Current affairs quiz
1. Where was US president Barack Hussein Obama born?
HawaiiKenya
Indonesia
2. Complete the title of Obama's book: Dreams...
from My Fatherof 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 DesaiAmitav 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 FeltBruce Porter Roberts
Bob Woodward
5. The national of which country won the Miss World 2008 contest?
South AfricaRussia
Trinidad and Tobago
6. In which month of 2008 was the Chandrayaan-1 launched?
SeptemberOctober
November
7. Who became India's first-ever woman saint in 2008?
Mother TeresaSister 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 PatilVilas Deshmukh
AR Antulay
9. Which former president passed away this year?
R VenugopalR Venkatesh
R Venkataraman
10. Sarah Palin, the Republican Party's vice-presidential nominee for the 2008 US presidential election, is governor of which state?
ArizonaAlabama
Alaska
Compiled by Nishika Patel