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Prefixes used in Metric System

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:13:47 PST

Hi readers,
Here are some prefixes used in metric system to describe weight, distance and other measurements.Many of us have heard such words but not familiar with them.Let us by heart them using this table.Say thanks to maths teacher.

Value	Name	Prefix
1,000,000,000,000,000,000	Quintillion	Exa
1,000,000,000,000,000	Quadrillion	Peta
1,000,000,000,000	Trillion	Tera
1,000,000,000	Billion	Giga
1,000,000	Million	Mega
1,000	Thousand	Kilo
100	Hundred	Hecto
10	Ten	Deca
1	One
0.1	Tenth	Deci
0.01	Hundredth	Centi
0. 001	Thousandth	Milli
0.000, 001	Millionth	Micro
0.000,000, 001	Billionth	Nano
0.000,000,000,001	Trillionth	Pico
0.000,000,000,000,001	Quadrillionth	Femto
0.000,000,000,000,000,001	Quintillionth	Atto

Aristotle, the Greek Philosapher and Scientist (384 BC- 322 BC)

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:04:54 PST

Aristotle was born in Stageira in Macedonia.He was a great Greek philosapher, thinker and a Scientist.He was a disciple of Plato,the famous thinker and teacher of Alexander the Great.He believed in visual Universe.In 335 BC he established his own school at the Lyceum.He spent his life there for research,teaching and writing.His writings includes Physics, Metaphysics, Logic, Philosaphy, Biology, Linguistics, Rhetoric, Poetry, Poetics, Politics, Ethics etc.His work are collected in the 'Corpus Aristotelicum'.He died in Euboea in 322 BC at the age of 62.Theophrastus was his successor as the head of Lyceum.

Numerals; Indian and International Systems

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:12:30 PST

Numerals	Indian system	International system
1	One or Unit	One or Unit
10	Ten	Ten
100	Hundred	Hundred
1000	Thousand	Thousand
10000	Ten Thousand	Ten Thousand
100000	Lakh	Hundred Thousand
1000000	Ten Lakhs	Million
10000000	Crore	Ten Million
100000000	Ten Crores	Hundred Million
1000000000	Arab	Billion
10000000000	Ten Arab	Ten Billion
100000000000	Kharab	Hundred Billion
1000000000000	Ten Kharab	Trillion

Months of the year with days; Including rhyme

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:07:19 PST

"Thirty days hath September,

April, June, and November;

All the rest have thirty-one,

Save February, with twenty-eight days clear,

And twenty-nine each leap year."

Remember this traditional English rhyme to easily by heart months and days.

Months Days

January 31

February 28 or 29

March 31

April 30

May 31

June 30

July 31

August 31

September 30

October 31

November 30

December 31

In leap years February has 29 days.A leap year comes after every four years.

There are many variants of the above said rhyme.One of them is
    "30 days hath September,
    April, June and November,
    All the rest have 31,
    Except February alone
    Which has 28 days clear,
    and 29 in each leap year."

Alexander the Great (356- 323 BC)

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:50:37 PST

The name Alexander is derived from the Greek word "Alexandros" means "protector of men".King Alexander III of Macedon is commonly known to us as "Alexander the great".Alexander was one of the greatest military generals and conqueror of the Persian Empire.He was born in Pella, Macedonia in 356 BC as the son of the Greek king (Macedonian) Philip II.
In 336 BC Philip II was assassinated and Alexander ascended the throne of Macedonia as his successor.He had created one of the largest empires of the ancient World.His empire was streching from Ionian sea to the Himalayas.He is considered as one of the most successful commanders of the world.Nobody defeated him in battle.He executed every one who comes to his path.Alexander invaded India in 326 BC, but he was forced to turn back by the demand of his troops.
He died in Babylon in 323 BC at the age of 32.Alexander IV of Macedon succeeded him.

Union Territories in India and their Capitals

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT

Union Territories Capital

Andaman and Nicobar Islands Portblair
Chandigarh Chandigarh
Dadra and Nagar Haveli Silvassa
Daman and Diu Daman
Delhi Delhi
Lakshadweep Kavarathi
Pondicherry Pondicherry

States in India and their Capitals

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT

States Capital

Andhra Pradesh Hyderabad
Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar
Assam Dispur
Bihar Patna
Chathisgarh Raipur
Goa Panaji
Gujarat Gandhi Nagar
Haryana Chandigarh
Himachal Pradesh Simla
Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar
Jharkhand Ranji
Karnataka Banglore
Kerala Thiruvananthapuram
Madhya Pradesh Bhopal
Maharashtra Mumbai
Manipur Imphal
Meghalaya Shillong
Mizoram Aizwal
Nagaland Kohima
Orissa Bhubaneswar
Punjab Chandigarh
Rajastan Jaipur
Sikkim Gangtok
Tamil Nadu Chennai
Tripura Agarthala
Utharanjal Derhadoon
Uttarpradesh Lucknow
West Bengal Culcutta

This day in history; August 27

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:52:42 PDT

26 BC Origin of Egyptian Era
1776 Britain defeated America in the Battle of Long Island
1783 First hydrogen balloon flight
1810 Napoleonic Wars.The French Navy defeated the British Royal Navy.
1813 The Battle of Dresden.French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians.
1859 World's first successful oil well drilled, near Titusville.
1916 – Romania entering World War I as one of the Allies and declares war against Austria-Hungary.
1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight
1962 Mariner 2 launched to Venus
1982 Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
1985 Space Shuttle Discovery 6-launched
1991 Independence Day in Moldova
2003 Mars comes closest to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles distant.

Births and deaths occurred on this day; August 27

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:51:10 PDT

Births

1730 Johann Georg Hamann (German philosopher)
1770 George Wilhelm Fredric Hegel (German philosopher)
1871 Theodore Dreiser (US novelist)
1874 Carl Bosch (German chemist, Nobel Prize winner)
1877 Lloyd C. Douglas (American Lutheran clergyman and religious novelist)
1882 Samuel Goldwyn (Pioneer film maker)
1899 C.S. Forester (Historical novelist)
1908 Sir.Donald Bradman (Australian Cricketer)
1908 Lyndon B. Johnson (President of the US)
1915 Walter W Heller (Economist)
1931 Sri Chinmoy (Indian guru)
1959 Gerhard Berger (F-1 racer)

Deaths

1879 Sir Rowland Hill (He introduced postage stamps)
1958 Dr Ernest O Lawrence (inventor-Nobel prize winner)
1976 Mukesh (Indian playback Singer)
1981 Joan Edwards (Singer)

This day in history; 26 August

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:17:04 PDT

1346 Battle of Crecy
1776 Washington urges Hessians to desert
1847 Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
1910 Mother Teresa was born
1914 Battle of Tannenberg begins.(First World war)
1939 The first televised Major League baseball game is broadcasted
1944 French General Charles de Gaulle enters Paris (Second World war)
1957 The Soviet Union announced that it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile
1978 John Paul I (Cardinal Albino Luciani) was elected the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.

Births and deaths occurred on this day; 26 August

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:14:52 PDT

Birth days

1743 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier(Paris, father of mod chemistry)
1873 Lee De Forest (Inventor of the Audion vacuum tube)
1875 Sir John Buchan (Scotland, Gov-Gen of Canada and writer)
1904 Christopher Isherwood (Novelist and playwright)
1906 Dr Albert B Sabin (Polio vaccine discoverer)
1910 Mother Teresa (Agnes)
1921 Benjamin C Bradlee (Journalist)
1947 Candy Moore (Actress)

Deaths Occurred

1974 Charles Lindbergh (Aviation pioneer)
2000 Balan K Nair (Malayalam actor who won Bharat Award)

This day in history- August 24

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:14:45 PDT

79 Mount Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeli and Herculaneum.20,000 people died
1814 Britain invaded Washington
1869 Waffle iron invented
1891 Thomas Edison gets patent for motion picture camera
1949 The North Atlantic treaty came in to effect
1954 America passed Communist control act.They banned American Communist Party.
1966 USSR launched Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
1968 France became World's fifth thermonuclear power.They exploded a hydrogen bomb in South Pacific
1976 Soyuz 21 returned to Earth
1989 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
1991 Gorbachev resigns as head of Communist party in Soviet Union.
1991 Independence of Ukrain from USSR.
2006 International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a planet.They demoted it to the status of a "dwarf planet"

Births and deaths occurred on this day; 24th August

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:13:37 PDT

Birth days

1889 K.Kelappan (Freedom fighter)
1956 Gerry Cooney (Heavyweight boxer)
1902 Fernand Braudel (French historian)

Deaths Occurred

79 Pleeny (First Encyclopedia writter)
1770 Thomas Chatterton (Poet)
1967 Amanda Randolph (Actress)
1973 Dave Chappelle (Actor)

This day in history- August 23

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:02:47 PDT

1866 Treaty of Prague, end of Austro-Prussian war.
1914 Battle of Mons (Britain and Germany)
1914 Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
1939 The Hitler-Stalin Pact signed (Germany and the Soviet Union)
1944 Romania liberated from Nazi occupation
1948 World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches
1952 Formation of Arab League.
1961 US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, fell down
1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
1979 UN opened office in Vienna.

