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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- NOVEMBER-

2009

1. Who becomes the first Indian to make a fifty while batting at No.9 against Australia?
Praveenkumar. He became the first batsman from India to post a fifty on Indian soil while
batting at No.9 position

2. The Income Tax department recently conducted nationwide raids at 70 addresses

linked to former Jharkhand Chief Minister who has possessing assets worth Rs 2000
crores. Name of that former Jharkhand CM who is now a MP?
Madhu Koda

3. Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan of Kerala laid foundation for States first Border
Security Force (BSF) unit in which place?
Kainur village in Thrissur district.

4. A modern space science complex of international standards is to be set up by Indian

Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in South India. Where is it?
Ponmudi hills in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala

5. Who has been inducted as SP of the prestigious National Investigation Agency (NIA)?
T.K. Rajmohan

6. Who won the Man of the Match award in the third One Day International Cricket
between India and Australia held in Delhi?
Yuvraj Singh. India beat Aussies by 6 wickets

7. Who has claimed the top slot as the highest tax payer in the country for the current
fiscal?
Lalit Modi, the Indian Premier League chief.

8. China's keystone space scientist, widely acclaimed as the country's "father of space
technology" and "king of rocketry", died of illness recently at the age of 98?
Tsien Hsue-shen.
He has also gone by the name of Qian Xuesen

9. The massive fire at which depot of Indian Oil Corporation destroys Rs 1000 crore,
ruins several lives?
Jaipur's Indian Oil Corporation depot
10. Which documentaries have been recently nominated for the prestigious 5th CMS
VATAVARAN, environment and wildlife film festival, held at the India Habitat Centre,
New Delhi?
‘My Purple Sunbird’ directed by Sunil Raj
‘Kaanam - Life Story of a Midland Hill’ by Babu Kambrath

11. Indian who was elected as member of the Italian Democratic Party National
assembly?
Sibi Kumaramangalam

12. Who is appointed as the chief justice of Himachal Pradesh?

Justice Kurian Joseph. He is the senior most judge of the Kerala High Court

13. Who has been appointed first Goodwill Ambassador of the ‘Smile Train,’ an
international charity that provides free cleft lip and palate surgery to children in need?
Aishwarya Rai Bachan

14. The Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan has
dropped the name of Karnataka High Court Justice from the list of those recommended
for elevation to the Supreme Court. Name of that justice?
Justice PD Dinakaran

15. Name of the typhoon, the fourth in a month, which has hit Manila in the Philippines
bringing with it heavy rain, flooding and a tropical storm?
Typhoon Mirinae.
Typhoon Ketsana was the first to hit this region at the end of September. About 420
people died in that storm and tens of thousands of people are still living in shelters after
their homes washed away. This was followed up by Typhoon Parma that killed over 430
people and destroyed 55,000 houses. Typhoon Lupit was the third typhoon to hit the area
last week.

16. Who emerged as the winner of Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in the male category?
Deriba Merga of Ethiopia.
Marry Kitney succeeded in winning the title in women category. Around 30,000 people
participated in the Airtel Delhi half Marathon 2009.

17. Name the Jammu Kashmir 'braveheart' who killed a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist
has been appointed as the Special Police Officer (SPO) in the Jammu Kashmir police
force recently.
Rukhsana Kausar.
Rukhsana, who hails from Kalsi village in upper Shahdhara area of Rajouri district, 180
km north of Jammu, had grappled with LeT terrorists who entered her home, grabbed an
AK-47 from one and shot him dead. The terrorist killed was Abu Osama, LeT
commander.

18. Kerala High Court Judge who resigned from his post on 2nd November 2009 citing
personal reasons?
Justice V Giri.
He was the first permanent judge of Kerala High court who resigned from his post.
Justice K P Dandapani is the only judge of the Kerala High Court to have resigned before
him. But he was not permanent at that time.

19. Which public sector company has won "SCOPE AWARD" for Excellence and
Outstanding contribution to Public Sector Management - Special Institutional
(Turnaround) Category 2007-08?
Heavy Engineering Corporation Ltd, Ranchi

20. Who won the Man of the Match award in the fourth One Day international Cricket
match between India and Australia held in Mohali?
Shane Watson. He scored 49 runs and took 3 wickets.
Australia won the match by 24 runs.

21. American company which is a major lender to hundreds of thousands of small and
medium-sized businesses, filed for bankruptcy recently, as the global financial crisis left
it unable to fund itself and the recession clobbered its loans?
CIT Group Inc
Bankruptcy is also a blow for the U.S. government, which invested $2.33 billion in CIT
in December through the Troubled Asset Relief Program and will likely lose most of it.

22. Who won the WTA championship-2009 held in Doha?

Serena Williams. She defeated her sister and defending champion Venus 6-2 7-6(4) in the
WTA Championships final in Doha.

23. Who is the winner of Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2009 Race?
Sebastian Vettel

24. Who is the Chairman of the International Jury of 33rd International Film Festival held
at Cairo?
Adoor Gopalakrishnan.
25. Which Indian film won the Silver Award at the just concluded 33rd Cairo
International Film Festival?
“Mudhal Mudhal Mudhal Varai” (Tamil Film) directed by Krishnan Seshadri Gomatam

26. The legendary French anthropologist and philosopher who passed away recently in
his Paris home at the age of 100.
Claude Levi-Strauss. One of his more influential fields of study involved the observation
of tribes in Brazil and North America.

27. Who has been conferred the Fellow Membership of the Kolkata-based National
Institute of Personnel Management?

Dr George Sleeba, Chairman and Managing Director of FACT, Kerala

28. Who was re-elected president of the United Arab Emirates for a second five-year
term?
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan

29. Who won the Man of the Series Award in the ODI Cricket Series between
Bangladesh and Zimbabwe?
Abdur Razzak (Bangladesh). Bangladesh won the 5 match series 4-1

30. Which country’s central bank bought 200 metric tons of gold from the International
Monetary Fund last month, in the first major move by a major central bank to diversify
its foreign-exchange reserves?
India.
Reserve Bank of India bought 200 metric tons of gold to manage its foreign-exchange
reserves.

31. Which team was banned by BCCI from this year's Ranji Trophy cricket Season for
skipping a match against Jammu and Kashmir in Srinagar citing security reasons?
Services.
The Services cricket team is a domestic cricket team in the Elite Group of the Ranji
Trophy, the main domestic competition in India.

32. Which country made the fifth lowest total in one-day cricket by making only 44 runs
to their account?
Zimbabwe.
Bangladesh bowlers demolished Zimbabwe for 44 runs in the fourth ODI match, the fifth
lowest total in one-dayers. Nazmul Hossain, who started the slide with his 2 wickets for
10 runs and took a brilliant catch, was adjudged the man of the match

33. Who has won the World Junior girls chess championship at Puerto Madryn in
Argentina on November 3, 2009?
Soumya Swaminathan. She is from Pune, India.

34. Who won the Man of the Match award in the first ODI of the Cool & Cool Cup at
Abu Dhabi between New Zealand and Pakistan?
Shahid Afridi. He won this award for his 70runs and 2 wickets for 46.Pakistan won the
match by a whooping margin of 138 runs.

35. The tropical Storm which slammed Vietnam's central coast on November-2, 2009,
unleashing heavy rains and winds and forcing more than 80,000 people to evacuate.
Mirinae. The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae in central Vietnam has risen to 109.

36. Which African country establishes satellite medical link with India recently?
Sierra Leone. Officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa has
launched a satellite link-up known as telemedicine so that doctors in this country can seek
advice from their colleagues in India.

37. A British-German scientist’s team recently has identified the old ancestor of the
world’s most infamous predator, Tyrannosaurus rex which is a dinosaur. Name of that
165-million-year-old dinosaur lived during the middle Jurassic Period?
Proceratosaurus, the two-legged meat-eater would have measured about 3m long and
weighed up to 60kg.

38. Which state won Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra Award-07 for the best
contribution in tree planting activities and Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra Award-08
for increasing forest & tree cover in the State?
Kerala

39. Twelve-year-old boy who made a World record in inter-school cricket by smacking a
mammoth 439 in the prestigious Harris Shield tournament at the MB Union Cricket Club
grounds, Cross Maidan?

Sarfaraz Khan..
Harris Shield is the tournament in which Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli piled up a
world record 664 runs for the third wicket in February 1988, helping their school,
Shardashram Vidyamandir, to score 748 for 2 in 122 overs against St Xavier's School at
Azad Maidan.

40. Who won the Man of the Match award in the fifth ODI cricket match between India
and Australia held on 5th November, 2009 at Uppal, Hyderabad?
Sachin Tendulkar. He scored 175 runs and that was his 45 th ODI century. Australia won
the match by 3 runs.

41. Fugitive former Thailand Prime minister who was appointed as economic advisor to
the Cambodian government, in a move that adds to tensions between the countries?
Thaksin Shinawatra

42. Name the U.S. Army psychiatrist who has killed 13 people and wounded 30 others in
a bloody rampage at the Fort Hood military base in Texas?
Major Nidal Malik Hasan

43. Eminent public health expert of Kerala who passed away recently at the age of 71?
Dr. C.R. Soman

44. Renowned scientist and former Director of UGC who has been selected for the
prestigious Kalinga Prize 2009.?

Professor Yash Pal. The award is given by UNESCO for popularisation of science.

45. Which country won gold medal in men’s kabbadi, in the third Asian Indoor Games in
Vietnam?
India

46. Who is appointed as the new captain of Kolkatta Knight Rider’s Team for IPL-3?
Saurav Ganguly
Coach: David Whatmore
Wasim Akram selected as mentor for the Kolkata Knight Riders.

47. A never-seen-before Charlie Chaplin film was recently found in a nitrate film tin by a
man who bought it on eBay for £3.20. Name of that previously unseen Charlie Chaplin
movie which could be worth up to £40,000?
‘Charlie Chaplin in Zepped’

48. Which team claims the 2009 AFC Champions League title with a 2-1 victory over Al
Ittihad at the National Stadium in Tokyo?
Pohang Steelers of South Korea. The title was Pohang's third continental triumph
(following Asian Club Championship wins in 1997 and 1998) and means they become
the most successful team in Asian football history.

49. Coach of triple Olympic and World Championship gold medalist Usain Bolt and
president of the Racers Track Club, who has resigned after 22 years as head of the
Jamaican national track and field team?

Glen Mills

50. Who won the Man of the Match award in the second ODI between New Zealand and
Pakistan held in Abudabi?
Brendan McCullum. He scored 131 runs (His second ODI century) and New Zealand
beat Pakistan by 64 runs.

51. Name of the online reservation system of Kerala Road Transport Corporation
inaugurated by Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan recently?
Sarathy
52. Who won the Man of the series award of recently concluded ODI series between
India and Australia?
Shane Watson. Australia won the seven match series by 4-2. The last match abandoned
due to rain.
Man of the Match of Sixth ODI: - Doug Bollinger. Australia won that match in Guwahati

53. Which country won the Asia Cup hockey championship-2009 for women held in
Bangkok?
China.
China inflicted a 5-3 defeat on India to regain the trophy. China had won the trophy last
in 1989 at Hong Kong.

54. Which country won the Fed Cup women's tennis title with a comfortable 4-0 win over
the United States in Reggio Calabria.?
Italy

55. India's National Academy of Letters, Sahitya Akademi, recently signed a MoU
(Memorandum of Understanding) with a digital technology leader to institute the 'Tagore
Literature Awards ' named after the legendary Shri Rabindranath Tagore. Name that
electronics giant?
Samsung. The award will recognize the best of literary contributions by writers in 8
Indian languages – Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Telugu and
Bodo

56. Who is re-elected unopposed as the president of Asian Athletic Association (AAA) in
Guangzhou, China, to serve his third consecutive term at the office?
Suresh Kalmadi, Indian Olympic Association chief. He was elected for another four-year
term (2009-13)

57. Who won the Charlottesville Challenger ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals)
Challenger tournament?
Kevin Kim (U.S.A). He beat Somdev Devvarman in the final.

58. Who is the new Director of ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU), Thiruvananthapuram,
Kerala?
T.R. Chidambaram
59. Who won the Swiss Indoors Tennis title beating Roger Federer in the final?

Novak Djokovic. He beat Roger Federer in his own backyard to win the Swiss Indoors
final 6-4 4-6 6-2 in Basle.

60. Which state won the South Zone inter-state badminton championship held in Andra
Pradesh?
Andra Pradesh
Guru Sai Dutt (Andra Pradesh) beat Ram C. Vijay (Kerala) in the boys’ final
Sikki Reddy, Girl’s Champion

61. Who was chosen for the C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award 2008-2009 by
BCCI (Board of Control of Cricket in India)?
Mohinder Amarnath

62. 124 people have been killed by floods and mudslides in El Salvador after the Central
American nation was battered by a Hurricane. Name of that storm?
Hurricane Ida

63. Who won the Man of the Match award in the first ODI between South Africa and
Zimbabwe held at the Willowmoore Park, Benoni, South Africa, 8th of November 2009?
Tatenda Taibu. He remains unbeaten on 103 runs. South Africa won the match by 45 runs

64. On the first day of the new Maharashtra assembly, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
(MNS) legislators roughed up a member of Samajwadi Party for taking the oath of office
in Hindi. Name of that SP member?
Abu Asim Azmi. Maharashtra Legislative Assembly suspended four Maharashtra
Navnirman Sena members for four years on charges of assaulting Samajwadi Party MLA
Abu Asim Azmi. The suspended MLA’s are Shishir Shinde, Ram Kadam, Ramesh
Wanzale and Vasant Gite

65. First Muslim lady who will serve as minister in the Maharashtra government?
Fauzia Khan

66. Man of the Match of third ODI between Pakistan and New Zealand held in Abudabi
on November 9, 2009?
Mohammad Aamer (Pakistan). He made 73 runs and took two wickets.
New Zealand won the match by 7 runs. They also won the 3-match series 2-1.

67. Who won India's first medal in the 18th Asian Athletics Championships held in
Guangzhou?
Kavita Raut. She won a bronze in women's 500m race on the opening day of the 18th
Asian Athletics Championship

68. Which bank has won the 'Great Mind Challenge' Award for implementing the most
innovative solution for business?
Federal Bank. Federal Bank is the first bank in the country to receive this award and the
award has been introduced by IBM for the first time in India for business development
initiatives.

69. India’s first Aerospace SEZ (Special Economic Zone) launched in?
Belgaum, Karnataka. Aerospace and engineering major QuEST Global launched the
country's first aerospace Special Economic Zone for development and manufacture of
aerospace precision engineering products.

70. Which documentary has been selected for the Recycling Fond award at the 36th
International Festival of Sustainable Development Films-ekotopfilm 2009?
‘Farming our Future’ Direction: Venu Nair

71. Who has been appointed Pakistan captain for the Test tour of New Zealand?
Mohammad Yousuf
Vice Captain: Kamran Akmal

72. Who won India's first Gold medal in the 18th Asian Athletics Championships held in
Guangzhou?
Om Prakash Singh. He won the men's shot put gold for India.

73. Goalkeeper of Germany who committed suicide by stepping in front of a train in

Hanover?

Robert Enke
74. The sniper whose murderous shooting spree in the fall of 2002 left at least 10 dead in
Washington, was executed by lethal injection at a Virginia state prison?
John Allen Muhammad

75. Who is appointed as the head of United States Agency for International
Development?

Rajiv Shaw

76. Who has been chosen for this year’s K.R. Narayanan Award?
N.Ram, Editor-in-Chief of Hindu.
He has won this award for his outstanding contribution to journalism in India. Instituted
by the K.R. Narayanan Foundation in memory of the late President, the award is to
honour individuals who have excelled in various fields.

77. Who has been selected for the K. R. Narayanan Pravasi Ratna award?
M. A. Yusuf Ali, UAE-based industrialist won this award for his contribution to the
cause of NRIs.
K. R. Narayanan Kala Puraskaram award went to Malayalam film ‘Kerala Varma
Pazhassi Raja’

78. Most-wanted cocaine kingpin of Mexico who had been ranked by Forbes magazine as
one of the most powerful people in the world.
Joaquin Guzman. He ranked 41 on Forbes' 'powerful' list.

79. A Michael Jackson portrait has sold for $812,000 (£507,500) at an auction in Los
Angeles. The artist of that portrait is?
Andy Warhol

80. Sri Lanka's armed forces chief who has resigned from his post just months after
helping secure the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels?
Gen Sarath Fonseka
81. Who has been selected for Ezhuthachan puraskaram-2009, highest literary honour of
Kerala State?
Sugathakumari. She is a renowned poet and social activist. She has won this award for
her valuable contribution to Malayalam poetry.

82. Who has been named captain of the Indian hockey team for the FIH Men's
Champions Challenge tournament in Salta, Argentina?
Rajpal Singh. The tournament will take place from December 6 to 13.

83. The Video game collected $550 million in 5 days, which has beaten largest
worldwide box-office opening, held by "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," which
tallied $394 million over its first five days?

"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2"

84. Who was sworn as the first Punjabi-American (Sikh) mayor of Yuba City in U.S.A?
Kashmir Singh Gill
Yuba City is known as the first Punjabi village in U.S.A

85. Which country leads medals in the 18th Asian Athletics Championships held in
Guangzhou, China in 2009?
China (47 Medals, 18 Gold, 19 Silver, 10 Bronze)
India occupies the sixth position(12 Medals, 1 gold, 4 Silver, 7 bronze).
47 Nations participated in the event.

86. The country which have reached the World Cup finals for the second time in their
history with victory over Bahrain in their qualifying play-off?
New Zealand
87. Who is the Man of the series of the 20-20 series between Pakistan and New Zealand
held in Dubai?
Shahid Afridi. Pakistan won the series 2-0.

88. Who has clinched the Australian Masters Golf Title held in Melbourne?
Tiger Woods

89. Which country chosen as host for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
meetings held from February to November 2009?
Singapore

90. The 2011 meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) will be held in?
Honolulu

91. National junior athletics championships from November 20 to 24 held in?

Warangal, Andrapradesh

92. What is the highest score of India in a test cricket match on a single day?
443/1 in the second day of the third test match against Sri Lanka in Mumbai.

93. Which country won FIFA Under-17 World Cup?

Switzerland. They defeated hosts and defending champions Nigeria 1-0 in the final.

94. Who became the second Indian to complete 11,000 Test runs in the recent test match
against Sri Lanka?
Rahul Dravid.

95. Who is appointed as the chief of Defence Staff of Sri Lanka?

Roshan Gunathilleke

96. Who is appointed as Australia's batting coach for the upcoming cricket season?
Justin Langer

97. President of India, Pratibha Patil recently nominated five noted personalities to Rajya
Sabha. Who are they?
1.HK Dua, Eminent journalist.
2.AK Ganguly, Former Chairman of Hindustan Lever Limited.These two will replace
Film Actor Hema Malini and Journalist Chandan Mitra, whose term has come to an end.
3. Javed Akhtar, Lyricist and poet
4. Prof CNR Rao (Chairman of the scientific advisory council to the PM)
5. G Madhavan Nair, Former ISRO chairman.

98. Which Consumer electronics and durables major recently announced the inauguration
of its split air-conditioner manufacturing line at its Sriperumbudur facility?
Samsung.
The AC manufacturing unit in India is the fifth in the world for Samsung.
99. According to the Open Doors 2009 report, which country has sent more than one lakh
students to USA for the academic year 2008-09?
India.
India retained its position as the top place of origin for international students in the US.
China remained in second place.

100. Which District panchayats of Kerala have won the ‘Nirmal Grama Puraskaram’
instituted by the Union government for their efforts in maintaining high level of public
hygiene?
Alappuzha and Pathnamthitta

101. Who becomes first Sri Lankan player to score a century in India since 1997?
Tilakaratne Dilshan

102. Ace straw picture craftsman from India who has been invited to take part in the five
day Mode Heim Handwerk fair at Munich from November 25?
Kiran Rajendran. This is the first time that straw pictures from India will get the
opportunity to be displayed in an international gallery.

103. The 11th International Meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties jointly
hosted by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Communist Party of
India (CPI) took place in?
New Delhi.
Communist leaders from around the world met there on November 20-22, 2009 to discuss
how to 'intensify popular struggles'

104. One of Iraq's vice presidents who vetoed the country's new election law recently,
throwing into fresh doubt the feasibility of holding crucial national balloting in January ?
Tariq Hashimi. Iraq has two vice Presidents: Adil Abd Al-Mahdi and Tariq Hashimi.

105. Sri Lankan player who scored a classy double century in the first test match against
India in Ahmedabad?
Mahela Jayawardhene He scored 275 runs and it was his sixth double century.
He won the Man of the match Award of that match.
106. Who has been declared elected in the presidential elections of Afghanistan, which
was held on 20th August, this year?
Hameed Karzai

107. Who has been chosen for the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize of 2009 for Peace,
Disarmament and Development?
Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister.

108. The 32 teams qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Football:
South Africa (Host), Ghana, Ivory Coast, Japan, Australia, South Korea, North Korea,
England, Netherlands, Spain, Serbia, Italy, Denmark, Germany, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile,
United States, Mexico , Switzerland, Slovakia, Argentina, Honduras , New Zealand,
Nigeria, Cameroon, Algeria, Greece, Slovenia, Portugal, France, Uruguay.

