Quiz on World Current Affairs(December 2011)

Who has been named AIFF Player of the Year?
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Who has been honoured Banker of the Year award 2010-11?
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Name the Former Miss Venezuela who died of breast cancer.
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Name the newly developed Remotely operated vehicle handed over by Defense Research and Development Organisation to the Indian Army.
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Which Finance is set to raise Rs.600 crore through Debenture Issue?
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Name the latest pendrive launched in India by Kingston.
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Who has been awarded Best actor in social role and Entertainer of the year at the Big Star Entertainment Awards recently?
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Which Indian state celebrated its 50th anniversary of liberation from 450 years of Portuguese rule?
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Name Microsoft’s new version of Social Network.
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Who became first Bangladesh cricket player to take 5-wicket haul and score century in the same test?
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Where has facebook moved its headquarters?
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Who has been named Germany’s sportsman of the Year?
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Name the 2 earth sized extra-solar planets discovered recently.
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Name the youngster of Australia who topped high school music exam in Tabla playing.
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Which country has declared national disaster as flash floods have left more than 1,000 dead or missing?
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Which country has announced plans to separate retail and investment banking to prevent a repeat of financial crisis that triggered massive state bailouts?
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Who won gold at the women’s 1500 metre title of the 72nd All-India Inter-Varsity athletics championship?
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Quiz on Current Affairs for All competitive exams

Quiz on Current Affairs(December 2011) for competitive exams

Who has been appointed as Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court?
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Who stepped down as chairman of Essar Energy?
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Who inaugurated Kerala Cricket Association stadium at Krishnagiri in Wayanad District?
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Who won the woman’s singles match at the BWF World Super Series Finals?
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Who has been selected as president of India International Centre(IIC)?
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Who won the Thailand Golf Championship by 7 strokes?
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Who won her 3rd WISPA(women’s professional squash tour) crown of 2011 at the Crocodile Challenge Cup in Hong Kong?
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Name the former Czech president who died recently.
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Which company has agreed to remove its logo from London’s Olympic stadium?
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Which bank launched ‘Bank on wheels’ in Karnataka recently?
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Which major bill was cleared by Indian Union Cabinet on 18th December 2011?
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Which company won patent rights against Android?
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Which company won patent for Driverless car?
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Name the Olympian, custodian of the gold medal-winning Indian team in the 1951 Asian Games who passed away recently.
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Name the debutant novelist who has captured the 600 year old history of Madurai till 1920 in his novel ‘Kaval Kottam’, won the Sahitya Academy Award for 2011.
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How many hectares of cultivable land in India has declined in the last 5 years due to shift to non-agricultural purposes?
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Name India’s top nuke scientist who designed the first atomic bomb which was detonated at Pokhran in 1974, who died recently.
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Who has been appointed as Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court?
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Current Affairs Month Wise - National Affairs :December 2011

Anna to fast from December 27 as Lokpal bill cleared without CBI.
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In a move to stop Anna Hazare’s movement against corruption finally the Union Cabinet cleared the Lokpal bill but without CBI. However the support by the cross party for the legislation was seen with doubt as the Cabinet vetoed the autonomy suggestion to the CBI.

A senior minister said that-“the CBI will look into only those cases that are going to be referred by the anti graft body”. Further the government officials said that the Cabinet cannot agree to the suggestion of the division of the prosecuting and the investigating sections of the CBI.

Shanti Bhushan, a prominent team member of Anna Hazare’s team said that- “ The Lokpal bill without CBI is not of any use and does not have any meaning”. He further said that if CBI is still under the control of the government it will still shield the corrupted government officials”.

Kiran Bedi also raised her voice stating that is such a bill is made then it’s better that it is not passed or else it will destroy even the remaining CBI power.

Following the reports Anna Hazare has said that he will go on for the 3 day fast in Mumbai from December 27 onwards.

Pro-TN activists delyed Guruvayur Express for the Mullaperiyar protest
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Regarding the Mullaperiyar issue the activists from the Manitha Urimai Paathukappu Maiyam which is a human rights protection centre tried to obstruct and even delayed the Guruvayur Express that was passing through Trichy at 1.20pm. The protest was made against the double dealings of the parties like Congress, BJP and the CPM. Also the protesters also demanded the arrest of Kerela Chief Minister Oommen Chandy as they consider that he violated the SC’S verdict for the issue.

The activists staged a rail roko by plastering the walls around Tiruchirappalli Junction. However the police didn’t provided any sort of permission to allow any such agitation. It was only after some time that the authorities came to know that they were misled by fake notice.

The activists consist mostly of lawyers and in order to show the support for the protest over the dam the Trading Malayali community shut downed their shutters. But to prevent things from getting worse the protesters were not allowed inside the railway premises and 8 of the protesters were arrested and later released at 5 pm by the police.

New Year Eve shadowed by the Terror alert
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While people were busy celebrating and welcoming the New Year but the Delhi Police remained on its toes to guard the city following the terror alert that were made for the arrest of some terrorists and Pakistani spies. The alert was also made by the Intelligence service and asked the police department to remain cautious.

the Delhi Police said that more focus would be given on the security of the five star hotels in the Delhi area that hold major New Year party for people thus seeing major rush of party goers. Apart from the hotel security the police said that they will do thorough checking of people New Year eve barricades were placed at prominent places to check the movement of suspicious peoples.

After the CNG price, petrol prices to rise up.
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The sole supplier of gas in the National Capital Region, the Indraprastha Gas Lrd(IGL), rose the prices of the automotive fuel by Rs 1.75 per kg. This step was made to pass on the status of the rupee’s fall against the dollars. Also this step was made to as the production from the Relience Industries Ltd’s dropped in the Andhra coast.

This rise in the price of the CNG (Compressed natural gas) is 5th revision for the Delhi and its NCR region. Other states of country like that of Mumbai that also have CNG services are also going to be affected due to the depreciation of the rupee’s against dollar.

Following the CNG price hike it is said that the petrol’s price are also going to shoot up by Rs 1 per litre.

Man held with arms and live cartridges in DTC bus.
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Just before the New Year’s Eve, a man was held for carrying a major consignment of arms and ammunitions in DTC bus near Subhash Nagar Metro Station. The arms and the ammunitions were placed in a gunny bag to prevent any sort of suspicion by the locals travelling in the bus. Upon checking by the police the man named Ravinder was arrested. The police recovered 18 pistols and live cartridges from the gunny bag.

The police official said that that had received a tip off regarding the consignment. A team was formed under the supersvision of ACP of Tilak Nagar, and they stopped the bus and checked the suspicious man that was carrying the gunny bag. Upon recovering live cartridges and arms the man was immediately arrested. A case has been registered under the Arms Act.

The police said that they stopped the bus around 10.45am and they surrounded the bus and closed all the entry and exit gates of the bus. The accused who was sitting at the back seat with his gunny bag lloked suspicious and he was thoroughly checked. The arms and the cartridges were covered by vegetables and once they were removed the team and the passengers were shocked to see the ammunitions that were more than dozens in numbers.

Campaign against Hooch menace by Mamata
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The Chief Minister of Bengal Mamata Banerjee led a campaign in Kolkata to create mass awareness for the Hooch menace that reports the illegally distilled liquor possession and selling of the liquor. The campaign was held to bring light on the scene of illegal selling of distilled liquor that caused death of 172 people. All the victims consumed spurious liquor in South 24-Parganas.

The campaigned carried massive placards that read "Say no to poison liquor". Some placards also had slogans and one liners as "Allow us to live a healthy life", “Life is precious”. The campaign included- Human Rights activists, students and politicians that marched from College Square to Esplanade. Apart from the chief minister, some of her ministerial colleagues like Subrata Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee and Firhad Hakim also took part in the campaign against the Hooch incident.

Addressing the masses, the chief minister said that she will continue her campaign against illicit liquor that will be followed by raids and arrests of culprits until she is successful to curb the menace. By this campaign she is going to generate social awareness against drinking of illicit poison liquor.

The Election Commission will keep tab on social media content and the expenses
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The Election Commission of India has said that it will keep a watch on all the ongoing malicious poll content and expenditure on that are done and incurred Facebook following complaints from Punjab province that the political leaders from various parties are their election mission by making use of the many social networking sites.

The Chief of the election commissioner SY Quraishi told a news paper that-"he and his team members have no problems with social networking sites like Twitter or Facebook as long as the content posted on these site is neither malicious nor violates any code of conduct in any way.” He further said that if the political leaders are asking for votes online and wants to reach the young generation for votes then he does not have any problem with it as the sites are just forms of another media. He said that all we are concerned about are the expenses that will be involved while monitoring candidates who use social networking sites and other forms of media. Though there is no policy for monitoring this so far but the commission will find out a remedy to solve the problem.

Court tells the social websites to take off offensive content.
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Just as the controversy created by IT minister Kapil Sibal for urging social networking websites to censor or remove off the offensive content from their pages in another fresh move a trial court has directed several social websites that includes Facebook, Google, Orkut and Youtube, to censor contents like "anti-religious contents" or "anti-social content " that promotes hatred or communal disharmony in the society.

The trail courts administrative civil judge Mukesh Kumar has clearly directed all the social networking sites to remove all the objectionable content that is present in the form of photos or videos or text which can posses power to hurt religious sentiments. The order came after a civil suit was filed by Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi who even submitted some printouts showing malicious contents as a proof.

Current Affairs Month Wise - International Affairs :December 2011

$300m stake in Twitter bought by Saudi prince


• Saudi prince and billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal who is an investor in world's top companies, also bought a $300 million stake in the fast-growing microblogging site Twitter. By this move the Prince has gained another foothold in the media industry of the world.

