Current Affairs Quiz (26,27,28 July 2010)

Q 1:Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has convened a meeting of “concerned MPs and VIPs'' to evolve a consensus on the controversial ................, 2004, which is coming up for consideration and passage in the upper House during the monsoon session of Parliament.
Water Bill
Seeds Bill
Sugar Bill

Q 2:Nobel laureate .............. on Tuesday said the sense of oneness in every individual should be “dynamic” and not confined within the narrowness of a single identity

MS Swaminathan
Amartya Sen
Venkatraman

Q 3:Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, on Tuesday refuted in the State Assembly the Opposition charge that there was Rs............... crore scam in slum rehabilitation projects and rejected the demand for an enquiry into the allegations.
25,000
50,000
20,000

Q 4:Click the right expansion
City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd. (CIDCO)
Mumbai Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC)
Mumbai Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA)

Q 5:The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, here. The commission, to be set up under the Jammu and Kashmir Commission of Inquiry Act, ..........., will consist of Justice (retd.) Syed Basher-ud-Din (Chairman) and Justice (retd.) Y.P. Nargotra (member).
1971
1962
1996

Q 6:Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dinesh Trivedi has sought action against sale of..........., used by farmers to enhance the growth of fruits and vegetables.
Tryptamine
Serotonin
oxytocin

Q 7:Shrugging off mounting opposition from the local people and objections from the Joint Committee under the Ministry of Environment and Forests, which is overseeing the implementation of the Forest Right Act (FRA), the Orissa government on Tuesday began the land acquisition process for the proposed Posco-India steel project in .............. district.
Jagatsinghpur
Jajpur
Jharsuguda

Q 8:The Departments of Atomic Energy and Biotechnology will sign a memorandum of understanding next week for the takeover of the Bhopal Memorial Trust Hospital for the victims of the 1984 gas tragedy.Indicating this, Union Science and Technology Minister .............. on Tuesday said the takeover would help in providing better health care to the victims.
Kapil Sibal
Prithviraj Chavan
Kamalnath

Q 9:............... has slammed unilateral European Union sanctions against Iran as “unacceptable” and showing “disdain” for the U.N. Security Council.
US
France
Russia

Q 10:Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday maintained that the Reserve Bank's policy decision to hike its short-term lending (repo) and borrowing (reverse repo) rates by ... and .... basis points would help rein in inflation without impacting the growth momentum.
25,50
22,35
25,65

Current Affairs Quiz (25,26,27 July 2010)

Q 1:Parliament adjourned on Monday, opening day of the monsoon session, after both Houses paid tributes to the former Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, and two sitting and two former members who died during the inter-session period.Paying glowing tributes to Shekhawat, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and Rajya Sabha Chairman ..............described him as a sagacious statesman, a distinguished legislator and a committed votary of humanitarian values.
Sh. K.R. Narayanan
Hamid Ansari
Sh. Krishan Kant

Q 2:Human Resource Development Minister .................'s comments on the Uttar Pradesh government's stand on the Right to Education (RTE) Act has drawn flak from Chief Minister Mayawati.

Ambika Soni
Kapil Sibal
Girija Vyas

Q 3:British Prime Minister..............., along with a large delegation comprising Cabinet Ministers and businessmen, arrived in Bangalore on Tuesday to reinvigorate bilateral ties.
Nick Klegg
David Cameron
Gordon Brown

Q 4:The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to spell out whether there was any proposal to set up a tribunal to adjudicate the river water dispute between ........... and ........... on construction of a project across the Mandovi river
Goa,Karnataka
Goa,Maharashtra
Maharashtra,Karnataka

Q 5:An Additional Sessions Court in Margao in south Goa on Monday granted bail to the former Goa Tourism Minister, Mickky Pacheco, the prime accused in the .............. unnatural death case.
Scarlett Keeling
Nadia Torrado
Fiona MacKeown

