Current Affairs August 2010: Quiz 2

1.What is the current number of world heritage sites in India as of August 2010?
(A)26
(B)27
(C)28
(D)29

2.In which of the following countries, Tomatina, the annual festival of tomato is celebrated every year in the month of August?
(A)Portugal
(B)France
(C)Spain
(D)UK

3.What is the Unicode character code proposed by the Indian Government for the new Rupee Symbol ?
(A)U+0971
(B)U+0972
(C)U+0973
(D)U+0974

4.Recently, the Pupils Own Language (POL) Policy was making news. Which of the following country has adopted the Pupils Own Language (POL) Policy?
(A)China
(B)Thaliand
(C)Malaysia
(D)Singapore

5.What is the popular name of GAFI?
(A)Money Laundering Task Force
(B)Financial Action Task Force
(C)Markets in Financial Instruments Directive
(D)European Committee for Banking Standards

6.40+9 Recommendations are related to which of the following?
(A)Conservation of Wild life
(B)Money laundering
(C)Financial Inclusion
(D)Population Control

7.Which among the following is a latest entity?
(A)UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
(B)Division for the Advancement of Women
(C)Institute on Research And Training For The Advancement Of Women
(D)United Nations Development Fund for Women

8.On which date, Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted ?
(A)December 10
(B)November 25
(C)November 29
(D)December 5

9.Who among the following was the Chairman of a high‐level panel constituted by United Nations to into allegations of human rights abuses in the final months of the civil war in Sri Lanka?
(A)Marzuki Darusman
(B)Jusuf Kalla
(C)Detlev Mehlis
(D)None of them

10.Which country ranks 2 in the latest Failed States Index?
(A)Somalia
(B)Chad
(C)Tanzania
(D)Congo

11.Who among the following is the author of Shree Ramayana Mahanveshanam?
(A)Ashok Banker
(B)RK Narayan
(C)Veerappa Moily
(D)B.R. Haran

12.What is the correct meaning of the Khoka, a Gujarati term used in Share market?
(A)Nonconvertible portion of a partly convertible debenture
(B)Convertible portion of a partly convertible debenture
(C)Partly convertible debenture
(D)Convertible debenture

13.Who among the following was the Nobel laureate, who died recently and authored a controversial work ” “The Gospel According to Jesus Christ”?
(A)Naguib Mahfouz
(B)Octavio Paz
(C)Joseph Brodsky
(D)José Saramago

14.Which among the following states of North East India has seen largest growth in % of forest cover in the entire North East since 1987?
(A)Arunachal Pradesh
(B)Tripura
(C)Nagaland
(D)Assam

15.Where is located Bay of Fundy ?
(A)Pacific Ocean
(B)Atlantic Ocean
(C)Indian Ocean
(D)Arctic Ocean

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