  Alwaleed is a nephew of the Saudi king and he has a personal net whose worth was estimated by Forbes magazine in March this year and is just some points below $20 billion. Not only this Alwaleed also owns a 7 per cent stake in News Corp and he further plans to start a cable news channel in his homeland.

  The stake in the Twitter was bought jointly by Alwaleed and his Kingdom . He also owns a Co investment firm and that the stake was bought after months of negotiations with the sites company. Following the stake buying the shares in the Prince Kingdom jumped to 5.7 percent in stock and trade market in Saudi Arabia.

Microsoft goes a sort of social type


• The renowned tech company Microsoft has also brought itself in the scene of social media and all this was done in a low key affair. Microsoft also owns a small stake in the Facebook.

  the site that has been introduced is made just for students who wants to share interesting discoveries over the internet and the site looks like a composition of both Facebook and Google +.

  Though only certain universities have access to this site, the site is a blend of functions like web browsing, search functions and networking and it also includes an interesting feature named "video party".

Hotline launched by the US for detained immigrants


• In order to help the detained immigrants a telephone hotline was launched by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement department. This hotline will allow the detained immigrants detained in their country to help them know their rights and to allow them to report cases if they are being treated unfair by other peoples.

  The phone number can be used by detained immigrants. The move was launched as the US officials feels that the immigrants they may be US citizens or they may be victims of crime.

  To ensure that such people who are in custody are properly notified about their rights. The US department guarantees that the phone line is made available 24 hours a day and will be having many interpreters in several languages so as to employee effective communication between the immigrants and the concerned authorities.

US blames Pak for NATO air strike being carried by them


• As another blow to the already weakened relationship between the US and the Pakistan was announced when the US blamed the Pakistani officials for the NATO strike carried out by them. Be it the aggressive approach towards Pakistan or their tactical need in Afghanistan, all the hopes were laid down to rest when the Pentagon said that the respect all rules engagement and international law of conflict hinting to the NATO strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

  Further the Washington even named the incident an act of war. An official said that-"the Pakistani soil misbehaved that led the NATO to strike back. And such response is continued then they will again shot back.

  Pentagon spokesman captain John Kirby further said that they have delivered the report regarding the same to Pakistan's general Kayani in Islamabad by a US officer in charge. The officer is going to explain every detail of the findings to the general.

Hearing for the suspected WikiLeaks leaker concludes


• The hearing for the WikiLeaks leaker was concluded in a US court. The leaker was a US Army intelligence analyst. He was accused of leaking secret classified files to the WikiLeaks website which gave enemies complete access to government secrets. However the defence lawyer of the accused said that his client has done no crime.

  The lawyers from both the sides made several arguments at the hearing in order to decide whether Bradley Manning who is a Private First Class person should be court-martialed for the charges held against at him. The charges include aiding the enemy and wrongfully causing intelligence reports to be published on the Internet that caused furore and a mess for the government.

  The prosecution held 22 criminal charges against the accused further saying that the massive release of documents by the accused had caused harm to national security.

Quiz on current Affairs December 2011 -2

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Union Public Service Commission's
Special Class Railway Apprentices' Examination 2012

Who has been crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India South 2012?

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Which event has been recognised as single-biggest Special Olympics event?

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Which country has been ranked 2nd biggest global arms exporter?

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Name the physicist and Xerox’s chief scientist who passed away recently.

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Who is set to partner with Leander Peas in Chennai Open 2012?

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Who has been appointed as head coach for Delhi Daredevils?

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Which city’s metro turned 9 years...?

Quiz on current Affairs December 2011
Shiksha karmi model paper for 2012 written exam in the state of Chhattisgarh

Which city’s metro turned 9 years?

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Who takes over as supreme leader of North Korea?

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Name the website launched by Patna police as Patnaites can get information about the position of different roads.
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What is the value of first ever tax-free bonds issue that NHAI is set to launch on 28th December 2011?

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Which legendary singers 87th Birth anniversary was celebrated across Mumbai on 24th December 2011?

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Where has Karuturi Agro Products has planned to establish sugar factory?

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Quiz on current Affairs December 2011

Who has been named Czech Republic Athlete of the Year?


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Name the American boxing champion who has been sentenced to 90days jail.


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Where has the bronze statue of Steve Jobs been unveiled?


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Name the person who hung himself by his hair for 23 minutes setting a world record.


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Which airlines has slipped to No.5 in market share as the company is cash strapped?


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Which Finnish Formula 1 driver is set to return for 2012 season?


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Name the Rider who has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year.


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Name the first Qatar woman who is set to participate in Qatar’s National Swim Team.


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Which South African movie won the Best Film award at the 4th edition of the Bangalore International Film Festival?


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