109. Who won the first Maliyama Foundation Award?

Irom Sharmila The award will be given to her for her crusade against human rights
violations and for repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958.
110. The 1,500m champion of Beijing Olympics-2008, who has been stripped of his gold
medal after a failed drugs test.
Rashid Ramzi. The Moroccan-born runner who competes internationally for Bahrain was
the only gold medalist from Beijing caught using performance-enhancing drugs

111. Who is the richest man in India with USD 32 billion in net worth followed by steel
tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and Anil Ambani, according to the Forbes annual rich list for the
country?
Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries Chairman.

112. Which Indian film has bagged five awards at the South Asian International Film
Festival held in New York?
'Manjaadikkuru'. The Malayalam film bagged five awards including the ones for Best
Film, Best Direction, Best Script, Best Cinematography and Best Debutante Talent. The
film is directed by Anjali Menon

113. Who has chosen as first full-time president of European Union?

Photo:AP
Herman Van Rompuy, Belgian Prime Minister

114. The cricketer who has reached the milestone in his career by completing a
phenomenal 30,000 runs in international cricket during the Test against Sri Lanka?
Sachin Tendulkar. He became the first batsman to complete 30,000 international runs
when he scored his 35th run in the second innings against Sri Lanka. He slammed his
43rd Test century in that match.

115. Which country won women's team title in the 19th Asian Table Tennis
Championships held in Lucknow?
China. The beat Singapore 3-1 in the final while host India finished seventh.

116. Who has been named as High Representative (Chief) for Foreign Affairs and
Security Policy of European Union?
Catherine Ashton, Britain
117. Which team won their second successive Russian Premier League title?
Rubin Kazan

118. Two Pakistani men accused of providing logistical support for last year's deadly
terror attacks in Mumbai, India, were arrested in Italy. Name of that terrorists?
Mohammad Yaqub Janjua and Aamer Yaqub Janjua

119. Which state of India won the national Junior Athletics Championship held at
Warangal for the 13th consecutive time?
Kerala.

120. Constitution bench to consider the Mullaperiyar dam dispute between Tamil Nadu
and Kerala has been formed recently. The bench consists of?
The five-judge bench would be presided by Justice DK Jain. Justice Mukundakam
Sharma, RM Lodha, D Sudharshan Reddy and Deepak Varma would be the other
members.

121. Who has been named as the Secretary of the International Monetary Fund by its
Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn?
Siddharth Tiwari, Indian economist.

122. Which is the inaugural film of the 40th edition of the International Film Festival of
India (IFFI) in Panaji, Goa, on Nov 23, 2009?
“Wheat", Chinese historical drama was the inaugural film.

123. Who is the Man of the match of the second ODI between South Africa and England
at Super Sport Park, Centurion on 22-11-2009?
Paul Collingwood. He scored unbeaten 105 after took two wickets and held a superb
catch as England beat South Africa by 7-wickets.

124. Which state crowned champions in the 55th National School Games held in
Amritsar?
Kerala. Kerala won 76 medals, including 28 gold, 28 silver and 19 bronze.
Hosts Punjab came second in the medal tally with 24 gold medals and 10 bronze.

125. A long-running inquiry commissioned by the Indian government to investigate the

destruction of the disputed structure Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992. In November
2009, a day after a newspaper published the allegedly leaked contents of the report, the
report was tabled in the Indian parliament by the Home Minister, P. Chidambaram. Name
of that commission?
Liberhan Commission

126. Who has been crowned Miss Earth 2009 which was held on November 22 at the
Boracay beach resort in Aklan province, central Philippines?
Larissa Ramos, Nineteen-year-old Brazilian beauty.

127. Who is the Brand Ambassador of Kerala Hockey?

Suresh Gopi, Malyalam Superstar.
128. Which athletes were crowned as the Male and Female World Athletes of the Year
2009 by International Athletic Foundation (IAF)?
Usain Bolt, Jamaica
Sanya Richard, USA

129. India’s nuclear-capable intermediate range and surface-to-surface missile which was
test—fired for the first time on 23rd of Novmber-2009?
Agni II

130. Who won the Artist of the Year Award at the 37th American Music Awards
(AMAs) beating out Michael Jackson?
Taylor Swift. She won five awards while Jackson got 4 awards.

131. Who was the oldest person to ever climb Mt Everest?

Min Bahadur Sherchan, 78 years old became the oldest person to conquer the world's
highest peak

132. China executed two people recently for their roles in a tainted milk powder scandal
in which at least six children died and more than 300,000 became sick. Who are they?
Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping.
Zhang Yujun was executed for endangering public safety and Geng Jinping was executed
for producing and selling toxic food

133. Who has taken over as General Manager, Southern Railway on 21st November
2009?
Shri Deepak Krishan

134. Secretary Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs who is appointed as Secretary of

Ministry of Shipping?
K Mohandas.

135. SEBI (Stock Exchange Board of India )has served an amended notice to a major
Indian company asking why it shouldn't be barred from accessing the stock markets
under the rules on fraudulent and unfair trade practices and the gains it made of Rs.513
crore not be disgorged. Which is that company?
Reliance Industries (RIL). SEBI has issued an amended notice to Mukesh Ambani-led
RIL on insider trading.

136. Who became the first woman president to fly in a fighter jet, the Sukhoi-30MKI of
the Indian Air Force?
Pratibha Patil, Indian President

137. Prosecutors in the genocide trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded a
40-year jail sentence recently for a man they described as responsible for snuffing out
innocent lives and spreading terror across Cambodia. Name of that Jail Chief?
Kaing Guek Eav. He is also known as Duch (pronounced DOIK) oversaw the torture and
execution of about 16,000 men, women and children during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79
rule. Some 1.7 million Cambodians died of torture, execution, disease and starvation
under the Khmer Rouge.
The Khmer Rouge was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of
Kampuchea, the totalitarian ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot,
Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan.

138. Iran's best-selling newspaper, which has been banned for publishing a picture of a
temple belonging to the outlawed Bahai sect.?
Hamshahri.

139. Who became the fourth highest run getter in Test cricket, surpassing former
Australian captain, Allan Border?
Rahul Dravid. Border took 156 Tests to reach 11,174 Test runs at an average of 50.56.
Dravid reached 11182 runs in 136 Tests at an average of 53.50,
Tendulkar - 161 matches - 12917 runs - average of 54.76
Lara -131 matches - 11953 runs - average of 52.88
Ponting - 136 matches - 11345 runs - average of 55.88

140. Who has been appointed as chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India?
Srikumar Banerjee. He is a leading expert in Materials and Technology in the country
and director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)

141. The son of a Philippines clan boss who was charged with murder recently after the
massacre of at least 57 people in last week of November-2009?
Andal Ampatuan Jr, a local mayor in Maguindanao province.

142. The United States of America has reached an agreement to station an American
antimissile defense system on a country in Central Europe recently. Which is that
country?
Poland.
United States and Poland have agreed terms for stationing US troops in Poland so that the
deployment of US Patriot missiles can start next year.

143. The search engine which apologized recently for results of image search of 'Michelle
Obama’, first lady of U.S.?
Google.
In November, when someone typed "Michelle Obama" in the popular search engine
Google, one of the first images that came up was a picture of the American first lady
altered to resemble a monkey.

144. Pakistan player who hits century on debut in the first test match against New
Zealand in Dunedin?
Umar Akmal, a blistering 129 (160b, 21x4, 2x6) on debut. He won the Man of the Match
award, but Pakistan lost that match by 32 runs.

145. The French Parliament has unanimously adopted the civil nuclear agreement with an
Asian Country. Which is that country?
India.

146. Which car has been ranked No. 1 in the mid-size entry segment (228 PP/100),
according to the 2009 J.D. Power Asia Pacific India Vehicle Dependability Study
released recently?
Ford Ikon
147. Who was awarded the man of the match in the second test match between India and
Sri Lanka played at Kanpur?
Sreesanth. He was declared Man of the Match for his 6 wicket haul.
India beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 144 runs in that match and it was India's 100th
test win in all, their first being way back in 1952 against England.

148. Former Indian Volleyball team captain who has been selected for the 21st Jimmy
George Foundation award, 2009, for his contributions to sports?
Tom Joseph

149. Iranian authorities have confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to Iranian
lawyer-activist in 2003 for her work as a lawyer and human rights activist. Name of that
Nobel laureate?
Shirin Ebadi

150. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), leaders from 51

Commonwealth countries began a three-day summit started on November 27, 2009, held
in?
Port of Spain

151. Which country n launched its fifth spy satellite on 28th November 2009 in a bid to
boost its ability to independently gather intelligence?
China

152. Which company has been awarded the 2009 CII (Confederation of Indian Industry)
National Award for Energy Efficient Unit?
Piramal Healthcare's Digwal, India, manufacturing division.

153. Who was awarded the man of the match in the first test match between Australia and
West Indies played at Brisbane?
Ben Hilfenhaus. This Australian bowler took 3 wickets in the first innings and claimed
two in the second innings. Australia beat West Indies by an innings and 65 runs.

154. Who becomes the youngest West Indian to score a Test century on debut?
Adrian Barath At just 19 years and 228 days, Barath became the seventh youngest
batsman in Test history to post a century on debut. He had scored 104 of West Indies'
total of 154 in the second innings.

155. Who was adjudged Man of the Match in the third ODI between South Africa and
England played at Cape Town on November 27, 2009?
AB de Villiers (South Africa). He scored 121 off 85 balls and South Africa won the
match by 112 runs.

156. Which Indian city will be the venue of the 97th Indian Science Congress?
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
96th Indian Science Congress held at NEHU in Shillong, Meghalaya.
157. In November 2009, more than 50 employees of a nuclear plant of India were
affected due to high radiation levels. A water cooler for supplying water for the
employees was contaminated with tritiated water. Where is that nuclear plant?
Kaiga nuclear power station situated at Kaiga in Uttar Kannada district in Karnataka,
India.

158. The African nation which has been admitted into the Commonwealth of Nations,
becoming the 54th member of the organization of mostly former British colonies?
Rwanda

159. Who was adjudged Man of the Match in the fourth ODI between South Africa and
England played at Port Elizabeth on November 29, 2009?
James Anderson (England). He took five wickets and England won the match by 7
wickets.

160. Which country decided to sign civil nuclear deal with India recently?
Canada. India and Canada have agreed on a civil nuclear deal that will enable New Delhi
to access Canadian nuclear technology and uranium after a gap of 34 years. The deal is
likely to be signed when Manmohan Singh goes to Canada to attend the G20 summit in
June, 2010.

161. Chief of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) who was sent to jail for 14 days after his
arrest in Andhra Pradesh's Karimnagar district before he could begin his "fast unto death"
for a separate Telangana state?
K Chandrasekhara Rao.

162. Whom will be the new partner of Mahesh Bhupathi in doubles for the next tennis
season?

Max Mirnyi of Belarus. Bhupathi and Mirnyi had enjoyed a successful partnership in the
past when the two won the 2002 US Open and also reached the Wimbledon final in 2003.
Mark Knowles was his earlier partner which ended in the semifinals of the ATP World
Tour Finals.

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- OCTOBER-2009

1. In which place of Kerala, one of the worst boat tragedies in its history occurred, after
Kerala Tourism Development Corporation’s new double-decker boat ‘Jalakanyaka’
carrying 74 tourists capsized that claimed 45 lives on September 30,2009?
Periyar Reservoir at Thekkady

2. Name the place where a powerful Pacific Ocean earthquake spawned towering tsunami
waves which hit on September 29 that killing more than 113 people and leaving dozens
of workers missing?
Samoa Islands in the central South Pacific

3. Name of the Tropical Storm that hits Philippines on September 26, 2009 killing 246
people and causing massive flooding in the region?
Ketsana

4. Name the top American official at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan who has been
ordered out of the country after he disagreed with superiors over how to deal with
widespread fraud charges from the presidential election in Afghanistan?
Peter Galbraith

5. Former Haryana chief minister (from March to November 1967), who was also a
former cabinet minister in 1980-84 and held various portfolios including agriculture, rural
development as well as food and supplies died recently ?
Rao Birender Singh

6. Former 100 meter world champion who has announced his retirement recently from
international competition.
Kim Collins

7. Eminent singer who has been selected for the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for the year
2007 which carries a Cash Prize of Rs. 10 lakh, a Swaran Kamal and a Shawl?
Shri Manna Dey

8. Which company has agreed to arrange 2.2 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas
(LNG) per year that NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation) Ltd will use to fuel its
southern India plant at Kayamkulam, Kerala which is currently running on naphtha?
Petronet LNG

9. A rare 507 carat white diamond, considered being among the top 20 largest high
quality rough diamonds ever found worldwide was discovered recently from which
place?

The Cullinan Mine near Pretoria in South Africa. The diamond is discovered by the
Mining group Petra Diamond, London-listed Company.

10. Which country celebrated 60years of Communist rule with a spectacular military and
civilian parade through the centre of its capital city?
China

11. In which place of India, geologists recently have found a cluster of dinosaur eggs,
said to be about 65 million years old?
A village in Ariyalur District of Tamil Nadu.

12. Nick name of the oldest known fossil skeleton of a human ancestor—a female
Ardipithecus ramidus specimen which has been found recently?
"Ardi"

Picture courtesy J. H. Matternes via Science/AAAS

13. Turkish journalist who threw a shoe at IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in
Istanbul ahead of key meetings on the economic crisis, as rallies set to bring thousands
into the streets got underway?
Selcuk Ozbek

14. Legendary Film director who was arrested in Switzerland for the rape of then 13-
year-old Samantha Geimer on a 31-year-old international arrest warrant as he arrived to
attend the Zurich Film Festival?
Roman Polanski

15. Who became the third batsman to reach 12,000 one-day international (ODI) runs?
Ricky Ponting
Other two are Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya.

16. Who won Pan Pacific Open tennis title-2009?

Maria Sharapova
She won the Toray Pan Pacific Open title when Jelena Jankovic retired because of an arm
injury in the first set.

17. Marking the International Day of Non-Violence, which organization has recently
released a stamp of Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of his 140th birth anniversary?
The United Nations

18. Which country will host the 2016 Olympics?

Brazil.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
Brazil will also host the World Cup Football-2014

19. The last surviving leader of the ill-fated 1943 Warsaw ghetto revolt against the Nazis,
died at the age of 90?

Photo by Kubik

Marek Edelman
During the World War II, he co-founded the Jewish Combat Organization. He took part
in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, becoming its leader after the death of Mordechaj
Anielewicz. He also took part in the city-wide 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

20. Expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh is leading a non-BJP, non-Congress group of MPs
in Parliament, which seeks to play the role of a “critical opposition”. Name that group of
Independent MPs who have come together due to ‘commonality of issues’.
The Lok Morcha

21. The doyen of Indian rationalist movement, a vocal atheist, skeptic and caustic critic
of Sathya Sai Baba, died on October 4th 2009 at the Abhirami Hospital in Coimbatore?

Basava Premanand

22. Who has won Formula One’s Japanese Grand Prix 2009 title?
Sebastian Vettel
23. Who has won the European Golden Shoe for the second time after scoring 32 goals
for Atletico Madrid in the Spanish league this season?

Diego Forlan

24. Who won Nobel Prize for physics in 2009?

The Nobel Prize in physics will be awarded to Americans.
1. Charles K. Kao,
2. Willard S. Boyle and
3. George E. Smith.
Kao was honored for discovering how to transmit light signals long distance through
hair-thin glass fibers.
Boyle and Smith received the prize for opening the door to digital cameras by inventing a
sensor that turns light into electrical signals

25. Who was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Greece after his party PASOK won
recent Parliamentary Elections?
George Papandreou. His party, i.e. the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) has
won 160 out of 300 seats

26. Which country won the Champions Trophy Cricket title-2009 held in South Africa?
Australia. They beat New Zealand in the final by 6 wickets
Man of the Match in the Final: Shane Watson (For his match-winning innings of
unbeaten 105 of 129 balls)
Man of the Series: Ricky Ponting

27. List the name of scientists who are selected for 2009 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
for Science and Technology which is given to scientists below 45 years of age, for their
outstanding scientific contributions made primarily in India during the last 5 years
proceeding the year of the Prize?
Biological Sciences:
1. Dr Amitabh Joshi, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research,
Banglore and
2. Dr Bhaskar Saha, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune.
Chemical Sciences:
3. Dr Charusita chakravarty, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi and 4.Dr
Narayanaswamy Jayaraman, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences:
5. Dr S K Satheesh, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Engineering Sciences:
6. Dr Giridhar Madras, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and
7.Dr Jayant Ramaswamy Haritsa, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Mathematical Sciences:
8. Dr Venapally Suresh, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Medical Sciences:
9. Dr Santosh Gajanan Honavar, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad
Physical Sciences:
10. Dr Rajesh Gopakumar, Harish-Chandra research Institute, Allahabad and
11. Dr Abhishek Dhar, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
Shri Prithviraj Chavan also gave away CSIR Young Scientist Award 2009

28. One of the main orchestrators of the Rwandan 1994 genocide who has been arrested
in Kampala, the Ugandan capita?

Idelphonse Nizeyimana
Known as the Butcher of Butare, Nizeyimana is accused of being one of the "top four"
men who directed the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. He is believed to have ordered the
execution of Rosalie Gicanda, the Queen of Rwanda and the head of the Tutsi tribe.

29. Who has been appointed as the Advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on
Infrastructure, Innovation and Information?
Sam Pitroda. He is now the Chairman National Knowledge Commission.

30. Who won Nobel Prize for Chemistry-2009?

1. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (USA)
2. Thomas Steitz (USA)
3. Ada Yonath (Israel)
Ada is the first woman to receive it since 1964
Award is given for creating detailed blueprints of ribosomes, the protein-making
machinery within cells, research that’s being used to develop new antibiotics.
31. Who won Man Booker Prize Award-2009?

Hilary Mantel. This British novelist won the award for her gripping 16th century tale
titled “Wolf Hall”

32. Name the French Tourism Company which bought Mahatma Gandhi's house in South
Africa for an amount of $377,029 outbidding other bidders including Indians?
Voyageurs du Monde. The company plans to turn the property into a Gandhi museum in
line with its philosophy of investing in heritage properties worldwide and Gandhiji lived
in the house from 1908 to 1910.

33. Which animal has been declared as ‘National Aquatic Animal’ by Government of
India?
‘Dolphin
GANGA DOLPHIN, locally known as ‘Sauns’ has been declared as ‘National Aquatic
Animal’. In India, they live more in Ganga River.

34. The former head of Interpol and South Africa's national police chief who went on
trial accused of corruption.
Photo:AFP

Jackie Selebi
Mr Selebi is accused of taking money and gifts from a notorious alleged gangster, Glenn
Agliotti,

35. Who won National Snooker Championship title-2009?

Pankaj Adwani. He defeated Saurabh Kothari in final.
Pankaj Adwani also won the National Billiards Title-2009 defeating Geet Sethi in a
nerve-wracking final.

36. National women's billiards title-2009 is won by?

Meenal Thakur. She defeated her younger sister Anuja Chandra in the final.

37. Who won Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine -2009?

1. Elizabeth H. Blackburn (U.S.A)
2. Carol W. Greider (U.S.A)
3. Jack W. Szostak (U.S.A)
They got this award for discovering how chromosomes protect themselves as cells divide,
work that has inspired experimental cancer therapies and may offer insights into aging.

38. Which team won the Irani Trophy Cricket title for 2009-10?
Rest of India. They won the title on the basis of their first innings lead against Renji
Trophy Champions Mumbai as a wet outfield ruled out any play on the last day of the
match

39. Who has been selected for the 24th Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration for
the year 2008?
Balraj Puri.He is a leading political commentator and eminent journalist.

40. Which country tops the list of the countries with the highest quality of life according
to the annual Human Development Index, unveiled by the U. N. Development Program?
Norway. According to this index, Norway is the best country in the world in which to
live.
Niger comes in last position and India ranks 134th out of 182 countries in the world.

41. Who won Nobel Prize-in literature of this year?

The award is given to Germany’s Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born writer honored for
work that “with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the
landscape of the dispossessed.”

42. Which state won IBN 7 Diamond state award for “India’s best big state” for their
overall performance and significant contribution to the development of the state?
Kerala.
“India’s best small state award” is won by Goa.
The award is given by IBN 7 network in partnership with Outlook magazine.

43. Winner of The Wisden Cricketer magazine's World Test Player of the Year 2009
award?
Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladesh all rounder

44. The tropical storm that hits Japan on October 8 killing two people and shuttering
factories, closing schools and stranding commuters and travelers at airports and train
stations?
Typhoon Melor

45. According to the QS/Times Higher Education rankings, which university retained the
top position among the top 100 varsities of the world?
Harvard University (U.S.A).
None of the Indian universities figure among the top 100 varsities of the world
Second spot-Cambridge University (Britain)

46. Which team won the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy of 2009?
India Red
India Red, under the captaincy of S Badrinath defeated Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led India
Blues by 7 wickets in the final.

47. One of the greatest writers of Gothic fiction who has given funeral 160 years after his
mysterious death?
Edgar Allan Poe He has been honoured with a second funeral service on October 10,
2009.