Birth days and Deaths occurred on August 23

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:01:27 PDT

Birth days

1912 Gene Kelly (The American dancer and choreographer)
1754 Louis XVI (France's King)
1947 Linda Thompson, Rock singer
1849 William Ernest Henley (1849 -1903) [English poet]
1868 Edgar Lee Masters(1868 -1950) [American poet and novelist]

Deaths Occurred

1819 Oliver Hazard Perry (Naval hero)
1926 Rudolph Valentino (Silent film star)
1975 Hank Patterson (Actor)
2006 Ayyappa panicker (Malayalam Poet)

Birth days and Orbituaries on August 20

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:42:25 PDT

Birth days

1754 William Murdock (Scottish inventor) [1754-1839]
1930 Margaret (Britain's Princess) [1930-2002]
1944 Rajiv Gandhi (Former Indian Prime minister) [1944-1991]
1986 Usain Bolt (Jamaican sprinter)

Orbituary

1917 Adolf Waun Bayer (Who won Nobel prize for Chemistry)
2001 Fred Houley (English Astronomer)

This day in history- August 20

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT

1641 Scotland and Britain signed the treaty of Pacification.
1791 Beginning of Haitian Revolution
1911 World's first commercial telegram was launched
1914 German military forces occupied Brussels, Belgium during first world war
1921 Malabar Lahala started
1939 Germany and Soviet Union signed Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
1940 France fell to the Germans during Second World war
1968 The Soviet Union and other Warsaw pact nations invaded Czechoslovokia
1975 NASA launched Viking 1
1977 Voyager 2, NASA rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1995 348 people were killed in a train incident in Northern India.
1998 U.S Cruise missiles hit suspected terrorist bases in Afghanistan.They also hit Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan.

100 Questions in GK

noreply@blogger.com (mahesh chandran) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT

1. Father of Indian Archeology :
Alexander Cunningham.

2. Founder of Jainism?
Vardhamana Mahavira

3. Ashtanga Marga is the Central theme of:
Budhism

4. The first Jain Council was held at:
Pataliputra

5. Famous rock cut Kailas Temple at Ellora was built by?
Krishna I

6. The Italian traveler visited Vijaya Nagar during the reign of Devaraya I:?
Nicolo Conti

7. The book “Budhacharitha” was written by ?
Aswaghosha

8. Capital of Yadava Kingdom:
Devagiri

9. The Sakae era began in :
AD 78

10. Author of Rajatarangini?
Kalhana.

11. The fist and only Muslim woman ruler who ever ruled Delhi was:?
Sultana Razia

12. Fatawa-i-Jahandari is the work of :
Zia-ud-din- Barani

13. Diwan-i-Ariz of the Delhi sultanate is :
Head of the military department

14. Pantharpur was the religious reform movement among the :
Marathas.

15. William Hawkins visited Mughal court during the time of :
Jahangir

16. Fatehpur Sikri was founded by Akbar to commemorate his victory over:
Gujrat

17. The Mughal ruler known as ‘mixture of opposites’:
Muhammad bin Tughluq

18. The Mughal emperor known as “Prince of Builders”?
Shajahan

19. Khalsa, a militant force of the Sikhs was organized by :
Guru Govind Singh

20. John Shore, Governor General of British India introduced:
Non-intervention policy

21. Sathi was declared illegal during the Governor-Generalship of :
Lord William Bentick

22. The Govt.of India Act 1919 was based on :
Montague Chelmsford Report

23. Satya Sodhak Samaj was founded by :
Jyoti Babhule

24. Azad Hind Fauj was organized by:
Subhash Chandra Bose

25. Who said “Go back to the Vedas”?
Swami Dayananda Saraswathy.

26. Amartya Sen is the first Asian who got Nobel prize in :
Economics

27. The community farm started by Mahatma Gandhi near Johannesburg was:
Tolstoy farm

28. The Indian Prime Minister associated with the creation of Bangladesh was:
Indira Gandhi

29. The first Indian who became Miss world:
Rita Faria

30. The capital of second Chera empire:
Thiruvanchikulam

31. The capital of Venad:
Kollam

32. The ship in which Vascodagama came to Kerala :
Saint Gabriel

33. Blue water policy is associated with :
De-Almeda

34. The battle of Plassey was fought between:
Siraj-ud daula and Robert Clive

35. The ruler who issued Royal proclamation abolishing slavery in Travancore:
Rani Gauri Lekshmi Bai

36. Whose reign is considered as the golden age of modern Travancore?
Swati Tirunal

37. First Diwan of cochin was:
Col.Munroe

38. High court of Cochin was established during the Diwanship of :
Sir.shanmugham Chetti

39. Travancore-Cochin state was formed in :
1949 July 1

40. People’s Planning Campaign in Kerala was inaugurated :
August 17, 1996

41. The running of fan makes us comfortable during Summer because it :
Increases the rate of evaporation of perspiration.

42. Heat energy from the Sun reaches the earth by :
Radiation

43. Temperature of an electric heater becomes constant after sometime because:
Rate of heat generation becomes equal to the rate of heat lost to the atmosphere.

44. When current flows through a metallic conductor, heat is produced, known as :
Joule’s effect

45. Helium was discovered by :
Ramsay

46. Which one of the following elements is not detected by Lassaignes test?
(a)Oxygen (b)Sulphur (c)Nitrogen (d)Chlorine.
Ans:Oxygen

47. The credit of discovery of Hydrogen goes to:
Henry Cavendish

48. Which of the following is added to LPG to detect its leakage?
(a)Methane (b)Mercapton (c)Mercury (d)Pentane.
Ans:Mercapton

49. Which gas, on coming in contact with blood forms carboxy hemoglobin?
Carbon Monoxide

50. The smallest unit of an element which takes part in a chemical reaction:
Atom

51. Movement of plants towards light is known as :
Phototropism

52. Cellular structure associated with intracellular digestion is :
Lysosome

53. Which is the smallest gland in the body ?
Pitutary

54. Genes are located on :
Chromosomes

55. Which of the following animal is unicellular?
(a)Earthworm (b)Starfish (c)Amoeba (d)Sponge
Ans:Amoeba

56. Sonipat is famous for:
Cycle Industry

57. The general ‘trend of isotherms’ on the Globe is in:
East West

58. Plate Tectonics is the study of :
Rock structures involved in earth movement.

59. Asteroids are:
Minor planets revolving the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

60. The first secretary general of U.N.O.(United Nations Organisation) who got Nobel Prize:
Dag Hammer Shold

61. The winner of the French Open Tennis Tournament of 2007?
Rafel Nadal

62. Nathula pass is in :
Sikkim

63. Father of Co-operative movement?
Robert Oven

64. The newly joined member of UNO?
Montenegro

65. Computer was first invented by:
Charles Babbage

66. The date on which Indian States implemented Value Added Tax(VAT):
01-04-2005

67. The objective of Consumer Protection Act is :
Restrict unfair trade practices and adulteration.

68. Normal tenure of a member in Rajya Sabha is :
6 years

69. Residuary powers means those powers which are:
Retained by the Centre or the State for themselves after division of powers between the Centre and the United States in a federation.

70. The Mac-Mohan line is the line that demarcates the boundary between:
India, Burma and China

71. They ----- that house when I was here last year.
were building

72. I wish I--- for the job.
had applied

73. The manager asked the clerk to return all the documents ------- his possession.
in

74. The minister appealed ------- the people to help the flood victims.
To
75. Let’s start the work, -------?
Shall we
76. The students in the last benches complained that they could not ------ what the teacher was saying.
make out

77. Long before the chief guest came, the students--------?
had assembled

78. Which of the following words does not belong to the group?
Adventurous, Ambitious, Auspicious Affectionate

Auspicious

79. I have to blame------ for this failure.
myself

80. Had he been careful, the accident ---------?
would not have happened.

81. Ever since they got married, they ------ here.
have been living

82. The news surprised everyone. (Change into Passive Voice).
Everyone was surprised by the news.

83. The nearest in meaning of the word “compliment”.
(a)Gift (b)prize (c)agreement (d)praise
Ans:Praise

84. The opposite of the word “acquit”:
Convict

85. The president------- the youth to follow the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
called upon

86. ------- I got some tea for you ?
Shall

87. The meaning of the phrase “alma mater “.
mother institution

88. She said “ My husband has just been promoted”.(Change into indirect speech)
She said that her husband had just been promoted.

89. When I first met him, he ------ in a hotel.
was working

90. He hardly ever leaves the village,-------?
does he.

91. The wall has been disfigured.(Change into active voice)
Someone has disfigured the wall.

92. Vinod will get a fist class. He is hardworking. (Combine using so….that).
Vinod is so hardworking that he will get a first class.

93. The meeting was held in camera. (The meaning of the phrase in bold).
in private

94. You have to account ----- the delay.
for

95. The management has decided to suspend the striking employees.(Begin with it)
It has been decided to suspend the striking employees.

96. The approximate meaning of “spill the beans” is :
to reveal secret information

97. His explanations cut no ice with the police. (Approximate meaning of the idiom in bold)
to have little effect

98. The word which is nearest in meaning to the word illustrious:
famous

99. Nehru was not only a politician ----- a great writer.
but also

100. The thief ran away from the crowd, ---------he should be attacked.
lest.

Other Award winners are

ODI Batsman of the Year - Virender Sehwag (India)
Test Bowler of the year - Mitchell Johnson (Australia)
ODI Bowler of the year - Ajantha Mendis (Sri Lanka)
Spirit of Cricket Award - Thilan Samaraweera (Sri Lanka)
300 Wickets Felicitation Award - Harbhajan Singh (India)
Lifetime Achievement Award - EAS Prasanna (India)
Team of the year: Australia

6. Who won the ATP World Tour Finals title with a straight sets victory over Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro at London's O2 Arena?
Nikolay Davydenko

7. Which film declared as the best film in the last 96 years after an innovative on-line contest “T20 of Indian Cinema” launched by the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG), co-host of the International Film festival of India (IFFI), in commemoration of the IFFI-09?
Meghe Dhaka Tara, a Bengali film by director Ritwik Ghatak.
8. Jammu and Kashmir has stopped work on a road project under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Demchok in south-east Leh in Ladakh after the objection of India’s neighbouring country. Which is that country?
China

9. Name of the rival body formed by the disgruntled members of the official All India Chess Federation (AICF)?
Chess Association of India.
President: Sri Naveen Kumar Wal, U.P.
Vice Presidents: Sri Raja Climax (Tamilnadu),

10. Who has been appointed as the new CEO of the I-League?
Mr.Sunando Dhar
All India Football Federation officially declared that Mr.Sunando Dhar has been appointed as the new CEO of the I-League and he will join from the month of January.

