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which team has won DLF Indian Premiere League champions for the second time in a row at the MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai ? Chennai Super Kings, Chennai Super Kings beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 58 runs, Bangalore could make only 147 runs in reply of Chennais huge total of 205 runs. Earlier a record 159-run partnership between openers Murali Vijay (95, 52b, 6 x 6, 4 x 4) and Michael Hussey (63, 54b, 3 x 6, 3 x 4) powered the Chennai Super Kings to 205 for five in 20 overs against the Royal Challengers Bangalore. 2. The alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings who has been arrested in Pakistan recently?Umar Patek. Patek is one of the main suspects in the 2002 Bali bombings that left 202 people dead, including 88 Australians and 114 others. 3. British detective writer, best known to fans of the genre as the creator of Inspector Ghote of the Mumbai CID, who has died at the age of 84?HRF Keating. He introduced the character Ghote in his 1964 novel The Perfect Murder. Inspector Ganesh Ghote is an inspector in the Mumbai Police who appeared in twenty-four novels. 4. Alleged underworld gangster and former independent MLA, popularly known as Godmother, died of a heart attack in Porbandar?Santokben Jadeja. She was elected on the Janata Dal ticket from the Kutiyana constituency in Porbandar district. She took over the underworld after the murder of her husband, Sarman Munja, was also a MLA for one term in the early Nineties. She was alleged to be behind the murder of 14 people who, she believed were responsible for her husbands murder. 5. The worlds most wanted terrorist, was killed early by US special forces in a helicopterborne operation at Abbottabad near the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, climaxing a over 10year long massive manhunt. Name of that Terrorist ?- Osama bin Laden 6. Who takes over as Chairman of Infosys ?K.V. Kamath. 7. Recently which country has release Postal stamp on Rabindranath Tagore ?Sri Lanka. The government of Sri Lanka will release on May 7, a postal stamp and first day cover on Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary celebrations. 8. Recently ISRO develops Indias fastest supercomputer, Name of that Supercomputer? SAGA-220. 9. Who has been elected as the new Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh ? Jarbom Gamlin

After the official confirmation on Dorjee Khandus death, Congress did not take time to assign Khandus successor for his job. In a core party meeting, Jarbom Gamlin has been elected as the new Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh. Gamlin was sworn as the new CM on May 5. 10. Which pair won the Miami Sony Ericsson Open Doubles title beating Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor in final?Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi. With this win, they became number one in the ATP World Tour Doubles Team Rankings. 11. Who is the new Prime Minister of Syria?Adel Safar. He previously served as Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform from 2003 to 2011. 12. Name of the Chinese painting which sold for record 10 million dollars at an auction in Hong Kong recently?Forever Lasting Love. The painting, by Zhang Xiaogang, features three scenes of semi-naked figures in a sparse desertlike background surrounded by symbolic images. 13. Who defeated Rafael Nadal to win the Sony Ericsson Open Tennis Title held in Miami? Novak Djokovic. 14. Who has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)?Sushil Munhot. 15. Who has been awarded the 20th Saraswati Samman for 2010?S. L. Bhyrappa. Kannada writer S. L. Bhyrappa was chosen for the prestigious Saraswati Samman for his novel Mandra. The award, constituted by the K. K. Birla Foundation, consists of Rs.7.50 lakh, a citation and a plaque. He has so far published 22 novels, the first being Bheemakaya in 1959 and the latest Aavarana in 2007. The first recipient of Saraswati Samman award was Harivansh Rai Bachchan in 1991 for his autobiography. 16. Popular South Indian actress who died of a cardiac arrest on 6 April 2011 after undergoing treatment for a heart ailment at her residence in Chennai?Sujatha. Sujatha was introduced to the Tamil film industry by veteran director K. Balachander as a protagonist in Aval Oru Thodar Kathai (1974). She won Kalaimamani award from the Government of Tamil Nadu. She got Nandi Award for Pelli in 1998. 17. Indian prisoner who has been released on April 7,2011 after spending 27 years in prison in Pakistan on spying charges?Gopal Das. He was set free after Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari remitted his sentence on humanitarian grounds following an appeal by the Indian Supreme Court.

18. Prominent Kashmiri religious leader, a trenchant critic of last years stone throwing youngsters, who was killed on April 8, 2011, in a powerful bomb explosion outside a mosque?Maulana Showkat Shah. He is a leader of the Jamiat-e-Ahilhadith which is a highly puritanical group of Muslims closer to the Wahabi school of thought in Saudi Arabia. 19. Who has taken over as the new chairman of State Bank of India, the countrys top lender?Pratip Chaudhuri. Chaudhuri was the deputy managing director in the international banking division of the bank. 20. Indian Ambassador to Ivory Coast, who was evacuated from her residence on 08-042011 by United Nations and French forces in capital Abidjan in the wake of heavy fighting? Shamma Jain. 21. Red Bull driver who won the Formula One Malaysian Grand Prix title-2011?Sebastian Vettel. 22. Who is Winner of the Man Booker International 2011?Philip Roth 23. Man of the Match winners of Three ODI cricket Series played between Australia and Bangladesh held in Bangladesh in April 2011. Man of the Match of First ODI played at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur on 09-04-2011: Michael Clarke (Australia). He scored 101 runs. Result: Australia beat Bangladesh by 60 runs. Man of the Match of Second ODI played at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur on 11-042011: Shane Watson (Australia). He scored unbeaten 185 runs and took one wicket. Result: Australia beat Bangladesh by 9 wickets. Man of the Match of Third ODI played at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur on 13-042011: Michael Hussey (Australia). He scored 108 runs. Result: Australia beat Bangladesh by 66 runs Series Result: Australia wins the 3 ODI series 3-0. 24. Who won the Player of the series award in the three ODI cricket Series played between Australia and Bangladesh held in Bangladesh in April 2011? Shane Watson (Australia). 25. who has been chosen for the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for 2009 for her enormous efforts toward sustainable and equitable development ?German Chancellor Angela Merkel. 26. Who has been broken his own record for most climbs of Mount Everest by scaling the worlds tallest peak for the 21st time?Nepalese guide Sherpa

27. On 5 April 2011, an Indian social activist started a fast unto death to exert pressure on the government of India to enact a strong anti-corruption act as envisaged in the Jan Lokpal Bill, a law to establish a Lokpal (ombudsman) with the power to deal with corruption in public offices. Name of that social activist?Anna Hazare. His real name is Kisan Baburao Hazare. His fast led to nationwide protests in support of Hazare. The fast ended on 9 April 2011, the day after all of Hazares demands were agreed by the government of India. 28. Wisden, regarded as the Bible of cricket, has named which Cricket Player as the leading cricketer in the world for the year 2010?Sachin Tendulkar, Indian batting maestro. He became the seventh recipient of the Wisden award after teammate Virender Sehwag, Australians Ricky Ponting and Shane Warne, Englands Andrew Flintoff, Sri Lankas Muttiah Muralitharan and South African Jacques Kallis. 29. The 2011 BRICS summit took place in?Sanya on the island of Hainan, China, on 14 April 2011. Member countries of BRICS are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. This was the third BRICS summit since 2009. Following a meeting in Brasilia in 2010, to which South Africa was invited as a guest, the group invited South Africa to join as a full member in 2011 and the group formerly called BRIC officially became BRICS. The 2012 BRICS summit will be held in India. 30. Chief of Blackberry who ordered a BBC reporter to end an interview after he was asked about his problems with India and Middle Eastern countries over security issues? Mike Lazaridis. 31. Who is appointed as the Commander-in Chief of the Mumbai-based Western Naval Command?Vice Admiral D K Joshi. 32. Which countries signed seven pacts on April 16, 2011, including a framework agreement in civil nuclear field and a stake-sharing accord in oil sector? India and Kazakhstan The pacts including a civil nuclear agreement and one between state oil companies that gives an Indian firm 25 percent stake in the Satpayev oil block in the Caspian Sea. Other agreements signed by the two countries are: * Inter-governmental pact on peaceful uses of atomic energy * Joint action plan for furthering strategic ties * Cyber security cooperation * Mutual legal assistance treaty * Cooperation in agricultural fields. 33. The worlds certified oldest man who has passed away aged 114 in U.S.A on April 14, 2011?Walter Breuning.

He is currently the oldest person who has died in 2011. He was born in Melrose, Minnesota in September 21, 1896. Breuning was 26 days younger than Besse Cooper of Georgia, USA, whom the Gerontology Research Group in Los Angeles lists as the worlds oldest person at 114. 34. A court in Chile has recently ordered the exhumation of the remains of former president as part of an investigation into the cause of his death in 1973. Name of that former president?Salvador Allende. Investigators are trying to determine whether Allende killed himself, or was killed by soldiers in the 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power. An official post mortem report found he committed suicide using a rifle given to him by his friend, Cuban leader Fidel Castro. 35. Who has been awarded the Sydney Peace Foundations Gold Medal for exceptional courage in the pursuit of human rights ?WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. 36. The European Parliament (EP) recently passed two declarations against an Asian country condemning it for its support to Taliban and instructed the European Commission to re-evaluate the size of financial packages provided to them to eradicate terrorists from its soil. Name of that country?Pakistan. 37. Who won his seventh straight Monte Carlo Masters title (2011)by beating David Ferrer 6-4, 7-5 in the final?Rafael Nadal. 38. Who was named ] captain of Sri Lankan Cricket Team in all three formats of the game for next months tour of England , following Kumar Sangakkaras resignation after the World Cup?Tillakaratne Dilshan. 39. Which Bollywood film has won the best feature film award at the Geneva International Film Festival- 2011?`The desire- A Journey of a woman. The film is directed by noted director R Sarath. 40. One person was killed in police firing and several were injured as the protest against a new proposed 9900 MW nuclear power plant in Maharashtra turned violent on April 18, 2011. Name of that nuclear project?Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project It is the project of Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) at Madban village of Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra. It will be the largest nuclear power generating station in the world by net electrical power rating once completed. 41. The former communist revolutionary and Cuban political leader who confirmed that he had resigned from the top leadership of the Cuba Communist Party in an article published on April 19, 2011?Fidel Castro. He served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the partys foundation in 1961 until 2011.

42. Who has become the fourth person of Indian origin to bag the prestigious Pulitzer Prize 2011 in the general non-fiction category for his acclaimed book on cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.? Siddhartha Mukherjee. India-born Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Centre. 43. Name of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle launched by ISRO on April20,2011 which carries 3 satellites including Indias latest remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2PSLV C16.The rocket was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. The three satellites are Indian satellite RESOURCESAT-2 (1206kg), Indo-Russian joint satellite YOUTHSAT (92kg) and the first satellite of Singapore X-SAT (106kg). Resourcesat-2 will help in facilitating a variety of applications including natural resource monitoring, environmental assessments and disaster management related activities. 44. Which country recently announced to lift 44-year-old emergency from the country that was imposed in 1968?Syria. Syria was under Emergency Law from 19622011. Syrias government passed a draft law on Tuesday to lift 48 years of emergency rule on April 19, 2011. 45. Name of the US serviceman suspected of passing classified information to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, who is being transferred to a new prison by Pentagon recently? Bradley Manning. 46. The inaugural AIBA Womens Junior and Youth World Boxing Championships held in?Turkey. 47. Which film has won the Golden Palm award 2011 at the Mexico International Film Festival (May 20 and 21, 2011)?Viola.(English). The film is directed by Biju Viswanath, the filmmaker from Kerala. 48. Who is appointed as the Chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW) ? Chandresh Kumari. 49. 25-year-old Nigeria international defender who has died in a car accident on April 18,2011 when he was driving to Thessaloniki Airport to return to Nigeria to finalise plans for his upcoming wedding?Olubayo Adefemi. 50. Name of the two award-winning photographers who have been killed while covering the conflict in the Libyan city of Misrata?Briton Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros. Tim got nominated for the prestigious Oscar award this year for one of his documentary that he had co-directed with a journalist named Sebastian Junger, it was the documentary Restrepo.

Chris was the master of war photography and his work has appeared in the New York Times, Economist and several other media papers, he had also been nominated for the Pulitzer-Prize. 51. Which club won the Spanish Kings Cup for the first time since 1993 as they defeated their arch rivals Barcelona 1-0 in final?Real Madrid. Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo hit the one goal in extra time. 52. According to the annual global wellbeing survey from Gallup, which country finishes first in happiest country ranking?Denmark. Sweden at No. 2, Canada at No.3. 53. Who will officiate as Director of the International Film Festival of India which will be held in Panaji in November, 2011?Shankar Mohan. 54. Sri Lanka fast bowler who is retired from Tests on April 21, 2011 in a bid to prolong his one-day international career through to the 2015 World Cup?Lasith Malinga. 55. Which country is all set to transport its Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) to Egypt on a pilot basis as the country prepares for its forthcoming election season for presidential as well as parliamentary posts?India. 56. Who is appointed as Ombudsman for Local Governments in Kerala by the 20th of April 2011?Justice M N Krishnan. He served as the High Court Judge from 28th October 2004 to 10th February 2011. Ombudsman for Local Governments in Kerala is an independent quasi judicial authority which investigates the complaints against local governments in Kerala or the functionaries working under them. 57. The British manager of Indias national football team who is sacked over allegations that he made racist remarks to one of the countrys top referees?Bob Houghton. Houghton was appointed head coach of India in June 2006 by the All India Football Federation. 58. Who is appointed as State Chief Information Officer of Kerala?Sibi Mathews.. 59. Hindu holy man of India who is considered a living god by millions of followers worldwide, died on April 24, 2011 after nearly a month of hospital treatment near his southern Indian ashram?Sri Sathya Sai Baba. In 2011, he was listed by the Watkins Review as one of the 100 most spiritually influential people in the world. 60. Who has become the only player to have ever scored 50 goals in a single season of the Spanish League.?Lionel Messi. 61. Which club won the French League Cup-2011?Marseille.