48. Boyzone singer, who has been found dead at the age of 33 while on holiday with his
partner Andrew in Mallorca.
Stephen Gately

49. Indian sound engineer who was recently inducted into the Motion pictures Academy,
the members of which can cast their votes for the list of Oscar nominees?
Rasool Pookutty

50. Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints on 11th of October-2009. Name the
five saints.
1. Jozef De Veuster, better known as Father Damien was a Roman Catholic priest from
Belgium and he won recognition for his ministry to people with leprosy
2. Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski, a Polish bishop who kept championing Catholicism after
Russia shut down Polish churches in retaliation for the Polish uprising against Russia in
Warsaw in 1861.
3. Jeanne Jugan, a French nun who set up an order that runs homes for destitute around
the world.
4. Francisco Coll y Guitart, a Spaniard who founded an order of Dominicans in the 19th
century.
5. Rafael Arnaiz Baron, a Spaniard, who wrote extensively about spirituality before his
death at age 27.

51. Countries which have signed a historic peace agreement recently ending a century of
hostility – hostility that stemmed from the World War One mass killing of Armenians by
Ottoman forces?
Turkey and Armenia

52. A former TV crime show host and state legislator accused of commissioning killings
to boost ratings turned him in to authorities and was jailed on homicide and drug
trafficking charges?
Wallace Souza
53. Who has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize?
Barack Obama, US President.

54. Canada's first space tourist and also the world's first Space Clown who returned from
International Space station on October 11, 2009?
Guy Laliberte

55. Who is the new President of International Academy of Astronautics?

G Madhavan Nair. (Former ISRO Chairman)

56. Who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences?

Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson for their work in economic governance.
Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences since it was
founded in 1968.

57. The Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal?

Sujata Koirala

58. Name of the previously unreleased song by Michael Jackson which was unveiled to
the world almost four months after the star's death?
"This Is It"

59. Sweden striker who announced his retirement from International Football recently?
Henrik Larsson. Larsson retired in 2002 but returned to international action two years
later.

60. Who are the co-winners of the 2009 Right Livelihood Award, known as "Alternative
Nobel", for their work in campaigning against nuclear weapons, protecting the rain
forests of Congo and raising awareness about climate change?
1. Alyn Ware of New Zealand
2. Rene Ngongo of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
3. David Suzuki of Canada
4. Catherine Hamlin of Australia who won the award for treating women in Ethiopia
suffering from obstetric fistula.

61. Who has received the 2009 Golden Foot award?

Ronaldinho, Brazilian Striker

62. New Zealand all-rounder who retired from Test cricket to prolong his career in the
shorter formats of the game?
Jacob Oram

63. Who is the new director of National Cricket Academy of India?

Sandeep Patel

64. Indian footballer who was a part of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics squad that finished
fourth, which is India's best finish in Olympic football, died recently?
Keshto Pal

65. India has signed a civil nuclear pact with which country that encourages and support
scientific technical and commercial co-operation for mutual benefit in the peaceful uses
of nuclear energy?
Argentina. Argentina has become the seventh country, following US, France, Russia,
Kazakhstan, Namibia and Mongolia, with which India has signed a civil nuclear
agreement.

66. Argentina qualified for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa following a 1-0 away
victory over arch rival Uruguay in Montevideo. Who scored that goal for Argentina?
Mario Bolatti.He scored the goal in the 84th minute.

67. Who is appointed as the new member of the Supreme Court Collegium after
retirement of the second senior most apex court judge Justice B N Agarwal?
Justice R V Raveendran.
Supreme Court Collegium, headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, has Justices H S
Kapadia, Tarun Chatterjee and Altamas Kabir as the members.

68. India recently signed the Military Technical Cooperation Agreement with which
country?
Russia.
India and Russia signed two defence deals at the conclusion of the Sixth Meeting of the
India - Russia Inter Governmental Commission on Military Technical Cooperation
(IRIGC-MTC). The first agreement would be on extending the military technical
cooperation for ten years from 2011 to 2020 and the second relates to after-sales product
support for defence equipment of Russian origin.

69. Countries which are qualified for World Cup-Football 2010 as the 20th and 21st
nations for the 32-team World Cup, scheduled for next June in South Africa?
Switzerland and Slovakia.
This is Slovakia’s first World Cup. They achieved the landmark by beating Poland 1-0

70. Who has been appointed as the captain of the Australia Twenty20 team?
Michael Clark
Vice Captain: Cameron White

71. Indian-American billionaire who has been featured in Forbes annual list of America's
200 Best Small Companies among "eight self-made stars who have built tidy empires in
an array of industries"?
Bharat Desai

72. The Country which decided to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s telescope
and the U.N.-designated International Year of Astronomy recently?
Vatican

73. The first African country to win the under-20 World Cup Football after beating four-
time champions Brazil 4-3 in a penalty shoot out in the final held in Cairo.
Ghana

74. Veteran Journalist, publisher social activist and a pioneer in bringing out evening
dailies in Malayalam died at a private hospital in Kozhikode in Kerala.
Theruvath Raman

75. Who has been named as the AIFF (All India Football Federation) Player of the Year-
2009?
Subrata Paul. Paul has thus become the first goalkeeper to win this award which started in
1992.

76. Who is elected as the new president of the All India Football Federation?
Prafool Patel
General Secretary of AIFF: Alberto Colaco

77. Who is the new world champion in Formula One?

Jenson Button

78. Russian gymnast, who won a bronze medal at world championships in London, died
y in a car crash recently?
Yury Ryazanov

79. Who becomes the youngest ever recipient of the Order of Jamaica, one of the
country's highest honours, at a ceremony in the capital Kingston?
Usain Bolt

80. Who was re-elected as President of Indonesia securing nearly 61 per cent of the vote,
ahead of his nearest rival and ex-president Megawati Sukarnoputri?
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

81. Who is the Vice President of Indonesia?

Boediono

82. A man who worked for years as a nurse's aide in Maryland and Pennsylvania who has
been crowned as a king in Uganda recently?
Charles Wesley Mumbere

83. Which trains collided in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura city killing 23 people on October
23, 2009?
Goa Express and Mewar Express,

84. Who was confirmed as the next Lucasian Professor of Mathematics on 19 October
2009, to succeed Stephen Hawking on 1 November 2009?
Michael Boris Green. He is a British physicist and one of the pioneers of string theory.

85. Which country has begun operating an earthquake monitoring station at the foot of
Mount Everest in a bid to learn more about the world's highest peak?
China

86. Recipients of UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)-

Madanjeet Singh Prize-2009 for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence?
Franois Houtart of Belgium and Abdul Sattar Edhi of Pakistan
Franois Houtart won this award for his life-long commitment to world peace, human
rights and the promotion of tolerance. Abdul Sattar won this award for his life-long
efforts to ameliorate the conditions of the most disadvantaged groups in Pakistan and
South Asia. The prize money comprises of $100,000 which is to be shared equally
between them.

87. The broadcaster which has bagged the broadcast rights for cricket to be played in
India over the next four years starting April 2010?
Nimbus Communications Ltd. They own the Neo Sports and Neo Cricket channels.
Nimbus will pay the BCCI well over Rs 2,000 core for airing all the matches organized
by the board in India from 2010 to 2014.

88. American scientist who had worked for the White House and NASA was arrested by
the United States authorities recently, charged with attempted spying for Israel?
Stewart David Nozette.

89. Who is the Prime Minister of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir?

Raja Farooq Haider Khan

90. Indian American philanthropist brothers who won the Northern Virginia Community
Foundation’s community leader award for 2009?
Sudhakar V. Shenoy and Suresh V. Shenoy

91. Who bagged the PSPB Sports Person of the Year award for 2008-09?
Saina Nehwal
World billiards champion Pankaj Advani and cricketer Virender Sehwag shared the
Sports Person of the Year award for 2007-08.
92. The Director of National Institute for Ocean Technology (NIOT)?
Dr. M.A.Atmanand

93. Who was named New Zealand cricketer of the year-2009?

Daniel Vettori. He was also honoured with all-rounder and most successful first class
bowler award.

94. Which party emerged victorious in all assembly elections held in the three states of
Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh?
Indian National Congress

95. Who has denied having written a foreword attributed to him in the autobiography by
Congo Republic President Denis Sassou-Nguesso?
Nelson Mandela

96. Which team clinches Champions League T20 Cricket title-2009?

New South Wales Blues. They beat Trinidad and Tobago in the final by 41 runs

97. Which state won the National Interstate Athletic championship-2009?

Kerala

98. Coach of New Zealand Cricket Team who has resigned from his position following a
review of the performance of the side after their return from the Champions Trophy?
Andy Moles

99. The only Indian film which is included in the competition section of the 54th
Valladolid International Film Festival which began on October 23
Rithu (Malayalam Film) which is directed by National Award winner Syamaprasad,
Valladolid, one of Europe’s oldest film festivals.

100. The only Indian Film Director who is included in the judges’ panel of 11th
International Film Festival at Mumbai which starts from October-29?
Shaji N Karun.

101. New name of Orissa?

Orissa will soon be known as Odisha and the name Oriya language too will be changed
from Oriya to Odia.

102. Who won the Kremlin Cup Women’s tennis title-2009?

Francesca Schiavone of Italy. She beat Olga Govortsova of Belarus in the final.

103. Who won the Kremlin Cup Men’s tennis title-2009?

Mikhail Youzhny(Russia). He beat Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia in the final.

104. Who won the Moto Grant Pix World Championship-2009?

Valentino Rossi (Italy)

105. Which country won the seven-match hockey Test series against Canada in Canada?
India. India won the series 6-0.
106. Fifteenth ASEAN summit which ends With Pledge to Build Flexible Community
held in?
15th Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) during October
23-25 in two well-known adjoining beach resorts of Cha-am and Hua Hin in Thailand.
Association of Southeast Nations has 10 members - Brunei, Burma, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam - which
met with dialogue partners Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea
for an East Asia Summit.

107. Former Cuban President Fidel Castro’s younger sister who has just revealed that she
was for years a spy for the CIA.?
Juanita Castro.
The revelations come in a new memoir, “Fidel and Raúl, My Brothers: The Secret
History”

108. Who won Stockholm Open Tennis title -2009?

Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis. He captured his first title of 2009 with a straight set victory
over Belgium’s Olivier Rochus.

109. Mongolian Prime Minister who tenders resignation citing health reasons? Bayar
Sanjaa

110. Which country has stopped issuing visas to Canadian citizens amid rising tensions
between the two governments?
Libya

111. Who has been appointed the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra for the third time?
Chhagan Bhujbal

112. 21-year-old women’s 100-meter sprint champion who has been banned from
competition for life after testing positive for banned drugs at the China National Games?
Wang Jing

113. Who has been appointed as chairman and managing director (MD) of Punjab
National Bank?
K R Kamath

114. Which footballer has won the award for the best player of Spanish league 2008-
2009?
Lionel Messi

115. A Taliban car bomb killed 89 Pakistanis and wounded hundreds more at a bazaar in
Pakistan took place hours after the US Secretary of State touched down for a diplomatic
visit in Islamabad. Venue of that car bomb attack?
Meena Bazaar, in Peshawar

116. The former England umpire, who has died at the age of 68 after a long battle with
cancer?
David Shepherd

117. Name of the controversial book written by Andre Agassi in which he admits that he
used the drug crystal meth or ice in the middle of his highly lucrative tennis career?

“Open”

118. Man of the Match of first ODI between India and Australia held in Baroda?
Michael Hussey

119. Man of the Match of second ODI between India and Australia held in Nagpur?
Mahendra Singh Dhoni

120. Who will be the new deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India?
Subir Gokarn

121. Name of the last work of Michael Jackson ,a documentary which released recently ?
“This is it”

122. Who has been elected as the first Asian American woman president of the 75-year-
old American College of Chest Physicians?
Dr Kalpalatha K Guntupalli

123. Which country takes the lead in this year’s ranking of the world’s most prosperous
countries announced by the UK-based economic think-tank the Legatum Institute on 27
October?
Finland.
The top three includes two other small liberal democracies, Switzerland and Sweden.
Zimbabwe is in the last spot.

124. Toronto-based folk singer who died after coyotes pounced on her during a solo hike
in Cape Breton national park in Canada?
Taylor Mitchell
Coyote is a member of the dog family found in low deserts and valleys.

125. Name of NASA’s first rocket since 1981, which has launched successfully on 28th
of October 2009?
Ares 1-X

126. United Nations torture investigator who was barred from Zimbabwe and sent back to
South Africa after a night in Harare airport?
Manfred Nowak

127. India’s second-largest public sector lender which plans to buy a majority stake in
Dana Bank, bank in Kazakhstan, for an estimated $24 million, which would be its first
overseas acquisition?
Punjab National Bank

128. Name of the world’s largest and most expensive cruise ship which has set sail
recently for Miami from the Finnish shipyard where it was built?

“Oasis of the Seas”

129. The Malayalam Superstar who is elected as the goodwill ambassador of Kerala
athletics?
Mohan Lal
Superstar Mammootty had been hailed as the brand ambassador of volleyball in Kerala.

130. Eminent scientist who took over as the chairman of the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO)?

K Radhakrishnan

131. Who is the new Director of Vikram Sarabahi Space Centre (VSSC),
Thiruvananthapuram?
P.S. Veeraraghavan, a rocket technologist.

132. Due to security reasons, India has recently issued an order to ban all pre-paid mobile
phones in a state. Which is that state?
Jammu and Kashmir.

133. A collection of letters from British poet sold at auction for $459,110.67, exceeding
the highest pre-sale estimates by more than $160,000 and selling for more than any other
letters or manuscript by a British Romantic poet. Name of that Poet?
Lord George Byron

134. Haiti -- Prime Minister who was removed from office by the Haitian Senate?
Michele Pierre-Louis

135. An Indian-American who has been appointed as Assistant Secretary of Commerce

and Director General of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service in the US
Department of Commerce?
Suresh Kumar
CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- SEPTEMBER-
2009

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- SEPTEMBER-2009

1. Which country won Nehru Cup International Football Tournament 2009?

India
India defeated Syria by 5-4 (penalty shootout) in the finals on August 31, 2009.
Goal-keeper Subroto Paul, who saved three penalties to become India’s saviour, was
awarded the man of the match of the final.
India won this cup two times, 2007 & 2009.

2. Who won the Man of the Tournament award of Nehru Cup Football title-2009?
Bhaichung Bhutia, Indian Captain

3. Which scientist is elected as the new President of International Academy of

Astronautics (IAA)?
Dr. Madhavan Nair, Chief of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

4. Who is the new Air Officer Commanding –in-Chief of Southern Air Command of
India?
Air Marshal Sumit Mukerjee. He is the only pilot in the history of IAF to have
commanded units with the Mig-21,Mig-23U, Mig-25, Mig-27 and Mig-29 aircraft.

5. Who is appointed as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Naval

Command?
Vice-Admiral K.N. Sushil

6. Who will act as a bowling consultant for the Kolkata Knight Riders during the third
edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) next year?
Vasim Akram

7. India achieved a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of how much percentage
during April-June 2009?
6.1%

8. The Indian-American fashion designer who charged with sexually assaulting seven
girls was sentenced to 59 years of imprisonment on Aug 31?
Anand Jon Alexander

9. Who is appointed as the new Air Officer-in-Charge Personnel (AOP)of the Indian Air
Force (IAF)?
Air Marshal KJ Mathews

10. Country which has been expelled from the Commonwealth after failing to announce
plans to hold elections in 2010?
Fiji
11. Distinguished scientist and the man in charge of the development of missile and
strategic systems in the country, who is appointed as the chief of the Defence Research
and Development Organisation(DRDO)?
Dr Vijay Kumar Saraswat

12. Who is appointed as the vice chief of Indian Army?

Lt General P C Bhardwaj

13. Bollywood Actor who has been appointed by Life insurance Company Max New
York Life as the brand ambassador for Max Vijay, a brand specifically targeted at
providing financial inclusion to the underprivileged masses?
Amitabh Bachchan

14. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister who feared dead after his Bell 430 chopper crash-
landed about 40 nautical miles east of the Kurnool mountainous area of Andra Pradesh?

Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy

15. The first Iranian female cabinet minister who is appointed since the foundation of the
Islamic Republic 30 years?
Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi
Iranian parliament approves Marzieh as new health minister despite opposition from
hardline MPs and clerics.

16. Who won the Man of the Series Award in the recent 20-20 cricket series between Sri
Lanka and New Zealand which is held in Sri Lanka?
Jesse Ryder(New Zealand).
New Zealand won the series by 2-0.

17. Lok Sabha Secretary General who was recently given a year's extension by Lok
Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar?
P.D.T. Acharya

18. Who took over charge as Additional General Manager, Southern Railway?
Shri A.K. Gupta

19. Athletes who won $1 million Golden League jackpot which is given by IAAF
(International Association of Athletics Federations) to anyone who wins all six of the
premier European meets?
(All gold Yelena Isinbayeva, Kenenisa Bekele and Sanya Richards Getty Images)

Answer:Yelena Isinbayeva, Kenenisa Bekele and Sanya Richards

20. Who is the new Brand Ambassador of popular Levis Jeans?

Priyanka Chopra.

21. U.S.President Barack Obama's adviser and an administration official specializing in

environmentally friendly "green jobs" with the White House Council on Environmental
Quality who resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements?

(Photo:Carlos)

Van Jones

22. Who has topped the list of world's 10 top earning cricketers compiled by Forbes
magazine ?
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian skipper

Raking in USD 10 million, Dhoni is at the top of the chart followed by Tendulkar at the
second spot with earnings worth USD 8 million in the list of 'The World's Top-Earning
Cricketers' . While Yuvraj Singh and Dravid are at the third and fourth spot, respectively,
Ganguly and Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting share the sixth place.
23. Former Chief Minister of Punjab and former governor of Haryana and Orissa , who
died recently after a prolonged illness?
Harcharan Singh Brar

24. National Film Awards for the year 2007-2008

Visit the below link
http://questionforall.blogspot.com/2009/10/winners-of-national-film-awardsfor-year.html

25. Who has become the second Indian after Geet Sethi to win the World’s Billiards
Championship?
Pankaj Advani
He beat defending champion Mark Russel 2030-1253 to win the World Professional
Billiards Championship-2009. Geet Sethi won the title in 1992.

26. Australian Cricket player who retired from international Twenty20 cricket recently?
Ricky Ponting

27. The first African country to qualify for the 2010 World Cup Football which is to be
held in South Africa?
Ghana

28. Which country leads world in foreign weapons sales in the year 2008?
United States of America. America accounted for more than two-thirds of foreign
weapons sales in 2008.

29. Who participated as the chief guest at the 19th Independence Day celebrations of
Tajikistan which was held at Dushanbe?
Pratibha Patil, President of India

30. Reserve Bank recently decided to introduce polymer banknotes of which

denomination whose life span would be 4 times the normal currency notes and would be
difficult to imitate.?
Rs 10
Polymer notes were first introduced in Australia to safeguard against counterfeiting of
currency

31. The Sri Lankan government has ordered a senior United Nations diplomat to leave
the country after accusing him of partiality towards the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(LTTE). Name of that spoke person of UNICEF?
James Elder, an Australian national.

32. Woman journalist of Sudan convicted of public indecency for wearing trousers
outdoors was freed recently despite her own desire to serve a month in prison as protest
against Sudan's draconian morality laws?
Lubna Hussein

33. Name of the Buddha statue gifted by Mahatma Gandhi to one of his Irish friend,
which was sold in London in the auction for Rs 5.47 lakh (6,840 pounds)?
Bodhisattva.
The statue was possibly of the Bodhisattva of compassion Avalokitesvara, a seated 13-
inch-high bronze Buddha statue.
Gandhiji gave this statue to his Irish friend Emma Harker when she volunteered for relief
work among the poor in flooded areas of Bihar and Orissa.

34. Who was the captain of Indian team for the 23rd FIBA Asia Women Basketball
Championship held in Chennai?
Geethu Anna Jose

35. Venezuela recognized the independence of two countries on September 10, 2009.
Name that countries.
South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Earlier, Russia and Nicaragua also recognized independence of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia.

36. New York Governor David Paterson recently signed into law a bill that bans use of a
word in documents used by state agencies, public authorities and municipalities when
referring to persons of Asian or Pacific islander heritage.
Which word?
"Oriental"

37. Indian Musician who has been invited to perform live along with the famous Pussycat
Dolls — a pop girl group and dance ensemble- on the occasion of the India’s historic
participation in the America’s world famous Polo Cup?
A.R.Rahman

38. Former Taiwan President who has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to
life in prison?
Chen Shui-bian

39. Indian film which is included in the “Festival of festival” section in the Cairo
International film festival that will commence on the tenth of November?
Raman. The film is directed by Dr.Biju.

40. Which footballer won the annual VP Sathyan Memorial Award?

Mohanraj
Chennai-based, Kerala Sports Persons Association (KESPA) has picked Tamil Nadu
footballer Mohanraj for this award.

41. Former president of BCCI who served as the chairman of the national selection
committee (including when Sachin Tendulkar was first picked in the Indian team in
1989) died at the age of 73 following a prolonged illness recently?
Raj Singh Dungarpur

42. High Court Lawyer, who has been appointed Assistant Solicitor General of India for
conducting Central government cases other than the cases of income tax and the Railway
Department before the High Court?
T.P.M. Ibrahim Khan

43. An island of Mexico which was clearly visible on national and international maps
until the middle of the 20th century has gone missing now?
Bermeja Island. This island is strategically important as it could give Mexico a claim to
millions of dollars worth of oil deposits.

