Education in India

1. What is the duration of Jammu and Kashmir state
assembly?
1)4 years 2) 5 years
4) 7 years 5) None of these

2. Who is Velupillai Prabhakaran?
1) The rebel leader of Myanmar
2) The deputy CM of Tamil Nadu
3) The supremo of LTTE
4) The foreign minister of Sri Lanka 5) None of these

3. What is Hamas?
1) A militant organisation active in Palestine
2) An ultra-nationalist party in Israel
3) A militant organisation active in Lebanon
4) The special anti-terrorists squad of Israeli ¦
5) None of these

4. LTTE stands for
1) Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
2) Liberation Team of Tamil Eelam
3) Lord of Tamil Territory of Eelam
4) Lord Tiger of Tamil Eelam 5) None of these

5. Somdev Devvarman’s sensational run at the Chennai
Open ended on Jan 11 as he lost in the final to the world
number 27 and third seed Marin Cilic of
l)Croatia , 2)Serbia 3) Bosnia
4) Macedonia 5) None of these

6. Why did Jharkhand chief minister Shibu Soren resign
recently?
1) He has been arrested in a murder case.
2) He lost the Lok Sabha election.
3) Congress and RJD withdrew support.
4) His exit follows his defeat in the Tamar by-election.
5) None of these

7. Which of the following clauses of SEBI is associated
with corporate governance?
1)41 2)42 3)49 4)52 5) None of these

8. Name the party which has emerged as the single largest
as a result of the just-concluded elections in Jammu and
Kashmir which threw up a hung assembly.
1) Congress 2) National Conference
3) People’s Democratic Party 4) B JP
5) None of these

9. Tuanku Jaafar Tuanku Abdul Rahman, who died re¬
cently, was the former king and longest serving ruler of
1) Indonesia 2) Thailand 3) Malaysia
4) Brunei 5) None of these

10. The government aprroved the maximum number of FDI proposals in 2008for any calendar year. The Cabinet gave the nod to 518 items while the cabinet committee on economic Affairs approved
1)120 1 254 3)362
4)469 5 None of these

11. Name the tainted IAS officer who was once a poster boy of cool efficiency and celebrated by Time magazine as a man of the year and who died of pancreatic cancer recently.
1) Rajiv Goswami 2) Gautam Gosw mi
3) Kunal kishore. 4) Shailesh Kunar
5) None of these

12. What is Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC)?
l)Auditing firm 2) Credit rating agency
3) Law consultancy firm 4) Investment bank
5) None of these

13. Manchester United star Cristiano Ronald was named FIFA World Footballer of the Year for 2008 .He belongs to
l)Brazil 2) Argentina 3)Portugese 4)Britain 5) None of these

14. After Satyam’s fall from grace follow revelations World Bank banning India’s third largest software services firm………. for following corrupt practices tobag deals. It had not disclosed the four-year ban imposed on it in July 2007 to investors.
1)HCL 2)Infosys 3)Wipro
4) HP 5) None of these

15. It was Slumdog shining all the way at Beverly hills the film winning four Golden Globe awards. THE HAUL HAD A particularly sweet note for India: music COMPOSER ………………became the first Indian to win the 66 year old prize
1) Shankar, Ehsaan Loy 2) Anu Malik
3)ARRahman 4) Maya Govind
5) None of these

16. Just nine-and-a-half years old, created a record of sorts when he became one of the youngest players to outclass a Grandmaster. He accounted GM Nurlan Ibrayev of Kazakhstan on the opening day of the 7th Parsvnath International Open Chess tournament. Before him, VK Sindhu, also nine at that time had defeated Macedonian GM Toni Naidoski in 2000
l)HetulShah 2) VK Sindhu
3) Parimarjan Negi 4) Amit Shah
5) None of these

ANSWERS
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6)4 7)3 8)2 9)3 10) 2
11)2 12)1 13)3 14)3 15)3
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