Q 6:According to the prosecution, over 250 people lost their lives and 713 sustained injuries in 13 blasts in Mumbai on March 12, 1993. The special TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities [Prevention] Act) court had convicted 100 people, including ......... death sentences and ...... life imprisonments.
8,25
11,18
8,20

Q 7:The NDFB (Ranjan Daimary) militants showered heavy fire on SSB patrol party recently. The incident site is located along the border line that demarcates Manas National Park in India and Royal Manas National Park in ..........
Bhutan
Bangladesh
Nepal

Q 8:The Prime Minister's Media Adviser has denied a report carried by the Indian Express on Sunday that suggested that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took up with External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna his public criticism of Home Secretary .............
Nirupama Rao
G.K. Pillai
S.S. Menon

Q 9:It would go down as the irony of the 2010 Sri Lankan presidential election. Much to the disbelief and amusement of the people, just an hour before the polling was to close it was discovered that common opposition candidate ................... is not registered as a voter.
Prasanna Vithanage
D. M. Jayaratne
General Sarath Fonseka

Q 10:We want to further develop its ties with India to promote security and economic stability in the Gulf, South Asia and beyond, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the ............said
UAE
Iran
Lebanon

Current Affairs Quiz (dated 25 July2010)

 




Q 1:Villagers opposing the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in the ............ region of Maharashtra have refused the enhanced compensation package announced by State Power Minister Ajit Pawar in the Legislative Council last week
Khandesh
Konkan
Vidharbha

Q 2:A committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) on Saturday found that the green signal for land acquisition for the proposed .................... project in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district was given, ignoring implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006.

Gangadhara Steels P Ltd
Posco-India steel plant
Aryam Steels P Ltd

Q 3:The four-member panel, which holds the fate of Vedanta's bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri Hills of .............., has been given an expanded mandate.
Andhra Pradesh
Orissa
Karnataka

Q 4:T. Rajkumar, Head of Department of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute (WIA),..........., has been chosen for the `Kobayashi Foundation Award' for cancer research.
Chennai
Hyderabad
Bangalore

Q 5:The Congress celebrated the launch of Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) in ..............'s Sriganganagar district
Rajasthan
Uttar Pradesh
Maharashtra

Q 6:Mr. Amorim arrives in Turkey after Iran and the European Union's foreign policy chief, ............... have exchanged letters for reviving talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council as well as Germany.
Catherine Ashton
Julia Gillard
Angela Merkel

Q 7:The ............. has decided to expand the East Asia Summit (EAS) to include the United States and Russia.
APO
SAARC
ASEAN

Q 8:What started out as a war of words between President Hugo Chavez of ........... and President Álvaro Uribe of ..........., even as far back as 2007, has now become an open diplomatic conflict in a multilateral forum and threatens to escalate into something worse.
Brazil,Cuba
Venezuela,Paraguay
Venezuela,Colombia

Q 9:Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on a war-crimes warrant, won't attend an African Union (AU) summit due to get under way in ........... on Sunday
Kenya
South Africa
Uganda

Q 10:While .......... has for the most part been careful not to stray into any sensitive areas of the United States' foreign policy engagements with third parties, its recent overtures to the heads of the military junta in Myanmar could prove to be a stress point in the its relationship with US.
India
Israel
HongKong

Current Affairs Quiz (July 18-24)

Q 1:The National Commission for Women (NCW) is a statutory body for women, set up in 1992, by Government of India, under specific provisions, National Commission for Women Act, 1990 (Act No. 20 of 1990 of Govt.of India.), of the Indian Constitution . The present head of the Commission is ?
Brinda Karat
Girija Vyas
Renukha Choudhary

Q 2:In a bid to establish the reliability of India's fledgling Ballistic Missile Defence shield, an interceptor missile test will take place at Balasore, .........., on July 26.

