Current Affairs Questions for Competitive Exams

1. 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)

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

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


4. 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)

5. 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)

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

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. 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)

11. 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)

12. 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)

13. 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)

14. 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)

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

16. 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)

17. 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)

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

19. 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)

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