Current GK /Affairs Questions: January 2012
1. Which two countries have strengthened
business ties to start trading electricity and petroleum products?
Ans: India and Pakistan
2. Which country recently joined UNSC as
non-permanent member?
Ans: Pakistan
3. Where is National Kannada conference is set
to be held in the month of April?
Ans: Delhi
4. Where is the Coastal Business Development
Summit is held?
Ans: Mangalore, Karnataka
5. What is the total number of districts in
Chhattisgarh as on 1st January 2012?
Ans: 27
6. Where has Union Government planned to build
11 tunnels to connect important roads?
Ans: Pakistan and China borders
7. Which version of Internet Explorer is dead
as per Microsoft?
Ans: Internet Explorer 6
8. Where the national and international
theater festival, the Bharat Rang Mahotsav set to be held?
Ans: National School of Drama, Amritsar
9. When is Rajinikanth’s biography set to hit
stands?
Ans: 12.12.2012
10. Name the Government policy introduced by
Karnataka to boost animation industry.
Ans: Karnataka Animation, Visual Effects,
Gaming and Comics (KAVGC) Policy 2011
11. To protect consumers from unscrupulous jewelers
which proposal has the government made mandatory for gold?
Ans: Hallmarking
12. Name the nano’s rival announced by Bajaj
recently.
Ans: RE60
13. Where in India is Literary Festival 2012
is scheduled to held?
Ans: Jaipur
14. What is the concept introduced by Indian
Postal Department (Bihar Postal Circle) to get a personalized stamp with
photograph on it?
Ans: My Stamp
15. Who has been considered for first Gates
Innovation Award?
Ans: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
16. Name Afghan’s first team of female boxers
set to aim for Olympics 2012.
Ans: Shabnam and Sadaf Rahimi
17. Which country test launched first 3D
television broadcast?
Ans. China
18. Where is India’s first Startup Village is
to be setup?
Ans: KINFRA Park, Kalamassery, Kochi
19. SOPA Stands for:
Ans: Stop Online Piracy Act
20. PIPA Stands for:
Ans: Protect IP Act
21. Where is the India-Burma talks scheduled
on January 19th 2012?
Ans: Myanmar capital, Naypyitaw
22. Name the Yahoo co-founder who resigned
recently.
Ans: Jerry Yang
23. Which card has BSNL launched to facilitate
making utility bill payments like electricity and telephone bills?
Ans: Itz Cash Card (Trust Card)
24. Who is set to head committee on power
sector reforms?
Ans. Pullock Chatterjee
25. Which website is to be shut for 24hrs in
January to stop anti-piracy act?
Ans. Wikipedia
26. Name the Indian-origin Sikh who has been
unanimously elected as the mayor of Charlottesville, a historic American city
in Virginia.
Ans. Satyendra Singh Huja
27. Where is the first crocodile census set to
start?
Ans. Sunderbans
28. Which currency is world’s most undervalued
currency as per Big Mac Index?
Ans. Indian rupee
29. Name India’s first woman journalist who
died recently.
Ans. Homai Vyarawalla
30. Who won gold in Asian shooting
championship?
Ans. Abhinav Bindra
31. When did India complete one polio-free
year?
13th January 2012
32.What is the lowest one-day score by Sri
Lanka in the recently held match against South Africa?
Ans. 43 all out
33. Which country has been ranked first on
nuclear safety?
Ans. Australia
34. Which country’s Prime Minister is to be
chief guest at Indian Republic Day parade?
Ans. Thailand Prime Minister, Yingluck
Shinawatra
35. Who won the FIFA men’s world player of the
year 3rd time in a row?
Lionel Messi (Argentina)
36. Where is the world’s largest solar
telescope set to be built?
Ans. Merak on Pangong Tso lake in the cold
desert Ladakh region
37. Who won the doubles title at the Chennai
Open 2012?
Ans. Leander Peas and Janko Tipsarevic
38. Name the singer who was made the Big
Entertainer of the Year in recognition of her ‘Special Contribution to Bengali
music’.
Usha Uthup(Didi)
39. Tatas Global recently signed pact to open
what cafes?
Starbucks cafe
40. Which state’s theme has been set in 26th
Surajkund Crafts Mela in Faridabad, Haryana?
Assam
41. Who won Grand slam title in men’s
Australian Open 2012?
Djokovic
42. Which country teaches Sanskrit Language
Studies and claims it helps children understand English?
New Zealand
43. Who won the Australian Open 2012 doubles
final?
Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek
44. Who won her first Grand slam title in
woman’s Australian Open 2012?
Victoria Azarenka
45. Which Indian state is likely to include
solar plants to be part of state housing projects?
Rajasthan
46. Name the woman pilot who led the Air Force
contingent creating history at the 63rd Republic Day parade.
Sneha Shekhawat
47. After which sporting person has Madhya
Pradesh decided to set up museum?
Dhyan Chand
48. Which Indian film failed to secure a place
in the final nomination list of the 84th Academy Awards?
DAM 999
49. Which photo pioneer company filed
bankruptcy recently?
Ans. Kodak
50. Who won the Ranji Trophy 2011-12?
Ans. Rajasthan
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