Mega Quiz (Current Affairs) --- December,2010

 

Q 1:............ Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi survived a no-confidence motion. The no-trust vote brought by the centre-left opposition was defeated by 314 votes to 311.
Bulgarian
Italian
Nigerian

Q 2:Supreme Court authorised Medical Council of India (MCI) to conduct single Common Entrance Test (CET) at all India level for MBBS and post-graduation seats in all government and private colleges from ............

2014-15
2011-12.
2013-14

Q 3:Chinese ............. Wen Jiabao arrived in New Delhi to improve the Indo-China relations. The issues of permanent seat to India at UN and stapled visas to Kashmiris were discussed.
President
Foreign Minister
Premier

Q 4:........... was appointed as the new Chairman of Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
CB Bhave
UK Sinha
AN Ray

Q 5:Indian actress .............voted as the sexiest woman in the world. This is the third consecutive time she won the award from British magazine Eastern Eye.
Priyanka Chopra
Katrina Kaif
Mallika Sherawat

Q 6:...............becomes the first Indian to win the medal in World Junior Table Tennis Championships. He won the bronze medal in mixed doubles along with his team mate NG Wing Nam of Hong Kong. He won the medal against Korean players at Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
Vijay Amritraj
Ramesh Krishnan
Soumyajit Ghosh

Q 7:..............., the American Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan died at the age of 69 due to his ill health.

Henry Wheaton
Richard Holbrooke
David Humphreys

Q 8:Two nuclear weapons-capable Prithvi-II missiles were tested successfully from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, ..........
Andhra Pradesh
Orissa
Karnataka

Q 9:................ dies at the age of 85 in Hyderabad due to ill health. He was born on 3 March 1926 a freedom fighter in India's struggle for independence and was the first citizen to throw a bomb on the last Nizam of Hyderabad to kill him.
Kasani Narayana
Salam Masdoosi
Narayana Rao Pawar

Q 10:China created another world record in fastest trains with the successful launch of CRH 308A train between Beijing and Shangai. This train travelled at the speed of ........... k.m. per hour on world's longest high speed railway line in China.
386
486
586

Q 11:Film actor Aamir Khan sought the support of Members of Parliament (MPs) during his visit to Parliament for promoting his awareness campaign on '...................'.
Malnutrition Among Infants
Awareness on AIDS
Green Environment

Q 12:Indian Ambassador to the United States .............. subjected to pat down at Jackson-Evers International Airport in Mississippi and was singled out because she was in sari.

Nirupama Rao
Meera Shankar
Nikki Haley

Q 13:.....................topped the list of top 500 Indian companies followed by Reliance Industries, State Bank of India and Bharat Petroleum Corporation with second, third and fourth places respectively. This is the first-ever Fortune list of Indian entities compiled by business magazine Fortune.
ONGC
HDFC
IOC

Q 14:The last of India's Foxtrot-class submarines, ............ retired after 36 years of service.

INS Vagli
INS Arihant
INS Salmon

Q 15:Team India won 5-0 against New Zealand as part of the 5th ODI held in M.A.Chidambaram Stadium at Chennai. Man-of-the-Mach was given to Yuvraj Singh, Player-of-the-Series to ...........
Virender Sehwag
Gautam Gambhir
Ishant Sharma

Q 16:...............of India won the Miss Earth Talent 2010 after leaving 17 other contestants behind in the talent show held at Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.
Pooja Chopra
Arunima Kumar
Nicole Faria

Q 17:The United States Senate approves the New .......... treaty, an arms reduction agreement with Russia. The treaty was passed by majority of 71 Senators with 26 Senators opposing the treaty.


Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Anti-Mine Bomb Treaty

Q 18:The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) organised international conference on 'Economic Policies for Inclusive Development' in ......... this month.
Mumbai
New Delhi
Chennai

Q 19:French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the satellite exhibition being held in .................... during his four-day visit to India.
Hyderabad
Chennai
Bangalore

Q 20:India's largest motorcycle manufacturer, Hero Honda Motors approved the termination of .......... years long joint venture agreement with Japan's Honda Motors.
25
35
45

Q 21:Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in absentia at an .......... ceremony derided by Beijing as a political farce
Oslo
Copenhagan
Kyoto

Q 22:President Pratibha Devisingh Patil inaugurated the centenary celebration of ...................... founded on December 21, 1911.

Punjab National Bank
Central Bank of India
Bank of Baroda

Q 23:The 10 day 41st International Film Festival of India (IFFI) held in .........ended.
Kochi
Mumbai
Goa

Q 24:Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in New Delhi to start his two-day visit to India. Indian and Russian counterparts signed nearly .... agreements in the public and private sectors
30
45
60

Q 25:.............. will be the first Muslim country to hoast the Fifa games.
Dubai
Qatar
Teheran