Sunday, October 24, 2010

LATEST CURRENT GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS

1. Which of the following team has won the men’s World Cup Hockey 2010 ?
(A) Germany
(B) Australia
(C) Pakistan
(D) India
Ans : (B)

2. The 2010 Man Booker Prize was conferred upon—
(A) T. N. Sheshan
(B) Kiran Bedi
(C) Howard Jacobson
(D) K.P.S. Gill
Ans : (C)

3. Which one of the following got one Gold medal for India in the 29th Olympic Games held in Beijing in August 2008 ?
(A) Anju B. George
(B) Abhinav Bindra
(C) Karnam Malleshwari
(D) K. M. Beenamole
Ans : (B)


4. The 2008 Jnanpith Award was conferred upon—
(A) Nirmal Verma
(B) Gurdayal Singh
(C) Khuswant Singh
(D) Akhlaq Khan Shahryar
Ans : (D)

5. Who is the Chairman of the recently constituted National Knowledge Commission ?
(A) Sam Pitroda
(B) Surinder Nath
(C) N. Raja
(D) A. R. Gandhi
Ans : (A)

6. The 2009 Dada Sahib Phalke Award was conferred upon—
(A) Dr. Raj Kumar
(B) B. R. Chopra
(C) Shivaji Ganeshan
(D) Dr. D. Ramanaidu
Ans : (D)

7. Who among the following has won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the year 2010 ?
(A) Robert G. Edwards
(B) Andre Geim
(C) Konstantin Novoselov
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

8. Who is the author of the book ‘The White Tiger’ ?
(A) Mark Tully
(B) Shyam Bhatia
(C) Arvind Adiga
(D) Michael Cunningham
Ans : (C)

9. Who is the recipient of Nobel Prize for Literature for the year 2010 ?
(A) P. C. Alexzander
(B) Mario Vergas Llosa
(C) Wangari Mathai
(D) Mohamed El Baradei
Ans : (B)

10. The French Open Tennis Men’s Singles Title 2010 was won by—
(A) Rafael Nadal (Spain)
(B) Xavier Malisse (Belgium)
(C) Guillermo Coria (Argentina)
(D) Andy Roddick (USA)
Ans : (A)

11. The Wimbledon Tennis Women’s Singles Title (July 2010) was won by—
(A) Anastasia Myskina (Russia)
(B) Maria Sharapova (Russia)
(C) Serena Williams (USA)
(D) Venus Williams (USA)
Ans : (C)

12. Who was awarded Sarswati Samman for 2009 ?
(A) Ashok Bajpai
(B) Indrani Goswami
(C) Surjit Patar
(D) R. Ramaswamy
Ans : (C)

13. Which country won the ICC Twenty-20 World Cup 2010 ?
(A) Australia
(B) England
(C) West Indies
(D) South Africa
Ans : (B)

14. Who has won the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award 2009 for promoting Gandhian values outside India ?
(A) Vinayak Patel
(B) Madhur Bajaj
(C) Peter Dougherty
(D) Ms. Alice Garg
Ans : (C)

15. The book ‘The Lost Symbol’ is authored by—
(A) Jhumpa Lahiri
(B) Don Brown
(C) Amit Chaudhary
(D) Vikram A. Chandra
Ans : (B)

16. How many countries participated in the 29th Olympic Games held in Beijing in August 2008 ?
(A) 195
(B) 185
(C) 199
(D) 204
Ans : (D)

17. The Nobel Prize for Peace for 2010 goes to—
(A) Wangari Mathai
(B) Herta Mueller
(C) H. Mantel
(D) Liu Xiaobo
Ans : (D)

18. What new name has been given to the newly acquired aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov from Russia ?
(A) INS Samudragupta
(B) INS Vikramaditya
(C) INS Prabal
(D) INS Chandragupta
Ans : (B)

19. What is the lowest commissioned rank in the Indian Air Force?
(A) Wing Commander
(B) Flying Officer
(C) Flt. Lieutenant
(D) None of these
Ans : (B)

20. Where is the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration?
(A) New Delhi
(B) Hyderabad
(C) Mussoorie
(D) Ahmedabad
Ans : (C)