44. Cuban revolutionary leader, who has died in Havana at the age of 82, had been
among only three surviving rebel leaders who still bore the honorary title “Commander of
the Revolution.”
Juan Almeida Bosque

45. World's oldest person, a woman who was born in 1894 died in California at the age of
115 gained a measure of fame when she voted for Barack Obama for U.S. president?
Gertrude Baines

46. Which country will host the 6th SAF football matches scheduled for December 1-15
of this year?
Bangladesh. Eight teams of South Asian countries will take part in these matches.

47. First Indian to reach semi-finals of World Boxing Championships and fist Indian to
win a medal in the same event?
Vijender Kumar
He won Bronze medal in the World Boxing Championships and becomes the first Indian
to do so.

48. Which club won their maiden IFA Shield football tournament title?

Churchill Brothers, Goa

They beating local giant Mohun Bagan 2-0

49. Nat West One day cricket series between England and Australia won by ?
Australia. They won the series 6-1.

50. Who has been selected for this year’s Mathrubhumi Literary Award of Rs.2 Lakhs
instituted by the Malayalam daily “Mathrubhumi”?
Kovilan

51. Name of the 14-year-old astrophysicist from Kozhikode, Kerala who recently
participated in the NASA space camp where a model rocket designed by her was
launched?
Hannan Binth Hashim.
She has prepared a research paper titled ‘Absolute Theory of Zero' which questions the
accuracy of many existing theories like Albert Einstein's ‘Theory of relativity' and the
‘Big Bang Theory'.

52. An American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate who has been deemed
the father of the Green Revolution died at the age of 95, on September 12, 2009?

Norman Borlaug.
He was one of only six people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal
of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. He was also a recipient of the Padma
Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honor.

53. Which film won the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival?
"Lebanon"
Hard-hitting Israeli war movie "Lebanon" is directed by Samuel Maoz
Best Actor Award: Colin Firth
Best Actress Award: Ksenia Rappoport

54. Who won the Silver Lion prize for best director at the Venice film festival?
Shirin Neshat
She won this award for the film "Women without Men," based on a banned book about
Iran in the 1950s.

55. ‘Basava Sri’ award instituted by Murugha mutt won by ?

P.T.Usha.

56. Noted football commentator who was found dead in his hotel a day after the final of
the IFA Shield?
Noel De Lima Leitao

57. French photographer who was one of France's giants of photography, particularly
famous for his images of post-war Paris in the 1940s and 1950s died recently at the age
of 99?
Willy Ronis

58. Who has been named as one of the two Anglo Indian nominees to the Lok Sabha --
taking Kerala's strength in the Lower House of the Indian Parliament to 21?
Charles Dias.

59. Which country won the tri-nation Compaq Cup (One Day Cricket Series) held in Sri
Lanka?
India.
India beat Sri Lanka in the final by 46 runs. New Zealand was the third team.
Sachin Tendulkar won Man of the Match Award for his 138 runs in final.
Man of the Series: Sachin Tendulkar

60. Who is appointed as the Managing Director of Agri co-operative National

Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (NAFED)?
C V Ananda Bose

61. The India Today Group has recently adjudged which state of India as the best State
with regard to the law and order situation.
Kerala

62. Who won US Open Men’s Double Title?

Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy
They won the Grand Slam title after defeating Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles in
the US Open men’s doubles final. This is 10th Grant slam title for Leander Paes.

63. Who won the US Open Women’s title 2009?

Kim Clijsters
She beat 19-year-old Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, 7-5, 6-3, in the final.
She become the first unseeded woman to win the US Open and the first mother to win a
major title since 1980.

64. Who Clinch US Open Women’s Doubles Title?

Serena Williams and Venus Williams
They took over top seeds Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Liezel Huber of the United States
in straight sets of 6-2, 6-2 to clinch the women’s doubles title at US Open.

65. Who won US Open men's title?

Juan Martin del Potro
Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina battled back to beat five-times champion Roger
Federer 3-6, 7-6, 4-6, 7-6, 6-2 in the final

66. A juror in the fashion designer Anand Jon rape trial who was fined $1,000 and
sentenced to 120 hours of community service for trying to strike up a romance with
Sanjana, the sister of Anand Jon who was sentenced to 59 years?
Alvin Dymally

67. Who has been selected by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) to head the
operations of the organisation as the Chairman for the period of 2009-10?
Mr Subroto Chattopadhyay

68. Name of the Olympic medal-winning boxer who has been found dead by his
manager?
Darren Sutherland
Sutherland has won a bronze medal for Ireland at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

69. Who will be the chairman of the Fourth Finance Commission constituted by the
Government of Kerala?
Dr.M.A.Umman

70. Name of the sacred food offered to devotees at the Lord Venkateswara Temple in
Andhra Pradesh which has been awarded geographical copyright that bars others from
naming or marketing the sweetmeat preparation under the same name?
Tirupati laddoo

71. Name of the most expensive bike so far launched in India by the Japanese bike giant
Yamaha?

Yamaha VMAX
This 1,680cc super bike VMAX, priced at Rs. 20 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).

72. Person from Kerala who has been honored with the highest award of Bharat Scouts
and Guides ‘Silver Elephant Award 2007-08’.?
Shri M. C. Ramadas

73. Who is named as Japan's new Prime Minister

Yukio Hatoyama. He will be named the 93rd Prime Minister of Japan.

74. Indonesia's most wanted Islamist militant, who was killed in a police shoot-out in
Central Java of Indonesia ?
Noordin Mohammad Top.
75. Who is now officially the tallest man walking the planet by the Guinness World
Records?

(REUTERS Andrew
Winning)

Sultan Kosen 27, from Turkey was recognized as the tallest person(8 foot 1 inch (2.47
meter)) in the world on September 17,2009.

76. Who is the new Accountant General of Kerala State?

Maha Lekshmi Menon

77. Indian American technocrat who has been appointed by U.S.President Barack Obama
to a key administration post dealing with energy research?
Arun Majumdar

78. Footballer of Argentina who signed a two-year contract extension with Barcelona
until the summer of 2016.
Lionel Messi

79. The Indians who have figured in a list of 60 "most influential foreigners" who have
played a profound role in shaping the way over 1.2-billion people of modern China think
and live?
Jawaharlal Nehru and Rabindranath Tagore

80. Which TV series won the 2009 Emmy award for best comedy?
30 Rock.

81. Which TV series won the 2009 Emmy award for best drama?
Mad Men

82. Who is the new captain of Delhi Dare Devils Team ?

Gautham Gambhir

83. The Indian tennis star who has confirmed Indian team berth in the Davis Cup World
Group after he ousted South Africa's Rik Voest in the reverse singles match of the Davis
Cup tie ?
Somdev Dewarman
Indian team has made into World Group playoff after a long period of 11 years.

84. Name of 13-year-old girl from Lucknow who addressed the United Nations Climate
Change Summit in New York?
Yugratna Srivastav

85. Who are the winners of Durand Cup-2009?

Churchill Brothers. They beat Mohun Bagan in the final. Churchill Brothers had earlier
won the trophy in 2007

86. Name of Indian-origin woman who was sentenced to 33 years in jail - one of the
longest jail terms handed out to a woman in Britain - for murdering her two teenaged
daughters in a frenzied knife attack at her home in Cambridgeshire?
Rekha Kumari-Baker

87. The 63-year-old magazine, which has covered business and politics since World War
II, will shut down in December 2009, struggling with losses as readers and advertisers
move to the Internet?
“Far Eastern Economic Review”

88. Name of India's 16th remote sensing satellite successfully launched by ISRO through
its space carrier Plar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in just twenty minutes?
Oceansat-2.
ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C14 successfully launched the 960 kg
Indian remote sensing satellite Oceansat-2 and six nano satellites for international
customers into a polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO). This was the fifteenth successful
flight of PSLV.

89. Who has been selected for this year’s Vallathol Award which carries a purse of
Rs.1,11,111 and citation?
Kavalam Narayana Panicker

90. The much anticipated small car for India which was unveiled in Delhi by Ford Motor
Company?
Ford Figo

91. Who is the new director of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, (UNESCO)?

Irina Bokova, Bulgarian diplomat

92. The adventurers who set a new world record after successfully landing on Mount
Everest 16,800 ft above sea level?
Ramesh Chandra Tripathi, Leo Dickinson and Ralph Mitchell.
They jumped from an altitude of 20,000 ft to land at the world’s highest drop zone, near
Mount Everest.

93. A prominent Indian American agricultural scientist, who has been nominated for the
post of the Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
by the US President Barack Obama?
Islam A. Siddiqui

94. India's maiden spacecraft, which has discovered water on the lunar surface?
Chandrayaan-1

95. First mixed-gender university of Saudi Arabia which opened recently?

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

96. Who is the chairman of Subordinate Legislation Committee of Indian Loksabha?

P.Karunakaran , M.P from Kerala

97. Which country won the 23rd Asian Women's Basketball Championships held in
Chennai, India?
China. They beat South Korea in the final

98. Indian who won bronze medal in the freestyle 74 kg category in the prestigious World
Wrestling Championship held in Denmark?
Ramesh Kumar
India made history in wrestling after a gap of 32 years, when Ramesh Kumar won bronze
medal in World Wrestling Championship.

99. Who was elected president of the Indian Newspaper Society for 2009-10, at the 70th
annual general meeting of the INS?
T. Venkattram Reddy. He is the chairman of the Hyderabad-based Deccan Chronicle.

100. Who will head the Committee of Privileges which has been reconstituted by Lok
Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar?
P.C.Chacko, M.P.from Kerala

101. Britain’s Indian-origin Business Minister, who is set to step down, appointed as the
UK’s representative to G-20?
Shriti Vadera

102. Who was elected as regional chairman (Kerala)of the Indian Newspaper Society for
2009-10?
P.V.chandran

103. Which political party retained power in Portuguese elections recently ?

Center-left Socialist Party.
Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates is the main leader of this party.
104. German Chancellor who recorded a resounding triumph in her country's recent
general elections?
Angela Merkel

105. Indian-American Human rights activist who has won the American Courage Award
for her human rights work in India and the United States?
Mallika Dutt

106. Name of the limited-series pen by Pen-makers Mont Blanc inspired by Gandhiji’s
iconic Dandi March in 1930 to protest against the British salt tax ?
Mahatma Gandhi Limited Edition-241 series (MGLE-241)
This pen costs Rs 11.39 lakh.

107. Who won the women’s singles title in the Yonex Czech international badminton
championship?
Trupti Murgunde

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- AUGUST-2009

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- AUGUST-2009

1. Name the first private firm to be protected by Central Industrial Security Force (CISF),
which usually guard government installations?

Infosys, Software giant

2. Which country will be the first international customer of the Boeing P-8I Poseidon, a
variant of the P-8A Poseidon, US Navy's newest maritime Patrol and reconnaissance
aircraft showcased by the Boeing Company?
India

3. Who won the gold medal in the final of the Men's 100m Freestyle at the FINA
Swimming World Championships in Rome?
Cesar Cielo Filho(Brazil)

4. Who became Australia's highest test run-scorer on the second day of the third Ashes
test against England?
Ricky Ponting
Ponting passed Allan Border's mark of 11,174 runs (156 Tests).
Ponting -11,188 runs (134 Tests)
5. Country which enforced assisted suicide law that will apply to people who help their
loved ones die as well as to those who help them die abroad?
Britain

6. Name the first Sikh soldiers who are included the security wing of British Queen
Elizabeth II?

Simranjit Singh and Lance Cpl. Sarvjit Singh

They are the first Sikhs to take part in patrols outside the queen's residence and to stand
watch over the Crown jewels at the Tower of London across town.

7. Which team won the Audi Cup after beating Manchester United 7-6 in the penalty
shootout, after the 90 minutes ended in a 0-0 draw?
Bayern Munich

8. Former England Football manager and coach, died at the age of 76 after a long battle
with cancer?
Bobby Robson
He led England to the World Cup semis during his reign from 1982 to 1990.

9. Who breaks world record in 200-meter medley (1:54.10), toppling Michael Phelps'
previous world record by 0.13 seconds?
Ryan Lochte

10. Who has been appointed as the next Director General (DG) of the Border Security
Force (BSF)?

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Raman Srivastava

11. Constitutional expert, who was recently appointed Governor of Gujarat, died recently
due to liver problems even before he could take up his assignment?
Devendra Nath Dwivedi

12. Which country won the Emerging Players Cricket Tournament title, defeating South
Africa by 17 runs in the final ?
India.
Virat Kohli cracked a rollicking century (104)in the final that helped India to win the
title.

13. Indian men's doubles pair who won the New Zealand Open Grand Prix title in
Auckland, New Zealand?
Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas

14. Who won the 100-meter butterfly at the world swimming championships in Rome,
setting a World record to become the first swimmer to eclipse the event’s 50- second
barrier?
Michael Phelps

15. Asia's first Female President and former President of the Republic of the Philippines
who was hailed as a modern-day Joan of Arc died recently due to colon cancer?
Corazon Cojuangco Aquino

16. 16th World Junior Women's Team Squash Championship held in Chennai won by ?
Egypt.
Heba el-Turk and Nour el-Sherbini of Egypt beat Hong Kong 2-0 in the final match.

17. Who won the World Junior Men’s Squash Championship title ?
Mohamed El Shorbagy (Egypt)

18. Who has set the 38th world record of the world swimming championships in the
men's 50-meter backstroke.?
Liam Tancock(Britain)

19. Who set the world record in the 50-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Open National
Championships?
Jessica Hardy
She split a time of 29.95 seconds to beat the previous mark of 30.09 set by Yuliya
Efimova of Russia at the world championships.

20. Name of the nano satellite which is recently developed by a group of students at IIT
Kanpur that provides real-time data on drought, flood, vegetation and forestation?
Jugnu.
The nanosatellite costed Rs 2.5 crore to develop and will be handed over to ISRO.
Santanu Agrawal, an M Phil student headed the successful team of whiz kids of IIT
Kanpur.

21. Bollywood actress who selected Elesh Parujanwala, a Canadian businessman from
Toronto, as her future bridegroom from among the three finalists in the reality show
broadcast on NDTV Imagine.?
Rakhi Sawant

22. Prominent Indian social activist, who has done pioneering work for "development of
rural communities", was named along with five others for the prestigious Ramon
Magsaysay Award for 2009, considered as Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Deep Joshi

Other five 2009 Magsaysay awardees:

Krisana Kraisintu (Thailand)
Yu Xiaogang (China)
Antonio Oposa, Jr, (Philippines),
Ma Jun (China)
Ka Hsaw Wa (Burma)

23. Who is the new Chairman and Managing Director of GAIL (India) Ltd, the country's
largest gas transportation company?
B C Tripathi

24. The five-match one-day Cricket series between Sri Lanka and Pakistan held in Sri
Lanka won by?
Srilanka (3-2)
Thilan Thushara was named Man of the Series.

25. A prominent Gandhian who made a mark in the history of the national movement by
gifting her gold ornaments to Mahatma Gandhi as a 17-year-old, died recently ?
Kaumudi teacher
Hailed by the Mahatma himself as a symbol of renunciation, Kaumudi voluntarily
donated her ornaments to Gandhi during his visit to Vatakara , in Kerala in 1934

26. Who has bagged the prestigious UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize 2009?
Khabar Lahariya, a fortnightly newspaper in Hindi run by rural women in Uttar Pradesh
won the prestigious award. Nirantar, a non-governmental organisation, which runs
"Khabar Lahariya" a fortnightly newspaper in Hindi

27. Noted South Indian actor and national award winner who had been closely associated
with pro-Left cultural and intellectual movements in the state of Kerala, died recently ?
Murali. He won the state award for the best actor thrice and the national award in 2001
for his performance in Malayalam movie “Naithukaran”.

28. India Government has approved the acquisition of five Russian early warning
choppers in a bid to strengthen the Navy's capabilities to detect airborne and surface-
based maritime threats. Name of that chopper?

Kamov-31

29. The last known surviving British soldier to have fought in the First World War
trenches, died at the age of 111?
Harry Patch

30. The Pakistani Taliban leader who was killed recently in a CIA missile strike?
Baitullah Mehsud

31. Who is the first Spanish woman to become the judge of the Supreme Court of United
States?

Sonia Sotomayor

32. Hockey Test series between India and Belgium is won by?
India
India clinch the three-match hockey series 2-1
33. Who is appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive of ING Vysya Bank
for a period of three years?
Shailendra Bhandari

34. Writer-director, Hollywood’s youth impresario of the 1980s and ’90s who captured
the teen and preteen market with such favorites as “The Breakfast Club,” Sixteen
Candles”,”Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “Home Alone, died recently ?
John Hughes

35. Which country dominated the Asian Youth Chess Championship, topping seven of
the 12 categories as the event concluded at the Tivoli Garden Resort, New Delhi?
India.
India won a total of eight gold, seven silver and eight bronze. Vietnam won two gold,
while Kazakhstan, UAE and Iran won one each

36. Who is appointed as the army chief of Nepal?

Lt. Gen. Chhatraman Singh Gurung

37. Indian-American, expert in Intellectual Property, who is appointed for a key post in
the US Commerce Department by the president Barack Obama?
RO Khanna.
He is an expert in Intellectual Property will work to open foreign markets to American
technology.

38. Which team won the Italian Super Cup beating Inter Milan in the final by 2-1?
Lazio

39. Which country won the World junior volleyball championship (Under 21) in 2009?
Brazil. They beat Cuba in the final. Brazil had won the title in 2001 & 2007
and runners up in 2003 & 2005. Cuba had first time became runners-up in this
tournament. India lost in the Semifinals and had to satisfy with the fourth position.

40. The Captain of the Spanish football team Espanyol, who has died from a heart attack
at the age of 26?
Dani Jarque

41. Who won the Man of the Match award in the fourth Ashes Test ?
Marcus North
He won Man of the Match for his brilliant hundred in the first innings.

42. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president who sworn-in as Deputy Chief Minister of
Punjab for the second time this year?
Sukhbir Singh Badal

43. Which team won the Community Shield football title beating Manchester United 4-1
on penalties at Wembley after the teams drew 2-2 ?
Chelsea

44. Sister of former U.S.President John F. Kennedy, who carried on the family's public
service tradition by founding the Special Olympics and championing the rights of the
mentally disabled, died recently at the age of 88?
Eunice Kennedy Shriver

45. Name the bowler played for Holland in the recent Twenty20 World Cup , who is
recently included in the Australian team for the 20-20 match against England?

Dirk Nannes

46. Name the TV crime show host who faces jail after allegedly ordering murders in a bid
to boost television ratings?
Wallace Souza
He is accused of arranging crimes and then broadcasting exclusive footage of the scenes.

47. One of the most revered guitarists in history and the father of the electric guitar, who
passed away at the age of 94.

Photo Michael Ochs Archive Getty

Les Paul

48. Ashok Chakra, the nation’s highest peacetime award for gallantry on the eve of
Independence Day is given to ?
Major Mohit Sharma(Posthumous)
Major D. Sreeram Kumar

49. Keerthi Chakra Awardees:

1.Major Amit Oscar Fernandes of 7 Maratha Light Infantry.
2.Major Deepak Tewari of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers Corps serving with 14
Rashtriya Rifles in Kashmir.
3.Paratrooper Shabir Ahmed Malik.
4.Naik Rishikesh Gurjar of 10 Rashtriya Rifles (Rajput).

50. Coach of West Indies who was sacked by the West Indies Cricket board ahead of the
Champions Trophy?
John Dyson

51. American who was sentenced to seven years in prison but then deported after
swimming to the lakeside home of detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San
Suu Kyi?

John William Yettaw

52. Zimbabwe's player who equaled Saeed Anwar's record highest individual one-day
international score of 194 in the match against Bangladesh?
Charles Coventry

53. Chinese ace who is poised to become the first player in World Badminton
Championship history to win three successive men's singles titles?
Lin Dan

54. Who won the Rogers Cup doubles title beating Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram in
Montreal.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles.

55. Who won Britain's first ever World Championship heptathlon gold medal at the 12th
IAAF World Athletics Championships?
Jessica Ennis

56. Who broke the world record at the 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships in
Berlin after running the 100 meter sprint in just 9.58 seconds?
Usain Bolt

57. Who broke the world record at the 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships in
Berlin after running the 200 meter sprint in just 19.19seconds?
Usain Bolt

58. Who won women's shot put gold at the 12th World Athletic Championships in
Berlin?
Valerie Vili from New Zealand

59. Who becomes the first farmer of India to receive pension implemented by a state?
N. Krishna Kurup. He is the first farmer to receive pension which is implemented by
Government of Kerala

60. Who won the Cincinnati Open Tennis title after beating top-ranked Russian Dinara
Safina in the final ?
Jelena Jankovic
61. Scottish tennis player has won the Montreal Masters event in Canada beating
Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro in the final?
Andy Murray

62. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former president of South Korea who was crucial
in promoting the country's "Sunshine Policy" aiming at a detente with North Korea died
recently?

Kim Dae Jung

63. Who is the Man of the series of One Day cricket series between Zimbabwe and
Bangladsesh ?
Tamim Iqbal(Bangladesh).Bangladesh won the series by 4-1.

