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15201. The country which have reached the World Cup finals for the second time in their history with victory over Bahrain in their qualifying play-off?
Answer: New Zealand
15202. Who is the Man of the series of the 20-20 series between Pakistan and New Zealand held in Dubai?
Answer: Shahid Afridi. Pakistan won the series 2-0.
15204. Which country chosen as host for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings held from February to November 2009?
Answer: Singapore
15205. The 2011 meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) will be held in?
Answer: Honolulu
15206. National junior athletics championships from November 20 to 24 held in?
Answer: Warangal, Andrapradesh
15207. What is the highest score of India in a test cricket match on a single day?
Answer: 443/1 in the second day of the third test match against Sri Lanka in Mumbai.
15209. Who became the second Indian to complete 11,000 Test runs in the recent test match against Sri Lanka?
Answer: Rahul Dravid.
15211. Who is appointed as Australia"s batting coach for the upcoming cricket season?
Answer: Justin Langer
15212. Which Consumer electronics and durables major recently announced the inauguration of its split air-conditioner manufacturing line at its Sriperumbudur facility?
Answer: Samsung.
15213. According to the Open Doors 2009 report, which country has sent more than one lakh students to USA for the academic year 2008-09?
Answer: India.
15214. Which District panchayats of Kerala have won the ‘Nirmal Grama Puraskaram’ instituted by the Union government for their efforts in maintaining high level of public hygiene?
Answer: Alappuzha and Pathnamthitta
15215. Who becomes first Sri Lankan player to score a century in India since 1997?
Answer: Tilakaratne Dilshan
15216. Ace straw picture craftsman from India who has been invited to take part in the five day Mode Heim Handwerk fair at Munich from November 25?
Answer: Kiran Rajendran
15217. The 11th International Meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties jointly hosted by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) took place in?
Answer: New Delhi.
15218. One of Iraq"s vice presidents who vetoed the country"s new election law recently, throwing into fresh doubt the feasibility of holding crucial national balloting in January ?
Answer: Tariq Hashimi.
15219. Sri Lankan player who scored a classy double century in the first test match against India in Ahmedabad?
Answer: Mahela Jayawardhene He scored 275 runs and it was his sixth double century.
15220. Who has been declared elected in the presidential elections of Afghanistan, which was held on 20th August, this year?
Answer: Hameed Karzai
15221. Who has been chosen for the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize of 2009 for Peace, Disarmament and Development?
Answer: Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister.
15222. Who won the first Maliyama Foundation Award?
Answer: Irom Sharmila The award will be given to her for her crusade against human rights violations and for repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958.
15223. The 1,500m champion of Beijing Olympics-2008, who has been stripped of his gold medal after a failed drugs test.
Answer: Rashid Ramzi.
15224. Who is the richest man in India with USD 32 billion in net worth followed by steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and Anil Ambani, according to the Forbes annual rich list for the country?
Answer: Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries Chairman.
15225. Which Indian film has bagged five awards at the South Asian International Film Festival held in New York?
Answer: "Manjaadikkuru".
15226. Who has chosen as first full-time president of European Union?
Answer: Herman Van Rompuy, Belgian Prime Minister
15227. The cricketer who has reached the milestone in his career by completing a phenomenal 30,000 runs in international cricket during the Test against Sri Lanka?
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar
15228. Which country won women"s team title in the 19th Asian Table Tennis Championships held in Lucknow?
Answer: China.
15229. Who has been named as High Representative (Chief) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of European Union?
Answer: Catherine Ashton, Britain
15231. Two Pakistani men accused of providing logistical support for last year"s deadly terror attacks in Mumbai, India, were arrested in Italy. Name of that terrorists?
Answer: Mohammad Yaqub Janjua and Aamer Yaqub Janjua
15232. Which state of India won the national Junior Athletics Championship held at Warangal for the 13th consecutive time?
Answer: Kerala.
15233. Constitution bench to consider the Mullaperiyar dam dispute between Tamil Nadu and Kerala has been formed recently. The bench consists of?
Answer: The five-judge bench would be presided by Justice DK Jain.
15234. Who has been named as the Secretary of the International Monetary Fund by its Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn?
Answer: Siddharth Tiwari, Indian economist.
15235. Which is the inaugural film of the 40th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Panaji, Goa, on Nov 23, 2009?
Answer: “Wheat", Chinese historical drama was the inaugural film.
15236. Who is the Man of the match of the second ODI between South Africa and England at Super Sport Park, Centurion on 22-11-2009?
Answer: Paul Collingwood.
15237. Which state crowned champions in the 55th National School Games held in Amritsar?
Answer: Kerala.
15238. In November 2009, a day after a newspaper published the allegedly leaked contents of the report, the report was tabled in the Indian parliament by the Home Minister, P. Chidambaram. Name of that commission?
Answer: Liberhan Commission
15239. Who has been crowned Miss Earth 2009 which was held on November 22 at the Boracay beach resort in Aklan province, central Philippines?
Answer: Larissa Ramos, Nineteen-year-old Brazilian beauty.
15241. India’s nuclear-capable intermediate range and surface-to-surface missile which was test—fired for the first time on 23rd of Novmber-2009?
Answer: Agni II
15242. Who won the Artist of the Year Award at the 37th American Music Awards (AMAs) beating out Michael Jackson?
Answer: Taylor Swift. She won five awards while Jackson got 4 awards.
15244. Who has taken over as General Manager, Southern Railway on 21st November 2009?
Answer: Shri Deepak Krishan
15245. Secretary Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs who is appointed as Secretary of Ministry of Shipping?
Answer: K Mohandas.
15246. Who became the first woman president to fly in a fighter jet, the Sukhoi-30MKI of the Indian Air Force?
Answer: Pratibha Patil, Indian President
15247. Prosecutors in the genocide trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded a 40-year jail sentence recently for a man they described as responsible for snuffing out innocent lives and spreading terror across Cambodia. Name of that Jail Chief?
Answer: Kaing Guek Eav.
15248. Iran"s best-selling newspaper, which has been banned for publishing a picture of a temple belonging to the outlawed Bahai sect.?
Answer: Hamshahri.
15249. Who became the fourth highest run getter in Test cricket, surpassing former Australian captain, Allan Border?
Answer: Rahul Dravid.
15250. Who has been appointed as chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India?
Answer: Srikumar Banerjee.
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