21. Which/who of the following has been nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 ?
(A) Google
(B) Yahoo
(C) Internet
(D) Atal Behari Vajpayee
Ans : (C)

22. Vasant Kane was associated with—
(A) Journalism
(B) Politics
(C) Social Activist
(D) Economist
Ans : (A)

23. World Tuberculosis Day is observed on—
(A) 8th March
(B) 15th March
(C) 21st March
(D) 24th March
Ans : (D)


24. Who has been appointed as Chairman of five member expert committee on Telangana issue?
(A) Justice K. G. Balakrishnan
(B) Justice B. N. Srikrishna
(C) Justice B. N. Agrawal
(D) Justice V. S. Sirpukar
Ans : (B)

25. Which of the following teams has won the Ranji Trophy Cricket Tournament for the year 2009-10 ?
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) West Bengal
(C) Mumbai
(D) Karnataka
Ans : (C)

26. Which country has won the ICC Under-19 World Cup Cricket- 2010 ?
(A) New Zealand
(B) Pakistan
(C) India
(D) Australia
Ans : (D)

27. Who among the following has been honoured with Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for the year 2007 on January 14, 2010 ?
(A) Luiz Lula da Silva
(B) Olafur Ragnar Grimson
(C) Sultan Qaboos bin Said-al-Said
(D) None of these
Ans : (B)

28. Who among the following is the newly appointed Governor of Chhattisgarh State ?
(A) Shivraj Patil
(B) M. K. Narayanan
(C) Shekhar Dutt
(D) Urmila Singh
Ans : (C)

29. Who among the following has been honoured with first Rabindranath Tagore Literature Award for the year 2009 ?
(A) Alok Sarkar
(B) Naseen Safai
(C) Jaswant Singh Kanwal
(D) All of these
Ans : (D)

30. Who among the following has won the men’s single title of the Australian Open Tennis Championship 2010 ?
(A) Andy Murray
(B) Roger Federer
(C) Marin Cilic
(D) Rafael Nadal
Ans : (B)

31. Who among the following has won the women’s singles title of the Australian Open Tennis Championship 2010 ?
(A) Justine Henin
(B) Serena Williams
(C) Venus Williams
(D) Zheng Jie
Ans : (B)

32. Which Indian-American has been appointed as a member of US President Barack Obama Committee on the Arts and Humanities on February 6, 2010 ?
(A) Amartya Sen
(B) Bobby Jindal
(C) Jhumpa Lahiri
(D) Amitabh Bachchan
Ans : (C)

33. Who among the following is the author of the book ‘The Rediscovery of India’ ?
(A) Jhumpa Lahiri
(B) Chetan Bhagat
(C) Meghnad Desai
(D) Deep Joshi
Ans : (C)

34. According to the 2010 Quality of Life Index, India has been placed at the ……… best country in the world to live.
(A) 70th
(B) 88th
(C) 92nd
(D) 94th
Ans : (B)

35. Kirit Parikh Committee is related to—
(A) Petroleum
(B) Air Transport
(C) Agriculture
(D) Education
Ans : (A)

36. Which of the following has become the country’s first fully electrified district ?
(A) Raipur (Chhattisgarh)
(B) Patna (Bihar)
(C) Palakkad (Kerala)
(D) Kadapa (Andhra Pradesh)
Ans : (C)

37. Which of the following teams has won the Duleep Trophy Cricket for the year 2009-10 ?
(A) South Zone
(B) West Zone
(C) East Zone
(D) Central Zone
Ans : (B)

38. D. Swaroop Committee is associated with—
(A) Financial Products Market
(B) Sugar Marketing
(C) Capital Marketing
(D) Banking
Ans : (A)

39. Government had made an announcement in the Parliament to provide telephone connection to every household in the country by—
(A) 2015
(B) 2020
(C) 2030
(D) 2040
Ans : (D)

40. Recently a huge earthquake struck in—
(A) China
(B) Haiti
(C) Brazil
(D) Peru
Ans : (B)

41. What is Param Padma ?
(A) A new civilian award instituted by the Government of India
(B) A new noval craft indigenously manufactured by India
(C) India’s most powerful till date Super computer developed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
(D) None of these
Ans : (B)

