Current Affairs Quiz (25,26,27 July 2010)

Q 1:Parliament adjourned on Monday, opening day of the monsoon session, after both Houses paid tributes to the former Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, and two sitting and two former members who died during the inter-session period.Paying glowing tributes to Shekhawat, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and Rajya Sabha Chairman ..............described him as a sagacious statesman, a distinguished legislator and a committed votary of humanitarian values.
Sh. K.R. Narayanan
Hamid Ansari
Sh. Krishan Kant

Q 2:Human Resource Development Minister .................'s comments on the Uttar Pradesh government's stand on the Right to Education (RTE) Act has drawn flak from Chief Minister Mayawati.

Ambika Soni
Kapil Sibal
Girija Vyas

Q 3:British Prime Minister..............., along with a large delegation comprising Cabinet Ministers and businessmen, arrived in Bangalore on Tuesday to reinvigorate bilateral ties.
Nick Klegg
David Cameron
Gordon Brown

Q 4:The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to spell out whether there was any proposal to set up a tribunal to adjudicate the river water dispute between ........... and ........... on construction of a project across the Mandovi river
Goa,Karnataka
Goa,Maharashtra
Maharashtra,Karnataka

Q 5:An Additional Sessions Court in Margao in south Goa on Monday granted bail to the former Goa Tourism Minister, Mickky Pacheco, the prime accused in the .............. unnatural death case.
Scarlett Keeling
Nadia Torrado
Fiona MacKeown

Q 6:According to the prosecution, over 250 people lost their lives and 713 sustained injuries in 13 blasts in Mumbai on March 12, 1993. The special TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities [Prevention] Act) court had convicted 100 people, including ......... death sentences and ...... life imprisonments.
8,25
11,18
8,20

Q 7:The NDFB (Ranjan Daimary) militants showered heavy fire on SSB patrol party recently. The incident site is located along the border line that demarcates Manas National Park in India and Royal Manas National Park in ..........
Bhutan
Bangladesh
Nepal

Q 8:The Prime Minister's Media Adviser has denied a report carried by the Indian Express on Sunday that suggested that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took up with External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna his public criticism of Home Secretary .............
Nirupama Rao
G.K. Pillai
S.S. Menon

Q 9:It would go down as the irony of the 2010 Sri Lankan presidential election. Much to the disbelief and amusement of the people, just an hour before the polling was to close it was discovered that common opposition candidate ................... is not registered as a voter.
Prasanna Vithanage
D. M. Jayaratne
General Sarath Fonseka

Q 10:We want to further develop its ties with India to promote security and economic stability in the Gulf, South Asia and beyond, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the ............said
UAE
Iran
Lebanon