Globescan - Reshma Majithia / Suman Priya Mendonca

1. The Vice Chairman and Managing Director of one of India’s largest companies, as means of supporting the Humanities Centre at Harvard University, has announced a gift of $10 million. This center would focus on improving the cooperation and alliances between the humanities, social sciences, and sciences providing platforms for debates across various fields and forms of knowledge. Name this Indian philanthropist.
a. Anil Ambani
b. Anand Mahindra
c. Mukesh Ambani
d. Sunil Mittal

2. Ayodhya issue was awarded judgment after how many years since filing the case in the court?
a. 60
b. 50
c. 19
d. 10

3. Who was presented the 12th Sir M Visvesvaraya memorial award at a ceremony organised by the Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI) to mark the birth anniversary of Sir M Visvesvaraya?
a. Lakshmi Mittal
b. Ratan Tata
c. Nandan Nilekani
d. Rahul Bajaj

4. Who is the head of WTO?
a. Kofi Annan
b. Ban ki Moon
c. Pascal Lamy
d. Dr Mike Moor

5. ______was recently elected the vice-President of the international chess organisation FIDE at Russia.
a. Vishwanathan Anand
b. B.S. Chauhan
c. Mr Dongra
d. DV Sunder

6. Which of the following multinational corporations has acquired 80 per cent stake in Trilix Srl, a design and engineering company based in Turin, Italy, for a around €1.85 million?
a. Tata Motors
b. RIL
c. ONGC
d. ABC India Ltd

7. Who is the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Zee Turner?
a. Dinesh Jain
b. Subroro Bhattacharya
c. Sandeep Goyal
d. Virad Kaul

8. Israel has expelled Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate because she participated in the aid flotilla that tried to break the Gaza blockade four months ago. Name this Nobel laureate.
a. Ada Yonath
b. Mairead Corrigan Maguire
c. Rita Levi-Montalcini
d. Marie Curie

9. Who is the new National Security Adviser to Obama?
a. Jim Jones
b. Tom Donilon
c. Stephen Hadley
d. Samuel Berger

10. Who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature?
a. Orhan Pamuk
b. Dorris Lessing
c. Herta Muller
d. Mario Vargas Llosa

11. American Richard Heck and Japanese researchers Ei-ichi Negishi and ________won the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a chemical method that has allowed scientists to test cancer drugs and make thinner computer screens.
a. Tsuda Sokichi
b. Yoshioka Yoshitoyo
c. Akira Suzuki
d. Takeuchi Yoshio

12. Oscar-winning composer ________ and the Ramakrishna Mission Ashram, located in Chhattisgarh’s Narainpur district, have jointly won the 25th Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration for the year 2009 for their services in promoting and preserving national integration.
a. Shankar Mahadevan
b. A.R. Rahman
c. Ilayaraaja
d. Anu Malik

13. Which of the following countries has the world’s largest number of Internet users?
a. China
b. Japan
c. India
d. Germany

14. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) has announced the appointment of _________as Chief Risk Officer for India.
a. Ravi Kiran
b. Arvind Mahendru
c. Dinesh Chandra
d. Rajesh K Jogi

15. Who won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for ‘his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights.’?
a. Liu Xiaobo
b. Martti Ahtisaari
c. Grameen Bank
d. Mohamed ElBaradei

16. _______ is to replace Sri Lanka’s former army chief Sarath Fonseka in parliament. Fonseka was court-martialled and will serve a 30-month rigorous jail term for corruption in defence deals.
a. Prasad Kariyawasam
b. Ravinatha Aryasinha
c. Dinesh Gunawardena
d. Lakshman Nipunaarachchi

17. A famous company is making its biggest push yet into so-called connected televisions, unveiling a line of Google-enhanced sets that aim to fuse TV and Web content together in the living room. Name the company.
a. LG
b. Philips
c. Sony
d. Onida

18. Kolkata-based Keventer Group owned by MK Jalan is buying 50 per cent of the stakes in the Delhi based confectionery company. This company has over 20 national brands like Koffi-Toffi, Loco-Poco etc. Name the company, which Keventer is interested in?
a. Parle
b. Ravalgon
c. Candico
d. Nestle

19. Which of the following business process outsourcing (BPO) service providers, has signed a five-year (BPO) customer service contract with Barclaycard, the UK-based credit card and loan provider?
a. Wipro
b. JPMC
c. Accenture
d. Firstsource Solutions Ltd