64. Who captured the World Athletics Championships gold medal in the women's 100
meters to claim the title of "World's Fastest Woman"

Shelly-Ann Fraser

65. Who remains the world's most powerful woman for 2009, according to a ranking
published by Forbes magazine?
Angela Merkel, German Chancellor

The list of the hundred women includes–

Sonia Gandhi (13),
Chanda Kochhar, CEO of ICICI Bank, India.
66. Ninety-six-year-old, a Florida resident of Indian origin who becomes the world's
oldest blogger.?
Randall Butisingh

67. Who is appointed as new Pak Taliban chief?

Hakimullah Mehsud

68. Who won the Man of the Match in the final test of Ashes held at The Ovalin 2009?
Jonathan Trott became man of the match for his maiden century (119) in the debut Ashes
Test match.
England won the Ashes (2-1) .
Man of the Series: Andrew Strauss (England)
Michael Clark (Australia)

69. Ethiopian Olympic Champion who won the gold medal in the 5000m and 10000m
race in Berlin, marking the first time an athlete has ever won distance double at the IAAF
World Athletics Championships?
Kenenisa Bekele

70. The controversial book written by former union minister and B.J.P leader Jaswant
singh that eulogising Mohd Ali Jinnah ?
“Jinnah - India, Partition, Independence”
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expelled Jaswant Singh from the primary membership of the
party days after the release of his book praising Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of
Pakistan.

71. Who won the Rogers Cup Women singles title beating Maria Sharapova in the final?
Elena Dementieva

72. Who won the Cincinnati Open Men’s Tennis title after beating Novak Djokovic in the
final?
Roger Federer

73. Which team lifts the Spanish Supercup football title?

Barcelona
They beat Athletic Bilbao 3-0 in the final

74. Who won the Miss Universe 2009 title?

Stefania Fernandez, Miss Venezuela

75. Who has been appointed director of the Regional Cancer Centre,
Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala?
Paul Sebastian

76. Which team won the 2009 Santiago Bernabeu Trophy by defeating Norwegian side
Rosenborg (4-0) in the final ?
Real Madrid

77. One of the most influential and longest-serving senators in the history of America
who dies at the age of 77?
Edward Kennedy. He is the brother of former US president John F Kennedy.

78. Who becomes the first left-arm spinner to claim 300 Test wickets?
Daniel Vettori(New Zealand)

79. Which country has become Japan's largest trading partner recently ?
China

80. Who will be appointed as the Guwahati chief justice.?

Justice Kurian Joseph

81. Which player was named the European Club Player of the Year 2009?
Lionel Messi of Barcelona

82. Which team won the UEFA Supercup defeating Shakhtar Donetsk (1-0)?
Barcelona

83. Who crowned the first ever Miss Bollywood UK at a gala event in Birmingham ?
Reena Patel

84. Indians who won the mixed doubles title at the Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold
badminton?
Jwala Gutta and Valiyaveetil Diju

85. Who won the Man of the Series in the test series between Sri Lanka and New
Zealand.
Thilan Samaraveera(Sri Lanka)
Sri Lanka Won the series(2-0)

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- JULY-2009

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- JULY-2009

1. India's first "sea bridge" which was officially opened in Mumbai, which is 5.6-
kilometre (3.5-mile) long covers from?
Bandra to Worli Sea

It is hoped that the 16.5-billion-rupee (340-million-dollar) eight-lane freeway will help

cut the 40-minute journey between the suburbs of Bandra and Worli to just eight minutes
and will ease chronic congestion on the city's notoriously choked roads. Sea Link was
inaugurated by the ruling Congress party Chief Sonia Gandhi and named after her late
husband and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

2. The only known survivor of the crash of the Yemeni airliner clung to wreckage in the
Indian Ocean carrying 153 people (142 passengers, 11 crew members)?
Baya Bakari, 13.year old girl

3. The Commission probing the 1992 demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya which
submitted its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently?
Liberhan Commission

4. India's ambassador to China, who is appointed as the next foreign secretary of India ?
Nirupama Rao

5. Former England cricket captain who retired from all forms of professional cricket
recently?
Michael Vaughan

6. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has recently invited a musician
from India to join its roster of voting members. (i.e. Oscar Academy Membership). Name
that musician?
A.R. Rahman

7. Confederations Cup champions who ousted Spain from the first place at FIFA world
Football ranking, after one year of leadership?
Brazil

8. Veteran Japanese diplomat who was elected as new director-general of the

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)?
Yukiya Amano

9. The state of USA which was declared a fiscal emergency recently as the Legislature
continued struggling with a budget for the cash-strapped state?
California

10. Air Marshal of Southern Air Command chief, who has been appointed as Honorary
Air aide de camp (ADC) to President Pratibha Patel?

S. Radhakrishnan

11. Famous Indian painter whose one painting was auctioned for a record $2 million at
Christie’s in June 2008 passed away recently due to a cardiac ailment?

Tyeb Mehta

12. Prime minister of Croatia and leader of the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union
(HDZ) who resigned recently?
Ivo Sanader

13. Who won the Wimbledon Women's Singles title 2009 after defeating Venus Williams
in the final?
Serena Williams

14. Who has taken charge as the new Secretary of the Ministry of Information and
Broadcasting (MIB) from July 6, 2009.
Raghu Menon

15. Who won the Wimbledon Men's Singles title 2009 after defeating Andy Roddick in
the final?
Roger Federer. He becomes the first man to win 15 grand slams, and to regain the world
No 1 ranking.

16. Who won Wimbledon Women's doubles title 2009?

Venus Williams and Serena Williams. They beat Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs of
Australia

17. Who won Wimbledon men's doubles title 2009?

Daniel Nestor of Canada and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia won Wimbledon men's doubles
title 2009. They beat top-seeded American twins Bob and Mike Bryan in the final.

18. The Organisation of American States (OAS) recently expelled a country in reaction to
last week's military coup that ousted its President Manuel Zelaya. Which is that country?

Honduras
19. American court has recently banned publication of a Swedish book promoted as a
sequel to JD Salinger's “The Catcher in the Rye”. ? Name that book and its author?
“60 Years Later: Coming through the Rye” written by Fredrik Colting

20. Who became the first woman Prime Minister of Croatia?

Jadranka Kosor

21. The person who served as US defence secretary during the Vietnam War and the
Cuban Missile Crisis, has died recently at the age of 93?
Robert McNamara

22. Who won the mixed doubles titles at Wimbledon 2009?

Mark Knowles of the Bahamas and Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany.
They beat top-seeded Leander Paes of India and Cara Black of Zimbabwe 7-5, 6-3, in the
final.

23. Pakistan Cricket player and one of its cricketing pioneers, who bowled the first
delivery and took the first wicket in the country’s inaugural Test match died recently after
battling prostate cancer?
Khan Mohammad

24. Who is appointed as Director (Projects) of GAIL India?

Mr R D Goyal

25. French Tennis Player, who was banned by ATP Tour for betting on matches, found
dead in stairwell of his Paris apartment ?

Mathieu Montcourt

26. City of Australia which has decided to ban the sale and use of bottled water to act for
the preservation of the environment?
Bundanoon

27. Player of Manchester United’s who has joined Real Madrid for $70 million?

Cristiano Ronaldo

28. Versatile Actor who was inducted into the Territorial Army as Honorary Lieutenant
Colonel.
Mohanlal
This Malayalam Superstar has won four national awards and the second recent high-
profile personality after Kapil Dev to don the Territorial Army uniform.
Lt Col Mohan Lal will be working with the Kerala based 122 Infantry Battalion of the
Territorial Army (TA).

29. Name the first pilot from Kerala of the Royal Air Force (Later Indian Air Force) and
the First Head Of Training Team of The Indian National Defence Academy who died
recently?
Moorkoth Ramunni

30. Fifteen-year-old girl of Toronto who broke the world record in the women's 50-metre
breaststroke at the world championships swimming trials?
Amanda Reason

31. Who sets new world record in 100 meter backstroke and first ever to go under 52 sec
(51.94 seconds) at the U.S. national championships.
Aaron Peirsol

32. Global fast food Company which has apologized to Hindus for running an
advertisement in Spain that showed an Indian goddess Lakshmi about to eat a beef
burger?
Burger King

33. Who is elected as president of Indonesia for the second term?

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

34. Former Australian coach John Buchanan has criticized some of the present and
former Indian cricket stars like Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin
Tendulkar and Harbhajan Singh in his recently-published book. Name of that book.
"The Future of Cricket: The Rise of Twenty20."

35. The Cricket Team which have boycotted the series against Bangladesh because of an
outstanding contractual dispute with its Cricket board?
West Indies Cricket Team

36. Who will remain captain of the German national team for the 2010 World Cup in
South Africa?
Michael Ballack
37. Who sets new world record in 100 meter butterfly at the U.S. national championships
in 50.22 seconds, lowering Ian Crocker's mark of 50.40 set at the 2005 world
championships in Montreal?
Michael Phelps

38. Which country finished at the first position at the 5th South Asian Shooting
Championship bagging 21 gold medals out of 24 gold medals?
India

39. Player turned coach who has been named the India under-16 football coach for the
Asian qualifiers to be held in Abu Dhabi in October 2009.
C.M. Ranjith

40. The world's most famous bell ringing out the hours on the world's most famous clock,
celebrated its 150th anniversary on July 11, 2009 in London?

Big Ben

41. The former boxing champion and one of the most amazing boxer of his generation,
who has been found dead in a Brazilian hotel room recently?
Arturo Gatti

42. Who sets new world record in 200 meter backstroke at the U.S. national
championships?
Aaron Peirsol

43. Indian Squash player who won the third WISPA title of her career when she defeated
home favourite Low Wee Wern in the final of the $ 16,000 NSC series event on Saturday
in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia
Joshna Chinappa

44. Who wins Newport Hall of Fame Tennis championships ATP Title?
Rajeev Ram

45. Renowned Marathi actor to win Maharashtra government's best actor award
consecutively for three years, died recently in Pune after prolonged illness?
Neelu Phule

46. A distinguished conductor and his wife have recently died at the Dignitas suicide
clinic in Switzerland. He was conductor emeritus of the BBC Philharmonic among many
other great achievements, and Lady Downes, 74, was a former ballet dancer and
choreographer. Who are they?
Sir Edward Downes and Joan
47. Second cricket test between Srilanka and Pakistan at Colombo won by?
Srilanka
Man of the match: Fawad Alam
Sri Lanka won the first test match on the last day of the match.

48. Former prime minister of Poland and European Parliament member since 2004, who
has been elected president of the European Parliament?
Jerzy Buzek

49. Who is appointed as the new defence secretary of India?

Pradeep Kumar

50. First test between West Indies and Bangladesh held in July is won by?
Bangladesh

51. Indian Scientist and National Research Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for
Advanced Scientific Research who has been nominated for the prestigious Royal Medal
by the Royal Society, London.
Prof. C.N.R. Rao,

52. England all-rounder who decided to retire from test cricket after the ashes series
against Australia?

Andrew Flintoff

53. Who has become the first Indian batsman in over four years to head the batting
rankings in test matches by ICC?
Gautam Gambhir

54. Canadian comedian of Indian parents, came from Kolkatta, who has been ranked
among the Top 10 Earning Comedians in the world by Forbes?
Russell Peters

55. Carnatic music exponent and film playback singer in many Indian languages,
popularly referred as one of the “female trinity of Carnatic music” who passed away at
the age of 90?
Damal Krishnaswamy Pattammal (D.K.Pattammal)

56. Chairman of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization who resigned from his post?
Gholam Reza Aghazadeh

57. The space shuttle of NASA descended safely to Earth, ending a successful 16-day
assembly mission to the international space station ?

Endeavour

58. Summit of the Non-Allied Movement in 2012 will take place in?
Iran.

59. Former India cricket captain who has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the
University of Lancashire.
Sourav Ganguly

60. Name the club of Argentina which won the Libertadores Cup beating Brazil's
Cruzeiro by two goals to one?
Estudiantes

61. The Middlesex University in Hendon, London, has conferred an Indian music director
with an honorary doctorate. Who is he?
A.R.Rahman

62. Name the 112th element which has been officially added to the Periodic Table, earlier
named as Ununbium?
Copernicium.
The element with symbol "Cp" is named in honor of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
This name is expected to be officially endorsed by IUPAC in January 2010, after six
months for discussion.

63. Lt Governor of the Union Territory of Puducherry?

Iqbal Singh

64. New Governors of States of India

Uttar Pradesh-B.L. Joshi

Gujarat-Devendra Nath Dwivedi
Assam-Syed Sibtey Razi
Jharkhand-K Sankaranarayanan
Uttrakhand- Margaret Alva
Hariyana-Jagannath Pahadia

65. “The most trusted man in America," who was the pioneering television news anchor
died recently at the age of 92?
Walter Cronkite

66. First World War veteran who became the world's oldest man last month died at the
age of 113.
Henry Allingham

67. Srilankan bowler who retired from test cricket after the test match against Pakistan?
Chaminda Vas

68. Womens hockey champions trophy won by?

Argentina. They beat Australia (4-3) in the final

69. India agreed to enter into an understanding on end-use monitoring agreement recently
with a country that will pave the way for greater defence cooperation. Which country?
United States of America

70. Second test of Ashes held at Lord’s won by?

England. This is for the first time in 75 years that England has won the Ashes at Lord's.
They beat Australia by 115 runs in the second Test
Man of the Match: Andrew Flintoff (five wickets for 92 runs)

71. The solar eclipse witnessed on the month of July 2009 was the longest total solar
eclipse during the 21st century, not to be surpassed until June 2132. It lasted a maximum
of 6 minutes and 39 seconds off the coast of Southeast Asia, causing tourist interest in
eastern China, Japan, India and Nepal. Which day it witnessed?
July 22, 2009

72. The second Indian archer to win a Youth World Championship title after bagging
gold in the girls' Cadet Recurve category in the 11th edition of the tournament at Ogden
(Utah), USA?
Deepika Kumari
73. The Airlines apologized for frisking former Indian President Abdul Kalam at the
Indira Gandhi International Airport when he was going on a visit to the US this April?
Continental Airlines of U.S.A

74. Hindustani music legend who mesmerized audiences with her melodious voice for
over six decades, died recently?
Gangubai Hangal

75. Test Cricket Series between West Indies and Bangladesh won by ?
Bangladesh.(2-0)
Man of the Match: Shakib Al Hasan

76. Who was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Reconciliation and
Peace?
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmarese pro-democracy activist and leader,

77. Who becomes the first ever black Miss England?

Rachel Christie

78. Former Peruvian president who was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on
corruption charges.
Alberto Fujimori

79. Who is named as new LTTE chief?

Selvarasa Pathmanathan

80. Who became the youngest player (12 years old) ever to play in professional football
when he came on as a substitute for Aurora in a Bolivian Clausura championship match?
Mauricio Baldivieso

81. Who becomes the highest ever Australian run scorer in first class cricket surpassing
the record of the legendary Sir Donald Bradman?
Justin Langer

82. Two piano works recently have been identified as the creation of a legendary
musician which has long been in the possession of the International Mozarteum
Foundation in the Austrian city of Salzburg. Name that musician?
Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.)

83. Newly elected President of Kyrgyzstan?

Kurmanbek Bakiyevi

84. Which country has won the team tech gold medal in synchronized swimming at the
world championships?
Russia.
Russia has won both gold medals in synchro at the last three Olympics.

85. Test Cricket series between Srilanka and Pakistan held is won by?
Sri Lanka won the series by 2-0.
Man of the series:Nuvan Kulasekhara
Man of the match of third test: Kumar Sangakkara. Third Test ended in a draw.

86. Who received the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for
2007?
Bill Gates, on behalf of “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation” for their exemplary
philanthropic work across the world and in India especially in the area of health.

87. One of the world's largest optical telescopes, installed on a mountain in the Canary
Islands, which is extremely powerful and will be able to spot some of the faintest, most
distant objects in the Universe?

Great Canary Telescope

With a main mirror 10.4 metre across, it will effectively be the largest telescope for
visible and infrared light in the world.

88. India’s first nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine at the naval dockyard,
Visakhapatnam which is launched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife
Gursharan Kaur on July 26,2009?
INS Arihant

89. Eminent music director and sitarist composed the musical scores for about 40 films in
Hindi, Marathi, and Malayalam who blended Indian classical and Western music in his
work, was a disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar died at the age of 73?
Bhaskar Chandavarkar

90. Who won ITF Lexington Challenger Tennis title?

Sania Mirza

91. Which country won CONCACAF Gold Cup Football title beating U.S.A (5-0) in the
final?
Mexico

92. Who has been awarded the 2009 Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience
award?
Aung San Suu Kyi

93. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister who resigned after a senior PDP leader alleged in
the state assembly that he was involved in the 2006 sex scandal, a charge dismissed by
him as false?
Omar Abdullah

94. Who win gold in the women's 200 metres individual medley at the World
Championships?
Ariana Kukors(U.S.A)

95. Who won women's 100 metres butterfly final at the world swimming championships?
Sarah Sjostrom(Sweden)

96. Veteran Malayalam actor, who won critical acclaim for the ease with which he
portrayed villainous roles in Malayalam and Tamil cinema died at the age of 55?
Rajan P.Dev

97. Charismatic Jaipur royal, a three-time MP and who was once named as ”World’’s
Ten Most Beautiful Women” by ”Vogue” magazine, died here today following a
prolonged illness.?
Rajmata Gayatri Devi

98. Sports Awards 2009:

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna:
M.C. Marykom (boxer),
Vijender Kumar (boxer)
Sushil Kumar (wrestling)

Arjuna Award:

Mangal Singh Champia (archery), Sinimol Paulose (athletics), Saina Nehwal

(badminton), L. Saritha Devi (boxing), Tania Sachdeva (chess), Gautam Gambhir
(cricket), Ignatius Tirkey (hockey), Surinder Kaur (hockey), Pankaj Shirsat (kabaddi), B.
Prabhu (physically challenged), Satish Joshi (rowing), Ranjan Sodhi (shooting), Poulami
Ghatak (table tennis), Yogeshwar Dutt (wrestling), G.L. Yadav (yatching)

Dronacharya Award:
Baldev Singh (hockey), Jaidev Bisht (boxing), Satpal (wrestling), Pullela Gopichand
(badminton) and Udaikumar (kabaddi).

99. One day cricket series between West Indies and Bangladesh won by ?
Bangladesh (2-0)

100. Who won gold in the 200- meter freestyle final at the world swimming
championships in Rome?
Paul Biedermann
He won in a world record time of 1 minute, 42 seconds, ahead of previous record-holder
Michael Phelps

101. Who is appointed as the captain of 20-20 Team of Pakistan?

Shahid Afridi
CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- JUNE-2009

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- JUNE-2009

1. Who has been appointed as the Chief of the Indian Air Force with effect from the
afternoon of May 31, 2009?

Air Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik

2. Who is appointed as the first woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha in 2009?

Meira Kumar
3. Who was elected as BJP's Parliamentary party leader after the recent elections in 2009?

L K Advani
4. Noted Malayalam writer and poetess, who earned fame for her works in English,
passed away recently, leaving behind a rich treasure of poems and stories of love?

Kamala Das (also known as Kamala Surayya)

5. In which state FIFA will set up Soccer Academy for the first time in India?

Kerala
6. Which team won the French League title for the first time since 1999.

Bordeaux
7. Which country’s air jet vanished over the Atlantic Ocean carrying 216 passengers and
12 crew members after flying into a strong thunderstorm over the Atlantic Ocean and
signaling it had an electric problem?

France
Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330, carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris
vanished over the Atlantic Ocean and no one survived.
8. American President Barack Obama recently ushered the second car giant of the world
into bankruptcy protection and put the government behind the wheel of the company ?

General Motors Corp

9. Scottish singing sensation, who rose to fame on reality show “Britain’s Got Talent” but
lost to dance group Diversity in the final, was admitted to a private clinic for treatment
for exhaustion (emotional breakdown)?

Susan Boyle
10. The last survivor of the legendary ocean liner Titanic, which sank on its maiden
voyage in April 1912 after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic?

Millvina Dean.
She aged 97 who died in England recently earlier known as Elizabeth Gladys Dean
11. Former senior diplomat who has been appointed as Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton's special adviser for nonproliferation and arms control?

Robert J. Einhorn
12. Kerala state Film Awards-2009
Click the below link to know
http://questionforall.blogspot.com/2009/07/kerala-state-film-awards-of-2008.html
13. Organization of American States (OAS) recently agreed to lift the ban on a country
after 47 years? Which is that country?

Cuba
14. Defence Minister of Australia who resigned recently, after saying he did not fully
comply with the ministerial code of conduct.

Joel Fitzgibbon
15. American Actor who has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room, whose extensive
record of on-screen appearances included the movie Kill Bill and the TV show Kung Fu,
was apparently found in a closet with a cord around his neck and around parts of his
body?
David Carradine
16. Grammy Award winner, who dubbed the “Queen of the Blues,” died recently in her
native Chicago following complications from her May 19th surgery for gastrointestinal
bleeding?

Koko Taylor
17. Who is appointed as the new Home Secretary of India ?

