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15051. Best State Pavilion Award of International Flower show held in Bangalore from 5th to 9 th December 2009 won by?
Answer: State Horticulture Mission, Kerala.
15052. Which commission’s report was placed in the Lok Sabha on 18-12-2009 by Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid?
Answer: Rangnath Mishra Commission.
15053. Who became the first Indian boxer to clinch a gold medal at the inter-continental President’s Cup after out-punching Frenchman Nordine Oubaali 8-1 in the fly weight (51kg) finals held in Baku (Azerbaijan)?
Answer: Suranjoy Singh.
15054. Who will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy the day before the Grammy Awards take place on January 30?
Answer: Michael Jackson.
15055. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has severed ties with private security firm, whose employees helped load the drone aircraft tasked with killing targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Name of that private security agency?
Answer: Blackwater Worldwide.
15056. Which player has been named World Player of the Decade by prestigious British magazine World Soccer?
Answer: Ronaldinho.
15057. Who is the doubles partner of Indian tennis star Sania Mirza for the Australian Open commencing next month?
Answer: Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain.
15058. Which player won the Man of the match award in the second 20-20 Cricket match between India and Sri Lanka held in Mohali?
Answer: Yuvraj Singh.
15059. Who has been named as the Miss World-2009?
Answer: Kaiane Aldorino (Gibraltar)
15060. Who was recently sentenced to four years and nine months in prison and an additional three years of supervised release by a US court for posting hate messages in 2006 against former president George Bush and calling for bombings of American infrastructure?
Answer: Vikram Buddhi.
15061. Which country won the fifth South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Cup title, by beating defending champions Maldives 3-1 via the penalty shoot-out in Dhaka?
Answer: India.
15062. Which Bollywood film is going to set a record in the Guinness Book of World Records as the only film in the world featuring the real-life father son duo in a role reversal on-screen?
Answer: Paa. The film is directed by Balki.
15063. Which country has begun talks with Russia and a United Nations arms control committee about strengthening Internet security and limiting military use of cyberspace?
Answer: U.S.A
15064. Prime Minister of Italy is recovering in hospital after an assault left his face covered in blood following a rally in Milan?
Answer: Silvio Berlusconi.
15065. Which country won the Champions Challenge hockey tournament in Salta, Argentina beating rivals Pakistan in the final by four goals to two?
Answer: New Zealand.
15066. A British court has issued an arrest warrant for Israel’s former foreign minister over war crimes allegedly committed in Gaza this year. Name of that Israeli Minister?
Answer: Tzipi Livni.
15067. Who won the man of the match award in the first ODI between India and Sri Lanka held in Rajkot on 15-12-2009?
Answer: Virendra Sehwag. He scored 146 runs from 102 balls. India won the match by three runs.
15068. Indian American who has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Texas court and ordered to pay $68 million in restitution for his involvement in an elaborate rogue internet pharmacy scheme?
Answer: Rakesh Jyoti Saran.
15069. Name of the upgraded version of a surface-to-surface Long-Range Missile successfully launched by Iran on 16th December 2009?
Answer: Sajjil-2.
15070. Former BJP leader and Member of Parliament who resigned from the post of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman by sending his resignation letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar?
Answer: Jaswant Singh
15071. Former Russian prime minister and one of the leading architects of free market reforms in post-Soviet Russia, died at the age of 53?
Answer: Yegor Gaidar.
15072. One of the country"s top drug kingpins who was killed by the Mexican Navy special forces in a shootout in the central city of Cuernavaca recently ?
Answer: Arturo Beltrán Leyva.
15073. Which country decided to phase out 300-year-old tradition of paying by cheque in favour of more modern payment methods?
Answer: Britain
15074. Which cricketer blasted the fifth fastest Test century of all time en route to his 13th Test hundred, shocking Australia’s bowlers on the second day of the third and final Test at the WACA?
Answer: Chris Gayle
15075. Who becomes the first female politician to be appointed as the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha?
Answer: Sushma Swaraj.
15076. Which film won the FIPRESCI award for the best film in the just concluded 14th International Film Festival of Kerala?
Answer: A Fly in the Ashes (an Argentine film directed by Gabriela David)
15077. Who won the man of the match award in the second ODI between India and Sri Lanka held in Nagpur?
Answer: Tillakaratne Dilshan.
15078. Name of the Florida inmate who has become the longest-serving prisoner to be exonerated using DNA evidence and he was released from a Florida prison, where he had spent 35 years for a crime he didn"t commit?
Answer: James Bain.
15079. Who has been ranked among top five best performing CEOs in the world by the prestigious Harvard Business Review?
Answer: Mukesh Ambani.
15080. Name of the book in which the first history of Clinton scandal has been written and the same book also alleges that Clinton had an affair with Susan McDougal of Whitewater infamy?
Answer: “The Death of American Virtue”
15081. Who was elected unanimously as the National President of BJP?
Answer: Nitin Gadkari
15082. Name of the two pops who were declared venerable by Pope Benedict XVI-the first step on the road to canonization as saints for both men?
Answer: Pope John Paul II and Pope Pius XII.
15083. Who has been appointed as the Director of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)?
Answer: Dr K Sree Krishna Kumar
15084. Iran"s most senior dissident cleric who is treated as the spiritual father of Iran"s reformists died at the age of 87?
Answer: Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri.
15085. Who won the man of the match award in the third test between Australia and West Indies held at the WACA Ground?
Answer: Chris Gayle. He also named the man of the series.
15086. President of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who has been denied a visa by Pakistan for attending a conference to be held in Islamabad?
Answer: Mehbooba Mufti
15087. Who won the women’s singles title in the Syed Modi International Grand Prix Badminton tournament in Luknow?
Answer: Saina Nehwal
15088. Who won the men’s singles title in the Syed Modi International Grand Prix Badminton tournament in Luknow?
Answer: Chetan Anand
15089. Who won the man of the match award in the first test between England and South Africa held in Centurion?
Answer: Graeme Swann.
15090. Who has been appointed as deputy leader of BJP in the Lok Sabha?
Answer: Gopinath Munde, Former Maharashtra deputy chief minister.
15091. American actress who gained fame in movies like "8 Mile" and "Just Married," died at the age of 32?
Answer: Brittany Murphy
15092. Who won the man of the match award in the third ODI between India and Sri Lanka held in Cuttack?
Answer: Ravindra Jadeja . He took 4 wickets for 32runs. India won the match by 7 wickets.
15093. Who has been awarded the honorary life membership of the Professional Golf Tour of India?
Answer: Jeev Milkha Singh, top golfer of India.
15094. Who has been named as its Rolex Player of the Year 2009 by the Professional Golf Tour of India?
Answer: Anirban Lahiri
15095. Which country dominated in the Commonwealth Wrestling championship, which concluded at the PAP Indoor Stadium, Jalandhar?
Answer: India.
15096. Who has been named Fifa World Footballer of the Year-2009?
Answer: Lionel Messi.(Club:Barcelona)
15097. Who won the female equivalent of FIFA’s World Player Of The Year Award for the fourth consecutive time?
Answer: Marta, Brazilian striker.
15098. Noted Malayali writer who got this year"s Kendra Sahitya Academy Award for his novel "Thrikkottoor peruma "?
Answer: U A Khader
15099. 10th Auto Expo will be held in which city of India?
Answer: Delhi. Expo will start from January 5.
15100. Who has been appointed to lead the UNDP Global Programme on Democratic Governance Assessment?
Answer: John Samuel.
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