62. Sacked chairman of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee of India who was arrested by the CBI over alleged irregularities in the conduct of the sporting extravaganza? Suresh Kalmadi. 63. The convention held in which city has decided to ban endosulfan globally and agreed to list endosulfan in Annexure A with exemptions?Stockholm. The fifth conference of the parties (CoP) to the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants in Geneva has taken the decision to ban the use of endosulfan globally. 64. Chief Minister of which Indian state went on a seven-hour fast at the Martyrs Column on April 25 demanding a ban on Endosulfan and seeking Central assistance for the victims of the pesticide?Kerala. Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan went on a day-long fast demanding a nationwide ban on pesticide Endosulfan. 65. Who has been appointed as the acting president of Indian Olympic Association (IOA)? V K Malhotra. 66. Who has been appointed as coach of the Indian cricket team for a period of two years? Duncan Fletcher. Mr. Fletcher, who was born and raised in Zimbabwe and had a largely successful stint as Englands coach from 1999 to 2007.He will replace Gary Kirsten, the South African who resigned after guiding India to World Cup glory earlier this year. 67. United States Ambassador to India who announced his resignation on April 28, 2011 citing prior personal and professional commitments?Timothy Roemer 68. Noted Malayalam litterateur who has been selected for the 20th Muttathu Varkey literaryaward for her collection of stories Papathara.?Sara Joseph The award carries a cash prize of Rs.33,333, a sculpture and a memento. 69. Which country successfully conducted flight test of indigenously developed air launched cruise missile Hatf-8 on April 29, 2011?Pakistan. 70. The Royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton took place at Westminster Abbey, London on which date?April 29, 2011.Two billion TV viewers worldwide watched the marriage. 71. Who has been selected for the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2010 for his outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian Cinema? K.Balachander.

He is the first Tamil film maker to win this award. The award carries a Swarn Kamal, a cash prize of 10 lakh rupees and a shawl. He has written, directed and produced more than 100 films in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada. He has bagged five National Film Awards and was conferred the Padma Shri in 1987.

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73. Man of the match winners of three ODI cricket matches played between Pakistan and West Indies held in West Indies in April-2011. First ODI played between West Indies and Pakistan at Beausejour Cricket Ground, St Lucia on 23-04-2011: Player of the match: Mohammad Hafeez. (Pakistan) He scored 54 runs and took one wicket. Result: Pakistan beat West Indies by 8 wickets. Second ODI played between West Indies and Pakistan at Beausejour Cricket Ground, St Lucia on 25-04-2011: Player of the match: Ahmad Shahzad. (Pakistan) He scored 102 runs and took 2 wickets. Result: Pakistan beat West Indies by 7 wickets. Third ODI played between West Indies and Pakistan at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados on 28-04-2011: Player of the match: Misbah-ul-Haq. (Pakistan) He scored unbeaten 62 runs. Result: Pakistan beat West Indies by 3 wickets 74. Swiss mountaineer and one of the few climbers to ever reach the summits of all 14 of the worlds peaks above 8,000m, (26,247 feet), died in a climbing accident on April 28, 2011?Erhard Loretan. He was leading a Swiss client up the summit ridge of the Gruenhorn, in the Bernese Alps, when the pair fell for unknown reasons at a height of 3,800 meters (12,500 feet) up the 4,043 meter (13,264-foot) peak. Loretan was the third person, behind Italian climber Reinhold Messner and Polish mountaineer Jerry Kukuczka, to summit all the 8,000-meter peaks. 75. Name of a plant species that was recently discovered from the Mathikettan Shola National Park in the Western Ghats?Murdannia satheeshiana. The plant with little golden flowers was recently discovered by a team of researchers from the School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala. The plant has been named after a teacher who passed away some time ago. The teacher was R. Satheesh, Reader at the School of Environmental Science of Mahatma Gandhi University. The herb belongs to the Commelinaceae plant family of the Murdannia genus. 76. Who has been chosen as new head of MCI ?- Prof. K.K. Talwar 77. who N Rangasamy has been sworn in Puducherry CM ?

78. Who was sworn in as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister for a third time along with 33 ministers at a glittering function at the Madras University centenary auditorium on May 16. - AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa 79. Recently Indian Railways launches magazine for passengers, what is the name of that magazine ?-Rail Bandhu 80. 58th National Film Awards Winners List Best Feature Film: Adaminte Makan Abu (Malayalam) Indira Gandhi Award For Best Debut Film Of A Director: Baboo Band Baaja (Marathi) Award For Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment: Dabangg (Hindi) Nargis Dutt Award For Best Feature Film On National Integration: Moner Manush (Bengali) Best Film On Social Issues: Champions (Marathi) Best Film On Environment Conservation/Preservation: Bettada Jeeva (Kannada) Best Childrens Film: Hejjegalu (Kannada) Best Direction: Vetrimaran, Aadukalam (Tamil) Best Actor: Dhanush, Aadukalam (Tamil) / Salim Kumar, Adaminte Makan Abu (Malayalam) Best Actress: Mitalee Jagtap Varadkar, Baboo Band Baaja (Marathi) / Saranya Ponvannan, Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru (Tamil) Best Supporting Actor: J. Thambi Ramaiah, Mynaa (Tamil) Best Supporting Actress: Sukumari, Namma Gramam (Tamil) Best Child Artist: Harsh Mayar, I am Kalam (Hindi) / Shantanu Ranganekar and Machindra Gadkar, Champions (Marathi) / Vivek Chabukswar, Baboo Band Baaja (Marathi) Best Male Playback Singer: Suresh Wadkar, Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi) Best Female Playback Singer: Rekha Bhardwaj, Ishqiya (Hindi) Best Cinematography: Madhu Ambat, Adaminte Makan Abu (Malayalam) Best Screenplay Original: Vetrimaran, Aadukalam (Tamil) / Adapted: Anant Mahadevan & Sanjay Pawar, Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi) / Dialogues: Sanjay Pawar, Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi) Best Audiography: Location Sound Recordist: Kaamod Kharade, Ishqiya (Hindi) / Sound Designer: Subhadeep Sengupta, Chitrasutram (Malayalam) / Re-recordist: Debajit Changmai, Ishqiya (Hindi) Best Editing: T.E. Kishore, Aadukalam (Tamil) Best Production Design: Sabu Cyril, Endhiran (Tamil) Best Costune Designer: Indrans Jayan, Namma Gramam (Tamil) Best Make-Up Artist: Vikram Gaikwad, Moner Manush (Bengali) Best Music Direction: Music Director (Songs): Vishal Bhardwaj, Ishqiya (Hindi) / Music Director (Background Score): Issak Thomas Kottakapally, Adaminte Makan Abu (Malayalam) Best Lyrics: Vairamuthu, Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru (Tamil) Special Jury Award: Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi) Best Special Effects: V. Srinivas M Mohan, Enthiran (Tamil) Best Choreography: Dinesh Kumar, Aadukalam (Tamil) Best Assamese Film: Jetuka Patar Dare Best Bengali Film: Ami Aadu

Best Hindi Film: Do Dooni Char Best Kannada Film: Puttakkana Highway Best Malayalam Film: Veettilekkulla Vazhi Best Marathi Film: Mala Aai Vhhaychay Best Tamil Film: Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru Best English Film: Memories in March Special Mention:Bettada Jeeva (Kannada), Aadukalam (Tamil) 81. Which to Host 11th Conference of The Parties to The Convention on Biological Diversity ?- INDIA 82. Who has been Appointed Next Cabinet Secretary ?- A.K. Seth 83. The documentary based on the Mullaperiyar Dam which has bagged the award for Best Documentary Short at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood Spring 2011? DAMs The Lethal Water Bombs. The documentary is directed by Sohan Roy. 1. The famous Indian painter who died recently on June 9, 2011 at the age of 95 years ? - M.F. Husain 2. Who has been appointed as new Finance Secretary ? - Sunil Mitra Revenue Secretary Sunil Mitra on 1 June took charge as the Finance Secretary in place of Sushama Nath, who superannuated on May 31 following the completion of her extended tenure. A 1975-batch IAS officer (West Bengal cadre), Mr. Mitra will continue to hold charge as the Revenue Secretary as well, a Finance Ministry statement said here. 3. Former Haryana Chief Minister who died recently on June 03 with a massive heart attack in Hisar? Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhajan Lal 4. Who launched the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) ?- Sonia Gandhi National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), one of the major new initiatives under the Ministry of Rural Development to bring the poorest of the poor above the poverty line by ensuring viable livelihood opportunities to them was launched by the UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi at a function in Banswara, Rajasthan at June 03. Union Minister for Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Vilasrao Deshmukh and Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Sh. Ashok Gehlot were present on this occasion. 5. Who has been appointed as first ever woman Executive Editor of New York Times ? - Jill Abramson

The New York Times broke with its 160-year history on June 01 when it appointed, for the first time ever, a woman Executive Editor, Jill Abramson. Ms. Abramson is currently the Managing Editor of the venerable voice of liberal America 6. Who - Li Na won the First grand slam for China & creates a history ?

Chinas long wait for a Grand Slam champion ended June 04, when Li Na beat Francesca Schiavone 64, 76 (0) in the French Open final. 7. Who won a record-equalling sixth French Open title ?

- Rafael Nadal Rafael Nadal of Spain won a record-equalling sixth French Open title when he beat Roger Federer of Switzerland 7-5, 7-6(3), 5-7, 6-1 at the Rolland Garros 8. Who appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)- Sunil Vasudeva 9. Which countrys parliament has approved nuclear shutdown by 2022?- Germany 10. What rank does Saina Nehwal hold after the recently concluded Indonesian Open?- 6th 11. Who is to take charge of Union home secretary role after GK Pillais retirement?- RK Singh 12. Who has been elected as chief coach for Indian mens hockey team?- Michael Jack Nobbs 13. Which countrys stock exchange is to scrap 90-minute lunch break for trading from August 1st 2011?- Singapore Exchange (SGX) 14. Who knocked out Roger Federer from Wimbledon 2011?- Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 15. Which airlines has banned babies from first-class cabins?- Malaysian Airlines 16. Which - Oman country jailed 13 people for demanding for better pay?

17. Name the co-founder of twitter who quit recently?- Biz Stone 18. Which google feature is likely to over take Facebook?- Google + 19. Who has been named 1st woman IMF chief?- Frances Christine Lagarde

20. Who has been appointed as Indian ambassador to Kuwait?- Satish C Mehta 21. Winners List of 12th IIFA Awards 2011 List of other winners of the 12th IIFA Awards 2011 Winners: Best Film Dabangg Best Debut Sonakshi Sinha Dabangg Best screenply Abhinav Kashyap & Dilip Shukla Dabangg Best Playback Female Singar Mamta sarma Dabangg(Munni) Best Playback Male Singar rahat fateh ali khan Dabangg(tere mast mast do nain) Best performance in Negative role Sonu sood dabangg Best music director Sajid-Wajid and Lalit Pandit Dabangg Best Costume Designing Niharika Khan Band Baaja Baaraat Best Action S. Vijayan Dabangg Best Makeup Banu (For Rajnikant) Robot Best Background Score Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy My Name Is Khan Best Song Recording Vijay Dayal and Ainvayi Ainvayi Band Baaja Baaraat Best Choreography Award Farah Khan Munni Badnam for Dabangg Best Editing Namrata Rao Band Baaja Baaraat Best Sound Recording Pritam Das Love, Sex Aur Dhokha Best Sound Re-recording Leslie Fernandes Dabangg Best Cinematography Sudeep Chatterjee Guzaarish Best Art Direction Sabu Cyril Robot Best Special Effects -Indian Artists Robot 22. Which mobile operator has launched 3G International video calling service in India? - Airtel 23. Which USB version of portable hard drive has been launched by Buffalo Technology? - USB 3.0 24. Which French player won over Serena Williams at the Wimbledon tennis tournament? - Marion Bartoli 25. When is IPL5 scheduled to begin in 2012?- April 4th 2012 26. Which is the latest mobile phone model launched by HTC in India?- Flyer 27. Who is all set to take over as foreign secretary from August 1st 2011? - Ranjan Mathai

28. Which Housing Finance Group recently launched its operation in Bangalore? - Edelweiss Housing Finance 29. Who won the European Grand Prix 2011?- Sebastian Vettel 30. Who has been named as COO of Unilever?- Harish Manwani 31. Who won the Indonesian Open 2011?- Wang Yihan 32. Which west part of India is all set to be inscribed in World Heritage List next year?Western Ghats 33. Who has joined as Advisor of Spime, a California based social location technology company?- Vinod Dham 34. Who clinched his maiden Wimbledon 2011 title?- Novak Djokovic 35. At what value has Maruti Suzuki donated its engine and powertrain for educational institutions?- Rs.1.5 crore 36. Which Indian cricket bowler joined the 100 test wicket taker club?- Ishant Sharma 37. Who has been elected as first woman Prime Minister of Thailand?- Yingluck Shinawatra 38. Where is the 3-day International Leather Fair 2011 scheduled on July 28th is to be held?- Delhi 39. Which former Union minister passed away recently?- Chaturanan Mishra 40. Who becomes the first left-hander woman Wimbledon title winner since Martina Navratilova in 1990?- Petra Kvitova 41. What is the public offer made by Zynga Inc?- $1 billion 42. BSE is all set to halt trade if Sensex moves at what percent in a day during JulySeptember?- 20% 43. What is the name of interim committee framed by Sri Lanka?- SriLanka Cricket 44. Which state in India is all set to give Bhagwt Gita as lessons starting July?- Madhya Pradesh 45. Which former IMF chief was released without bail in New York?- Strauss-Khan 46. Which state Chief Ministers office went 247 live on the Internet?- Kerala

47. Which technology celebrated its 20th anniversary on 1st July?- GSM (launched on 1st July 1991) 48. What is named after Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit?- Mango 49. Which ID is now valid ID proof for LPG gas connection in India?- Aadhaar 50. Which grammy award nominee is all set to perform at IIFA?- Jermaine Jackson 51. Who has been promoted as VP of Wipro?- Rishad Premji 52. Under which category India won gold at Cannes Lions?- Design category 53. With which country India inked pact to boost apparel, textile industry?- Russia 54. Which award did Sunil Mittal receive recently?- INSEAD award 55. Which is the latest launch from Research In Motion (RIM) in India?- BlackBerry Playbook 56. Which software training major has decided to setup 100 One World centres in a years time?- NIIT 57. Who has been unanimously re-elected as UN chief?- Ban Ki-moon 58. Toyota is all set to launch its latest model in India. Which is it?- Etios Liva 59. Who has been elected as Captain of New Zealand Cricket for all 3 formats of game? - Ross Taylor 60. Which airbus was grounded for clipping a wing at the Paris Air Show recently? - A380 61. Which actor of Jackass movie was killed in car accident in Pennsylvania?- Ryan Dunn 62. Countrys largest 2 wheeler maker Hero Hondas board have approved the changing of the company name to? Hero MotoCorp Ltd 63. Which 2 dual sim models have Nokia unveiled in India recently? - C2-00 dual sim Internet and X1-01 dual sim 1. Who has been Appointed as Solicitor General of India ? -Rohinton Fali NarimanThe Government has appointed Rohinton Fali Nariman, Senior Advocate as Solicitor General of India. The appointment is for three years w.e.f. 27th July, 2011. Born on

13th August, 1956, Rohinton Fali Nariman, studied at Shri Ram College of Commerce and at Faculty of Law in Delhi University as well as at the Harvard Law School. An expert in Comparative Constitutional Law and Civil Law, has practiced law for last 30 years with 500 Reported Supreme Court Judgements to his credit. 2. Which French tyre maker is all set to start production in Chennai unit? Michelin 3. Which French cement gaint has been allowed to mine for limestone in Meghalayas East KhasihillsbySupremeCourt?Lafarge 4. The death of which film maker could be remembered as Siddheswari won the national awardforBestdocumentaryfilmin1989?Mani Kaul 5. Which Dalai Lama spiritual leader celebrated his 76th Birthday recently?

