India: Current Affairs Quiz - December 2011

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India: Current Affairs

Quiz (Ref No. 1001)

1. Kudankulam nuclear power project with an investment of Rs 14000 crore is implemented in collaboration with which country
2. How may meters above the sea level is Kudankulam nuclear power project situated?
3. The genome sequencing of which linguistic group in India, to be published for the first time, is proved to have Caucasian links?
4. What is the meaning of the Tamil word ‘Kolaveri’ popularized by the film song?
5. A failure within the infrastructure of RIM, caused a loss of service to BlackBerry customers for 4 days and this led to a crash in its shares.  Expand RIM.
6. To which country does the company of BlackBerry belong?
7. Expand NCPRI.
8. Harvard University’s decision to scrap two courses taught by Subramanian Swamy raised a controversy recently.  What subject did he teach at Harvard?
9. The silent movie that topped nominations for Golden Globes with six of them?
10. How was Boris Chertok who died at 99 in December 2011 famous?

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Answers

1. Russia
2. 13.5
3. Malayali
4. Urge to kill
5. Research in Motion
6. Canada
7. National Campaign for People’s Right to Information
8. Economics
9. The Artist
10. Last surviving architect of Soviet space program that put Yuri Gagarin into orbit