from marginalised communities organized by the National Alliance of Women (NAWO).
Pranab Mukherjee
Chidambaram
Veerappa Moily

Q 7:The Supreme Court Wednesday issued notice to Ghaziabad District Judge ................., taking a serious view of the allegation that he was interfering in the Provident Fund scam case.After hearing Attorney-General G.E. Vahanvati, a Bench of Justices D.K. Jain, V.S. Sirpurkar and G.S. Singhvi sought his explanation in four weeks.
Vishnu Chandra Gupta
Dinakaran
R.K. Sharma

Q 8:The Maharashtra government on Wednesday decided to levy environment tax on commercial vehicles which are over ....... years’ old and private vehicles which are over 15 years.
9
8
7

Q 9:Days after Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh lauded the ................government for imposing a ban on iron ore export, Union Mines Minister B.K. Handique came down strongly on the State government for failing to get its act together on checking illegal mining.
Chhatisgarh
Jharkhand
Karnataka

Q 10:Cricketer Anil Kumble adopted a ............... at Adopt an Animal, a two-month-long animal adoption awareness drive organised by the Samhita Academy, Green Matrix and Bannerghatta Biological Park here on Wednesday.
king cobra
dog
turtle

Q 11:U.S. President Barack Obama has asked young leaders of Africa to follow .............. to bring the changes they want in the continent.
Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther KIng
Abrham Lincoln

Q 12:With the row over Prime Minister ...............'s remarks about Pakistan “exporting terror'' still simmering, fresh tensions were reported on Wednesday ahead of his talks with President Asif Ali Zardari after the latter said that NATO forces were “losing the war'' in Afghanistan.

Nick Klegg
David Cameron
Gordon Brown

Q 13:......... has urged the Union government to increase the retirement age of Supreme Court Judges too from 65 to 68 years and that of the judicial officers in courts below the High Courts from 60 to 62 years. It welcomed the decision to increase the retirement age of High Court judges from 62 to 65 years.

ATS
AIDWA
AIBA

Q 14:Even as the Supreme Court has decided to examine the validity of the ................. Committee constituted by the Human Resource Development Ministry, senior counsel Fali Nariman argued that the Centre's threatened action of withdrawal of recognition to 44 deemed universities, on the recommendations of the panel, is invalid in law.
Tandon
Mukherjee
Kelkar

Q 15:Union Minister for Human Resource Development ........... on Thursday held out the categorical assurance that madrasas would be kept out of the purview of the Right to Education (RTE) Act.
Jayram Ramesh
Kapil Sibal
Prithviraj Chauhan

Q 16:Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari has asked Chief Ministers of all BJP-ruled States to take urgent steps to end encroachment or illegal occupation of ............. property renetly
forest
temple
wakf

Q 17:The former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) president, ...................., on Thursday met President Pratibha Patil here along with a delegation of party MPs, MLAs, MLCs, former Ministers and senior leaders and urged her to “consider and determine whether it is reasonable and justifiable” to give assent to the “Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill, 2010” in the larger interests of Karnataka and the nation.
H.D. Deve Gowda
Yedurappa
JaganMohun

Q 18:Rajya Sabha Chairman has extended till October 5 the tenure of the Justice ...................... Committee, which is probing charges of “misappropriation” against Calcutta High Court Judge Soumitra Sen in the removal proceedings initiated by Parliament.
Dinakaran
B. Sudershan Reddy
B.N.Srikrishna

Q 19:A “totally new missile,” called Agni II – is to be tested in September from the Wheeler Island, off the .................... coast.
West Bengal
Andhra Pradesh
Orissa

Q 20:Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday voiced support for ..............'s bid to join the BRIC group, which unites Brazil, Russia, India and China.
South Africa
Cuba
Argentina

Current Affairs Quiz (Aug 3,4 2010)

Q 1:Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on Monday, described the former Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader Syed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal as a “great son of ...............” and said he had contributed to the first successful experiment of coalition politics in the country.
Kerala
Uttar Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh

Q 2:International Atomic Energy Agency's Director General ............ on Monday acknowledged that India was continuing to abide by its commitments under its 2008 safeguards accord with the IAEA.

