Current Affairs Short Answers-2012(June-July)

1. Who is appointed as Chairman for Australian and New Zealand  operations by Mahindra Satyam?

Answer: Edward Ted Pretty

2. Where did the Boeing Phanton Eye drone made its ground?
Answer: Edwards Air Force Base

3. What quantity o f wheat would be exported to ease storage crunch in India?

Answer: 2 million tonnes

4. Who is named as Navy chief as Admiral Nirmal Verma retires on August 31st 2012?
Answer: D.K.Joshi

5. What is the process used to recall a document saved previously called?

Answer: Retrieve

6. Which PSU bank has waived off minimum balance criteria for savings b ank account?

Answer: State Bank of India

7. How are data organized in a spreadsheet?

Answer: Rows and Columns

8. What is the meaning of the word  ”Congress”?

Answer: Assembly of the People

9.Which scam-hit bank’s license was cancelled by Reserve Bank of India recently?
Answer: Madhavpura Mercantile Cooperative Bank (MMCB)

10. Name the Wisconsin governor in USA who survived recall.
Answer: Scott Walker

11. Who was responsible for establishing Indian National Congress?

Answer: A.O.Hume

12. VIRUS stands for?

Answer: Vital Information Resource under Siege

13. When was East Indian Association formed?

Answer: 1866

14. Expand IIAS. (Hint: Arsenic)

Answer: International Institute of Arsenic Studies

15. Who suggested the word Congress for “Indian National Congress”?

Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji

16. How many gold did India win on 1st day of Commonwealth Weightlifting?
Answer: 11 gold

17. Who will become the first Indian woman and 5th sportsperson to be conferred with Lt.Colonel rank?

Answer: MC Mary Kom

18. Who was the first president of Indian National Congress (INC)?

Answer: W.C.Banerjee

19. Name the author of ‘The Twilight Zone’ who passed away recently.
Answer: Ray Bradbury

20. Name the writer who has been felicitated with an Assamese Japi.
Answer: Chetan Bhagat

21. Who won the Thailand Open 2012?

Answer: Saina Nehwal

22. What value of investment proposal did Karnataka get across 14 sectors on the 1st day of 2nd Global Investors Meet (GIM 2012)?
Answer: Rs.5 trillion (Rs.5 lakh crore)

23. Which state will observe July 2012 as anti-dengue month?

Answer: Punjab

24. Name the Chief Operating Officer of Barclays who quit recently.

Answer: Jerry del Missier

25. Over what value of annual turnover will imp act private tuition providers to pay 12% tax out of the earnings?

Answer: Rs.10 lakh

26. What rate of interest did European Central Bank retain?
Answer: 1%

27. From which country India is set to buy 8 warships?
Answer: South Korea

28. Who won the Irish Open 2012 title?

Answer: Welshman Jamie Donaldson

29. Which country is set to launch manned spacecraft in June 2012?
Answer: China

30. How do we know Bob Diamond with respect to b anking domain?

Answer: Ex-CEO of Barclays

31. To which Eurogroup the Eurozone finance ministers were willing to respond favourably to the need of 100 billion euros to a bailout request from its troubled banks?
Answer: Spain

32. Who won and retained European Championship title 2012?

Answer: Spain

Current Affairs Short Answers-2012(May-June)

1. Which country slapped a fine of $80,000 fine on Air India recently?
Answer: US Transportation Department

2. Which Finance company recently deferred its Rs.1,665 crore IPO, which opened on May 2nd 2012?
Answer:  Samvardhana Motherson

3. Who was sworn in as Russian president for 2nd time?
Answer:  Vladimir Putin

4. Who won the silver medal at the 3rd International ‘Republic of Kazakhstan President’s Cup’ held in Almaty, kazakhstan?
Answer:  Devendro Singh

5. Name the hockey player who died after being hit in the head by the ball during a game in Perth recently.
Answer: Elizabeth Watkins

6. Name the bill passed by Rajya Sabha in India to protect children against sexual abuse.
Answer: Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences Bill

7. Which street is renamed after Roger Federer in Germany?
Answer: Weststrasse renamed as Roger-Federer-Allee

8. Name the bill approved by the Union Cabinet in India to regulate the micro finance industry and bring the micro lenders under the purview of RBI.
Answer: Micro Finance Sector Development and Regulation Bill, 2011

9. Which city in India leads household penetration of the internet as per Census 2011?
Answer: Gurgaon

10. Which movie team is set to open 4-day Children’s Film Festival to be held in Goa from May 11th 2012?
Answer: Gattu

11. Which state’s first marine training institute will be operational from August 2012?
Answer: Gujarat

12. Name the firm which is planning to build mud cottages in Gir area of Junagadh district.
Answer: Swati Infratech Pvt. Ltd.

13. Which sport in Goa will benefit from the Government’s decision as it will be declared state sport?
Answer: Football

14. When was the World Red Cross day celebrated?
Answer: May 8^th

15. Which cricketer is likely to make an appearance in filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s ‘Ferrari Ki Sawari’?
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar

16. Where in India Archeological Survey of India is planning gallery on Harappan civilization?
Answer: Vadodara, Gujarat

17. Where in India the 49th Raising Day of the Central Command was celebrated on 3rd May 2012?
Answer: Cantonment, Lucknow

18. Where in Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (Tidco) is planning to establish aerospace park?
Answer: Chennai

19. Who became the first cricketer to hit 5 consecutive T20 fifties?
Answer: Virender Sehwag

20. In which year MotoGP set to make its debut in India?
Answer: 2013

21. Which company bagged the contract for deploying Bharti Airtel’s 4G network in Karnataka?
Answer: Huawei

22. WHO in its ‘International Travel and Health Bulletin 2012′ issued a malaria alert to which country recently?
Answer: India

23. Who won the award in the best Actress category at the London Asian Film Festival (LAFF) 2012 for her film ‘Bol’?
Answer: Humaima Malick

24. Which country’s president visited India recently?
Answer: Maldivian President, Mohammed Waheed

25. Name the child actor who acted in movie ‘Paa’ died in the Nepal plane crash recently.
Answer: Taruni Sachdev

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

27. Name the mass segment vehicle launched by Honda targeting Indian market.
Answer: Dream Yuga

28. Who won the top player in the English Premier League’s history?
Answer: Ryan Giggs

29.Where and at what cost was The Arcelor Mittal Orbit has been built?
Answer: London, amounting to 22.7million pounds

30. Name the Indian American who has been named as Chancellor of California.
Answer: Pradeep Khosla