The Top 100 Most Innovative Companies Ranking

The World’s Most Innovative Companies.

2006 Rank	Company	Margin Growth 1995-2005 %	Stock Returns 1995-2005 %
1	Apple	7.1	24.6
2	Google	NA**	NA**
3	3M	3.4	11.2
4	Toyota	10.7	11.8
5	Microsoft	2.0	18.5
6	General Electric	5.7	13.4
7	Procter & Gamble	4.4	12.6
8	Nokia	0.0	34.6
9	Starbucks	2.2	27.6
10	IBM	-0.7	14.4
11	Virgin	NA**	NA**
12	Samsung	-4.5***	22.7
13	Sony	-11.0	5.1
14	Dell	2.0	39.4
15	IDEO	NA**	NA**
16	BMW	9.1	14.2
17	Intel	-0.3	13.8
18	eBay	13.0***	NA**
19	IKEA	NA**	NA**
20	Wal-Mart	1.9	16.2
21	Amazon	25.0***	NA**
22	Target	7.4	25.2
23	Honda	8.0	12.9
24	Research In Motion	57.0***	NA**
25	Southwest	-0.1	13.9
26	Porsche	NA**	33.1
27	Genentech	5.7	29.3
28	Cisco	-2.2	15.2
29	Nike	0.0	10.7
30	Motorola	0.7	3.8
31	DaimlerChrysler	4.8***	-1.8
32	Infosys	3.0***	73.6
33	Ryanair	2.7	28.4
34	Pixar	24.2	13.8
35	SonyEricsson	NA**	NA**
36	WWhole Foods	4.1	36.6
37	Capital One	-2.1	27.4
38	Tesco	-0.3	16.2
39	Danone	4.7	13.3
40	BP	-0.2	12.3
41	PepsiCo	4.9	10.2
42	Hewlett Packard	-6.6	7.1
43	Disney	-3.7	2.9
44	jetBlue	NA**	0.9
45	Gore & Associates	NA**	NA**
46	Skype Technologies	NA**	NA**
47	FedEx	4.3	18.9
48	Bang & Olufsen	2.4	16.3
49	Renault	23.7	14.8
50	L’Oreal	2.3	14.2
51	ExxonMobil	5.8	13.6
52	Siemens	2.0***	12.6
53	Johnson & Johnson	3.6	12.6
54	Shell	2.4	11.0
55	Pfizer	1.8	9.9
56	Singapore Airlines	-5.8	7.7
57	Nissan	30.2	5.4
58	DuPont	-1.8	4.9
59	Zara	NA**	NA**
60	TiVo	NA**	-24.6
61	Yahoo!	NA**	42.9
62	Macquarie Bank	NA**	35.0
63	Audi	9.2	30.1
64	Harley Davidson	7.1	22.3
65	Progressive Insurance	1.1	22.0
66	Volvo	-2.7	17.1
67	Philips Electronics	3***	16.2
68	ING Bank	3.0	15.7
69	Nestle	1.2***	13.9
70	Boeing	0.1	7.6
71	Matsushita Electric Industrial	-1.4	3.9
72	easyJet	0.0***	3.7
73	UPS	3.4	3.6
74	KO” Coca-Cola	1.3	2.4
75	Cirque du Soleil (tied)	NA**	NA**
75	McKinsey (tied)	NA**	NA**
75	Woolworths (tied)	5.6***	NA**
78	Hutchison Telecommunications	NA**	88.1
79	Salesforce.com	NA**	58.4
80	ACS	NA**	35.1
81	ITC	NA**	25.4
82	Time Warner	8.1	22.3
83	Danaher	2.7	21.7
84	Costco Wholesale	1.7	20.7
85	LG Electronics	NA**	19.1
86	bankinter	NA**	18.3
87	Amgen	-0.3	18.2
88	Caterpillar	0.3	17.5
89	Accenture	NA**	16.3
90	SAP	1.3	15.7
91	SK Telecom	1.5	15.7
92	Home Depot	4.3	14.9
93	LVMH	-2.6***	12.3
94	Gap	-1.7	11.6
95	Unilever	5.0***	11.2
96	Goldman Sachs	-4.9***	10.9
97	John Deere & Co.	-1.1	8.9
98	Whirlpool	2.0	7.2
99	Entel	NA**	6.2
100	McDonald’s	-2.4	5.2