11. Which pair clinched their third ATP Challenger doubles title of the season after defeating Jarkko Nieminen and Henri Kontinen 6-2, 7-6 in the final of the Helsinki event in Finland?
Rohan Bopanna (India)and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi(Pakistan).

12. Who has been named European Footballer of the Year to win the prestigious Ballon d'Or award?
Lionel Messi.
French magazine France Football said that Messi, 22-year-old Argentinian, and Barcelona playmaker forward beat last year's winner Cristiano Ronaldo into second place by a massive margin - 473 points to 233.

13. Which Tennis player has been fined $175,000 and put on probation for two years by the International Tennis Federation for her foul-mouthed tirade at the US Open?
Serena Williams

14. Which scientist had won the first Infosys Prize for Physical Sciences, which comes with a cash award of Rs 50 lakh?
Thanu Padmanabhan. He is an Indian theoretical physicist, currently the Distinguished Professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, (IUCAA) at Pune, India

15. Malayalam-Tamil actress who won the prestigious Golden Lamp Tree award for the best short film at the IFFI in Goa for her directorial debut “Kelkkunundo”

Geetu Mohandas. The award carries Rs. 5 lakhs and the film “Kelkkunundo was selected from among 206 films from 26 countries.
16. Veteran Japanese diplomat who was elected new director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in a closely contested election?
Yukiya Amano

17. Name of the former Miss Argentina who died after complications arising from cosmetic surgery on her buttocks?

Solange Magnano.
Solange Magnano, a mother of twins who won the crown in 1994, died of a pulmonary embolism after three days in critical condition following a gluteoplasty in Buenos Aires.

18. Malayalee director who won the Vasudha award for the best environmental film at this year's International Film Festival of India (IFFI) that concluded in Goa?
Sanjeev Sivan
The award was for his movie ‘Underground Inferno’ produced by News and Entertainment Television, which he co-directed with Umesh Agarwal. The movie shared the award with ‘’Meltdown in Tibet’’ directed by Micheal Beckley and the award carries Rs.3 lakhs.

19. Who has been appointed as "Director-Media to the Prime Minister of India" recently ?
Binoy Job

20. Which car has managed to beat even the entry entrants and scored the highest in the entry mid-size segment according to J.D. Power Asia Pacific 2009 India initial quality study released recently?
Ford Ikon

21. Who has been elected the first President of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the organization created by the July merger of the World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, the research and service organization for the news publishing industry?

Gavin O’Reilly, the Chief Executive Officer of Ireland-based Independent News & Media PLC.

22. Which film was awarded the prestigious Golden Peacock for best film at the 40th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) at Goa?
“I Can’t Live Without You” (Taiwanese film). The award, a citation and cash prize of Rs.40 lakh (Rs.4 million), was awarded to the film’s director Leon Dai.

23. Who was awarded the prestigious Silver Peacock for best director at the 40th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) at Goa?
Ounie Leconte. She won the award for her French-South Korean film “A Brand New Life”.
Special Jury award went to the Georgian filmmaker George Ovashvili for his film “The Other Bank”

24. Who won the Lifetime Achievement Award instituted for the first time by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy at the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK)?
Mrinal Sen. He is an acclaimed Bengali film maker who made significant contributions to international cinema.

25. Name of a new force which will be created by the Indian Navy to protect Naval bases and border the coastline areas?
Sagar Prahari Bal (SPB).
SPB will comprise of 1000 personnel and will have 80 fast interception crafts for sea front patrolling.

26. Who was named the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year-2009?
Saina Nehwal.
This shuttler became the first Indian to win a Super Series title with her triumph in Indonesian event in June and also earned a place into the top-10 zone this year.

27. Who has won the sports category of CNN-IBN Indian of the year 2009?
Saina Nehwal.

28. Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) has selected which city for its award for the Best Solid Waste Management City from among 63 cities where JNNURM projects have been implemented?
Kochi (Kerala)

29. Which country’s cabinet held meeting on Mount Everest to raise awareness of the effects of climate change?
Nepal

30. Which country hosted South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Cup In 2009?
Bangladesh

31. Former Wimbledon and Australian Open champion who retired from professional tennis recently?

Amelie Mauresmo.
At her retirement Mauresmo was ranked 21st in the world, after winning only one title in 2009.

32. Who is appointed as the Fielding consultant of the Indian Cricket Team for a three week period?
Mike Young.
He was the fielding consultant of Australian Cricket Team for last nine years.

33. Who won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Religion from the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville?
Eboo Patel, a member of President Barack Obama's faith advisory council became the first Muslim to win this prestigious award.
Patel won the prize for his 2007 autobiography "Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation".

34. Central Government has recently rejected the Supreme Court collegium's move to elevate to the apex court Karnataka High Court Chief Justice in the wake of allegations of land grabbing against him and his family. Name of that High Court Chief Justice?
P D Dinakaran

35. From December 7, 2009, environment ministers and officials met in a European City for the United Nations climate conference to thrash out a successor to the Kyoto protocol. Which is that city?
Copenhagen, Denmark.
One hundred-and-ninety-two countries have signed the climate change convention. More than 15,000 officials, advisers, diplomats, protestors and journalists attended the meet, joined by heads of state.

36. The First Cyber Forensic and Digital Analysis Centre in India has started functioning in which city?
Thiruvananthapuram(Kerala)
The centre is functioning at the Police Headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram

37. Which team became only the third team to beat South Africa in a home one-day cricket series after the final match in Durban was abandoned because of rain?
England. England won the series 2-1. This is England's first ever ODI series victory in and against South Africa.
Paul Collingwood was named man of the series for his all-round performances, scoring 275 runs and claiming five wickets in an impressive international renaissance.

38. Who won the man of the match award in the third test between India and Sri Lanka held at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai?
Virendra Sehwag. He scored 293 runs in the first innings.
India won the third test match by an innings and 24 runs and became the number one test team in the International Cricket Council’s rankings. This is the first time that India has topped the ICC Test rankings since they were introduced in 2002.

39. Who won the Player of the series award in the recently held 3 test matches between India and Sri Lanka?

Virendra Sehwag.
He scored 491 runs in the series at an average of 123 at a strike rate of 108.

40. Who was elected as President of Bolivia for another five-year term winning 62.5 percent of the national vote and 78.5 percent in La Paz?
Evo Morales

41. Legendary actress who charmed Indian audiences with her performances in “Anarkali” and “Taj Mahal” died on the 6th of December 2009 due to cardiac arrest?
Bina Rai. She was a leading actress primarily of the black and white era of Hindi cinema and won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film, Ghunghat (1960).

42. India signed a broad-based civil nuclear agreement with a country on the 7th of December 2009 which will ensure transfer of technology and uninterrupted uranium fuel supplies to its nuclear reactors and inked three pacts in the defence sector. Which is that country?
Russia. Under the agreement four new nuclear reactors would be set up by Russia in Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu and a site for the fifth one has been identified in West Bengal.

43. Which country have retained the Davis Cup after taking an unassailable 3-0 lead in the final against the Czech Republic by winning the doubles?
Spain

44. Which country has claimed consecutive Champions Trophy titles, scoring four unanswered second-half goals to beat Germany 5-3 in the final in Melbourne?
Australia.
Australia won a record 10th men's Champions Trophy hockey title.

45. FIFA Club World Cup-2009 was played from 9 December to 19 December 2009 in which city?
Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)
It was the sixth FIFA Club World Cup which was won by European champions Barcelona, who came from behind to defeat the South American entrants, Estudiantes, 2–1 after extra time.

46. Which player won the Man of the match award in the first 20-20 Cricket match between India and Sri Lanka held in Nagpur on 9th December 2009?
Kumar Sangakkara. He scored 78 runs from 37 balls. Sri Lanka won the match by 29 runs.

47. Which country has the world's lowest fertility rate, with an average of one child per woman according to the latest population survey conducted by Population Reference Bureau (PRB), an organization of the United States?
Taiwan.
According to the survey, Taiwan registered only eight births per 1,000 population, the lowest level in the world.

48. Which was the most read news story of the past decade, surpassing the Iraq War and the attacks of Sept. 11, according to an analysis by a U.S.-based media tracking group?
The rise of China as an economic superpower.

49. According to a book published in Germany, the cause of the Holocaust was Hitler’s “obsession with his mother's death after her treatment for cancer by a Jewish doctor”. Name of that book?
“November 9: How World War One Led To the Holocaust”

The book is written by the German author, Joachim Riecker. According to the book, the Nazi leader believed that the Jewish doctor Eduard Bloch poisoned his mother and the anger, anguish and resentment led to the genocide with the death toll that spawns between 11 million and 17 million people.

50. Nuclear-capable ballistic missile of India successfully test fired at 11.31 am on December 13, 2009 from the Offshore Patrol Vehicle INS Subhadra of the Orissa coast?
Dhanush
‘Dhanush’ has a payload capacity of 500 kg and is capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads. It can hit both sea and shore-based targets. The missile, which has liquid propellant, is the naval version of India’s indigenously developed surface-to-surface ’Prithvi’ missile system. Dhanush is developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

51. Best State Pavilion Award of International Flower show held in Bangalore from 5th to 9 th December 2009 won by?
State Horticulture Mission, Kerala.

52. Which commission’s report was placed in the Lok Sabha on 18-12-2009 by Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid?
Rangnath Mishra Commission.
The report of the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities, headed by former Chief Justice of India Rangnath Mishra has recommended 10 per cent reservation for Muslims and five per cent for other minorities in government jobs and favoured Scheduled Caste status for Dalits in all religions.

53. Who became the first Indian boxer to clinch a gold medal at the inter-continental President’s Cup after out-punching Frenchman Nordine Oubaali 8-1 in the fly weight (51kg) finals held in Baku (Azerbaijan)?
Suranjoy Singh.

54. Who will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy the day before the Grammy Awards take place on January 30?
Michael Jackson. He will be the posthumous recipient of a special Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award and he has won 13 Grammy Awards previously.

55. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has severed ties with private security firm, whose employees helped load the drone aircraft tasked with killing targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Name of that private security agency?
Blackwater Worldwide.
Xe Services LLC), still usually referred to as "Blackwater", is a private military company founded as Blackwater USA in 1997 by Erik Prince and Al Clark. Blackwater has a wide array of business divisions, subsidiaries, and spin-off corporations but the organization as a whole has courted much controversy.

56. Which player has been named World Player of the Decade by prestigious British magazine World Soccer?
Ronaldinho.
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi has been named Player of the Year by the same magazine.

57. Who is the doubles partner of Indian tennis star Sania Mirza for the Australian Open commencing next month?
Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain.

58. Which player won the Man of the match award in the second 20-20 Cricket match between India and Sri Lanka held in Mohali?
Yuvraj Singh. He took 3 wickets and scored 60 runs from 25 balls. India won the match by 6 wickets.
Man of the Series: Kumar Sangakkara.

59. Who has been named as the Miss World-2009?
Kaiane Aldorino (Gibraltar)

60. Who was recently sentenced to four years and nine months in prison and an additional three years of supervised release by a US court for posting hate messages in 2006 against former president George Bush and calling for bombings of American infrastructure?
Vikram Buddhi.

61. Which country won the fifth South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Cup title, by beating defending champions Maldives 3-1 via the penalty shoot-out in Dhaka?
India.
Arindam Bhattacharya (Indian Goalkeeper) was named the Most Valuable Player of the Tournament
Fair Play Award: Bangladesh

62. Which Bollywood film is going to set a record in the Guinness Book of World Records as the only film in the world featuring the real-life father son duo in a role reversal on-screen?

Paa. The film is directed by Balki.
Real-life father and son Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan are all set to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for being the only father-son acting duo to have played reversed roles on screen in Paa.

63. Which country has begun talks with Russia and a United Nations arms control committee about strengthening Internet security and limiting military use of cyberspace?
U.S.A

64. Prime Minister of Italy is recovering in hospital after an assault left his face covered in blood following a rally in Milan?
Silvio Berlusconi.
The alleged attacker, Massimo Tartaglia who has a history of mental illness, has been charged with throwing the souvenir.

65. Which country won the Champions Challenge hockey tournament in Salta, Argentina beating rivals Pakistan in the final by four goals to two?
New Zealand.
With this win, New Zealand also qualifies for the next year’s six-nation Champions Trophy. India won the bronze medal with a last minute goal over Argentina (3-2).
Sardar Singh (India) named as Player of the Tournament and Kyle PONTIFEX (New Zealand) was distinguished as Goal-keeper of the Tournament.

66. A British court has issued an arrest warrant for Israel’s former foreign minister over war crimes allegedly committed in Gaza this year. Name of that Israeli Minister?
Tzipi Livni.
Israel has reacted angrily to the issuing by a British court of an arrest warrant for the former Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni.

67. Who won the man of the match award in the first ODI between India and Sri Lanka held in Rajkot on 15-12-2009?
Virendra Sehwag. He scored 146 runs from 102 balls. India won the match by three runs.

68. Indian American who has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Texas court and ordered to pay $68 million in restitution for his involvement in an elaborate rogue internet pharmacy scheme?
Rakesh Jyoti Saran.

69. Name of the upgraded version of a surface-to-surface Long-Range Missile successfully launched by Iran on 16th December 2009?
Sajjil-2.
The solid-fuel, high-speed Sajil-2 missile has "great maneuverability" and can access targets more than 2,000 kilometers (1,242 miles) away, making Israel and U.S. military bases in the Gulf reachable.

70. Former BJP leader and Member of Parliament who resigned from the post of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman by sending his resignation letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar?
Jaswant Singh

71. Former Russian prime minister and one of the leading architects of free market reforms in post-Soviet Russia, died at the age of 53?
Yegor Gaidar.
He is an economic reformer who served as Russia's acting prime minister under former Russian president Boris Yeltsin

72. One of the country's top drug kingpins who was killed by the Mexican Navy special forces in a shootout in the central city of Cuernavaca recently ?
Arturo Beltrán Leyva. He called himself "The Boss of Bosses" and was one of Mexico's three most-wanted drug lords, came after a four-hour battle at a condominium complex in Cuernavaca.

73. Which country decided to phase out 300-year-old tradition of paying by cheque in favour of more modern payment methods?
Britain

74. Which cricketer blasted the fifth fastest Test century of all time en route to his 13th Test hundred, shocking Australia’s bowlers on the second day of the third and final Test at the WACA?
Chris Gayle

75. Which films won the prestigious golden crow pheasant award for best feature film at 14th edition of International Film Festival of Kerala 2009 [11-18 December, 2009] which was held in south Indian city of Trivandrum?
Indonesian film "Fishing Platform" directed by Ravi Bharwani and Iranian film "About Elly" directed by Asghar Farhadi jointly won the award.
"True Noon", a Tajik film directed by Nosir Saidov won the best director prize whereas South African director Madoda Mcayiyana won best début director prize for his film "My Secret Sky".

76. Who becomes the first female politician to be appointed as the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha?
Sushma Swaraj.

77. Which film won the FIPRESCI award for the best film in the just concluded 14th International Film Festival of Kerala?
A Fly in the Ashes (an Argentine film directed by Gabriela David)
NETPAC award for the best Malayalam Film: Kerala Café (a film comprising 10 short films; produced by Ranjith)
FIPRESCI award for the best Malayalam Film: Patham Nilayile Theevandi (directed by Joshy Mathew)

78. Who won the man of the match award in the second ODI between India and Sri Lanka held in Nagpur?
Tillakaratne Dilshan. He scored 123 runs off 113 balls and Sri Lanka won the match by 3 wickets.
Dilshan became the first and only batsman this year to register ten hundreds in international cricket - 6 in Tests and 4 in ODIs.

79. Name of the Florida inmate who has become the longest-serving prisoner to be exonerated using DNA evidence and he was released from a Florida prison, where he had spent 35 years for a crime he didn't commit?
James Bain.
A court-mandated DNA test proved Bain was wrongly convicted of sexual assault in 1974.

80. Who has been ranked among top five best performing CEOs in the world by the prestigious Harvard Business Review?
Mukesh Ambani. He heads India’s most valuable company Reliance Industries,

81. Name of the book in which the first history of Clinton scandal has been written and the same book also alleges that Clinton had an affair with Susan McDougal of Whitewater infamy?

“The Death of American Virtue”
In this book, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky says former President Bill Clinton lied under oath when describing their romantic encounters. The author of the book is," Ken Gormley

82. Who was elected unanimously as the National President of BJP?
Nitin Gadkari

83. Name of the two pops who were declared venerable by Pope Benedict XVI-the first step on the road to canonization as saints for both men?
Pope John Paul II and Pope Pius XII.
Pius XII, the Pope who led the Church during the Second World War (he was Pope from 1939 to 1958), and John Paul II (Pope from 1978 to 2005) are now officially to be called”Venerable” (meaning able to be venerated).

84. Who has been appointed as the Director of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)?
Dr K Sree Krishna Kumar

85. Iran's most senior dissident cleric who is treated as the spiritual father of Iran's reformists died at the age of 87?
Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri.

86. Who won the man of the match award in the third test between Australia and West Indies held at the WACA Ground?
Chris Gayle. He also named the man of the series.
Australia beat West Indies by 35 runs in third Test and won the series 2-0.

87. President of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who has been denied a visa by Pakistan for attending a conference to be held in Islamabad?
Mehbooba Mufti

88. Who won the women’s singles title in the Syed Modi International Grand Prix Badminton tournament in Luknow?
Saina Nehwal

89. Who won the men’s singles title in the Syed Modi International Grand Prix Badminton tournament in Luknow?
Chetan Anand

90. Who won the man of the match award in the first test between England and South Africa held in Centurion?
Graeme Swann.

91. Who has been appointed as deputy leader of BJP in the Lok Sabha?
Gopinath Munde, Former Maharashtra deputy chief minister.

92. American actress who gained fame in movies like "8 Mile" and "Just Married," died at the age of 32?

Brittany Murphy

93. Who won the man of the match award in the third ODI between India and Sri Lanka held in Cuttack?
Ravindra Jadeja . He took 4 wickets for 32runs. India won the match by 7 wickets.

94. Who has been awarded the honorary life membership of the Professional Golf Tour of India?

Jeev Milkha Singh, top golfer of India.

95. Who has been named as its Rolex Player of the Year 2009 by the Professional Golf Tour of India?
Anirban Lahiri

96. Which country dominated in the Commonwealth Wrestling championship, which concluded at the PAP Indoor Stadium, Jalandhar?
India.
India won 7 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze medals and clinched the team championship trophy.

97. Who has been named Fifa World Footballer of the Year-2009?
Lionel Messi.(Club:Barcelona)
He becomes the first Argentine to win this award.
Cristiano Ronaldo was honoured for scoring the best goal of 2009, a 40-meter shot against Porto in last season’s Champions League
The late England player and manager Bobby Robson received FIFA’s fair play award, while the presidential award for contributions to football and society went to Jordan’s Queen Rania.

98. Who won the female equivalent of FIFA’s World Player Of The Year Award for the fourth consecutive time?
Marta, Brazilian striker.

99. Noted Malayali writer who got this year's Kendra Sahitya Academy Award for his novel 'Thrikkottoor peruma '?
U A Khader

100. 10th Auto Expo will be held in which city of India?
Delhi. Expo will start from January 5.

101. Who has been appointed to lead the UNDP Global Programme on Democratic Governance Assessment?
John Samuel.
He is a renowned policy researcher, democracy activist and the International Director of Actionaid.

102. New Zealand pace bowler who has retired from Test cricket due to concerns over his ability to play five-day matches?

Shane Bond

103. Managing director of the EMKE group, who has won elections to the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry?
M.A. Yusuf Ali.

