1) Who is the author of the book ” Sahibs Who Loved India” ?

a) Jagdish
b) Khushwant Singh
c) Chetan Bhagat
d) Nadeem Aslam

2) Who received the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and
Development ?
a) Mohamed ElBradei
b) Wen Jiabo
c) Taro Aso
d) Nicholas Sarkhosay

3) Which country will be setting up a world Biggest Telescope ?

a) Japan
b) France
c) China
d) India

4) At which place was G-20 Summit held?

a) Washington
b) New York
c) Chicago
d) Los Angeles

5) ” Lisbon Treaty ” is the treaty accepted / adopted by the members of which of

the following organizations recently?
a) NATO
b) SAARC
c) European Union
d) NSG

6) Beri-Beri is the deficiency disease caused by the vitamin

a) B1
b) B5
c) A
d) C

7) Who has been appointed as President of Zambia?

a) Dawada Kairaba
b) Isatov Njle
c) Levy
d) Rupia Banda

8) Who is the Pepsico Chief ?

a) Indira Nooyi
b) Indira Mukerjee
c) Kiran Mazumdar
d) Deepa Mirza

9) “Fehmida Mizza” is a woman speaker of National Assembly of

a) Indonesia
b) Iran
c) Pakistan
d) Afghanistan

10) Who is called the “Grand Old Man Of India”?

a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Dadabhai Naoroji
c) Gokhale
d) Tilak

11) Cabinet Mission came to India in which year?

a) 1942
b) 1932
c) 1916
d) 1946

12) Which five year plan has the objective ” Garibi Hatao” ?
a) first
b) fifth
c) seventh
d) eigth

13) Which river is declared as ” national river” ?

a) Ganga
b) Yamuna
c) Cauveri
d) Krishna

14) “No country for old men” is a

a) book
b) film
c) Drama
d) Poem

15) Hathigumbha inscription belongs to

a)Ashoka
b)Kharavela
c)Harsha
d)Sasaka
 16) He thought that his mother was not happy ……him
a) in
b) since
c) with
d) for

17) Do you really agree

(A) /that he has blamed us
(B)/ for the dispute, especially you and I
(C)/ No error
(D) ?

18) “ ENDEAVOUR” find the synonym

a) fail
b) success
c) attempt
d) try again

19) “ FABULOUS” find the antonym

a) rich
b) luxury
c) prudence
d) poor

20) The soldiers fought courageously …. The enemy troops

a) against
b) with
c) to
d) for

Objective Type Current Affair Questions :

1. 100% concession has been given for travelling in the Indian Railways for patients of ...
a) AIDS
b) Cancer
c) Swine Flu

2. In how many Routes special tourist trains called 'Bharat Tirth' is to start?
a) 19
b) 16
c) 17

3. Ladies special trains to be renamed with the Name of ...

a) Bharat Bhoomi Specials
b) Sonia Gandhi Specials
c) Matri Bhoomi Specials

4. How much funds has been allocated to the Unique Identification Authority of India?
a) Rs 1,500 Crore
b) Rs 1,900 Crore
c) Rs 1,600 Crore

5. What is the rate of Income Tax for incomesz above Rs 1.6 lakh upto Rs 5 lakh?
a) 10%
b) 12%
c) 15%

6. What is the reduction in Service Charges on e-tickets?

a) Sleeper Class Rs. 20 & AC Class Rs. 10
b) Sleeper Class Rs. 10 & AC Class Rs. 20
c) None

7. Imports from China in the Year of 2008-09 in Rs...

a) 100,000 Crore
b) 140,000 Crore
c) 147,605 Crore

8. How many new teams have been added in IPL 2010?

a) 2
b) 1
c) None

9. Which countries have recently faced Tsunami Waves?

a) Japan & Chile
b) Sallie & Korea
c) China & Thailand

10. Who has scored the highest individual ODI Score?

a) Saeed Anwar (Pak)
b) Charls Coventry (Zim)
c) Sachin Tendulkar (IND)

Answers for Above Current Affair Questions:

1(b) 2(b) 3(c) 4(b) 5(a) 6(b) 7(c) 8(c) 9(a) 10(c)

Other Questions with Answers:

1. Who is the new President of the Indian Youth Congress?

Answer: Rajiv Satav, Maharashtra Youth Congress President.
2. Name of the four-year medical course proposed by the Indian Health Ministry and
Medical Council of India (MCI) which is aimed at meeting the public health challenges
in rural areas?
Answer: Bachelor of Rural Health Care (BHRC). Earlier it is named as Bachelor of Rural
Medicine and Surgery (BRMS).
The BRMS training will be given in three phases - the first two phases will have the
duration of one year each and the final one will have 18 months. The internship will have
six month duration.

