5th weekend quiz

Here are the answers to the 5th weekend quiz questions posted to this website on 17th June
2006. Cheers.

1)                   Goldman Sachs has given its top man to be the Treasury Secretary of USA.
Name this person

Hank Paulson

2)                   On May 12th, 2006 a wave of violence orchestrated from within the prison
system struck Rio de Janeiro and neighbouring towns. In five days of mayhem and
retribution some 150 people, a quarter of them policemen were killed; 82 buses torched,
17 bank branches attacked. Rebellions erupted at 74 of the 140 prisons in Sao Paulo state.
Schools, shopping centres, offices were shut down; transport froze. Name the criminal
gang that was involved in this spate of violence in Rio de Janeiro .

Primeiro Commando da Capital, led by its top boss Marcola who has been in jail since
1999.

3)                   Who wrote the following books: "The Affluent Society", "American
Capitalism", "The New Industrial State".

The late John Kenneth Galbraith

4)                   What is "ALBA" and who are the members of it.

 
"ALBA" is "Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas" an alliance of Cuba , Venezuela
and Bolivia. ALBA is supposed to be an alternative to a Free Trade Area of the Americas
favoured by the United States .

5)                   He took over as National Football League's Commissioner in 1989 and

made NFL into the most successful leagues amongst the four sports leagues in America
i.e. football, baseball, basketball and ice hockey. He is due to retire in July 2006. Name
this person

Paul Tagliabue

6)                   Where is the George Bush Sr. Presidential Library and Museum situated?
(In USA, a Presidential Library is opened after every President departs from office,
which is actually a wonderful practice to be emulated by Indian government…)

Texas A&M University

7)                   In Sudan , they call it "tahoor" or purification, in Sierra Leone, it is known

as "bondo" or initiation. An estimated 130M girls and women now alive have undergone
this procedure in more than two dozen African countries as well as in parts of Asia, the
Middle East and some immigrant communities in the west. What procedure are we
talking about?

Female genital mutilation

8)                   Recently, Singapore government proposed to their Indonesian counterparts

that they would be interested in managing one of the 17,500 islands in the Indonesian
archipelago. Name the island that Singapore is most interested in.

Bintan
 

9)                   Where and when was the world's first "hybrid" court set up: "hybrid" in the
sense it had a mixture of local and international judges.

The Special Court for Sierra Leone set up jointly by the UN and the Sierra Leonean
government in 2002.

10)               Name the archaean aeon period.

The Archaean aeon stretched from earth's formation until 2.5 billion years ago, although
there is circumstantial evidence it may have existed 2.8 billion years ago.