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1. Which one of the following Arab countries lifted emergency rule in the country?
a) Syria
b) Egypt
c) Tunisia
d) Yemen
Answer: (a) Syria
2. India and Kazakhstan, signed a total of___ agreements during Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Kazakhstan.
a) Seven
b) Six
c) Five
d) Eight
Answer: (a) Seven
3. European Parliament passed resolutions condemning which one of the following countries for its support to Taliban?
a) Afghanistan
b) Pakistan
c) Kazakhstan
d) Russia
Answer: (b) Pakistan
4. Pakistan and Afghanistan on 16 April 2011 decided to set up a two-tier joint commission at Kabul regarding the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan during Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani’s visit to Afghanistan. Consider the following statements now.
i) Yousuf Raza Gilani is the President of Pakistan.
ii) Hamid Karzai is the Prime Minister of Afghanistan.
Which of the given statements is/are correct?
a) Both i and ii
b) Only ii
c) Only i
d) Neither i nor ii
Answer: (d) Neither i nor ii; Yousuf Raza Gilani is the Prime Minister of India and Hamid Karzai is the President of India.
5. Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa called for a mass protest against the UN Report, which called for establishing an independent international probe into alleged war crimes committed during the war against the LTTE. What is the full form of LTTE?
a) Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
b) Liberation Tigers Treaty Eelam
c) Tamil Tigers of Liberated Eelam
d) Tamil Tigers
Answer: (a) Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
6.Consider the following clues:
1. The last Maharaja of Jaipur who also Jaipur’s 40th Maharaja died on 16 April 2011.
2. He was the head of the Kachwaha clan of Rajputs was born to Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II and his first wife Marudhar Kanwar of Jodhpur on 22 October 1931.
3. He was commissioned into the Indian Army in the 3rd Cavalry Regiment and received the Bharat Ratna in 1974.
4. Married to Sirmur princess Kumari Padmini Devi and the royal couple had daughter by the name of Diya Kumari.
With the help of the clues identify the person.
a. Sawai Bhawani Singh
b. Sawai Madho Singh II
c. Sawai Pratap Singh
d. Bishan Singh
Answer: (a)
7. World Heritage Day was observed on 18 April every year. The proposal to observe the day was taken by International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) in a symposium organised on 18 April 1982 in which of the following countries?
a. Egypt
b. Tunisia
c. Libya
d. Syria
Answer: (b)
8. Former West Indies cricket captain Franz ‘Gerry' Alexander who made his debut against England in 1957 and went on to represented the team in 25 Test matches died at age 82 on 16 April 2011. Identify the cricketer who scored 961 runs at an average of 30.03 with the best being 108 against Australia.
a. Franz 'Gerry' Alexander
b. Karl Nunes
c. George Headley
d. Denis Atkinson
Answer: (a)
9. Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction on 18 April 2011. For which of her following novels did she win the prestigious literary award?
a. A Visit from the Goon Squad
b. The Invisible Circus
c. Look at Me
d. The Keep
Answer: (a)
10. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:
List I List II
Pulitzer Award Winning Books Names of Writers
1. A Visit from the Goon Squad A. Ron Chernow
2. Clybourne Park B. Kay Ryan
3. The Best of It: New and Selected Poems C. Bruce Norris
4. Washington: A Life D. Jennifer Egan
Code:
A B C D
a. 4 3 2 1
b. 3 2 1 4
c. 2 1 3 4
d. 1 3 4 2
Answer: (a)
11. Pakistan test fired a newly developed short-range surface-to-surface missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead on 19 April 2011. Name the missile.
a. Hatf-9
b. Hatf-I/IA
c. Ghaznavi
d. Abdali-I
Answer: (a)
12. A well-known Kannada poet, playwright and translator was in April 2011 appointed Director of Tagore Centre in Berlin. He would be responsible for promoting Indo-German cultural exchanges and organising Indian cultural programmes in Germany. Identify the person.
a. Professor H. S. Shiva Prakash
b. T. N. Srikantaiah
c. K. S. Narasimhaswamy
d. Allama Prabhu
Answer: (a)
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