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Current Affairs UPPSC 2008 GS-I
Question

The 21st Winter Olympics is going to be held in

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option C: Vancouver

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “Vancouver”.
The 21st Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver, Canada, in 2010.

Similar Questions:

The persons whose names find place in list-I below are the President of his country given in list-II. Match list-I with list-II and select the correct answer using the code given below:
List-I - List-II

A. Recardo Logos - l. USSR
B. Thabo Mbeiki - 2. Indonesia
C. Abdurrahman Wahid - 3. South Africa
D. Vladimir Putin - 4. Chile

Code:
A B C D
  1. A) 4 3 2 1
  2. B) 2 3 4 4
  3. C) 1 2 3 4
  4. D) 3 4 1 2
The Indian athlete who won a bronze medal at the world Championship in Paris in August 2003, was:
  1. A) Anju B.George
  2. B) Madhuri Singh
  3. C) Neelam J. Singh
  4. D) Sunita Rani
The Prime Minister Gramodaya Yojana does not include:
  1. A) Basic education
  2. B) Nutritious food, drinking water and health
  3. C) Rural roads and housing
  4. D) Small scale industries
The first High/Supreme Court Judge, who voluntarily made public his assets, is:
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  2. B) Justice K. Chandru
  3. C) Justice K. Kannan
  4. D) Justice U.C. Srivastava
The population of a town is 17,71,561. If it had been increasing at 10% per annum, its population 6 years ago was:
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  2. B) 12,10,000
  3. C) 11,00.000
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In the 11th Five Year Plan, which of the following sectors accounts for maximum combined Central, State and U.T. expenditure?
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  2. B) Energy
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  2. B) Punjab
  3. C) Uttar Pradesh
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Who out of the following became the first lady President of South Korea in Feb, 2013?
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  2. B) Park Geun-Hye
  3. C) Kang ji-won
  4. D) Kim Soon-ja
The theme of 44th Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum which was held at Davos in Switzerland between 22nd and 25th January, 2014 was:
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  2. B) Society, politics and business
  3. C) The world politics and business
  4. D) Society and business
The Gokul Gram Scheme is associated with the state of:
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  2. B) A.P.
  3. C) Gujarat
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