Current Affairs 2011-2012

Q1. Who has been appointed as new BSNL chief ?

ANS .-Rakesh Kumar Upadhyay as the Chairman and Managing Director of telecom giant BSNL

Q2. Bangladeshi Nobel laureate who has been ousted from Grameen Bank by Bangladesh

Government on the grounds that he had stayed on past the legal retirement age of 60?

ANS .Muhammad Yunus. Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, set up Grameen, which means village in Bengali, and has been its managing director since 2000.

Q3. Who claimed the first hat-trick of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 against Netherlands on

28 February, 2011 with a bowling figure of 6/27 at Delhi?

ANS .Kemar Roach.

Q4. Who became the youngest player to make a debut in World Cup cricket?

ANS .Nitish Kumar (Canada) When he played against Zimbabwe on 28 February 2011 at Nagpur, India, he was 16 years and 283 days.

Q5. Who was the first bowler to take 2 hat-tricks in Cricket World Cup?

ANS .Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka).

Q6. Who has been conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2010 ?

ANS .-K. Balachander

Q7. Egyptian Prime Minister who submitted his resignation from his post on March 3,2011amid ongoing protests in the North African nation?

ANS .Ahmed Shafiq. Shafiq will be replaced by former Transport Minister Essam Sharaf.

Q8. Indian scientist from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research who has helped NASA to predict Solar Flare?

ANS .Dibyendu Nandi

Q9. Who has been appointed as chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the

2G spectrum allocation issue:?

ANS .P.C.Chacko.

The JPC, having 20-members from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha.

Q10. Union Minister of Human Resource Development in the Manmohan Singh cabinet from

2004 to 2009 who died on 4 March 2011 due to a heart attack?

ANS .Arjun Singh

Q11. Name the $424 million satellite launched by NASA on March 4, 2011 intended to study how radiation from the sun impacts the Earth’s climate which failed to achieve orbit?

ANS .Glory

Q12. Which country becomes the first European country to enforce burqa ban?

ANS. France. Burqa ban enforced in France from April 11, 2011.

Q13. The last surviving founding leader of Nepali Congress (NC) and former Prime Minister of Nepal died recently at the Norvic International Hospital?

ANS .Krishna Prasad Bhattarai.

Q14. The last Maharaja of Jaipur, who died recently on 16 April at the age of 80 years?

ANS. The last titular Maharaja of Jaipur, Sawai Bhawani Singh, died at a private hospital in Gurgaon on 16 April night after prolonged illness.

Q15. An Egyptian criminal court began the first hearing in the case against former Interior

Minister of Egypt, on 05-03-2011 charged with money laundering and profiteering. Name of that minister?

ANS. Habib al-Adli.

Q16. The friend and companion of the guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara in his youth on a

motorcycle trip around South America, who died in Havana at the age of 88?

ANS. Alberto Granado.

Q17. Name of the two surface-to-surface missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, which were successfully test-fired by India on March 11, 2011?

ANS. Prithvi II and Dhanush.

Q18 . Who becomes first women to “unfurl” the national tricolor at a depth of 30 metres under the sea?

ANS. Archana Sardana

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Q19. Name of the Minister of the Interior of Egypt who was appointed by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf on 5 March 2011?

ANS. General Mansour el Essawy

Q20. Who has become the first Indian-American to be elected to the Chicago City Council?

ANS. Ameya Pawar.

Q21. The 2011 edition of the 10th Imagineindia International Film Festival will take place in?

ANS. Madrid(Spain) from May 17-31.

Q22. Name of the American unmanned vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) space

plane which was launched on 5 March 2011 with the mission designation USA-226?

ANS. X-37 B.

Q23. The Supreme Court of India has rejected the mercy killing of a nurse from Haldipur,

Karnataka after she had been in a vegetative state for 37 years. Name of that nurse?

ANS. Aruna Shanbaug