3. Indian who has received two Australia Day Achievement Medals for his contribution
to the society there?
Answer: V.P.Unnikrishnan.
He is the secretary of the Federation of Indian communities, Queensland (FICQ) and a
native of Kerala. He has been settled in Brisbane for more than 10 years and won the
Lord Mayor's 2010 Australia Day Achievement Award recently.

4. In a country in East Asia., a nine-year-old school girl gave birth by Caesarean section
to a healthy baby boy. Which is that country?
Answer: China

5. Name of the 10-foot-long research rocket carrying a mouse, two turtles and worms into
space
launched by Iran on 02-02-2010?
Answer: Kavoshgar-3
Kavoshgar-3, which means Explorer-3 in Farsi.

6. Which country has refused to grant citizenship to a man who forced his wife to wear
the full Islamic veil or niqab?
Answer: France

7. Name of the Pakistani neuroscientist trained at an elite American university has been
found guilty of two charges of attempted murder after she tried to kill US agents in
Afghanistan in 2008?
Answer: Aafia Siddiqui

8. Which country has agreed to accept ground-based interceptors from the United States
as part of its missile defense system in Eastern Europe?
Answer: Romania

9. Which state became the first State in India to announce a ban on Bt Brinjal even before
the Centre takes a final decision on the introduction of the controversial genetically
modified crop?
Answer: Uttarakhand

10. Who has taken over as Director-General of Income Tax (Investigation), Kochi
(Kerala)?
Answer: E.T. Lukose.

11. Indian American author who is currently a member of Arts and Humanities
Committee of US government appointed by President Barack Obama.?
Answer: Jhumpa Lahiri

12. Who have been chosen for the G.D. Birla International Award in art and culture
category?
V.P. Dhananjayan and his wife Shantha Dhananjayan .
Answer: They will receive the award along with two social workers, Zokhumi Vankung
of Mizoram for service to humanity and Percy Barnevik, a Swiss National, for his work
in the rural areas of Tamil Nadu.

13. Chairman of news and current affairs channel -Channel Nepal - and largest cable
operator Space Time Network, who was shot dead by unknown assailants in the capital
Katmandu?
Answer: Jamim Shah
He was a Nepalese media entrepreneur had two newspapers (now closed) and a television
channel "Channel Nepal", which is the first satellite channel in Nepal.

14. Which country now joins Chile as the second country in Latin America to have a
cabinet with gender parity?
Answer: Bolivia.
Bolivia’s cabinet comprised of 10 men and 10 women.

15. Who is elected as Costa Rica's first female president?

Answer: Laura Chinchilla

16. Name of the long-range missile successfully test-fired and launched by India on 07-
02-2010 from Wheeler Island in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Orissa.?
Answer: Agni-3.
The missile, which has a range capability of 3500-kilometers was flight tested by the
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). This was the fourth flight
test in the Agni-3 series. The missile is 17 meters long and two metres in diameter. It was
powered by a two-stage solid propellant system with a pay load capability of 1.5 tons.

17. Leaders of 32 countries from Latin America and the Caribbean, meeting in Mexico,
decided to exclude two countries from membership of a new organization for countries
on the American continents. Name of that countries?
Answer: United States of America (U.S.A) and Canada.

18. Name of the jailed Cuban dissident on a hunger strike for 83 days died at the age of
42 on 23-02-2010?
Answer: Orlando Zapata Tamayo.
This is for the first time since 1972 that an opponent of the Havana government lost his
life during a hunger protest.

19. Which country has swept the Commonwealth Shooting Championship with a
whopping 49 medals?
Answer: India.
India won 23 gold, 17 silver and 9 bronze medals. England finished a distant second with
31 medals and badges, while Wales ended third on the table after winning 13 medals and
badges.

20. A massive earthquake has hit a country in South America on February 27, 2010
killing more than 700 people while leaving untold numbers missing and 2 million
displaced, wounded or otherwise affected. Which is that country?
Answer: Chile.

21. A prominent Indian hotelier who has been presented the Community Award in
recognition of his outstanding philanthropic work in the UK?
Answer: Joginder Sangar

22. Which country’s Supreme Court disallowed kite flying during the occasion of the
spring festival of Basant?
Answer: Pakistan.
Kite flying is an integral part of the Basant celebration.