6. Which country is set to role out 1st phase of National internet in August at 8Mb for homeusers?Iran 7. Approximately how much hectares of land in India is under organic certification as on March2010?4.4 million hectares 8. Who has been appointed as Manager of West Indies Under-19 cricket team? Courtney Walsh 9. After battling Anna Massey 10. Where has Orrisa, Jagatsinghpur with cancer which British actress died recently?

Posco

planned

Rs.52,000

crore

project

in

India?

11. Which company is all set to acquire British online bookstore The Book Depository? Amazon.com 12. Which Bharathanatyam exponent was conferred with Yagnaraman Lifetime AchievementAward?Padma Subrahmanyam 13. Who Aditya Vij has been appointed as CEO of Fortis Healthcare?

14. Who has Harun Rashid Khan 15. Who P.K.Bajpai has

been been

appointed appointed as

as

RBI

Deputy Director of

Governor? Finance?

BHELs

16. Which LinkedIn

social

networking

site

has

gained

2nd

rank

in

USA?

17. Who is Tiger Tyagarajan 18. Who Keki Mistry 19. Who Mark Zuckerberg is

been

appointed

as

the

CEO

of

Genpact?

the

VC

and

CEO

of

HDFC

bank?

is

the

CEO

of

Facebook?

20. In which Indian city will the Nano Science and Technology be setup? Bangalore (Devanahalli) 21. Who sealed Jayanta Talukdar his 2012 Olympics berth for the Archery Event?

22. Which actor is all set to construct a temple for Sachin Tendulkar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni?Manoj Tiwari 23. Which part of Sudan is all set to celebrate its Independence Day on 8th July 2011,Saturday? South Sudan 24. Which Facebook networking website now allows video calls and group chat?

25. Who recently Harbhajan Singh

joined

400

wicket

elite

club

in

Test

Cricket?

26. Where in India has Indian Institute of Management planned to open its 2nd campus? Bangalore, Anekal 27. Who is Shashikant Sharma 28. Who Mayookha won to succeed defence secretary Pradeep Kumar?

gold

in

19th

Asian

Athletics

Championship?

29. Which job-starved state in India has been granted Rs.1,000 crore job plan? Jammu and Kashmir 30. Who has been Rajesh Subramaniam appointed as CFO of Firssource Solutions Limited.?

31. Which Asian country becomes the first country to win the FIFA womens world cup? Japan 32. Who Darren Clarke 33. Who Carlton Baugh won the British Open Golf Championship 2011?

was

the

400th

wicket

of

Harbhajan

Singh?

34. Which countries reached Peru,Uruguay,Paraguay,Venezuela 35. Who won the Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda Team) 36. Which China country won the

the

semi-finals

of

Copa

America

2011?

MotoGP

German

Grand

Prix

2011?

Snooker

World

Cup

2011

after

15

years?

37.WhowontheBritishgrandPrix2011?Alonso 38. The Mysore campus Naryana Murthy Centre of Excellence of Infosys has been renamed as?

39. Which 2 Indian cricketers are nominated for all-time greatest Test team? Sachin and Sehwag 40. Who has K.Vijay Kumar 41. Which Indian Bank bank been appointed as CEO of Sun TV Network?

has

entered

into

pact

with

SBI

Mutual

Fund?

42. Who has Rakesh Singh

been

appointed

as

CEO

of

Aditya

Brila

Finance?

43. Which bank has launched credit card with no pre-set limit on spending? HDBC Bank 44. Airtel has inked deal with which company for IT solutions to African employees? IBM 45. Which passenger jet with a capacity to fly about 250 people non-stop up to 16,000 km landedattheiGIairport?Boeing 787 Dream-liner

46. Who has been appointed as Railway Minister in cabinet reshuffle 2011? Dinesh Trivedi 47. Who has been appointed as Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj Minister in cabinet reshuffle2011?Kishore Chandra Do 48. Who takes Beni Prasad Verma over Ministry of Steel in cabinet reshuffle 2011?

49. Who has been appointed as Rural Development Minister in cabinet reshuffle 2011? Jairam Ramesh 50. Which country has been included as 193rd member of United Nations? Sundan 51. Which 3 telecom companies have shared their networks and rolled out Plan India 3G services?Vodafone, Bharti and Idea 52. In which 2 Chennai and Hyderabad 53. Which Amazon 54. 9.44% 55. Intel At company Indian cities was Google Transit launched?

is

all

set

to

launch

iPad

rival?

what

percent

did

June

2011

inflation

close?

Which

company

recently

unveiled

smallest

data

center?

56. Who has been named as coach for Sri Lankan cricket team ahead of Australias tour? Rumesh Ratnayake 57. Who has lent his voice for pop star Britney Spears new single I Wanna Go? Sonu Nigam 58. Which GSAT-12 latest communication satellite has been launched by ISRO?

59. Which Finance company is all set to offer loans against gold ETF units? Muthoot Finance 60. Name the CEO of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, Chinas biggest chipmakerwhoquitrecently.David Wang

61. Who and at what age clinched the British Open Golf championship 2011? Darren Clarke 62. Which Infosys IT company recently announced a 13-member executive council?

63. Who has been Vilasrao Deshmukh

elected

as

president

of

Mumbai

Cricket

Association?

64. Who has been elected as chief of Empowered Committee of Goods and Services Tax? Sushil Kumar Modi 65. Against Qatar, 2-1 whom did India win an International football friendly match?

66. Which shuttle undocked for the final time from International Space station, NASA? Atlantis 67. Where and for which project has BHEL commissioned 525MW thermal set? Maithon Right Bank thermal power project in Jharkhand 68.Which Japan 69. Which Infosys country won the womens soccer World Cup 2011?

company

is

eyeing

to

open

its

IT

centre

in

Gujarat?

70. Which South American country has surpassed Saudi Arabia in oil reserves? Venezuela 71. Which company bought .CO domain ahead of its 1st year anniversary of public launch? Google and will be used as G.Co to launch shortcut URL 72. Which luxury hotels have been accorded the LEED Platinum (Leadership in Energy andEnvironmentalDesign)rating?ITCs luxury hotels 73. Name the person who ignited Chinas interest in the NBA and became one of Asias best-knownathletesandisretirednow.Yao Ming 74. Which 2 countries are set to participate in the 2000th test in the history of Test Cricket? India and England 75. Who has been appointed as Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police ? V. Dinesh Reddy IPS officer of 1977 batch V. Dinesh Reddy has been appointed the Director General of Police of

Andhra Mr. Dinesh Reddy, currently the Director General of Vigilance and Enforcement.

Pradesh.

76. Who has been appointed as Chairman of Alcatel-Lucent for its India operations? Arun Seth 77. Who has been Chosen Miss Universe India 2011? Vasuki Sunkavalli, popularly known as Vasuki in the Indian modelling industry, has been chosen to represent India at the Miss Universe contest this year. 1.Who becomes first Indian woman to cross Gobi desert ? - Sucheta 33 year old women from Pune, has successfully crossed the arduous 1,623 km stretch of the Gobi desert, the largest in Asia and the fifth in the world 2. Iscom along with Elmwood College, St.Andrews UK has launched a Post-Graduate courseforhichsportingevent?Post-graduate programme in golf management 3. Who has been ranked world No.1 in double trap shooting as per the ISSF world rankings?Ronjan Sodhi 4. Asias largest solar energy park to be hosted by which state ? - Gujarat would house the largest solar energy park in Asia in two years, with a power production capacity of 500 Mw. This would be set up with an investment of around Rs 8,000 crore flowing from companies such as GMR and Lanco, which have been assigned generation capacities under the Gujarat Solar Mission. 5. Which UK-listed miner gets formal approval from the Indian government for its acquisitionofstakeinCairnIndia?Vedanta Resources or Vedanta 6. Which Tata group firm is set to open online consumer durables and electronics store? Tata Croma 7. Which company has launched its first Financial Technology Grid to offer services in bankingdomain?Polaris software 8. Which computer manufacturer has introduced rupee symbol on desktop computer keyboard, compatible with Microsoft softwares? LenovoIndia 9. Which China country has approved plans to setup first Tibetian bank?

10. Who has Anish Sarkar

been

appointed

as

consulting head

for

India

at

Capgemini?

11. Sunny

Name

the

sedan sworn in

unveiled a

by Karnatakas

Nissan Chief

India. Minister?

12. Who has been D.V.Sadananda Gowda

13. Which molecule has been found in Orion constellation 1 molecule of Oxygen was found for every million hydrogen molecules 14. Name the version USB 3.0 Media Reader of Media Reader launched by

of

stars?

Kingston.

15. Which bank has launched a service of accepting income tax payment through ATMs? HDFC Bank 16. Who has been takes charge as the 23rd chief of the Indian Air Force ? - N A K Browne Ace fighter pilot Norman Anil Kumar Browne took over as the 23rd chief of the Indian Air Force from Air Chief Marshal P V Naik, who retired after putting in 42 years of service. 17. Who has Gary Talarico joined Gordon Brothers Group as Chief Executive Officer?

18. Which country is all set to shut 40% (800 approx.) of its data centres to reduce hefty technology budget? USA 19. Which U.S.Secretary met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha recently? Hilary Clinton 20. Which Twitter social networking site has turned 5 years?

21. Who has been named as Sri Lankas captain for upcoming Australian series? Dilshan 22. Which Gagan Narang 23. Which Prahaar 24. Who M.S.Rana Ace Indian shooter is set to get Khel Ratna?

missile was recently test-fired successfully at Chandipur, Orrisa?

is

all

set

to

take

over

as

CMD

of

NMDC?

25. Which company formally opened its assembly plant at Rosslyn, South Africa? Tata Motors 26. Who has been appointed as solicitor-general following the resignation of Gopal Subramaniam?Rohinton Nariman 27. Who became 2nd highest run scorer in Test cricket surpassing Ricky Pontings record? Rahul Dravid 28. Which program of IIM Indore did recently get HRD ministrys approval? 5-year management program 29. Who won the 1st Hangzhou Womens Grandmasters Tournament in China? Dronavalli Harika 30. Name the Chairman and CEO of TAFE who has been inducted into the board of AGCO.Mallika Srinivasan 31.Whowonthe2011GermanGP?Lewis Hamilton 32. Which former Australian opening batsman is set to return to competitive cricket (Big BashLeagueT20)?Matthew Hayden 33. Which Indian Sandeep Sejwal 34. Sudan Which swimmer qualified for the 2012 London Olympics?

country

has

launched

its

new

currency?

35. Which singer is all set to perform at the Royal Albert Hall where the first Carnatic music is scheduled in the 116-year history of BBC proms? Aruna Sairam 36. Which motorcycle has Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India Private Ltd. recently launched?CBR 250R 37. Who Vidya Pillai 38. Who England won won the ladies National snooker championship?

the

2000th

Test

cricket

held

at

Lords

Cricket

Ground?

39. Which frenchman after 25 years won the German Open Tennis tournament? Gilles Simon

40. Who won the Indonesian International Challenge badminton championship 2011? Pusarla Venkata Sindhu 41. Who has been appointed as Lokayukta of Karnataka to succeed Santosh Hegde? Former Supreme Court Judge Shivraj V.Patil 42. Who has been named vice president for Boeing Defence, Space and Security in India? Dennis D.Swanson 43. Which Indian tennis player holds career best rank of 62 in the singles list? Somdev Devvarman 44. What is Repo and Repo: 8% and Reverse Repo: 7% Reverse Repo rate as on 26th July 2011?

45. Which country has agreed for a meeting between its Nobel Laureate, pro-democracy activist Aung Suu Kyi and Minister of Social Welfare U Aung Kyi? Myanmar 46. Who has been named as the global co-CEO of Standard Chatered Banks private equity?Nainesh Jaisingh 47. Who has been appointed as co-CEO to succeed Management Board chairman, Josef Ackermann?Anshu Jain 48. Name the project of Mozillas operating system that is set to work on mobile devices andtablets.Boot to Gecko (B2G) 49. Which business and technology outsourcing services provider has been named in the GlobalServices100listforthe5thconsecutiveyear?Syntel 50. Which Noida-based hospital running under the brand Ojjus Medicare has got nod for theIPOggregatingtoRs,62crore?Goodwill Hospital and Research Center Ltd. 51. Which poets death anniversary would be remembered on 8th August in India? Rabindranath Tagore 52. Draft of which anti-corruption bill was approved by Union Cabinet on 28th July 2011? Lokpal Bill 53. Which of the two Indians were awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award 2011? Nileema Mishra for helping the poor and Harish Hande for revolutionizing the use of solar lights 54. Which Operating System celebrated DOS (Disk Operating System), 27th July 1981 its 30th birthday on July 27th?

55. Who has been appointed as national team coach for Argentinas football team? Alejandro Sabella 56. Which cricketer equalled Rahul Dravid The Wall 57. Who B.S.Yeddyurappa resigned Sunil Gavaskars tally of 34 test hundreds?

as

Chief

Minister

of

Karnataka?

58. Who has been appointed as the New Governor of Tamil Nadu?

- Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah was appointed as the new Governor of Tamil Nadu on 26 August 2011. 59. Who Jenson Button won the Hungarian Grand Prix 2011?

60. Which Indian qualified for London Olympics 2012 for Short put event? Om Prakash Singh 61. On which planet has Nasa found the first evidence of flowing water recently? Mars 62. Which service has Yahoo launched to allow users to enjoy full-length movies for free? Movieplex 63. Who has taken charge as HALs Director Corporate Planning and Marketing? Baldev Singh 64. Who has been named captain for Womens Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament?Saba Anjum 65. Which former cricketer also secretary of Bihar Jharkhand Cricket Association passed awayduetobrainhemorrhage?Ramesh Saxena 66. Which Indian oil gaints are allowed to dig oil at the Gulf of Mannar? ONGC and Cairn India 67. Name the tablet Beetel Magiq, priced at 9,999 model launched by Beetel in India.

