1. How long did it take for the Egyptian Revolution to successfully end with the stepping down of President Hosni Mubarak?
10
18
21
Mubarak, 82, was thrust into office when Islamists gunned down his predecessor Anwar Sadat at a military parade in 1981. Since the fall of Tunisia's long-time leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, which triggered protests around the region, Egyptians had been demonstrating in huge numbers against rising prices, poverty, unemployment and their authoritarian regime. After 18 days Mubarak stepped down.
18
21
2. A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf to secure his presence at the hearing of a court case. Which case are we talking about?
Benazir Bhutto assassination case
Misappropriation of funds case
Corruption and graft case
Musharraf, currently living in self-exile in Britain, has been named an accused in the Bhutto assassination case. Bhutto was shot dead shortly after she addressed an election rally in Rawalpindi in December 2007. The Federal Investigation Agency had earlier named Musharraf as an “absconder” for failing to cooperate in the probe.
Misappropriation of funds case
Corruption and graft case
3. Which top BJP leader will appear before the CBI in connection with the agency's probe into possible criminal aspects in the telecom policy since 2001?
LK Advani
Arun Shourie
Sushma Swaraj
A preliminary enquiry has been registered against “unknown persons” to check if the "first-come-first-serve basis" provision passed by the then cabinet led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee was followed. Shourie, who held the telecom portfolio between January 2003 and May 2004 as a part of the NDA regime, had said he was not sure what made the Supreme Court widen the scope of the probe from 2001.
Arun Shourie
Sushma Swaraj
4. When was the first anniversary of the German Bakery blast in Pune observed?
February 12, 2011
February 13, 2011
February 14, 2011
Puneites took out candle light processions and peace marches to pay homage to the victims of the German Bakery bomb blast that left 17 people, including four foreigners, dead and over 50 injured on February 13, 2010. Himayat Baig, the alleged mastermind behind the blast, was nabbed nearly six months after the blast by the Maharashtra Police Anti-Terrorist Squad. Baig hails from Latur, where he ran a cyber cafe and had links with Indian Mujaheedin and Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba.
February 13, 2011
February 14, 2011
5. Three years after the mysterious death of Scarlett Keeling on a Goa beach, the body of the teenager is still lying in a mortuary as her family awaits a CBI nod for her last rites. What’s the nationality of Keeling?
Russian
Polish
British
Keeling's battered, semi-nude corpse was found on Goa's Anjuna beach on February 18, 2008. The body was flown to UK in March that year. A charge sheet has been filed against two locals - Placido Carvalho and Samson D'Souza - who have been out on bail, while the case drags on.
Polish
British