23. Who becomes the first South African batsman to score 250 plus runs against India in
a test innings?
Answer: Hashim Amla
Amla’s 253 not out in the first innings of the first test at Nagpur represents the highest
individual innings by a South African batsman in a test innings against India.

24. Who has been named the captain of the Indian hockey team for its campaign in the
World Cup Hockey event starting on Feb 28?
Answer: Rajpal Singh.

25. Who won the Asian Tour International golf title held in Bangkok?
Answer: Gaganjeet Bhullar(India)
Asian Tour International is a golf tournament on the Asian Tour, played in Thailand. It
has been held annually since 2008.

26. Which country announced on February 9,2010 that it had started enriching uranium to
the level of less than 20 percent to meet the country's fuel requirements for the reactor
producing medical radioisotopes, after the potential suppliers failed to provide the fuel
under a UN deal?
Answer: Iran

27. Seventeen army men were killed in an avalanche that buried their training camp of an
Indian State on February 8. That massive avalanche hits which Indian state?
Answer: Jammu & Kashmir
An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a slope, from either natural triggers or human
activity. Typically occurring in mountainous terrain, an avalanche can mix air and water
with the descending snow.

28. Which Northeastern state of India now has four 'Chief Ministers’, apparently to douse
a simmering discontent within the main party in the coalition?
Answer: Meghalaya
Veteran Congress leader D D Lapang had assumed office as chief minister on May 13,
2009. He is the chief minister with statutory authority vested in him.
Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee president, Lyngdoh now enjoys the rank of
Chief Minister. The others are the two leaders of the United Democratic Party- State
Planning Board chairman Donkupar Roy and Meghalaya Economic Development
Council chairman J D Rymbai.These three persons will enjoy the pay, perks and other
facilities as that of a chief minister, but they do not have any constitutional power.

29. Who is appointed as the Secretary of Petroleum and Natural Gas?

Answer: Sthanunathan Sundareshan

30. Which city of India will host the 12th edition of South Asian Games (SAF Games) in
2012?
Answer: Delhi
1. ‘Captain' is related to a ‘Team' in the same way as ‘Director' is related to

(1) Supervisor (2) Employee

(3) Organisation (4) Union

(5) Customer

2. Find the odd one out of the following options

(1) Aunt (2) Child

(3) Father (4) Niece

(5) Relation

3. Pointing to a photograph of Mahesh, Ram said. "The father of his sister

is the husband of my wife's mother". How is Ram related to Mahesh?

(1) Brother (2) Brother-in-law

(3) Father-in-law (4) Data not sufficient

(5) None of these

4. If ‘fork' is called ‘plate', ‘plate' is called 'knife', ‘knife' is called ‘jug',

‘jug' is called ‘glass', ‘glass' is called ‘cup' and ‘cup' is called ‘fork', by
what do we cut fruit?

(1) spoon (2) jug

(3) glass (4) saucer

(5) none of these

5. If ‘a' is substituted by 26,'B' by 25 and so on up to ‘Z' which is

substituted by 1, what will be the sum of the numbers substituted for the
word ‘XRAY'?

(1) 33 (2) 40

(3) 37 (4) 73
(5) None of these

6. In a certain code COIMBATORE is written as DPJNCBUPSF. How is

INDORE written in that code?

(1) JOENQF (2) JMCPQD

(3) JOEPSF (4) HMCNQD

(5) None of these

7. Geeta is elder to Seeta but not to Deepa. Gayatri is younger than Deepa.
No one is elder to Fatima. Who is youngest of them all?

(1) Seeta (2) Geeta

(3) Gayatri (4) Data not sufficient

(5) None of these

8. Raman is sitting to the immediate left of Harry but not next to Kamal.
Mahesh is sitting to the right of Kamal. If the four friends are sitting in a
circle who is sitting to the immediate right of Harry?

(1) Mahesh (2) Kamal

(3) Raman (4) Harry

(5) Cannot be determined

9. How many three letter meaningful English words can be formed from
the word NOTE beginning with ‘T' and without repeating any letter?

(1) Three (2) One

(3) Two (4) None

(5) None of these

Directions (11-15): Answer question 11 to 15 based on the following

sequence:

A $ B # 9 G 3D K « M ? C Q 2 X 7 P 5 U 8 I 4 Y ? J

11. How many elements in the above arrangement are both immediately
preceded and immediately followed by a number?
(1) One (2) Two

(3) Three (4) Five

(5) None of these

12. Which of the following will be the fifteenth element from the left end
if all the numbers are arranged in descending order from left to right,
keeping the position of the other elements in arrangement un-changed?

