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15402. Which film has won the prestigious Golden Peacock award for the best film in the 41st International film festival (IFFI) in Goa?
Answer: “Moner Manush”.
15404. Information Technology Minister of Karnataka who resigned on December 3, 2010, following a police complaint against him in a multicrore land deal?
Answer: Katta Subramanya Naidu.
15405. Regulators in which country have okayed the agreement between Yahoo Japan and Google Inc.), which enables the former to use Google technology to power its search services in the country?
Answer: Japan.
15406. Which Indian Sportsperson has signed a 26-crore deal with world"s 3rd largest and India"s largest spirit maker UB group?
Answer: Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
15409. Which countries signed seven agreements including five in the area of nuclear energy, to pave the way for more intensive cooperation in this sector on 6th December, 2010?
Answer: India and France.
15410. Which country won the Davis Cup tennis for the first time in its history beating France in the final on December 5, 2010?
Answer: Serbia.
15411. Which American airline was convicted for the crash of Air France Concorde in 2000 occurred when the plane took off from Charles de Gaulle airport?
Answer: Continental Airlines.
15412. According to the nuclear pact signed between France and India on December 5, 2010, France will construct two 1650 MW nuclear power reactors in India. The nuclear reactors are to be constructed in which Indian state?
Answer: Jaitapur in Maharashtra
15413. The Confucius Peace Prize which was created in 2010 by an organization in the People"s Republic of China as a move to counter the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to?
Answer: Lien Chan.
15415. Which country is leading the list of corrupt countries according to survey report of Transparency International, a global body that works as a civil society organization?
Answer: Somalia.
15416. Facebook founder who has joined the league of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates in pledging to give away a majority of their fortune for charitable causes?
Answer: Mark Zuckerberg.
15417. Who won gold in the over 81kg weight category of the Monnet 11th senior women"s boxing championship at the Lulu International Convention Centre?
Answer: K.C. Lekha.
15418. Indian who has been chosen for the Laureus Media International Selection Panel for 11th consecutive term?
Answer: V Rajagopal.
15419. Which country has been awarded the rights to host the 2012 Asia Cup Cricket?
Answer: Bangladesh.
15420. U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan who died on December 13, 2010 at the age of 69 after undergoing heart surgery?
Answer: Richard Holbrooke.
15421. Who has become the second youngest person ever to win Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2010?
Answer: Mark Zuckerberg.
15422. Who is appointed as the head of planning for military operations of Al-Qaeda against the West?
Answer: Ilyas Kashmiri.
15423. Corporate lobbyist who was questioned by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team on 21-12-2010 for her firm’s alleged role in the 2G spectrum allocation case?
Answer: Nira Radia.
15424. Which PSU (Public Sector Undertaking) has been conferred with the MOU Excellence Award to facilitate the PSU’s performance during 2008-09?
Answer: Cochin Shipyard Ltd.
15425. Who was crowned the winner of The Biggest Loser Asia 2, a popular weight-loss reality TV series which was conducted in an IOI Resort City mansion in Malaysia’s Putrajaya?
Answer: Viveganandam Deveraj.
15426. Who has won the London Chess Classic for the second time after a smooth victory over Nigel Short in the seventh and last round?
Answer: Magnus Carlsen.
15427. Which countries signed six agreements on December 16, 2010 in the fields of green technology, hydrological data of common rivers, media exchanges, cultural exchanges, banking sectors?
Answer: India and China.
15428. Who has become the first man in the history of Cricket to achieve fifty test cricket centuries?
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar
15429. Noted Malayalam writer who has won Kendra Sahithya Academy Award-2010 for his travelogue book "Haimavathabhoovil"?
Answer: M.P. Veerendrakumar.
15430. Which countries signed 30 agreements on December 21, 2010, including on oil and gas sector and pacts on nuclear energy, defence and space cooperation?
Answer: India and Russia.
15431. Which country recently banned newspapers, publishers and website-owners from using foreign words - particularly English ones?
Answer: China.
15432. Noted Iranian filmmaker who has been sentenced for six years in jail and barred from directing and producing movies for the next 20-years?
Answer: Jafar Panahi.
15433. Which country conducted successful experiment of fastest Train of World on 4 December, 2010?
Answer: China.
15435. Which country trained an elite police force in Bangladesh accused of extra-judicial killings and human rights violations, according to the latest diplomatic cables revealed by WikiLeaks?
Answer: Britain
15436. Thirteen year old boy who made a history in school cricket on December 22, 2010 when he scored mammoth 498 runs in Harris Shield tournament in Mumbai?
Answer: Arman Jaffer.
15438. Which film has won the Golden Crow Pheasant Award at the 15th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK)?
Answer: “Portraits in a Sea of Lies”
15439. Former Chief Minister of Kerala and Veteran Congress leader died at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram recently?
Answer: K.Karunakaran.
15440. Human Rights activist who was sentenced to life imprisonment on December 24, 2010 after being held guilty of sedition and conspiracy by a Chhattisgarh court for his alleged links with Maoists?
Answer: Binayak Sen.
15441. Mobs of which Caribbean country killed more than 45 Voodoo priests, accusing them for using “black magic” to spread cholera?
Answer: Haiti.
15442. Who was the lone Indian to win a title in the Tata Open India International badminton challenge held at the Cricket Club of India on December 25, 2010?
Answer: PC Thulasi.
15443. Who is named as the new coach of European and Italian champions Inter Milan?
Answer: Leonardo.
15444. Former Venezuelan president, who nationalised the oil industry and then survived a coup attempt by future leader Hugo Chavez, died recently in Miami?
Answer: Carlos Andres Perez.
15445. The launch of which advanced communication satellite failed as the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) exploded mid-air moments after it took off from the Sriharikota rocket launch centre on December 25,2010?
Answer: GSAT-5P.
15446. Who became the first cricketer, other than wicket-keepers, to take 200 catches in Test cricket?
Answer: Rahul Dravid.
15447. Name of the new species of gummy shark which was found 500mts deep off the Mangalore coast recently?
Answer: Mustelus manglorensis.
15448. Which committee has submitted its report on Telangana separate state issue to the Home Minister P. Chidambaram on December 30, 2010?
Answer: The SriKrishna Committee.
15449. Who is appointed as the first woman secretary general of SAARC?
Answer: Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed.
15450. Former Israel President who was convicted on December 30, 2010 for raping an employee when he was a Cabinet minister, the most serious criminal charges ever brought against a high-ranking official and a case that shocked the nation?
Answer: Moshe Katsav.
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