Sunday, November 7, 2010

Current Affairs Questions and Answers Dated on 30-10-2010

1) The Karnataka High Court justice V.G.Sabhahit upheld the October 10th disqualification fo the 11 rebel BJP MLA from assembly membership.

2) Who carried out the first BASE jump in the country?
A)Lt.Col.Satyendra Verma. He is the captain of the Army Adventure Skydiving team. He jumped from the 236-meter Pitampura TV tower in New Delhi.

3)Which bacteria associated with the superbug?
A)New Delhi metallo-B-lactamese(NDM-1)

4)Which nation has overtaken the U.S. as home of the world's fastest supercomputer?
A) China's Tianhe-1A,named in honour of the Milky Way.It capable of sustained computing of 2.507 petaflops, which equivalent to 2.507 trillion calculations each seconds.

5)Who introduced India's Ace badminton Saina Nehwal to this field and had died recently?
A) P.S.S.N.Prasad.

6)Recently we are hearing from news papers about Adarsh Housing Society scam, what is it about?
A) Adarsh Housing Society which originally meant to be a six-storey bulding to house kargil war heroes and widows, was allotted 40% falt to civilians.

7)West Bengal government issued an order sanctioning Rs.1.59 crore as compensation for the Nandigram incident.

8) Check below for the list of fiction books and their authors?

A) The Thing About Thugs- Tabish Khair
Eunuch Park - Palash Krishna Mehrotra
Way to Go - Upamanyu Chatterjee
If I Could Tell You - Soumya Bhattacharya
The Pleasure Seekers - Tishani Doshi
Neti,Neti - Anjum Hasan
The To-Let House - Daisy Hasan
Venus Crossing - Kalpana Swaminathan
Come,Befor Evening Falls- Manjul Bajaj
Serious Men - Manu Joseph
Saraswati Park - Anjali Joseph

9)Who will head the Kishanganga arbitration court?
A)Judge Stephen M.Schwebel,former president of the Internation Court of Justice, to resolve the Kishanganga (a tributary of the Jhelum in Jammu and kashmir) hydroelectric project dispute between India and Pakistan.

10) Which was another tributary to Jhelum river apart from Kishanganga?
A)Bonar Madmati Nallah.

11) RBI to examine recovery mechanism of MFIs

12)The Power Finance Corporation (PFC) and the Nuclear Corporation of India Ltd.(NPCIL) have entered into a memorandum of understanding to setup nuclear power projects.

13)Who is the new chairman of Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals?
A)K.Raghavendra Rao

14) Who was the former Australian fast bowler removed from its national selection panel?
A)Merv Hughes

15) Who are the winners of the boys' and girls' National Junior squash championships Under-19?
A)Tamil Nadu's Ramit Tandon( Boy's) and Anaka Alankamony (Girls's).

16) Which Olympic champion has unexpectedly announced her retirement in Tennis?
A)Russia's Elena Dementieva.

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