Globescan - Compiled by Reshma Majithia

1. Which golfer has been adjudged the European Tour Player's Player of the Year for 2009?
   Steve Marino
   Tom Watson
   Lee Westwood
   Catriona Matthew.
   
   
2. Who has been conferred the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Award for international understanding - an international award given to people for their outstanding contribution to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship?
   Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
   Wangari Maathai
   Hosni Mubarak
   Olafur Ragnar Grimsson
   
   
3. He is a specialist right-handed batsman; he represents the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket. He has played in the Indian Premier League with the Kolkata Knight Riders and has been chosen as the ESPN Cricinfo Player of the Decade for the 2000s. Name him.
   Ricky Ponting
   Jason Gillespi
   Adam Gilchrist
   Alan Border
   
   
4. An Indian politician and a communist, he served as the chief minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000 making him the longest serving chief minister of any Indian state. He passed away on January 17, 2010. Identify him.
   Ajoy Mukherjee
   Anil Biswas
   Prafulla Chandra Ghosh
   Jyoti Basu
   
   
5. He is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and inventor and scooped the best director prize at the Golden Globes for his 3-D science fiction blockbuster 'Avatar'. Name him.
   James Cameron
   David Cronenberg
   Gary Burns
   Bruce McDonald
   
   
6. Who is the new President of Chile?
   Tomas Hirsch
   Joaquin Lavin
   Sebastian Pinera
   Michelle Bachelet
   
   
7. Which car has won the Autocar India 2010 'Car of the Year' award?
   Toyota Fortuner
   Fiat Grande Punto
   Tata Indigo Manza
   Tata Nano
   
   
8. Who has been named Player of the Year and Foreign Player of the Year in Italy at the 2009 Oscar del Calcio, an award given to the best coach, footballers and referee of the previous Italian Serie A Season?
   Filippo Inzaghi
   Jose Mourinho
   Zlatan Ibrahimovic
   Paolo Maldini
   
   
9. An American Democratic Party politician, he has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2002, and is the first and only South Asian lawmaker in the New Jersey Legislature and the only Asian-American member in the general assembly. Recently he was conferred the 'Pravasi Bharatiya Samman' constituted by the Ministries of Overseas Indian Affairs. Identify him.
   Rajen Anand
   Aneesh Chopra
   Richard Verma
   Upendra Chivukula
   
   
10. Who has been elected chairman of the Formula One Teams Association for 2010?
    Martin Whitmarsh
    Mario Theissen
    Ron Dennis
    Andrew Denford
    
    
11. Who has been chosen for the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 2008 (announced in January 2010)?
    Asha Bhosle
    B.R. Chopra
    VK Murthy
    Adoor Gopalakrishnan
    
    
12. Who is the new National Security Advisor (NSA)?
    Dr. Harish Khare
    Shri Virbhadra Singh
    Narayan Dutt Tiwari
    Shivshankar Menon
    
    
13. Who is the new governor of Punjab?
    Shivraj Patil
    MK Narayan
    Dr. Kamla Beniwal
    Nawal Kishore Sharma
    
    
14. The world's second largest confectionery Cadbury plc has been taken over by Kraft, the largest food and beverage company for _________
    $ 17.9 billion
    $ 35 billion
    $ 19.6 billion
    $ 15 billion
    
    
15. Who was honoured by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, with the distinguished civilian honour 'Order of Diplomatic Service Merit,' in recognition of his contribution in promoting Korea-India bilateral relations?
    Lakshmi Mittal
    Venu Srinivasan
    Ratan Tata
    Arun Firodia
    
    
16. An Indian economist, he was the economic adviser to the Prime Minister from Jawaharlal Nehru to P.V. Narasimha Rao and played an important role in India's planned development, drafting sections of India's first five-year plans. He passed away on February 10, 2010. Identify him
    Mr. Tarlok Singh
    K.N.Raj
    VN Balasubramanyam
    Jagdish Bhagwati
    
    
17. Who is the winner of Britain's Costa Book of the Year Award 2009, which celebrates the best of contemporary writing from the UK and Ireland?
    Stef Penny
    A. L. Kennedy
    Sebastian Barry
    Christopher Reid
    