Andhra Pradesh
Orissa
Karnataka

Q 3:The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) (Hindi: रक्षा अनुसंधान एवं विकास संगठन, Rakṣā Anusandhān evaṃ Vikās Sangaṭhan) is an agency of the Republic of India, responsible for the development of technology for use by the military, headquartered in?
Pune
New Delhi
Kanpur

Q 4:The ............... on Friday said the government, instead of proceeding with the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill, should bring in the Women's Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha for adoption.
CPI(M)
BJP
Trinamool Congress

Q 5:Women's Reservation Bill or the The Constitution (........th Amendment) Bill, is a pending bill in India which proposes to provide '33 per cent of all seats in the Lower house of Parliament of India the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies shall be reserved for women. The Upper House Rajya Sabha passed it on 9 Mar 2010.
107
108
109

Q 6:A national conference attended by academics, policymakers, legal experts and activists here on Friday arrived at the consensus that enumeration of caste in the 2011 census is imperative to generate reliable data on social and economic conditions of various castes and provide a sound base for formulating policies.
The Present Chairperson of the National Backward Classes Commission is?
Justice KG Balakrishnan
Justice Dinakaran
Justice M.N. Rao

Q 7:Leading Muslim ulema, representatives from the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board and the All-India Milli Council, educational and legal experts, including Vice-Chancellors of universities, will discuss the ..................... at a conference to be held here on August 5.
Right to Education Act
Right to choice of religion Act
Right to Freedom of Expression Act

Q 8:Women constables of the ........take part in the ‘Beating Retreat Ceremony' at the India-Pakistan Attari-Wagah border near Amritsar on Thursday evening. For the first time they have been made part of the routine ceremony.
CISF
BSF
CRPF

Q 9:National Security Advisor ...................... on Friday refuted the conventional wisdom among peace activists by pointing out that an easier visa regime among the eight SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) nations would be the most difficult to achieve.
Nirupama Rao
GK Pillai
Shivshankar Menon

Q 10:Coming November, India will mount its first scientific expedition to the South Pole to mark the centenary of the first successful expedition to the southern end of the world by the Norwegian explorer, .................
Roald Amundsen
Ernest Shackleton
Edward Wilson

Current Affairs Quiz (July2010 Part -X)

Q 1:Nepal's second largest political party, Nepali Congress, which has been claiming the leadership of the next government, has picked up its parliamentary party leader .................... as the prime ministerial candidate recently.
Ram Chandra Paudel
Madhav Kumar
Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar

Q 2:Canara Bank net zooms to Rs. 1,013 crore.Who is the present Chairman and Managing Director of the Canara Bank?

Subbarao Pai
A. C. Mahajan
K.Y. Patil

Q 3:Solar Stone plans to set up a number of solar farms at rooftop locations and vacant land also. It has submitted its initial proposal of setting up a one MW plant in West Bengal, for pre-registration under the ....................... which encourages ‘Rooftop SPV' systems.
Rajeev Gandhi National Solar Mission Scheme
State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (SERCs)
Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission Scheme

Q 4:American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) in India has announced its 2010 objective – liberalisation will be in several areas including retail, alternative energy, defence production and finance sector-also there will concerns about the slow flow of US capital –said chairman ...............
Dinesh Keskar
Sabeer Bhatia
Vinod Dham

Q 5:PSLV-C15 launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in ..............?
Thumba
Sriharikota
Bangalore

Q 6:External affairs minister S.M.Krishna and Pakistan foreign minister ..................called on in Islamabad and discussed especially about the cross-border conflicts.
Raza Khan
Mahmud Geelani
Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Quershi

Q 7:The Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, ....................... suggested the consideration of people Above the Poverty Line (APL)- Below Poverty Line beneficiaries to get 30kg instead of 35 kg and APL families will get 15 kg.
C.Rangarajan
M.S.Swaminathan
Sam Pitroda

Q 8:Tathagat Avtar Tulsi (age22) become the youngest faculty in IIT.(...........)
Kanpur
Mumbai
Guwahati

Q 9:.................leaked from a cylinder in a Mumbai Port Trust godown recently.
Germane
Cyanogen
Liquid Chlorine

Q 10:World’s largest aircraft ............... had its inaugural flight from Dubai to Delhi- landed in the new terminal of the Indira Gandhi International airport.
Airbus A-380
Antonov An-225
Airbus Beluga

Current Affairs Quiz Part 1 (June,July 2010)

Q 1:‘Give subsidy to schools, hospitals, not oil firms' says Planning Commission Deputy Chairman ......................
Abhishek Singhvi
Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Manoj Tiwari

Q 2:With the Supreme Court lifting the ban on James Laine's controversial book on Maratha king ..........., Maharashtra government on Sunday set up a three-member committee to explore options to stop its printing and circulation in the State.

