CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

                                          CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Ø  Indian shooter who won bronze in double trap event at the ISSF Shooting World Cup

            in Maribor, Slovenia?

Ronjan Sodhi.

Ø  Which country won the Tri-Nation Tournament held in Scotland in July 2011?

Sri Lanka.

Ø  Which team is set to become the first English Premier League side to play in India,

taking part in an exhibition match in the southern city of Pune in July?

Blackburn Rovers.

Ø  France's World Cup-winning midfielder who announced his retirement from

professional football on 14 July 2011?

Patrick Vieira.

Ø  Latest communication satellite of India which is successfully launched into a predetermined orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation on July 15, 2011?

GSAT-12.

Ø  Former fast bowler who has been appointed Sri Lanka's chief cricket coach for the

home series against Australia in August?

Rumesh Ratnayake.

Ø  Who has resigned as Chief Executive of News International which also publishes The

Times and The Sun, following a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the U.K. media

              world?

Rebekah Brooks.

Ø  Foreign secretary of India who has been appointed as the next ambassador to the

United States?

Nirupama Rao.

Ø  The chief of NATO forces in Afghanistan who has stepped down and handed over the

command to his successor Lt Gen John Allen?

General David Petraeus.

Ø  Who has been appointed as the Chief of CIA, Central intelligence agency of the United

States government?

General David Petraeus.

Ø  The Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister who has been elected as the new

chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers, which is spearheading the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST)?

Mr. Sushil Kumar Modi.

Ø  Which country became the first Asian nation to win the Women’s World Cup Football?

Japan.

Ø  Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Kerala state Chalachitra (Film)

Academy?

Priyadarshan.

Ø  Bangladesh recently conferred the highest state honor “Swadhinata Sanmanona

award” on former Indian Prime Minister. Who is that Prime Minister?

Indira Gandhi.

Ø  International Court of Justice recently ordered Thailand and Cambodia to withdraw

troops around a Hindu temple. Which is that temple?

Preah Vihar temple.

Ø  Which country is set to re-measure the height of the world's tallest peak, Mount

Everest, to settle a longstanding dispute with neighboring China?

Nepal.

Ø  The first Indian military pilot to fly a helicopter in 1954, died at the army's research

and referral hospital on 20-07-2011, at the age of 84?

Air Commodore (retd) SK Majumdar.

Ø  The 2,000 th-Test Cricket match was played at Lord’s from July 21 to 25, 2011. Which

countries participated in that test match?

India and England.

Ø  South African sprint runner who has become the first 'disabled' athlete to qualify for

an able-bodied event in the 2012 Olympics in London?

Oscar Pistorius.

Ø  Who has been appointed as the chairman of the Kerala Public Service Commission

(KPSC)?

K S Radhakrishnan.

Ø  Who becomes the highest paid Bank chief of India?

Aditya Puri.  He is the Managing Director of HDFC Bank.

Ø  Who has been appointed as the editor in Chief of ‘Hindu’, leading national newspaper

of India?

Siddharth Varadarajan.

Ø  New surface-to-surface missile of India which was successfully test-fired on July 21,

2011 for the first time from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, Orissa?

“Prahaar”

Ø  The largest container ship which is set to become the largest vessel to call at any South

Indian port and the largest Maersk vessel to call at any port in India ?

Maersk Sembawang.

Ø  Ace shooter who is conferred the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award-2011?

Gagan Narang.

Ø  List of winners of Arjuna Awards, Dronacharya Awards and Dhyan Chand Awards:

Winners of Arjuna Awards:

Zaheer Khan (Cricket), Rahul Banerjee (Archery), Preeja Sreedharan (Athletics), Jwala

            Gutta (Badminton), Suranjoy Singh (Boxing), Sunil Chhetri (Football), Rajpal Singh
           (Hockey), Rakesh Kumar (Kabaddi), Tejaswini Sawant (Shooting), Virdhawal Khade
           (Swimming), Ashish Kumar (Gymnastics), Somdev Devvarman (Tennis), Ravinder Singh
           (Wrestling), Ravi Kumar (Weightlifting), Vikas Gowda (Athletics), Sandhya Rani
           (Wushu), Prasanta Karmakar (Swimming), Sanjay Kumar (Volleyball), Tejaswini
            (Kabaddi).
           Winners of Dronacharya Awards:
           Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao (Boxing), Devender Kumar Rathore (Gymnastics),
           Ramphal (Wrestling), Kuntal Roy (Athletics), Rajinder Singh (Hockey).
           Winners of Dhyan Chand Awards:
           Shabbir Ali (Football), Sushil Kohli (Swimming), Rajkumar (Wrestling).

