November 11, 2006

1) The Berlin-based corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) has ranked 163 countries based on perceived levels of corruption among public officials and politicians in its 2006 Corruption Perceptions Index. Haiti was ranked last, just below Iraq, do you know what position Pakistan graces?

2) Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of the Philippines, has launched her own fashion label, The Imelda Collection, which will mainly comprise a range of jewellery designed by her daughter and will also include clothes and shoes. In which year was the rule of her husband Ferdinand Marcos brought to an end through a popular revolution?

3) Which artist won the entertainer of the year award at the 40th Annual Country Music Association Awards last Monday?

4) The author of Sophie’s Choice, whose motion picture adaptation won Meryl Streep a Best Actress Oscar, and who was a US Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, died recently. Name him.

5) Which planet travelled, or what is called “transited” in astronomy, between the sun and the Earth on November 8, a sight that was observed by many sky-watchers through the telescope?

6) Which catwalk queen was named Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards last week?

7) Australia won their first ever ICC Champions Trophy title, beating West Indies by eight wickets in the final. How many times have the Australians failed to win the Champions Trophy prior to this tournament?

8) Still on this final match of November 5, who was the Man of the Match?

9) Who was the Player of the Series?

10) Tajik president Emomali Rakhmonov won the third term as president in elections that were neither free nor fair. How many years has he been in office already?

Answers:

1) 142
2) 1986
3) Kenny Chesney
4) William Styron
5) Mercury
6) Kate Moss
7) Four
8) S.R. Warson (Australia)
9) C.H. Gayle (West Indies)
10) 14

Ambreen Arshad

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