G.K. Pillai (Gopal Krishna Pillai)

18. The J.C. Daniel Award for 2008 instituted by Kerala Government is won by?

K. Ravindranathan Nair, popularly known as General Pictures Ravi.

19. Who is appointed as the General Manager of State Bank of India, Kerala Circle?

V. Ramamoorthy.
20. Presidential candidate and minister in Guinea-Bissau who was shot dead when armed
men stormed into his house?
Baciro Dabo
21. Who is the leader of the Indian Arctic expedition team?

Dr.Muhammad Hatha
22. Who wins French Open women's singles title 2009?

Svetlana Kuznetsova She won her second Grand Slam title beating top-ranked Dinara
Safina 6-4, 6-2 in the French Open final.
23. Which country becomes the first nation other than the hosts to qualify for the 2010
World Cup Football in South Africa after they beat Uzbekistan 1-0?

Japan
24. Indian scientists recently have cloned the world’s second buffalo just three months
after the first one died of pneumonia within a week of birth. What is the name of that
buffalo?

Garima
The calf, named Garima, was born at 11 a.m. at the National Dairy Research Institute
(NDRI), Karnal, and weighed 43 kg. The first cloned buffalo was born on February 6.
25. Who has won Formula One's Turkish Grand Prix ?

Jenson Button
He won the Turkish Grand Prix for his sixth victory in seven Formula One Car races.
26. Who wins French Open Men's Singletitle 2009?

Roger Federer
Roger Fedrer defeated Robin Soderling in straight sets [6-1, 7-6, 6-4] to clinch the 2009
French Open Men’s Single title at Roland Garro
Roger Federer has become the second man, after Pete Sampras to win the maximum
number of Grand Slams.
Roger Federer is the first man since Andre Agassi to win all 4 Grand Slams and 6th
player to do so. Ironically, this is Federer’s first win at the French Open.

27. CPI-M leader and Party State Secretary of Kerala who is included in the charge sheet
filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as one of the eight accused in the
Rs.300 crore (Rs.3 billion) SNC Lavalin corruption scam?

Pinarayi Vijayan
The Kerala state governor R S Gavai has allowed the prosecution proceedings against
Pinarayi vijayan who was the power minister in the E K Nayanar cabinet during 1996.
28. Eminent playwright and theatre artist, one of the greatest stalwarts of the Indian stage,
was known for blending theatre, folk art and poetry in his works, died of a heart attack in
a city hospital in Bhopal recently?

Habib Tanvir
29. Who was unanimously elected as the new Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha by a voice
vote?

Karia Munda(B.J.P)
30. Which country has become the world's second biggest military spender behind the
United States of America(U.S.A)?

China
31. Who is appointed as Australia’s next High Commissioner to India?

Peter Varghese
32. Who has been appointed as the managing director of Volkswagen Group Sales India
Private Limited?

Maik Stephan
33. Mohun Bagan, one of the oldest football club of India recently suspended its captain
for six months from playing for the club, citing "violation of rules and regulations”.
Name that captain ?

Baichung Bhutia
34. Which oil company decided to pay compensation to late Nigerian writer Ken Saro
Wiwa’s family and those of the other eight Ogoni leaders executed along with him in
1995 by the late General Sani Abacha military junta?

Royal Dutch Shell

35. Which word is selected as the millionth word of the English Language?

Web 2.0
"Web 2.0" refers to what is perceived as a second generation of web development and
web design. It is characterized as facilitating communication, information sharing,
interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. The
term "Web 2.0" was coined by Darcy DiNucci in her article "Fragmented Future,"
in 1999.
36. Name the Jamaican sprinter who won the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year
award for his record-breaking performance in the Beijing Olympics.

Usain Bolt
37. Name the Portuguese footballer and Manchester United winger who set a world
record transfer fee of 80 million pound (130 million U.S. dollars) as he signed a six-year
deal with Real Madrid Club ?

Cristiano Ronaldo
38. Which is the 112th element on the Periodic table?

Ununbium
Ununbium, element 112, has recently been added to the periodic table,
Ununbium was first created on February 9, 1996 by Sigurd Hofmann at the Centre for
Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany.Ununbium is not the element's official
name; the temporary moniker was given by IUPAC (International Union of Pure and
Applied Chemistry) and comes from "ununbi", or "one one two" in Latin.
39. Which Foreign university conferred Former Indian President A P J Abdul Kalam with
honorary Doctorate of Laws for distinction in public service?

Queen’s University Belfast, a prominent varsity based in Northern Ireland

40. Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister who decided to resign over a
conflict about the reappointment of the president of government-owned Japan Post,
Yoshifumi Nishikawa?

Kunio Hatoyama
41. Senior Nepali Congress leader and the country’s first deputy woman Prime Minister
who had been suffering from pneumonia and Alzheimer’s died recently at the age of 65 ?

Shailaja Acharya
42. Newly elected President of Iran ?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
43. A 136-year-old stamped envelope known to collectors as "The Ice House Cover"
carries a rare stamp of former American President. Name that President?
Abraham Lincoln
It was stolen from an Indiana collector in 1967, surfaced 39 years later in Chicago and
was sold at auction by the Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc., in New York.
44. Winners of 10th edition of International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards
click the below link to know the winners
http://questionforall.blogspot.com/2009/07/winners-of-10th-edition-of.html
45. Who are the champions of 63rd Santosh Trophy Football title?

Goa
Goa defeated 29 time champions West Bengal by 2-4 in the final
46. Who won the WinWInD Golden Boot Award for the Top scorer

P. C. Riju (Striker, Tamil Nadu)

47. Player of the Tournament of Santosh Trophy?

P. Muthu (Striker, Tamil Nadu)

48. Which team won the Fair-play Award of Santosh Trophy ?

Goa
49. Which is the most commonly misspelt word in the English language, according to a
new study by market research company www.OnePoll.com?

Definitely
Flummoxed people regularly writing it as "definately".
The Top 10 most commonly misspelt words in the study by www.OnePoll.com were:
1 Definitely (Definately);
2 Sacrilegious (Sacreligious);
3 Indict (Indite);
4 Manoeuvre (Maneouvre);
5 Bureaucracy ( Beaurocracy);
6 Broccoli (Brocolli);
7 Phlegm (Phleghm);
8 Prejudice ( Predjudice);
9 Consensus (Conscensus);
10 Unnecessary (Unecessary).
50. America's new army chief in Afghanistan over to run the war in Afghanistan under
fire over abusive treatment and interrogation of detainees in Iraq, according to human
rights investigators.

Gen Stanley MacChrystal

51. Bollywood actor who has been detained after having been accused of rape by his
maid servant aged 19?

Shiney Ahuja
52. The Chinese waitress who stabbed to death a communist party official Deng Guida,
who was trying to rape her, has been released recently by a court in Hubei province in
China?

Deng Yujiao
53. Mogadishu's(Somalia) police chief, , who was killed when government forces
attempted to dislodge the insurgents from positions in south Mogadishu?

Colonel Ali Saed

54. Somalia's Security Minister who has been killed in a suicide car bomb attack north of
the capital Mogadishu?

Omar Hashi Aden

55. Name the Kathakali maestro who excelled in depicting women characters in classical
theatre, has been selected for the Kerala government’s highest award for Kathakali
artistes which carrying a cash award of Rs one lakh and a citation ?

Kottakkal Sivaraman
56. The IPL coach of Kolkata Knight Riders who was expelled by the team management
after their team’s poor performance in the second IPL?

John Buchanan
57. Chelsea striker who has been bannedby European football body UEFA for 6 years for
his Champions League semi-final outburst?

Didier Drogba
58. Who is elected as the new President of Abu Dhabi’s prestigious India Social &
Culture Centre (ISCC)?

Y. Sudhir Kumar Shetty

59. The sarod maestro who died recently in San Francisco, following a prolonged kidney
ailment?

Ustad Ali Akbar Khan

60. Who has been chosen by the legendary sports stars of the Laureus World Sports
Aacdemy as the 2009 Laureus World Comeback of the Year?
'King of the Ring’ Vitali Klitschko
61. The world's oldest man, who has died at his home in southern Japan on June 19, 2009
at the age of 113?

Tomoji Tanabe,
62. Champions of ICC 20-20 Cricket World cup?

Paksitan, they beat Sri Lanka in the final

Man of the match in the final: Shahid Afridi
Man of the series: Tilakaratne Dilshan
63. Who won ICC 20-20 Women’s World cup?

England, they beat New Zealand in the final

Player of the Match: Katherine Brunt.
Player of the Series: Claire Taylor
64. “Satyam Computers” now renamed by Tech Mahindra as:

Mahindra Satyam
65. Ace woman shuttler who scripted history by becoming the first Indian to win a Super
Series tournament after clinched the Indonesian Open title with a stunning victory over
higher ranked Chinese Lin Wang in Jakarta?

Saina Nehwal
66. The island which expanded its powers of self-rule on its national day in a move many
residents see as a step toward independence from Denmark?

Greenland
67. Who is appointed as captain of Bangladesh Cricket Team for the forthcoming tours of
West Indies and Zimbabwe?

Mashrafe Mortaza
Shakib Al Hasan, the world's No.1 allrounder in ODIs, has been named the vice-captain.
68. Who is appointed as the new governor of Karnataka ?

Hans Raj Bhardwaj

69. Which country won bronze medal in the light-weight women's Quadruple Sculls in
the World Cup 2, held at Munich (Germany)?

India
70. Who is the New Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank

71. Who is appointed as the Chairman of National Authority for Unique Identity?

Nandan Nilekani, the Infosys Chief

72. Who is appointed as the United States Special Representative to Muslim
Communiites by the Obama administration ?

Farah Pandith
73. Greek musician Yanni, who dedicated his new song 'Changes' to a Bollywood
actress.Who is she ?

Mallika Sherawat
74. The second statue of India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi is unveiled in a
country recently. Where is it?

Britain. (Leicester in southeast England)

75. Pop Sensation who died of lethal levels of potent medicines and drugs at the age of
50?

Michael Jackson
76. One of the pioneers of women’s studies in India, died recently , who set up India’s
first Research Centre for Women’s Studies at SNDT Women’s University and served as
its first director ?

Dr Neera Desai
77. An emerging Indian-American leader in California who has been selected for the
prestigious White House Fellow for the year 2009-2010?

Anish Mahajan
78. Who is the new prime minister of Lebanon?

Saad Hariri
79. Popular Malayalam Film Director and one of the best scriptwriters that Malayalam
cinema ever produced, died recently?

A.K.Lohitha Das
80. which country won the inaugural Women’s Champions Challenge II hockey title with
a thumping 6-3 win over Belgium in the final?

India (Rani Rampal of India hit 4 goals in the final)

81. Class 11 student of Kerala who won a silver medal at the World School Athletics
championship held in Estonia in northern Europe.
Binish K. Shaji
82. Which country won the Confederations Cup football title of 2009?

Brazil. They beat the United States 3-2 and win the Confederations Cup for the third
time.
83. Who wins Golden Ball as Confederations Cup best player?

Kaka, Brazilian midfielder

84. Only three Indian greats who figure in the International Cricket Council's 55-strong
Hall of Fame list, which has 22 Englishmen?

Left-arm spin wizard Bishen Singh Bedi ,

Prolific opener Sunil Gavaskar
Champion all-rounder Kapil Dev

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- MAY 2009

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- MAY 2009

1. Who has become the first person in the World to have a full face transplant?
Connie Culp
Connie Culp after face transplantation

Connie was shot by her husband, who also shot himself afterwards, but both of them
survived. She lost her nose and needed tracheotomy to be able to breathe and the whole
surgery took 22 hours.

Connie Culp-Earlier Photo

2. Name the Delhi-based automotive tyre maker, which announced the acquisition of
Dutch-tyre firm Vredestein Banden BV, a subsidiary of Russia’s largest tyre
manufacturer Amtel-Vredestein which went bankrupt last month.
Apollo Tyres Ltd

3. Who is reappointed as Director-General of World Trade Organisation (WTO) for a

second term of four years as from 1 September 2009?
Pascal Lamy
4. The South Korean blogger who was arrested in January and accused by the
government of spreading false information about the worsening global economy, was
acquitted recently?
Park Dae-sung, as a financial blogger, he published posts in his blog named Minerva
5. Who has been selected as the new Chief Coach for the Indian Men's Hockey team?
Jose Brasa of Spain

6. Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav recently rejected the Maoist led government's
decision to sack the army chief, pushing the country further into political crisis that
threatens to derail the two-and-half-year-old peace process. Name the army chief?
Rukmangat Katuwal
7. First concert of A.R.Rahman after winning the Oscar award was held in?
Kozhikkode (Kerala) on May 3
8. The 16-year-old Delhi boy, who has won his second International Tennis Federation
(ITF) title by defeating South African opponent Raven Klaasen at the DLTA complex on
Saturday (May 2)?
Yuki Bhambri

9. Name the Sri Lankan journalist and editor, who was assassinated on 8 January of this
year, has been named as the laureate of the 2009 World Press Freedom Prize by the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Lasantha Wickrematunge

10. Who won his record fourth Rome Masters title, beating defending champion Novak
Djokovic
Rafael Nadal

11. Former South Korean President who committed suicide by leaping to his death from a
hill behind his house?
Roh Moo-Hyun
Roh, who was president from 2003 to 2008. Roh's death came amid an investigation into
a bribery scandal that had tarnished his reputation

12. A British charity fundraiser who won the "best job in the world" i.e., caretaker of an
Australian tropical island — after an innovative marketing campaign that highlighted the
power of social media?

Ben Southal

13. Name the chief of the Anti Crime Cell of Indonesia who is arrested recently for a
murder case?

Ansari Azhar

14. Who is appointed as the Country Director of Western Union Financial services for its
India operations ?
Kiran Shetty

15. Who has won the Chess Oscar for the third time, the game's most prestigious annual
award?
Viswanathan Anand

16. Who was sworn in as South Africa's new president?

Jacob Zuma
He becomes fourth democratically-elected president of the country since the end of
apartheid in 1994.

17. Which country won the gold medal in the recurve team event of the archery World
Cup Stage II at Porec, Croatia?

India.
India’s fearsome threesome of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Mangal Singh
Champia defeated Russian Federation by 220 points to 218.

Italy won the bronze beating China 221-219.

18. Who won the Spanish Grand Prix Car race title?
Britain's Jenson Button

19. The First South Indian(Malayalee) who has been appointed as the secretary of
Supreme Court of India ?

M.P.Bhadran

20. Who has been appointed as the Managing Director and CEO of ICICI prudential
Life?

V.Vaidyanathan

21. Indian-origin anti-apartheid activist who has been inducted into South African
President Jacob Zuma's cabinet, taking the number of people from the community in the
government to seven.
Maggie Govender

22. Who won Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year award, recently ?
Steven Gerrard

23. Which team rallied for a 4-1 victory against Athletic Bilbao for its record 25th
Spanish King’s Cup title?

Barcelona

24. In a case prosecuted by the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, a
federal judge sentenced an investment adviser, age 38, of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, to
ten years in federal prison on federal mail and wire fraud for defrauding his investment
advisory clients. Who is he ?

Amit Mathur

25. Which team won the Copa Italia Football title ?

Lazio

Lazio beat Sampdoria(6-5)

26. The new model car launched by Maruti in May-2009?

Ritz
27. Britain's first Muslim minister resigned from office Seeking to clear his name from
media accusations of breaching his ministerial code over expenses?
Shahid Malik

28. Which team won the 18th English Premiere league title 2009 by holding off Arsenal
to a draw?

Manchester United

29. India’s largest direct-to-home service and part of the biggest media conglomerate,
Zee Group which announced their association with ‘Microsoft Xbox 360 Arcade’, the
next generation video gaming and entertainment system on their platform?

Dish TV

30. Former South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce president who has been elected
Vice President of Federation of International Film Producers Association [FIAF] for
2009 – 2011?

P.V Gangadharan, It is for the first time an Indian arrives in the prestigious position

31. LTTE(Liberation Tigers o f Tamil Eelam) leader who was killed by Sri Lankan Army
?

Velupillai Prabhakaran

32. Who sets world record over 150 meters in 14.35 seconds on the streets of
Manchester?

Usain Bolt, the reigning world record holder at 100m and 200m, sets the world record
over 150 meters

33. The first British Speaker to be forced out of office in over 300 years because of his
handling of a scandal on MPs'expenses?

Michael Martin

34. Self-styled god man of Kerala who was sentenced to 16 years of rigorous
imprisonment and a penalty of Rs 2,10,000 for raping two minor girls?

Santhosh Madhavan (Swamy Amrutha Chaithanya)

35. Who is the new Prime Minister of Kuwait?

Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammed al-Ahmed al-Sabah

36. The only Indian who hit a century in IPL?

Maneesh Pandey (114 Not Out) of Bangalore Royal challengers

Only two players have century in IPL-2009, the other is Ab Devilliers(105 Not Out) of
Delhi Dare Devils

37. Orange Cap Holder of DLF IPL 2009(It is given for the player who is the leading run
scorer in the match.)?
Mathew Hayden of Chennai Super Kings. He scored 572 runs

38. Purple Cap holder of DLF IPL 2009(It is given for the player who is the leading
wicket taker in the match)

R.P.Singh(23 Wickets)
39. Man of the match in the final of IPL-2009 ?

Anil Kumble(16 /4 in 4 overs)

40. IPL-2009 is held in ?

South Africa
41. IPL-2009 is won by ?
Deccan Chargers, they beat Bangalore Royal Challengers in the final.

42. UEFA Cup, European trophy, which has been won by a Ukrainian team for the first
time in the history of Ukrainian football?

Shakhtar

43. Name the Malawi's President who has been sworn in for a second five-year term
recently ?
Bingu wa Mutharika

44. Name THE WORLD'S oldest blogger, Spanish great-grandmother who had a global
following, has died at the age of 97.

Maria Amelia Lopez,

According to the AP, her first post on December 23, 2006 said that her grandson, who is
very stingy, gave her a blog for her birthday. Her site had more than 1.5 million hits.
Their blog address: http://www.amis95.blogspot.com/

45. Veteran communist leader who has been sworn in as the Nepal’s new prime minister?

Madhav Kumar Nepal

46. Veteran freedom-fighter and soldier of the INA, who served as the driver of Netaji
Subhash Chandra Bose, died at his house at Mathil, near Payyanur in Kannur district of
Kerala?
A Chindan Nair

47. Who is appointed as the next chief of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space
Administration)?
Charles F. Bolden Jr
Bolden is a former astronaut who was involved in several critical missions for the US
Space Agency.
48. Who was re-elected to the largely ceremonial post of German president recently for a
second five-year term?

Horst Kohler

49. An American scientist whose work helped lead to the development of the anti-
impotency drug Viagra, died at the age of 92 in Seattle?
Robert F Furchgott

50. Who won the Monaco Grand Prix Car race title?

Jenson Button(Britain)

51. Name the Civil rights activist, who was given bail by the Supreme Court, walked free
from Raipur jail after two years of incarceration?
Binayak Sen

52. The country which started its first new overseas military base(named as Peace Camp)
since the end of the colonial era at Abudabi of UAE(United Arab Emirates)
France
53. Who has been appointed the new Pro-Vice- Chancellor of the Kerala University?
J.Prabhash

54. New President of Mongolia?

Tsakhiaglin Elbegdorj(Democratic Party)

55. Prasar Bharati Chairman who resigned recently because he was "dissatisfied" with the
functioning of the Board?
Arun Bhatnagar

56. Man of the series of Natwest series between England and West Indies?
Stuart Broad
England won the series by (2-0)

57. Who wins 2009 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement?
Alice Munro
This Canadian short story writer will get prize worth £60,000.
It was first awarded to Ismail Kadare in 2005 and then to Chinua Achebe in 2007.

58. New US Ambassador to India?

Timothy J Roemer

59. Who became etched in football history as the first Asian footballer to have played in
the final of Champions League?

Park J-sung

60. Champions League-2009 is won by ?

Barcelona.
Barcelona beat Manchester United highlights in the final by 2-0

61. Who is appointed as the Deputy Chief Minister of TamilNadu ?

M.K.Stalin

62. Who is appointed as the new Chief Secretary of Kerala State ?

Neela Gangadharan

63. Who has been named winner of the Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year Award
(2008) for the second time, following her sensational gold medal winning performance at
the Beijing Olympics

Yelena Isinbayeva (Russia’s Pole Vault player)

64. Who has won the prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee 2009 final?

Kavya Shivashankar, a 13-year-old student from Olathe, Kansas, whose parents migrated
to the United States from India
65. MINISTERS OF 15TH LOK SABHA AND THEIR PORTFOLIOS
Click the below link to know Ministers and their portfolios of 15th Lok Sabha.

http://questionforall.blogspot.com/2009/06/ministers-of-15th-lok-sabha-and-their.html

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- APRIL 2009

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- APRIL 2009

1. The 21st Arab League (AL) summit to discuss a package of major issues, including the
Palestinian cause, the peace process in the Middle East, improvement of inter-Arab
relations and the situation in Sudan was held at ?

Doha, capital of Qatar

2. G-20 Summit which is the world's 20 largest developed and developing nations
meeting was held at?

London

3. Lawyer from the Maharashtra Service Legal Authority, who had been appointed to
represent Mumbai terror attack accused Ajmal Amir Kasab and withdrew from the case
later in response of several protests.

Anjali Wghmare

4. Maruti Suzuki has decided to stop two selling models, from 11 cities, including the
four metros, from 2010 due to tighter emission norms. Which are they?

