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