Current Affairs 2009 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

General Knowledge : Current Affairs 2009 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS :: part5 : 31 to 35

Following General Knowledge Multiple choice objective type questions and answers will help you in TRB, SSC and UPSC 2024 examinations :

31.Marie Ndiaye became the first black woman to win the prestigious Prix Goncourt prize in France recently. The prize is given for achievement in which of the following?

Architecture

Science

Social work

Literature

32.Which of the following best describes a critically endangered language, which is one step before the language becomes extinct, according to the UNESCOs Atlas of the Worlds Languages in Danger that was released recently?

Language is spoken by all generations; intergenerational transmission is uninterrupted

Most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g., home)

Youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partially and infrequently

Children no longer learn the language as mother tongue in the home

33.India has offered to host the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2012. How many regions have been identified as global biodiversity hotspots – biologically rich areas facing severe conservation threats by Conservation International?

Nineteen

Twenty-seven

Thirty-four

Forty-two

34.Which country in South America is set to build the worlds largest underwater museum in the Caribbean Sea?

Chile

Colombia

Brazil

Mexico

35.Which of the following won the MCC-Murugappa Gold Cup Hockey tournament in the final played at Chennai recently?

Air India

Army Eleven