Current Affairs Quiz

By Atulaa Krishnamurthy10th Pass

Firstly..

Respect.

1) Complete the list-

Triplicane Parthasarathy TempleVadapalani Subramaniaswamy

TempleMylapore Kapaleeswarar Temple_________________________.

Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple, Madurai

It has been accorded ISO 9001:2008 certification becoming only the fourth temple in Tamil Nadu to gain this accreditation.

2) Velusamy – senior grade teacher in Coimbatore – married Lakshmi June 25, 1980.

Velusamy married Patchalammal Sep 14, 1986. After staying together for two-three years at Patchalammal father’s residence, Velusamy deserted her.

The court noted that Velusamy deserted Patchalammal either in 1988 or 1989. She moved the family court in 2001 seeking maintenance.

Madras High Court recognised the ‘second’ woman in the life of D. Velusamy as his ‘wife’ and awarded her maintenance of Rs.500 per month.

The Mahila Dakshata Samiti filed a petition to the Supreme Court, asking it to review a certain aspect of its judgement, which was overturned.

What aspect?

Usage of the word ‘keep’, as they felt it was derogatory and not gender sensitive.

3) Lobsang Sangay , Tenzin Namgyal Tethong, Kasur Tashi Wangdi are candidates for a certain post. This post is being contested for, for the first time in history.

Which post? And what brought it on?

Tibet’s first ever Prime Ministerial candidates.

This comes after the Dalai Lama’s announcement that he would relinquish all his political powers.

4) X fell out with Y in 2007. He angered her by trying to set up a new party while she was under house arrest on the orders of the military government. In December, Y accused X of treating Z as his "personal property" and claimed that it was "sucking blood from the poor". X is 70, and was recently removed as chairman of Z, which some say resulted out of his difficult relationship with Y.

Give me X and Z.

Mohammed Yunus and Grameen Bank.

Y is, of course, Sheikh Hasina.

5) The Supreme Court recently declined a writ petition, which sought to direct the Travancore Devaswom Board to stop doing something in its routine at Ponnambalamedu, which, the writ claimed, was misleading the people of India.

What?

The lighting of the Makara Vilakku every year on Makara Sankaranti.

The TDB recently admitted that Makara Vilakku was not a celestial phenomenon but a symbolic ritual, and was not to be confused the star Makara Jyothi.

6) Identify the man. Put Fundae.

Vineel Krishna, the collector of Malkangiri who was abducted by the Communist Party of India (Maoist), who claimed they abducted him as he was ‘a symbol of the oppressive nature of the Indian state’.

Vineel Krishna, an IITian from Madras, was abducted soon after bringing electricity to the village of Siliguma.

7) This man started out as a tuition teacher but subsequently started cheating people and banks. His early crimes include throwing acid on a doctor and stealing the jewellery of the Nizam.

Officially he claims to be scrap dealer with an annual income of Rs 30 lakh.

However, as of 2006, his UBS Bank holdings stood at $8.04 billion, and he faces a Rs 1 lakh crore fine for holding assets worth Rs 36000 crore.

Simple. Name him.

Hasan Ali Khan, businessman, horse-breeder, and alleged money launderer.

Despite his illegal holding of money, the Central Government doesn't intend to prosecute Khan under India’s money laundering law simply because it hadn’t gone into effect at the time the alleged crimes were committed.

8) X is considered the largest freshwater river island in the world.

The Government of India has proposed to nominate X for inclusion in the ‘cultural landscape' category of the UNESCO World Heritage list.

It is located in the middle of the mighty Brahmaputra and was shortlisted in the World Heritage Site (WHS) ‘Tentative List' at the World Heritage Committee session at Suzhou in China.

X?

Majuli

9) -Parallel Lines in Poetry-Crisis in Poetry-Ezhuthachan :A Study-Food carried-Imaginative. These are translations of his prose titles.

-The Thirsty Chalice-The Desert-Blue Eyes-Peacock Feather-A Drop of Light-Fire Moths-Alphabet. These are translations of his early poetry books.

Whose?

ONV Kurup, winner of the recently announced 43rd Jnanpith Award.

10) X received his PhD from The London School of Economics in 2008.

Through the ____ International Charity and Development Foundation, X subsequently pledged a donation of £1.5 million to support the work of the LSE's Centre for the Study of Global Governance on civil society organizations in North Africa. Following a certain happening, the LSE has issued a statement indicating that it will cut all financial ties and will accept no further money from the Foundation.

X’s PhD thesis has been made available online and commentators claim that passages appear to have been plagiarised from other sources without attribution. Pressure is being put on the LSE to revoke his PhD qualification and investigate the claims. X?

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.

Second son of Muammar Gaddafi of Libya.