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General Awareness Q and A (march. 12, 2011)

1. The Bahujan Samaj Party and the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) had a tie up for the Assembly elections in Haryana organised recently. Which former PM of Haryana founded the HJC in 2007?

a)    Bansi Lal
b)    Om Prakash Chautala
c)    Bhajan Lal
d)    Bhupinder Singh Hooda
e)    Banarsi Das Gupta

2. Four CUBESATs are among the foreign satellites launched by PSLV-C14 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota on Sept. 23, 2009 along with the main satellite – Oceansat-2. The four CUBESATs are educational satellites from European universities, each weighing around one kg and developed to perform technology demonstration in space. Which of the following is not among the four Cubesats launched by PSLV-C14?

a)    UWE-2 from the Universitat Wurzburg, Germany
b)    DTU-3 from Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
c)    BeeSat from the Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
d)    ITU-pSATl from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
e)    SwissCube from Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland

3. English language publisher Puffin has ventured into comic book publishing with its comic book versions of stories from the famous Feluda mystery series. Which famous movie producer is the author of the Feluda mystery series?

a)    Buddhadeb Dasgupta
b)    Rituparno Ghosh
c)    Basu Chatterjee
d)    Subrata Sen
e)    Satyajit Ray

4. Which of the following statements about ‘India’s Got Talent’ award presented recently is/are correct?

I.    Aslam Khan & Group won the ‘India’s Got Talent’ beating ten other finalists
II.  The winners are from Ambapua village near Berhampur town in Orissa’s Ganjam district
III. The winners got Rs. 25 lakh cash award and a Maruti WagonR car
a)    I only
b)    II only
c)    III only
d)    I and III only
e)    II and III only

5. Who was elected President of the Broadcast Editor’s Association (BEA) that was set up to highlight and discuss issues of editorial importance in broadcast journalism recently?

a)    Arnab Goswami of Times Now
b)    Rajat Jain of India TV
c)    Pankaj Pachauri of NDTV
d)    Shazi Zaman of Star News channel
e)    Rajdeep Sardesai of CNN-IBN

6. ‘Handicrafts Development Corporation’ in which state runs showrooms under the name Lepakshi?

a)    Kerala
b)    Maharashtra
c)    Andhra Pradesh
d)    Arunachal Pradesh
e)    Assam

7. Where was the foundation stone for the Satyajit Ray Railway Stadium laid by Union Railways minister Mamata Banerjee recently?

a)    Howrah
b)    Burdwan
c)    Asansol
d)    Kolkata
e)    New Delhi

8. The Supreme Court restored to Prasar Bharati CEO the executive powers taken away by a recent order of the Delhi High Court recently. Who is the CEO?

a)    George Verghese
b)    Utpal Bhattacharya
c)    Sunil Dang
d)    Arun Bhatnagar
e)    Baljit Singh Lalli

9. Admiral Nirmal Kumar Verma has taken over as the new Chief of the Indian Navy from Admiral Sureesh Mehta who retired recently. Which of the following statements about Admiral Nirmal Kumar Verma is/are correct?

a)    He is an alumnus of Royal Naval Staff College in the UK, and the Naval War College in the US
b)    He has commanded the Naval Academy, Goa
c)    He was the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C) of the Western Naval Command before his appointment as Chief of the Indian Navy
d)    His achievements include the Param Vishisht Seva Medal and the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal
e)    None of the above

10. The 17th Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award was presented to Guatam Bhai for promoting communal harmony, peace and goodwill recently. He is associated with which of NGOs based near Yavatmal in Maharashtra?
a)    Sivananda Ashram
b)    Paunar Ashram
c)    Sadhu Vaswani Ashram
d)    Transcendental Meditation Centre
e)    Vipassana Ashram

