Current Affairs (International)
Name an election that was affected by new media
(one of the following)
2016 US Elections (Donald Trump ascendence)
2020 Singapore General Elections (Workers Party sleek usage of social media)
2014 Lok Sabha Elections in India
Which minister said that cotton came from sheep?
Chan Chun Sing
Compute the following: print(2 ** 3 ** 2)
512
What is the workhorse model of microeconomics?
Demand and supply
What was the movement founded in 2006 against sexual violence and sexual assault?
#Metoo Movement
How many eggs were thrown away due to oversupply from imports during the pandemic in 2020?
250000
Compute the following. What will the following two print statements give?
values = 3,5,7,23
list = values.split(",")
tuple = tuple(list)
print('List : ',list)
print('Tuple : ',tuple)
List : ['3', '5', '7', '23']
Tuple : ('3', '5', '7', '23')
What state is the market in when at a particular price, the quantity that buyers are willing to buy = the quantity that sellers are willing to sell
Market Equilibrium
Which political leader told their people that if they knew of any drug addicts, they should “go and kill them yourself”?
President of Philippines (Rodrigo Duterte)
How many seats did the Workers Party win in the 2020 General Elections?
10
01 sentence = 'Beautiful is better than ugly'.split(' ')
02
What should be inserted at line 2 onwards to produce the following output:
['Beautiful']
['better', 'than']
ylgu
A. print (sentence[0:1])
print (sentence[2:4])
print (sentence[4:5])
B. print (sentence[1])
print (sentence[3:4])
print (sentence[5][::-1])
C. print (sentence[0:1])
print (sentence[2:4])
print (sentence[4][::-1])
C
What is another word for “all else held constant” in economics?
Ceteris Paribus
What challenge became the most popular internet trend, raising a total of $115 million for awareness and research in 2014?
Ice Bucket challenge
Who are the four likely candidates to replace Mr Heng as the team's leader, and potentially succeed Mr Lee Hsien Loong as Singapore's prime minister?
Mr Chan Chun Sing, 51, Mr Ong Ye Kung, 51, Mr Lawrence Wong, 48, and Mr Desmond Lee, 44
y=3
x=2
x=1
y=x
if x>1:
print("apple")
elif x<4:
print("orange")
else:
print("grape")
print(x+1)
print(y)
orange
2
1
What are the 4 characteristics of a Perfectly Competitive Market?
All buyers and sellers are small in relation to the market
Single Market price
Everybody knows everything about the market (price, who and where sellers are, etc)
All sellers sell identical products/goods (no branding or differentiation)