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Prelims 2007 – 2006 · page 4 of 10

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  1. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:

    List-I (Company)

    A.Chevron
    B.AT&T
    C.AMD
    D.Enercon GmbH

    List-II (Major Area/Product)

    1.Wind Energy
    2.Oil
    3.Telephone, Internet
    4.Micro-processor

    Codes:

  2. Which of the following cities has been the venue of the Asian Games for the maximum number of times from the year 1951 to the year 2006?

  3. Who was Leander Paes’s partner when he won the Doubles Final in the US Open Tennis Tournament?

  4. Who among the following served as the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund?

  5. The Pulitzer Prize is associated with which one of the following?

  6. For which one of the following books did Kiran Desai win the Man Booker Prize 2006?

  7. How is Gabriel García Márquez well known?

  8. Wangari Maathai, the Nobel Prize winner from Kenya, is known for her contribution to which one of the following?

  9. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:

    List-I (Person)

    A.Vishwapati Trivedi
    B.Tulsi R. Tanti
    C.Shashi Ruia
    D.S. Bikachandani

    List-II (Company)

    1.Essar Group
    2.Info Edge India (which runs naukri.com)
    3.Indian Airlines
    4.Suzlon Energy

    Codes:

  10. Who among the following bowlers have taken more than 500 wickets in Test cricket?

    1.Wasim Akram
    2.Richard Hadlee
    3.Glenn McGrath
    4.Courtney Walsh

    Select the correct answer using the code given below:

  11. Who among the following wrote the book "Ayodhya : 6 December 1992"?

  12. How is Steve Fossett known?

  13. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:

    List-I (Person)

    A.Nancy Pelosi
    B.Margaret Chan
    C.Pascal Lamy
    D.Steve Ballmer

    List-II (Position/Organization)

    1.WTO
    2.Speaker, US House of Representatives
    3.WHO
    4.Microsoft

    Codes:

  14. Who among the following is Chile’s first woman President?

  15. Parimarjan Negi excelled in which one of the following games?

  16. Raghu Rai is well known for which one of the following areas?

  17. Which one of the following organizations won the CSIR Award for Science and Technology Innovations for Rural Development, 2006?

  18. Zayed bin Sultan-al-Nahyan was a long-serving President of which of the following?

  19. In which state is the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development located?

  20. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:

    List – I ( Author )

    A.Amartya Sen
    B.Bimal Jalan
    C.Arundhati Roy
    D.Mani Shankar Aiyar

    List – II ( Book )

    1.An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire
    2.The Argumentative Indian
    3.The Future of India
    4.Confessions of a Secular Fundamentalist
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