Answers to the above questions
1.    c   2.    b    3.    e    4.    b    5.    d    6.    c    7.    d    8.    e    9.    c    10.    b

Answer 3: “A Bagful of Mystery” and “Beware in the Graveyard” are comic book versions of Satyajit Ray’s popular Feluda stories. Priced at Rs. 99 each, the Feluda comic books have text by writer Subhadra Sen Gupta and art by Tapas Guha. Slated for publication in 2010 are three more comic book versions from the Feluda series: “Murder by the Sea”, “The Killers of Kathmandu” and “Danger in Darjeeling”.

Answer 4: “Prince Dance Group” of Ambapua village located on the outskirts of Berhampur town in Orissa’s Ganjam district has won the grand finale of India’s Got Talent, the dance reality show on Colors entertainment channel. Led by their 26-year-old dance teacher Krishna Mohan Reddy the group won the Rs. 50 lakh cash award and a Maruti Suzuki Ritz car. The Group performed the dance version of Dasavatar, the great epoch of Hindu mythology. Rani Mukherjee and Shahid Kapoor declared the Orissa group as winner.

Answer 6: Andhra Pradesh Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd runs the Lepakshi showrooms

Answer 8: Arun Bhatnagar is the Chairman of Prasar Bharati.

Answer 9: He was the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C) of the Eastern Naval Command before his appointment as Chief of the Indian Navy

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General Awareness Q and A (Oct. 11, 2009)

General Awareness Q and A (Oct. 11, 2009),Mukhyamantri Kanya Suraksha Yojana,Historian William Dalrymple,Dada Saheb Phalke award , first state dinner hosted by United States President Barack Obama, Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar

1. Which state celebrated the first anniversary of ‘Mukhyamantri Kanya Suraksha Yojana’ under which the state government contributes Rs 2,000 for every girl child born to families below the poverty line recently?

a)    Rajasthan
b)    Delhi
c)    Bihar
d)    Madhya Pradesh
e)    Uttar Pradesh

2. Historian William Dalrymple was in news for the release of which of his following books recently?

a)    ‘City of Djinns’
b)    ‘From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium’
c)    ‘Nine Lives: in Search of the Sacred in Modern India’
d)    ‘Begums, Thugs & White Mughals — The Journals of Fanny Parkes’
e)    ‘The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857’

3. The Maharashtra Cabinet has approved a design submitted by Bensley Design Studios, Thailand and Team One Architects, Mumbai for installation of a 309 feet tall statue of who among the following off the coast of Mumbai?

a)    Jyotiba Phule
b)    Shivaji
c)    Bal Gangadhar Tilak
d)    Jawaharlal Nehru
e)    Baji Rao I

4. Playback singer Manna Dey was selected for the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award for 2007 recently. Which of the following statements is/are correct?

I.      He is only the third singer to receive the award
II.    He has won National award for Best Male Playback Singer twice
III.  The award carries a cash prize of Rs.10 lakh, a swaran kamal and a shawl
a)    I only
b)    I and II
c)    II and III
d)    III only
e)    I, II and III

5. Who is the guest at the first state dinner hosted by United States President Barack Obama in November?

a)    Afghanistan President, Hamid Karzai
b)    India’s Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh
c)    Russia’s Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin
d)    China’s President, Hu Jintao
e)    Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel

6. Noted music composer Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar was in news for joining which political party recently?

a)    BJP
b)    Shiv Sena
c)    Congress
d)    Bahujan Samaj Party
e)    Nationalist Congress Party

7. Which chief minister flagged off ‘Kisan Jagrukata Raths’ to tour drought affected districts to collect applications for grants, tractors, harvesters and power tillers from farmers recently?

a)    Shivraj Singh Chauhan
b)    Mayawati
c)    Nitish Kumar
d)    Ashok Gehlot
e)    Ashok Chavan

8. Who was chosen as The Economic Times Business Reformer of the Year 2009?

a)    Nitish Kumar
b)    Narendra Modi
c)    Sheila Dixit
d)    Shivraj Singh Chauhan
e)    Ashok Chavan

9. Which of the following statements is/are true regarding IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Director-General, Mohammed ElBaradei who won the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development (2008) given to recently?

