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Q1. Alvaro Colorn was sworn in as the first leftist president of ........... in more than 50 years, promising to tight poverty in a nation where half the people live on less than $1 a day.
Q2. Which country has banned the import and exhibition of The Kite Runner, a film about the troubled friendship of two Afghan boys. on the grounds that it could incite violence? The Kite Runner is based on the 2003 best selling novel by US-based Afghan author Khaled Hosseini.
Q3. Name the J&K education minister and Pradesh Congress Committee chief who has resigned over corruption charges involving a member of his staff after the issue rocked the state assembly.
Q4. With an eye on the polls later this year, the Raman Singh government in Chattisgarh launched a scheme to provide rice at ............. per kg to everyone below the poverty line.
Q5. Which state was recently in news for the breaking out of bird flu?
Q6. India and China on Jan 14 raised the target for two-way trade between the two Asian giants by 50%, pegging it at $60 billion for ........... .
Q7. Which of the following statements are true about the recommendations of the Rangarajan Committee?
A. In its final report given to finance minister P. Chidambaram, the committee on financial inclusion, headed by the chairman of Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, C Rangarajan, suggested that each branch of PSU banks should open 250 new accounts every year.
B. Chidambaram said it meant that 12.5 million accounts would be opened each year, given the current strength of 50,000 branches in the country
C. The committee also recommended that individuals should be appointed as banking correspondents
D. Currently, only non-government organisations and micro-finance institutions could be appointed as banking correspondents as per RBI norms.
Q8. Which magazine has named Pakistan ‘the world's most dangerous place', saying it deserved the title, especially after Benazir's killing?
Q9. Former chiefminister of Meghalaya and Congress leader who has resigned from the the State Assembly and the Congress party.
Q10. The United States capitalised on Jelena Jancovic's injury misfortune to beat ........... 2-1 in the final and win its fourth Hopman Cup in six years in Perth.
Q11. The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has asked the Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) to invest their surplus money only in mutual funds where the collective holdings of government and its institutions exceed ................ .
Q12. Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said the government would increase the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) allocation for health to ........... from the present 1 per cent in the XI Five-Year Plan.
Q13. The Union Cabinet has given its nod for the continuation of the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) in the XI Plan with the promise of providing electricity to all rural households by the end of this Five-Year Plan in .............. .
Q14. Name the President who, emboldened by his success in a hostage release, took the side of leftist rebels in neighbouring Colombia's decades-old civil conflict, calling the guerrillas "true armies" and asking the international community to stop classifying them as terrorists.
Q15. The government has ordered a CBI inquiry into the charges of fraud and corruption in five health projects in the country supported by the World Bank. Which of the following are the projects covered by the World Bank report?
A. $114-m Malaria Control Project
B. $82.1-m Orissa Health Project
C. $54- m Food and Drug Capacity Building Project
D. $193.7-m Second National HIV/AIDSControl Project
E. $124.8 m Tuberculosis Control Project
Q16. Bangaladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has been chosen for the prestigious .............. award in recognition of her writing on women's rights.
Q17. Name the South African police chief who has resigned as President of Interpol to fight corruption allegation.
Q18. India's first international potato convention was held in ........... .
Q19. The former British prime minister ........... is to join Wall Street bank JP Morgan as a part-time advisor. He became international envoy to the Middle East after standing down following a decade as premier in June last year. He will advise the financial services giant on political and strategic issues.
Q20. Which state govt has declared 2008 as the "Year of Education" in the state?
Q21. Which of the following has chosen to withdraw from the One Laptop Per Child education computer organisation?
Q22. Power Grid Corporation of lndia has received an in-principle approval for maintenance and expansion of power grids in ........... .
Q23. Name the two India-born British entrepreneurs who have been named among the 100 most powerful people in the UK business in a list compiled by the Times in London.
Q24. Which is the only railway system in India to have 'Standard Gauge' railway track?
Q25. Delhi Gate' and 'Lahore Gate' are the important features of which of these forts?
Q26. Which batsman has hit the most boundaries - 32 - in a single ODI cricket match?
Q27. The world's first nuclear reactor was named.................
Q28. Who is the oldest goal scorer in World Cup football?
Q29. Who wrote the book "Poverty - Un British Rule in India"?
Q30. Who was the first recipient of India's highest military decortion, the Param Vir Chakra?
Q31. Which Indian President was a professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics at Oxford University?
Q32. Which Governor General of India established the Fort William College in Kolkatta?
Q33. Who was the first Indian to get the Ramon Magsasay Award?
Q34. Elliot's Beach is located at.................
Q35. Which athlete holds the record of winning 18 olympic medals in all?
Q36. Who was the founder of the Asiatic Society of Bengal?
Q37. Which Viceroy and Governor General of India took the initiative of setting up the Kaziranga Wildlife Sanctuary?
Q38. Which of these cities stands on the banks of river Vistula?
Q39. Which of these lakes in India was created by Le Corbusier and P L Verma, the architects ?
Q40. Who was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?
Q41. In which year did India win its first Olympic hockey gold medal?
Q42. Mahatma Gandhi studied Law in England at................
Q43. Who founded the city of Udaipur?
Q44. Who founded the airline that in 1946 became Air India?
Q45. Who was the first Indian national to receive Pakistan's highest civilian award, the Nishan-e-Pakistan?
Q46. "Bibendum" is the name of the mascot of which company?
Q47. Which gospel in the King James Version of the Bible contains the shortest verse "Jesus Wept"?
Q48. "War of Currents" is often personified as the rivalry between Thomas Alva Edison and which other inventor?
Q49. In Greek mythology which king was rewarded with the golden touch?
Q50. Which French City is often referred to as the"City of Popes"?
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