Current Affairs : General Knowledge


CURRENT AFFAIRS – GK -1

1. United Nations Climate Change Conference 2010 is officially referred to as the ... session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
a. 18th
b. 17th
c. 16th
d. 15th

Answer : 16th

2. Neutrino Observatory (INO) project is located near which of the following hills?
a. Anamalai Hills
b. Nilgiri Hills
c. Khasi Hills
d. Patkai Hills

Answer : Nilgiri Hills

3. Where was fi rst the Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit held?
a. Thailand
b. Malaysia
c. India
d. Pakistan

Answer : Thailand

4. Who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine 2010?
a. Richard Heck
b. Ei-ichi Negishi
c. Akira Suzuki
d. Robert Edwards

Answer : Robert Edwards

5. Ajay Jayaram is a well known … player.
a. Badminton
b. Golf
c. Tennis
d. Hockey

Answer : Badminton

6. Toxic red sludge, a waste product from making which metal, burst out of a Hungarian factory's reservoir reachedDanube River of Europe?
a. Copper
b. Aluminum
c. Lithium
d. Rubidium

Answer : Aluminum

7. Who authored Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter?
a. Ruskin Bond
b. Mario Vargas
c. Jonathan
d. None of these

Answer : Mario Vargas

8. Suresh Tendulkar is associated with ...
a. Prime Minister’s Relief Fund
b. Telecom Regulatory Au- thority of India
c. UN
d. None of these

Answer : Prime Minister’s Relief Fund

9. Omkar Singh and Anisa Sayyed are associated with which of the following games?
a. Hockey
b. Basketball
c. Shooting
d. Cricket

Answer : Shooting

10. With which company would you associate Partha S. Bhattacharyya?
a. Coal India Limited
b. NTPC
c. IOC
d. Bharat Electronics Limited

Answer : Coal India Limited