I.     ElBaradei is a nuclear physicist by profession
II.   ElBaradei succeeded Hans Blix of Sweden as Director General of IAEA in 1997.
III.  He is currently serving his third term as Director-General of IAEA
a)    I only
b)    I and II only
c)    II and III only
d)    I and III only
e)    I, II and III

10. The Kremlin Zoria Festival organised in Moscow recently was an international event devoted to which of the following?

a)    Classical music
b)    Military music
c)    Tribal music
d)    Folk Dances
e)    All the above

Answers to the above Questions
1.    c    2.    c    3.    b    4.    e    5.    b    6.    b    7.    c    8.    a    9.    c    10.    b

Answer 1: The objective of ‘Mukhyamantri Kanya Suraksha Yojana’ is to improve the sex ratio and to encourage registration of birth. The scheme launched was jointly by the Bihar Government Social Welfare Department, State Women Development Corporation, and the UTI Asset Management Company in June 2008. The state government would invest Rs. 2,000 for the first two girls in a family living under the Below Poverty Level (BPL). The amount of Rs.2000/- will be invested by Women Development Corporation, Patna, Bihar on behalf Government of Bihar in UTI-Children’s Career Balanced Plan-Growth Option. On completion of 18 years the amount equal to the maturity value will be paid to the girl child (Rs. 18000/-).

Answer4: The award carries a cash prize of Rs.10 lakh, a swaran kamal and a shawl. Manna Dey won the National award for Best Male Playback Singer for the song ‘Jhanak Jhanak Tore Baaje Paayaliya’ for the Hindi movie ‘Mere Huzoor’ in 1969. He again won the National award for Best Male Playback Singer for the song ‘Ja Khushi Ora Bole’ for the Bengali movie ‘Nishi Padma’ in 1971. Asha Bhosle (2000) and Lata Mangeshkar (1989) are the other two singers to have won the award. Manna Dey is also the recipient of the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awards.

Answer 9: ElBaradei is a lawyer by profession. Baradei earned a Bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Cairo in 1962, followed by a degree in International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and a PhD in International Law at the New York University School of Law in 1974. ElBaradei was the joint recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 along with the IAEA

Answer 10: Kremlin Zoria Festival is an international military music event organised at the historic Red Square in Moscow in September.

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General Awareness Q and Ans

1. The Michael Jackson concert documentary ‘This Is It’ was in news for crossing the $200 million mark in ticket sales worldwide recently. Who is the producer?
(a) Lakeshore Entertainment
(b) Universal Studios
(c) Vivendi Entertainment
(d) Sony Pictures
(e) Maverick Films

2. Who was in news recently for the autobiography titled entitled “Going Rogue”?
(a) Joe Lieberman
(b) Sarah Palin
(c) Walter Mondale
(d) John McCain
(e) Dick Cheney

3. Which country was in news for bombing raids in territories occupied by Shia rebels in neighbouring Yemen recently?
(a) Iraq
(b) United Arab Emirates
(c) Turkey
(d) Iran
(e) Saudi Arabia

4. Which Oscar award winning US director was conferred with the honour -’Commander in Legion of Honour’ by the French government recently?
(a) Martin Scorsese
(b) Kirk Douglas
(c) Clint Eastwood
(d) Robert Altman
(e) Steven Spielberg

5. Which of the following is/are incorrect about the data for the year 2008 released by the Registrar General, India recently?
(a) Birth Rate-22.8
(b) Death Rate – 9.4
(c) Population Growth Rate -15.4
(d) Infant Mortality Rate – 53
(e) Both (2) and (3)