104. Name of the mega public sector undertakings which got greater financial and operational autonomy after the government accorded the “Maharatna” status to these firms to help them emerge as global giants?
ONGC, SAIL and NTPC.
ONGC-Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
SAIL-Steel Authority of India Ltd.
NTPC-National Thermal Power Corporation.

105. Who won the man of the match award in the fourth ODI between India and Sri Lanka held in Kolkata?
Gautham Gambhir . He scored unbeaten 150 runs.. India won the match by 7 wickets.

106. Indian cricketers who included in the All star2009-The Test XI of 2009 selected by the cricket expert Peter Roebuck?
Virender Shewag
Sachin Tendulkar
Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Dhoni is selected as captain of the team.
Other Members: Andrew Strauss(England), Kumar Sangakkara(Sri Lanka), A.B. de Villiers(South Africa), Daniel Vettori (vice-captain)(New Zealand), Mitchell Johnson(Australia), Graeme Swann(South Africa), Mohammad Asif(Pakistan), Dale Steyn(South Africa).
12th Man : Thilan Samaraveera(Sri Lanka).

107. Name of the intercontinental ballistic missile successfully test launched by Russia?
‘RS 20 V’ Voevoda intercontinental ballistic missile.

108. Senior Congress leader and governor of Andhra Pradesh who resigned after an alleged sex scandal?
N.D. Tiwari.

109. Which country launched the world’s fastest train service covering a distance of 1,068 kms at the average speed of 350 kms an hour?
China

110. Which journal has won the award for the best journal in the cooperative sector in India?
‘Matsya’, the journal brought out by Matsyafed, Kerala won the award for the second consecutive year.
Matsyafed also won the Matsya Sahakar Seva Award for the best cooperative institution in the fisheries sector in the country.

111. Name of the woman who attacked Pope Benedict XVI at Christmas Eve Midnight Mass, 24 December 2009, inside St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City?
Susanna Maiolo.

112. Sri Lankan all rounder who completed his 20 years in international cricket?
Sanath Jayasuriya.
The 40-year-old Jayasuriya played his first international cricket against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Dec 26, 1989.

113. The fifth and the final ODI between India and Sri Lanka was abandoned due to 'dangerous' playing conditions.. Where was the match scheduled?
Feroz Shah Kotla stadium, Delhi

114. Who was sworn-in as the new Governor of Andhra Pradesh following ND Tiwari's resignation in the wake of a controversy over a sting operation purportedly showing him in with three women?
ES Lakshmi Narasimhan.

115. Which country sent army troops with shields and batons to evict some 4,000 ethnic Hmong asylum seekers y and send them back to Laos despite strong objections from the U.S.A?
Thailand

116. The remains of which Renaissance astronomer, excavated in 2005 by archaeologists in north-eastern Poland, are to be re-buried next year (i.e. .after 467 years)?
Nicolaus Copernicus.
Copernicus's skull and leg bones were discovered during excavations by Polish archaeologists four year ago at the Frombork Cathedral, in the town where Copernicus made key observations.

117. Which countries decided to invest $600 million to set up a joint venture (JV) to produce a medium lift transport aircraft for their armed forces?
India and Russia

118. An Israeli former nuclear technician who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986 was arrested "by Jerusalem Police?

Mordechai Vanunu.
After revealing the secrets, he was transported to Israel and ultimately convicted in a secret trial. Vanunu spent 18 years in prison, including more than 11 years in solitary confinement. Released from prison in 2004, he became subject to a broad array of restrictions on his speech and movement. On 28 December 2009, Mr. Vanunu was once again arrested "by Jerusalem Police in a hotel in the capital following an alleged meeting with his girlfriend, a Norwegian national.

119. The British national who was convicted and executed on 29 December 2009 in the People's Republic of China for drug trafficking?
Akmal Shaikh.
Shaikh was the first national of today's EU Member States to be executed in China in over 50 years.

120. Popular Kannada actor died of cardiac arrest in Mysore at the age of 59?

Vishnuvardhan

121. Who won the man of the match award in the third test between England and South Africa held in Durban?
Graeme Swann. He finished with 5-54 as England beat South Africa by an innings and 98 runs in the second Test

122. Who has been chosen for this year's prestigious Lokmanya Tilak National Journalist award?
N Ram, Editor-in-Chief of the 'Hindu'
Vir Sanghvi of 'Hindustan Times' was the recipient of the Tilak award in 2009.

123. Who won the man of the match award in the first test between Australia and Pakistan held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground?
Nathan Hauritz (Australia) He bagged five wickets as Australia beat Pakistan by 170 runs

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- NOVEMBER-2009

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1. Who becomes the first Indian to make a fifty while batting at No.9 against Australia?
Praveenkumar. He became the first batsman from India to post a fifty on Indian soil while batting at No.9 position

2. The Income Tax department recently conducted nationwide raids at 70 addresses linked to former Jharkhand Chief Minister who has possessing assets worth Rs 2000 crores. Name of that former Jharkhand CM who is now a MP?
Madhu Koda

3. Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan of Kerala laid foundation for States first Border Security Force (BSF) unit in which place?
Kainur village in Thrissur district.

4. A modern space science complex of international standards is to be set up by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in South India. Where is it?
Ponmudi hills in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala

5. Who has been inducted as SP of the prestigious National Investigation Agency (NIA)?
T.K. Rajmohan

6. Who won the Man of the Match award in the third One Day International Cricket between India and Australia held in Delhi?
Yuvraj Singh. India beat Aussies by 6 wickets

7. Who has claimed the top slot as the highest tax payer in the country for the current fiscal?
Lalit Modi, the Indian Premier League chief.

8. China's keystone space scientist, widely acclaimed as the country's "father of space technology" and "king of rocketry", died of illness recently at the age of 98?
Tsien Hsue-shen.
He has also gone by the name of Qian Xuesen

9. The massive fire at which depot of Indian Oil Corporation destroys Rs 1000 crore, ruins several lives?
Jaipur's Indian Oil Corporation depot

10. Which documentaries have been recently nominated for the prestigious 5th CMS VATAVARAN, environment and wildlife film festival, held at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi?
‘My Purple Sunbird’ directed by Sunil Raj
‘Kaanam - Life Story of a Midland Hill’ by Babu Kambrath

11. Indian who was elected as member of the Italian Democratic Party National assembly?
Sibi Kumaramangalam

12. Who is appointed as the chief justice of Himachal Pradesh?
Justice Kurian Joseph. He is the senior most judge of the Kerala High Court

13. Who has been appointed first Goodwill Ambassador of the ‘Smile Train,’ an international charity that provides free cleft lip and palate surgery to children in need?
Aishwarya Rai Bachan

14. The Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan has dropped the name of Karnataka High Court Justice from the list of those recommended for elevation to the Supreme Court. Name of that justice?
Justice PD Dinakaran

15. Name of the typhoon, the fourth in a month, which has hit Manila in the Philippines bringing with it heavy rain, flooding and a tropical storm?
Typhoon Mirinae.
Typhoon Ketsana was the first to hit this region at the end of September. About 420 people died in that storm and tens of thousands of people are still living in shelters after their homes washed away. This was followed up by Typhoon Parma that killed over 430 people and destroyed 55,000 houses. Typhoon Lupit was the third typhoon to hit the area last week.

16. Who emerged as the winner of Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in the male category?
Deriba Merga of Ethiopia.
Marry Kitney succeeded in winning the title in women category. Around 30,000 people participated in the Airtel Delhi half Marathon 2009.

17. Name the Jammu Kashmir 'braveheart' who killed a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist has been appointed as the Special Police Officer (SPO) in the Jammu Kashmir police force recently.

Rukhsana Kausar.
Rukhsana, who hails from Kalsi village in upper Shahdhara area of Rajouri district, 180 km north of Jammu, had grappled with LeT terrorists who entered her home, grabbed an AK-47 from one and shot him dead. The terrorist killed was Abu Osama, LeT commander.

18. Kerala High Court Judge who resigned from his post on 2nd November 2009 citing personal reasons?
Justice V Giri.
He was the first permanent judge of Kerala High court who resigned from his post. Justice K P Dandapani is the only judge of the Kerala High Court to have resigned before him. But he was not permanent at that time.

19. Which public sector company has won "SCOPE AWARD" for Excellence and Outstanding contribution to Public Sector Management - Special Institutional (Turnaround) Category 2007-08?
Heavy Engineering Corporation Ltd, Ranchi

20. Who won the Man of the Match award in the fourth One Day international Cricket match between India and Australia held in Mohali?
Shane Watson. He scored 49 runs and took 3 wickets.
Australia won the match by 24 runs.

21. American company which is a major lender to hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses, filed for bankruptcy recently, as the global financial crisis left it unable to fund itself and the recession clobbered its loans?
CIT Group Inc
Bankruptcy is also a blow for the U.S. government, which invested $2.33 billion in CIT in December through the Troubled Asset Relief Program and will likely lose most of it.

22. Who won the WTA championship-2009 held in Doha?
Serena Williams. She defeated her sister and defending champion Venus 6-2 7-6(4) in the WTA Championships final in Doha.

23. Who is the winner of Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2009 Race?
Sebastian Vettel

24. Who is the Chairman of the International Jury of 33rd International Film Festival held at Cairo?
Adoor Gopalakrishnan.

25. Which Indian film won the Silver Award at the just concluded 33rd Cairo International Film Festival?
“Mudhal Mudhal Mudhal Varai” (Tamil Film) directed by Krishnan Seshadri Gomatam

26. The legendary French anthropologist and philosopher who passed away recently in his Paris home at the age of 100.
Claude Levi-Strauss. One of his more influential fields of study involved the observation of tribes in Brazil and North America.