Sambhaji
Shivaji
Bajirao Peshwa

Q 3:The former Governor of Maharashtra, S.C. Jamir, who had also been the Chief Minister of ................, left Imphal on Sunday after a two-day visit without gaining much ground in his mission to improve the relations between Nagaland and Manipur.
Arunchal Pradesh
Manipur
Nagaland

Q 4:The American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) in India has announced its 2010 objective of enhancing economic and social partnership with India.Responsible business leadership is about pursuing business interests while making a difference to India,” AMCHAM chairman ................. said in a statement here on Sunday.
Archana Patchirajan
Dinesh Keskar
Puneet Mehta

Q 5:“Football can create chances where there is no hope, and this will remain our mission into the future,” said FIFA President ................ at the meeting.
IRVIN KHOZA
Sepp Blatter
LORD TRIESMAN

Q 6:The ............ spacecraft Rosetta performed a fly-by of a massive asteroid on Saturday, taking images that could one day help Earth defend itself from destruction.
Chinese
Japanese
European

Q 7:.................is a campaign seizing the power of football to ensure that education for all is a lasting impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Raising our voices all over the world we believe that, together, we can make education a reality for the millions of boys and girls who remain out of school.Name it
Action for Children
GOAL1
Save the Children Alliance

Q 8:World record holder Ronjan Sodhi won the double trap gold in the shotgun World Cup in Lonato, ............ recently.
France
Italy
Cuba

Q 9:Saina Nehwal won the $1, 20,000 Yonex Sunrise-India Open Grand Prix gold badminton championships in Chennai defeating Choo Wong Mew of .......... last month.
China
Indonesia
Malaysia

Q 10:Saina Nehwal won the.......................... defeating Tzu Ying Tai of Chinese Taipei in the final last month.
Indonesia Open Super Series
Singapore Open badminton Super Series
Yonex Sunrise-India Open Grand Prix gold badminton championships

Q 11:Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal won the Indonesia Open Super Series defeating ............'s Sayaka Sato. This was Saina's third successive title, having won the Indian Open Grand Prix and the Singapore Open Super Series tournament last month.
Japan
Singapore
Chinese Taipei

Q 12:India defeated .............. in the final of the Asia Cup cricket championship 2010 by 81 runs.


Pakistan
Srilanka
Bangladesh

Q 13:Last month,Taiwan and China signed a historic trade pact “........”, hailed by both sides as a milestone and the culmination of a Beijing-friendly policy introduced by Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou after assuming power in 2008.
HELP
EurMex
ECFA

Q 14:The two-day G-20 summit or the meeting of the heads of the world's major industrialised powers was held in ............. recently
Toronto, Canada
Washington,US
London,UK

Q 15:India has joined the Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) project,the next generation astronomical observatory that will be located on Mauna Kea, ......... recently
Haiti
Hawaii
Honduras

Q 16:Vice President M. Hamid Ansari presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to ................, former Governor of Bihar, West Bengal,Haryana and former Chairman of UPSC, organised by the Institute of Objective Studies in New Delhi.

M.K. Narayanan
Devanand Konwar
Dr A.R, Kidwai

Q 17:.................., founder of pharmaceutical major Vitabiotics in Britain, has been awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in London recently.
Kartar Singh Lalvani
Sardar Beer Singh Johal
Harinder Takhar

Q 18:The first World Classical Tamil Conference was held in ................. President Pratibha Devisingh Patil presented the Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi Classical Tamil Award to Asko Parpola for his work on the Dravidian hypothesis in the interpretation of the Indus script.

