(Current Affairs MCQ) Test Your Skills - 24 January 2014

INDIA AND THE WORLD

Q1.

i) The chief guest at India’s Republic Day parade in 2014 is Japanese PM Shinzo Abe.
ii) It is first time in 59 years that the two Prime Ministers (of India and China) exchanged visits within the same calendar year(2013).

Which of the above statement/statements is/are true ?

a) only i
b) only ii
c) both i and ii
d) neither i nor ii

INTERNATIONAL

2.

i) Kazakhstan is on a verge of sliding into civil war with the ongoing protests.
ii) U.S. Secretary of Defence at present is Chuck Hagel .

Which of the above statement/statements is/are true ?

a) only i
b) only ii
c) both i and ii
d) neither i nor ii

SCIENCE AND TECH

Q3.

i) Stephen Hawking’s new theory suggests that ‘Apparent horizon’ , is a surface along which light rays attempt to rush away from the black hole’s core would be suspended and it would be a black hole’s boundary.
ii) The author of ‘A Brief History of Time’ is Dr. Steven . R. Covey.