Current Affairs Quiz May 2012

MAY 2012

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1. Who won her first World Cup individual recurve gold medal in Archery?

Deepika Kumari

2. Who took over as 28th chief secretary of Madhya Pradesh succeeding Avani Vaish?
R.Parasuram

3. Which state's Chief Minister has demanded law to deal with cases of discrimination against northeastern students?
Meghalaya CM Mukul Sangma

4. ISRO recently gave clearance for using which frequency band from satellite for internet on trains?
KU band

5. Which company bagged the contract for deploying Bharti Airtel's 4G network in Karnataka?
Huawei

6. Who became the first cricketer to hit 5 consecutive T20 fifties?
Virender Sehwag

7. Who won the award in the best Actress category at the London Asian Film Festival (LAFF) 2012 for her film 'Bol'?
Humaima Malick

8. Which type of SIM cards are Switzerland based Geo Communications AG, launching in
India?
International Mobile Subscriber Identity(IMSI) SIM cards which will allow multiple mobile numbers from different operators on a single SIM card

9. To help clear cane arrears of over Rs.10,000 crore which commodities exports has been
let free by Government of India recently?
Sugar

10. Which industry in India will celebrate 100 years of its existence in May 2013?
Indian Film Industry (May 3rd 1913 to May 3rd 2013)

11. When is Facebook (IPO) set to go public?
May 18th 2012

12. When will the phased Basel III capital regulation in India be implemented as per RBI
guidelines?
January 1st, 2013 (to be fully implemented by March 31st, 2018)
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Current Affairs Quiz April 2012

1. Name the yesteryear actress who featured in the popular song 'Ae Meri Zohra Jabeen' from the film 'Waqt'who passed away recently.

Achala Sachdev passed away at a Pune hospital on April 30, 2012. Achala was 91 year old.       Read More

2. Where in India, largest solar power plant with an installed capacity of 40 MW started producing electricity?
Pokhran in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan

3. Which department in India plans to set up 1000 ATM's across 6 states?
Postal department

4. Who created history by becoming the first Indian female wrestler to have qualified for the London Olympics 2012?
Geeta

5. Who has been appointed next Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission?

Ratan Kumar Sinha        Read More

6. In which part of India, Indo Tibetan Border Police headquarters is to be opened?
Bihar

7. Which state's High Court has insisted that banks cannot freeze accounts nor stop services of issuing cheque book or ATM facility where the account holder has not supplied KYC (Know Your Customers) documents?
Gujarat
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Current GK MCQs March 2012 for All Exams

General knowledge and Current Affairs constitute a major part of all competitive examinations.Hope this will be Useful for IBPS CWE 2012 & all State PSC,UPSC,SSC,Bank PO,Railways(RRBs)tests etc.Also useful for those preparing for various Quiz competitions. Don't forget to leave your valuable comments below this article. enjoy reading.... :)

Current GK March 2012

1- Name the Rashtriya Lok dal (RLD) leader who was inducted into the Union Cabinet as civil aviation minister on 18 December 2011.

1. Ajit Singh

2. Jayant Choudhary

3. Devendra Nagpal

4. Sanjay Singh Chauhan

2- Which PSU lender decided to aggressively market its gold loan scheme for farmers to prevent defaults after the agriculture sector witnessed a sharp spike in bad debt in the past one year?

1. Union Bank

2. United Bank of India

3. Industrial Development Bank of India

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Current Affairs Quiz March 2012

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Current Affairs 2012

1.  Who is crowned Miss India World 2012?

- Vanya Mishra

Chandigarh girl Vanya Mishra is crowned the Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2012 in a glittering grand finale of the 49th edition of the beauty pageant. The Miss India Earth title went to 24-year-old Prachi Mishra of Pune, while Chennai girl Rochelle Maria Rao, 23, is crowned as the Miss India International.   Read More

2. Name the cricket personality called 'The Wall' who retired from International cricket recently.

- Rahul Dravid

The 39-year-old Batting great Rahul Dravid, the second most prolific batsman in the game’s history and India’s middle order bulwark for years, on Friday bid adieu to Test cricket, bringing down the curtain on a glorious 16-year career.   Read More

3. Which country has India agreed 'in-principle' to the participation in hydro power-projects in the North-East?
Bangladesh

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Current GK MCQs February 2012 for All Exams

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Current GK February 2012

1- United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) data for 150 countries over 40 years showed which two countries as the only two countries in the world where female infant mortality is higher than male infant mortality in the 2000s?

1. Venezuela & Combodia

2. Nigeria & Ghana

3. China & India 

4. Indonesia & China

2- Kamla Persad Bissessar visited India from 5 January 2012 to 14 January 2012.

Consider the following statements on her.

(i) She is the seventh Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

(ii) She is the country’s first female Prime Minister.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. Both (i) and (ii) are correct

2. Only (i) is correct

3. Only (ii) is correct

4. Neither I nor II is correct

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Current Affairs Quiz February 2012

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1. The World’s Youngest MCP and CCNA, who has exceptionally highest IQ in the world ?

Vishalini
11 year old Indian girl Vishalini, Born in Thirunelveli, a small city of Tamil Nadu. Read More

2. Name the Pakistani cricketer who was released from jail because of good behaviour after serving half of his 6 month sentence.
Mohammad Aamer

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Current GK January 2012 for All Exams

 

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Current GK January 2012

1- Kiro Gligorov, the former president of Macedonia died in Skopje on 1 January 2012. Which facts about Gligorov given below are not true?

1-. Gligorov was the first democratically elected president of Macedonia.

2-. He joined the partisan movement fighting against the Nazi occupation and was one of the organizers of the Anti-Fascist Assembly for the People’s Liberation of Macedonia, or ASNOM in 1945

3-. Gligorov served four consecutive presidential terms, leading the nation from January 1991 to November 2009

4-. The early days his presidency were overshadowed by a bitter dispute with Greece over the newly independent nation’s name , the dispute that continues till date

(A). Only 1

(B). 1 & 2

(C). Only 3 

(D). 2 & 4

2- Who was presented the Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation on 4 January 2011, the fourth day of the ten-day Kalachakra initiations?

(A). Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama

(B). South African leader Nelson Mandela

(C). Tanzania's Julius Nyerere 

(D). Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi

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Current Affairs Quiz January 2012

Current affairs 2012 for All Competitive exams | Current Affairs January 2012 quiz | gk questions | current affairs IBPS | Bank po, Clerk & Specialist Officer exams. So enjoy reading… :)


1. Youngest ever Microsoft Certified Professional who died recently at the age of 16 ?

Arfa Karim Randhawa Read More

2. What is the total number of districts in Chhattisgarh as on 1st January 2012?
27

3. Where the Coastal Business Development Summit is is held?
Mangalore,Karnataka

4. Name the DGP replacing outgoing chief Sankar Baruah for Assam.
Jayanta Narayan Choudhury

5. Where National Kannada conference is is set to be held in the month of April?
Delhi

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