LATEST CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS NOVEMBER-2009 | PART 10

79. A Michael Jackson portrait has sold for $812,000 (£507,500) at an auction in Los Angeles. The artist of that portrait is?
Andy Warhol

80. Sri Lanka’s armed forces chief who has resigned from his post just months after helping secure the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels?
Gen Sarath Fonseka

76. Who has been chosen for this year’s K.R. Narayanan Award?
N.Ram, Editor-in-Chief of Hindu.
He has won this award for his outstanding contribution to journalism in India. Instituted by the K.R. Narayanan Foundation in memory of the late President, the award is to honour individuals who have excelled in various fields.

77. Who has been selected for the K. R. Narayanan Pravasi Ratna award?
M. A. Yusuf Ali, UAE-based industrialist won this award for his contribution to the cause of NRIs.
K. R. Narayanan Kala Puraskaram award went to Malayalam film ‘Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja’

78. Most-wanted cocaine kingpin of Mexico who had been ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the most powerful people in the world.
Joaquin Guzman. He ranked 41 on Forbes’ ‘powerful’ list.

71. Who has been appointed Pakistan captain for the Test tour of New Zealand?
Mohammad Yousuf
Vice Captain: Kamran Akmal

72. Who won India’s first Gold medal in the 18th Asian Athletics Championships held in Guangzhou?
Om Prakash Singh. He won the men’s shot put gold for India.

73. Goalkeeper of Germany who committed suicide by stepping in front of a train in Hanover?

Robert Enke

74. The sniper whose murderous shooting spree in the fall of 2002 left at least 10 dead in Washington, was executed by lethal injection at a Virginia state prison?
John Allen Muhammad

75. Who is appointed as the head of United States Agency for International Development?

Rajiv Shaw