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