42. Where will World Cup Football 2014 be played ?
(A) Brazil
(B) Canada
(C) South Africa
(D) Mexico
Ans : (A)

43. Who won the Miss Universe title for 2010 ?
(A) Justine Pasek
(B) Rosanna Davison
(C) Nikita Anand
(D) Jimena Navarrete
Ans : (D)


44. Who is the author of the book ‘Shalimar, The Clown’ ?
(A) Subramanian Swamy
(B) General N. C. Vij
(C) Salman Rushdie
(D) Carmen Bin Laden
Ans : (C)

45. Who is the recipient of the Phalke Ratna award for the year 2010 ?
(A) Rajesh Khanna
(B) Manoj Kumar
(C) Dev Anand
(D) Amitabh Bachchan
Ans : (C)

46. Pulitzer Prizes for 2010 were announced April 12, 2010 in the U.S.A. Which newspaper received Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting ?
(A) The Seattle Times Staff
(B) Washington Post
(C) Los Angeles Times
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

47. With the admission of two new members in the NATO in 2009 its membership has now risen to—
(A) 15
(B) 28
(C) 19
(D) 25
Ans : (B)

48. The newly constituted National Advisory Council (NAC) Chairperson is—
(A) Pranab Kukherjee
(B) Sonia Gandhi
(C) L. K. Advani
(D) P. Chidambaram
Ans : (B)

49. The Summit Conference of the G-8 industrialised countries was held on 25-26 June, 2010 at—
(A) Philadelphia (USA)
(B) Frankfurt (Germany)
(C) Tokyo (Japan)
(D) Huntsville (Canada)
Ans : (D)

50. Which athlete has the distinctions of bagging the largest number of medals at the 29th Olympics ?
(A) Michael Phelps (USA)
(B) Leonidas Sampanis (Greece)
(C) Ferenc Gyurkovics (Hungary)
(D) Hossein Rezazadeh (Iran)
Ans : (A)

51. Who is the recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for 2010 conferred on August 29, 2010 ?
(A) M. C. Marykon
(B) Vijendra Singh
(C) Sushil Kumar
(D) Saina Nehwal
Ans : (D)

52. Who among the following Bangladeshi was awarded the Magsaysay award 2010 ?
(A) J. M. Lyngdoh
(B) Baba Amte
(C) Kiran Desai
(D) A. H. M. Noman Khan
Ans : (D)

53. Who among the following has been appointed as Chairman of 19th Law Commission of India ?
(A) Justice S. N. Kapadia
(B) Justice P. V. Reddy
(C) Justice K. G. Balakrishnan
(D) Justice B. N. Agrawal
Ans : (B)

54. Who is the new Chief Election Commissioner of India ?
(A) T. S. Krishnamoorthy
(B) G.V. Krishnamoorthy
(C) S. Y. Qureshi
(D) Rajiv Ratan Shah
Ans : (C)

55. Which Indian film celebrity was conferred the International India Film Academy Global Leadership Award at Macau in June 2009 ?
(A) Sharmila Tagore
(B) Dharmendra
(C) Devanand
(D) Shabana Azmi
Ans : (D)

56. World Population Day is observed on—
(A) July 11
(B) March 8
(C) April 23
(D) March 9
Ans : (A)

57. Who among the following has/have been conferred Prem Bhatia Awards for 2010 ?
(A) Nirupama Rao
(B) Rajkumar Keswani
(C) Ritu Sarin
(D) Both (B) and (c)
Ans : (D)

58. Who among the following is the newly appointed Director-General of CRPF ?
(A) R. K. Bhatia
(B) Vikram Srivastava
(C) M. S. Gill
(D) R. R. Girish Kumar
Ans : (B)

59. The 40th World Economic Forum annual meeting was held between January 27-31, 2010 at—
(A) Bonn
(B) Tokyo
(C) Davos
(D) London
Ans : (C)

60. Who among the following has been honoured with ‘General of Nepal Army’ on January 21, 2010 ?
(A) General V. K. Singh
(B) General Deepak Kapoor
(C) General Joginder Jaswant Singh
(D) General Nirmal Chander Vij
Ans : (B)

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