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  • Question
  • Behrouz Boochani, who won the Australia's richest literary prize, is from which country?


  • Options
  • A. Saudi Arabia
  • B. Palestine
  • C. Iran
  • D. Oman

  • Correct Answer
  • Iran 

    Explanation
    The Kurdish Iranian journalist, filmmaker and detained refugee, Behrouz Boochani has won the Victorian Prize for Literature for a book he reportedly wrote using the online messaging service WhatsApp. He was awarded the Australian dollar $100,000 (US$72,600) prize for his book "No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison".

  • More questions

    • 1. Which port has topped the list in the first-ever ranking of the ports on Sanitation Parameters under the Union Ministry of Shipping?

    • Options
    • A. Kandla Port
    • B. Cochin Port
    • C. Haldia Port
    • D. Vizag Port
    • Discuss
    • 2. Commerce Ministry, Indian High Commissions and embassies of how many African nations jointly organised an interaction to improve India-Africa trade?

    • Options
    • A. 11
    • B. 8
    • C. 6
    • D. 4
    • Discuss
    • 3. Which union minister has launched an integrated grievances redressal platform "MoPNG e Seva" for Petroleum and Gas related queries?

    • Options
    • A. Faggan Singh Kulaste
    • B. Ajay Tamta
    • C. Arjun Ram Meghwal
    • D. Dharmendra Pradhan
    • Discuss
    • 4. Name the journal that publish, the discovery of the first small-molecule inhibitors of the Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) protein by the team of researchers headed by Amit Choudhary.

    • Options
    • A. Journal Nature
    • B. Journal Environmental Research
    • C. Journal of Biotechnology
    • D. Journal Cell
    • Discuss
    • 5. Who approves 20 lakh houses for urban poor approved under PM Awas Yojna recently?

    • Options
    • A. Shri Venkaiah Naidu
    • B. Shri Arun Jaitley
    • C. Shri Naveen Patnaik
    • D. Shri Suresh Menon
    • Discuss
    • 6. Who is the author of the book "Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth"?

    • Options
    • A. Audrey Truschke
    • B. Sampath Kumar
    • C. Andrej Plenkovic
    • D. Bhim Chandra Nag
    • Discuss
    • 7. When did the UN English Language Day is observed?

    • Options
    • A. April 22
    • B. April 23
    • C. April 24
    • D. April 25
    • Discuss
    • 8. Who has been named as first non-British President of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)?

    • Options
    • A. Varun Chopra
    • B. Mahela Jayawardene
    • C. Kumar Sangakkara
    • D. David Byas
    • Discuss
    • 9. Who has been appointed as Indian men's football team coach?

    • Options
    • A. Zvonimir Boban
    • B. Robert Jarni
    • C. Zoran Vulic
    • D. Igor Stimac
    • Discuss
    • 10. The Ministry of Commerce and Industries instructed the Health Ministry to frame law banning manufacture and sale of __________ in the country.

    • Options
    • A. Marijuana
    • B. Bhang
    • C. e-cigarettes
    • D. e-charas
    • Discuss


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