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. He was 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 Minister of Karnataka who was arrested recently.
B.S.Yeddyurappa
3. Name the 3D animation film Shemaroo Entertainment which is set to release online.
Super K
4. Who is set to head special purpose vehicle called the GST Network?
Nandan Nilekani
5.Which business has NIIT sold to Skillsoft for $110 million?
Element K
6. Who has been appointed as commissioner for the AFC Champions League final?
FIFA badge holder Gautam Kar
7. Name the men’s and women’s 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 women’s 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 the team which won the Durand Cup?
Churchill Brothers
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 Africa’s highest mountain
peak, Mount Kilimanjaro.
Alistair Cook
15. Which Bollywood movie have been watched by over 1.3 lakh Chinese since its Mandarin version release?
Aamir Khan’s 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 students in classrooms
across India.
STEMpower
18. Who has been honoured with Dr.B.Saroja Devi award recently?
Dr.Vyjayanthimala
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 August’s 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 Mannar basin in Sri Lanka?
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 runner-up in Czech International Open?
Arundhati Pantawane
25. Which IAS officer has joined as Prime Minister’s principal secretary?
Pulok Chatterjee
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 bio-degradable and recyclable waste material
in Kolkata?
OYE 104.8 FM
28. Who is called as the Gandhian of Brazil?
Lia Diskin
29. Who is the inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker which keeps the heartbeat in a regular rhythm?
Wilson Greatbatch
30. What is the name of the China’s first space Laboratory?
Tiangong-1
31. Name the famous television personality of CBS News channel’s program called “60 minutes” retired recently?
Andy Rooney
32. Which UAE telecom giant recently launched 4G mobile broadband network in UAE?
Etisalat
33. Who retired as the CEO of Hyundai Motor co. recently?
Yang Seung-suk
34. Name the planetary scientist who worked for NASA recently died?
Micheal J.Drake
35. Name the three Indian boxers who have qualified for London Olympics 2012?
Jai Bhagwan, L.Devendro Singh and Manoj Kumar
36. Name the Afghan President who was in India for a two-day visit.
Hamid Karzai
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, Middle East and Africa region.
D.Shivakumar
39. Name the company which has launched apps for iPad and Android phones recently.
Adobe
40. Who has shot a film in 47 days titled ‘Facebook’?
RP.Patnaik
41. Who won the 2011 Nobel prize in chemistry?
Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals
42. Name the world’s cheapest laptop launched in India.
Aakash
43. Name the Ashes hero who died at the age of 52.
Former England fast bowler, Graham Dilley
44. Who won the Irani Cup 2011?
Rest of India Team
45. Name the application launched by Monster India for Facebook users.
BeKnown
46. Name the Galaxy version mobile launched by Samsung India.
Galaxy Y
47. What is the financial strength rating retained for ICICI Bank while SBI’s rating is downgraded from ‘C-’ to ‘D+’ by Moody’s?
C-
48. Name the person who has been conferred at the 2011
Telstra NSW Business Women’s Award for her contribution to world’s first
green steel manufacturing process.
Veena Sahajwalla
49. Name the Apple co-founder who passed away recently.
Steve Jobs
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 Swedish poet who won 2011 Nobel in literature.
Tomas Transtromer
52. Name the Sanskrit scholar and a former director of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan who passed away recently.
Mathoor Krishnamurthi
53. Which countries President have offered hindi films to be shot at the picturesque country?
Austrian President
54. Which country has won first victory in UNESCO vote?
Palestine
55. What is the annual inflation as of September 2011 in Sri Lanka?
7.2per cent
56. Whose museum was inaugurated in Austria recently?
Schwarzenegger
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 women’s 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 downgraded by Moody’s.
Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB
61. Who won the Showjumping Open title on the opening day of the South India Equestrian championship?
Hrishika Basappa
62. Which software’s updated version has been launched by Infosys?
Finacle e-Banking solution
63. Who won the Shanghai Masters title?
Andy Murray
64. Which day has been declared as ‘Steve Jobs Day’?
16th October
65. Name the businessman who won the Queen’s 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 the Formula 1 Korean Grand Prix 2011?
Sebastian Vettel
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 country is backing to rebuild Nalanda University in India?
China
70. Name India’s longest tunnel opened in Jammu and Kashmir recently.
Pir Panjal railway tunnel (10.96km)
71. When is the IPL 5 scheduled for 2012?
April 4th to May 27th 2012
72. What is the degraded debt rating of Spain as per Standard and Poor’s?
AA- from AA
73. Name the British CEO whom Olympus sacked recently.
Michael Woodford
74. Who is set to replace Liam Fox as UK defence minister?
Philip Hammond
75. Name the Italian Prime Minister who survived confidence vote.
Silvio Berlusconic
76. Where was the world’s largest blind symbol unveiled?
A yellow banner with three black spots was unveiled at Vienna’s St.Stephen’s Cathedral
77. Which technology major acquired Skype for $8.5 billion?
Microsoft
