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THE HINDU EDUCATION PLUS QUIZ NO. 9

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. ’Kamli’, the film for which Nandita Das won the Nandi award as best actress, is based on the life of a...

lLambada woman lAIDS victim lvillage sarpanch

lsex worker

2. Which political party, other than the Telugu Desam Party, has bicycle as its election symbol?

lNational Conference lSamajwadi Party

lJarkhand MuktiMorcha lHaryana Vikas Manch

3. Krishna district will have how many Assembly constituencies as a result of delimitation?

l14 l15 l16 l17

4. Who is the latest to be declared as ’icon’ by the BCCI for the Indian Premier League (IPL)?

lM.S. Dhoni lIrfan Pathan lAnil Kumble

lVirender Sehwag

5. Mobile telephone services began in India in which year?

l1995 l1994 l1992 l1991

6. Identify this famous personality.

lC.S. Bhave lE. Sreedharan

lY.V. Reddy

lAnji Reddy

7. Hamas is an extremist organisation that is fighting for the cause of Muslims in...

lEgypt lAfghanistan lPalestine lIran

8. In which liquid component do blood cells move about?

lPlatelets lWhite Blood Cells lRed Blood Cells lPlasma

9. Who is the author of’The Last Mughal’?

lWilliam Dalrymple lBipin Chandra lMark Tully

lDominique Lapierre

10. The word’octave’is used in...

lliterature lmusic lsports lagriculture

Answers to Quiz No. 8:

1. Chief Electoral Officer; 2. Transcendental Meditation;

3. Mir Ranjan Negi; 4. Maggie Williams; 5. Huang He;

6. Yahoo; 7. Indra; 8. Rayalaseema; 9. Ustad Bismillah Khan; 10. PML (Q).

Winners of Quiz No. 8:

First: V.V.S.R.K. Rao, Pedavadlapudi, Guntur district.

Second: N. Vivek Aditya, Ashok Nagar, Vijayawada.

Third: V. Mohana Krishna, Brindavan Colony, Vijayawada.

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