6. Constitutional Court in which Western European country recently ruled as unconstitutional, a law that gave the President, Prime Minister and Speakers of the National Assembly and the Senate immunity from prosecution while in office?
(a) Germany
(b) Italy
(c) Spain
(d) Portugal
(e) France

7. Which of the following statements about eminent Hindi journalist Prabhash Joshi who passed away recently is/are true?
I.   He was the founder-editor of the newspaper Loksatta
II.  He began his career with Nai Duniya
III. He launched a weekly column ‘Aughat Ghat’ in Tehelka Hindi recently
(a) I only
(b) I and II only
(c) II and III only
(d) III only
(e) I, II and III

8. Who is the President of the Editors Guild of India?
(a) Raj at Gupta
(b) Prabhu Chawla
(c) Arnab Goswami
(d) Prannoy Roy
(e) Raj deep Sardesai

9. Who among the following is the judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in news recently for a clean chit in the “Rs. 15 lakh cash-at-door scam” after the Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice of India K. G. Balakrishnan accepted the report of the Union Law Ministry?
(a) Justice Nirmal Yadav
(b) Justice Neelima Chandiramani
(c) Justice Mukta Gupta
(d) Justice Nirmaljit Kaur
(e) Justice Sujata Vasant Manohar

10. The Congress and the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM) announced their decision to contest the forthcoming State Assembly elections in alliance recently. Which former Chief Minister of the state is the founder of JVM?
(a) Babu Lal Marandi
(b) Arjun Munda
(c) Shibu Soren
(d) Madhu Koda
(e) None of the above

Answers to the above questions

1. D    2. B    3. E    4. C    5. B    6. B    7. C    8. E    9. A    10. A

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General Awareness Q and A for 2day

1. Which of the following statements is/are true about the forthcoming Academy (Oscar) Awards according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?
I.   Will Smith and Reese Witherspoon will co-host the awards ceremony?
II.  This will be the 82nd Academy Awards
III. The Academy Awards will have ten nominations for the Best Picture Award
(a) I only
(b) I and II only
(c) II and III only
(d) III only
(e) I, II and III

2. Which Judge was in news recently for his voluntary withdrawal from the three member bench hearing the Reliance gas dispute case in the Supreme Court?
(a) Justice R.V. Raveendran
(b) Justice B. Sudershan Reddy
(c) Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan
(d) Justice P. Sathasivam
(e) Justice Markandey Katju

3. Who has taken over as the Director of Operations at the Bangalore based National Cricket Academy in place of his predecessor Dave Whatmore who joined IPL team Kolkata Knight Raiders recently?
(a) Kapil Dev
(b) Madan Lal
(c) Sanjay Manjrekar
(d) Sandeep Patil
(e) Karsan Ghavri

4. Which ship was in news recently for its detention along the Alang coast in Gujarat and its inspection by a Central technical team following allegations that it carried radioactive or hazardous waste?
(a) Gold Coast
(b) Expedition-I
(c) Cobalt-Ill
(d) Platinum-II
(e) Silver Pearl

5. Which ASEAN head of state was in news recently for appointing former Thailand Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra as his personal adviser?
(a) Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
(b) Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen
(c) Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak
(d) Vietnam’s President Nguyen Minh Triet
(e) Laos’ President Choummaly Sayasone

6. In which of his one day international (ODI) matches did Sachin Tendulkar become the first cricketer to reach the milestone of 17,000 runs recently?
(a) 412th
(b) 435th
(c) 447th
(d) 481st
(e) 513th

7. The government recently ordered the sending back of over 25000 unskilled and semi-skilled Chinese labourers working on projects in India because:
(a) They were illegal immigrants
(b) They were involved in protests against Dalai Lama’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh
(c) They were working on business visas instead of employment visas
(d) They were working on employment visas instead of business visas
(e) Both (1) and (3)

