Indian Current Affairs Questions and Answers

1. 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)

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

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


4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. 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)

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

9. 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)

10. 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)

11. 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)

12. 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)

13. 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)

14. 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)

15. 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)

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

17. 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)

18. 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)

19. 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)

20. 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)