Chennai
Coimbatore
Thanjavur

Q 19:The Group of Ministers (GoM) submitted their report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressing the legal, medical, humanitarian,environmental and other aspects of the Bhopal gas leak disaster. The GoM recommended Rs. ......... package for the victims.
20,000-crore
5,000-crore
1,500-crore

Q 20:The 75th conference of presiding officers of legislatives bodies
from different parts of the country was held in .......recently in June.
Srinagar
Coimbatore
Mumbai

Q 21:The Planning Commission estimated ...... percent growth in the agriculture sector during the XII Plan (2012-17).
4
1
9

Q 22:Jharkhand came under Central rule with President Pratibha Patil accepting a recommendation of the Union Cabinet after the Congress and the BJP gave up efforts to form an alternative government following the resignation of Chief Minister .................

Arjun Munda
Shibu Soren
Madhu Koda

Q 23:The Representation of the People's (Amendment) Bill aimed at NRIs for voting rights in India was cleared by a GoM headed by Defence Minister ..........and is likely to be presented soon before the Cabinet.

P Chidambaram
Pranab Mukherjee
A.K. Antony

Q 24:India and Pakistan have resolved at the meeting of the Permanent Indus Water Commission in Delhi, the issue of water flows in the Chenab River being affected during the initial filling of the ............. dam. Pakistan has decided not to raise the matter further.
Baglihar
Rabwah
Tarbela

Q 25:The joint exercises are conducted by the air forces of India, France
and Singapore by the name The Garuda 2010 at Istres air base in ..........
Singapore
France
India

Current Affairs Quiz (This Week)

Q 1:Although Sunday's World Cup final between the Netherlands and Spain will already be the 18th final in the history of the competition, history will be made when the two teams play at Soccer City in Soweto on the outskirts of ............
Cape Town
Johannesburg
Durban

Q 2:BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said on Friday her party would raise in Parliament the issue of .........., where there was a 69-day blockade from April to June.

Assam
Manipur
J&K

Q 3:The parliamentary Committee on Public Undertakings (COPU) has demanded action against BSNL chairman and managing director ........... after he failed to appear on Thursday before the panel examining the functioning of the state-owned telecom firm.
Dr JS Sarma
C. Srinivas
Kuldeep Goyal

Q 4:The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the Maharashtra government’s plea to ban American author .................’s book Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India, paving the way for its circulation in the state.
John Crawfurd
James Laine
John Biddulph

Q 5:The Supreme Court today adjourned to Monday the hearing on Maharashtra government's appeal challenging a Bombay High Court judgement setting aside the 'best of 5' system for .......... Board students for admission to Class XI.
ICSC
SSC
CBSE

Q 6:Australia's new Prime Minister ............... today narrowly missed an egg thrown at her during her first visit to Perth since assuming the top post and apologised to the woman security guard who was hit.
Laura Chinchilla
Crisitina Kirchner
Julia Gillard

Q 7:India and ............., Canada's richest province, signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding on July 8 to boost cooperation and investment in the field of geology and mineral resources.
Alberta
Ontorio
Yukon

Q 8:President Barack Obama has named Indian American lawyer, ..........., as Vice Chairperson of an administrative reform body described as a "public-private partnership designed to make government work better".
Amy K Singh
Preeta D. Bansal
Neal Kumar Katyal

Q 9:Madhya Pradesh government has threatened legal action against Hockey India secretary .............. for his alleged defamatory remarks against the state’s Sports Director Sanjay Chaudhary.
KPS Gill
Dhanraj Pillay
Narinder Batra

Q 10:While the popularity of badminton may be on an all-time high, thanks to the exploits of Saina Nehwal, the power struggle between Badminton Association of India president,.............., and secretary, Vijay Sinha, is threatening to split the apex governing body of the sport.
Mohd Azharuddin
VK Verma
PK Sharma

Q 11:Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams has been selected to be on the crew for one of the four new International Space Station crews.Williams' first space expedition occurred in 2006, where she was launched to the ISS aboard the shuttle .................
Discovery
Columbia
Endeavour

Q 12:India's gross domestic product growth is expected to return to "9 percent plus" this year, Trade Minister .............. said.