27. Who has been conferred the Fellow Membership of the Kolkata-based National Institute of Personnel Management?

Dr George Sleeba, Chairman and Managing Director of FACT, Kerala
28. Who was re-elected president of the United Arab Emirates for a second five-year term?
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan

29. Who won the Man of the Series Award in the ODI Cricket Series between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe?
Abdur Razzak (Bangladesh). Bangladesh won the 5 match series 4-1

30. Which country’s central bank bought 200 metric tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund last month, in the first major move by a major central bank to diversify its foreign-exchange reserves?
India.
Reserve Bank of India bought 200 metric tons of gold to manage its foreign-exchange reserves.

31. Which team was banned by BCCI from this year's Ranji Trophy cricket Season for skipping a match against Jammu and Kashmir in Srinagar citing security reasons?
Services.
The Services cricket team is a domestic cricket team in the Elite Group of the Ranji Trophy, the main domestic competition in India.

32. Which country made the fifth lowest total in one-day cricket by making only 44 runs to their account?
Zimbabwe.
Bangladesh bowlers demolished Zimbabwe for 44 runs in the fourth ODI match, the fifth lowest total in one-dayers. Nazmul Hossain, who started the slide with his 2 wickets for 10 runs and took a brilliant catch, was adjudged the man of the match

33. Who has won the World Junior girls chess championship at Puerto Madryn in Argentina on November 3, 2009?
Soumya Swaminathan. She is from Pune, India.

34. Who won the Man of the Match award in the first ODI of the Cool & Cool Cup at Abu Dhabi between New Zealand and Pakistan?
Shahid Afridi. He won this award for his 70runs and 2 wickets for 46.Pakistan won the match by a whooping margin of 138 runs.

35. The tropical Storm which slammed Vietnam's central coast on November-2, 2009, unleashing heavy rains and winds and forcing more than 80,000 people to evacuate.
Mirinae. The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae in central Vietnam has risen to 109.

36. Which African country establishes satellite medical link with India recently?
Sierra Leone. Officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa has launched a satellite link-up known as telemedicine so that doctors in this country can seek advice from their colleagues in India.

37. A British-German scientist’s team recently has identified the old ancestor of the world’s most infamous predator, Tyrannosaurus rex which is a dinosaur. Name of that 165-million-year-old dinosaur lived during the middle Jurassic Period?
Proceratosaurus, the two-legged meat-eater would have measured about 3m long and weighed up to 60kg.

38. Which state won Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra Award-07 for the best contribution in tree planting activities and Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra Award-08 for increasing forest & tree cover in the State?
Kerala

39. Twelve-year-old boy who made a World record in inter-school cricket by smacking a mammoth 439 in the prestigious Harris Shield tournament at the MB Union Cricket Club grounds, Cross Maidan?

Sarfaraz Khan..
Harris Shield is the tournament in which Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli piled up a world record 664 runs for the third wicket in February 1988, helping their school, Shardashram Vidyamandir, to score 748 for 2 in 122 overs against St Xavier's School at Azad Maidan.

40. Who won the Man of the Match award in the fifth ODI cricket match between India and Australia held on 5th November, 2009 at Uppal, Hyderabad?
Sachin Tendulkar. He scored 175 runs and that was his 45 th ODI century. Australia won the match by 3 runs.

41. Fugitive former Thailand Prime minister who was appointed as economic advisor to the Cambodian government, in a move that adds to tensions between the countries?
Thaksin Shinawatra

42. Name the U.S. Army psychiatrist who has killed 13 people and wounded 30 others in a bloody rampage at the Fort Hood military base in Texas?
Major Nidal Malik Hasan

43. Eminent public health expert of Kerala who passed away recently at the age of 71?
Dr. C.R. Soman

44. Renowned scientist and former Director of UGC who has been selected for the prestigious Kalinga Prize 2009.?

Professor Yash Pal. The award is given by UNESCO for popularisation of science.

45. Which country won gold medal in men’s kabbadi, in the third Asian Indoor Games in Vietnam?
India

46. Who is appointed as the new captain of Kolkatta Knight Rider’s Team for IPL-3?
Saurav Ganguly
Coach: David Whatmore
Wasim Akram selected as mentor for the Kolkata Knight Riders.

47. A never-seen-before Charlie Chaplin film was recently found in a nitrate film tin by a man who bought it on eBay for £3.20. Name of that previously unseen Charlie Chaplin movie which could be worth up to £40,000?
‘Charlie Chaplin in Zepped’

48. Which team claims the 2009 AFC Champions League title with a 2-1 victory over Al Ittihad at the National Stadium in Tokyo?
Pohang Steelers of South Korea. The title was Pohang's third continental triumph (following Asian Club Championship wins in 1997 and 1998) and means they become the most successful team in Asian football history.

49. Coach of triple Olympic and World Championship gold medalist Usain Bolt and president of the Racers Track Club, who has resigned after 22 years as head of the Jamaican national track and field team?
Glen Mills

50. Who won the Man of the Match award in the second ODI between New Zealand and Pakistan held in Abudabi?
Brendan McCullum. He scored 131 runs (His second ODI century) and New Zealand beat Pakistan by 64 runs.

51. Name of the online reservation system of Kerala Road Transport Corporation inaugurated by Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan recently?
Sarathy

52. Who won the Man of the series award of recently concluded ODI series between India and Australia?
Shane Watson. Australia won the seven match series by 4-2. The last match abandoned due to rain.
Man of the Match of Sixth ODI: - Doug Bollinger. Australia won that match in Guwahati

53. Which country won the Asia Cup hockey championship-2009 for women held in Bangkok?
China.
China inflicted a 5-3 defeat on India to regain the trophy. China had won the trophy last in 1989 at Hong Kong.

54. Which country won the Fed Cup women's tennis title with a comfortable 4-0 win over the United States in Reggio Calabria.?
Italy

55. India's National Academy of Letters, Sahitya Akademi, recently signed a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with a digital technology leader to institute the 'Tagore Literature Awards ' named after the legendary Shri Rabindranath Tagore. Name that electronics giant?
Samsung. The award will recognize the best of literary contributions by writers in 8 Indian languages – Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Telugu and Bodo

56. Who is re-elected unopposed as the president of Asian Athletic Association (AAA) in Guangzhou, China, to serve his third consecutive term at the office?
Suresh Kalmadi, Indian Olympic Association chief. He was elected for another four-year term (2009-13)

57. Who won the Charlottesville Challenger ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) Challenger tournament?
Kevin Kim (U.S.A). He beat Somdev Devvarman in the final.

58. Who is the new Director of ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala?
T.R. Chidambaram

59. Who won the Swiss Indoors Tennis title beating Roger Federer in the final?

Novak Djokovic. He beat Roger Federer in his own backyard to win the Swiss Indoors final 6-4 4-6 6-2 in Basle.

60. Which state won the South Zone inter-state badminton championship held in Andra Pradesh?
Andra Pradesh
Guru Sai Dutt (Andra Pradesh) beat Ram C. Vijay (Kerala) in the boys’ final
Sikki Reddy, Girl’s Champion

61. Who was chosen for the C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award 2008-2009 by BCCI (Board of Control of Cricket in India)?
Mohinder Amarnath

62. 124 people have been killed by floods and mudslides in El Salvador after the Central American nation was battered by a Hurricane. Name of that storm?
Hurricane Ida

63. Who won the Man of the Match award in the first ODI between South Africa and Zimbabwe held at the Willowmoore Park, Benoni, South Africa, 8th of November 2009?
Tatenda Taibu. He remains unbeaten on 103 runs. South Africa won the match by 45 runs

64. On the first day of the new Maharashtra assembly, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) legislators roughed up a member of Samajwadi Party for taking the oath of office in Hindi. Name of that SP member?
Abu Asim Azmi. Maharashtra Legislative Assembly suspended four Maharashtra Navnirman Sena members for four years on charges of assaulting Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Asim Azmi. The suspended MLA’s are Shishir Shinde, Ram Kadam, Ramesh Wanzale and Vasant Gite

65. First Muslim lady who will serve as minister in the Maharashtra government?
Fauzia Khan

66. Man of the Match of third ODI between Pakistan and New Zealand held in Abudabi on November 9, 2009?
Mohammad Aamer (Pakistan). He made 73 runs and took two wickets.
New Zealand won the match by 7 runs. They also won the 3-match series 2-1.

67. Who won India's first medal in the 18th Asian Athletics Championships held in Guangzhou?
Kavita Raut. She won a bronze in women's 500m race on the opening day of the 18th Asian Athletics Championship

68. Which bank has won the 'Great Mind Challenge' Award for implementing the most innovative solution for business?
Federal Bank. Federal Bank is the first bank in the country to receive this award and the award has been introduced by IBM for the first time in India for business development initiatives.

69. India’s first Aerospace SEZ (Special Economic Zone) launched in?
Belgaum, Karnataka. Aerospace and engineering major QuEST Global launched the country's first aerospace Special Economic Zone for development and manufacture of aerospace precision engineering products.

70. Which documentary has been selected for the Recycling Fond award at the 36th International Festival of Sustainable Development Films-ekotopfilm 2009?
‘Farming our Future’ Direction: Venu Nair

71. Who has been appointed Pakistan captain for the Test tour of New Zealand?
Mohammad Yousuf
Vice Captain: Kamran Akmal

72. Who won India's first Gold medal in the 18th Asian Athletics Championships held in Guangzhou?
Om Prakash Singh. He won the men's shot put gold for India.

73. Goalkeeper of Germany who committed suicide by stepping in front of a train in Hanover?

Robert Enke

74. The sniper whose murderous shooting spree in the fall of 2002 left at least 10 dead in Washington, was executed by lethal injection at a Virginia state prison?
John Allen Muhammad

75. Who is appointed as the head of United States Agency for International Development?

Rajiv Shaw

76. Who has been chosen for this year’s K.R. Narayanan Award?
N.Ram, Editor-in-Chief of Hindu.
He has won this award for his outstanding contribution to journalism in India. Instituted by the K.R. Narayanan Foundation in memory of the late President, the award is to honour individuals who have excelled in various fields.

