Current Affairs for ibps exam, 21th November 2011

1. Which company is set to launch $1 shoe in India?
A: Adidas

2. Name the Mexican novelist and poet who died following lengthy
illness just after being awarded.
A: Daniel Sada

3. Who donated Wikipedia foundation $500,000 recently?
A: Google co-founder Sergei Brin

4. Who won the Presidents Cup for United States?
A: Tiger Woods

5. Which Canada-based smartphone maker is set to provide free aptitude
test application on its BlackBerry phones for students in India with
partnership with content providers Ipomo and mobile operator Vodafone?
A: Research in Motion

6. Whose statue has Celebrity Wax Museum in Maharashtra unveiled?
A: Anna Hazare

7. Who broke his own National record in the 100m freestyle event in
the 65th Senior National Aquatics Championships?
A: Aaon Agnel D'Souza clocked 51:15

8. Which writers mobile application iJaihoon, dubbed as the 'App for
the eye within' was launched at the Sharajah International Book Fair
2011?
A: Mujeeb Jaihoon

9. Which country is set to open military hospital in Tajikistan?
A: India

10. Who won the men's air rifle gold in the 55th National Shooting
Championships?
A: Abhinav Bindra

11. Who won the Karnataka Badminton League 2011?
A: Flypower Warriors

12. Who joined the elite club of Singapore christened 'Friends to
Shore'?
A: India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru ****************************************************************************************************************
1. Which bank became the 1st lender to raise funds in offshore yuan in
China?
A: IDBI

2. Which mobile carrier prepares for possible IPO in India?
A: Vodafone

3. Name the e-mail prioritizer bought by facebook.
A: MailRank

4. Which company's share has iGate planned to delist?
A: Patni Computer

5. Name the director appointed by Apple recently.
A: Robert A Iger

6. Name the director who has been promoted as non-executive chairman
serving Apple since 2000.
A: Arthur D Levinson

7. Who is set to make debut appearance in 2012 Abu Dhabi's Golf
Championship?
A: Tiger woods

8. Name the swimmer who set the national record in 800m freestyle in a
time of 8:12:57sec at the 65th Senior National Aquatic meet.
A: Saurabh Sangvekar

9. Which is the first professional social-networking site opened its
R&D center in Bangalore?
A: Linkedin

10. Who has been appointed as CEO of Cable & Wireless Worldwide(C&WW)?
A: John Pluthero

11. Who has been appointed CEO of Swiss bank UBS?
A: Sergio Ermotti

12. Who is the co-founder and developer of open-source social network
zDiaspora who died recently?
A: Ilya Zhitomirskiy

13. Who won gold at men's 50M free pistol at the 55th National
shooting championships?
A: Om Prakash