(1) 5 (2) 4

(3) 7 (4) 8

(5) None of these

13. How many letters in the above arrangement are immediately followed
by a symbol?

(1) Two (2) Five

(3) Four (4) Three

(5) None of these

14. Which of the following will be eighth to the left of the twelfth from the
left end of the arrangement?

(1) # (2) 7

(3) U (4) 9

(5) None of these

15. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on their
position in the above arrangement and so form a group. Which is the one
that does not belong to that group?

(1) G$M (2) K9Q

(3) ?D7 (4) 2MU

(5) PCI

16. In a certain code language' In ba pe' means ‘he has won','le ki ba'
means ‘she has lost' and ‘in se pe' means ‘he always won'. Which word in
that language means ‘he'?

(1) in (2) pe

(3) se (4) Data not sufficient

(5) None of these

17. X is Y's brother. S is T's mother and X's aunt. How is T related to X?

(1) Sister (2) Cousin

(3) Aunt (4) Cannot be determined

(5) None of these

18. If the letters of the word OBSERVANT are interchanged, such that the
first becomes ninth, second becomes eighth, and so on, and the position of
the fifth letter remains unchanged then what will be the newarrangement
of letters?

(1) TNAVERSBO (2) TNVARESBO

(3) NTAVERSBO (4) VANTRESBO

(5) None of these

19. If 1 is coded as S, 5 is coded as %, 6 is coded as «, 3 is coded as +, 7 is

coded as # and 4 is coded as ? What will be the correct form of the number
435671?

(1) ? + % « # S (2) ? + % S # «

(3) ? + « % # S (4) S # « % + ?

(5) None of these

20. Which of the following have the same relationship as

BREAD:DBARE?

(1) SWORN: NSOWR (2) FUNDS: FSDUN

(3) GLAZE : EGZAL (4) LOWER: RLEWO

(5) None of these

Directions (21-25): Read the following information and attempt the
given questions:

Six executive Aman, Bindu, Deepa, Jitu, Kamal and Priyanka have to
advertise four products i.e. soap, watches, computers and chocolates on 3
different channels, i.e. Go, Come and Fun either alone or in pairs. An
executive can visit only one channel and advertise only one product. No
more than two executives can advertise on a channel.

(i) Bindu and Jitu both visit the same channel but advertise different
products.

(ii) Aman who visits ‘Go' advertises neither soap nor computers.

(iii) Kamal does not advertise chocolates.

(iv) No girl advertises soap.

(v) The two executives who advertise chocolates visit Spice

(vi)

21. Who advertises watches?

(1) Deepa (2) Kamal

(3) Aman (4) Priyanka

(5) None of these

22. Which of the following Channel-product pairs in definitely incorrect?

(1) Go-watch (2) Come-computer

(3) Go-soap (4) Come-soap

(5) Come-watch

23. Which channel does Kamal visit?

(1) Go (2) Fun

(3) Come (4) Cannot be determined

(5) None of these

24. If Bipasha advertises computers which of the following must be true?

(1) Jitu advertises soap (2) Jitu advertises watches

(3) Kamal advertises computers (4) Kamal works for Fun

(5) None of these

25. What will Jitu advertise?

(1) Chocolates (2) Watches

(3) Computers or watches (4) Cannot be determined

(5) None of these

26. Swaroop and Simple want to attend a seminar together between 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. on Friday. Simple cannot leave till after her lunch break which
begins at 1.30 p.m. Swaroop is free after her meeting which ends at noon.
Forhow many hours can the two of them attend the seminar?

(1) 3 ½ hours (2) 2 ½ hours

(3) 4 ½ hours (4) Cannot be determined

(5) None of these

27. How many pairs of letters are there in the word ANSWER each of
which has as many letters between them in the word as there are in the
English language?

(1) One (2) Two

(3) Four (4) Three

(5) None of these

28. Find the odd one out

(1) 2 (2) 7

(3) 11 (4) 13

(5) 9
29. If all the letters in the word MERCIFUL are rearranged in alphabetical
order and substituted by the alphabet preceding them in the English
alphabet what will be the newarrangement of letters?

(1) BDHEKLQT (2) BDEHKLQT

(3) BDEHLKQT (4) BDEJMLQT

(5) None of these

30. Out of 38 families in a housing society 5 subscribe to Hindi news-

papers alone, 12 subscribe to both Hindi and Marathi newspapers. Find the
number of Maranthi news-paper subscribers.