Maruti-800 and Omni

5. Former cricket player of Pakistan who was appointed as an adviser to the Chinese
Cricket Association?
Javed Miandad

6. Bollywood actor and politician who has been appointed the General Secretary of
Samajwadi Party.

Sanjay Dutt

7. Name the Thai citizen who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for insulting the king of
Thailand and his family by posting edited photos of the monarchy on the Internet?

Suwicha Thakho

8. At the time of its final broadcast on September 18, 2009, the teleserial which will have
spanned 72 years and more than 15,700 episodes on television and radio?

Guiding Light

9. Mahatma Gandhi is remembered in a very special way in a small village in India by

worshipping his idol in a temple? Where is it?

The temple at Bhatra Village in Sambalpur town in Orissa

10. England All rounder who made the first hat-trick of his international career in the
recent One Day series against West Indies?

Andrew Flintoff
11. Name the Slovakia's president who wins second term in office after defeating the first
woman to reach a runoff vote?

Ivan Gasparovic

12. Who won the Sony Ericsson Open final by beating Serena Williams which is held in
Miami?

Victoria Azarenka of Belarus

13. Who was the 'man of the series' in the Test series against New Zealand which India
won 1-0 to script a series win in that country after 41 years?

Gautham Gambhir

14. India signed three pacts with a gulf country for strengthening cooperation in science
and technology, education and culture as they pledged to contribute to each other's well
being and prosperity. Which is that country?

Kuwait
15. Kiran Sikri, a consumer who was penalised by a bank in India despite cancelling her
loan. After her complaint, she was awarded a compensation of Rs.25,000/-by the
Consumer Commission which found the bank guilty of deficiency of service in that case.
Name that Bank?
ICICI

16. The country in which state of emergency declared recently by its Prime Minister
Abhisit Vejjajiva, with troops firing shots into the air in an attempt to control anti-
government protesters, some of whom stormed the country's interior ministry?

Thailand

17. Who is appointed as the new President and CEO of Mahindra Life space Developers?

Anita Arjundas

18. Country which regained the Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey title after a 13-year gap,
defeating hosts Malaysia 3-1 in the final of the five-nation tournament?

India

19. Which IT Company won the bid for India's fourth largest software exporter Satyam
Computer?

Tech Mahindra, the IT arm of auto major Mahindra and Mahindra.

Tech Mahindra's winning bid was of Rs.1,757 Crore ($351.4 million) for 31 percent stake
in the scam-tainted IT giant “Satyam”

20. Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza lifted her first WTA title of the year, teaming up with a
Chinese Player to clinch the women's doubles trophy at the USD 220,000 MPS Group
Championships in Florida. Who is she?

Chia-Jung Chuang

21. Who became the first Indian sports personality to be featured at the Madame
Tussaud's wax museum in London?
Sachin Tendulkar

22. Recently a German Luxury carmaker has launched a Limited Edition of its E-Class
cars in India? Name the Company?

Mercedes Benz

The Mercedes Benz E-Class Limited Edition is priced at Rs 43.4 Lakh (Ex-Showroom,
Delhi).

23. The First Dog who joined US President Barack Obama and his family at the White
House on April 14, 2009?
Bo

24. Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) recently launched its much awaited white-
labelled credit card in tie up with an Indian Bank? Which Bank?

Corporation Bank

25. Who is selected as the captain of The Wisden Test XI of 2008, which recognises the
best Test cricketers and endorses Test cricket as the highest, most skilled form of the
game.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the team includes Indians Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar,
Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan.

26. The journalist who threw a shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram at a press
conference protesting against the minister's reply on his question on CBI's clean chit to
Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 Sikh riots case?

Jarnail Singh, a senior reporter of Dainik Jagran

27. The Indian Company which managed to buy its French partner Group Danone's 50%
stake in ABI Holdings, which controls 51% equity interest in biscuit major Britannia
Industries.

The Nusli Wadia group

Nusli N Wadia, is the chairman of Britannia Industries,

28. Who is re-appointed as Fiji’s interim prime minister despite a Court of Appeal’s
decision last week declaring his 2006 military coup illegal?

Commodore Frank Bainimarama

29. Leading Afghan rights activist who was killed by Taliban cowards after leaving
meeting in Kandahar, Afghanistan?
Sitara Achakzai

30. Rifle-shooter who won the gold in the three position event in the Chongwon World
Cup in South Korea, becoming the first Indian to win two medals in a single ISSF World
Cup?

Gagan Narang

31. Which Zimbabwe captain named as the new coach of England Cricket Team for the
recent series against West Indies and the Ashes?

Andy Flower

32. Who is appointed as the new US Ambassador to India?

Tim Roemer

33. Which country’s teams are qualified for the next World Cup Cricket in 2011?

Canada, Kenya, Holland, Ireland

34. Name the American Journalist who was accused with charges amounting to
Espionage for the U S, and was sentenced to eight years in Prison by the Judicial Council
of IRAN last week?

Rooksana Saberi

35. Which Tennis player who won his 5th straight Monte Carlo Masters Trophy, also
known as "Open Barcelona", more commonly known as the "Godó Trophy"?

Rafel Nadal

36. Name the British Tv Actress who committed suicide after the last episode of her
teleserial “Belonging” which was present on BBC Wales?

Stephanie Parker

37. Who has been appointed as the new Supreme Court Registrar of India?
Ashok Menon

38. Who is the 16th Chief election commissioner of India?

Naveen Chawla

39. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev removed the head of the powerful military
intelligence agency recently after he opposed sweeping reforms of the country's
lumbering armed forces. Who is he?

General Valentin Korabelnikov

40. Who is appointed as the new chief and managing director (CMD) of Air India

Mr. E.K. Bharat Bhushan

41. Who defeated I-League champions Churchill Brothers by 2-1 in the one-off Super
Cup tie at the Devilal Sports Complex in Gurgaon on 26th April and won their third
trophy of the season?

Mohun Bagan

42. Who was named as the English Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) Player of
the Year for the first time despite starting just 12 league games this season?

Ryan Giggs (Manchester United)

43. Bollywood actor once called “the Clint Eastwood of the East” because of his
maverick roles and manly swagger, died recently at Bangalore?
Feroz Khan

44. World Cup Cricket -2011 final will be held in?

Wankade Stadium, Mumbai

The cricket world cup will be held in 3 countries.
29 matches in India, 12 matches in Sri Lanka, 8 matches in Bangladesh.

45. Indian Premiere League(IPL)-2009 Facts:

First Six of IPL 09-Abhishek Nayar

First Four (Boundary) of IPL 09-Sanath Jayasurya
First wicket of IPL 09-Thilan Thushara
First Man of the Match of IPL 09-Sachin Tendulkar
First Century of IPL 09-AB de villiers

CURRENT AFFAIRS-QUESTIONS & ANSWERS -MARCH-2009

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS-MARCH-2009

1. Women’s Cricket World Cup -2009 won by?

England. They beat New Zealand in the Final by 4 wickets Nicki Shaw was named player
of the match and Claire Taylor is the player of the tournament.
The first tournament was held in England in 1973 which also won by England. India
never won the World Cup

2. Women’s Cricket World Cup -2009 is held in ?

Australia.

Next world cup is in 2013 which will be held in India.

3. Who won the Man of the Match award in the first Test between India and New
 Zealand at Hamilton, New Zealand?

Sachin Tendulkar

4. Name the Hungarian Prime Minister resigned after facing mounting criticism over his
government's handling of the country's economic crash.

Ferenc Gyurcsany
5. Who is reinstated as chief justice of Pakistani Supreme Court after a series of protests
and political turmoil

Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry

6. First elected female state premier in its history of Australia after a vote in
Queensland. ?

Anna Bligh

7. Name the Sudanese opposition leader who has been released from prison, having been
detained for two months for calling on Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, to hand
himself over to the International Criminal Court (ICC).?
 Hassan al-Turabi

8. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Chief who recently visited India to discuss the
security situation in South Asia.?
Leon Penetta

9. Former Indian captain who equalled Mark Waugh's world record of 181 Test catches
in opening day of the first Test against New Zealand at Seddon Park in Hamilton?
Rahul Dravid

10. Which country will host the second version of IPL, i.e. IPL-2009?

South Africa

11. Who has been selected for the 18th Aravindan Award instituted by the Chalachithra
Film Society?

Marathi film-maker Paresh Mokashi

12. British reality TV star died at the age of 27 with cervical cancer, who became famous
after appearing on the UK’s Big Brother reality Show?

Jade Gudi

13. Who won World Boxing Association (WBA) International and World Boxing
Organisation (WBO) Inter-Continental lightweight titles in this year?

British boxer Amir Khan

14. Who became Madagascar's acting president after the army ended a months-long
power struggle and swept him to power?
 Andry Rajoelina, he is only 34-year-old.

15. Who is appointed as the new chief of the Indian Air Force?

Air Marshal PV Naik

16. Name the computer institute of Kerala which has made an entry into the Limca Book
of Records for the largest number of students in a single centre?

Sree Sankaracharya Computer Centre (SSCT), in Kannur district

17. Who has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the United States of
America?

Meera Shankar

18. Name the Indian-American who last week was appointed Federal Chief Technology
Officer by President Barack Obama
 Vivek Kundra,

He was reinstated to his job by Barack Obama at the White House, five days after he
went on leave following Federal Bureau of Investigation's raids at his previous office, in
a corruption case related to employees working there. He returned to the job after it
became clear that he was not the 'target of investigations.

19. Name the Indian-American who is appointed as Assistant Secretary for Legislative
Affairs Washington by U.S.President Barack Obama?

Richard Verma

20. Name the Monster like father who held his Daughter as Sex-Slave Prisoner in Cellar
for 24 years and gave birth to 7 children?
 Joseph Fritzl

21. Country which has been suspended by The African Union from the continental body,
saying the replacement of the island nation's president by an army-backed politician
constitutes a coup.

Madagascar

22. Who was unanimously re-elected to North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament recently?

Kim Jong Il

23. The Russian Mobile Company which launched its CDMA-based mobile services in
Kerala circle after Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan?

MTS, (Mobile Tele Systems)

MTS brand is under Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited which is a joint venture
company between Sistema (LSE: SSA) of Russia and Shyam Group of India

24. Which Tennis Player has won WTA Player of the Year award-2009?

Serena Williams. This is her Second WTA Player of the Year award. She won the same
in 2002.

25. The first person to be certified as a survivor of both US atomic bombings at the end
of the Second World War?
 Photograph Jemal Countess/ WireImage

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a 93-year-old Japanese man who was in Hiroshima on a business

trip on 6 August 1945 when a US B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city.

26. Which Indian will replace football star David Beckham, who has been endorsing
Motorola as its global brand ambassador?

A.R.Rahman.
It is learnt that Rahman has been paid a whopping Rs.28 Crore for this particular
endorsement deal. This makes him the highest paid Indian celebrity for any such product.

27. Who won the 20-20 Cricket series between South Africa and Australia in
South Africa ?

South Africa
(They beat Australia by 2-0).
 28. Who is appointed as the Second Deputy Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia?

Prince Naif Bin Abdul Aziz

29. Who are the winners of Indian Open Badminton Title in 2009 ?

Men’s Single Title- Taufik Hidayat (Indonesia)

Women’s Single Title- Pi Hongyan ( France)

30. First national female judge of Dubai?

Judge Ibtisam Rashid Badwawi

31. New Prime Minister of Israel ?

Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel's Likud party

32. Who is appointed as Administrator of the United Nationals Development

Programme(UNDP)?

Helen Clark

33. Who is named to the “Order of Companions of O R Tambo in Gold”, one of the
highest state honours of South Africa?
 Cuban President Fidel Castro
34. Who is the new Prime Minister of Malaysia ?
Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak

35. The US billionaire who roared into space aboard a Russian rocket, making history as
the first tourist to make the epic journey twice?

Charles Simonyi

36. The country which re-enters NATO's (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) military
command after more than 40 years?

France
37. Who has been appointed as the new Captain of Sri Lankan Cricket Team?

Kumar Sangakkara

38. Who wins Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award for Europe and South
Asia region ?

Jhumpa Lahiri for her book 'Unaccustomed Earth'

39. Who purchased Mahatma Gandhi’s personal belongings which include Gandhiji’s
iconic round-rimmed spectacles, a pocket watch, a pair of sandals, a plate and bowl and
 letters of authenticity for USD 1.8 million at an auction in New York from the owner,
James Otis?

Vijay Mallya.

40. Palestinian Prime Minister who submitted his resignation in a move that could help
usher in a power-sharing deal between Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas and
his rivals in the militant group Hamas?

Salam Fayyad

41. Home Secretary of India?

Gopala Krishna Pillai. He would assume charge after Madhukar Gupta, the present Home
Secretary, retires on March 31. At present G.K. Pillai is the Commerce Secretary.

42. The president of Guinea-Bissau, who was assassinated by the military in a retaliatory
attack for the killing of the army chief of the volatile and drug-corrupted west African
state?.

Jo Bernardo Vieira

43. Fast bowler who has announced his retirement from international cricket after eight
years of service for South Africa?

Andre Nel

44. The son of the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath , 46 years after his mother gassed
herself while he slept?
Nicholas Hughes
 Sylvia Plath with her son Nicholas Hughe. He was only a baby when she committed
suicide.

CURRENT AFFAIRS-QUESTIONS & ANSWERS -FEBRUARY-2009

CURRENT AFFAIRS-FEBRUARY-2009

1. Name of the world’s cheapest car launched by Tata Motors in Mumbai?

Nano

2. Music wizard A.R.Rahman won Oscars for which categories?

Best Original Score and Best Original Song (Jai Ho) for the film “Slum dog Millionaire”.
3. Which documentary won the Oscar award for best Documentary (Short)?

Smile Pinki, directed by Megan Mylan depicts the tale of an Utharpradesh girl and her
fight against the social stigma of a cleft lip.

4. The West Indian Umpire who has officiated in a record 126 tests and 179 ODIs who
decided to retire recently from International matches?

Steve Bucknor

5. The Indian sound engineer who won Oscar for his brilliant sound mixing works of the
film “Slum dog Millionaire”

Resul Pookutty

6. The new Chief Justice of Madras High Court ?

Hemant Laxman Gokhale

7. The telecom sector which started third Generation (3G) mobile services recently in 11
cities of India?

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL)

8. Sri Lankan batsmen who smashed double hundreds during world record stand of 437
for the fourth wicket partnership against Pakistan?

Mahela Jayawardhane (240) and Thilan Samaraweera(231)

9. Who won the Miss India Worldwide 2009 title ?

Nikkitasha Marhawa, Indian-American from Chicago clinch the 18th Miss India World
wide 2009 title.

10. The new money back plan launched by Life Insurance Corporation (LIC)in February
16 ?

Jeevan Varsha

11. Who was named Jamaica’s Sportsman of the year for 2008 ?

Triple Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt.

12. The teenager who acted as the main character of “slum dog millionaire ” ?

Dev Patel

13. Which novel has been chosen as the Romantic Novel of the year 2009?

“East of the Sun” set in 1920s by Welsh author Julia Gregson

14. Britan’s Royal Mail issued a set of stamps on February-12 to mark the 200th
Anniversary of the birth of a famous Scientist? Who is he ?

Charles Darwin

15. Who is appointed as coach/manager of Chelsea, the premier league club ?

Guus Hiddink, Russian coach

16. Recently the IPL Drug Tribunal has imposed a 12-month ban on a Pakistani Cricket
player for consuming a banned substance, Nandralone during the inaugural season of
Indian Premiere League. Who is he?
Muhammed Asif

17. The new Prime Minister of Zimbzbwe ?

Morgan Tsvangirai

18. Newly elected President of Bangladesh ?

Zillur Rahman

19. Noted Hindustani Classical Vocalist who was presented with Bharath Ratna,
country’s highest civilian award ?

Bhim Sen Joshi

20. "”Slumdog Millionire “ got how many BAFTA awards (British Academy of film and
Television Arts)
7 awards including Best Director, Best Film…etc
A.R.Rahman won the BAFTA award for the music of this film.

21. Name of India’s Second humanoid robot which was formally unveiled during Quark-
2009, the technical festival at Goa?

Acyut-2

22. Name the Indian who awarded a honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of
Cambridge, where he served as the Master of Trinity College for six years.

Amartya Sen

23. Who was named African Footballer of the Year 2008?

Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor

24. Name the Union Minister for Small Scale Industries in the UPA government who was
on charged in a murder case recently ?

Mahavir Prasad

25. The two ships, commissioned by the Indian Navy on 16 February 2009, at Chennai,
which are the first two in a series of ten water jet Fast Attack Craft (FAC) being built at
Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, GRSE, Kolkata ?.

INS Carnicobar and INS Chetlat

26. Name the 13-YEAR-OLD boy who has become a father in Britain, his wife is just 15.

Alfie Patten. His girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave birth to Maisie Roxanne in
Eastbourne Hospital, East Sussex

27. 17th Dulip Trophy Cricket title is won by?

West Zone

28. Which Indian player won BCCI Payer of the year Award?

Virender Sehwag (The award is also known as Polly Umrigar Award)

29. The Indian Musician among the four international musicians to be awarded Grammy
for their ‘Global Drum’ project. ?

Zakir Hussain, along with musicians Mickey Hart, Sikiru Adepoju and Giovanni Hidalgo,
has been awarded the coveted gramophone for ‘The Global Drum’ in the Best
Contemporary World Music Album category.

30. Which players were named joint winners of the Allan Border medal of 2008?
Ricky Ponting and Michael Clark

31. Who won the Australian Open junior title ?

Yuki Bhambri. He becomes the first Indian to win the Australian Open junior title. He
outplayed his German opponent Alexandros-Ferdinandos Georgoudas to win the Junior
Boys title in the Australian Open.

32. Who won the Australian Open women singles title of this year ?
Serena Williams

33. Who won the Man of the Match award in the two 20-20 Cricket matches between
India and New Zealand?

Brendon McCullum
34. Who won Rotterdam Open title after beating world number one Rafael Nadal?
Andy Murray of Britain
35. World Cup Cricket 2011 final will be held in which venue ?
Wankade Stadium, Mumbai.

36. Japan's Finance Minister who has resigned, amid claims that he was drunk at a recent
G7 meeting?

Shoichi Nakagawa

81 ST OSCAR AWARDS- ALL RESULTS

1. ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:

Penelope Cruz (VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA)

2. WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREEN PLAY)

Dustin Lance Black (MILK)

3. WRITING (ADAPTED SCREEN PLAY)

Simon Beaufoy (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE)

4. ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Andrew Stanton (WALL-E)

5. SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

Kunio Kato( LA MAISON EN PETITS CUBES)

6. ART DIRECTION

Donald Graham Burt (Art Direction); Victor J. Zolfo (Set Decoration) (THE CURIOUS
CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON)

7. COSTUME DESIGN
Michael O'Connor (THE DUCHESS)

8. MAKE UP

Greg Cannom (THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON)

9. CINEMATOGRAPHY

Anthony Dod Mantle (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE)

10. SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

Jochen Alexander Freydank (SPIELZEUGLAND (TOYLAND)

11. ACTOR IN SUPPORTING ROLE

Heath Ledger (THE DARK KNIGHT)

12. DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

James Marsh and Simon Chinn (MAN ON WIRE)

13. DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Megan Mylan (SMILE PINKI)

14. VISUAL EFFECTS:

Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron (THE CURIOUS CASE OF
BENJAMIN BUTTON)
15. SOUND EDITING
Richard King (THE DARK KNIGHT)
16. SOUND MIXING
Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE)

17. FILM EDITING

Chris Dickens ((SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE)
18. BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
DEPARTURES – Japan

19. BEST FEATURE FILM.

SLUM DOG MILLIONAIRE

20. BEST DIRECTOR

Danny Boyle (SLUM DOG MILLIONAIRE)

21. BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Sean Penn (MILK)

22. BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Kate Winslet (THE READER)

23. JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD (SPECIAL HONOR)

Jerry Lewis (Comedic film and humanitarian work)

24. BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Smile Pinki –( Director-Megan Mylan )

25. BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman (music), Gulzar (lyrics)

26. BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

A. R. Rahman (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE )

Current Affairs Questions & Answers- January -2009

CURRENT AFFAIRS JANUARY 2009

1. The new federal agency approved by the Indian Government to combat terror in India
which will be empowered to deal with terror related crimes across states without special
permission from the state ?

National Investigation Agency.

2. Who is appointed as Director General of the newly established National Investigation

Agency (NIA).?

Radha Vinod Raju, Special Director General of Police in Jammu and Kashmir

3. “Man of the series” of recently held One Day series between Australia & South
Africa?

Albie Morkel

4. Who became the country’s youngest international referee, after passing the world body
FIBA’s exam ?

Zanim Mohammed Hashim from Thalassery, Kerala

5. The first Indian to win the prestigious Golden Globe Award for Best Original Music
Score ?

A.R.Rahman for Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire.

Rahman’s song ‘Jai Ho,’ penned by lyricist Gulzar, was nominated for Best Original
Music Score.

6. Which Malayalam Writer won the “Odakkuzhal Award ” ?

K.G.Sankara Pillai

7. Who became the fastest bowler to take 50 wickets in one-day internationals ?

Ajantha Mendis , completed his 50-wicket haul in his 19th one-day international. He
surpassed the record of India's Ajit Agarkar who took 23 matches to reach the milestone.

