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Current Affairs Objectives

1) Jantar Mantar stone astronomical observatory was recently included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India. Jantar Mantar is situated at?

[B]A) Jaipur[/B]
B) Goa
C) Agra
D) New Delhi

2) Commonwealth Games 2014 will be held at

A) London
B) Rio de Janerio
C) Melbourne
[B]D) Glasgow[/B]

3) The Railway Budget 2010 – 2011 added a provision to run a train across the country to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. What is the name of the train?

A) Maitri Express
B) Bharath Tirth
[B]C) Sanskriti Express[/B]
D) Janmabhoomi Express

4) Nobel Prize 2010 in Literature was awarded to whom?

A) Liu Xiaobo
[B]B) Mario Vargas Liosa[/B]
C) Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov
D) Akira Suzuki

5) Ezhuthachan Award 2010 (Ezhuthachan Puraskaram) was awarded to

A) Sugathakumari
[B]B) M. Leelavathi[/B]
C) O. N. V. Kurup
D Sukumar Azhikode

6) Recently G-20 Summit was held in……..

A) Vienna
B) London
C) Pittsburgh
[B]D) Torrento[/B]

7) Who is the present Chief Election Commissioner of India? (

A) Navin Chawla
[B]B) S. Y. Quraishi[/B]
C) N. Gopalaswami
D) B.B Tandon

8) David Warren who passed away recently was related with

A) Commonwealth Games
B) Holly wood
[B]C) Black Box in Aeroplanes[/B]
D) Bhopal Disaster

9) Orange Prize 2010 was won by whom?

A) Arundhati Roy
B) Hillari Mantel
[B]C) Barbara Kingsolver[/B]
D) Ashwin Sanghi

10) Who is the founder of ‘Face Book’ which is currently the No.1 social networking website in India?

A) Bill Gates
B) Martin Cooper
C) Orkut Buyukkokten
[B]D) Mark Zuckerberg[/B]

Current Affairs Objectives...
 

Current Affairs Objectives

1.The APEC Summit was held in:
[B]YOKOHAMA Japan[/B]

2. Which communist country marked the 35th anniversary of the end of its war with a grand military parade through the former Saigon, with the government basking more in its economic achievements than its historic military defeat of the United States?
[B]Vietnam.[/B]
The cost of the Vietnam War was huge for the United States. More than fifty eight thousand Americans died in combat, and it damaged the United States economy.

3. Which country has been ranked first in the list of "dirty dozen" spam relaying countries, accounting for over more than 13 per cent of world's total junk mails, sent during the first quarter of the year, according to a new study?
[B]U.S.A.[/B]
India has been ranked second in the list while China has successfully pulled itself out of the list.

4. Name of the veteran Indian diplomat who has been appointed Assistant Secretary-General for UN's Peacekeeping Operations?
[B]Atul Khare[/B]

5. Name of the Special Court Judge who handed death sentence to the Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab for the Mumbai terror attacks?
[B]M L Tahaliyani.[/B] He has been promoted as the Principal Sessions Judge of the City civil and sessions Court in Mumbai.

6. Euro-region ministers recently agreed to a 110 billion-Euro ($146 billion) rescue package for which country to prevent a default and stop the worst crisis in the currency’s 11-year history?
[B]Greece[/B].

7. The leader of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group in Jerusalem, noted for serving as Minister for Jewish Affairs in Yasser Arafat's Palestinian government who died on May 2, 2010, aged 86?
[B]Moshe Hirsch.[/B]

8. Who has won the Rome Masters Tennis title for the fourth time?
[B]Rafael Nadal.[/B]
He defeated the Serbian player Novak Djokovic 7-6, 6-2 in the final.

9. Name of the world's oldest person who has died a week before her 115th birthday?
[B]Kama Chinen.[/B] She is a Japanese woman on the southern island of Okinawa who witnessed three centuries, born on May 10, 1895, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks individuals of extremely old age.

10. Which developing country offers the best conditions for maternity in the world, according to a report entitled "The State of the World Mothers 2010," released by the Save the Children NGO?
[B]Cuba.[/B]

11. The new Japanese PM:
[B]Naoto Kan[/B]

12. Which is the first Green Railway Station of India?
[B]Manwal[/B]

13. President of Nigeria died on May 5, 2010 at the age of 58 after more than five months of battling with a heart ailment?
[B]Umaru Yar'Adua.[/B]
He is the first university-educated president of Nigeria. He was declared the winner of the controversial Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May 2007. He was a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan has been sworn in as President in a ceremony in the capital Abuja.

