Current Events Questions

1. The winner of Bahrain and Malaysian Grand Prix is—
(A) Nikh Heidfeld
(B) Sebastian Vettal
(C) Tenson Button
(D) None of these
Ans : (C)

2. Who amongst the following has been given the Goenka Journalist of the Year Award ?
(A) Karan Thapar
(B) P. Sainath
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) None of these
Ans : (C)

3. ‘Injaz’ is world’s first—
(A) Cloned Camel
(B) Cloned Peacock
(C) Cloned Cock
(D) Cloned Elephant
Ans : (A)


4. The number of companies which have found place in Forbes List of Top Global Companies is—
(A) 50
(B) 47
(C) 45
(D) 40
Ans : (B)

5. The headquarters of ISO is in—
(A) Geneva
(B) Paris
(C) Lyon
(D) New York
Ans : (A)

6. The prestigious Whitley Award has been given to—
(A) M. D. Madhusudan
(B) Sudipto Chatterjee
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

7. The virus which caused outbreak of Swine flu—
(A) H2 B5
(B) A (H1N1)
(C) H3 89
(D) B4 N5
Ans : (B)

8. Nikkei Asia Prize has been given to—
(A) Indira Nooyi
(B) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
(C) Ratan Tata
(D) Mukesh Ambani
Ans : (B)

9. NSZ which recently came into news is—
(A) New Special Zone
(B) New Safety Zone
(C) Non-Security Zone
(D) New Security Zone
Ans : (B)

10. The new Chief of National Agro Foundation is—
(A) R. K. Pachauri
(B) M. S. Swaminathan
(C) Sompal
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

11. Supreme Court ordered setting up of Fast Track Courts to try the cases of—
(A) Bhagalpur Riots
(B) 1984 riots
(C) Post Godhra riots
(D) None of these
Ans : (C)

12. The Law Commission has recommended the setting up of—
(A) Four Regional SC Benches
(B) Three Regional SC Benches
(C) Five Regional SC Benches
(D) Six Regional SC Benches
Ans : (B)

13. The World Championship Snooker 2009 winner is—
(A) Pankaj Advani
(B) Ronnie O Sulivan
(C) John Higgins
(D) None of these
Ans : (C)

14. The winner of the Chappell Trophy is—
(A) Pakistan
(B) Australia
(C) New Zealand
(D) None of these
Ans : (B)

15. TULF stands—
(A) Tamil United Liberal Front
(B) Tamil Unity Liberate Front
(C) Tamil United National Front
(D) Tamil United Liberated Front
Ans : (C)

16. SRE-2 is a—
(A) European future Jupiter Mission
(B) NASA future Mission to Saturn
(C) ISRO’s future biological Mission to Space
(D) None of the above
Ans : (C)

17. NASA’s high impact probe to the Moon include—
(A) LRO
(B) LCROSS
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) None of these
Ans : (C)

18. The Ministry of Finance has—
(A) Six Departments
(B) Five Departments
(C) Seven Departments
(D) Eight Departments
Ans : (B)

19. Under the new series of index numbers of wholesale prices introduced from April 1, 2000 the number of price quotations is—
(A) 2,371
(B) 1,918
(C) 2,281
(D) 357
Ans : (B)

20. According to the final results of Economic Census 2005 released in May 2008 the number of establishments in India is—
(A) 418•27 lakh
(B) 315•8 lakh
(C) 415•25 lakh
(D) 315•9 lakh
Ans : (A)