GK: Current Affairs

Aloha Everyone,

I plan to put together some quizzes on Current Affairs once a week to start out with. And then hopefully increase the frequency. Here is the first set.

The Standard requests: No Googling and answers in the Comments section.

1. Which is the first stealth frigate to be designed and built in India? It is scheduled to be inducted into the navy in November. Note: A frigate is a naval vessel frequently armed with guided missiles and used for aircraft carrier escort duty, shore bombardment, and miscellaneous combat functions. Ans. INS Shivalik

2. Who is the head of the terrorist outfit the Jamaat-ud-Dawa? Ans. Hafiz Mohammad Saeed

3. After their stay in five hotels and Shashi Tharoor’s “cattle class” comment all of us know who the External Affairs minister and his deputy are. [S. M. Krishna and Shashi Tharoor respectively ;-)]. But do you know who the Foreign Secretary of India is? Ans. Nirupama Rao

4. Who is the top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan? Ans. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal

5. Who is India’s chief hockey coach? Ans. Jose Brasa