SELF EVALUATION ASSIGNMENT-5

SAE: SELF EVALUATION ASSIGNMENT - 5

Answer the following questions:

A.   Who and what are the followings?

      1.    C.B. Bhave

      2.    R.V. Raju

      3.    Ganesh Natarajan

      4.    NACO

      5.    MI5

      6.    Call Money

      7.    Special 301

      8.    E-commerce

      9.    Alpha Shares

      10.   Q.R'S.

B.   Name the authors of the following books:

      1.    How I play Golf?

      2.    The True History of the Kelly Gang

      3.    Half a life

      4.    Galti Kiski ; I dare

      5.    Nesheeth

      6.    It was Five-Past Midnight in Bhopal

      7.    A Painted House

      8.    Jhelum Factor

      9.    The Glass Palace

      10.   India’s Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi

      11.   District Diary

      12.   Truth, Love and a Little Malice

      13.   Sights and Sounds of the World

      14.   The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism

      15.   Riot

      16.   Shadow of Words

      17.   The Secrets of Nostradamus

      18.   The Miser

      19.   Ulysses

      20.   Unto This Last

C.   Name the followings:

      1.    Largest sports stadium in the world

      2.    Author of the book ‘The Blind Assassin’

      3.    Country most reliant on nuclear power

      4.    Country with the largest defence budget

      5.    Country with the highest male life expectancy

D.  What happened in the following years?

      1.    1789                    

      2.    1917

      3.    1914

      4.    1939

      5.    1950

      6.    1961

      7.    1964

      8.    1971

      9.    1984

      10.   1995

E.   Where are the followings?

      1.    Mazar-e-Sharif      

      2.    Tora Bora Mountains

      3.    Chaman

      4.    Gaza

      5.    Pentagon
      6.   Abbotabad

Answer of the Self Evaluation Assignment-5

A.    1.    Chairman of SEBI

        2.    Director-General, National Investigation Agency (NIA)

        3.    Chairman, NASSCOM

        4.    National AIDS Control Organisation

        5.    Britain’s spy agency.

        6.    Loan on very low interest for a very short period in stock market

        7.    The US special law aims to identify countries not providing adequate protection to copy-rights, patents and other intellectual property rights.

        8.    Electronic Commerce uses electronic methods e.g. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Electronic Mail (E-mail), Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), etc. to conduct paperless business.

        9.    They are those shares in which generally most of the trading is done-also known as Blue chips.

       10.  Quantitative restrictions refer to measures other than tariffs or duties taken to restrict imports. These include quotas, licences etc.

B.    1.    Tiger Woods

        2.    Peter Carey – The Booker Prize winner of 2001 from Australia.

        3.    V.S. Naipaul – Noble Prize winner for Literature in 2001.

        4.    Kiran Bedi

        5.    Uma Shanker Joshi

        6.    Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro

        7.    John Grisham

        8.    Khalid Rashid

        9.    Amitav Ghosh

        10.  Mala Sen

        11.  Jaswant Singh

        12.  Khushwant Singh

        13.  Khushwant Singh

        14.  Simon Reeve

        15.  Shashi Tharoor

        16.  Amrita Pritam (Autobiography)

        17.  David Ovason

        18.  Moliere

        19.  James Joyce

        20.  John Ruskin

C.    1.    Strahov stadium at Prague in Czech Republic– capacity 240,000

        2.    Margaret Atwood-Booker Prize winner in 2000.

        3.    France

        4.    USA

        5.    Andorra –80.6 years

              The principality of Andorra, founded in 1278, lies in the valley of Eastern Pyrennes, between France and Spain. San Marino and Japan are second and third in male life expectancy in the world.

D.    1.    French Revolution.

     2.   Bolshevik Revolution in Russia also called Red Revolution or October Revolution or Communist Revolution.

        3.    Outbreak of First World War.

        4.    Outbreak of Second World War.

        5.    Korean war.

        6.    Liberation of Goa from the Portuguese rule.

        7.    Death of Jawahar Lal Nehru.

        8.    Indo-Pak war or Bangladesh war – Libration of Bangladesh.

        9.    Assassination of Mrs. Indira Gandhi on October, 31.

        10.  World Trade organisation (WTO) came into existence on January, 1, 1995.

E.    1.    Afghanistan – In Northern Afghanistan

        2.    Afghanistan – Near Jalalabad bordering Pakistan.

        3.    Pakistan – In Baluchistan on Pak-Afghan border famous for grapes.

        4.    Palestine – Under Palestine Govt. led by Mahmoud Abbas.

      5.    Washington (USA) – Defence HQ of USA- target of horrendous terrorist air crash on September 11, 2001.

        6.    Pakistan – Abode of Osama-bin-laden who was killed in American Air Attack.