11) Sitter. The Orissa Parliament recently ratified a constitutional amendment and passed the Orissa (the Alteration of Name) Bill.

The Rajya Sabha passed the bill and adopted the Constitution (113th) Amendment Bill after a brief debate. The Lok Sabha has already given its Approval.

What name(s) were changed, and to what were they changed?

Orissa to ‘Odisha’ and the language Oriya to ‘Odia’

12) The X bombing was the joint project of at least two Sikh terrorist groups with extensive membership in Canada, USA, England and India. Their anger had been sparked by an attack on the Golden Temple in June 1984.

 Inderjit Singh Reyat was the only person convicted of involvement in the bombing, after pleading guilty in 2003 to manslaughter. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison for building the bombs that exploded at Narita airport and aboard Flight 182.

What was the flight famously called?

Kanishka.

Said to be the worst instance of terrorism the world had ever seen until 9/11.

13) This man’s name is Rudolf Elmer. What is his claim to fame?

This is a Current Affairs quiz. Anyone would HAVE to put in a question related to this.

Whistleblower, recently convicted of leaking illegally obtained documents of Julius Bar, his former employers, in the Cayman Islands to WikiLeaks.

14) In mid-May 2005, X opened the European Food Safety Authority in Parma, Italy.

This location was chosen over a Finnish location after X made an assertion of Finns "not knowing what prosciutto is”.

Over this comment, the Finnish pizza chain Kotipizza later came back with a new variety of pizza called Pizza X, using smoked reindeer as the topping. The pizza won first prize in America's Plate International pizza contest in March 2008.

X is the 74th richest man in the world.

Among other things, he is notorious for the following- two days after Barrack Obama was elected POTUS, “complimented” him on his “suntan”.

On live TV, a young woman asked X what the younger generation should do about the lack of secure jobs. He promptly suggested that she try to marry "the son of X.. With a smile like yours, you could try”.

Silvio Berlusconi

15) -Germany, -Colombia, -South Africa, -Portugal -_______. Complete the list.

All the above countries were accorded an honour recently. What?

India.

All have been elected to non-permanent seats at the UN Security Council.

16) Identify and put funda.

17) The idea of this event was conceived by a Member of Parliament from Tamil Nadu and Rev. Fr. Jegath Gaspar Raj, founder of Tamil Maiyam, in September 2006.

The event is centered around the occasion of Tamil harvest festival of Pongal and takes place for a week long period. It is held with the intention of rejuvenating the old village festivals, art and artists

The festival is conceived to be the longest and biggest open Festival in India.

Name it.

Chennai Sangamam

18) a) Professor (Dr.) Ranbir Singh, Vice-

Chancellor, National Law University, Delhi

b) Dr. Abusaleh Shariff, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, Delhi

c) Dr. (Ms.) Ravinder Kaur, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Delhi

d) Vinod K. Duggal, former Home Secretary, who will also function as its Member-Secretary.

e) ___________________.

Who is the 5th member of this panel?

Justice Srikrishna, of the, yes, Srikrishna committee on the Telengana Issue.

19)

In the previous slide was a picture given in the US Army training guide to explain a certain policy. Name the policy, it was recently repealed.

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy

20. During X’s fourth term as Chief Minister in 1992, the state government decided to import palm oil from a Malaysian Company. The decision was to import 15000 tonnes of palm oil and price fixed was higher than the international price approved by the secretary. The role of Y was to communicate the cabinet decision to the State Civil Supplies Corporation.

The opposition protested against this, and when it came to power in 1996, filed an FIR against X and six others. Y’s name was added as an afterthought although he had no role in fixing of price.

X and Y?

X- K Karunakaran (RIP)

Y- P J Thomas

21) The X community is considered a major vote bank in Rajasthan and other states. In the 2003 elections, the BJP promised this community ST status after they came to power. However this did not happen.

The X protested against the police and the state at least 27 times, and are still protesting for special reservation in state government job selection and schools sponsored by the state.

X?

Gujjars/Gurjars

22) His birthday was the anniversary of the death of his great-grandfather, Prince Albert. Uncertain of how Prince Consort’s widow, Queen Victoria would react to the birth, the Prince of Wales wrote to the Duke of York that the Queen would be gratified “if you yourself proposed the name Albert to her”. Queen Victoria was mollified by the proposal to name the baby Albert and wrote a kind letter to the baby’s mother.

How do we better know the baby?

George VI

23)

All won the Lifetime Achievement Grammy this year.

24) What is happening here?

The inclusion of SKS Microfinance in BSE, being the first Microfinance Company to do so.

Vikram Akula, founder, asked his customers to ring the bell at BSE.

25) MS Balram is a champion diver and has represented India in many international swimming tournaments. What was his recent claim to fame?

AB Junior’s body double in the first scene of Raavan.