8. Who has been appointed as the General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor in the
Office of Management and Budget in the upcoming administration of U.S.President
Barack Obama?
Preeta Bansal, Leading Indian-American lawyer

9. Name the Indo-Russian supersonic cruise missile with speeds of Mach 2.5 to 2.8,
which is world's fastest cruise missile and is about three and a half times faster than the
U.S.A's subsonic Harpoon cruise missile?

Brahmos, The acronym 'BrahMos' is perceived as the confluence of the two nations
represented by two great rivers, the Brahmaputra of India and the Moskva of Russia.

10. Who is the Man of the Series in the recently held Zimbabwe –Bangladesh One Day
Series held in Bangladesh?

Shakib Al Hasan

11. The first Bangladesh player to top one of the International Cricket Council's player
rankings?

Shakib Al Hasan He tops the ICC ODI Rankings for all-rounders

12. Jharkhand Chief Minister who resigned from his post following his defeat in the
Tamar assembly by-poll?

Shibu Soren

13. Music Sensation A.R.Rahman won how many Oscar nominations for the film
“Slumdog Millionaire” ?
Three nominations (Music, Songs (Jai Ho, O Saya))

14. Indian sound engineer from Mumbai, born in Kerala, nominated for the Oscars for
Best sound mixing in 'Slumdog Millionaire’?

Rasool Pookutty

15. Which film won most number of Oscar Nominations in 2008?

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” with 13 Oscar nominations.

16. Name the founder and Chairman of Satyam Computers until January 7, 2009 when he
resigned from the Satyam board after admitting to corporate fraud of 7000 crore rupees ?

Ramalinga Raju
17. The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor Sr., who was sentenced to 97
years in prison for charges including torture and conspiracy, according to a federal court
in Florida. ?

Charles McArthur Emmanuel

He also known as Charles "Chuckie" Taylor Jr.

18. Who is BBC African Footballer of the Year 2008

Egyptian footballer Mohamed Aboutrika

19. The new model car launched by Fiat India Automobiles Ltd in India during fist
quarter of 2009.

Fiat Linea

20. Who is the Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab?

Sukhbir Singh Badal

21. The 50th anniversary of the Triumph of a country’s Revolution is observed on this
year January? Which revolution?

Cuban Revolution

22. The Three Indian cricketing legends, who figured among the 55 former players
named in the ICC`s inaugural Hall of Fame list as part of its centenary celebrations ?

Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar and Bishan Singh Bedi

23. The Chief Financial Officer of Satyam Computers, who was remanded to judicial
custody charged with criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery of accounts.
Srinivas Vadlamani

24. Who is the new President of Ghana?

John Atta Mills

25. Name of the Bacteria developed by Australian Scientists to prevent Dengue Fever by
infecting the dengue mosquito with that bacterium which halves its lifespan?

Wolbachia bacterium

26. Who became the youngest chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir?

Omar Abdulla

27. Who is the deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir?

Tara Chand

28. Which team won the Ranji Trophy for the season 2008-2009?

Mumbai, they beat Utharpradesh to clinch the title.

29. Who is the fifth New Zealand Cricket player to score a century in his debut?

Martin Guptill, he scored 122 runs (not out) against West Indies in his debut match

30. Prem Nazir Award is won by?

Malayalam Actor, Jayaram

31. The fourth Thikkurissi Foundation Award is won by?

Malayalam Actor, Balachandra Menon

32. Dadasaheb Phalke award winner and noted film-maker who died recently at a hospital
in Kolkata after a prolonged illness?

Tapan Sinha

33. The Australian Cricketer who retired recently from international cricket?

Mathew Hayden

34. Which player’s performance is counted as the best ever Test Innings of 2008 selected
by Cricinfo?

Virender Sehwag, his double century against Sri Lanka

Best Bowling performance : Dale Steyn against Australia in Melbourne , he took 5

wicket s for 67 runs.

35. The first player in the history of cricket to score 10,000 runs and 250wickets in both
tests and One Day internationals?

Jacques Kallis

Current Affairs Questions & Answers- December-2008

1. The terrorist organization in Pakistan which is banned by United Nations in respect of

the Mumbai attacks ?

Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), the front organisation of the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba

2. Which Indian player honoured with Doctorate by Dr. M.G.R. Educational and
Research Institution University?

Sania Mirza

3. Chief Minister of Maharashtra?

Asok Chavan

4. Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra?

Chhagan Bhujbal

5. The first Indian Badminton player to reach in the top 10 spot of the World Woman
Badminton Rankings.?

Saina Nehwal , Currently ranked number 10, Saina is the first Indian woman to reach the
singles quarterfinals at the Olympics and the first Indian to win the World Junior
Badminton Championships.

6. Which Malayalam poet won the “Mathrubhumi Literacy Prize “?

Akkitham Achyuthan Nampoothirippad

7. The Chief Minister of Maharashtra who resigned from office in the wake up of
Mumbai Terrorist Attacks?

Vilas Rao Desmukh

8. The new Defence Secretary of United States?

Robert Gates

9. The Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra who resigned from office in light of the
Mumbai carnage?
R.R.Patil
10. The famous football player who visited India and inaugurated “The Indian Football
School” in Kolkatta?

Diego Maradona

11. The famous American football player who was sentenced to a total of 33 years in
prison on December 5, 2008?

O.J.Simpson

12. Well known cardiologist in Canada, who originally hails from Kerala, has been
honoured with the highest award of the American Heart Society and European Society of
Cardiology?
Dr Salim Yusuf.

13. The Man of the Series of recently held Srilanka-Zimbabwe One day series held in
Zimbabwe?

Ajantha Mendis

14. The new Vice Chancellor of Sri Sankarachatrya Sanskrit University of Kaladi in
Kerala?

Dr. J. Prasad

15. Leading NRI entrepreneur who has scripted history by becoming the first Asian
deputy speaker of the British House of Lords.

Swraj Paul

16. Name of the film which won the Golden Peacock award and a cash prize of Rs.4
million on the concluding day of the 39th International Film Festival of India in Panaji. ?
“Tulpan”, A Kazakhstan film directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy who also bagged the most
promising director's award.
17. Who won the European Footballer of the Year Award-2008 ?
Cristiano Ronaldo, this Portugal Player is playing for Manchester United

18. Britain has launched an International Growth Centre (IGC) described as a 'global
brains trust' led by the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics to
promote economic growth in developing countries. A noted Indian-origin economist, who
has vast experience in the global development policy community, is appointed as the
centre's executive director. Who is he?

Gobind Nankani

19. Veteran Malayalam writer who was presented the prestigious Padmaprabha literary
prize?

U. A. Khadar, a leading short story writer, was chosen for the honour in view of his
outstanding contribution to Malayalam literature. The award was instituted in memory of
freedom fighter and Socialist Padmaprabha Gowder.

20. Russian presidential term is extended to how many years?

6 Years
The term of the Russian President is extended from 4 years to 6 years.

21. Name the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at -- but missed -- President Bush during a
news conference in Baghdad, where Bush was making a farewell visit.

Muntadhar al-Zaidi
22. Two Indians have been ranked among the 50 most powerful people in the world by
the prestigious US-based magazine Newsweek magazine in a list topped by U.S.President
Barack Obama.Who are they?

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan

23. Who won the World Heavy Weight Title which was held in Zurich ?

Nikolai Valuev of Russia. He defeated, Ivander Holyfield of America

24. Which team won the Federation Cup football Tournament?

Mohan Bagan

25. Name of the Malayalam Writer who won the Kendra Sahithya Academy Award in
2008 for his collection of essays in Malayalam posthumously?

Sri. K. P. Appan. He got this award for his book “Madhuram Ninte Jeevitham”

26. The Indian who is appointed as the Mayor of California?

Dr.Prakash Narayanan (Bihar)

27. Who won the Man of the Series Award in the recently held 2 test match series
between India & England?

Saheer Khan

28. Who is selected as the Indian Footballer of the Year-2008?

Baichung Bhutia

29. The new Chief Minister of Delhi?

Sheela Dixit
30. The New Miss World is?

Zenia Sukhinova (Russia)

31. The First runner-up of Miss World 2008?

Parvathy Omanakuttan

32. Chief Minister of Rajasthan?

Ashok Gehlot

33. The former Rwandan army colonel who was sentenced to life in prison by the United
Nations tribunal for genocide and crimes against humanity for masterminding the killings
of more than half a million people in a 100-day slaughter in 1994?

Theoneste Bagosora.

34. ISRO got 200 Crore profit by making satellite to a European Communication
Company. This is the first time ISRO making satellite for a foreign customer. Name the
company?

EADS Astrium, a European space company

35. The Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina against
Malnutrition (IIMSAM) has appointed an Indian Actor as its Goodwill Ambassador to
achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals for eradication of
malnutrition and hunger. Who is he?
Sanjay Dutt

36. Who is the new C.E.O and Managing Director of ICICI ?

Chanda Kochar
37. The former Deputy Chairman of F.B.I, otherwise known as "Deep Throat," died
recently at the age of 95,who leaked key information to The Washington Post during the
Watergate scandal which led to President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974 ?

W. Mark Felt

38. Indian Union Minority Affairs Minister, resigned from office at the centre of a storm
triggered by his remarks on the circumstances surrounding Maharashtra ATS chief
Hemant Karkare's killing ?

A R Antulay

39. The first batsman in the world who has scored more than 8000 runs at the number 3
position?

Rahul Dravid
40. The country retained top spot in the latest FIFA World Rankings with Germany
moving up a place to second.?

Spain

41. The new Prime Minister of Thailand ?

Abhisit Vejjajiva,

Current Affairs Questions & Answers- November-2008

1.Who is appointed as the Chief Coach of Pak Cricket Academy?

Ans: Salim Malik

2.Who won the Man of the Match Award in the recently held 4th test match between
India & Australia in Nagpur?

Ans:Ishant Sharma, India won this match by 172 runs

3.The fourth test between India and Australia in Nagpur was an Indian Player’s farewell
match. ? Who was he?

Ans:Saurav Ganguly

4.The African singer died recently also known as “Mama Africa," famous also for her
fight against apartheid?
Ans: Miriam Makeba

5.Which former Indian Cricket player is recently included in the technical committee of
BCCI which is headed by Sunil Gaveskar ?

Ans:Saurav Ganguly

6.Who got “Bharat Ratna”, the prestigious award of India for his contribution to
Hindustani Music?

Ans: Bheemsen Joshi

7.Which Indian actress has won the Silver Hugo Award for best actress at the 44th
edition of Chicago International Film Festival?

Ans:Preity Zinta, got this award for her performance in Deepa Mehta's “Heaven on
Earth”.

8.Who is appointed as the new foreign secretary of United States?

Ans:Hilari Clinton

9.The famous south Indian actor died recently who is excelled in the role of villain
characters?

Ans:M.N.Nambiar

10.The new home minister of India?

Ans:P.Chidambaram

11.The home minister resigned from his office owing a moral responsibility for the terror
attack that rocked Mumbai killing several people?

Ans: Shivraj Patil

12.The Finance Minister of India?

Ans: Dr.Manmohan Singh

13. Who has been unanimously elected president of the Editors Guild of India. ?

Ans: Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief of the CNN-IBN Network

14. Who is the new king of Bhutan?

Ans: Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

15. The new surface-to-surface missile successfully test-fired by India from the
Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Balasore in Orissa?
Ans:Shourya

16.The new Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University ?

Ans:Dr.Rajan Gurukkal

17.Which team won the Asian Champions League Football title?

Ans:Gamba Osaka

18.Who is appointed as honorary economic adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh?

Ans:Raghuram Rajan

19.Which state won the National Junior Athletics Title held in Mysore, Karnataka?
Ans:Kerala (35 Gold, 32 silver, 22 Bronze)
Second Place: Tamil Nadu (18 Gold, 16 silver, 16 Bronze)

20.Barack Obama is the ……th president Of United States?

Ans: 44

21. Vice President of United States?

Ans: Joe Biden

21.Noted Bollywood filmmaker, passed away recently who produced one of the most
popular serial, “Mahabharat”?

Ans:B.R.Chopra

22.Who has won the gold in the men’s 10 meter air rifle event with a world record score
in the World Cup Finals in Bangkok?

Ans: Gagan Narang

23.Indian-American who was appointed to serve on President Barack Obama's official

15-member transition board is?

Ans:Sonal Shah

24.Which film won the 13th Annual Satyajit Ray Award, 2008 in the recent London Film
Festival?

Ans: Italian film “MID AUGUST LUNCH”

25.The new president of Zambia?

Ans:Rupiah Banda

26.The Indian Cricketer also known as “Jumbo” who retired from International Career in
the recently held test match against Australia in Delhi ?
Ans:Anil Kumble

27. Who got the first “V.K.Krishna Menon” Award ?

Ans:Supreme Court Chief Justice K.G.Balakrishnan

28. Who won the World Junior Badminton Title?

Ans: Saina Nehwal

29. Which Indian Scientist recently got the Commonwealth International Felloship of Rs.
50 Lakhs?
Ans:Sandhya Sukumaran

30. Which Indian batsman completed 6000 runs during the one day series against
England?
Ans:Virendra Sehwag

31. The famous pop singer who converts to Islam and changed his name to “Mikaeel”. ?
Ans: Michael Jackson

32.The actor who got the “Panampilly Prathibha Puraskar ” ?

Ans: Mohanlal

33. Which Hindi poet got the 2005 Jnanpith Award recently?

Ans: Kunwar Narayan

34.Jnanpith Award 2006 is shared by 2 writers. Who are they?

Ans: Satya Vrat Shastri (or Satyavrat Shastri), Sanskrit scholar and Ravindra Kelekar,
Konkani writer.

35.The new Foreign Secretary of United States?

Ans: Hilary Clinton

36. The winner of National Billiards Championship?

Ans:Pankaj Adwani, he defeated Geeth Sethi, former world champion to clinch the title.

37.The famous dramatist and Oscar-nominated playwright died recently who is best
known for his famous play “The Miracle Worker” is,
Ans: William Gibson, his other works are “Two for The Seesaw”, “Golden Boy”

38.The terrorists attacked the Mumbai Hotels Taj, Oberoi Trident, Nariman House on ?

Ans:26 th November 2008

39. The three top Police officers killed in the Mumbai Terrorists attacks are?
1. Hemant Karkare- Maharashtra Anti Terrorist Squad Chief
2. Vijay Salaskar- Mumbai Police "encounter specialist"
3. Ashok Kamte- Additional Police Commissioner

40. The NSG commando who has been killed by the terrorists in the Mumbai attacks?
Ans:Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan

41. The former Prime Minister died recently who will be remembered most for ordering
the implementation of the Mandal Commission recommendations favouring reservation
for the OBCs in government jobs?
Ans: Viswanath Prathap Singh

42. The terrorist organization who claimed responsibility for the Mumbai attacks?

Ans:Deccan Mujahideen

43. The goal keeper died recently who is considered as one of the best goalkeepers India
has ever produced?

Ans:Peter Thankaraj

44.Which Australian player completed 100 test matches in the series against New
Zealand?

Ans:Mathew Hayden, he is the 11th Australian player to do so.

45.The new D.G.P of Kerala State?

Ans: Jacob Punnoose

Current Affairs Questions and Answers-October-2008

Current Affairs Questions and Answers-October-2008

1. Which Indian couple got the Right Lively hood Prize-2008 also known as the
Alternative Nobel.?
Krishnammal

Ans: - Krishnammal and Sankaralingam Jagannathan(They are the leaders of “Land for
the tillers’ movement. They started the movement in 1981. Prize value of Right Lively
hood award is Rupees. 1,35,00000)

2. Who got the Navodaya Award?

Ans: M.P.Virendra Kumar

3. The South African China man Spinner who recently retired from International Cricket?

Ans: Paul Adams

4. Which Malayalam Poet got the Ezhuthachan Award for this year?

Ans:Akkitham Achyuthan Namboodiripad

5. The controversial book written by Australian Wicket Keeper Adam Gil Christ?

Ans: “True Colours”.

The book has controversial remarks about Indian players Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav
Ganguly and Harbhajan Singh

6. Who is appointed as the C.E.O (Chief Executive Officer) of Vizhinjam International

Seaport Ltd?

Ans: L.Radhakrishnan
7. Anil Kumble surpassed a record of Kapil Dev in the recently held third test against
Australia in New Delhi. Which record?

Ans: Kumble played 132 test matches for India which is the second highest in terms of
number of test matches played by an Indian player. He surpassed Kapil’s record of 131
matches in the Delhi test. Sachin holds the record of playing most number of test matches

8. Who won the World Chess Championship in 2008?

Ans:Viswanathan Anand.

This is his 3 rd World Chess Title and this time he beat Russia’s Vladimir Kramnik.to
clinch the title.

9.Who is the new Vice Chancellor of Kerala University ?

Ans:Dr. A.Jayakrishnan

10. Which Malayalam actor won the Satyan Award?

Ans:Jagathy Sreekumar

11. Who is elected as the new President of Maldives in the recently held democratic
elections?
Ans: Mohamed Anni Nasheed.

Mohamed Anni Nasheed

12. Name of India’s mission to moon project?

Ans:Chandrayan -1

13. Chandrayan -1 is launched in?

Ans: 2008 October-22.

14. Name the other countries who successfully launched their moon mission programs?

Former Soviet Union, United States, European Space Agency, China and Japan. India
joined the elite group and has the 6th place.

15.Who won the Man of the Match Award in the recently held second test match between
India and Australia ?

Ans: Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

He captained India in that match at Mohali and India beat Australia by 320 runs.

16.The name of the Pension Scheme introduced by the Government of Kerala for the
farmers of the state ?
Ans:Kisan Abhimaan

Currrent Affairs-September-2008

1. Who is the new Reserve Bank Governor of India ?

Ans:-D.Subba Rao

2. Who is elected as the President of Pakistan ?

Ans: - Asif Ali Sardari

3. Who won the U.S.Open Tennis Mixed Double Title ?

Ans:-Leander Paes and Cara Black The fifth seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair beat the
American-British pairing of Liezel Huber and Jamie Murray 7-6, 6-4 in the final

4. Which recent commission’s report exonerated Mr. Narendra Modi from the Godhra
Massacre in Gujarat ?

Ans:-Nanavathi Commission.

5. Who is elected as the new chairman of P.T.I.(Press Trust of India )

Ans:-E.V.Chitnis, Eminent physicist Professor

6. Who is the Vice Chairman of P.T.I. ?

Ans:-Vijayakumar Chopra. He is the editor in Chief of Hindu Samachar Group.

7. Who is the new chairman of BCCI’s selection Committee?

Ans:-Krishnanachari Srikanth.

8. Who is appointed as the coach of Indian Hockey Men’s Team?

Ans:-Harender Singh

9. How many teams will participate in Euro Cup-2016?

Ans:-24, Now only 16 Teams participate in Euro.

10. The new name of UEFA Cup?

Ans:-EUROPA League

11. Euro Cup-2012 will be held in?

Ans:-Ukraine & Poland

12. The Hollywood Actor who died recently due to Cancer, acted in the film “Colour of
Money”?

Ans:-Paul Newman. He got Oscar Award for Best actor for the film Colour of Money.

13. Who won the Singapore Grand Pre Formula One Title in 2008 ?

Ans:-SPAIN'S Fernando Alonso

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Current Affairs: AUGUST-2008

1. Who won the Miss World-2008 Title ?

Diana Mendosa(Venuseula)

2.Who were the champions of Junior Asia Cup Hockey Tournament ?

India

3.Which freedom fighter's birthday is decided to be treated as "National Education Day "

Maulana Abdul Kalam Asad, November-11

4.Who won the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 2006 ?

Tapan Sinha

5.By how much margin, UPA government won the No confidence motion in Parliament ?

19 votes

6.Who is elected as the first president of Nepal in the recently held elections ?

Rambaran Yadav.

7. Who got 8 gold medals in swimming which includes 7 world records in the recent
Beijing Olympics ?

Michael Phelps

8.Which country got maximum gold medals in the Beijing Olympics-2008 ?

China-51 Gold Medals-First Place

U.S.A-36 Gold Medals-Second Place

Russia-23 Gold Medals-Third Place

9.Which Indian got Olympics bronze medal for Wrestling in the recent Beijing
Olympics ?

Ans: Sushil Kumar

Sushil thus became the second Indian wrestler after K D Jadhav who won a bronze in the
1952 Helsinki Games to win an Olympic medal.

10.Name the part formed by the Telgu Superstar "chiranjeevi" ?

Prajarajyam

11.Who is the newly elected Chief Minister of Jharkhand ?

Sibu Soren

12.Who is the newly elected Prime Minister of Nepal ?

Pushpa Kamal Dahal( Prachanda)

13.Which Indian got Olympics bronze medal for Boxing in the recent Beijing Olympics ?

Vijender Kumar

14. Who is the new director of Indian Space Research Organisation, Sri Harikokotta ?

M. Chandradathan

15.Who is the first Vice chancellor of Ambedkar University ?

Syam B. Menon.

16.The first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games ?

Ans:Abhinab Bindra, an Indian shooter from Zirakpur, Mohali, Punjab and is the current
World and Olympic champion in the 10 m Air Rifle event. India's first gold medal since
1980, when the Men's Field Hockey Team won the gold