Latest Current Affairs Quiz Questions Answers: 26 December 2012

1. Announced on 25th December 2012, which state has decided to provide free travel facility to cancer patients in state roadways buses?
[Category: India Current Affairs]
[A]Punjab
[B]Haryana
[C]Madhya Pradesh
[D]Bihar


2. Who has been formally elected as the Prime Minister of Japan by The Diet (Japanese Parliament) on Wednesday, 25th December 2012?
[Category: World Current Affairs]
[A]Shinzo Abe
[B]Yoshihiko Noda
[C]Naoto Kan
[D]Yukio Hatoyama


3. Narendra Modi takes oath of chief minister of Gujarat for the fourth straight time on Thursday, 26th December 2012. The governor of Gujarat, administered the oath of office to the chief minister along with his seven cabinet ministers and nine ministers of state at the Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad. Who is the governor of Gujarat?
[Category: Politics Current Affairs]
[A]Hansraj Bhardwaj
[B]Tejinder Khanna
[C]M. K. Narayanan
[D]Kamala Beniwal


4. The ‘Mahabrinda Natyam’, a performance by 5,794 artistes, comprising from the tender but nimble-footed three-year-olds to the 65-year-olds, bagged a coveted place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the “largest _________ dance” at the GMC Balayogi Stadium in Hyderabad. It was organised by SiliconAndhra to mark the close of the International __________ Dance Convention. For which dance form, this record has been made?
[Category: States and World Records Current Affairs]
[A]Bharatnatyam
[B]Kathakali
[C]Kuchipudi
[D]Kathak


5. Veteran Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara has become the ________ batsman ever to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket, reaching the milestone on the opening day of the Boxing Day Test against Australia at the MCG. Sangakkara averages more than 55 in a career spanning 115 Tests, and he reached 10,000 Tests runs in 195 innings, equalling the record previously shared by Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar.
[Category: Sports Current Affairs]
[A]Ninth
[B]Tenth
[C]Eleventh
[D]Twelfth