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(a) Morphogenesis
(a) Radar
(d) Minesweeper
(e) Howitzer
4. Which Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member-
country is the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, the
U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, and the
Combined Maritime Forces?
(a) Bahrain*
(b) Kuwait
(c) Oman
(d) Qatar
(a) Ludhiana
(b) Amritsar
(c) Patiala
(d) Jalandhar*
(e) Gurdaspur
(a) I only
(a) I only
(a) I only
India’s Ravinder Singh (60 kg), Sanjay (74 kg) and Anil
Kumar (96 kg) win CWG wrestling titles. Oct. 8 Jamaica’s
Lerone Clarke wins CWG 100m gold in a time of 10.12
seconds. Oct. 9 Alka Tomar and Anita clinch gold in their
respective categories – 59 kg and 67 kg – in women’s
wrestling. Somdev Devvarman became India’s first tennis
gold medallist at the CWG with a 6-4, 6-2 win over
Australia’s Greg Jones. Oct. 10 Gagan Narang wins his
fourth gold of the Delhi CWG, defending 3-position rifle
individual title. Australia’s Anastasia Rodionova wins the
CWG women’s singles with 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(3) result over
Sania Mirza. Oct. 11 Krishna Poonia wins India’s second-
ever CWG gold in athletics with a top finish in the
women’s discus throw. Oct. 12 Heena Sidhu shoots 384 to
clinch the women’s air pistol pairs gold in the CWG.
India’s women’s relay team of (A.C. Ashwini, Manjeet
Kaur, Mandeep Kaur and Sini Jose) runs to gold medal,
finishing ahead of Nigeria and England. Oct. 13 Sharath
Kamal and Subhajit Saha win the CWG table tennis
doubles gold. Three Indian boxers win gold — Suranjoy
Singh (52 kg), Manoj Kumar (64 kg) and Paramjeet Samota
(plus-91 kg). Oct. 14 Saina Nehwal wins gold in
badminton singles gold. Australia thrashes India 8-0 in the
men’s hockey final. CWG Delhi comes to an end. India
finishes in second place in the medals tally. Oct. 19 Tamil
Nadu wins the South Zone T-20 cricket tournament for
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in Hyderabad. Oct. 23 Mr. N.
Ramachandran gets re-elected to the post of World Squash
Federation president for another two-year term. Oct. 24
Roger Federer equals Pete Sampras’ career haul of 64 ATP
titles with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Florian Mayer in the
Stockholm Open. Oct. 25 Sachin Tendulkar becomes the
only current cricketer to be named in ESPN-Cricinfo’s all-
time Test World XI. Oct. 29 Caroline Wozniacki assures
herself of the year-end No.1 WTA ranking, becoming the
first Danish woman to do so. Oct. 30 Olympic champion
Elena Dementieva announces her retirement at the age of
29 after losing at the WTA Tour Championships in Doha.
DEAD