(1) 9 (2) 21

(3) 17 (4) Cannot be determined

(5) None of these

Directions (31-35): Below are given letters and their numeric codes.
Below that are given some conditions to be followed while codifying
the given letter groups in each question. Study them and find out the
correct numeric coded form of the given letter group in each question.
If none of the coded forms is correct, your answer will be (5) i.e. ‘None
of these'.
Letters M Q I N E Y U G R
Numeric Codes 2 5 3 7 1 8 4 6 9

Conditions:

(i) If the first and last letters are vowels both are to be coded as S.

(ii) If the second letter is a vowel and the third letter is a consonant a
single code is to be used and both are to be coded jointly as %.

(iii) If the first letter is a consonant and the last letter is a vowel both are to
be coded as?

31. ENIMY

(1) 1%28 (2) ?732?

(3) 17328 (4) ?7328

(5) None of these

32. GENIR

(1) ?173? (2) 6%39

(3) 6%79 (4) 61739

(5) None of these

33. QUERI

(1) 5%93 (2) ?413?

(3) ?4139 (4) ?419?

(5) None of these

34. EINUM

(1) 1%72 (2) 0%42

(3) 1374? (4) 1%43

(5) None of these

35. UNGRE

(1) S769 S (2) 4769 S

(3) 47691 (4) S7691

(5) None of these

Directions (36-40): In each question below are two statements

followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the
two given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance
from commonly known facts and then decide which of the given
conclusions logically follows from the two statements disregarding
commonly known facts.

Give answer (1) if only conclusion I follows.

Give answer (2) if only conclusion II follows.

Give answer (3) if either conclusion I or II follows.

Give answer (4) if neither conclusion I nor II follows.

Give answer (5) if both conclusions I or II follow.

36. Statements: Some pencils are lead. All lead are ink

Conclusions:

I. Some ink are pencils.

II. All ink are lead.

37. Statements: Some ovens are refrigerator. Some refrigerators are ACs.

Conclusions:

I. Some ACs are ovens.

II. No. AC is oven.

38. Statements: All planes are birds. All birds are clouds.

Conclusions:

I. Some planes are clouds.

II. Some clouds are birds.

39. Statements: Some sweets are salt. No salt in spice.

Conclusions:

I.. Some sweets are spice.

II. No spice is salt.

40. Statements: Some papers are plastics. All papers are clothes.

Conclusions:

I. Some plastics are clothes.

II. Some plastics are papers.

Directions (41-45): Each of the following questions below consists a

question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You
have to decide if the data provided in the statements are sufficient to
answer the question. Read both statements and:

Give answer (1) if the data in statements I alone is sufficient to answer the
question while the data in statement II is not sufficient to answer the
question.

Give answer (2) if the data in statement II alone is sufficient to answer the
question, while the data in statement I alone is not sufficient to answer the
question.

Give answer (3) if the data either in statement I alone or in statement II

alone is sufficient to answer the question.

Give answer (4) if the data in both the statements I and II are not sufficient
to answer the question.

Give answer (5) if the data in both the statements I and II together are
necessary to answer the question.

41. How is ‘cricket' written in a code language?

I. ‘Dinesh play cricket' is written as ‘do si ha'.

II. ‘play cricket now' is written as ‘ha si ma'.

42. Who is the oldest among L, M, N, O,P?

I. P is older than M and N but not O.

II. L is older than O.

43. When is Rahul's birthday?

I. Rahul and Shivani are twins.

II. Rahul was born on the last day of February in a leap year.

44. What is the strength of the class?

I. Shekhar stood 28 ranks below the top ranker and Mahesh who stood 5
ranks below him stood last.

II. Jayesh was 9 ranks below Ramesh who stood 27th from the top.

45. How far does Shruti live from the school?

I. Shruti has to cycle 3 kms. To her friend Mina's house which is 4 kms.
From thee school.

II. Gitanjali lives exactly opposite the school and walks 2 kms. to reach
Shruti's house.

Directions (46-50): The following questions are based on the five three
digit numbers given below:

972 526 487 359 251

46. If the positions of the firs and second digits are interchanged which of
the following will be third if they are arranged in ascending order?

(1) 359 (2) 972

(3) 526 (4) 487

(5) 251

47. If 2 is added to the sum of the digits of each of the above numbers how
many will be multiples of 5?

(1) None (2) One

(3) Two (4) Three

(5) None of these

48. If 1 is subtracted from the last digit of each of the above numbers the
sum of the digits of how many of them are prime numbers?

