Current Affairs Quiz (This Week)

Q 1:Although Sunday's World Cup final between the Netherlands and Spain will already be the 18th final in the history of the competition, history will be made when the two teams play at Soccer City in Soweto on the outskirts of ............
Cape Town
Johannesburg
Durban

Q 2:BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said on Friday her party would raise in Parliament the issue of .........., where there was a 69-day blockade from April to June.

Assam
Manipur
J&K

Q 3:The parliamentary Committee on Public Undertakings (COPU) has demanded action against BSNL chairman and managing director ........... after he failed to appear on Thursday before the panel examining the functioning of the state-owned telecom firm.
Dr JS Sarma
C. Srinivas
Kuldeep Goyal

Q 4:The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the Maharashtra government’s plea to ban American author .................’s book Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India, paving the way for its circulation in the state.
John Crawfurd
James Laine
John Biddulph

Q 5:The Supreme Court today adjourned to Monday the hearing on Maharashtra government's appeal challenging a Bombay High Court judgement setting aside the 'best of 5' system for .......... Board students for admission to Class XI.
ICSC
SSC
CBSE

Q 6:Australia's new Prime Minister ............... today narrowly missed an egg thrown at her during her first visit to Perth since assuming the top post and apologised to the woman security guard who was hit.
Laura Chinchilla
Crisitina Kirchner
Julia Gillard

Q 7:India and ............., Canada's richest province, signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding on July 8 to boost cooperation and investment in the field of geology and mineral resources.
Alberta
Ontorio
Yukon

Q 8:President Barack Obama has named Indian American lawyer, ..........., as Vice Chairperson of an administrative reform body described as a "public-private partnership designed to make government work better".
Amy K Singh
Preeta D. Bansal
Neal Kumar Katyal

Q 9:Madhya Pradesh government has threatened legal action against Hockey India secretary .............. for his alleged defamatory remarks against the state’s Sports Director Sanjay Chaudhary.
KPS Gill
Dhanraj Pillay
Narinder Batra

Q 10:While the popularity of badminton may be on an all-time high, thanks to the exploits of Saina Nehwal, the power struggle between Badminton Association of India president,.............., and secretary, Vijay Sinha, is threatening to split the apex governing body of the sport.
Mohd Azharuddin
VK Verma
PK Sharma

Q 11:Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams has been selected to be on the crew for one of the four new International Space Station crews.Williams' first space expedition occurred in 2006, where she was launched to the ISS aboard the shuttle .................
Discovery
Columbia
Endeavour

Q 12:India's gross domestic product growth is expected to return to "9 percent plus" this year, Trade Minister .............. said.

Kamalnath
Anand Sharma
Praful Patel

Q 13:..............., president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), was taken to a hospital in South Africa after he fainted in a restaurant, a media report said on Saturday.
Lech Poznan's
Howard Webb
Michel Platini

Q 14:...........may compete with Indo Rama and JBF Industries to buy the loss-making plant of Bombay Dyeing.
RIL
VTM Fabrics
Magniram Textile Industries

Q 15: Indian Air force conducts joint exercise with French and Singapore air force- “...................” recently
Parakram 2010
Garuda 2010
Vikram 2010

Q 16:SAARC Home Ministers conference was recently held in ......................
Dhaka
New Delhi
Islamabad

Q 17: UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi laid foundation of ‘Rohtang Tunnel’ at Dhundi near .......recently.
Manali
Dharmashala
Shimla

Q 18:BCCI cancel IPL media right contract with ...........recently.
EA SPORTS
World Sports Group (WSG)
IMG World

Q 19:UK-based Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) sold its retail banking business to ....... in India recently
ICICI
HDFC
HSBC

Q 20:.................. won the European Grand Prix recently.
Sebastin Vettel
Jacques Villeneuve
Johny Herbert

Q 21:............. was elected as new president of International Cricket Council (ICC).
Sharad Pawar
Sunil Gavaskar
Arun Jaitley

Q 22:...............was made the brand ambassador for Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR)recently.

Sonam Kapoor
Saina Nehwal
Sachin Tendulkar

Q 23:............. had its first ever democratic poll recently.
Nigeria
Libya
Guinea

Q 24:Japan and Russia have agreed to jointly build a liquefied natural gas plant in ..................., with five million tonnes of output to be shipped to Japan annually.
Vladivostok
Hiroshima
Pittersburg

Q 25:US President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor General ............. will travel to India next week to begin laying the groundwork for Obama's history making visit in November.
Timothy Roemer
James Jones
Stephen Hadley