QUIZ QC 31: Current Affairs and General Knowledge – IAS General Studies Prelim 2009

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2. Which among of the following states became India’s 1st carbon Free State?

a). Himanchal Pradesh

b). Uttarakhand

c). Pondicherry

d). Andaman Nicobar

 

7.Which among of the following projects launched by Stanford Professor Vijay Pande, is used distributed computing to simulate the complex process  and understanding of complex diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s ?

a). The Folding@Home project

b). The Operation Project X

c). The SETI@home

d). The Storage@home Project

 

18. Who, the Internal Security Advisor to Home Minister P Chidamberam , will be the next chief of country’s external intelligence agency research and analysis wings ( RAWS ) ?

a). Ashok Chaturvedi

b). Rajiv Mathur

c).  P K H Tharakan

d). K C Verma

 

20. According to UNICEF’s “State of the world’s Children 2009” report, select the correct sequence of states’ Maternal Mortality Ratio in the descending order: 

a). Uttar Pradesh ,Uttarakhand ,Bihar ,Jharkhand

b). Uttar Pradesh , Bihar , Uttarakhand ,Jharkhand

c). Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand 

d). Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Bihar

 

25. According to the Guinness Book of Records, Which books/document describes as Most Translated Document in the world?

a). Holy Bible

b). Bhagvat Gita

c). the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

d). “Harry Potter” books

 

33. On January 22, 2009, Who was appointed as a special adviser on Pakistan and Afghanistan, working under President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

a). John D. Negroponte

b). Richard Holbrooke

c). Charles E. Redman

d). Bill Richardson

 

34. Operation Desert storm is:

a). a mission to promote awareness about AIDS             

b). a mission to promote awareness about Global Warming 

c). a mission to promote awareness about forest conservation

d). a mission to promote awareness about wildlife conservation

 

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