(1) None (2) Two

(3) One (4) Three

(5) All five

49. If the digits in each of the above numbers are written in reverse order
which will be the second highest number?

(1) 251 (2) 359

(3) 487 (4) 526

 (5) 972

50. If the positions of the digits of each of the numbers are interchanged
such that the first becomes second, second becomes third and third
becomes firs, which, of the following will be the highest?

(1) 972 (2) 526

(3) 487 (4) 251

(5) 359

Answers:

1. (3) 2. (5) 3. (2) 4. (2) 5. (2) 6. (3) 7. (4) 8. (2) 9. (1) 10. (1) 11. (4) 12.
(3) 13. (2) 14. (1) 15. (5) 16. (4) 17. (2) 18. (5) 19. (1) 20. (5) 21. (3) 22.
(4) 23. (1) 24. (2) 25. (3) 26. (1) 27. (2) 28. (5) 29. (2) 30. (5) 31. (3) 32.
(2) 33. (4) 34. (5) 35. (1) 36. (1) 37. (3) 38. (5) 39. (2) 40. (5) 41. (4) 42.
(5) 43. (2) 44. (1) 45. (3) 46. (1) 47. (4) 48. (3) 49. (3) 50. (5)

Following are General Knowledge/ Current Affairs Questions with Answers for
May 2010:

Who won World Team Table Tennis Championship this year 2010?

a. China
b. Moscow
c. Singapore
d. None

Answer: C - Singapore end China’s 19-year reign in World Team Table Tennis
Championship

Who was the famous Indian musician in charge of the opening music at the Summer
Olympics in Atlanta in 1996?
Answer: Ustad Zakir Hussain
66. Who was the first Indian to participate in the Olympic Games?
Answer: Norman G Pritchard

65. Which famous Indian actor was honored with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in
1994?
Answer: Dilip Kumar

64. Who was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Services?
Answer: Satyendranath Tagore

63. Who was the first Indian to be honored with the Param Vir Chakra?
Answer: Major Som Nath Sharma

May 30, 2010:

62. Name the first woman Chief Minister of India.

Answer: Sucheta Kriplani

61. Who was the first woman to become the Lt. General of the Indian Army?
Answer: Lt General (Mrs) Punita Arora

60. Name the first Indian who got an Oscar.

Answer: Bhanu Athaiya (Best Costume Designer for Richard Attenborough’s film
Gandhi in 1982)

59. Who was the first Indian to be honored by the Royal Society in the field of Science?
Answer: Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose

58. Who was the first woman Governor of India?

Answer: Sarojini Naidu

May 29, 2010:

57. Who was the first Indian musician to receive the Padma Bhusan?
Answer: MS Subbulakshmi

56. Name the living Indian legend who has found a place in the Guinness Book of
World Records for having sung in almost 20 languages for over 1,825 ms and working
with 165 composers.
Answer: Lata Mangeshkar

55. Name the first man to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen.
Answer: Phu Dorji

54. Who was the first Indian woman to swim across the English Channel?
Answer: Arati Saha
May 28, 2010:

53. Who is the Indian sportsperson to have won the maximum number of
international track and field medals?
Answer: P.T.Usha

52. Two Indians have received the Nobel Prize for Physics. Can you name them?
Answer: Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman (1930) and Subramanium Chandrasekhar
(1983)

51. Who was the first Indian to get the Nobel Prize?
Answer: Rabindranath tagore (1913)

May 27, 2010:

50. Who is the only Indian to have won an Oscar for lifetime achievement in films?
Answer: Satyajit Ray

49. Name the first President of India.

Answer: Dr. Rajendra Prasad

48. Name the youngest grandmaster in India.

Answer: Parimarjan Negi

May 26, 2010:

47. Topper of prestigious IIT-Joint Entrance Examination 2010.

Answer: Anumula Jithendar Reddy from Madras zone

46. Which are the BRIC countries?

a. Brazil, Russia, India, and China
b. Botswana, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, and Croatia
c. Bangladesh, Romania, Indonesia, and Cambodia

Answer: a – Brazil, Russia, India, and China

May 20, 2010

45. Name the Cyclone that hit Bay of Bengal in May 2010 affecting coastal areas of
Tamilnadu, AP and Orissa.

Answer: Cyclone Laila

44. Which Indian film-maker will be awarded with Jaeger-LeCoultre honour at

venice Film Festival?
Answer: Mani Ratnam

43. Name the CEO of search company Google?

Answer: Eric Schmidt

42. ICICI Bank has announced merger of another Indian Bank with itself in an all
swap deal- name the bank and its promoters.

