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Current affairs quiz
1. Where was US president Barack Hussein Obama born?
Hawaii
Kenya
Indonesia
2. Complete the title of Obama's book: Dreams...
from My Father
of Hope
of Change
3. Who was the other Indian author to be short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2008 along with winner Aravind Adiga?
Kiran Desai
Amitav Ghosh
Arundhati Roy
4. What was the real name of the "Deep Throat" who provided information to The Washington Post about the Watergate scandal?
William Mark Felt
Bruce Porter Roberts
Bob Woodward
5. The national of which country won the Miss World 2008 contest?
South Africa
Russia
Trinidad and Tobago
6. In which month of 2008 was the Chandrayaan-1 launched?
September
October
November
7. Who became India's first-ever woman saint in 2008?
Mother Teresa
Sister Alphonsa
Sister Nirmala
8. Who infamously said after the 26/11 attacks, "such small incidents happen in a big city", causing a public outrage?
RR Patil
Vilas Deshmukh
AR Antulay
9. Which former president passed away this year?
R Venugopal
R Venkatesh
R Venkataraman
10. Sarah Palin, the Republican Party's vice-presidential nominee for the 2008 US presidential election, is governor of which state?
Arizona
Alabama
Alaska
Compiled by Nishika Patel

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