GK - Current Events 6

1. Who won the best actor award at the 54th National Film Awards?

a) Soumitra Chatterjee
b) Dilip Prabhavalkar
c) Tapan Sinha
d) Sanjay Dutt

2. Who won the Women’s singles title at French Open 2008?

a) Maria Sharapova
b) Ana Ivanovic
c) Venus Willims
d) Dinara Safina

3. Who recently sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karanataka?

a) HG Devagauda
b) BS Yeddyurappa
c) Virendra Kumar
d) none of these

4. Ms Manjula Sood was in news recently for being

a) the winner of Orange prize for 2008
b) the first Asian woman to become the Mayor of Leicester, Britain
c) the first woman scientist to head an important DRDO project
d) none of these

5. Who won the Media Person of the Year Award at the 55th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival?

a) Anthony O’ Reilly
b) Prasoon Joshi
c) Yves Saint Laurent
d) none of these

6. Who was chosen as the Man of the Series in the DLF-IPL Twenty20 cricket tournament?

a) MS Dhoni
b) Shane Warne
c) Shane Watson
d) Ricky Ponting

7. Who recently set a new 100 m world record?

a) Justin Gatlin
b) Asafa Powell
c) Usain Bolt
d) Nathan Deakes

8. Which nation was recently readmitted to Commonwealth after a six month suspension?

a) Nepal
b) Pakistan
c) Afghanistan
d) Myanmar

9. Ms Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner of Austria was in news recently for being

a) the first woman to conquer 11 peaks of over 8,000 metres without breathing apparatus
b) winning an international award
c) the first woman head of state of Austria
d) none of these

10. The country’s first helium extraction pilot plant was launched by

a) RIL
b) ONGC
c) Bharat Petroleum
d) SAIL

11. Which Indian corporate head made it to the list of the Best Brains in Business compiled by business publication Conde Nast Portfolio?

a) Mukesh Ambani
b) Ratan Tata
c) NR Narayanamurthy
d) Nandan Nilekani

12. OIL (Oil India Limited) recently signed an agreement with the National Oil Corporation of which country for four oil exploration blocks?

a) Sudan
b) Libya
c) Cameroon
d) Zimbabwe

13. An astronaut in outer space will observe sky as

a) White
b) black
c) blue
d) red

14. The science dealing with the study of teeth is called

a) odontology
b) ornithology
c) phenology
d) cosmology

15. According to India’s Census report of 2001, percentage of population living in rural areas is

a) 70
b) 72
c) 74
d) 80

16. India has announced the construction of the first ever rail link to which Himalayan country from Hashimara in northern Bengal?

a) Nepal
b) Bhutan
c) Myanmar
d) Pakistan

17. Kuomintang is the ruling party in

a) China
b) Taiwan
c) Myanmar
d) Cuba

18. Who won the Mahaveer award for excellence in community service in 2008?

a) Mahasweta Devi
b) S Sankara Raman
c) Medha Patkar
d) Rajashree Birla

19. Which of the following pairs of countries were voted the most environment friendly by a survey by the National Geographic magazine and pollster Globalscan?

a) India and China
b) India and Brazil
c) USA and Brazil
d) UK and France

20. Who is the new Russian President?

a) Vladimir Putin
b) Dmitry Medvedev
c) Michael Sleiman
d) none of these

21. The World Population Day is observed on

a) July 6
b) July 11
c) May 24
d) April 11

22. The G-8 Environment Ministers Meeting 2008 was held at

a) Berlin
b) Kobe
c) Kyoto
d) Paris

23. Who is the author of the book Gandhi’s Emissary?

a) Sudhir Ghosh
b) Hamid Ansari
c) Shyam Bhatia
d) Chetan Bhagat

24. Who was recently appointed the Chairman of Prasar Bharti?

a) MV Kamath
b) Vir Sanghvi
c) Arun Bhatnagar
d) Vikram Srivastava

25. What is UNASUR?

a) an NGO fighting for environment protection
b) Union of South American nations
c) Union of South Asian nations
d) None of these

Answers

1. Soumitra Chatterjee
2. Ana Ivanovic
3. BS Yeddyurappa
4. the first Asian woman to become the Mayor of Leicester, Britain
5. Anthony O’ Reilly
6. Shane Watson
7. Usain Bolt
8. Pakistan
9. the first woman to conquer 11 peaks of over 8,000 metres without breathing apparatus
10. ONGC
11. Ratan Tata
12. Libya
13. black
14. odontology
15. 72
16. Bhutan
17. Taiwan
18. S Sankara Raman
19. India and Brazil
20. Dmitry Medvedev
21. July 11
22. Kobe
23. Sudhir Ghosh
24. Arun Bhatnagar
25. Union of South American nations