1. Who was recently re-elected the President of the People’s Republic of China? a) Hu Jintao 2. Who recently won the ‘Person of the Year’ award by the India Abroad newspaper in New York? a) Indra Nooyi 3. Mr David A Paterson was in news recently. For what? a) for being the first legally blind person to become the governor of a US State 4. Who recently became the first ever woman to become the Speaker of Pakistan’s parliament? a) Fahmida Mirza 5. Who won the Femina Miss India Universe title in 2008? a) Parvathy Omanakuttan 6. Who won the WTA Tour Player of the Year 2007 award? a) Maria Sharapova 7. Which Indian cricketer recently became the third cricketer in history to score two triple Test centuries? a) Sachin Tendulkar 8. Who/what won the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, disarmament and Development for 2007? a) Aung Saan Suki 9. The Anglo-Dutch steel company Corus was recently taken over by a) ArcelorMittal 10. Who is the President of India? a) APJ Abdul Kalam 11. Which is the first Indian bank to get approval to start normal banking operation in China? a) Indian Bank 12. Which Indian company manufactures automobiles for Mitsubishi? a) Tata Motors 13. Which one of the following is the world’s busiest port today? a) Port of Rotterdam 14. For international payments, the Indian currency is linked to a) British sterling 15. Which of the following countries is the top source of FDI inflows to India at present? a) Mauritius 1. Hu Jintao
Current Events Quiz 1
b) Jiang Zemin
c) Ma Ying-jeou
b) Mira Nair
c) Deepa Mehta
b) for winning the Booker Prize
c) for conquering Mt Everest
b) Fahtima Bhutoo
c) Razia Mirza
b) Simran Kaur Mundi
c) Harshita Saxena
b) Justin Henin
c) Venus Williams
b) Virender Sehwag
c) Rahul Dravid
b) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
c) Medha Patkar
b) Jindal Steel
c) Tata Steel
b) Somnath Chatterjee
c) Pratibha Patil
b) State Bank of India
c) Corporation Bank
b) Bajaj Tempo
c) Hindustan Motors
b) Port of Shanghai
c) Port of Singapore
b) American Dollar
c) International oil price
b) USA
c) UK
Answers
2. Mira Nair
3. for being the first legally blind person to become the governor of a US State
4. Fahmida Mirza
5. Simran Kaur Mundi
6. Justin Henin
7. Virender Sehwag
8. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
9. Tata Steel
10. Pratibha Patil
11. State Bank of India
12. Hindustan Motors
13. Port of Singapore
14. American Dollar
15. Mauritius
Current Events Quiz 2
1. China launched its first lunar orbiter in 2007. What is its name?
a) Lunz’e 1
b) Wan Hu
c) Chang’e 1
2. The Suzuki Corporation has launched its first scooter for the Indian market. What is the name of this scooter?
a) Access 125
b) Marut 125
c) Excellent X
d) Pawan 125
3. Who won the Linares-Morelia Chess tournament in 2008?
a) V Anand
b) Veselin Topalov
c) Vladimir Kramnik
4. Which Indian bank recently opened its 10,000th branch becoming the second bank in the world to have as many branches?
a) Bank of India
b) State Bank of India
c) ICICI Bank
5. Gas has recently been discovered at which of the following river basins?
a) Krishna-Godavri bain
b) Cauvery basin
c) Ganga basin
6. Which Indian entity recently bagged a position in the list of world’s top ten largest derivative bourses?
a) NSE
b) Sensex
c) MCX
7. Which Indian company recently acquired Jaguar and Land Rover?
a) Bajaj Auto
b) Tata Motors
c) Mahindra & Mahindra
8. Which company topped the ‘Global 2000 List’ complied by the Forbes magazine in April 2008?
a) HSBC
b) Bank of America
c) General Electric
9. Who recently won the Best writer award in the Europe region category of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize 2008?
