Quiz on Current Affairs 2010 - 65

1.      Who has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of India?

a)Vahanvati    b)S H Kapadia    c)K G Balakrishnan    d)Y. K. Sabharwal   e)none

2.      Who is the new Prime minister of Srilanka?

a)Mahinda Rajapakse     b)M Jayaratne     c)R Wickremanayake   d)R Wickremesinghe  e)none

3.      Who has taken over as the new Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)?

a)S Rajendra Babu    b)K G Balakrishnan     c)G P Mathur    d)Satyapal Batra   e)none

4.      Which of the following is the second most visited site in India after Taj mahal in 2009?

a)Qutub Minar    b)Ajanta Caves    c)Red Fort    d)Golden Temple   e)none

5.      A/c to FICCI survey, Indian Economy will grow by ____ in 2010-11?

a)8%     b)8.6%    c)7.8%    d)8.4%    e)none

6.      Who won the Asian badminton men's singles title?

a)Wang Zhengming    b)Chetan Anand     c)Lin Dan    d)Pullela Gopichand   e)none

7.      In order to provide quality healthcare to all citizens, which state government has decided to set up one primary urban health centre for every 50,000 people in the city?

a)Orissa     b)Kerala     c)Delhi     d)J & K    e)none

8.      Which country President signed a landmark constitutional amendment bill that will strip his powers?

a)Iran    b)North Korea     c)Srilanka     d)Pakistan    e)Ukraine

9.      Which of the following telecom operator has got the permission from central government to lay a 12,091 km long undersea optical fibre cable via eight countries from Marseilles in France to Juhu Beach in Mumbai?

a)Reliance     b)Vodafone     c)Bharthi Airtel     d)Tata    e)none

10. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of NASSCOM?

      a)R S Pawar      b)Pramod Bhasin     c)Harsh Manglik     d)Som Mittal    e)none

11. Juan Antonio Samaranch recently passed away, he is the former president of which of the following organisations?

a)World Bank     b)IMF    c)International Olympic Committee    d)NASA  e)none

12. Who won the Pantaloons Femina Miss India 2010?

a)Manasvi Mamgai    b)Neha Hinge   c)Nicole Faria   d)Pooja Chopra   e)none

13. Which is the first financial service entity in India to set up wind mills for captive use?

a)LIC     b)ICICI Bank     c)NABARD    d)SBI    e)none

14. Who has won the prestigious Dan David Prize for his remarkable reworking of the great tradition of the Western novel in transnational terms?

a)Jhumpa Lahiri     b)Arvind Adiga     c)Amitav Ghosh    d)Arundathi Roy  e)none

15. Who has been appointed as the Interim Chairman of IPL?

a)Shashank Manohar     b)N Srinivasan    c)Ravi Shastri    d)Sharad Pawar   e)Chirayu Aman

16. Which is the first country to ban Vulture funds?

a)India     b)UK     c)France    d)Denmark    e)none

17. A/c to Forbes, who has been named as India’s Bill Gates?

a)Azim Premji    b)Mukhesh Ambhani    c)K P Singh    d)Ratan Tata    e)none

18. Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of the school sanitation programme in the country?

a)Sachin Tendulkar     b)Deepika Padukone    c)Amir Khan    d)Sania Mirza   e)none

19. Who is the winner of IPL 3?

a)Mumbai Indians    b)Royal Challengers Bangalore    c)Chennai Super Kings    d)Deccan Chargers   e)Delhi Daredevils

20. Which country announced that it will build more than 14 atomic power plants by 2030 as part of its effort to fight global warming?

a)Japan     b)US    c)Iran    d)India    e)none