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THE HINDU EDUCATION PLUS QUIZ NO. 8

The Hindu Education Plus presents an opportunity to its readers to answer a daily quiz from February 12 to 21 during the days of 19 th Vijayawada Book Festival and win attractive prizes. All you have to do is tick the right answers in the boxes provided against each question and give personal details, including your contact number (without which the entry form will not be considered). Please drop the coupon in the box arranged at The Hindu stall at Swaraj Maidan, before 7 p.m. every day. The names of prize winners will be announced in tomorrow’s newspaper. If there are more correct entries, the top three winners will be decided by draw of lots. Winners can claim their prizes at The Hindu stall.

1.The Election Commission of India’s representative in a State is known as...

lChief Electoral Officer lState Election Commissioner lState Electoral Officer lChief Polling Officer

2. Spiritual guru Maharshi Mahesh Yogi, who died recently,

popularised which form of meditation?

lDeep Meditation lReligious Meditation

lInner Meditation lTranscendental Meditation

3.Name the Indian hockey player based on whose life the

film ’Chake De India’ is supposed to have been made?

lDhanraj Pillai lMir Ranjan Negi lAjitpal Singh

lSomaiah

4.Hillary Clinton replaced her campaign manager Patti Solis

Doyle with...

lSantita Jackson lWhoopi Goldberg

lMaggie Williams lJanet Jackson

5.The muddiest river in the world is...

lNile lGanga lHuang He lAmazon

6.Which global company announced a job cut to tide over

its financial difficulties?

lMicrosoft lYahoo lInfosys lMittal Steel

7.Rigveda has more number of references to which god?

lVishnu lShiva lBrahma lIndra

8.Which part of Andhra Pradesh was referred to as ’Ceded

Districts’ by the British?

lRayalaseema lTelangana lNorth Coastal Andhra

lMiddle Coastal Andhra

9.Who is the latest recipient of Bharat Ratna award?

lUstad Bismillah Khan lA.P.J. Abdul Kalam

lAmartya Sen lPandit Ravi Shankar

10.What is the party that Pakistan President Pervez

Musharraf heads?

lPPP lMQM lPML lPML (Q)

Answers to Quiz No.7:

1. Malaysia; 2. Rowan Atkinson; 3. Kisan Kanya; 4. France;

5. Hallmark; 6. Stockholm Syndrome; 7. Ilaiyaraja;

8. 18; 9. Maytas; 10. Srikakulam.

Winners of Quiz No.7:

First: Anand, Pezzonipeta

Second: V. Rajesh Kumar, Krishnalanka

Third: P. Theresa, Gunadala.

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