20. Who is the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of HCL Infosystems?
a. Sid Nair
b. Ravi Kiran
c. Harsh Chitale
d. SK Chakrabarti

21. India has been vying for a gold medal in Athletics since 1958 in the Common Wealth Games. This time it is not only the gold but also a podium sweep (Gold, Silver and Bronze), by the women players Krishna Poonia, Harwanth Kaur Seema Antil. In which event did they create history after 37 years?
a. Relay
b. 100 mtrs dash
c. Javelin
d. Discuss Throw

22. Italy’s embattled Prime Minister won a vote of confidence in parliament, saving his centre-right government from collapse. Who is the Prime minister of Italy?
a. Massimo D’Ale ma
b. Giuliano Amato
c. Romano Prodi
d. Silvio Berlusconi

23. Eight-time Olympic champions crushed India’s dream of registering their maiden Hockey Gold in CWG 2010. Name the country that defeated India.
a. Australia
b. Pakistan
c. England
d. New Zealand

24. Much of the world tuned in to watch what started off more than two months ago as a tragedy, but appeared to have a happy ending with rescue of the 33 miners. Which is the country that pulled up a major rescue operation of such magnitude?
a. Portugal
b. Chile
c. China
d. India

25. Who has won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine for the development of the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) technique that has helped millions of couple across the world to have a child?
a. Robert G. Edwards
b. Jack W. Szostak
c. Oliver Smithies
d. Craig Mello

26. Who is the supreme commander of the armed forces (Army,
Navy and Air Force) in India?
a. The Prime Minister Of
India
b. The President Of India
c. The Indian Cabinet
d. Each wing has its own
supreme commander

27. Which two teams have been scrapped from the Indian Premier League with immediate effect for violating shareholding and ownership patterns?
a. Kings XI Punjab and
Rajasthan Royals
b. Bangalore Royal Challengers
and Chennai Super Kings
c. Kolkata Knight Riders and
Deccan Chargers
d. Delhi Daredevils and
Mumbai Indians

28. She was the first Woman Chief minister in India. A freedom fighter she was one of the much-lauded heroes of Indian Politics. She was elected as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in October 1963 and remained in power till 14 March 1967. Name her.
a. Usha Mehta
b. Aruna Asaf Ali
c. Sucheta Kriplani
d. Indira Gandhi

29. Who has won this year’s award for Finance Minister of the Year for Asia?
a. Pranab Mukherjee
b. Korn Chatikavanij
c. Naoto Kan
d. Tharman Shanmugaratnam

30. Peter A Diamond, Dale Mortensen, and _________ shared the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for research into the difficulties of matching supply and demand, particularly in the labour market.
a. Elinor Ostrom
b. Christopher Pissarides
c. Oliver Willamson
d. Leonid Hurwicz

31. Which of the following countries after a gap of 19 years, was elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council?
a. Austria
b. Japan
c. India
d. Bosnia

32. The world’s largest drugmaker, has agreed to buy King Pharmaceuticals Inc for $3.6 billion in a move to shore up earnings ahead of the looming evaporation of revenue from Lipitor, its biggest product. Name the drugmaker.
a. Novartis
b. GlaxoSmithKline
c. Johnson and Johnson
d. Pfizer Inc

33. _________has been named Gadget of the Year at an international technology awards event.
a. Apple’s iPad
b. Sony Cyber-Shot Digital
Camera
c. Microsoft Arc Keyboard
d. HTC Smart Touch Screen
Phone

34. Who is the winner of this year’s prestigious Booker Prize for literature for his comic novel ‘The Finkler Question’?
a. Anne Enright
b. Howard Jacobson
c. Arvind Adiga
d. Alice Munro

35. Pakistans’s ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf recently launched a political party in London. What is the name of the Party?
a. Pakistan’s Political Party
b. Pakistan Muslim League
c. All Pakistan Muslim
League
d. All Pakistan People’s Party

36. Who has been named the Wisden Cricketer magazine’s ‘World Test Player of the Year’?
a. Tamim Iqbal
b. Sachin Tendulkar
c. Virender Sehwag
d. Jacques Kallis

Answers

1.b 2.a 3.c 4.c 5.d 6.a 7.d 8.b 9.b 10.d
11.c 12.b 13.a 14.d 15.a 16.d 17.c 18.c 19.d 20.c
21.d 22.d 23.a 24.b 25.a 26.b 27.a 28.c 29.a 30.b
31.c 32.d 33.a 34.b 35.c 36.a