Kamalnath
Anand Sharma
Praful Patel

Q 13:..............., president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), was taken to a hospital in South Africa after he fainted in a restaurant, a media report said on Saturday.
Lech Poznan's
Howard Webb
Michel Platini

Q 14:...........may compete with Indo Rama and JBF Industries to buy the loss-making plant of Bombay Dyeing.
RIL
VTM Fabrics
Magniram Textile Industries

Q 15: Indian Air force conducts joint exercise with French and Singapore air force- “...................” recently
Parakram 2010
Garuda 2010
Vikram 2010

Q 16:SAARC Home Ministers conference was recently held in ......................
Dhaka
New Delhi
Islamabad

Q 17: UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi laid foundation of ‘Rohtang Tunnel’ at Dhundi near .......recently.
Manali
Dharmashala
Shimla

Q 18:BCCI cancel IPL media right contract with ...........recently.
EA SPORTS
World Sports Group (WSG)
IMG World

Q 19:UK-based Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) sold its retail banking business to ....... in India recently
ICICI
HDFC
HSBC

Q 20:.................. won the European Grand Prix recently.
Sebastin Vettel
Jacques Villeneuve
Johny Herbert

Q 21:............. was elected as new president of International Cricket Council (ICC).
Sharad Pawar
Sunil Gavaskar
Arun Jaitley

Q 22:...............was made the brand ambassador for Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR)recently.

Sonam Kapoor
Saina Nehwal
Sachin Tendulkar

Q 23:............. had its first ever democratic poll recently.
Nigeria
Libya
Guinea

Q 24:Japan and Russia have agreed to jointly build a liquefied natural gas plant in ..................., with five million tonnes of output to be shipped to Japan annually.
Vladivostok
Hiroshima
Pittersburg

Q 25:US President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor General ............. will travel to India next week to begin laying the groundwork for Obama's history making visit in November.
Timothy Roemer
James Jones
Stephen Hadley

Current Affairs Quiz June (4,5), 2010

Q 1:Chief Election Commissioner .................. and Election Commissioners S.Y. Quraishi and V.S. Sampath,discussed the preparation in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union Territory of Puducherry yesterday
Prabhu Chawla
Navin Chawla
Piyush Chawla

Q 2:The Navy will launch the Golden Jubilee celebrations of its frontline Sea Harrier (White Tiger) squadron INAS 300 at ......... on Monday with over 100 White Tigers in attendance.

Mumbai
Goa
Vizag

Q 3:The 1971 India-Pakistan conflict saw its Seahawk aircraft in action from INS ..........
Talwar
Samrat
Vikrant

Q 4:President Pratibha Patil will inaugurate the International Congress of Mathematicians, scheduled to be held in ................. from August 19 to 27.
Chennai
Hyderabad
Mumbai

Q 5:Whose the present Food Processing Minister?
Virbhadra Singh
Subodhkant Sahai
Dayanidhi Maran

Q 6:The Centre told the Supreme Court on Monday that it was willing to provide additional paramilitary forces to West Bengal to prevent the frequent blockade of the national highway ......., the economic lifeline of Sikkim, by pro and anti Gorkhaland agitators.
151
36
31 A

Q 7:The united face of the opposition in Monday's shutdown will be taken to parliament, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) president .................. said.
Sushil Modi
Sharad Yadav
Nitish Kumar

Q 8:"Chairmen of the Railway Board and .................... will meet on July 8 and sign an MoU for improving connectivity between rail, Haldia port and the proposed deep-sea port in Sagar Island," Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee told reporters in Kolkata on Monday.
Calcutta State Transport Corporation
Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT)
Calcutta Tramways Company

