General Quiz 2...

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Another instalment of the quiz series... Hope you like it... Again based on current affairs and a bit of Trivia...

1) Identify this person very much in the news recently.

2) "As long as I am still on this earth, as long as I am still breathing, the country shall never be a colony again", X said, responding to comments that the country was in danger of being recolonized by Britain. Who is X? He is pictured below...

3) "We're going to handle this the best we can, one client at a time", said Barbara Walther, the district judge of this state, on the legal fate of the 416 children swept up in a raid on a polygamous sect in the western area of this US State. In which state this this raid take place?

4) "As Tony Blair said, we stand shoulder to shoulder with the American people and with President Bush", says X on the fight against terrorism. Who is X (pictured below with Mr. Bush)

5) So I asked my wife recently if it bothered her that people call me Darth Vadar. She said, 'No, it humanizes you.' says DC, joking at the Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner in Washington D.C. Who is DC? (pictured below)

6) "The country C is just a graveyard for airplanes", says Jim Durbin, of the Washington-based Flight Safety Foundation, on the large number of aging aircraft in Africa. A 31-year-old DC-9 jetliner crashed in that nation earlier last week. Which country?

7) "It takes seasoned maturity to ensure this nation is never second-rated in the international arena and Mr. K is not there yet," Brown said. "We are not the 51st state of the US and Mr Ks salute carried a subservient connotation many of our countrymen won't like." Who is K and which country is in the news here? (Picture shown below)

8) "You don't have to psychoanalyze or patronize people to conclude that we have problems" says Ms. Y on Mr. Xs description of working-class people being "bitter" and "clinging to guns and religion". If you know onw name, can guess the other easily. Name X and Y.

9) This has been the ultimate rollercoaster ride, and I hate rollercoasters", says a 28-year old Trevor Immelman recently. In December 2007, doctors discovered a lesion approximately the size of a golf ball on his diaphragm. It was diagnosed as a calcified fibrosis tumor. After more tests they discovered that it was benign. In an interview the following week, Immelman remarked at how ironic it was that the lesion was the size of a golf ball!! Why is he in the news recently?

10) This is perhaps the best news this week. When this European country announced its list of 17 ministers recently, 9 of them were women, making the PM live upto his lasting commitment towards gender equality. Carme Chacon was sworn in Monday as this nations first woman defense minister. Chacon is 37 and is presently 7-months pregnant. She had served as housing minister in this PMs first government, and was described by him as "one of the major new stars of the Socialist Party." Which country am I talking about? (Her picture is given below, while inspecting the troops at the swearing-in ceremony)

Answers in a week in the comments section...

Varun Reddy

IIM Lucknow.