(Current Affairs MCQ) Test Your Skills - 28 March 2014

NATIONAL

Q1.

i) Prithvi-II is a surface-to-surface ballistic missile that was indigenously-developed and successfully test-fired from a military base in Odisha.
ii) GSLV-Mk III can put a communication satellite weighing four tonnes into geo-synchronous transfer orbit or a 10-tonne satellite into low-earth orbit.

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

Q2.

i) A study by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) in 2013 estimates that the value of informal flow of trade from India to Pakistan is $ 4.2 billion annually.
ii) Pakistan had granted Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India long time back and it continues till date.

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

IN THE NEWS

Q3.

i) The highest number of rejections by any President in the last 25 years,is by Indian President Pranab Mukherjee , who rejected the mercy petitions of 18 prisoners on death row in 2013.
ii) US accounts for the single largest number of executions, according to a reports by Amnesty International.