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