Current Affairs Practice Sheet- 1

Total number of questions 75

4. Who is the Greek PM who recently survived the confidence vote? (a) George Papandreou (b)Karolos Papoulias (c) Kostas Karamanlis (d)Kostas Simitis

1. Who was the editor of the tabloid News of the World? (a) Colin Myler (b)Bob Bird (c) Dan Wootton (d)Victoria Newton

5. Which of the following was not in the list of Asian Heroes of Philanthropy released by Forbes? (a) Shiv Nadar (b)Vivek Oberoi (c) Salman Khan (d)Azim Premji

2. Who was the director of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part II? (a) David Heymen (b)David Yates (c) John Williams (d)Bel Hibon

6. After Meera Shanker, who is going to be the next Indian ambassador to the US? (a) Nirupama Rao (b)Shiv Shanker Menon (c) MK Narayanan (d)Ranjan Mathai

3. Indias Sports Minister is advocating for a Bharat Ratna for Sports. His name is? (a) Arun Yadav (b) Manohar Singh Gill (c) Ajay Maken (d) Mani Shanker Aiyer

7. According to a WHO report released in May 2011, the global average life expectancy in 2009 was? (a) 76 years

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(b)67 years (c) 68 years (d)71 years

11. Saina Nehwal ............... the

Indonesian Open 2011. (a) Won (b)Was runner up in

8. This well known Bengali singer passed away recently (a) Kanika Benerjee (b)Dhananjay Bhattacharya (c) Pannalal Bhattacharya (d)Mrinal Chakraborty

(c) Was eliminated in group stages in (d)None of the above

12. Anjali Joseph bagged the Desmond Elliot prize for which of the following books? (a) The Empty Family (b) Saraswati Park (c) A Palace of Old Village (d) None of the above

9. Which one of the following is the newest entrant on the World Heritage List published by UNESCO?
(a) Ningaloo Coast (b) Borobodur Temple

Compounds
(c) Persepolis (d) Uluru

13. Who is Indias recently appointed Foreign Secretary? (a) Sushma Swaraj (b)Ranjan Mathai

10. This Governor recently made same-sex marriages legal in New York. (a) Andrew Cuomo (b)George Clinton (c) David Paterson (d)Mario Cuomo

(c) Nirupama Rao (d)R S Gujral

14. The first Indo-US Homeland

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(c) New York (d)Bangalore

18. Which country recently opened the Worlds first women-only university? (a) Bhutan

15. Which is the first Indian state to sign an agreement with the World Bank for securing carbon credits? (a) Jammu & Kashmir (b)Himachal Pradesh (c) Madhya Pradesh (d)Bihar

(b)Germany (c) Saudi Arabia (d)Spain

19. Who bagged the Best

Director award at the 58th National Film Awards? (a) Mr. Salim Kumar (b)Mr. Sanjay Leela Bhansali

16. What was the name of the Next-Generation missile that China claimed to have successfully fired in May, 2011? (a) Key Model (b)Crepto (c) Ace Creeper (d)None of the above

(c) Mr. Vetrimaran (d)None of the above

20. Indias medal tally (Gold-

Silver-Bronze) in the Asian Youth Chess Championship was: (a) 14-3-3 (b)12-4-4 (c) 12-7-9

17. Who is the Chief Minister of Puducherry? (a) V. Vaithilingam (b) Rajiv Kumar (c) N. Rangaswamy (d)None of the above

(d)10-9-7

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(b)Air Marshal Shubham Kumar (c) Air Marshal P.D.Dubey (d)None of the above

25. Who is the chairman of Public Health Foundation of India? (a) Narayana Murthy (b)Rajat Gupta

22. Who won the Orange Cap in IPL 4? (a) Sachin Tendulkar (b)AB De Villiars (c) Chris Gayle (d)Kieran Pollard

(c) Y.V.Reddy (d)G.B.Sinha

26. Who is the President of Supreme Court Bar Association? (a) Adish Aggrawala (b)Ram Jethmalani

23. Who was recently appointed

as the Railway Minister of India? (a) MS Gill (b)Beni Prasad Sharma (c) Milind Deora (d)Dinesh Trivedi

(c) P.H.Parekh (d)Rajiv Dutta

27. Which was adjudged as the

Best Film on Social Issues at the 58th National Film Awards? (a) Guzaarish

24. Which former allrounder bagged the C.K.Nayadu Lifetime Achievement Award? (a) Salim Durrani (b)Kapil Dev (c) Robin Singh (d)Ajit Agarkar