Ø  Realist painter and one of Britain's most distinguished and highly regarded artists who

have died on July 20, 2011?

Lucian Freud.

Ø  British singer who has been found dead on 23 July 2011at her north London flat at the

age of 27?

Amy Jade Winehouse.

Ø  Norwegian right-wing Christian extremist who is suspected of killing at least 92 people

in Norway on 22 July 2011?

Anders Behring Breivik.

Ø  Who won the Formula One German Grand Prix-2011?

Lewis Hamilton. (Britain)

Ø  Which countries on 25-07-2011 signed a controversial deal to swap thousands of

boatpeople and refugees in a bid to deter future asylum seekers from trying to slip into

Australia by sea?

Australia and Malaysia.

Ø  Which Asian countries have signed a “historic” civil nuclear cooperation agreement on

25 July, 2011?

India and South Korea.

Ø  Which country won Copa America -2011 beating Paraguay (3-0) in the final?

Uruguay.

Ø  Who became the first Australian to win the 2011 Tour de France?

Cadel Lee Evans.

Ø  Former Asian football president who has been banned for life from all football activity

by Fifa's ethics committee?

Mohamed Bin Hammam.

Ø  Which country has passed Nuclear Compensation Bill on July 26, 2011?

Japan.

Ø  Who is the new Solicitor General of India?

Rohinton Fali Nariman.

Ø  Who has been appointed as Adviser to Prime Minister of India?

T.K.A. Nair.

Ø  Who has been appointed as Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India?

Pulok Chatterji.

Ø  Former Supreme Court judge, who is appointed as the new Lokayukta of Karnataka?

Justice Shivaraj V Patil.

Ø  Name of the two Indians who were awarded Ramon Magsaysay award for the year

2011?

Nileema Mishra and Harish Hande.

Ø  Who has been appointed as the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Air

Command of India?

Marshal Satish Pal Singh.

Ø  Who has been named as the honorary ambassador for the 2014 World Cup to be held

in Brazil?

Pele.

Ø  Which country hosted the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup which is to be held between 29

July and 20 August 2011?

Columbia.

Ø  The mayor of Afghanistan's restive southern city of Kandahar who has been killed by a

suicide bomber?

Ghulam Haidar Hamidi.

Ø  The winners of the Audi Cup 2011?

FC Barcelona.

Ø  Which football club won the French Super Cup 2011 held in Tangier, Morocco?

Olympique Marseille.

Ø  Which countries have signed three agreements on 28 July 2011 which includes defence

cooperation, media exchanges and cooperation between their planning commissions?

India and Mongolia.

Ø  The Chief Justice of the Sikkim High Court, who resigned from his post on July 29,

2011 after unsuccessfully challenging the impeachment proceedings going on against him

by submitting several petitions before the Apex Court?

P.D. Dinakaran.

Ø  Which country became the 54th member of the African Union (AU) after it received a

majority vote from member states?

South Sudan.

Ø  Who is sworn in as president of Peru?

Ollanta Humala.

Ø  Who was appointed as the new coach of the Argentine national football team?

Alejandro Sabella.

Ø  Who was appointed as the next Ambassador of India to France?

Rakesh Sood.

Ø  Which countries have signed a comprehensive border management agreement on 30-

07-2011?

India and Bangladesh.

Ø  Who has taken over as the Flag Officer Sea Training at Southern Naval Command in

Kochi, Kerala?

Rear Admiral G. Ashok Kumar.

Ø  The former manager of German Football team who has been named as the new head

coach of the USA Football Team?

Jurgen Klinsmann.

Ø  Who won the gold medal in the recently concluded South Asian Judo Championship at

Kathmandu, Nepal?

Devi Krishna, Kerala.

Ø  Which American multinational corporation has more cash reserve than the world’s

most powerful democratic US government according to the Financial Post?

           Apple Inc.