Ban ki moon
Yukiya Amano
Sargao Jose

Q 3:.............'s Parliament failed to elect a Prime Minister for the third time in less than a fortnight as neither candidate succeeded in obtaining a simple majority to form a government.
New Guinea
Ethiopia
Nepal

Q 4:Pranab Mukherjee on Monday allayed the apprehensions of some Opposition members that the government was trying to compromise the independence of regulators like the Securities and Exchange Board of India,, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA), PFRDA, the Reserve Bank of India by setting up a joint committee headed by the ............... as the authority to whom the dispute could be referred.
Finance Minister
Prime Minister
President

Q 5:BHEL is pursuing joint ventures with utilities run by State governments to boost sales. The public sector company has signed several joint venture agreements with utilities to “leverage sale of equipment,” said BHEL Chairman and Managing Director ........................
Dinesh Kesaria
B. Prasada Rao
Manoj Tirodkar

Q 6:The Ministry of External Affairs and the United Nations Secretary-General's office have locked horns over Kashmir.While the Ministry says the U.N. Secretary-General made no comments about the ongoing unrest in Kashmir, .................'s office maintained that such an observation was indeed made.
Al Badrei
Yukiya Amano
Mr. Ban ki-Moon

Q 7: The Central Bureau of Investigation has issued a look-out notice for builders Niranjan Hiranandani and Surendra Hiranandani in a case of evasion of .................
provident fund
illegal tenders
kidnapping

Q 8:The All India Bar Association (AIBA) has urged the Union government to increase the retirement age of Supreme Court Judges too from 65 to .... years and that of the judicial officers in courts below the High Courts from 60 to ..... years. It welcomed the decision to increase the retirement age of High Court judges from 62 to ....... years.
67,65,66
68,62,65
67,66,65

Q 9:The Centre has appointed two full-time and seven part-time members to the 19 {+t} {+h} Law Commission of India, which was reconstituted in September 2009.
Retired Supreme Court Judge ............ was appointed Chairman of the Commission in March this year.
B.N.SriKrishna
Dinakaran
P.V. Reddy

Q 10:Quoting figures available on the Commonwealth Games website, CPI (M) parliamentary party leader ........................... said the cost of renovating the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium was Rs. 961 crore; the Indira Gandhi stadium Rs. 669 crore; the Dhyan Chand hockey stadium Rs. 262 crore; and the Karni Singh shooting ranges Rs. 149 crore. A total sum of Rs. 44,459.48 crore was spent on renovations.
Sitaram Yechury
Prakash Karat
Buddhadev Bhattacharya

Q 11:The ............... on Tuesday directed the Jharkhand government to file a First Information Report against the MLAs allegedly involved in the ‘cash-for-Rajya Sabha vote' sting carried out by a television channel.
Election Commission
CBI
Supreme Court

Q 12:An embarrassed Congress distanced itself from Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee Chairman ..................., even as allegations of massive corruption — and even diversion of funds — rocked Parliament on Tuesday.

MS Gill
Suresh Kalmadi
HD Nambiar

Q 13:China's military on Tuesday launched a major air defence exercise along the country's eastern coast bordering the ..........., in the wake of heightened tensions over China's territorial claims in the region.
Huang He River
Pearl River
Yellow Sea

Q 14:Public perceptions in India will always be “coloured” by how China treated India's “core interests,” Indian Ambassador to China ................said on Tuesday.
S. Jaishankar
K. Shivshankar
M. Bharadwaj

Q 15:Over 40 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in Karachi and surrounding areas since Monday evening's assassination of the Sindh Assembly member from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Raza Haider, with members of his party allegedly turning their ire at the ...................
Peoples Party of Pakistan
Awami National Party
National Conference

Q 16:The IAF is the .............-largest in the world, yet it is just beginning to use full flight simulators, which have long become a must in civil aviation.India has a large fleet of Mikoyan helicopters, and four years ago, signed a new contract to buy 80 Mi-17IV helicopters.
fifth
third
fourth

Q 17:Was it ignorance, oversight or bigotry? This is the question doing the rounds on the Internet as young Pakistanis come to terms with the coffin of ............... — one of the 152 passengers killed in last week's plane crash in Islamabad – being labelled ‘kafir' (non-believer).
Premchand
Naseer
Munaaf

Q 18:Even as the November elections loom on the horizon and Democrats grow fearful of losing seats in both Congressional chambers, President Barack Obama is becoming increasingly strident in defending his top domestic priority — ................
education
job creation
crime control

Q 19:...............is planning to introduce a Visa Facilitation System (VFS) for tourists from India and China. This follows a decision to revoke the Visa on Arrival (VOA) scheme for visitors to the cuntry from several countries. The VOA scheme was discontinued in respect of Indian nationals in 2008.
Indonesia
Thailand
Malaysia

Q 20:India and Russia have reiterated their shared positions on Afghanistan and agreed to step up cooperation in the region.The two sides “agreed to coordinate our policies more closely on Afghanistan,” Foreign Secretary ................ told journalists after talks in Moscow.
Nirupama Rao
Shiv Shankar Menon
GK Pillai