Current Affairs – UPSC Prelims PYQs

Recently with which country’s government did ONGC-Mittal Energy Limited (OMEL) sign a joint-venture deal of $6 billion dealing with infrastructure, refinery and power?

Which one among the following was awarded the CSIR Diamond Jubilee Technology Award 2004 in September 2005 by the Prime Minister of India?

Who among the following directed the film chosen as India’s official entry for the year 2006 Academy Awards?

Recently Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh governments signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the linking of two rivers as a link project. Which are these two rivers?

With reference to the Government of India’s various programmes, what is Nirmal Gram Puraskar?

Which is the correct chronological sequence of the major events given below?

1. SLV-3 Launch
2. Formation of Bangladesh
3. Sikkim becomes 22nd State of the Indian Union
4. Pokharan-I test

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

In which Olympics Games did India last win a Gold Medal?

In which country is the committee which selects winners for Nobel Peace Prize located?

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:

1. Theatre training
2. Women’s labour sector
3. Management teaching
4. Litterateur and Social Worker for the country’s tribal communities

List I (Person) A. Ela Bhatt B. Mahasweta Devi C. Ebrahim Alkazi D. Vijay Govindarajan

List II (Area of work)

Codes:

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:

1. Advertising
2. Banking
3. Dairy Development
4. Pepsi Co. A B C D

List I (Person) A. Chandra B. Amrita Patel C. Indra Nooyi D. Piyush Pandey

List II (Organization / Area of work)

Consider the following statements:

1. Kofi Annan – the UN Secretary-General is from Nigeria.
2. Kofi Annan is the first UN Secretary-General to be appointed from the ranks of the United Nations staff.
3. Kofi Annan was appointed for a second term to the office of the UN Secretary-General.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Which one of the following countries is not a participant team in the Football World Cup-2006 to be held in Germany in July 2006?

Consider the following statements:

1. The Nobel Prize Awarding Ceremony takes place on December 10 every year.
2. The Nobel Prize for Literature was added later on to the other five areas – Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Peace and Economics.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

What is Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)?

Which one of the following countries is not a member of the Nordic Council?

Match items in the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. Diet
2. States General
3. Supreme Council
4. Sejm

List I (Country) (A) Netherlands (B) Ukraine (C) Poland (D) Japan

List II (Name of Parliament)

Who among the following is the President of the FICCI?

Which one of the following is the landmark performance of Dr. V. Mohan Reddy, an Indian born doctor working in USA, during February, 2005

Which countries played in the Lawn Tennis Davis Cup Final in the year 2004?

Which one of the following was probed by the Liberhan Commission?

Match List-I (Distinguished Person) with List-II (Achievement/Known as) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. First woman Prime Minister of Canada
2. Nobel Prize winner for literature
3. Leading campaigner against apartheid in South Africa
4. Youngest woman to climb the Mt. Everest
5. American violinist

List I (A) Guenter Grass (B) Trevor Huddleston (C) Dicky Dolma (D) Kim Campbell

List II

Consider the following statements:

1. The Charter of the United Nations Organization was adopted at Geneva, Switzerland in June 1945.
2. India was admitted to the United Nations Organization in the year 1945.
3. The Trusteeship Council of the United Nations Organization was established to look after the affairs of territories detached from Japan and Italy after the Second World War or such territories not under the control of a country at that time.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. Automobiles Manufacture
2. Fisheries Economy
3. Information Technology and Software
4. Poultry Farming
5. Management Science

List I (Distinguished Person) (A) B.V. Rao (B) C.K. Prahlad (C) John Kurien (D) Kiran Karnik

List II (Area of Work)

Recently,

to which of the following countries did India offer to build a Buddha Temple?

Which one of the following is not an ASEAN member?

Consider the following statements :

1. Second World Buddhist Summit was held in Bangkok in November–December, 2004
2. World Punjabi Conference was held in Jalandhar in December, 2004
3. 4th Meeting of the SAARC, Trade Ministers was held in Islamabad in November, 2004

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements :

1. The Parliament of Russia is called Federal Assembly.
2. The Council of the Federation in the Russian Parliament is the lower house
3. The name of the upper house in the Russian Parliament is State Duma.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Of which one of the following games is Shanmugham Venkatesh an outstanding player?