Answer: Bank of Rajasthan / Promoters – Tayal family

41. Name the BBC Radio DJ who has been suspended for floating the rumor that
Queen is dead.

Answer: Danny Kelly who has played the national anthem and declared that Queen
Elizabeth has just now died

40. Which two countries have signed the Nuclear Swap deal with Iran?

Answer: Brazil and Turkey

39. Which country has blocked Facebook for holding an online competition to draw
Prophet Mohammed

Answer: Pakistan – the Facebook in Pakistan has been blocked till 31 May as the
competition is considered blasphamous

38. Which state among the northern Indian states spends most as a percentage of its
GDP on Education?

Answer: Bihar (5.7%) followed by UP (3.67%)

37. Name the person of Indian origin (PIO) who has been nominated to become US
Solicitor General?

Answer: Neal Kumar Katyal

36. The 3G telecom auctions by Government have earned Government much more
than expected 35000 crore netting amount 67710 crore. Which company won
auction in most of 22 circles? (a) RCom (b) Airtel (c) Vodaphone (d) Aircel (e) a,b,d
(f) all above

Answer: (e) a,b,d - RCom, Airtel and Aircel won in 12 circles followd by Vodaphone in
9 circles
May 18, 2010:

35. Who is Miss USA 2010?

Answer: Rima Fakih, Arab-American a 24-year old Lebanese immigrant, is believed to

be the first Muslim to win the pageant

May 17, 2010:

34. Name the child artist who has been nominated under ‘Best actor’ category in
Film-fare awards giving competition to Shah Rukh Khan. His new movie Bumm
Bumm Bole has been released recently.

Answer: Darsheel Safary

33. Which country won the Thomas Cup title for Badminton in 2010? – (a)
Indonesia (b) Malaysia (c) China (d) India

Answer: China

China beat Indonesia 3-0 to win fourth consecutive Thomas Cup title at Kuala Lumpur.

32. Who won the Madrid Masters men’s tournament in 2010?

Answer: Rafael Nadal

Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open an ATP World Tour Masters with €2,835,000 prize
money has been won by Rafael Nadal, who beat Roger Federer 6-2, 7-6 (7/5).

31. Which country won the World Twenty-20 cricket final?

Answer: England

England beat arch rivals Australia

30. Who is CEO of Yahoo?

Answer: Carol Bartz

61- year-old Carol Bartz is one of the most successful female CEO ever in IT companies.

29. Which Indian IT company is associated with FIFA World Cup 2010 as one of
the sponsors? (a) TCS (b) Infosys (c) CTS (d) Mahindra Satyam

Answer: (d) Mahindra Satyam

28. Name the first Indian women who has been named as full professor at Harward
University.

Answer: Gita Gopinath

Gita Gopinath, Indian-origin associate professor at Harvard University’s Department of

Economics, has been appointed a full professor. She is first Indian women to do so and
only third women in the whole world.
27. Name the Hindu right wing organisation against whom the charges have been
filed by National Investigation Agency (NIA) for the 2009 Diwali-eve blast that
killed two people in Goa’s Margao town.

Answer: Sanatan Sanstha

26. Which Indian actress / model has created controversy recently by sporting a Ek
Onkar (God is one) tattoo on her nape. The tatto has been opposed by Sikh
community leaders in India.

Answer: Mandira Bedi

25. Name the volcano whose dense cloud of drifting volcanic ash is causing many
European airports to shut down for days and affecting air traffic worldwide.

Answer: Eyjafjallajokul

The April 14 eruption at Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokul volcano forced most countries in

northern Europe to shut their airspace between April 15-20. More than 100,000 flights
and an estimated 10 million travelers worldwide were affected costing airlines more than
$2 billion.

It erupted in April for the first time in nearly two centuries. During its last eruption,
starting in 1821, its emissions rumbled on for two years.

23. Who was India’s most wanted man suspected of having organized the 1993
Mumbai bombings, figures third on the Forbes’ Most Wanted Fugitives list topped?

Answer: Dawood Ibrahim

22. Name the countries which agree on a nuclear fuel swap aimed at easing concerns
from the West that Iran might build a bomb.
Answer: Brazil, Iran and Turkey

21. Who is the new director of barc?

Answer: RK sinha appointed as new director of barc

May 15, 2010:

20. Who was the 11th Vice-President of India who passed away recently on May 15,
2010?

Answer: Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, 87-year-old Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was died
suffering from lung and chest infection

May 14, 2010:

19. Popular South Indian actress who is willing to join DMK Party?

Answer: Khushboo

18. Who Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2010 Award Finalist
for Northern California ?

Answer: Roamware CEO Bobby Srinivasan, Bobby Srinivasan was selected as a

finalist for his extraordinary success in the areas of innovation, financial performance and
personal commitment to their businesses and communities from more than one hundred
nominations by a panel of independent judges. Award recipients will be announced at a
special gala event on June 12, 2010 at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel.

