5th weekend quiz
Given below are 10 questions for the weekend. Answers by 24th June 2006 to vram25@gmail.com. Also posted at http://quizrama.blogspot.com/. Cheers.1) Goldman Sachs has given its top man to be the Treasury Secretary of USA. Name this person
2) On May 12th, 2006 a wave of violence orchestrated from within the prison system struck Rio de Janeiro and neighbouring towns. In five days of mayhem and retribution some 150 people, a quarter of them policemen were killed; 82 buses torched, 17 bank branches attacked. Rebellions erupted at 74 of the 140 prisons in Sao Paulo state. Schools, shopping centres, offices were shut down; transport froze. Name the criminal gang that was involved in this spate of violence in Rio de Janeiro.
3) Who wrote the following books: “The Affluent Society”, “American Capitalism”, “The New Industrial State”.
4) What is “ALBA” and who are the members of it.
5) He took over as National Football League’s Commissioner in 1989 and made NFL into the most successful leagues amongst the four sports leagues in America i.e. football, baseball, basketball and ice hockey. He is due to retire in July 2006. Name this person
6) Where is the George Bush Sr. Presidential Library and Museum situated? (In USA, a Presidential Library is opened after every President departs from office, which is actually a wonderful practice to be emulated by Indian government…)
7) In Sudan, they call it “tahoor” or purification, in Sierra Leone, it is known as “bondo” or initiation. An estimated 130M girls and women now alive have undergone this procedure in more than two dozen African countries as well as in parts of Asia, the Middle East and some immigrant communities in the west. What procedure are we talking about?
8) Recently, Singapore government proposed to their Indonesian counterparts that they would be interested in managing one of the 17,500 islands in the Indonesian archipelago. Name the island that Singapore is most interested in.
9) Where and when was the world’s first “hybrid” court set up: “hybrid” in the sense it had a mixture of local and international judges.
10) Name the archaean aeon period.
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