77. Who has been selected for the K. R. Narayanan Pravasi Ratna award?
M. A. Yusuf Ali, UAE-based industrialist won this award for his contribution to the cause of NRIs.
K. R. Narayanan Kala Puraskaram award went to Malayalam film ‘Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja’

78. Most-wanted cocaine kingpin of Mexico who had been ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the most powerful people in the world.
Joaquin Guzman. He ranked 41 on Forbes' 'powerful' list.

79. A Michael Jackson portrait has sold for $812,000 (£507,500) at an auction in Los Angeles. The artist of that portrait is?
Andy Warhol

80. Sri Lanka's armed forces chief who has resigned from his post just months after helping secure the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels?
Gen Sarath Fonseka

81. Who has been selected for Ezhuthachan puraskaram-2009, highest literary honour of Kerala State?
Sugathakumari. She is a renowned poet and social activist. She has won this award for her valuable contribution to Malayalam poetry.

82. Who has been named captain of the Indian hockey team for the FIH Men's Champions Challenge tournament in Salta, Argentina?
Rajpal Singh. The tournament will take place from December 6 to 13.

83. The Video game collected $550 million in 5 days, which has beaten largest worldwide box-office opening, held by "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," which tallied $394 million over its first five days?

"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2"

84. Who was sworn as the first Punjabi-American (Sikh) mayor of Yuba City in U.S.A?
Kashmir Singh Gill
Yuba City is known as the first Punjabi village in U.S.A

85. Which country leads medals in the 18th Asian Athletics Championships held in Guangzhou, China in 2009?
China (47 Medals, 18 Gold, 19 Silver, 10 Bronze)
India occupies the sixth position(12 Medals, 1 gold, 4 Silver, 7 bronze).
47 Nations participated in the event.

86. The country which have reached the World Cup finals for the second time in their history with victory over Bahrain in their qualifying play-off?
New Zealand

87. Who is the Man of the series of the 20-20 series between Pakistan and New Zealand held in Dubai?
Shahid Afridi. Pakistan won the series 2-0.

88. Who has clinched the Australian Masters Golf Title held in Melbourne?
Tiger Woods

89. Which country chosen as host for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings held from February to November 2009?
Singapore

90. The 2011 meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) will be held in?
Honolulu

91. National junior athletics championships from November 20 to 24 held in?
Warangal, Andrapradesh

92. What is the highest score of India in a test cricket match on a single day?
443/1 in the second day of the third test match against Sri Lanka in Mumbai.

93. Which country won FIFA Under-17 World Cup?
Switzerland. They defeated hosts and defending champions Nigeria 1-0 in the final.

94. Who became the second Indian to complete 11,000 Test runs in the recent test match against Sri Lanka?
Rahul Dravid.

95. Who is appointed as the chief of Defence Staff of Sri Lanka?
Roshan Gunathilleke

96. Who is appointed as Australia's batting coach for the upcoming cricket season?
Justin Langer

97. President of India, Pratibha Patil recently nominated five noted personalities to Rajya Sabha. Who are they?
1.HK Dua, Eminent journalist.
2.AK Ganguly, Former Chairman of Hindustan Lever Limited.These two will replace Film Actor Hema Malini and Journalist Chandan Mitra, whose term has come to an end.
3. Javed Akhtar, Lyricist and poet
4. Prof CNR Rao (Chairman of the scientific advisory council to the PM)
5. G Madhavan Nair, Former ISRO chairman.

98. Which Consumer electronics and durables major recently announced the inauguration of its split air-conditioner manufacturing line at its Sriperumbudur facility?
Samsung.
The AC manufacturing unit in India is the fifth in the world for Samsung.

99. According to the Open Doors 2009 report, which country has sent more than one lakh students to USA for the academic year 2008-09?
India.
India retained its position as the top place of origin for international students in the US.
China remained in second place.

100. Which District panchayats of Kerala have won the ‘Nirmal Grama Puraskaram’ instituted by the Union government for their efforts in maintaining high level of public hygiene?
Alappuzha and Pathnamthitta

101. Who becomes first Sri Lankan player to score a century in India since 1997?
Tilakaratne Dilshan

102. Ace straw picture craftsman from India who has been invited to take part in the five day Mode Heim Handwerk fair at Munich from November 25?
Kiran Rajendran. This is the first time that straw pictures from India will get the opportunity to be displayed in an international gallery.

103. The 11th International Meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties jointly hosted by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) took place in?
New Delhi.
Communist leaders from around the world met there on November 20-22, 2009 to discuss how to 'intensify popular struggles'

104. One of Iraq's vice presidents who vetoed the country's new election law recently, throwing into fresh doubt the feasibility of holding crucial national balloting in January ?
Tariq Hashimi. Iraq has two vice Presidents: Adil Abd Al-Mahdi and Tariq Hashimi.

105. Sri Lankan player who scored a classy double century in the first test match against India in Ahmedabad?
Mahela Jayawardhene He scored 275 runs and it was his sixth double century.
He won the Man of the match Award of that match.
106. Who has been declared elected in the presidential elections of Afghanistan, which was held on 20th August, this year?
Hameed Karzai

107. Who has been chosen for the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize of 2009 for Peace, Disarmament and Development?
Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister.

108. The 32 teams qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Football:
South Africa (Host), Ghana, Ivory Coast, Japan, Australia, South Korea, North Korea, England, Netherlands, Spain, Serbia, Italy, Denmark, Germany, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, United States, Mexico , Switzerland, Slovakia, Argentina, Honduras , New Zealand, Nigeria, Cameroon, Algeria, Greece, Slovenia, Portugal, France, Uruguay.

109. Who won the first Maliyama Foundation Award?
Irom Sharmila The award will be given to her for her crusade against human rights violations and for repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958.

110. The 1,500m champion of Beijing Olympics-2008, who has been stripped of his gold medal after a failed drugs test.
Rashid Ramzi. The Moroccan-born runner who competes internationally for Bahrain was the only gold medalist from Beijing caught using performance-enhancing drugs

111. Who is the richest man in India with USD 32 billion in net worth followed by steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and Anil Ambani, according to the Forbes annual rich list for the country?
Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries Chairman.

112. Which Indian film has bagged five awards at the South Asian International Film Festival held in New York?
'Manjaadikkuru'. The Malayalam film bagged five awards including the ones for Best Film, Best Direction, Best Script, Best Cinematography and Best Debutante Talent. The film is directed by Anjali Menon

113. Who has chosen as first full-time president of European Union?

Photo:AP
Herman Van Rompuy, Belgian Prime Minister

114. The cricketer who has reached the milestone in his career by completing a phenomenal 30,000 runs in international cricket during the Test against Sri Lanka?
Sachin Tendulkar. He became the first batsman to complete 30,000 international runs when he scored his 35th run in the second innings against Sri Lanka. He slammed his 43rd Test century in that match.

115. Which country won women's team title in the 19th Asian Table Tennis Championships held in Lucknow?
China. The beat Singapore 3-1 in the final while host India finished seventh.

116. Who has been named as High Representative (Chief) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of European Union?
Catherine Ashton, Britain

117. Which team won their second successive Russian Premier League title?
Rubin Kazan

118. Two Pakistani men accused of providing logistical support for last year's deadly terror attacks in Mumbai, India, were arrested in Italy. Name of that terrorists?
Mohammad Yaqub Janjua and Aamer Yaqub Janjua

119. Which state of India won the national Junior Athletics Championship held at Warangal for the 13th consecutive time?
Kerala.

120. Constitution bench to consider the Mullaperiyar dam dispute between Tamil Nadu and Kerala has been formed recently. The bench consists of?
The five-judge bench would be presided by Justice DK Jain. Justice Mukundakam Sharma, RM Lodha, D Sudharshan Reddy and Deepak Varma would be the other members.

121. Who has been named as the Secretary of the International Monetary Fund by its Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn?
Siddharth Tiwari, Indian economist.

122. Which is the inaugural film of the 40th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Panaji, Goa, on Nov 23, 2009?
“Wheat", Chinese historical drama was the inaugural film.

123. Who is the Man of the match of the second ODI between South Africa and England at Super Sport Park, Centurion on 22-11-2009?
Paul Collingwood. He scored unbeaten 105 after took two wickets and held a superb catch as England beat South Africa by 7-wickets.

124. Which state crowned champions in the 55th National School Games held in Amritsar?
Kerala. Kerala won 76 medals, including 28 gold, 28 silver and 19 bronze.
Hosts Punjab came second in the medal tally with 24 gold medals and 10 bronze.

125. A long-running inquiry commissioned by the Indian government to investigate the destruction of the disputed structure Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992. In November 2009, a day after a newspaper published the allegedly leaked contents of the report, the report was tabled in the Indian parliament by the Home Minister, P. Chidambaram. Name of that commission?
Liberhan Commission

126. Who has been crowned Miss Earth 2009 which was held on November 22 at the Boracay beach resort in Aklan province, central Philippines?
Larissa Ramos, Nineteen-year-old Brazilian beauty.

127. Who is the Brand Ambassador of Kerala Hockey?
Suresh Gopi, Malyalam Superstar.

128. Which athletes were crowned as the Male and Female World Athletes of the Year 2009 by International Athletic Foundation (IAF)?
Usain Bolt, Jamaica
Sanya Richard, USA

129. India’s nuclear-capable intermediate range and surface-to-surface missile which was test—fired for the first time on 23rd of Novmber-2009?
Agni II

130. Who won the Artist of the Year Award at the 37th American Music Awards (AMAs) beating out Michael Jackson?
Taylor Swift. She won five awards while Jackson got 4 awards.

131. Who was the oldest person to ever climb Mt Everest?
Min Bahadur Sherchan, 78 years old became the oldest person to conquer the world's highest peak

132. China executed two people recently for their roles in a tainted milk powder scandal in which at least six children died and more than 300,000 became sick. Who are they?
Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping.
Zhang Yujun was executed for endangering public safety and Geng Jinping was executed for producing and selling toxic food

133. Who has taken over as General Manager, Southern Railway on 21st November 2009?
Shri Deepak Krishan

134. Secretary Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs who is appointed as Secretary of Ministry of Shipping?
K Mohandas.