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

Which one of the following pairs are correctly matched? Publication — Group

1. Sportstar — The Hindu publication group
2. Business-world — ABP group
3. The Week — Malayala Manorama publication group
4. Reader’s Digest — Indian Express publication group

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Which one of the following pairs are correctly matched? Enterprise — Industrial Group

1. VSNL — Bharti Group
2. Mundra Special Economic Zone Ltd — Adani Group
3. CMC Ltd — Tata Group
4. IPCL — Reliance Group

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

In which country is Bandung, where the Conference of African and Asian nations was held which led to establishing Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), situated?

Match items in the List-I (Businesswoman) with List-II (Company) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. Venkateshwara Hatcheries
2. AZB & Partners
3. Quantum Market Research
4. Avestha Gengraine Technology
5. Biocon India

List-I (Businesswoman) A. Zia Mody B. Anuradha J. Desai C. Villoo Morawala Patell D. Meena Kaushik

List-II (Company)

Consider the following statements concerning the Indian Railways:

1. The Headquarters of the North Western Railway are located at Jodhpur.
2. ‘Indrail pass’ – a travel-as-you-please ticket has been created especially for freedom fighters and sportspersons who have represented India in any game/sport.
3. Fairy Queen is a train using the world’s oldest working engine and the Indian Railways conduct a journey of wildlife and heritage sites on it.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? British Prime Minister — Political Party

Match items in the List-I with those in the List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. Skybus Metro rail test-run
2. TIC paper board unit
3. Bio-diesel plant
4. Indian Air Force Academy

List-I (Location) A. Kakinada B. Dundigal C. Margao D. Bhadrachalam

List-II (Known For / In News For)

Under which one of the Ministries of the Government of India does the Food and Nutrition Board work?

In which one of the following countries did hundreds of people die in the year 2004 as a result of flooding and mudslides triggered by Tropical Storm Jeanne?

Where was the world’s largest ever meet on HIV/AIDS held in July, 2004?

Match items in List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. Svetlana Kuznetsova
2. Anastasia Myskina
3. Maria Sharapova
4. Serena Williams
5. Justine Henin Harden

List-I (Lawn Tennis Tournament) A. French Open 2004 B. Wimbledon 2004 C. US Open 2004 D. Australian Open 2004

List-II (Winner of Women’s Singles)

Match items in List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. Swimming
2. Lawn Tennis
3. Cricket
4. Football
5. Basketball

List-I (Former Sportsperson) A. Wally Grout B. Eusébio C. Rod Laver D. Mark Spitz

List-II (Game/Sport)

Consider the following statements:

1. The Man Booker Prize is awarded to citizens of any of the countries of the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
2. A leading London-based software company underwrites the Man Booker Prize presently.
3. The winner of the Man Booker Prize in the year 2004 is a South Asian.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following pairs are correctly matched? Person — Award

1. Champa Devi Shukla — Goldman Environmental Prize
2. Dr. P. Sri Ramachandrudu — Vachaspati Puraskar
3. Ela Ramesh Bhatt — Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management
4. Upamanyu Chatterjee — Lalit Kala Ratna Award

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

What was the reason for 5 lakh people of Hong Kong to make a demonstration around the middle of 2003?

The Ramon Magsaysay Award winner Shanta Sinha is known as

Match List I (Persons) with List II (Positions) and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. Executive Director, IMF
2. Chairman, Steel Authority of India Ltd
3. President, Indian Olympic Association
4. Vice-President, South Asian Region, World Bank

List I (A) B. P. Mishra (B) Suresh Kalmadi (C) Praful Patel (D) V. S. Jain

List II

Famous golf player Vijay Singh is

from which one of the following countries?

World's longest-ruling head of Government is from

Liberia was in the international news in the recent times for

Consider the following statements:

1. P. V. Narasimha Rao's Government established diplomatic relations between India and Israel.
2. Ariel Sharon is the second Prime Minister of Israel to have visited India.

Which of these statements given above is/are correct?