68. Who has been renamed as Indian hockey teams captain for inaugural Asian ChampionsTrophyinOrdos,China?Rajpal Singh

69. Who has Harish Manwani

been

appointed

as

director

for

Whirlpool

Corporation?

70. Which Bill in India is set to be tabled in Winter Parliament session? Food bill 71. What 3rd place position does India hold in Golf after Nomura Cup?

72. Which Academy Award winner for Best Original Song (for Jai Ho) and the Padma Bhushan recipient turned 75 years? Sampoorna Singh Kalra (Gulzar) 73. Which art director who had been associated with movies like Raavan, Guru, Rang De Basantietc.passedawayrecently?Samir Chandra 74. Which company replaced Reliance Industries as most valued company in the elite of 30 companiesthatconstitutestheSensex?Coal India 75. How many from India are set to participate in the World athletics championships to be held in Daegu, Korea from August 27th to September 4th 2011? Namethem.8, Men: Renjith Maheswary (triple jump), Om Prakash Singh (shot put), Vikas Gowda (discus), Gurmeet Singh and Babubhai Panucha (20km walk) Women: Tintu Luka (800m), Mayookha Johny (long jump and triple jump) and Harwant Kaur (discus) 76. Which company will title sponsor for Indian GP to be held on the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida on October 30th 2011? Airtel 77.Which two Hitachi and Mitsubishi industries of Japan are set to merge?

78. Which Legendary singers 81st birth anniversary was celebrated on 4th August 2011?Kishore Kumar 79. Parts of which African country is hit by Famine according to United Nations? Somalia 80. Which model has Harley-Davidson launched in India priced at Rs.19.7 lakh? Fat Boy Special 81. Which 3G services service did Vodafone roll out in Bangalore recently?

82. Where Ordos, China

is

the

Hockey

Asian

Champions

Trophy

is

to

be

held?

83. Name the Yulia Tymoshenko 84. Who has Yingluck Shinawatra 85. Where is Karlstad,SwedenWhat AA+

ex-PM

of

Ukraine

who

was

arrested

recently.

become

first

female

prime

minister

of

Thailand?

the is the

Folksam Grand Prix meet downgraded credit rating given by

being S&P to

held? USA?

86. Which cricketer has been recalled to One-Day match against England after 2 years? Rahul Dravid 87. Whose maiden century in Twenty20 cricket against Australia set Sri Lanka a 35 run victory? Tilakaratne Dilshan 88. Which South African fast bowler cricketer celebrated his 100th birthday recently? Norman Gordon 89. Which Taiwan company has recently launched tablet PCs priced at Rs.15,000? Micro-Star International (MSI) 90. What 9.90 per cent is the food inflation as on July 30th 2011?

91. Name the Indo-Canadian who has been appointed the president and CEO of the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC)? Karna Gupta 92. Which car model has Maruti Suzuki set to unveil in the Indian market?Maruti 800 cc 93. Which three banks are planning a Joint Venture commercial bank in Malaysia? Bank of Baroda, Andhra Bank and Indian Overseas Bank 94. Who Rohit Nandan is to replace Arvind Jadhav as Air India chief?

95. Which Shammi Kapoor

bollywood

actor

passed

away

recently?

96. Which Banks net profit dip to about 45% as it disclosed its Q1 earnings? State Bank of India

97.WhowontheATPMontrealMasterstitle?Novak Djokovic 98. Who won the bronze medal at the World Badminton Championship after a gap of 28 years?Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa 99. Name the former NASDAQ MD who has been sentenced to 42 months in prison and has been ordered to forfeit over $700,000 illegal profits made during his role in an insider tradingscheme.Donald Johnson 100. Which countrys President has called for national government by August 21st 2011? Nepal, President Dr.Ram Baran 101. Which telecom Reliance Communications company increased call tariffs by 20% recently?

102. Which section of education is to be made Universal unlike elementary education in India? Secondary Education 103. What is the West Bengal government planning to setup for medical benefits to remote cornerpeople?Health Bank 104. Who Adam Scott won his first World Golf Championship title?

105. Who became the first bowler to clinch 6 wickets in a Twenty20 International Cricket? Ajantha Mendis 106. What is the maximum amount that can be withdrawn from a third-party ATM per transaction?Rs.10,000 107. Which Indian University recently signed pact with university of Sydney? Anna University 108. For which programme an Indian student pursuing her Ph.D in chemical biology from TataInstituteofFundamentalResearchchosen?Sci-finder Academic Exchange Program 109. Which company has launched 3G Tablet priced at Rs.12,999 with special data plans in India?RCom 110. What is the extension 2 years (untill Spetember 4th 2013) period given to RBI Governor D.Subbarao?

111. Which Insurance company is set to sue Bank of America to recover about $10 billion? AIG (American International Group Inc)

112. Which company has collaborated with Singapore Management University for a R&Dfacilityforcloud-basedITsolutions?TCS 113. Which Bank has launced Debit Card with credit limit? Name the card. IDBI Bank. IDBI Magic Card 114. Who has been appointed as CEO for Bharti Airtels broadband and DTH services? Rajiv Rajagopal for Broadband and data services and Shashi Arora for DTH and media services 115. Who has entered the 2nd round of the World Badminton Championships defeating GermanysDomkeDieter?P.Kashyap 116. Which Indian women cricketer has been suspended from bowling in international cricketforillegalaction?Snehal Pradhan 117. Name the project under which all post offices in India are to be provided with Internet connectivity.India Post Technology Project 2012 118. Which two districts Shimoga and Gulbarga in Karnataka is set to get RAHI airports?

119. Who is all set to introduce Jan Lokpall Bill as a private members bill in LokSabha? BJP MP Varun Gandhi 120. Who has been appointed as joint Managing Director of Hero MotoCorp (formerly HeroHonda)?Sunil Kant Munjal 121. Which film director eyes for stake in Indian Premier League team Kochi Tuskers? Priyadarshan 122. Expand Infosys. Who logged out as Chief Mentor and Chairman from the IT giant InfosysonFriday19thAugust2011?Information System. N.R. Narayana Murthy 123. Which company has launched Android LACS (Lakshmi Access Communications Systems) tablet priced at Rs.6,250?

124. Which consumer major has launched online game and mobile app to promote corporateawareness?Reckitt Benckiser 125. Who Andy Murray won the Cincinnati Masters title held at Ohio recently?

126. Who won his first US PGA Tour title at the Wyndham Championship? Webb Simpson

127. Which Bank has sought support of Rs.300 crore from the Government to fund businessgrowth?Corporation Bank 128. Who surpassed Sunil Gavaskars record of 34 hundreds in Test Cricket recently? Rahul Dravid 129. Where and at which event was Jon Eggman Egging a British pilot killed recently? Near Bournemouth Airport in Dorset. At an Airshow in Britain 130.Which Chennai Indian city turns 372 today (22nd August 2011)?

131. Name the Marxist historian and Indologist who passed away recently. Ram Sharan Sharma 132. Which feature has Google launched as music blog for users of Google Music Beta? Google Magnifier 133. Name the deposit scheme that Indian Bank has launched for people under the financialinclusionplan.Variable Recurring Deposit Scheme 134. Who won the Test series against India by an Innings and 8 runs, termed to be as worst performancesince1959?England 135. Who became the first bowler to take three hatricks in one-day cricket?Latish Malinga 136. Who was honoured with Degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) from IIT Kharagpur?Sunil Bharti Mittal 137. Who Maria Sharapova won the womans Cincinnati WTA Title?

138. Who won the Leander Peas and Mahesh Bhupathi 139. Name the Deven Sharma President of

mens

doubles

Cincinnati

WTA

Title?

Standard

and

Poor

chief

who

quit

recently.

140. Who becomes the first woman to conquer 14. 8000 metre summit (K2) without artificialoxygen?Austrian climber Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner 141. Which Hollywood studio has made some of its film available online as rentals at social networkingsiteFacebook?Miramax 142. Name Tata Vista the new variant car launched by Tata motors.

143. Name the mouse launched by LG recently. Mention its additional feature. Mouse Scanner 144. Who has been named as CEO of Apple post Steve Jobs resignation? Tim Cook 145. Who has been appointed as chairman of the Board of Directors of Press Trust of India?M.P.Veerendrakumar 146. Which Bhaichung Bhutia ace Indian football player retired recently?

1. Who has been appointed the new director of Indian Institute of Technology-Madras ? -BhaskarRamamurthiFormer student of IITMadras becomes its director 2.which Australia Country now allows transgender option in passports?

3. Expand ICBC. Which bank from Mainland, China has set up shop in India? Industrial and Commercial Bank of China 4. Which 3 technology Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft major are planning advertisement sale?

5. Who has been appointed as British Deputy Commissioner representing United Kingdom inKarnataka?Ian Felton 6. What is the CRR, Repo and Reverse Repo Rate as on 16th September 2011? CRR 6.00%, Repo 8.25% and Reverse Repo 7.25% 7. Which company bagged two awards for Jaguar and Land Rover from Autoweek at the FrankfurtMotorShow?Tata Motors 8. In which Western ghats part of India has new species of frog found?

9. What is the limitation on SMSes have TRAI imposed per day per sim from 27th of September 2011? 100 per day from per SIM 10. Who took Dinesh K.Sarraf over as CEO and MD of ONGC Videsh Ltd.?

11. What rank did Rahul Dravid hold as he retired from One-Day International cricket? 118

12. Name the Board launched by Indian Medical Association to give doctor community a say in formulation of major policies in the health sector. Hospital Board of India 13. What is the percentage of Dearness Allowance hike announced by Government and it is effectivefromwhichdate?7% and 1st July 2011 14. Who has raised USD 57,600 for the ongoing efforts in Japan following the devastating earthquakeandtsunami?Heavy rockers Iron Maiden 15. Where is the (NSG) National Security Guard hub setup in India and due for inauguration?Kolkata 16. When and Where is the 64th Auto 15th September to 25th September 2011 Frankfurt, Germany 17. Who Ranjit Sinha has been appointed as Show being held?

chief

of

ITBP?

18. Which country showcased Central Asias high-speed train (254km per hour)? Uzbekistan 19. Which three Japanese electronics giant are set to merge small and medium- sized display businesses for smartphones and tablet computers? Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi 20. Who was Dirk Nowitzi 21. What 10.05% 22. Iran Which is awarded with Germans top honour, silver laurel leaf?

the

food

inflation

for

the

week

ended

August

20th

2011?

middle-east countrys

country court

is has

set

to

invest

in

Indian tablet

markets? computer?

23. Which Germany

banned

Samsung

24. Which hockey tournament has been moved out of India as FIH is unhappy with the sport being run by 2 bodies Hockey India and Indian Hockey Federation? Champions Trophy Hockey tournament 25. Which country-men and who won the mens 5000 metre world title at the World AthleticsChampionshipsinDaegu?Britians Mo Farah

26. Name the architect who designed 133-foot Thiruvalluvar statue in Kanyakumari passed away recently. -V.Ganapati Sthapati 27. Which Indian-American elected as the governor of a US state filed his re-election papers?Bobby Jindal 28. Which ERP platform has IBM decided to implement at Automotive Axles? SAP 29. Which country has qualified for Euro 2012 finals after winning over Liechtenstein? Spain 30. How many items has been announced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as duty free fromBangladesh?61 items 31. Which 2 Hockey teams matches were drawn in Asian Championship Trophy? India and Malaysia 32. Name the CDMA based Android 2.1 handset launched by Reliance Communications. Coolpad CDMA 33. Four year-old ban on which export product was lifted at the same time prohibition on anotherproductlaidbyGovernment?Wheat and Onion 34. Which legendary singer turned 78 and debuts dubbing for her Bollywood film, Maaee?Asha Bhonsle 35. Who took charge as Chief General Manager of State Bank of India for Bangalore Circle,coveringKarnataka?Ashwini Mehra 36. Which Korean consumer electronics re-entered Indian notebook market after a gap of 2andhalfyears?LG Electronics 37. Name the version of Windows Operating System that Microsoft is about to launch. Windows 8 38. Which K.K.Birla company is temporarily closed due to shortage of naptha, a raw material needed to manufacture agricultural fertilizers? Zuari Industries Limited 39. Mention the value of exports and Exports: USD 29.3 billion Imports: USD 40.4 billion imports as on July 2011.

40. Who was conferred with IIT(Kharagpur) alumnus award for his contribution to innovation in transport infrastructure development? B.B.Pandey, a Bihar Professor 41. Which Asian country is all set open up Nuclear Business with India? Japan 42. Which automobile major is planning to launch SUV in India and South Africa by end of2011?Mahindra and Mahindra 43.Who has Sudarshan Venu 44.Who Argentina won joined Sundaram-Clayton board as Additional Director?

the

FIFA

International

friendly

football

match?

45.Name the Carl-Peter Forster 46.Which UK country

CEO

of

Tata

Motors

who

quit

recently.

has

lifted

ban

on

gays

to

donate

blood?

47.Who is Rapper Snoop Dogg

in

race

to

become

CEO

of

Yahoo?

48. When and where Indias First Film Museum is set to be ready for inauguration? 2013 in Mumbai 49.Name the diesel versions of Entry-level Etios sedan and Compact car Etios Liva 50.Who is B.C.Khanduri all set to be Etios launched by Toyota.

Chief

Minister

of

Uttarakhand?

51. Name the economy, trade and industry minister who resigned in Japans 8-day old Government.Yoshio Hachiro 52. Indias finance ministry has launched its page on which social networking site? Facebook 53. Which mode of exam has Delhi University is set to scarp instead adopt Common AdmissionTest(CAT)? Faculty of Management Studies 54. Name the weather satellite ISRO is set to launch with Indo-French collaboration on 12thOctober2011.Megha Tropiques

55. Who India

won

the

hockey

Asian

Champions

Trophy

against

Pakistan?

56.Who won Sebastian Vettel 57. Who won Samantha Stosur the

the womens

Italian singles Tennis

Grand tournament

Prix US Open

2011? 2011?

58. Who won the womens mixed doubles Tennis tournament US Open 2011? Lisa Raymond and Liezel Huber 59. Name the mobile phone from Vodafone with dedicated Facebook button on it. Vodafone Blue 60.Who N.Srinivasan 61.Who Rajiv Shukla has been elected as president of BCCI?

has

been

appointed

as

IPL

Chief?

