GK - Current Events 7

1. Who was recently crowned Miss World 2008 at the beauty pageant held in Johannesburg?

a) Parvathy Omanakuttan
b) Ksenia Sukhinova
c) Diana Mendoza
d) none of these

2. Who won the Monaco F1 Grand Prix in 2008?

a) Lewis Hamilton
b) Kimi Raikkonen
c) Felipe Massa
d) Fernando Alonso

3. Whose birthday is likely to be declared as a ‘World No Alcohol Day’ by the UN from next year?

a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Swami Vivekananda
c) Rajiv Gandhi
d) None of these

4. Which country leads the list of best places for investment and business, according to a list prepared by global consultancy Grant Thornton?

a) India
b) China
c) Russia
d) USA

5. The parliament of which country recently approved a bill allowing the use of hybrid embryos in stem cell research?

a) USA
b) India
c) Britain
d) Italy

6. Justin Henin who announced her immediate retirement from professional tennis is from

a) Spain
b) Belgium
c) France
d) Switzerland

7. The Three Gorges, the world’s biggest hydroelectric power project is built on

a) Pearl river
b) Yangtze river
c) Yellow river
d) Danube

8. The Phonix Lander is a mission sent to explore

a) Mars
b) Jupiter
c) Saturn
d) Mercury

9. Min Bahadur Sherchan was in news recently for being

a) the speaker of Nepal’s new parliament
b) a) the oldest man to summit Everest
c) the oldest man to climb seven summits
d) none of these

10. Which Asian country recently abolished monarchy and became a republic?

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

11. Which party won the most number of seats in the recently held Karnataka Assembly Elections?

a) BJP
b) Congress
c) Janta Dal
d) NDA

12. What is the name of the tropical cyclone that hit Myanmar last month?

a) Rita
b) Nargis
c) Katrina
d) Ann

13. The Agni-III missile has a range of

a) 5000 km
b) 1200 km
c) 3000 km
d) 4000 km

14. ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a collection of poems written by

a) Walt Whitman
b) Robert Frost
c) Wordsworth
d) Allan Poe

15. What is the official distance of a marathon running race?

a) 26 miles
b) 26 miles 385 yards
c) 25 miles 895 yards
d) 25 miles

16. Which country turned 60 in May, 2008?

1) Sri Lanka
b) Nepal
c) Israel
d) Serbia

17. ISRO made history in April by placing how many satellites in their respective orbits in a single launch.

a) 12
b) 10
c) 7
d) 16

18. Viswanathan Anand has so far won how many Chess Oscars?

a) 6
b) 7
c) 5
d) none

19. Bajaj recently announced its low cost car. This car will be built in collaboration with which of the following companies?

a) McLaren
b) Honda
c) Renault-Nissan
d) Fiat

20. India’s much anticipated Moon mission ‘Chandrayan 1’ is expected to lift off in

a) October
b) July
c) September
d) December

21. The Heptathlon is a track and field athletic competition consisting of how many events?

a) five
b) six
c) seven
d) eight

22. The Scandinavia occupies which region of Europe?

a) southern
b) northern
c) central
d) western

23. Which one of the following is currently the world’s fastest super computer?

a) IBM’s Roadrunner supercomputer
) Blue Gene/L
c) Kibo
d) None of these

24. Which Indian automobile manufacturer was recently voted the world’s fourth most reputed?

a) Maruti Suzuki
b) Tata Motors
c) Mahindra & Mahidra
d) Bajaj

25. Which country is the first in the world to pass climate act?

a) Britain
b) India
c) Canada
d) Australia

Answers

1. Ksenia Sukhinova
2. Lewis Hamilton
3. Mahatma Gandhi
4. China
5. Britain
6. Belgium
7. Yangtze river
8. Mars
9. the oldest man to summit Everest
10. Nepal
11. BJP
12. Nargis
13. 3000 km
14. Walt Whitman
15. 26 miles 385 yards
16. Israel
17. 10
18. 5
19. Renault-Nissan
20. September
21. seven
22. northern
23. IBM’s Roadrunner supercomputer
24. Maruti Suzuki
25. Canada