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15501. Renowned Indian-origin academician who has been named alongside US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman among the seven most powerful economists in the world, according to a compilation in Forbes magazine?
Answer: Raghuram Rajan.
15502. Who was given the additional charge of the telecom ministry held by A Raja, who recently resigned facing allegations of scam in 2G spectrum allocation?
Answer: Kapil Sibal.
15503. Which country decided to pay millions of pounds in compensation to former Guantanamo Bay detainees following weeks of negotiations between lawyers for the government and the former prisoners?
Answer: Britain.
15504. Which company recently decided to shut down its match box manufacturing unit in Chennai (i.e. Chennai plant of Wimco) and has given voluntary retirement to all its employees?
Answer: ITC.
15505. Which magazine has won the International Press Institute (IPI) India Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2010 for its outstanding journalistic work done during 2009?
Answer: TEHELKA magazine.
15506. Two-day NATO summit, a meeting of the heads of state and heads of government of NATO held in?
Answer: Lisbon, Portugal.
15507. Who has been ranked by the Time magazine as the 9th most powerful woman of the past century, a list that also includes Mother Teresa?
Answer: Indira Gandhi.
15508. Which country launched a massive spy satellite on 21-11-2010 for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)?
Answer: U.S.A.
15509. Who has been crowned the 2010 Male World Athlete of the Year at the World Athletics Gala in Monte Carlo?
Answer: David Rudisha.
15510. Who has been crowned the 2010 Female World Athlete of the Year at the World Athletics Gala in Monte Carlo?
Answer: Blanka Vlasic (Croatia).
15513. Chief Minister of Andra Pradesh who resigned on November 24, 2010 citing his inability to withstand the work-pressure because of his age?
Answer: K. Rosaiah.
15514. Who becomes the 16th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh after Rosaiah resigns citing personal reasons?
Answer: Kiran Kumar Reddy.
15515. India recently decided to set up two test ranges for radar-based electronic warfare (EW) systems. The two test ranges will come up at?
Answer: Chitradurga in Karnataka and Tandur in Andhra Pradesh.
15516. The chief executive officer of LIC Housing Finance who has been arrested by CBI in connection with an alleged multi-crore housing finance racket?
Answer: Ramachandran Nair.
15517. Who is appointed as the new chief executive of LIC Housing Finance after RR Nair"s arrest by the CBI in connection with the multi-crore housing loan fraud?
Answer: V K Sharma.
15518. Who has been selected for the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2010?
Answer: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazilian President.
15520. Who won the man of the match award in the first test cricket match (Ashes) played between Australia and England held in Brisbane Cricket Ground, Australia from November 25,2010?
Answer: Alastair Cook
15521. South Korean Defense Minister who has resigned from his post following widespread criticism that the country has not been adequately responding to continued provocation by North Korea?
Answer: Kim Tae-young.
15522. A Walther air pistol of which James Bond actor has fetched $415,875 at Christie"s auction house in London on 25-11-2010?
Answer: Sean Connery.
15523. The Delhi court on November 27, 2010, ordered registration of FIR against a Hurriyat leader and an Indian writer for allegedly making anti-India speeches.Who are they?
Answer: Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Arundhati Roy.
15524. India"s indigenously developed 20th nuclear reactor became operational in the southern state of Karnataka on 27th November 2010, making it the sixth country in the world to have over 20 nuclear power plants in operation. Where is that nuclear power plant located in Karnataka?
Answer: Kaiga.
15525. Which country introduced new English language Test from November 29, 2010 for non- European migrants who apply for a visa to enter or remain in that country as a partner or spouse of that country’s citizen or person settled there?
Answer: Britain.
15526. Which country has introduced its first ever electronic passport that contains micro chipped information and is designed to foil forgers?
Answer: China.
15527. Who won the Man of the match award in the first ODI cricket between India and New Zealand held in Guwahati on November 28, 2010?
Answer: Virat Kohli (India). He scored 105 runs.
15528. Who beat Rafael Nadal in three sets to win the ATP World Tour Finals for a fifth time?
Answer: Roger Federer.
15529. The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference was held in?
Answer: Cancun, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010.
15530. A quantum physicist worked with the Iranian Atomic Energy Commission who was killed in Bomb attack by unidentified assailants on November 29, 2010?
Answer: Majid Shahriari.
15531. Sixty years after it first went to court, which high court has recently pronounced judgment in the Ayodhya dispute, a political, historical and socio-religious debate in India?
Answer: The Allahabad High Court.
15532. Name of the three judges who has pronounced judgment in the Ayodhya Dispute between Hindus and Muslims?
Answer: Justice S U Khan, Justice Sudhir Agarwal and Justice D V Sharma.
15533. The spokesperson of the Congress party who represented the Lottery Mafia (Megha Distributors) in Kerala High court while his party was engaged in a strong political campaign against the Lottery mafia?
Answer: Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
15534. The Pakistan Cricket Board chairman who has recently apologised to the England and Wales Cricket Board as well as the England cricketers over comments made regarding the third ODI Cricket at the Oval?
Answer: Ijaz Butt.
15535. Who has been appointed as Kerala regional chairman of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS)?
Answer: P V Chandran.
15536. Which country successfully launched their second robotic mission, Chang’E-2, to the Moon?
Answer: China.
15537. Who has been appointed as Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)?
Answer: K. Vijay Kumar.
15538. Who is appointed as Chief Executive Officer and President of HP (Hewlett-Packard)?
Answer: Leo Apotheker.
15539. Which team won the 32nd Federation Cup Football defeating Mohun Bagan by 1-0 in the final?
Answer: East Bengal.
15540. Name of the new political party formed by Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan"s former president and military chief?
Answer: All Pakistan Muslim League.
15541. The commander of Ecuador"s police force who has resigned in the wake of a police rebellion that took the country"s president hostage for 12 hours?
Answer: General Freddy Martinez.
15542. Which country recently apologized for a 1946-1948 research study in which people in Guatemala were intentionally infected with sexually transmitted diseases?
Answer: United States.
15543. Who won the Thailand Open Tennis title 2010 beating Finland"s world number 60 Jarkko Nieminen in the final?
Answer: Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.
15544. Which city will host the 98th edition of Indian Science Congress to be held for five days from January 3, 2011?
Answer: Chennai.
15545. Which country has hosted a UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting?
Answer: China.
15546. Who has won the first gold medal of 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi?
Answer: Augustina Nkem Nwaokolo. (Nigeria)
15547. Who won the first gold medal for India in the XIX Commonwealth Games 2010?
Answer: Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang (Shooters).
15548. Who won the player of the series award in the two test cricket matches between India and Australia held in India on October 2010?
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar.
15549. German auto-maker Volkswagen has started a new media innovation with talking newspaper advertisements in two mainstream newspapers of India to launch of its new Vento sedan. Name that news papers which carried the speaking advertisement?
Answer: The Times of India, The Hindu.
15550. Who has been selected for “Vallathol Puraskaram-2010”, an award given to the Malayalam writers for their contribution to the language?
Answer: Vishnu Narayanan Nampoothiri.
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