MORE CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS OF DECEMBER 2011

Which country's first female athlete is set to participate in Olympics 2012?
Ans : Saudi Arabia

Who is set to take over as LG Display Co. Ltd.'s Chief Executive in 2012?
Ans : Han Sang-beom

Name the Indian origin American who won Guardian First Book award.
Ans : Siddhartha Mukherjee

Which telecom provider is set to allow its mobile subscribers in India to access micro-blogging site Twitter on their handsets free of cost untill March 1st, 2012?
Ans : Bharti Airtel

Which foreign lender bank has launched fixed rate for home loan and loans against property?
Ans : HSBC.

Which channel did Pakistan cable operators block recently?
Ans : BBC World News

Which two social networking sites have joined hands to challenge Facebook?
Ans : Twitter amd Mixi

Who has been appointed as Chief Privacy Officer(Policy) for facebook?
Ans : Erin Egan

Who has been appointed as Chief Privacy Officer(Products) for facebook?
Ans : Michael Richter

Which Indian banks credit rating have been assigned stable tag by Standard and Poor International rating agency?
Ans : State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Indian Bank

Name the 2-day literature festival scheduled to be held in Delhi.
Ans : Samanvay: IHC Bharatiya Bhasa Mahotsav

Name the Apple's co-founder who is set to visit India's technology capital.
Ans : Steve Wozniak

Where is ITC set to build $300 million hotel?
Ans : Colombo, Sri Lanka

Name the re-branding of its existing milk and yoghurt products in India by Nestle.
Ans : Nestle a+

Name the short film about child poverty in India which won the Golden Lmap Tree award at the 42nd International Film festival.
Ans : Another Planet

Who won the 2011 Prince Philip Designers Prize?
Ans : Quentin Blake

Who is appointed as CEO of Thomson Reuters Corp?
Ans : James Smith

Which English singer-songwriter is nominated for 6 nominations in 2011 Grammy awards?
Ans : Adele

Which poet won the 2011 Cervantes Prize (The spanish-speaking world's highest literary honour)?
Ans : Nicanor Parra.

Who is on historic Myanmar visit?
Ans : Secreatary of state Hillary Clinton

Who has been named best European investment banker of the year?

Ans : Anshu Jain

Name the ball developed by Adidas which would be the official ball of the Euro 2012 European Football Championship.
Ans : Tango 12

Which company has launched  triple sim mobile with Analog TV in India?
Ans : G'Five

Which telecom service provider touched 50 million customers mark in Africa recently?
Ans : Airtel

Name the Guyana born US resident who has been elected as the international president of the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO).
Ans : Ashook Ramsaran

Name the telecom giant from New York who was awarded with Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award on the eve of Late Indira Gandhi's 94th birthday.
Ans : K.Ll.Sardana

‘Saranda Action Plan’, has been recently launched by Rural Development Ministry. It will be implemented firstly in Naxal-hit Saranda district of which of the state?

Ans : Ans : Jharkhand

Pune based social activist Baba Adhav is known for championing the cause of protection for which segments of Indian society?

Ans : Workers of Unorganised Sector

Which country is the host to 17th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit in November 2011?

Ans : Maldives

The controversial Sindol hydro-power project is located in which states of India?

Ans : Odisha

Who is the current President of the Indian Premier League?

Ans : Rajeev Shukla

Recently, which country has completed the deployment of its global positioning satellite group “Glonass”?

Ans : Russia

Year 2011 corresponds to which among the following years in Holocene calendar or Holocene era (HE)?

Ans : 12011

Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao has received the Dronacharya Award 2011 for which sports?

Ans : Boxing

Sandhya Rani Devi was recently awarded Arjuna Award for which sports?

Ans : Wushu

The growers of which of the commodity in India are awarded with Prof. K M Chandy Memorial Award in India?

Ans : Rubber

Who has recently sworn in as the chief of the Central Intelligence Agency (United States)?

Ans : David Petraeus

In which year Dadasaheb Phalke Award was instituted?

Ans : 1669

India has been providing assistance to which neighbors for strengthening and extension of embankments along Lalbakeya, Bagmati and Kamla rivers?

Ans : Nepal

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has been recently reelected for a second term as President of country?

Ans : Argentina

Which Indian archers have won Silver Medal in World Cup archery finals in Istanbul recently?

Ans : Deepika Kumari

Neelima Mishra has recently won which award?

Ans : Ramon Magsaysay Award

At which place, the Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA) has been established in India recently?

Ans : Ludhiana

Commonwealth Games bronze-medalist Jai Bhagwan is related to which sport?

Ans : Boxing

Nabam Tuki has been sworn in as Chief Minister of which state recently?

Ans : Arunachal Pradesh

Who heads the new committee set up by Ministry of Railways to review “long-term safety needs” of the national transporter?

Ans : Anil Kakodkar

Global Warrior and Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai is from

Ans: Kenya

Which state of India has now 75 districts ?

Ans :  Uttar Pradesh

Who recently become the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand for the second time ?

Ans : Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri

Justice J.S Shekher has been appointed as the recently appointed as-

Ans : The Judge of Supreme court

Leila Lopes who has been crowned with Miss Universe 2011 title is the national citizen of

Ans : Angola

Who among the following has been honored with 45th Jananipath Award 2009 ?

Ans : Both of the above

Who among the following has been honoured with 46th Jananipath Award 2010 ?

Ans : Chandrashekher Kambar

Under the 63rd Prime time Emmy Awards who among the following has been adjudged best actress in the category of Movies ?

Ans : Kate Winslet

Who has been honoured with Appan Menon Award ?

Ans : Srinivas Ramani

Who among the following has been honoured with Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2011 in Mathematical sciences?

Ans : Dr. Mahan Mj

Who among the following has figured in the list of World`s 50 most influential people in UK`s Left wing magazine 'New Statesman' ?

Ans : Both of the above

Which country has emerged as thee most competitive country at global level in the annual global Competitiveness Report (CGR) of the world economic forum ?

Ans : Switzerland

India`s Rank in the Global Competitiveness Report of World Economic forum is ?

Ans : 56th

As per the global Livability Survey,which Australian city has ranked as most livable city in the world

Ans : Melbourne