Current Affairs 2009 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

General Knowledge : Current Affairs 2009 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS :: part6 : 81 to 85

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

81.Who is the Chief Statistician of India and Secretary, Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation?

Dr. Surjit S Bhalla

Prof. Amitabh Kundu

Prof. Bikas Sinha

Dr. Pronab Sen

82.Which of the following combinations of awards and their winners in the Asian Panorama Section at the 16th International Childrens Film Festival organised in Hyderabad recently are correct?

Golden Elephant + Rs.2 lakh for the Best feature film – Two Mens Classroom – China

Golden Elephant + Rs. 1 lakh for the Best Director – Pandiraj for The Kids – India

Silver Elephant + Rs. 1 lakh for the Best Short film – I Feel Pity for the Ozone Layer – Iran

All the above

83.The Rhodes Trust which is known for its Rhodes Scholarships was in news recently for asking for funds from its alumni. The Rhodes scholarship is given for study at which of the following leading universities?

Oxford

Wharton

Cambridge

Harvard

84.The Russian Soyuz capsule, the Soyuz TMA-14, carrying Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte and two other space travelers landed safely in Kazakhstan on October 11, ending the ten day visit to the International Space Station. Who were the other two astronauts to return with Laliberte?

Sergei Revin & Richard R. Arnold

Aleksandr Misurkin & Walter Cunningham

Gennady Padalka & Michael Barratt

Mikhail Korniyenko & Jeffrey Ashby

85.India and the US provide scholarships to each others students under educational exchanges jointly named after which two leaders?

James William Trimble & Indira Gandhi

Cecil Rhodes & Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

James William Trimble & Jawaharlal Nehru

J. William Fulbright & Jawaharlal Nehru

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