Breaking Knowledge: Current affairs October 2011

1. Recently which Ghazal Singer and Padmabhushan Awardee, Passed Away in Mumbai ?

-Jagjit Singh

Veteran ghazal singer Jagjit Singh passed away on 10 October 2011 in Mumbai. He was 70. He was admitted in Lilavati Hospital for more than two weeks. The singer had undergone an emergency surgery for brain hemorrhage at the Hospital on 23 September 2011.

2. Name the Ex-Chief Minister of Karnataka who was arrested recently.
B.S.Yeddyurappa

3. Name the 3D animation film Shemaroo Entertainment which is set to release online.
Super K

4. Who is set to head special purpose vehicle called the GST Network?
Nandan Nilekani

5.Which business has NIIT sold to Skillsoft for $110 million?
Element K

6. Who has been appointed as commissioner for the AFC Champions League final?
FIFA badge holder Gautam Kar

7. Name the men’s and women’s singles National champions who won the Fenesta National Championship.
Yuki Bhambri and Rutuja Bhonsle

8. Name the Indian golfer who finished 2nd in the Hero Indian Open golf tournament.
Chiragh Kumar

9. Name the Indian women’s discus thrower who qualified for London Olympics after clinching gold medal at an event of the Fling Throw Meet in Portland, USA.

Krishna Poonia

10. Upon whose name a highway leading south out of the capital in Grenada is set to be renamed?
Kirani James Boulevard

11. Which director is set to make film on mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan?
Roger Spottiswoode

12. Name the team which won the Durand Cup?
Churchill Brothers

13. Which former Ranji Player died after falling from train at Vaikom in Kottayam?
K.R.Krishna Varma

14. Name the 69-year-old who collapsed and died minutes after fulfilling his life-long ambition of climbing Africa’s highest mountain peak, Mount Kilimanjaro.
Alistair Cook

15. Which Bollywood movie have been watched by over 1.3 lakh Chinese since its Mandarin version release?
Aamir Khan’s 3 Idiots

16. Which Asian Advertising congress is coming back to India after 8 years?
Ad Asia (October 31st to November 3rd 2011)

17. Name the education technology solution launched by Texas Instruments in association with CORE Education and Technologies to facilitate a better learning experience for students in classrooms across India.
STEMpower

18. Who has been honoured with Dr.B.Saroja Devi award recently?
Dr.Vyjayanthimala

19. Who is set to receive Mahatma Gandhi peace prize in South Africa?
Dalai Lama

20. Name the rocket and navigation satellite launched by Russia after August’s space ship crash.
Soyuz-2 rocket launched a GLONASS navigation satellite

21. Who has been voted as 2nd most powerful business-woman in US?

Indra Nooyi

22. Which company has struck natural gas reserves in its first well drilled in the offshore Mannar basin in Sri Lanka?
Cairn India

23. Who has been selected to create the theme music for the London Olympics 2012?
Scottish rocker Mark Ronson

24. Which Indian shuttler finished runner-up in Czech International Open?
Arundhati Pantawane

25. Which IAS officer has joined as Prime Minister’s principal secretary?
Pulok Chatterjee

26. Name the trio who received Nobel Medicine Prize for immune system research.
Bruce Beutler of USA, Jules Hoffmann Luxembourg and Ralph Steinman Canada

27. Which FM radio channel has taken initiative to make Goddess Durga idol out of bio-degradable and recyclable waste material in Kolkata?
OYE 104.8 FM

28. Who is called as the Gandhian of Brazil?
Lia Diskin

29. Who is the inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker which keeps the heartbeat in a regular rhythm?
Wilson Greatbatch

30. What is the name of the China’s first space Laboratory?
Tiangong-1

31. Name the famous television personality of CBS News channel’s program called “60 minutes” retired recently?
Andy Rooney

32. Which UAE telecom giant recently launched 4G mobile broadband network in UAE?
Etisalat

33. Who retired as the CEO of Hyundai Motor co. recently?
Yang Seung-suk

34. Name the planetary scientist who worked for NASA recently died?
Micheal J.Drake

35. Name the three Indian boxers who have qualified for London Olympics 2012?
Jai Bhagwan, L.Devendro Singh and Manoj Kumar

36. Name the Afghan President who was in India for a two-day visit.
Hamid Karzai

37. Who has been appointed as Chairman of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation?
Sudhir Vasudeva

38. Name the MD and VP, Nokia India, who has been assigned global role to head India, Middle East and Africa region.
D.Shivakumar

39. Name the company which has launched apps for iPad and Android phones recently.
Adobe

40. Who has shot a film in 47 days titled ‘Facebook’?
RP.Patnaik

41. Who won the 2011 Nobel prize in chemistry?
Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals

42. Name the world’s cheapest laptop launched in India.
Aakash

43. Name the Ashes hero who died at the age of 52.
Former England fast bowler, Graham Dilley

44. Who won the Irani Cup 2011?
Rest of India Team

45. Name the application launched by Monster India for Facebook users.
BeKnown

46. Name the Galaxy version mobile launched by Samsung India.
Galaxy Y

47. What is the financial strength rating retained for ICICI Bank while SBI’s rating is downgraded from ‘C-’ to ‘D+’ by Moody’s?
C-

48. Name the person who has been conferred at the 2011 Telstra NSW Business Women’s Award for her contribution to world’s first green steel manufacturing process.
Veena Sahajwalla

49. Name the Apple co-founder who passed away recently.
Steve Jobs

50. Which four teams entered semi-finals in Champions League Twenty-20 cricket?
Somerset, Mumbai Indians, New South Wales and Royal Challengers Bangalore

51. Name the Swedish poet who won 2011 Nobel in literature.
Tomas Transtromer

52. Name the Sanskrit scholar and a former director of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan who passed away recently.
Mathoor Krishnamurthi

53. Which countries President have offered hindi films to be shot at the picturesque country?
Austrian President

54. Which country has won first victory in UNESCO vote?
Palestine

55. What is the annual inflation as of September 2011 in Sri Lanka?
7.2per cent

56. Whose museum was inaugurated in Austria recently?
Schwarzenegger

57. Name the 3 women who share the Nobel Peace Prize 2011.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for work on women’s rights

58. Who booked the finals berth in Champions League Twenty 20 cricket tournament 2011?
Royal Challengers Bangalore

59. Name the Lord Mayor of London who will be on a 5-day visit to India from October 10th 2011 to strengthen economic ties between India and the UK.
Lord Mayor Michael Bear

60. Name the 2 British banks which included in the list of 12 whose credit ratings were downgraded by Moody’s.
Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB

61. Who won the Showjumping Open title on the opening day of the South India Equestrian championship?
Hrishika Basappa

62. Which software’s updated version has been launched by Infosys?
Finacle e-Banking solution

63. Who won the Shanghai Masters title?
Andy Murray

64. Which day has been declared as ‘Steve Jobs Day’?
16th October

65. Name the businessman who won the Queen’s award for enterprise 2011 in london.
Dr.Rami Ranger

66. Who won the MotoGP title for the fifth consecutive year at the Australian Grand Prix?
Casey Stoner

67. Who won the Formula 1 Korean Grand Prix 2011?
Sebastian Vettel

68. Name the Australian University which has offered Amitabh Bachchan honorary doctorate for his contribution to the world of entertainment.
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane