Gist of Questions & Correct Answers of PS Group "B" Examination held on 29.05.2011 Paper-I (Current Affairs Section)

PS Group B Examinaton was held on 29-05-2011. Paper I Question and Answer of Current Affairs section is listed below for the perusal of all. Suggestion and feedback is invited. Questions were framed differently and four options were given for marking the correct answer in the examination.

Gist of Questions and correct answers listed below for ready reference and to get an idea of the examination  pattern.

Sl No	Question	Correct answer
1.	Name of the first woman officer to get gallantry award in Army.	Major Mitali Madhumita awarded the Sena Medal (Gallantry)
2.	Kuril Island is a dispute between which nations.	The Kuril Islands dispute is a dispute between Japan and Russia over sovereignty over the South Kuril Islands.
3.	Cyclone Giri 2010 ravaged which nation?	Cyclone Giri was a powerful tropical cyclone which caused catastrophic damage in parts of Myanmar in late October 2010.
4.	Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.	Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha is the vice-presiding officer of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament of India. The current deputy speaker of the Lok Sabha is Karia Munda.
	1.      First woman speaker of Lok Sabha	2.      Meira Kumar is the first woman speaker of Lok Sabha
6.	Right to Education Act	Right to Education Act (RTE), which was passed by the Indian parliament on 4 August 2009, provides for free and compulsory education for children between 6 and 14.
7.	Where is Tembhil; the first village in India to get the Unique Identification Numbers.	Tembhli in Maharashtra's Nandurbar district
8.	Who heads UIDAI?	Nandan Nilekani, a former co-chairman of Infosys Technologies, was appointed as the first Chairman of the UIDAI in June 2009.
9.	Robert G. Edwards was awarded Nobel Prize in which filed?	The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 was awarded to Robert G. Edwards "for the development of in vitro fertilization".
10.	National Aquatic Animal of India is.	River Dolphin is the National Aquatic Animal of India.
11.	SAARC 2010 Meeting was held at	Thimphu, Bhutan, on 28 - 29 April 2010; the Sixteenth Summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
12.	Radioactive Material Found In Delhi is	Cobalt-60; Deepak Jain, the owner of the scrap shop in Mayapuri Phase 2 in west Delhi where the object was found, is in hospital after his body turned black when he touched the material.
13.	What is name of Superbug for which British Authorities have raised an alarm to India.	NBM-I; New Delhi-Metallo-1, is the Superbug which is resistant to antibiotics, has reached Britain and could spread worldwide as nothing is being developed to combat it.
14.	Mithali Raj is associated with which sport.	Mithali Raj (born 3 December 1982 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan) is a Test and One Day International cricketer who represents India women’s cricket team. She was the captain of the Indian women’s cricket team.
15.	In which event the Gold, Silver & Bronze medals were won by India in Commonwealth Games, Delhi?	Krishna Poonia, Harwant Kaur and Seema Antil - created history when gold, silver and bronze in the Discus Throw event
16.	Name of which State in India is changed recently?	Orissa to Odisha
17.	How many digits does Unique Identification Numbers (UID) contians?	???12
18.	One of the question was match the Sport Personality with the Sports Events.
19.	Question “Name of the first woman officer to get gallantry award in Army” was repeated twice.
20.	Name of the Book by Indian-American physician Siddhartha Mukherjee's which has won the prestigious 2011 Pulitzer prize.	The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
21.	Where did the 2010 BRIC summit took place.	The 2010 BRIC summit took place in Brasilia, Brazil on April 16, 2010.
22.	How many Post Offices ( Departmental and Extra Departmental ) were located in Rural Areas.	1.39 Lakh Post Offices
23.	2016 Olympic Games will be held in which country?	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.