    
18. Who has been conferred with the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour for the year 2010 for Trade and Industry?
    Prathap Chandra Reddy
    Jairam Ramesh
    KP Singh
    S M Krishna
    
    
19. Who has been elected as President of Sri Lanka for a second time?
    Chandrika Kumaratunga
    Mahinda Rajapaksa
    Gen. Sarath Fonseka
    Dayananda Dissanayaka
    
    
20. Who is the President of Honduras?
    Ricardo Madura
    Manuel Zelaya
    Roberto Micheletti
    Porfirio Lobo
    
    
21. A former Olympian athlete, he bagged the gold in 400 meters and silver in 200 meters in 1966 and was bestowed the Arjuna award for excellence in sports in the same year. He was also part of the Indian team for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He passed away in January 2010. Name him.
    Dalel Singh
    Pargat Singh
    Ajmer Singh
    Parkash Singh Badal
    
    
22. An American author, he was best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye. Besides Catcher in the Rye he published a few books and collections of short stories in his literary career. He passed away on January 27, 2010. Identify him.
    Henry Adams
    William Attaway
    Edward Abby
    J. D. Salinger
    
    
23. A professional tennis player, he is ranked world no.1 by the Association of Tennis professionals (ATP) and recently won his fourth Australian Open and 16th Grand Slam title. Name him.
    Andy Murray
    Roger Federer
    Rafael Nadal
    Yuki Bhamri
    
    
24. An Indian born businessman and politician, he was appointed to the Senate of Canada on January 29, 2010. Name him.
    Vim Kochhar
    Neal Kumar Katyal
    Vivek Kundra
    Rajiv Shah
    
    
25. An American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and model, she won six Grammy awards at the prestigious US music ceremony in Los Angeles. Name her.
    Heather Baker
    Priscilla Ahn
    Beyonce Knowles
    Sara Bareilles
    
    
26. Who is the new secretary general of Amnesty International?
    Fransesco Frangialli
    Salil Shetty
    Harry Truman
    Jan Kavan
    
    
27. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently caused an international furore when it admitted that it had used unsubstantiated data in its 2007 benchmark report and had falsely estimated the rate of recession and date for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers. The report had claimed that given the current rate of decline, these glaciers would disappear by
    2035 
    a hundred years from now
    2050
    2020
    
    
28. The world's largest banking group and the sixth largest company, it has won the first Capgemini Leadership Award for innovation at the Nasscom- Capgemini Global leadership Awards held in Mumbai. Name it.
    Citibank 
    Royal Bank of Scotland 
    HSBC 
    Deutsche Bank
    
    
29. It is the largest K-12 education company in India and has won an honour at the Nasscom Global Leadership Awards for its teaching-learning paradigm in schools across India; offering interventions, products and services to teach children in the language they understand and with multimedia that brings alive abstract curricular concepts. 
    Shardiya
    Learnet India ltd
    Redmond
    Educomp
    
    
30. Who has been awarded an honorary knighthood by the Queen of England for his services to the communication industry? 
    Sam Pitroda
    Arun Sarin
    Ratan Tata
    Anil Ambani
    
    
31. Who is the new President of Ukraine?
    Viktor Yanukovych
    Oleksandr Moroz
    Petro Symonenko
    Anatoliy Kinakh
    
    
32. Close to 60000 people joined a Facebook community recently, calling for a statue of US President Barack Obama (as a boy) to be removed from a public park in their national capital and be replaced by a national entity. Which country are we talking of? 
    Kenya
    Israel
    Canada 
    Indonesia
    
    
33. Who won the 2010 Australian Open Title in the women's single category, her 5th tournament title and 12th Grand Slam overall? 
    Serena Williams
    Venus Williams
    Maria Bueno
    Justine Henin
    
    
34. Which organization won an honour at the Nasscom Global Leadership Awards for its approach in the arena of public grievance redressing, through which citizens can approach concerned government officials and register grievances through mobile or land line phones?
    Steria India Ltd
    Geodesic Ltd
    Ekgaon Technologies Pvt Ltd
    Jhansi Jan Suvidha Kendra
    
    
35. __________ has bagged the Indira Gandhi award for the best film at the 56th National Film Awards
    A Wednesday
    Firaaq
    Fashion
    Little Zizou