(b)Brihaspati (c) Champions (d)None of the above

28. Which novelist won this years Man Booker International Prize? (a) Chinua Achebe (b)Philip Roth LegalEdge 2011

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(c) Ismail Kadare (d)Yann Martel

(a) Sunil Mitra (b)Debashish Prusty (c) RS Gujral

29. Which of the following is the World Population Day? (a) July 8 (b)July 10 (c) July 11 (d)July 12

(d)None of the above

33. Who is the new Chief of the Arab League? (a) Mr. Nabi Al-Arabi (b)Mr. Amr Moussa (c) Mr. Khilji-al-Rasam (d)None of the above

30. This years Wimbledon was .................... edition of the Championship

(a) 129th (b) 122nd (c) 125 (d) 130
th

34. Who won the Best Actress

award at the 64th Cannes Film Festival? (a) Angelina Jolie (b)Kristen Stewart

th

(c) Kristen Dunst (d)None of the above

31. Which country won Azlan Shah Cup Hockey Tournament, 2011? (a) Pakistan (b)India (c) Australia (d)South Africa

35. Novak Djokovic

defeated ............... to win the Serbia Open. (a) Feliciano Lopez (b)Del Potro (c) Rafael Nadal (d)None of the above

32. Who is Indias new Revenue Secretary? LegalEdge 2011

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36. Who recently became the oldest Indian woman to scale Mt. Everest? (a) Premlata Agrawal (b)Bhoomi Chawla (c) Shreevikya (d)Shimmi Chatterji

(a) Greater Noida builders were ordered to return money with interest (b)Salwa Judum was held unconstitutional (c) Use of force to evict Baba Ramdev was questioned (d)None of the above

37. Sukhada Tatke, winner of Prabha Dutt Fellowship, is a Senior Correspondent of which of the following newspapers? (a) The Hindu (b)The Indian Express (c) Dainik Bhaskar (d)The Times of India

40. Indias new hockey coach is: (a) Jack Nobbs (b)Sean Collings (c) Dhanraj Pillai (d)Joaquim Carvalho

38. Who is the Minister for Urban Development in India? (a) Jairam Ramesh (b)Kamal Nath (c) Ghulam Nabi Azad (d)Sushil Kumar Shinde

41. Worlds longest Sea Bridge, inaugurated recently by China, is of: (a) 28.3 miles (b)30.2 miles (c) 22.8 miles (d)26.4 miles

39. The case of Nandini Sunder

42. The new Princess of Monaco is: (a) Charlene Wittstock (b)Grace Kelly

v. State of Chhatisgarh was recently in news because in this case:

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(d)None of the above

(b) Mid-Day (c) The Times of India

43. Who won the Spanish Grand Prix, 2011? (a) Lewis Hamilton (b)Jenson Button (c) Sebastian Vettel (d)None of the above

(d) The Hindu

47. Novak Djokovic

defeated .................... to win the Mens Singles in Wimbledon Championship, 2011. (a) Roger Federer

44. The new Secretary of

(b)Andy Roddick (c) Andy Murray (d)Rafael Nadal

Defence of the US is: (a) Robert Micheal Gates (b)Greame Cripps (c) Leon Panetta (d)None of the above

48. The 2000th Test Match in the

history is going to be played between (a) India Sri Lanka

45. The winner of this years

Madrid Masters of Tennis Championship is: (a) Roger Federer (b)Rafael Nadal (c) Novak Djokovic (d)Mahesh Bhupati

(b)India- England (c) India West Indies (d)Australia Pakistan

49. Who is the new Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences? (a) Vilasrao Deshmukh (b)M.Veerappa Moily (c) Srikant Jena (d)None of the above LegalEdge 2011

46. Jyotrimoy Dey, shot dead in

Powai, Mumbai in June, 2011 was a reporter of:

(a) Mumbai Mirror

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(b)Boeing 787 Nippon

50. India ranks................... on

(c) Boeing 737 (d)Boeing 777

the transparency report released by Google. (a) First (b)Fourth (c) Third (d)Eighth

54. Who was the CEO of News International who recently resigned after the phone hacking scandal? (a) Rupert Murdoch

51. Who is the Judge who has

(b)Rebekah Brooks (c) Tom Mockridge (d)None of the above

been entrusted with the enquiry into the recent athletics doping fiasco? (a) Justice Markhande Katju (b)Justice Mukul Mudgal (c) Justice G.S.Sharma (d)Justice Reddy

55. The 25 paisa coins were

withdrawn from circulation with effect from?