Q 9:Alleging that the Andhra Pradesh government had humiliated her over her arrest for making inflammatory comments, TRS MP ................ on Monday demanded an apology and also suspension of the police officers involved in the incident.
D Purandheswari
Boddepalli Satyavathi
Vijayasanthi

Q 10:Mumbai city has one of the oldest and biggest meals-on-wheels systems in the world dating back to ..........
1900
1850
1920

Q 11:Cambodia deported two suspected members of the anti-government ".........." movement to Thailand on Monday, where they are accused of involvement in an attempted bomb attack in Bangkok last month.
Red Shirt
Blue Shirt
Pink Shirt

Q 12:Inviting the diaspora to exploit the "unprecedented opportunity" in India, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister ................ has said the country was projected to require investments worth USD 435 billion in next three years to develop infrastructure in diverse sectors.

Dinsha J. Patel
Vayalar Ravi
Krishna Tirath

Q 13:Teleocm sector regulator ...........’s attempts to replace the failed Do Not Call registry with a Do Call registry to offer relief to consumers harassed by telemarketers is likely to be a non-starter.
Vihaan
DCME
TRAI

Q 14: The first Submarine Telegraph Cable from ............ landed in Bombay in 1870, heralding the era of external telecommunications in India.

UK
US
Japan

Q 15:The World Cup has converted the much-ignored .............. into a rainbow carriage. People are choosing it over cars and buses to reach Soccer City stadium.
Tram
Metrorail
Bike

Q 16:Click the wrong option.
Sunil Duggal-- CEO, Dabur
Shiv Nadar--HCL's founder chairman
Tom McInerney -- COO, EHT

Q 17:It’s one of those few Commonwealth Games-spurred projects that Indians — and Delhiwallas in particular — will welcome. Not because it’s world class and huge, but hopefully because it works: the new Terminal 3 at the ...............
Indira Gandhi International Airport.
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
Safdarjung Airport

Q 18:In tennis, ............... of Spain wins the men's singles title at the Wimbledon Championships,2010.
Roger Federar
Rafael Nadal
Novak Djoković

Q 19:Serena Williams successfully defended the women's crown, defeating Vera Zvonareva in the final to win her ............... Wimbledon title.
third
fifth
fourth

Q 20:Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah of .......... dies at the age of 74.
Lebanon
Libya
Congo

Q 21:In the ............ presidential election, held following the death of Lech Kaczyński, Acting President Bronisław Komorowski defeats Jarosław Kaczyński to become president-elect.
Polish
Hungarian
Liberian

Q 22:FIBA Under-17 World Championship,2010 is being held in ?

US
Germany
Trinidad & Tobago

Q 23:Pierre Nkurunziza is re-elected President of ............. with more than 91% of the vote.
Belarus
Bermuda
Burundi

Q 24:.............begins eight days of national mourning upon the death of Serigne Mouhamadou Lamine Bara Mbacké, Grand Marabout of the Mourides.
Senegal
Saint Lucia
Slovakia

Current Affairs Quiz (July 1,2,3) 2010

 


Q 1:Dongria Kondhs of Lanjigarh in ............. may have received some respite, with the government setting up yet another committee to reconsider how a proposed Vedanta mine in the area could affect the tribe.It will be headed by National Advisory Council member N.C. Saxena.
Madhya Pradesh
Orissa
Andhra Pradesh

Q 2:Who is the Director General, Mobile, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)?

Kuldeep Goyal
A.K. Mittal
A Raja

Q 3:The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday created a new district, ....................................... Nagar, named after the social reformer from Maharashtra.
To be carved out of Sultanpur and Rae Bareli districts, the new district will include Amethi Lok Sabha constituency, represented by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi.

