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February 04, 2013

THE WEEKLY QUIZ - 6

3^rd February - 9^th February

NATION & POLITICS

(1) Name the all girls band from Kashmir that was forced to disband after opposition from religious clerics and orthodox groups.

Prakriti

Pragaash

Prajyot

Pravesh

Kashmir's only all girl band Pragaash was forced to disband after opposition from orthodox groups including a fatwa from a top cleric. CM Omar Abdullah has promised to provide security to the girls.

(2) According to a census conducted last year, which state is home to 6,072 Asian elephants?

Karnataka

Andhra Pradesh

Kerala

Tamil Nadu

The Karnataka Elephant Census 2012 conducted by the State Forest department and carried out by the Centre for Ecological Services, IISc found that the state is home to 6,072 elephants which is 20% of the country's pachyderm numbers.

(3) With which of the following is the organization ICANN associated?

Insurance

Import

Internet

Indus River

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is all set to give new website suffixes for about Rs 1 crore each. Top Indian businesses like Reliance, Tata, SBI and Airtel are known to have approached the ICANN to register new suffixes.
(4) Who is the CM of Andhra Pradesh?

Rossiah

Kiran Kumar Reddy

Y S Rajashekara Reddy

Chandra Babu Naidu

Andhra CM Kiran Kumar Reddy has reported told the Congress high command that decision regarding the creation of a separate Telangana can only be taken after issues including Hyderabad and water sharing are discussed.

(5) Which Indian state is witnessing protests against the land acquisition for the setting up of a new factory of the south Korean group Posco?

West Benagl

Bihar

Odisha

Chhattisgarh

The Odisha government is trying to acquire as much land as possible for the Posco project inspite of continuing protests. The Posco plant is to spread over 2,700 acres of land.
INTERNATIONAL

(1) Who is the current defense minister of Venezuela?

Raul Baduel

Jose Vincente Rangel

Deigo Molero

Lucas Rincon Romero

Venezuelan defense minster Deigo Molero has said that President Chavez is experiencing his 'best moment' since surgery. The statement was followed by a prayer meeting.

(2) After which personality is the Rome International Airport named after?

Raphael

Leonardo Da Vinci

Michelangelo

Picasso Pablo

Three people were injured when a ATR 72 turboporp plane of the Romanian airliner Carpatair went off the runway at Rome's Fiumicino airport named after Renaissance inventor, painter and sculptor Leonardo Da Vinci.

(3) Terror organization Abu Sayyaf is based out of which country?

Philippines

Mali

Palestine

Indonesia

Terror organization Abu Sayyaf freed two Filipino members of a Jordanian TV journalist's crew for an unspecified amount after about an year in captivity. The crew had gone to the jungles of southern Philippines to interview the members of the Al Qaeda backed militant group.

(4) Who is the Prime Minister of Morocco?

Abderrahmane Youssoufi

Dris Jettou

Abbas El Fassi

Abdelilah Benkirane

Morocco's PM Abdelilah Benkirane belonging to the moderate Justice and Development Party (PJD) has announced key reforms regarding subsides and pension funds.

(5) To which military leader did former Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner surrender in 1989?

Juan Carlos Wasmosy

Raul Cubas Grau

Lino Oviedo

Luis Angel Gonzalez Macchi

Paraguayan Presidential candidate Lino Oviedo died in a helicopter crash while returning from an election rally. Stroessner who ruled the nation for 35 years had surrendered to Oviedo in 1989.

(6) To which country does Fidel Castro belong to?

North Korea

Vietnam

China

Cuba

Former President of Cuba, Fidel Castro came out to vote in the General Elections and chatted with friends for an hour. This was his first public appearance since 2010 and he is said to have talked about reforming the economy, South American integration, President Chavez and other matters.

(7) Which country's defense minister has accepted launching air strikes inside Syria?

US

Israel

France

Turkey

Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak has implicitly accepted that his country has hit targets in Syria to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of Lebanon's Hezbollah. Syria's Assad has accused the Jewish state of trying to break up his country.

(8) Buddhist monk Phan Van Thu belongs to which country?

Malaysia

Thailand

Vietnam

Laos

Phan Van Thu, the ring leader of a banned Buddhist sect was sentenced along with 21 others to long prison terms by a local court for planning to bring down the Communist regime in Vietnam. Last month, several other dissidents were also sentenced to maximum 13 years.

Posted by Varun Nayak at Monday, February 04, 2013

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