a) VS Naipaul
b) Indra Sinha
c) Tahmima Anam
10. India’s first centre to monitor climate change has been opened at
b) Mumbai
b) Chennai
c) Kolkata
Answers
1. Chang’e 1
2. Access 125
3. V Anand
4. State Bank of India
5. Krishna-Godavri bain
6. NSE
7. Tata Motors
8. HSBC
9. Indra Sinha
10. Chennai
Current Events Quiz 3
1. The 2008 NAM summit was recently held at
a) Tehran
b) Colombo
c) New Delhi
d) Lahore
2. Who among the following was recently appointed the United Nations High Commissioner for human rights?
a) Navanethem Pillay
b) Dayana Mendoza
c) Vijay Nambiar
d) None of these
3. Which country has the highest number of internet users today?
a) China
b) USA
c) India
d) Japan
4. Google recently launched its own online encyclopedia. What is the name of this project?
a) Wikipedia
b) Knol
c) Encyclopedia
d) None of these
5. Dr Ram Baran Yadav was in news recently for
a) being the first President of Republic Nepal
b) being first Prime Minister of Nepal
c) for winning the Magsasay Award
d) for winning the Kalinga Award
6. What is SpaceShipTwo?
a) world’s first civilian passenger spacecraft
b) Nasa’s lunar explorer
c) ESA’s craft to study Mars
d) None of these
7. Sir Richard Branson was in news recently. Who is he?
a) founder of Virgin group of companies
b) winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics
c) winner of the Booker Prize
d) none of these
8. Europa is a moon of which planet?
a) Jupiter
b) Saturn
c) Pluto
d) Mars
9. The WTO Ministerial Meeting of 30 trade ministers was recently held at
a) Geneva
b) Stockholm
c) Paris
d) Seattle
10. Who won the Men’s singles title at Wimbledon this year?
a) Rafael Nadal
b) Roger Federer
c) Andy Roddick
d) None of these
11. Who won the Men’s singles title at French Open this year?
a) Rafael Nadal
b) Roger Federer
c) Mahesh Bhupathi
d) None of these
12. Which country won the Azlan Shah Hockey tournament in 2008?
a) Argentina
b) Spain
c) Netherlands
d) India
13. Which country won the Euro Cup 2008 Football tournament?
a) Spain
b) Germany
c) Italy
d) France
14. According to the worldwide Corruption Perceptions Index, which country is the least corrupt in the world?
a) Denmark
b) Finland
c) Myanmar
d) USA
15. India recently made aviation history by sealing a $51 million deal with which country for the sale of seven Dhruv advanced light helicopters.
a) Ecuador
b) Israel
c) Egypt
d) Vietnam
Answers
1. Tehran
2. Navanethem Pillay
3. China
4. Knol
5. first President of Republic Nepal
6. world’s first civilian passenger spacecraft
7. founder of Virgin group of companies
8. Jupiter
9. Geneva
10. Rafael Nadal
11. Rafael Nadal
12. Argentina
13. Spain
14. Denmark
15. Ecuador
Current Events Quiz 4
1. Which one of the following was named by Time Magazine as the Invention of the Year 2007?
a) iPod
b) iPhone
c) Napkin PC
d) None of these
2. Who among the following won the Best of the Booker award in 2008?
a) Salman Rushdie
b) VS Naipaul
c) Arundhati Roy
d) Vikram Chandra
3. President’s rule was recently imposed in which of the following states?
a) Karnataka
b) Jammu & Kashmir
c) Punjab
d) Bihar
4. Which one of the following is not a member of the G8?
a) Britain
b) Switzerland
c) France
d) Italy
5. What are Plutoids?
a) Dwarf planets that orbit the sun beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune
b) Moons of Pluto
c) Small rocky bodies found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
d) There is nothing called a Plutoid
6. Which one of the following recently lost its planet status?
a) Pluto
b) Uranus
c) Neptune
d) Earth
7. What is Wi-Fi?
a) A method of wireless internet connection
b) A Bluetooth device
c) A service launched by Wikipedia
d) A wired broadband connection
8. Who is the author of the novel Midnight’s Children which recently received a special Booker Prize?
a) Salman Rushdie
b) VS Naipaul
c) Jack London
d) Agatha Christie
9. Who among the following was crowned Miss Universe 2008?
a) Dayana Mendoza
b) Marianne Cruz Gonzalez
c) Vera Krasova
d) Taliana Vargas
10. Inspiron is a series of laptops launched by
a) DELL
b) Apple
c) Lenovo
d) HP
Answers
1. iPhone
2. Salman Rushdie
3. Jammu & Kashmir
4. Switzerland
5. Dwarf planets that orbit the sun beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune
6. Pluto
7. A method of wireless internet connection
8. Salman Rushdie
9. Dayana Mendoza
10. DELL