135. SEBI (Stock Exchange Board of India )has served an amended notice to a major Indian company asking why it shouldn't be barred from accessing the stock markets under the rules on fraudulent and unfair trade practices and the gains it made of Rs.513 crore not be disgorged. Which is that company?
Reliance Industries (RIL). SEBI has issued an amended notice to Mukesh Ambani-led RIL on insider trading.

136. Who became the first woman president to fly in a fighter jet, the Sukhoi-30MKI of the Indian Air Force?
Pratibha Patil, Indian President

137. Prosecutors in the genocide trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded a 40-year jail sentence recently for a man they described as responsible for snuffing out innocent lives and spreading terror across Cambodia. Name of that Jail Chief?
Kaing Guek Eav. He is also known as Duch (pronounced DOIK) oversaw the torture and execution of about 16,000 men, women and children during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 rule. Some 1.7 million Cambodians died of torture, execution, disease and starvation under the Khmer Rouge.

The Khmer Rouge was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, the totalitarian ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan.

138. Iran's best-selling newspaper, which has been banned for publishing a picture of a temple belonging to the outlawed Bahai sect.?
Hamshahri.

139. Who became the fourth highest run getter in Test cricket, surpassing former Australian captain, Allan Border?
Rahul Dravid. Border took 156 Tests to reach 11,174 Test runs at an average of 50.56. Dravid reached 11182 runs in 136 Tests at an average of 53.50,
Tendulkar - 161 matches - 12917 runs - average of 54.76
Lara -131 matches - 11953 runs - average of 52.88
Ponting - 136 matches - 11345 runs - average of 55.88

140. Who has been appointed as chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India?
Srikumar Banerjee. He is a leading expert in Materials and Technology in the country and director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)

141. The son of a Philippines clan boss who was charged with murder recently after the massacre of at least 57 people in last week of November-2009?
Andal Ampatuan Jr, a local mayor in Maguindanao province.

142. The United States of America has reached an agreement to station an American antimissile defense system on a country in Central Europe recently. Which is that country?
Poland.
United States and Poland have agreed terms for stationing US troops in Poland so that the deployment of US Patriot missiles can start next year.

143. The search engine which apologized recently for results of image search of 'Michelle Obama’, first lady of U.S.?
Google.
In November, when someone typed "Michelle Obama" in the popular search engine Google, one of the first images that came up was a picture of the American first lady altered to resemble a monkey.

144. Pakistan player who hits century on debut in the first test match against New Zealand in Dunedin?
Umar Akmal, a blistering 129 (160b, 21x4, 2x6) on debut. He won the Man of the Match award, but Pakistan lost that match by 32 runs.

145. The French Parliament has unanimously adopted the civil nuclear agreement with an Asian Country. Which is that country?
India.

146. Which car has been ranked No. 1 in the mid-size entry segment (228 PP/100), according to the 2009 J.D. Power Asia Pacific India Vehicle Dependability Study released recently?
Ford Ikon

147. Who was awarded the man of the match in the second test match between India and Sri Lanka played at Kanpur?
Sreesanth. He was declared Man of the Match for his 6 wicket haul.
India beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 144 runs in that match and it was India's 100th test win in all, their first being way back in 1952 against England.

148. Former Indian Volleyball team captain who has been selected for the 21st Jimmy George Foundation award, 2009, for his contributions to sports?
Tom Joseph

149. Iranian authorities have confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to Iranian lawyer-activist in 2003 for her work as a lawyer and human rights activist. Name of that Nobel laureate?
Shirin Ebadi

150. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), leaders from 51 Commonwealth countries began a three-day summit started on November 27, 2009, held in?
Port of Spain

151. Which country n launched its fifth spy satellite on 28th November 2009 in a bid to boost its ability to independently gather intelligence?
China

152. Which company has been awarded the 2009 CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) National Award for Energy Efficient Unit?
Piramal Healthcare's Digwal, India, manufacturing division.

153. Who was awarded the man of the match in the first test match between Australia and West Indies played at Brisbane?
Ben Hilfenhaus. This Australian bowler took 3 wickets in the first innings and claimed two in the second innings. Australia beat West Indies by an innings and 65 runs.

154. Who becomes the youngest West Indian to score a Test century on debut?
Adrian Barath At just 19 years and 228 days, Barath became the seventh youngest batsman in Test history to post a century on debut. He had scored 104 of West Indies' total of 154 in the second innings.

155. Who was adjudged Man of the Match in the third ODI between South Africa and England played at Cape Town on November 27, 2009?
AB de Villiers (South Africa). He scored 121 off 85 balls and South Africa won the match by 112 runs.

156. Which Indian city will be the venue of the 97th Indian Science Congress?
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
96th Indian Science Congress held at NEHU in Shillong, Meghalaya.
157. In November 2009, more than 50 employees of a nuclear plant of India were affected due to high radiation levels. A water cooler for supplying water for the employees was contaminated with tritiated water. Where is that nuclear plant?
Kaiga nuclear power station situated at Kaiga in Uttar Kannada district in Karnataka, India.

158. The African nation which has been admitted into the Commonwealth of Nations, becoming the 54th member of the organization of mostly former British colonies?
Rwanda

159. Who was adjudged Man of the Match in the fourth ODI between South Africa and England played at Port Elizabeth on November 29, 2009?
James Anderson (England). He took five wickets and England won the match by 7 wickets.

160. Which country decided to sign civil nuclear deal with India recently?
Canada. India and Canada have agreed on a civil nuclear deal that will enable New Delhi to access Canadian nuclear technology and uranium after a gap of 34 years. The deal is likely to be signed when Manmohan Singh goes to Canada to attend the G20 summit in June, 2010.

161. Chief of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) who was sent to jail for 14 days after his arrest in Andhra Pradesh's Karimnagar district before he could begin his "fast unto death" for a separate Telangana state?
K Chandrasekhara Rao.

162. Whop will be the new partner of Mahesh Bhupathi in doubles for the next tennis season?

Max Mirnyi of Belarus. Bhupathi and Mirnyi had enjoyed a successful partnership in the past when the two won the 2002 US Open and also reached the Wimbledon final in 2003. Mark Knowles was his earlier partner which ended in the semifinals of the ATP World Tour Finals.

Revolutions

noreply@blogger.com (mahesh chandran) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT

Green -------- Agriculture
Blue ----------Ocean Products
Yellow ------- Oil Seeds
White -------- Milk Products
Silver --------- Egg
Grey---------- Housing
Brown ------- Leather,Fertilizers
Black --------- Coal
Pink ---------- Prawn , Medicines

News Agancies of World

noreply@blogger.com (mahesh chandran) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT

Royittor--------Britan
A.F.P----------France
AP ----------- America
DPA----------Germany
InterFax ------Russia
Quodo News --Japan
Sinhuva--------Chaina
PTI,UNI ------India
Yonhap ------- South Korea
Bernuma -------Malesia

Prime ministers of India

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT

Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964)
Gulzarilal Nanda (1964)
Lal Bahadur Shastri (1964-1966)
Gulzarilal Nanda (1966)
Indira Gandhi (1966-1977)
Morarji Desai (1977-1979)
Ch.Charan Singh (1979-1980)
Indira Gandhi (1980-1984)
Rajiv Gandhi (1984-1989)
V P Singh (1989-1990)
Chandrasekhar (1990-1991)
P V Narasimha Rao (1991-1996)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1996)
HD Deve Gowda (1996-1997)
I K Gujral (1997-1998)
A B Vajpayee (1998-2004)
Manmohan Singh (2004 Onwards)

Who said it?

noreply@blogger.com (Prasanth KS) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT

"Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it" - Lokmanya Tilak
"Child is the father of man" - William Words Worth
"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today" - Benjamin Franklin
"Man is a political animal" - Aristotle
"Ring out the old,ring in the new" - Tennyson

Old Names and New Names Of Countries

noreply@blogger.com (mahesh chandran) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT

Kampuchia ------------ Combodia
Abyssinia -------------- Ethiopia
Peking ----------------- Beijing
Salisburg --------------- Harare

Indian States Capitals and Languages

noreply@blogger.com (mahesh chandran) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT

States    Capital    Languages
Andra Pradesh    Hyderabad    Telugu and Urdu
Arunachal Pradesh    Itanager    Miji, Apotanji, Merdukpen, Tagin,Adi, Honpa,Bangini-Nishi.
Assam    Dispur    Assamese
Bihar    Patna    Hindi
Chhattisgarh    Raipur    Hindi
Goa    Panaji    Marathi and Konkani
Gujarat    Gandhinagar    Gujarati
Haryana    Chandigarh    Hindi
Himachal Pradesh    Shimla    Hindi and Pahari
Mizoram    Aizawl    Mizo and English
Srinagar (Summer)    Kashmiri,Dogri, Urdu, Ladakhi,

Jammu (Winter)    Pahari,Punjabi and Dadri
Jharkhand    Ranchi    Hindi
Karnataka    Bangalore    Kannda
Kerala    Trivandrum    Malayalam
Madhya Pradesh    Bhopal    Hindi
Maharashtra    Bombay    Marathi
Manipur    Imphal    Manipuri
Meghalaya    Shillong    Khasi, Jaintia and Garo
Nagaland    Kohima    Ao, Konyak, Angami, Sema and Lotha
Orissa    Bhubaneswar    Oriya
Punjab    Chandigarh    Punjabi
Rajasthan    Jaipur    Rajasthani and Hindi
Sikkim    Gangtok    Bhutia, Hindi, Nepali, Lepcha, Limbu
Tamil Nadu    Chennai    Tamil
Tripura    Agartala    Bengali, Tripuri, Manipuri, Kakborak
Uttar Pradesh    Lucknow    Hindi
Uttaranchal    Dehra Dun    Hindi
West Bengal    Calcutta    Bengali