8. President of which country in South America was in news recently for sacking the head of the armed forces after warning of a coup against him/her?
(a) Cristina Kirchner of Argentina
(b) Alvaro Uribe of Colombia
(c) Hugo Chavez of Venezuela
(d) Fernando Lugo of Paraguay
(e) Michelle Bachelet of Chile

9. What is the US Navy ship built with steel salvaged from the World Trade Center and put into service recently is named?
(a) USS Hudson
(b) USS New York
(c) USS Manhattan
(d) USS Atlas
(e) USS Arctic

10. Where was the Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) organised recently and which President did not attend following his indictment by the International Criminal Court for war crimes?
(a) Aden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(b) Istanbul, Omar al-Bashir of Sudan
(c) Algiers, Bashar al-Assad of Syria
(d) Jeddah, Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine
(e) Islamabad, Islom Karimov of Uzbekistan

Answers to the above questions

1. C    2. A    3. D    4. D    5. B    6. B    7. C    8. D    9. B    10. B

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General Awareness Q and A for today

1. Who was conferred with the “The Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film” at the BAFTA/LA Britannia awards recently?
(a) Denzel Washington
(b) Clint Eastwood
(c) Roberto de Niro
(d) Kirk Douglas
(e) Danny Boyle

2. Who won the WTA championships at Doha recently?
(a) Kim Clijsters
(b) Maria Sharapova
(c) Ana Ivanova
(d) Serena Williams
(e) Venus Williams

3. Cabinet of which SAARC country recently approved the Vested Property Return (Amendment) Act 2009 for restoring property seized from minority groups decades ago?
(a) Bhutan
(b) Sri Lanka
(c) Bangladesh
(d) Pakistan
(e) Nepal

4. Which country in Asia has decided to shift its capital to a different yet to be identified location after warning from seismologists that it is liable to be struck by a catastrophic earthquake in the foreseeable future?
(a) Astana, Kazakhstan
(b) Turkmenistan, Ashgabat
(c) Tehran, Iran
(d) Ulan Bator, Mongolia
(e) Tashkent, Uzbekistan

5. A new postage stamp was introduced on which of the following medical institutions by India Post recently?
(a) All India Institute of Medical Sciences
(b) Escorts Heart Institute
(c) Cipla Foundation
(d) Apollo Hospitals
(e) Armed Forces Medical College

6. Madhu Koda, who was in news recently for investigations into his amassing wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income, was the Chief Minister of Jharkhand during:
(a) Nov 2000 to March 2003
(b) March 2003 to March 2005
(c) March 2005 to September 2006
(d) September 2006 to August 2008
(e) August 2008 to January 2009

7. Home Minister P Chidambaram the passing out parade of the 61st batch of the IPS at the National Police Academy (NPA) recently. Where is the NPA based?
(a) New Delhi
(b) Mysore
(c) Manesar
(d) Bhopal
(e) Hyderabad

8. Which of the following statements about the third Asian Indoor Games organised recently is/are true?
I.   The Games were organised at Hanoi, Vietnam
II.  Vietnam finished second in medals tally behind China
III. India finished seventh in the medals tally
(a) I only
(b) I and II only
(c) II and III only
(d) III only
(e) I, II and III

9. Mark out the wrong combination of Ministers and their portfolios in Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s new Cabinet sworn in recently?
(a) Ajay Singh Yadav – Finance
(b) Home – Om Parkash Jain
(c) Randeep Singh Surjewala-Parliamentary Affairs
(d) Geeta Bhukkal – Education
(e) Paramvir Singh – Agriculture

10. Project Director of Chandrayaan-II moon mission, which will help in analysis of mineral composition and undertake terrain mapping of the moon, announced that it will be completed by 2012-13. Who is the Project Director of Chandrayaan-II?
(a) M. Pitchaimani
(b) K. N. Shankara
(c) S. R. Ranganathan
(d) S. K. Shivkumar
(e) M Annadurai

Answers to the above questions

1. C    2. D    3. C    4. C    5. D    6. D    7. E    8. E    9. B    10. E

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