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RRB PSC Higher Secondary: SET 1. The 190th member of United Nations 6. The world’s biggest Information Technology and tele- (a) Switzerland (b) East Timor communications trade fair-Ce BIT was held in (c) Tuvalu (d) None of these (a) Hannover (b) Shanghai 2. The first American Woman to climb the Everest from (c) New York (d) None of these both North and South faces 7. Gone with the Wind is a book written by (a) Susan Ershler (b) Ellen Miller (a) Rajani Kothari (b) Margaret Mitchell (c) Ang Rita (d) None of these (c) Sheila Gujral (d) None of these 3. The retired IAS officer who has been appointed as the 8. The first summit of the Conference on Interaction chief co-ordinator of relief operations in Gujarat and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) (a) K.P.S. Gill (b) S.M.F. Bokhari was held in (a) Beijing (b) Kathmandu (c) Sudha Murthy (d) None of these (c) Almatty (d) None of these 4. The Indian Army Chief who has been conferred the title 9. The Indian who has been appointed as the Under-Sec- of honorary general of the Royal Nepalese Army by retary General for Public Information in the United Na- king Gyanendra tions. (a) A.R. Gandhi (b) S. Padmanabhan (a) R.K. Laxman (b) Shashi Tharoor (c) S. Krishnaswamy (d) None of these (c) B.P. Singh (d) None of these 5. The winner of the Miss Universe title 2002 10. The newly appointed President of ‘FIFA’ (a) Oxana Fedorova (b) Justine Pasek (a) Jacques Rogge (b) Sepp Blatter (c) Ling Zhou (d) None of these (c) Sen Ruffianne (d) None of these Answers & Explanations 1. (b) East Timor became an Independent country on May 20, 7. (b) My Years in the USSR - Sheila Gujral. Memoirs - Rajani 2002. Switzerland has voted to join the United Nations. Kothari. Tuvalu is the 189th member of United Nations. Letters from Burma Vol I - Aung San Suu Kyi 2. (b) Phil and Susan Ershler were the first married couple to 8. (c) The 16 Signatories of CICA were Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, climb the Everest. Mt. Everest was first conquered by China,Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Mongolia, Pakistan, Palestine, Russia, Tajikistan, Tur- 3. (b) K.P.S. Gill, the former Punjab police chief has been key and Uzbekistan. appointed as the security advisor to Gujarat Chief Min- 9. (b) The Indian writer Shashi Tharoor joined the UN in May ister Narendra Modi. 1978 in the office of the UNHCR in Geneva. In 1989, he 4. (b) Air Marshal A.R Gandhi has been appointed as the was named by the WEF in Davos as a “global leader of new Chief of the Western Air Command. tomorrow”. 5. (a) The venue of the 51st ‘Miss Universe 2002’ was 10. (b) Sepp Blatter, the Swiss lawyer, has been re-elected for San Juan in Puerto Rico. another four years. Sen Ruffianne is the new Secretary- 6. (a) The first CeBIT Asia was held in Shanghai. General of FIFA. 11. The Deputy Governor of RBI who will be the next 19. The newly appointed Chairperson of the State Women’s executive director at the International Monetary Fund Commission (IMF) (a) P. Kulsu (b) Lizzy Jose (a) C.M. Vasudev (b) Y. Venugopal Reddy (c) M. Kamalam (d) None of these (c) Anoop Singh (d) None of these 20. The Swaraj Trophy (2000-2001) for the best Grama 12. The youngest woman chess player to achieve the Men’s Panchayat has been given to Grand Master title (a) Peelicode (b) Avanoor (a) S. Vijayalekshmi (b) Arathie Ramaswamy (c) Kanjikuzhi (d) None of these (c) Bhagyashree Thipsay (d) Koneru Humpy 21. The newly appointed India’s permanent representative 13. ‘German Open-2002’ Woman’s singles title has been to the UN won by (a) Kamalesh Sharma (b) B.P. Singh (a) Justine Henin (b) Venus Williams (c) Vijay Nambiar (d) None of these (c) Serena Williams (d) None of these 22. The J.C. Daniel Award for the year 2001 has been given 14. The Golden Jubilee of the Parliament of India was to celebrated on (a) K.J. Baby (b) M.P. Veerendra Kumar (a) April 26, 2002 (b) May 8, 2002 (c) P.N. Menon (d) None of these (c) May 13, 2002 (d) May 18, 2002 23. The only referee in the World Cup-2002 to have been in 15. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meet two previous World Cups, in France in 1998 and in the (CHOGM) was held at US in 1994 (a) Cologne (b) New York (a) Dutta Ray (b) Lazarus Barla (c) Coolum (d) None of these (c) Ali Mohamed Buj Saim (d) None of these 16. The amount that has been allotted to Sarva Shiksha 24. The paramilitary force which has taken over the secu- Abhiyan (SSA) in the Union Budget for 2002-2003 rity of the Taj Mahal in Agra (a) 8200 crores (b) 6700 crores (a) BSF (b) CRPF (c) 4900 crores (d) None of these (c) CISF (d) None of these 17. Durand Cup-2002 was won by 25. The TV channel launched by the Muslim League sup- (a) Churchill Brothers (b) Mahindra United porters in Kerala (c) Salgoaker (d) None of these (a) Jeevan (b) India Vision 18. Raja Ravivarma Award-2001 has been presented to (c) Asianet (d) None of these (a) Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri 26. Iqbal Singh Gulati was recently in news as he was a (b) M.V. Devan (c) P.N. Menon (a) painter (b) politician (d) None of these (c) novelist (d) economist Answers & Explanations 11. (b) C.M. Vasudev will be the next India-nominated Execu- 19. (c) The State Women’s Commission was formed on March tive Director at the World Bank. 13, 1996 with Sugathakumari as the Chairperson. In April ]pcpj {Kmâ v amÌÀ ]Zhn t\Sp¶ temI¯nse Gähpw 12. (d) 2002, the Commission was dissolved and the number of {]mbw Ipdª h\nXm Xmc-sa¶ _lp-a-Xn-bmWv lw]n t\Sn- b-Xv. lwK-dn-bpsS PqUn¯v t]mÄKm-dnsâ dnt¡mÀUmWv members were reduced to three. lw]n Xncp-¯n-b-Xv. 20. (b) Avanoor is located in Thrissur district. The award carries a cash prize of five lakh rupees. 13. (a) Belgian Tennis Player, Justine Henin, won the trophy by 21. (c) Vijay Nambiar has been appointed in the place of Kamalesh defeating Serena Williams of US in the final held at Berlin. C´y³ ]mÀe-saânsâ D]cn k`-bmb Sharma. He has also served as the Ambassador to Algeria, 14. (c) (Upper House) cmPy-k-`bv¡v 2002 G{]n 3 \v A³]Xv hbÊp XnI-ªp. Malaysia and China. 22. (c) J.C. Daniel Award for the year 2000 was given to M. Krishnan 15. (c) The meet was opened by Britain’s Queen Elizebeth II, who Nair. is also the head of the Commonwealth. 23. (c) Buj Saim was also selected to officiate in the opening World 16. (c) SSA was launched in 2001 to provide quality and useful Cup match between France and Senegal. elementary education to children in the age group of 6 to 14 24. (c) The Supreme Court also ordered to set up a solar energy years by 2010. 17. (b) The 114th Durand Cup-2002 has been won by Mahindra power plant in Agra to meet the power requirements of the United by defeating churchill Brothers. Taj Mahal and its surroundings. Nn{X, inev] Iem-cw-Ks¯ kw`m-h-\-IÄ¡v kwØm\ 18. (b) 25. (b) Jeevan Channel, the Malayalam T.V. Channel is pro- kÀ¡mÀ GÀs¸-Sp-¯n-b-XmWv cmPm-c-hn-hÀa ]pc-kvIm-cw. posed to be launched by the Church. km¼-¯nI imkv{X-Ú\pw kwØm\ Bkq-{XW t_mÀUv e£w cq]bpw {]ikvXn ]{Xhpw AS-§p-¶-XmWv ]pc- 26. (d) kvIm-cw. ap³ D]m-[y-£-\p-ambncp¶p tUm. sF.-F-kv. Kpem-¯n. 27. The controversial documentary on 1984 anti-sikh riots 32. The newly appointed chairman of the Union Public Ser- which has been released after the intervention of courts. vice Commission (a) In the Barricade (b) Behind the Barricade (a) Surinder Nath (b) P.C. Hota (c) In Front of the Barricade(d) None of these 28. ‘RISUG’ stands for (c) Vinod Vaish (d) None of these (a) Reversible Inhibition of Sperm Under Guidance 33. During April 2002, the only ‘Gurudwara’ in which of the (b) Rural Investigation Society Under Guidance following countries was closed down following pres- (c) Reversible Injection of Serum Under Guidance sure from the Islamic fundamentalists, after the Gujarat (d) None of these riots? 29. The first Indian woman to have sky-dived over the North pole (a) Iran (b) Kuwait (a) Roald Amundson (b) Rachel Thomas (c) Iraq (d) Saudi Arabia (c) Rita Thomas (d) None of these 34. The second Space Tourist to reach the International 30. The amount which India has decided to grant as part of Space Station its ongoing effort to support reconstruction in Afghani- stan (a) Dennis Tito (b) Yuri Gagarin (a) $ 5m (b) $ 20m (c) Mark Shuttleworth (d) None of these (c) $ 10m (d) None of these 35. The opposition leader of Myanmar who was released 31. The indigenously developed medium range surface-to- from house arrest recently. surface ballistic missile testfired recently by Pakistan (a) Hatf-I (b) Hatf-II (a) Maun Maung (b) Aung San Suu Kyi (c) Hatf-III (d) Hatf-V (c) Than Shwe (d) None of these Answers & Explanations 27.
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