62. Which UAE college has Birla Institure of Technology is set to operate? Royal College of Applied Science and Technology 63. Which sandalwood female actor is set to contest for Youth Congress chief post? Ramya 64. Which kannada poet has been selected for Knanpith Award, Indias highest literary honour?Chandrashekhara Kambar 65. Which two Hindi authors have been chosen for Indias highest literary honour JnanpithAwardfor2009?Shrilal Shukla and Amar Kant 66. What and which European nation credit rating has been downgraded by S&P? From A+/A-1+ to A/A-1, Italy 67. Which Google Plus service has Google opened to all taking fight to Facebook?

68. In order to help farmers and push retail prices ban on which product export has been liftedrecently?Onion 69. Who has bee G.Somashekara Reddy re-elected as chief of Karnataka Milk Federation?

70. In which country the Indian Council for Cultural Relations is set to inaugurate the GandhiCentreonOctober2nd?Netherlands 71.which part of West Bengal and Assam India has been hit by bird flu recently?

72.Who won his maiden 6-time Russian champion Peter Svidler

World

Championship

cycle

tournament?

73. Which group has bagged the Network of the Year trophy at the Spikes Asia Advertising FestivalinSingapore?DDB Group 74. Which Dubai-based company has picked up 12% stake in Everonn Education? Varkey Groups education firm Gems education 75. Name the company which divided its business into operating and network division recently.Maxis-owned Aircel 76. Which 2 teams have been qualified for Champions League Twenty 20 cricket main draw?Kolkata Knight Riders and Somerset 77. Which 2 players were handed lifeline after Hockey India lifted two-year ban imposed onthemforindiscipline?Sandeep Singh and Sardara Singh 78. Name the board which is to be setup for all policy and certification related issues of the automobileindustry.National Automotive board 79. When is the September 18th 2012 World Twenty 20 cricket scheduled to begin?

80. Whose proposal of ODI format change was rejected by ICC recently? Sachin Tendulkar 81.Which countrys UN membership bid was rejected by US President Barack Obama recently?Palestine 82. How long is the Emergency law valid in Egypt as the military council? Until June 2012 83. Which city Mexico city(Mexico) 84. Which Toshiba company is the first to introduce all-electric cabs?

has

produced

the

first

glasses-free

3-D

TV?

85. Which is the new hollywood sports movie in which Brad pitt is in lead role? Money ball 1. Recently which Ghazal Singer and Padmabhushan Awardee, Passed Away in Mumbai ? -Jagjit Singh Veteran ghazal singer Jagjit Singh passed away on 10 October 2011 in Mumbai. He was 70. Hewas admitted in Lilavati Hospital for more than two weeks. The singer had undergone an emergency surgery for brain hemorrhage at the Hospital on 23 September 2011. 2. Name the Ex-Chief B.S.Yeddyurappa Minister of Karnataka who was arrested recently.

3. Name the 3D animation film Shemaroo Entertainment which is set to release online. Super K 4. Who is set Nandan Nilekani to head special purpose vehicle called the GST Network?

5.Which business Element K

has

NIIT

sold

to

Skillsoft

for

$110

million?

6. Who has been appointed as commissioner for the AFC Champions League final? FIFA badge holder Gautam Kar 7. Name the mens and womens singles National champions who won the Fenesta National Championship.Yuki Bhambri and Rutuja Bhonsle 8. Name the Indian golfer who finished 2nd in the Hero Indian Open golf tournament. Chiragh Kumar 9. Name the Indian womens discus thrower who qualified for London Olympics after clinching gold medal at an event of the Fling Throw Meet in Portland, USA.Krishna Poonia 10. Upon whose name a highway leading south out of the capital in Grenada is set to be renamed?Kirani James Boulevard 11. Which director is set to make film on mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan? Roger Spottiswoode 12. Name Churchill Brothers the team which won the Durand Cup?

13. Which former Ranji Player died after falling from train at Vaikom in Kottayam? K.R.Krishna Varma

14. Name the 69-year-old who collapsed and died minutes after fulfilling his life-long ambition of climbing Africas highest mountain peak, Mount Kilimanjaro. Alistair Cook 15. Which Bollywood movie have been watched by over 1.3 lakh Chinese since its Mandarinversionrelease?Aamir Khans 3 Idiots 16. Which Asian Advertising congress is coming back to India after 8 years? Ad Asia (October 31st to November 3rd 2011) 17. Name the education technology solution launched by Texas Instruments in association with CORE Education and Technologies to facilitate a better learning experience for studentsinclassroomsacrossIndia.STEMpower 18. Who has Dr.Vyjayanthimala been honoured with Dr.B.Saroja Devi award recently?

19. Who is set to receive Mahatma Gandhi peace prize in South Africa? Dalai Lama 20. Name the rocket and navigation satellite launched by Russia after Augusts space ship crash.Soyuz-2 rocket launched a GLONASS navigation satellite 21. Who has been voted as 2nd most powerful business-woman in US?Indra Nooyi 22. Which company has struck natural gas reserves in its first well drilled in the offshore MannarbasininSriLanka?Cairn India 23. Who has been selected to create the theme music for the London Olympics 2012? Scottish rocker Mark Ronson 24. Which Indian shuttler finished Arundhati Pantawane 25. Which IAS Pulok Chatterjee officer has joined runner-up as Prime in Czech Ministers International Open?

principal

secretary?

26. Name the trio who received Nobel Medicine Prize for immune system research. Bruce Beutler of USA, Jules Hoffmann Luxembourg and Ralph Steinman Canada 27. Which FM radio channel has taken initiative to make Goddess Durga idol out of biodegradable and recyclable waste material in Kolkata? OYE 104.8 FM 28.WhoiscalledastheGandhianofBrazil?Lia Diskin

29. Who is the inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker which keeps the heartbeat in aregularrhythm?Wilson Greatbatch 30. What Tiangong-1 is the name of the Chinas first space Laboratory?

31. Name the famous television personality of CBS News channels program called 60 minutesretiredrecently?Andy Rooney 32. Which UAE telecom giant recently launched 4G mobile broadband network in UAE? Etisalat 33. Who retired Yang Seung-suk 34. Name the Micheal J.Drake as the CEO of Hyundai Motor co. recently?

planetary

scientist

who

worked

for

NASA

recently

died?

35. Name the three Indian boxers who have qualified for London Olympics 2012? Jai Bhagwan, L.Devendro Singh and Manoj Kumar 36. Name the Hamid Karzai Afghan President who was in India for a two-day visit.

37. Who has been appointed as Chairman of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation? Sudhir Vasudeva 38. Name the MD and VP, Nokia India, who has been assigned global role to head India, MiddleEastandAfricaregion.D.Shivakumar 39. Name the company which has launched apps for iPad and Android phones recently. Adobe 40. Who RP.Patnaik has shot a film in 47 days titled Facebook?

41. Who won the 2011 Nobel prize Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals 42. Name Aakash the worlds cheapest laptop

in

chemistry? in India.

launched

43. Name the Ashes hero who Former England fast bowler, Graham Dilley

died

at

the

age

of

52.

44. Who Rest of India Team 45. Name BeKnown 46. Name Galaxy Y the

won

the

Irani

Cup

2011?

application

launched

by

Monster

India

for

Facebook

users.

the

Galaxy

version

mobile

launched

by

Samsung

India.

47. What is the financial strength rating retained for ICICI Bank while SBIs rating is downgradedfromC-toD+byMoodys?C48. Name the person who has been conferred at the 2011 Telstra NSW Business Womens Award for her contribution to worlds first green steel manufacturing process. Veena Sahajwalla 49. Name Steve Jobs the Apple co-founder who passed away recently.

50. Which four teams entered semi-finals in Champions League Twenty-20 cricket? Somerset, Mumbai Indians, New South Wales and Royal Challengers Bangalore 51. Name the Tomas Transtromer Swedish poet who won 2011 Nobel in literature.

52. Name the Sanskrit scholar and a former director of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan who passedawayrecently.Mathoor Krishnamurthi 53. Which countries President have offered hindi films to be shot at the picturesque country?Austrian President 54. Which Palestine 55. What 7.2per cent is country has won first victory in UNESCO vote?

the

annual

inflation

as

of

September

2011

in

Sri

Lanka?

56. Whose Schwarzenegger

museum

was

inaugurated

in

Austria

recently?

57. Name the 3 women who share the Nobel Peace Prize 2011. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for work on womens rights 58. Who booked the finals berth in Champions League Twenty 20 cricket tournament 2011?Royal Challengers Bangalore

59. Name the Lord Mayor of London who will be on a 5-day visit to India from October 10th 2011 to strengthen economic ties between India and the UK. Lord Mayor Michael Bear 60. Name the 2 British banks which included in the list of 12 whose credit ratings were downgradedbyMoodysRoyal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB 61. Who won the Showjumping Open title on the opening day of the South India Equestrianchampionship?Hrishika Basappa 62. Which softwares Finacle e-Banking solution 63. Who Andy Murray 64. Which 16th October day updated version has been launched by Infosys?

won has

the been

Shanghai declared as

Masters Steve Jobs

title? Day?

65. Name the businessman who won the Queens award for enterprise 2011 in london. Dr.Rami Ranger 66. Who won the MotoGP title for the fifth consecutive year at the Australian Grand Prix? Casey Stoner 67. Who won Sebastian Vettel the Formula 1 Korean Grand Prix 2011?

68. Name the Australian University which has offered Amitabh Bachchan honorary doctorate for his contribution to the world of entertainment. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 69. Which China country is backing to rebuild in Nalanda Jammu University in India?

70. Name Indias longest tunnel Pir Panjal railway tunnel (10.96km) 71. When is April 4th to May 27th 2012 the

opened

and

Kashmir

recently.

IPL

scheduled

for

2012?

72. What is the degraded debt rating of Spain as per Standard and Poors? AA- from AA 73. Name the Michael Woodford British CEO whom Olympus sacked recently.

74. Who is Philip Hammond 75. Name the Silvio Berlusconic

set

to

replace

Liam

Fox

as

UK

defence

minister?

Italian

Prime

Minister

who

survived

confidence

vote.

76. Where was the worlds largest blind symbol unveiled? A yellow banner with three black spots was unveiled at Viennas St.Stephens Cathedral 77. Which Microsoft technology major acquired Skype for $8.5 billion?

1. Who has been sworn in as Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister?Nabam Tuki 2.Who has been reappointed as the Secretary General of 54-nation Commonwealth of Nationsfor2ndconsecutiveterm?Kamalesh Sharma 3. Which Indian cricketer has been chosen for the Dilip Sardesai award?Ravichandran Ashwin 4. Name the JM Mansukhani 5. Who won Tania Sachdev 6. Who has Anshu Jain MAN the 38th industries womens chairman National who passed Chess away recently.

Premier

championship?

been

named

best

European

investment

banker

of

the

year?

7. Which countrys cabinet unanimously decided to grant India Most Favoured Nation tradestatus?Pakistan 8. Which Dubai country be is set to as donate used laptop for charity?

9. Who is set to Abdelilah Benkirane 10. Which Atom range car

appointed of Ariel

Moroccos is

first-ever set to

Prime arrive

Minister? in India?

range

Motors

11.Who is set to lead the Indian team in the 4-nation Shastri junior womens hockey tournament?Poonam Rani 12. Where the worlds biggest stupa has has Gujarat, 351 feet high stupa towering over a 151 feet statue of Buddha been planned?

13. Name the countries which have pressed the Europeans to act swiftly to contain their sovereigndebtcrisis.China, Russia and the United States 14. Name the Frenny Bawa RIMs Managing Director for India who quit recently.

15. Which music application of RIM for its popular messaging service is to be made availablefordownloading?BBM Music 16. Who has former sports minister Manohar Singh Gill recommended for the Padma Award?100 year old Fauja Singh who stunned the world by completing the Tokyo Marathon 17. What Skyfall is the name given to James Bonds recent movie?

18. Who has been awarded The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star by Japan? Maruti Suzuki India Chairman R.C.Bhargava 19. Name the Greek George Papandreou Prime Minister who won confidence vote recently.

20. In which district of Karnataka would the Biotech Park worth Rs.103.27 crore was approvedbycabinetrecently?Mysore 21. Which is the recent Tablet PC running on windows operating system revealed by HP? Slate 2 Tablet PC 22. Which 15-day league is all set to start in Karnataka from 5th November 2011? KBL Karnataka Badminton League 23. Who scored triple ton for Saurashtra in Ranji Trophy match against Orissa? Ravindra Jadeja, 314 runs off 375 balls 24. Which sporting event is set to return after a gap of 5 years to Bangalore? National Badminton Championship 25. When the Bengaluru International Film Festival is is set to be held? December 15th to December 22nd 2011 26. How many foreign films are to be screened at the Bengaluru International Film Festival?130 27. Name one of the oldest singers who passed away recently ?Bhupen Hazarika

28. Name the woman officer who became the fourth generation of a family to serve police continuouslysince1921.Manusmriti 29. What value of demand drafts to be account payee only as per RBI notification? Above Rs.20,000 30.Where is the Addu city in Maldives 17th SAARC summit to be held?

31. On whose name has the Manchester United renamed the north stand at its Old Traffordstadium?Sir Alex Ferguson manager of Manchester United since 25 years 32. Which banks total business has crossed Rs.25,000 crore mark recently? City Union Bank 33. Name the new cement launched by ACC specially focused for coastal areas. Coastal Plus 34. What is the validity of banks drafts, pay orders and cheques from the date of issuing, startingApril1st2012?3 month validity 35. Who has been Bangalore beauty Lakhsmi Anand crowned Miss South India?

36. Who won the Miss World Miss Venezuela Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colimenares 37. Who won Ana Ivanovic the WTA Tournament of

crown

for

2011?

Champions

title

at

Bali?

38. Who won the World Golf Championship HSBC Champions golf tournament at Shangai?Martin Kaymer of Germany 39. Who has been approached for a motivational campaign during 2012 London Olympics? Deepika Padukone 40. Who became Indias most prolific Test wicketkeeper getting past Syed Kirmanis longstandingrecordof198Testdismissals?Mahendra Singh Dhoni with 200 dismissals 41. What is the new kind of password developed by researchers for online account to help protectagainsthacking?Picture password 42. Name Andy Rooney the CBS television commentator who died recently.

43. What has been made mandatory at the time of buying motor insurance by IRDA? Nominee name 44. Where is Indias largest telescope set to be placed for watching distant stars and galaxies?Devasthal 50km from Nanital town 45. Which company has been named top Indian company for investor relations? Infosys 46. Who Otto Perez Molina won the Guatemala presidential election?

47. Which countrys Prime Minister made a surprise Australian PM Julia Gillard 48. Which award is singer K.L.Saigal award by Savitri Samiti 49. Which Indian Army team 50. Who Roger Federer team won gold Lata Mangeshkar

visit to Afghanistan?

set

to

receive?

at

the

World

patrol

meet?

won

the

Swiss

Indoors

tennis

tournament

title?

