Thursday, November 10, 2011

CURRENT AFFAIRS MCQs

1. Diebold India, an international company to manage the ATMs, belongs to which country?
(a) Japan 
(b) France 
(c) Germany 
(d) USA


2. Recently Supreme court ruled that the fundamental right to life and liberty would apply even to a foreign national staying in India,this fundamental right is mentioned in which of the following Article of Indian constitution?
(a) Article 19 
(b) Article 20 
(c) Article 21 
(d) Article 22


3. Which of the following company acquired the Benchmark Mutual Fund?
(a) JM Financial 
(b) Fidelity 
(c) Goldman Sachs Asset Management 
(d) Deliotte


4. Author of ”INDIA 2039- An Affluent Society in One Generation” is:
(a) VJ Taraporevala 
(b) Bibek Debroy
(c) Onkar Goswami 
(d) Ashok V Desai


5. KN Raj, a famous economist of India who passed away recently was famous for his:
(a) Karnataka Model of development 
(b) Kerala Model of development 
(c) Tamil Nadu Model of development  
(d) Maharashtra Model of development


6. Which country will host the 2018 FIFA World Cup Football?
(a) Russia 
(b) Qatar 
(c) Brazil 
(d) England


7. Who has been appointed as an Advisor to Prime Minister on Skill Development?
(a) Ratan Tata 
(b) Sam Pitroda 
(c) Dr. Yashpal 
(d) S Ramadorai


8. Regulators in which country have okayed the agreement between Yahoo and Google Inc, which enables the former to use Google technology to power its search services in the country?
(a) China 
(b) Japan 
(c) Iran 
(d) Saudi Arabia


9. Which Indian Sportsperson has signed a 26-crore deal with world’s 3rd largest and India’s largest spirit maker, UB group?
(a) Yuvraj Singh 
(b) Mahendra Singh Dhoni 
(c) Virendra Sehwag 
(d) Sachin Tendulkar


10. Which American airline has been convicted for the crash of Air France Concorde in 2000 which occurred when the plane took off from Charles de Gaulle airport?
(a) Continental Airlines 
(b) Trans Atlantic Airlines 
(c) US Pacific Airlines 
(d) US State Airlines


11. Famous heritage site Preah Vihear Temple,recently in news, is situated in which of the following country?
(a) Laos 
(b) Cambodia 
(c) Indonesia 
(d) Singapore


12. Who among the following has recently took over as Chairman of Coal India Limited (CIL)?
(a) Shantanu Sharma 
(b) Abhishek Gupta 
(c) Virendra Pratap Singh 
(d) Nirmal Chandra Jha


13. Who among the following recently has taken over as Chairman of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)
(a) R. S. Butola 
(b) Shivendra Tyagi 
(c) Prashant Sharma 
(d) Pawan Kumar Bansal


14. Who among the following has been removed as secretary-general of the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) for his “anti-union and disruptive
activities?
(a) Upendra Sharma 
(b) K. Sreenivas Reddy 
(c) Pratap Reddy 
(d) Sarthak Bahuria


15. The U.P. Janhit Guarantee Ordinance which was approved by Governor B.L. Joshi recently,has -
(a) 11 sections 
 (b) 12 sections 
(c) 13 sections 
(d)14 sections


ANSWERS:


1d. 2 c. 3 c 4 b.5 b. 6 a. 7 d. 8 b. 9 b. 10 a. 11 b. 12 d. 13 a. 14 b. 15 a