Current Events Quiz 4

1. Which one of the following was named by Time Magazine as the Invention of the Year 2007?

a) iPod
b) iPhone
c) Napkin PC
d) None of these

2. Who among the following won the Best of the Booker award in 2008?

a) Salman Rushdie
b) VS Naipaul
c) Arundhati Roy
d) Vikram Chandra

3. President’s rule was recently imposed in which of the following states?

a) Karnataka
b) Jammu & Kashmir
c) Punjab
d) Bihar

4. Which one of the following is not a member of the G8?

a) Britain
b) Switzerland
c) France
d) Italy

5. What are Plutoids?

a) Dwarf planets that orbit the sun beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune
b) Moons of Pluto
c) Small rocky bodies found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
d) There is nothing called a Plutoid

6. Which one of the following recently lost its planet status?

a) Pluto
b) Uranus
c) Neptune
d) Earth

7. What is Wi-Fi?

a) A method of wireless internet connection
b) A Bluetooth device
c) A service launched by Wikipedia
d) A wired broadband connection

8. Who is the author of the novel Midnight’s Children which recently received a special Booker Prize?

a) Salman Rushdie
b) VS Naipaul
c) Jack London
d) Agatha Christie

9. Who among the following was crowned Miss Universe 2008?

a) Dayana Mendoza
b) Marianne Cruz Gonzalez
c) Vera Krasova
d) Taliana Vargas

10. Inspiron is a series of laptops launched by

a) DELL
b) Apple
c) Lenovo
d) HP

Answers

1. iPhone
2. Salman Rushdie
3. Jammu & Kashmir
4. Switzerland
5. Dwarf planets that orbit the sun beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune
6. Pluto
7. A method of wireless internet connection
8. Salman Rushdie
9. Dayana Mendoza
10. DELL