51. Who became the first cricketer to score 15,000 Sachin Tendulkar

runs

in

test cricket?

52. Who has won the Ezhuthachan award (highest literary prize instituted by Kerala Government?M.T.Vasudevan Nair 53. Germany Which country has banned Apple iPhone?

54. Who Anil Kapoor 55. Who R.Ashwin

bought

the

rights

of

American

TV

series

24?

became

7th

Indian

to

take

wickets

on

debut

for

India?

56. Name the Norman Ramsey

1989

Nobel

Prize

physicist

who

died

recently.

57. Who has been picked by Force India for Abu Dhabis young Formula 1 driver test? Max Chilton

58. Which agreement has India DTAA Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement

and

Nepal

due

to

sign?

59. Which company recently setup its R and D centre in India for e-commerce solutions? Walmart 60. Which country has been reinstated to the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification tournament?Myanmar 61. At what price the Centre is set to supply rice to all below poverty line families under the proposedFoodSecurityAct?Re.1 per kg 62. Which Spanish bank is to setup a representative office in India to help Spanish companies to tap into the fast growing Indian economy? Caixabank 63. What is the unique feature of HTC edge which is set to be released in 1st quarter of 2012?First Quad-Core smartphone 64. Which educational institutes of Britain have introduced Study of Ancient India? Cambridge University 65. Where is the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems has been unveiled? Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 66. Who has Lucas Papademos been named Greek interim Prime Minister?

67. Which are the 2 awards or recognitions India bagged at the World Travel Market 2011? Worlds Leading Destination and Worlds Leading Tourist Board award 68. Who Aashish Kamat has been appointed Test as CEO of score in UBS 109 India? years?

69. What is Australias lowest 47 all out against South Africa in 2011 70. Who became Mark Boucher the first

cricket

wicketkeeper

to

cross

500

catches?

71. Which Indian city is set to host the World Economic Forums India Economic Summit? Mumbai

72. Name the Mexican Interior Minister who was killed in a helicopter crash recently. Francisco Blake 73. Which Roger Federer tennis icon won the 800th match of his career?

74. Which airlines recommendation to financial bail out appears to have failed? Kingfisher Airlines 75. Name the Nobel laureate who is set to lead Liberian peace initiative. Laymah Gbowee 76. Which continent is fast-emerging IT market, as the name Dark Continent fades off? Africa 77. Which scenes have been banned by Indian Government in movies and TV recently? Smoking scenes 78. With what motto has SAARC summit 2011 concluded? Building bridges, Resolve to fight terrorism and implementation of South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) 79. What is the increased interest rate for savings in Post office in India? 4 percent 80. Where has the biggest ever diamond unearthed 37.68 carat diamond has been unearthed by NMDC at Panna in Madhya Pradesh 81. Which Nepal country would host 18th SAARC first summit ocenarium in India?

in

2012? planned?

82. Where is the Sindhudurg district in Maharashtra

Indias

83. Who are been named athlete Usain Bolt of Jamaica and Sally Pearson of Australia

of

the

year

2011?

84. Which country has been suspended from Arab league and why? Syria, to end violence against protesters, and called for sanctions and transition talks with opposition 85. Italy Which country senate cleared economic reform bill recently?

86. Which medal did India bag in Lal Bahadur Shastri Under-21 womens hockey tournament?Bronze

87. Who became the first foreign head of government or state to address Peoples Majlis, Maldives Parliament in its history of 78 years? Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh 88. Name the 1968 Noble prize for medicine winner, who died recently.Gobind Khorana 89. Which country has announced USD 100 million credit facility to Maldives? India 90. Which stadium is set to host opening match of World Series Hockey starting on December17th2011?Dhyan Chand National Stadium 91. Who Silvio Berlusconi 92. Which Australia 93. Which London 94. Name Peter Roebuck resigned as Italian Prime Minister recently?

country

is

set

to

host

2018

Commonwealth

Games?

city

is

set

to

host

2017

world

athletic

championship?

the

cricket

writer

who

died

recently.

95. Name the website launched by commonwealth war graves commission to honour undividedIndiaswarheroes.www.cwgc.org 96. Who Lewis Hamilton 97. Who U.K.Sinha 98. Who won Roger Federer won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2011?

has

been

appointed

as

SEBI

chief?

the

Paris

Masters

2011

title Paris

for

the

first title

time? 2011?

99. Who won the mens doubles Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi 100. Hawaii Where is the Asia-Pacific

Masters

summit

being

held?

101. Name the first animated film in Kannada for children which are to be screened at the 17thedition of the International Childrens Film festival in Hyderabad. Chintus Skool

102. 2018

When

is

Goa

scheduled

to

host

Asian

Beach

games?

103. Who Mario Monti

has

been

appointed

as

Prime

Minister

of

Italy?

104. Where the 31st India Pragathi Maidan, New Delhi

International Trade Fair (IITF) is being held?

105. All ministers of which state have submitted resignations ahead of cabinet reshuffle? Rajasthan state ministers 106. Which cabinet has proposed division of Uttar Pradesh into 4 Uttar Pradesh (Mayawati) cabinet states?

107. Who is set to take over as General Motors President and MD of India operations from 1stJanuary2012?Lowell Paddock 108. Which Vancouver Canadian city bids to host IIFA in 2013?

109. Which tennis star has been named WTA player of the year?Petra Kvitova 110. Who KJ. Yesudas has been selected for Swaralaya-Devarajan Master award?

111. Which bank became the 1st lender to raise funds in offshore yuan in China? IDBI 112. Who becomes first US president to take part in East Asian nations summit?Barack Obama 113. Who is set to be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dubai InternationalFilmFestival?A.R.Rahman 114. Name the bank which has launched MobileBank Accounts in association with Vodafonesm-paisa.HDFC Bank 1. Which legendary bollywood actor passed away recently at the age of 88 ? Dev Anand 2. Which two social networking sites have joined hands to challenge Facebook? Twitter amd Mixi 3. What values of preferential shares have Air Indias lenders were approved by itsboard?Rs.7,500 crore

4. Who has been appointed as Executive Director of Indian Overseas Bank? A.D.M.Chavali 5. Which Indian banks credit ratings have been assigned stable tag by Standard and Poor Internationalratingagency?State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Indian Bank 6. Name the 2-day literature festival Samanvay: IHC Bharatiya Bhasa Mahotsav scheduled to be held in Delhi.

7. Name the Apples co-founder who is set to visit Indias technology capital. Steve Wozniak 8. Where is Colombo, Sri Lanka ITC set to build $300 million hotel?

9. Name the Indian American who has been chosen as the most powerful woman in CaliforniabyNationalDiversityCouncil.Shefali Duggal 10. Name the short film about child poverty in India which won the Golden Lmap Tree awardatthe42ndInternationalFilmfestival.Another Planet 11. Which countrys first female athlete is set to participate in Olympics 2012? Saudi Arabia 12. Who is set to take over as LG Display Co. Ltd.s Chief Executive in 2012? Han Sang-beom 13. Name the Indian origin American who won Guardian First Book award. Siddhartha Mukherjee 14. Which telecom provider is set to allow its mobile subscribers in India to access microblogging site Twitter on their handsets free of cost until March 1st, 2012? Bharti Airtel 15. Which foreign lender bank has launched fixed rate for home loan and loans against property? HSBC 16. Which actor was recently in India to promote his movie Mission Impossible -4? Tom Cruise 17. Who has been named captain of the IPL team Rajasthan Royals for the 5th Edition? Rahul Dravid 18. Which 2 teams have decided to withdraw from F1 teams associations? Ferrari and Red Bull

19. Name the Iranian Hossein Vafaei Ayouri

teenager

who

won

World

Snooker

title

recently.

20. Which Colombian film bagged Golden Peacock award at the 42nd International Film FestivalinIndia?Porfirio 21. Which company introduced disabled-friendly tools for application in software of common use as the world observed World Disability Day on December 3rd 2011? Microsoft India 22. Which Bank of India bank picked up 51% stake in Bharti Axa Mutual Fund?

23. Which channel BBC World News 24. Name Socrates the

did

Pakistan

cable

operators

block

recently?

Former

Brazil

soccer

captain

who

died

recently.

25. Where the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry is set to open an office to boost economic ties between the 2 countries? Kathmandu, Nepal 26.WhowonthegolfHongKongOpen?Rory McIlroy 27. Who is set to receive Humanitarian award which is to be presented by Harvard Foundation?Lionel Richie 28. Which tamil song has been treated as classic example of viral marketing as per Indian InstituteofManagement?Why this Kolaveri Di? 29. Who got the winning point as Spain won the fifth Davis Cup title? Rafael Nadal 30. Name the debut Marathi movie of Helen which is set to release on December 16th 2011. One Room Kitchen 31. Which HSBC bank was fined 10.5 million pounds for mis-selling to elderly?

32. Which states chief minister has surpassed other politicians to emerge as the most popular politico on social media? Gujarat Chief Minister. Narendra Modi

33. Which China

country

has

over

taken

India

as

Diabetes

Capital?

34. When is the inaugural 3-day global conference on Tax and Inequality scheduled to begininIndia?7th December to 9th December 2011 35. Who have been nominated for FIFA World Player of the Year award? Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Xavi Hernandez 36. Use Fake Notes 37. When 2012 of which notes is to be treated as terror act?

the

National

Telecom

Policy

is

set

to

be

rolled

out?

38. Which bank is set to buy more than half of Barclays Indian credit card portfolio? Standard Chartered Bank 39. Who has been appointed as Manufacturers Association for Information Technologys executive director? Sabyasachi Patra 40. Which company recently got NOC from ONGC to sell major stake in its Indian unit to VedantaResources?Carin India 41. Name Gowalla the mobile app company which Facebook acquired recently.

42. Who resigned from HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh 43. Name the Nico Raposo US scriptwriter

Hindustan

Unilever

Board

recently?

who

debuted

with

Bollywood

kid

books.

44. Who has been appointed as Managing Director for India by Research in Motion? Sunil Dutt 45. Which 3 countries India, US and Japan 46. When is October 28th 2012 the are set to hold Trilateral meet in Washington?

2012

Indian

Grand

Prix

scheduled

to

be

held?

47. When is the Direct Tax Code (DTC) scheduled to come into force in India? From 1st April 2012

48. Against whom did Vishwanthan Anand loose in recently held London Chess Classic? Hikaru Nakamura 49. Which Indian Arunachal Pradesh 50.Which Martin Boyce 51. Which Jason Aldean artist state is set to get Green Field Industrial Corridor?

won

the

2011

Turner

Prize?

singer

won

six

awards

in

2011

American

Country

Awards?

52. Who is the 2nd person to score double century in One-day International cricket? Virendar Sehwag 53. Who has been appointed as VP of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and NumbersforAsia?Xiaodong Lee 54. Who has CAG Vinod Rai 55. India Which been appointed to head UN audit panel?

country

becomes

3rd

biggest

US

arms

purchaser?

56. Which Yahoo Mail 57. Who Ajit Singh

Mail

service

is

now

available

in

Indian

languages?

is

set

to

be

civil

aviation

minister

of

India?

58. Which 2 states Manipur and Tripura

to

have

separate

IAS,

IPS

and

IFS

cadres?

59. Who has been appointed as Director General, Central Health Services for Bihar? Dr.Jagdish Prasad 60. Which business school has been ranked 2nd best MBA School in Asia-Pacific? IIM Ahmedabad 61. Who won the 2011 Gaurav Gill(co-driver Musa Sherif) Indian National Rally Championship?

62. Name the telugu film producer popularly known as Mallemala who passed away recentlyM.S.Reddy

63. Name the Cristina Fernandez

Argentine

President

who

is

sworn

in

for

2nd

term.

64. Name the award that Telecom Centre of Excellence Award

was

conferred

to

Bharti

Airtel

recently.

65. Name the Indian footballer, an assistant manager of Indian Bank who passed away recently.Hamilton Bobby 66. Who Anil Kumble 67. Where Bangalore 68. When is February 29th 2012 69. Which China country resigned as National Cricket Academy chairman?

was

the

midnight

marathon

held

recently?

the

World

Series

Hockey

postponed

to?

is

set

to

open

military

base

in

Indian

Ocean?

70. Who is Ram Gopal Verma 71. Who Luke Donald has

set

to

make

film

on

26/11

attacks?

been

named

PGA

Tour

Player

of

the

Year?

72. Which bank Bank of Baroda

has

been

selected

as

best

public

sector

bank

in

India?

73. Name the NRI industrialist who has been conferred with the Life Time Achievement award for his contribution in various fields. Lord Swraj Paul 74. Who won the under-14 boys American Cup Tennis Championship in Miami, Florida? Sumit Nagal 75. Which state schools are set to implement Trimester system from 2012-13 academic year?Tamil Nadu 76. Which were the 3 anti-graft bills passed recently by Union Cabinet in India? Whistleblowers Bill or Public Interest Disclosure and Protection to Persons Making the DisclouserBill, Judicial Accountability Bill and Grievance Redressal Bill

77. Which Indian University is set to tie-up with Canadas Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) in the area of biology? M.S.University 78. Name the NRI architect who won Glory of India Award and Certificate of Excellence. Ar Mohammed Aun 79. Which Noble Laureates book containing poems and other works fetched $170,500 at a Sothebysauction?Rabindranath Tagore 80. Which country is set to host BRICS Trade Ministers in March 2012? India 81. For what purpose To produce 42 Sukhoi fighters 82. Which bank State Bank of India launched India and on Russia wheels recently in signed a deal?

Bank

Karnataka

recently?

83. Which major bill was cleared by Indian Union Cabinet on 18th December 2011? Food Security Bill 84. Who Ravi Pillai 85. Name Eva Ekvall has been honoured Banker of the Year award 2010-11?

the

Former

Miss

Venezuela

who

died

of

breast highest

cancer. airport?

86. Where is China set to begin work on the worlds Tibets Nagqu town (4,436 metres or 14,553 feet above sea level)

87. Where in Russia is the worlds deepest metro station set to be unveiled? St.Petersburg, Admiralteiskaya station 88. At what $15 billion 89. Where Turkey value have India and Japan agreed for currency swap?

has

Aditya

Birla

Group

set

to

invest

$500

million?

90. Name the 2 Indian umpires and judge who have been appointed for the 2012 London Olympicshockeyevent.R.V.Raghu Prasad and Claudius De Sales 91. What values of preferential shares have Air Indias lenders were approved by its board?Rs.7,500 crore

92. Who has been appointed as Exec1. Youngest ever Microsoft Certified Professional who died recently at the age of 16 ? Arfa Karim Randhawa 2. What is the total number of districts in Chhattisgarh as on 1st January 2012? 27 3. Where the Mangalore,Karnataka Coastal Business Development Summit is is held?

4. Name the DGP replacing Jayanta Narayan Choudhury

outgoing

chief

Sankar

Baruah

for

Assam.

5. Where National Kannada conference is is set to be held in the month of April? Delhi 6. Which Pakistan country recently joined UNSC as non-permanent member?

7. Who are now allowed QFIs Qualified foreign investors

to

invest

in

Indian

stock

market

directly?

8. How much of share can a QFI company and QFIs put together hold a stake in Indian companies?5% and 10% 9. Which two countries have strengthened business ties to start trading electricity and petroleumproducts?India and Pakistan 10. What is SEBI toll free helpline number launched to support 14 languages? 1800 227 575 11. Who has been named male player of the year by Golf writers Association of America? Luke Donald 12. Name the Argentinean bike rider who died after being involved in an accident on the firstdayoftheDakarRally.Jorge Martinez Boero 13. Name Afghans first team of female boxers set to aim for Olympics 2012. Shabnam and Sadaf Rahimi 14. Which China country test launched first 3D television broadcast?

15. What rank does Vishwanathan Anand holds as he prepares for 2012 World chess championship?4th

16. Name the Kiro Gligorov

former

Macedoninan

President

who

passed

away

recently.

17. Which Indian ace tennis star withdrew out of Aircel Chennai Open 2012 because of recurringshoulderinjury?Somdev Devvarman 18. Where the 5-day 99th Indian Science Congress science event is is set to start on 3rd January2012?Kalinga Institute of industrial Technology, Bhuvaneshwar, Orrisa 19. What bank account Bank Number Portability facility is set to be launched in India?

20. Name the new education tablet launched by Classteacher Learning Systems, a Delhi based Educational Solutions Provider. Classpad 21. Who has Trevor Bayliss 22. Where Jaipur in been appointed as chief coach of Kolkata Knight Riders?

India

is

Literary

Festival

2012

is

scheduled

to

be

held?

23. What is the concept introduced by Indian Postal Department (Bihar Postal Circle) to get a personalized stamp with photograph on it? My Stamp 24. Who takes over as Wipro Technologies Senior Vice President and Corporate Treasurer?Manoj Jaiswal 25. Who has been considered Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for first Gates Innovation Award?

26. Which auto major is set to invest USD142 million at its Chennai plant in India to manufacture a compact sports utility vehicle named EcoSport? Ford India 27. Name the Government policy introduced by Karnataka to boost animation industry. Karnataka Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics (KAVGC) Policy 2011 28. Name the ace woman tennis player who withdrew from Australian Open due to left ankleinjury.Serena Williams 29. Who Scott Thompson has been named as CEO of Yahoo?

30. Who has been appointed as Senior Vice President in India by CIBER? Vivek.K.Marla 31. Name the Pocket whiteboard interactive presentation tool launched by HP in India.

32. Name the Australian cricket captain who joined the triple-century club recently. Michael Clarke scored 329* against India at SCG 33. Where the national and international theater festival, the Bharat Rang Mahotsav set to beheld?National School of Drama, Amritsar 34. Who won gold for triple jump at the all India inter-university athletics meet held in Mangalore,Karnataka?Arpinder Singh 35. Who has been named Chief Information Officer of WildCard Systems? Shahi Kapur 36. Who has been appointed as VP, Chief Information Officer of Qwest Communications? Girish Varma 37. Name the Indian doctor who became famous for his selfless work in China during the Sino-Japan war whose memorial was dedicated to India. Dr.Dwarkanath Shantaram Kotnis 38. Where has Union Government planned to build 11 tunnels to connect important roads? Pakistan and China borders 39. Which version Internet Explorer 6 of Internet Explorer is dead as per Microsoft?

40. Name the website launched by Jammu and Kashmir government for the states school educationdepartment.www.jkeducation.gov.in 41. Who was given the first S.K.Singh award for negotiating Indo-US nuclear deal? D.Bala Venkatesh Varma 42. Where is the worlds largest solar telescope Merak on Pangong Tso lake in the cold desert Ladakh region set to be built?

43. Who has been appointed as President of Federation of Indian Export Organisations? Rafeeq Ahmed 44. Which Karnataka state has planned to teach Bhagavad Gita in schools?

45. Which automobile maker has re-entered Indian markets after 13 years? Vespa 46. Who won the doubles Leander Peas and Janko Tipsarevic title at the Chennai Open 2012?

47. Which country has called for Indian investments and sought partnership in oil and gas exploration? Trinidad and Tobago 48. Who has been appointed as Managing Director, President and CEO of Samsungs SouthWest Asia operations? B.D.Park 49. Name the worlds first hydrogen powered 3-wheeler which was launched by Mahindra and Mahindra at the 11th Auto Expo 2012. HyAlfa 50. Who won the Homare Sawa of Japan FIFA womens World player of the year?

51. Who won the FIFA mens world player of the year 3rd time in a row? Lionel Messi of Argentina 52. Name the car which won the 2012 North American Car of the year award. Hyundai Elantra 53. Name the Malam Bacai Sanha Guinea Bissau President who died recently.

54. Name the chairman of Swiss National Bank who stepped down recently. Philipp Hildebrand 55. Which company has acquired Bangalore-based event and entertainment guide Buzzintown?Yatra online 56. Which countrys Prime Minister is to be chief guest at Indian Republic Day parade? Thailand Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra 57. How many banks are now allowed to import bullion or precious metals? 35 58. Name the recently added banks to import Yes Bank, Bank of Maharashtra, City Union Bank and ING Vysya Bank precious metals.

59. Which Aamir Khan

bollywood

actor

is

campaigning

for

clean

voting?

60. Who took over as Director General Military Operations succeeding Lt Gen Anand MohanVerma? Lt Gen Ashok Kumar Chaudhary 61. Name the Chinese dancer who took Bharatanatyam and Kathak to Maos China died recently.Zhang Jun 62. Where the Quick service cum mobile medical dispensary was inaugurated recently? Bodh Gaya Temple premises 63. What is the lowest one-day score by Sri Lanka in the recently held match against South Africa?43 all out 64. What is the worth of total Private equity investment made in India in 2011? $10.11 billion 65. Which Australia country has been ranked first on nuclear safety?

66. What has Kerala hospital introduced to diagnose small bowel bleeding sites, tumours and ulcers? Wireless Capsule Endoscopy 67. Where does the industrial output stand as of November 2011 in India? 5.9% 68.When did 13th January 2012 India complete one polio-free year?

69. What is the cost of cheapest electric car unveiled by Tata in Detroit? $20,000 70. Which legendary singer is set to be honoured with lifetime achievement award at the 18thAnnualColorsScreenAwards?Asha Bhosle 71. Who has been Diane Greene, VMware co-founder appointed to google board recently?

72. Which service the Indian Government has planned to launch for farmers? Interactive medium of spoken web service 73. Who Abhinav Bindra won gold in Asian shooting championship?

74.Which Ethad Airways 75. Which Kochi 76. Which China

airways

bagged

best

airline

award?

Indian

city

is

set

to

host

psychiatry

conclaves?

country

reported first

rare

decline journalist

of who

foreign died

reserves? recently.

77. Name Indias Homai Vyarawalla

woman

78.WhowontheMumbaimarathontitlerecently?Laban Moiben 79.Wheredoesinflationstandason16thJanuary2012?7.47% 80. Name the scheme launched by Arunachal Pradesh government for the treatment of Multi Drug Resistant TB patients. Directly Observed Treatment Plus Service (DOTS) 81.WhotookchargeasKeralagovernor?H.R.Bharadwaj 82. Who won Yousuf Raza Gilani the trust of vote in Parliament of Pakistan?

83. Which currency is worlds most undervalued currency as per Big Mac Index? Indian rupee 84. Who has been appointed as Director Enterprise Business (India and South Asia) by Adobe?Kulmeet Bawa 85. What is the amount received by India in venture capital funding in the solar energy sector?Rs.500 crore 86. Which Government has bought 1.09% worth stake in Reliance Industries? Singapore Government 87. Which bank is likely to increase their presence in Karnataka from the present 71 to 100 branches?Bank of Baroda 88.Nametheboxerwhoturned70recently.Mohammad Ali 89. What is 6.7% at $25billion the export growth as of December 2011?

90. Which Wikipedia

website

is

to

be

shut

for

24hrs

to

stop

anti-piracy

act?

91. Name the Indian-origin Sikh who has been unanimously elected as the mayor of Charlottesville, a historic American city in Virginia. Satyendra Singh Huja 92. What fund has $1 billion innovation fund India planned to launch by July 2012?

93. Where is the India-Burma Myanmar capital, Naypyitaw 94. Name Jerry Yang the Yahoo

talks

scheduled

on

January

19th

2012?

co-founder

who

resigned

recently.

95. Which global consulting and IT service provider is set to participate in World EconomicForum? Mahindra Satyam 96. Which card has BSNL launched to facilitate making utility bill payments like electricity andtelephonebills?Itz Cash Card (Trust Card) 97. Name the Harish Khare media advisor to Prime Minister Village who is resigned to be recently. setup?

98. Where Indias first KINFRA Park, Kalamassery, Kochi

Startup

99.ExpandSOPA&PIPAStop Online Piracy Act & Protect IP Act 100. Kodak Which photo pioneer company filed bankruptcy recently?

101. Which YouTube

online

video

streaming

site

has

launched

film

festival?

102. Name the Indian wicketkeeper who is set to debut in place of MS Dhoni in test cricket againstAustralia.Wriddhiman Saha 103. Where is Diggi Palace, Jaipur 104. Which Megaupload the Jaipur Literature Festival held in India?

file-sharing

website

has

US

shut

down

recently?

105. Petroleum ministry ATF Aviation Turbine Fuel 106. Name Magnetic train the new kind

recently

allowed

import

of?

of

train

launched

by

China.

107. Which auto-maker regained its title as the worlds top-selling automaker in 2011? General Motors 108.WhoisappointedasCOOofIntel?Brain Krzanich 109.WhoisappointedasManagingEditorofWallStreetJournal?Raju Narisetti 110.WheredidIndiaopenits5thConsulateinUS?Atlanta 111.WhichcountryissettojoinEuropeanUnionin2013?Coratia 112.NametheyearthatisbeencelebratedacrossChina?Dragon year 113.WhowontheRanjiTrophy2011-12?Rajasthan 114. What 6th position rank does India hold to have a nuclear submarine?

115. Which French Parliament 116. 5.5% What is

parliament

passed

Armenian

gernocide

bill?

the

prevailing

CRR

as

on

25th

January

2012?

117. Which states theme has been set in 26th Surajkund Crafts Mela in Faridabad, Haryana?Assam 118. Who Djokovic won Grand slam title in mens Australian Open 2012?

119. What rank does India hold as steel maker in 2011 as per World Steel Association? 4th rank 120. What sum of capital has been approved to be infused in SBI and PNB? Rs.7,900 crore and Rs.1,285 crore utiveDirectorofIndianOverseasBank?A.D.M.Chavali 1. The Worlds 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. 2. Name the Pakistani cricketer who was released from jail because of good behaviour after servinghalfofhis6monthsentence.Mohammad Aamer 3. Which authors autobiography release was cancelled at the Kolkata Book Fair? Taslima Nasreen 4. Name the luxury watch collection launched by Seiko Watch India at a price range of Rs.1-5lakhperpiece.Ananta 5. What value of overseas inflow was injected into Indian markets in January 2012? Rs.26,000 crore (US$5.08 billion) 6. Which guidelines have SEBI notified allowing companies to reduce promoter shareholdingthroughprivateplacement?Institutional Placement Programme (IPP) 7. Which company will acquire full control of UTV Software and Communications Ltd.? US-based Walt Disney 8.WhatisthevalueofIPOfiledbyFacebook?$5 billion 9.ExpandSAR.Specific Absorption Rate 10. Who was awarded Pride of India award by the Indian-American community in Washington?Mallikarjun Kharge 11. Name the book The Perfect World launched by Sonu Nigam authored by Priya Kumar.

12. Which Italian luxury brand is looking to bring its high-end homeware and furnishings retailstorestoIndia?Giorgio Armani 13. Which country announced 3-day national mourning following violence at a football stadiuminPortSaid?Egypt 14.WhoisWorldsshortestman?72-year-old Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal 15. Which bollywood actor was honoured with a Green Globe award for outstanding effort tofightclimatechange?Abhishek Bachchan 16. Name the singer who has been appointed as anti-tobacco campaign ambassador. Playback Singer Shann 17.NamethecarmodelunveiledbySaharaForceIndia.VJM05

18. What award was conferred to Amul company in the manufacturing category recently? Green Globe Foundation award 19. Who have been selected for the Bharat Vikas Rathna award by the All India Business Development Association, New Delhi? C Basavegowda, President, Mysore and Chamarajanagar District Co-operative Central Bank Ltd. 20. Who will be the only Indian driver in the Formula One for 2012 season after signing to continue with Hispania Racing (HRT)? Narain Karthikeyan 21. Name Chris Huhne the British energy minister who resigned recently.

22.NamethecarlaunchedbyFerrarifor2012Fiseason?F2012 23. Name the CEO of Micron Technology who died in a plane crash and who has been appointedasCEO?Steve Appleton and Mark Durcan 24. In Somalia which country have UN declared end of famine?

25. Which Facebook 26. Who Amar Lal has

social

networking

site

turned

recently?

been

appointed

as

Executive

Director

of

Corporation

Bank?

27. Who won the Egypt against India 2-1

World

Squash

Federation

under-21

world

cup?

28. Which 3-day youth festival is back after a gap of 7 years in Jaipur? Ghoomar 29. Who won the Champions Trophy womens hockey tournament for the 5th time? Argentina 30.Name Emil Boc the Romanian Prime Minister who quit recently.

31. Name the Managing Director and CEO of Dhanlaxmi Bank who quit recently. Amitabh Chaturvedi 32. Name the Sharada Dwivedi Mumbai-based historian who passed away recently.

31. Name R.D.Sharma

the

science

communicator

who

passed

away

recently.

32. In which currency is India set to pay for 45% of Iran oil imports? Rupee 33. Name the Maldives President who was appointed after Mohamed Nasheed quit. Mohammad Waheed Hassan 34. Who has been appointed as Chief executive operations for Chinas Walmart? Greg Foran 35. Name the novelist whose 200th birthday ceremony was observed led by Prince Charles. Chalres Dickens 36. Which Sahara company renewed sponsorship deal with Indian hockey team?