(a) 15th June, 2011 (b) 28th June, 2011

52. Which team won the FIFA Under-17 World Cup, 2011? (a) Uruguay (b)Brazil (c) England (d)Mexico

(c) 11th July, 2011 (d) 30th June, 2011

56. Who won the Boys Singles in this years Wimbledon Championships? (a) Marton Fucsovics (b)Liam Broady

53. Worlds first ultra long-haul passenger jet is?

(a) Boeing 787 Dreamliner

(c) Jason Patrombon (d)Luke Saville

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57. Perus newly elected

(d)GooglePlex

President is? (a) Ollanta Humala (b)Alan Garcia (c) Alejandro Toledo (d)Valentin Paneiagua 61. The Capital of the newly formed country South Sudan is: (a) Juba (b)Warrap
58. Antrix Corp. Is the ...............

(c) Abekr (d)Abyei

wing of ISRO. (a) Advertising (b)Marketing (c) Relations (d)Technical

62. The latest Judge to retire

from the Supreme Court is: (a) Justice Katju (b)Justice Tiwari

59. Yingluck Shinawatra, who is

(c) Justice B.S.Reddy (d)Justice Balakrishnan

all set to be the next Prime Minister of Thailand, will succeed:

(a) Bhumibol Adulyadej (b) Abhisit Vejjajiva (c) Thaksin Shinavatra (d) Somchai Wongsawat

63. Supreme Court has formed

an SIT to investigate into the bringing back of black money stashed abroad. The Chairman of this SIT is: (a) MB Shah (b)BP Jeevan Reddy

60. Googles newly launched Social Networking website is: (a) Google+ (b)GoogleEase (c) G+

(c) Nani Palkiwala (d)Y.K.Sabharwal

64. Who won Womens Singles

in the Wimbledon Championships, 2011? LegalEdge 2011

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(a) Maria Sharapova (b)Petra Kvitova (c) Serena Williams (d)Venus Williams

(d)RowlingJK

65. Which of the following

companies is NOT there in this years Fortune 500? (a) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (b)Indian Oil Corporation (c) Reliance Industries (d)ICICI

68. The five-member Committee, which is investigating into the the issue of fixing fees for private medical colleges for 2011-2012 is:
(a) N.V. Balasubramanian

Committee
(b) G.B.Prahar Committee (c) N.C. Saxena Committee (d) None of the above

69. Which High Court recently 66. Ogrodnik, Indias athletics

coach who was fired due to the doping fiasco, is from which country? (a) Ukraine (b)Jamaica (c) USA (d)Cuba

celebrated 150 years of its functioning? (a) Madras High Court (b)Bombay High Court (c) Delhi High Court (d)Calcutta High Court

67. The website launched by J.K.Rowling for legal access to Harry Potter books is: (a) Pottermore (b)Harrypottermore (c) Hogwartsinn

70. Gurudas Kamat resigned after the recent Cabinet reshuffle. What was his new responsibility? (a) Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation (b)Minister of State for Communication and Information Tech.

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(c) Minister of State for Railways (d)Minister of State for Environment and Forests

(c) Nine (d)Twelve

74. Pharmaceutical Expo 2011

will be held in: 71. Who is the recently appointed Director of Bharat Earth Movers Limited? (a) P.V.Krishnan (b)N.M. Bose (c) Archana Priyarajan (d)P.R.Naik
75. Which one of the following (a) Hyderabad (b) Nagpur (c) Chennai (d) Bangalore

72. The Minister who recently took an additional charge as Textiles Minister, after Dayanidhi Maran resigned from the latter post is: (a) Srikant Jena (b)P.V.Krishnan (c) Anand Sharma (d)S. Jaipal Reddy

athletes currently under investigation for doping was a part of 4x400 metres relay team that won a gold medal at the last year's Commonwealth Games and Asian Games?
(a) Juana Murmu (b) Tiana Mary (c) Sini Jose (d) All of the above

73. There are ....................

Millennium Development Goals that all the 193 United Nations Member States have pledged to achieve by 2015. (a) Seven (b)Eight LegalEdge 2011
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