14. Who is the Deputy Prime Minister of Britain?
[B]Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)[/B]

15. For the first time in the history of UK elections, two Indian-origin women have been elected to the House of Commons. Who are they?
[B]Priti Patel and Valerie Vaz.[/B]
Priti Patel of Conservative party was elected from the Witham constituency and she has become the first Asian Woman MP (Member of Parliament) in Britain. Valerie Vaz of Labour party was elected from Walsall South constituency.

16. Largest Beaver Dam recently discovered in Canada using Google satellite technology located in?
[B]Northern Alberta's Wood Buffalo National Park.[/B]
Ecologist Jean Thie located the 2,788-foot (850-meter) dam using Google Earth and NASA technology and the dam stretches more than eight football fields long.

17. Which are the first countries to have country codes in Arabic scripts using a system that will also allow web addresses in Chinese, Thai and Tamil scripts?
[B]Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.[/B]
Internet regulator ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) recently enabled full web addresses in non-Latin characters.

18. Which country has recently initiated steps to build its first indigenous civilian transport aircraft?
[B]India.[/B]
Government has set up a 15-member high-power committee (HPC) on National Civil Aircraft Development with former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair as its Chairman for management and development of the key project.

19. Which club won English soccer’s Premier League after an 8-0 home win over Wigan Athletic in the final round of games?
[B]Chelsea.[/B]
Manchester United finishes second.

20. Who is sworn in as Costa Rica's first female president?
[B]Laura Chinchilla.[/B] She has become the third female president in Central America.

21. Which country became the fifth major emitter of Green House Gases after the US, China, the European Union and Russia?
[B]India.[/B]
India’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions increased by 41.66 percent between 1994 and 2007 making it the fifth major emitter to contribute to global warming.

22. Who was declared the winner of the Philippine presidential elections?
[B]Benigno Aquino.[/B]
Former president Joseph Estrada finished in second place.

23. Who is the first Muslim woman to serve in a British cabinet?
[B]Sayeeda Warsi[/B]

23. The World Newspaper Conference from June 7-10 scheduled in Beirut (Lebanon) has been called off because?
[B]The Lebanese host organization could not meet its financial commitments.[/B]

24. Which country recently announced that it has successfully carried out a nuclear fusion experiment in a further development of cutting-edge nuclear technology?
[B]North Korea.[/B]

25. New Zealand cricketer who has retired from all forms of cricket recently?
[B]Shane Bond[/B]

26. Which country won the twenty 20 World Cup Cricket-2010 beating Australia by seven wickets in the final?
[B]England.[/B]
This is their first victory at an ICC limited-overs tournament.

27. Which country took over the G15 group’s rotating presidency from Iran in the 14th summit of the G15 developing countries ended in Tehran?
[B]Sri Lanka.[/B]
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, is the new president of G15 Groups.

28. Which country won ICC Women’s twenty 20 World Cup Cricket-2010 beating New Zealand in the final?
[B]Australia. [/B]

29. First Arab-American to Claim Miss USA Title?
[B]Rima Fakih[/B]

30. A French court has ordered the release of an Iranian man convicted of killing exiled former Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar nearly two decades ago. Name that Iranian murderer?
[B]Ali Vakili Rad.[/B]
Vakili was convicted in 1994 of the bloody stabbing death of Bakhtiar and his personal secretary at Bakhtiar's suburban Paris villa in August 1991.

31. Which country has recently banned Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter and YouTube?
[B]Pakistan[/B]

32. The official anthem of the 2010 FIFA World Cup is?
[B]Waka Waka [/B](This Time for Africa) sung by Shakira and Freshlyground.

33. The US Director of National Intelligence has announced his resignation after frequent clashes with White House officials?
[B]Dennis Blair.[/B]

34. Which Asian country launched a new spacecraft recently on a two-year mission to study the planet Venus and its climate?
[B]Japan.[/B]
A rocket carrying the Venus climate orbiter called "Akatsuki" blasted off from a Japanese space center in Kagoshima, southern Japan.

35. Name of the American mountain climber who, on May 22, 2010, became the youngest person to climb Mount Everest?
[B]Jordan Romero.[/B]
He was 13 years 10 months 10 days old when he reached the summit.

36. Which film won the coveted Golden Palm award at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival?
[B]“Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.”[/B]
This Thai film about a man dying of kidney failure that left many puzzling over its meaning, won the Palme d’Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

37. State of emergency has been declared in a country in Central America after a powerful eruption at the southern Pacaya volcano killed a television journalist and forced the international airport to close. Which is that country?
[B]Guatemala [/B]

38. The 2016 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2016, will be held in?
[B]France.[/B]
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