Mahatma Phule
Lokhitwadi
Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj

Q 4:Goa's former Tourism Minister, , and his former Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Lyndon Monteiro, on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking anticipatory bail.
Churchill Alemao
Mickky Pacheco
Wilfred D'Souza

Q 5:Who is the present IAEA Director General?
El-Bardei
Yukiya Amano
Ban-ki-moon

Q 6:Despite technical snags in the indigenous cryogenic engine that powered the Geo-stationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV, which was flight-tested in April, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is expected to launch Chandrayaan-2 on an indigenous cryogenic engine on schedule by 2013, ISRO chairman............... said here on Tuesday.
Prof U.R. Nair
G.Madhavan Nair
K. Radhakrishnan

Q 7:India is moving towards .................................... where oil firms can choose the blocks they want to explore without waiting for the government to put them on offer.
Human Rights Policy
Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP)
Business Ethics and Conduct Policy

Q 8:Kotak Bank Vice-Chairman and Managing Director presently?
Mahesh Kotak
Uday Kotak
Indira Nooyi

Q 9:Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Communications (RCom) on Thursday announced acquisition of ..................., the country's largest cable TV service provider, in an all-stock deal.
Sun TV
DTH
Digicable

Q 10:Present Kashmir Governor , The Governor, who is also the Chairman of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board,
N.D. Tiwari
N.N. Vora
S.M. Krishna

Q 11:........ is Taiwan's largest trading partner, its largest investment destination, and now also home to a growing number of Taiwanese.
China
Hong Kong
South Korea

Q 12:A French Internet billionaire, a patron of the arts and a flamboyant banker won control of the ............... newspaper on Monday despite President Nicolas Sarkozy's bid to stop them.

La Tribune
Le Monde
France Soir

Q 13:Name the renowned cartoonist who was in ICU and is now out of danger?
Neeraj Gupta
E. P. Unni
R.K. Laxman

Q 14:Nine senior functionaries of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) were arrested on Friday in connection with the devastating fire that took place at the IOC terminal at ................. Industrial Area in October 2009.
Sitapura
Sankarankoil
Suratkal

Q 15:Future Generali India Life Insurance Company, a joint venture between Future group of India and Generali Group of ............., has come out with a unit linked insurance plan (ULIP), Future Generali NAV Assure.
France
Italy
Netherland

Q 16:New Zealand Prime Minister ............ said Mr. Howard would make a “fantastic” ICC president.
Helen Clark
Kevin Rudd
John Key

Q 17:Haryana has been adjudged fourth in all-India ranking in the Educational Development Index generated by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) for 2008-09. This was stated at the second meeting of the Governing Council of Haryana Prathmik Shiksha Pariyojna Parishad chaired by Chief Minister ........................
Bhupinder Singh Hooda
Arjun Munda
Rao Birender Singh

Q 18:Justice Kapadia released the 1,522-page English translation of Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily's Kannada book ......................
Ananda Ramayana
Shree Ramayana Mahanveshanam
The Adhyatma Ramayana

Q 19:...........................,current owner of the Union Carbide, to set up a chemical complex near Haldia
Bayer MaterialScience
Praj Industries
Dow Chemical Company

Q 20:Sri Lanka has secured the support of Russia and China in its opposition to the panel of experts appointed by U.N. Secretary-General .................. to advise him on humanitarian issues related to the war against the LTTE.
Ban ki moon
Shashi Tharoor
Charles de Gaulle

Q 21:ONGC planned an innovative methodology of converting its first drill ship, ..................., of 1973 vintage, into a Mobile Offshore Production Unit (MOPU) and using the same for producing oil and gas from these fields.
Sagar Samrat
Sagar Samriddhi
Sagar Vijay

Q 22:Toshiba recently signed .................. as Brand Ambassador.

Dhoni
Sachin
Raina

Q 23:At least 221 people are killed and 214 others injured in an explosion caused by a fuel truck overturning in .............. recently
Mexico
Cuba
Congo

Q 24:.................is elected president of Germany.
Christian Wulff
Angela Merkell
Kevin Rudd

Q 25:Australian Prime Minister ................... on Friday voiced support for the nomination of John Howard for vice-president of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
John Key
Julia Gillard
Kevin Rudd