37. Which singer is launching her own social networking website exclusively for her fans? Lady Gaga 38. Name the book featuring the problems of NRIs living in Gulf countries released by Mohammed Ali Shabbir and written by Mohammed Saifuddin. Expat Ride 39. India-born Kamal Bawa biologist who bags worlds 1st major international award?

40. Which country released worlds highest resolution lunar images taken by its 2nd moon orbiter,Change-2?China 41. What percentage of the worlds mangrove vegetation does India account for? 3% 42. Which Coimbatore place in Tamil Nadu is all set to get 4th Science Park?

43. Name the Indian American orthodontist who was honoured with Hind Rattan Award. Dr.Gagan Balla 44. What sum of amount is National Housing Bank set to receive from World Bank which wouldhelpinitsrefinancingprogramme?$300 million(Rs.1,500 crore) 45. Name the newly elected President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry(FICCI)?R.V.Kanoria

46. Which cricket batting legend is been inducted into ICC Hall of Fame? Sunil Gavaskar 47. Name the commission setup in accordance with Section 74 of the Meghalaya Police Act. Police Accountability Commission 48. What sum of amount has Bank of England set to pump into economy? 50 billion pounds 49. Name Letsbuy the electronics retailer bought by Flipkart for $25 million.

50. When is February 29th 2012 51. Veteran O.P. Dutta

Windows

set

to

be

released

by

Microsoft?

Bollywood

writer-filmmaker

who

died

recently

52. Which company will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital pictureframes? Eastman Kodak Co. (Kodak) 53. Name the Germans 1997 Tour de France winner who received 2-year ban for a blood dopingoffence. Jan Ullrich 54. Who was honoured with Lata Mangehkar award by the Madhya Pradesh government recently?Rajesh Roshan 55. Name the site launched by an Italian computer science professor who hopes it will be a challenge to the US technology giant Google. Volunia (www.volunia.com) 56. Which bank is set to launch Indias first Infrastructure Debt Fund (IDF)? IDBI bank 57. Where is the wax Central Serbian town of Jagodina sculpture of Novak Djokovic revealed?

58. Who has been appointed as non-executive chairman for India operations by Vodafone? Analjit Singh 59. Name O.P.Dutta the bollywood writer-filmmaker who passed away recently.

60. Why zebras have black To keep blood-sucking files away 61. Which Amartya Sen 62. Who is A.K.Antony economist is

and

white

stripes

(recently

solved

mystery)?

named

for

US

Humanities

medal?

the

first

Indian

defence

minister

to

visit

Saudi

Arabia?

63. Name the former secretary-general of Basketball Federation of India who passed away recently.Harish Sharma 64. Name the Whitney Houston US-based pop music event queen at the who died recently. 2012?

65. Who won the womens doubles Sania Mirza and Anastasia Rodionova 66. Who has been Lt.Gen.Ramesh Halgali elected as

Pattaya

Open

Deputy

Chief

of

Indian

Army?

67. Who was honoured with a posthumous Grammy award for his contributions to the music industry in area other than performance? Steve Jobs 68. What 6% percentage is the planned road tax for vehicles across India?

69. Who has been appointed as the Managing Director for India and SAARC operations by McAfee?Jagdish Mahapatra 70. Who will replace Australian, Joe Dawes Eric Simons as Indian cricket bowling coach?

71. Who took over as president of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for the year 2012-13?Jaydeep Shah 72. Name the renowned Urdu poet who passed away after battling lung cancer recently. Akhlaq Mohammad Khan 73. Name the Karnataka Higher Education Minister who passed away in Bangalore recently.V.S.Acharya 74. Who was honoured with Serbias highest honour, the Karadjordje Star medal? Novak Djokovic

75. At what value has Bank of Japan set to expand its asset purchase programme? 10tn yen($130 billion) 76. Where New Delhi in India 9-day 20th World Book Fair is held?

77. Where does Indias forex reserves stand for the week ended 17th February 2012? $293.44 billion 78. Name the cricketer who was honoured with lifetime membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground.Sachin Tendulkar 79. Which country has been ranked as the worlds richest country in the list compiled by USmagazineForbes?Qatar 80. Which country did India beat to qualify for London Olympics mens hockey 2012? France 81. Which Syria west Asian country approved for new constitution recently?

82. Which model of Nokia phone has been built with 41-megapixel sensor camera? Nokia 808 Pureview camera phone 83. Name the chief Air Marshal Tahir Rafiq Butt appointed for Pakistan Air Force.

84. Which company signed a long-term agreement to supply 250 MW power to Bangladesh Power Development board NTPC 85. What value of second bailout pacakge did German parliament pass for Greece to help the country avoid a default? 130 billion euros ($174.4 billion) 86. Flyte Name the digital music store launched by flipkart.com.

87. Where in India was the inaugural World Series Hockey tournament held? Chandigarh 88. Which Nokia Siemens 89. Who Subroto Bagchi company bagged Airtels network deal for Maharashtra?

has

been

appointed

as

chairman

of

MindTree?

90. Name the online property search portal launched by HDFC in Kolkata HDFC Red 91. Who Varun Berry resigned as PepsiCo India Foods CEO?

92. Name the application launched by Vigyan Prasar and IGNOU as a free SMS service for mobile users that delivers content on science and related areas. Science@Mobile 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. 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 games history and Indias middle order bulwark for years, on Friday bid adieu to Test cricket, bringing down the curtain on a glorious 16-year career. 3. Which country has India agreed in-principle to the participation in hydro powerprojects in the North-East?Bangladesh 4. Name the Tech-savvy state which set a record by winning the National Tourism Award for its website for 5th time in last 10 years.Kerala 5. Which Malayalam language daily has tied up with Yahoo India to deliver premium digital content in Malayalam?Malayala Manorama 6. Name the Delhi-based group which has been nominated in the best international brand/group award at the British Reggae Industry Awards.Reggar Rajahs 7. Which movie of Indian filmmaker Mani Ratnam is now part of the permanent collection at the Austrian Film Museum?Raavanan 8. Who has been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize considered as Nobel prize in Architecture?Wang Shu 9. Which railway station became the first railway network to offer BluFi, a combination of Bluetooth and WiFi to provide information to passengers?Bangalore City Railway Station

10. Which state bagged the second best national award in the Comprehensive Development Of Tourism category?Rajasthan 11. Name the Kerala-based UAE business magnate who was awarded with Interfaith Harmony Award at Kuala Lumpur.M.A.Yusuf Ali 12. Name the mens mixed doubles winner of the ATP Dubai Open 2012.Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna 13. When was the Worlds oldest post office opened as it celebrates its 300th anniversary?1712 in Sanquhar, London 14. Name the Indian American filmmaker who won the 2012 Rising Star Award for his feature film 9 Eleven at the Canada International Film Festival. Manan Singh Katohora 15. Who won the womens Kabaddi World Cup championship?India 16. Who is expected to visit India with export of gas and investment on agenda? Qatars Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani 17. Who has been elected as Russian President?Vladimir Putin 18. Name the West Indian cricketer who died in a car accident recently. - Runako Morton aged 33 19. Name Indias first 3D dance film.ABCD (Any Body Can Dance) 20. Which 4 financial institutions have agreed to form countrys first $2 billion (about Rs.10,000 crore) Infrastructure Development Fund to finance infrastructure projects in India?Bank of Baroda, ICICI Bank, LIC and Citi Financial 21. Who has been appointed as MD of Hyundai Motor India Ltd.?Bo Shin Seo 22. Which Chinese Electric company has started office in India?Shangai Electric 23. Which university conferred honoris causa(as honorary academic degree) during its 12th convocation to the finance minister Pranab Mukherjee?Assam University 24. Which Indias leading commodity exchange would be listed on the BSE making it Indias first exchange to be listed?Multi Commodity Exchange 25. Which western India university will start the Institute of International Studies?

M S University 26. HSBC will sell its general insurance for US $914 million to which 2 companies? AXA Group and QBE Insurance Group 27. Against which team India will play one-off Twenty20 International cricket on March 30th 2012 to commemorate the 150 years of settlement of Indians in that country?South Africa 28. Who retained his title of being the worlds richest Indian in Forbes magazines annual list of the worlds richest people?Mukesh Ambani 29. Name the music director king of soft melodies who passed away recently.Ravi Shankar Sharma 30. Who has been appointed as head coach of the Pakistan cricket team?Dav Whatmore 31. Name the bank that has entered into a partnership with Remit2home to offer Sri Lankans to transfer money back home.Nations Trust Bank 32. Where is Kerala a film city is to be built?Varikkassery Mana at Ottapalam 33. Who will be appointed as CEO of L&T?K Venkataraman 34. Name the chocolate boy of Hindi cinema during 1960s who passed away recently. Joy Mukherjee 35. Who is appointed as ISI chief of Pakistan Government?Lt. Gen. Zaheerul Islam 36. Which Indian NGO has been chosen for Americas first Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls, for training and organising wastepickers and eliminating child labour from recycling?Chintan 37. What is the reduced CRR of scheduled banks as revised by RBI at 75 basis points? 4.75% 38. At what value did Euro zone finance ministers release 2nd bailout package for debt-hit Greece?$46.9 billion 39. Where was the International Financial Hub inaugurated in India recently?New Town, Kolkata 40. What is the extended number of days for advance reservation of Indian railway tickets?120

41. Which state has recorded an increase in foodgrains production that touched 50.22 lakh tonnes during Kharif 2011 season?Haryana 42. Name the ambulance launched for farmers in Andhra Pradesh by Srihari Kotela, a Charterted Accountant.Rythu Ratham (Tollfree 18002666208) 43. Which non-banking finance arm of Tata Sons have decided to ramp up its travel business and focus on the retail segment?Tata Capital 44. Which financial service will Nokia close in India?Nokia Money 45. Which rank does India hold as per U5MR rates by UNICEF?46th rank 46. Who will take over the rein of Deutsche Bank CEO at the end of May 2012?Anshu Jain 47. Who was - Vijay Bahuguna sworn in as Uttarkhands Chief Minister?

48. Name the Indian railway minister who will present Railway Budget 2012-13.Dinesh Trivedi 49. Who has been appointed as Director General of Police for Punjab?Sumedh Singh Saini 50. Who and at what age became 5th time Chief Minister of Punjab?Parkash Singh Badal 51. Where was FICCI FRAMES 2012 Asias largest global convention on film media and entertainment inaugurated?Kolhapur, Maharashtra 52. Who is sworn as youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?

- Akhilesh Yadav at the age of 38 years. 53. What is the proposed capital support to be infused to PSUs and financial institutions during the next fiscal year as per Budget 2012-13?Rs.15,888 crore 54. Who has been appointed as Additional Advocate General of Tamil Nadu?P.H.Arvindh Pandian 55. From which tax will RBI be spared?Wealth Tax 56. Who won the Australian Grand Prix 2012?Jenson Button 57. Who won the Swiss Open 2012 title against Chinas Shixian Wang?Saina Nehwal 58. Who Mukul Roy will replace Dinesh Trivedi as Railway Minister?

59. The indoor hall built at Orissa Cricket Association is named of which cricket personality?Sachin Tendulkar Indoor Hall 60. Who has been elected as German President?Joachim Gauck 61. Which bank recently celebrated its 75th anniversary?Indian Overseas Bank 62. As Jet Airways discontinues JetLite, which company it is set to merge?JetKonnect 63. Name the hockey player who was declared the winner of Survivor India.Raj Rani 64. Expand NPCINational Payment Corporation of India 65. Which Indian city has been selected as city of focus at the Toronto International Film Festival 2012?Mumbai 66. Who has been named for Dada Saheb Phalke award?Soumitra Chatterjee 67. Which European nation has tied up with the Indian Railways to renovate 14 railway stations in India?Belgium 68. Name the Goa Tourism minister who died of heart attack recently?Matanhy Saldanha 69. Which team won the cricket Asia Cup 2012?Pakistan 70. Expand NBFCNon-Banking Finance Companies 71. Which British newspaper won the annual Press Awards the Oscars of British Journalism?Daily Mail (Newspaper and Website of the year) 72. What amount of loan for education has been offered to India by World Bank?$500 million 73. 64 years after Independence which Indian state saw a locomotive train for the first time?Manipur (12km from Jiribam to Dholakhal) 74. Longding became the 17th district of which Indian state?Arunachal Pradesh 75. Israeli Government is planning to setup 3 agricultural excellence centres in which Indian state?Gujarat 76. Who has been nominated for World bank President post by US President?KoreanAmerican Physician-Anthropologist Jim Yong Kim 77. Who will be - Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh appointed as Army chief to succeed Gen.V.K.Singh?

78. Who won 2nd silver medal in the mens 50m rifle three position at the Amir of Kuwait International Shooting Grand Prix?Gagan Narang 79. Name the new tax norms which will come into effect from April 1st 2012.GAAR General Anti-Avoidance Rules 80. Which 2 banking facilities would not require signature attestation instead only thumb impression as per RBI?Fixed deposits and Opening a bank locker 81. Which state will get its first commercial dairy for processing of camel milk into various products in Kutch district once the provision is made in its 2012-13 budget?Gujarat 82. Who is appointed as chairman of Haldia Petrochemicals?Kolkatas industry minister Partha Chatterjee 83. Who is named as Peace ambassador of world religious Parliament?Pt.Arjun Prasad Bastola 84. Who is appointed as Wipros banking head?Rajan Kohli 85. Who was named as the winner of the Templeton Prize 2012 for his contribution to affirming lifes spiritual dimension?Dalai Lama 86. Name the bill passed against conduct of any constitutional authority in India. Judicial Accountability Bill 87. Where in India Guru Gobind Singh refinery will be inaugurated in April 2012?Bathinda, Southwest Punjab 88. Where in Chennai is the 2nd airport is to be setup?Sriperumbudur 89. Where in Arunachal Pradesh Reserve Bank of India is planning to open its office?Itanagar 90. Which Indian state passed Rs.201.05 crore deficit budget for the financial year 201213?Arunachal Pradesh 91. Which IPL cricket team signed up with UNICEF in a bid to support the adolescent girls in India?Delhi Daredevils 92. Who has replaced Shankar Bidari as DGP and IG in Karnataka?A.R.Infant 93. Which Indian state would celebrate 77th foundation day on 1st April 2012?Odisha or Orissa

94. Name the 26/11 Mumbai terror survivor who has been selected as a flag bearer at the London 2012 Olympics.Harnish Patel 95. Name the PSU bank whose 108 branches were inaugurated electronically by Union Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena.Syndicate Bank