May 13, 2010:

17. Who is the latest actress who refused to work with Shiney Ahuja the
actor allegedly accused for raping his maid.

Answer: Vaishali Desai in film Shaunya a horror flick produced by Puja Bedi. Vaishali
Desai is a former Miss India and has made her debut in Kal Kissne Dekha opposite Jackie
Bhagnani.

16. Which Team won the Europa League Title?

Answer: Atletico Madrid won the inaugural final of the Europa League on defeating
Fulham at Hamburg. Diego Forlan struck an extra-time goal and secured a 2-1 win.
15. Which Company has started up a BPO in Srinagar starting reverse migration of
Kashmir?

Answer: Essar Group-run Aegis has started a BPO in Srinagar

14. Name the company from whose premises toxic leak happened in one of the worst
industrial disasters called Bhopal gas tragedy.
Answer: Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) (now defunct)
13.Who received 27th Niwano Peace Foundation award on May 13, 2010?

Answer: Ms. Ela Ramesh Bhatt of Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) India
who has received a medal and twenty million yen.
The Niwano Peace Foundation Japan established the Niwano Peace Prize to honor and
encourage individuals and organizations that have contributed significantly to inter-
religious cooperation, thereby furthering the cause of world peace, and to make their
achievements known as widely as possible.
12. Name the president of MCI – Medical Council of India who is facing graft
charges and has to resign.
Answer: Ketan Desai
Ketan Desai was arrested on April 22 by CBI for allegedly accepting bribe to give
permission to a Punjab medical college to recruit a fresh batch of students without having
requisite infrastructure. MCI controlls Medical Education in India.

11. Who was the only surviving terrorist involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and
is found guilty of murder, conspiracy, and waging war against India recently?

Answer: Ajmal Kasab of Pakistan

10. Who is the IAS Topper in UPSC Civil Services Exam 2010 which has been
released by UPSC recently?

Answer: SHAH FAESAL

Dr Faesal 26-year-old MBBS graduate, who topped the list of 875 successful candidates,
said that he was not only the first Kashmiri to achieve the milestone but also the second
Muslim in the history to achieve this feat.

9. Who is the Union minister who has offered to resign for his controversial remarks
against the home ministry for allegedly stalling some Chinese imports?

Answer: Jairam Ramesh

May 12, 2010:

8. What is the real name of character artiste ‘Sambha‘ from super hit film of all
times ‘Sholey‘ who passed away recently.

Answer: Mac Mohan

Apart from Sholey Mac Mohan also acted in Amitabh starrers like “Zanjeer”, “Don”,
“Shaan” and “Satte Pe Satta”. He was suffering from lung cancer.
7. What is the name of panel that is being setup to look into Telangana issue?

Answer: Srikrishna committee

Srikrishna committee or panel has been set up to study the demand for separate
Telangana

6. Who has issued fatwa – saying that it is illegal for women to work?

Answer: Darul Uloom Deoband

Darul Uloom Deoband the Sunni Muslim seminary had this fatwa issued by a bench of
three clerics

5. What is Khap Panchayat?

Answer: Khap panchayats or caste councils are the local Panchayat’s in Haryana
villages which have come into lime light due to their diktats (or fatwa) prohibiting same
‘gotra’ marriages’. They are run as a separate courts or adalats where judgement are
given by Khap Panchs. The Hindu Marriage Act however does not prohibits same caste
marriage. Most political parties support Khap Panchayats.

4. Who is the new IPL Commissionaire?

Answer: Chirayu Amin

Chirayu Amin has joined as the new IPL commissioner after the removal of lalit Modi.
Mr. Amin is Baroda Cricket Association president and he also heads a company known
as Alembic Chemicals.

3. Who is the British Prime Minister after Gordon Brown?

Answer: David Cameron

The 43-year-old Cameron becomes Britain’s youngest prime minister in almost 200
years. The last was Lord Liverpool at 42.

2. Who is the new Chief Justice of India?

Answer: Justice S H Kapadia,

Justice S H Kapadia (62-year-old), the most senior judge of the Supreme Court, was
on Wednesday sworn in as the 38th Chief Justice of India by President Pratibha Patil

1. Who won World Chess Championship against Veselin Topalov in 2010?

Answer: Viswanathan Anand

Anand defeated Bulgarian Veselin Topalov.