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1) What is the name of the 4^th French-designed Scorpene class submarine that was commissioned by Indian Navy during this week to join Kalvari, Khanderi and Karanj?

2) NASA launched a spacecraft called DART to test a technology for steering an asteroid off a collision course with earth. What is the name of the asteroid into which the spacecraft will slam in September 2022?

3) In which American state did a nearly all-white jury find 3 white men guilty of murdering a black jogger?

4) Which country got its first woman Prime Minister, but for less than 12 hours, because a junior coalition partner decided to leave the government?

5) In a major victory for the concept of “music album”, Spotify agreed to delete the shuffle button for the latest album of which British songwriter and singer? Also name the album.

6) The traditional Thanksgiving Day parade, believed to be the world’s largest parade, returned to New York city after missing last year due to pandemic. After what department store chain is the 97-year-old parade named?

7) Indore was adjudged the cleanest city for the 5^th consecutive year in the latest annual GOI cleanliness survey. Which state retained its position as the cleanest?

8) Name the train whose waiting staff’s dress code was changed by Indian Railways following protests by Hindu religious leaders.

9) To whom did the Swiss football team send 9.3 kg of chocolates for helping them to qualify for the Qatar World Cup?

10) El Salvador announced an ambitious project to build a “Bitcoin City”. In what unique way will this city derive its power?

twtw-46 Answers

 

1. Aswan, Egypt
2. Rani Kamalapati
3. Arunachal Pradesh
4. Eight
5. M Mukundan
6. Kartarpur Sahib, Pakistan
7. David Cameron
8. Vijay Shekhar Sharma
9. SMS Bodrog
10. Tempel-Tuttle

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 1) Where in the world were hundreds of people stung by scorpions flushed out by floods following a freak storm?

2) After which 18^th C Gond queen has Bhopal’s revamped Habibganj railway station been renamed?

3) In a first of its kind, which state government in India adopted the “Pakke Declaration” on climate change?

4) Air Quality Index (AQI) is much in news these days. Concentrations of how many pollutants make up this composite index?

5) Who won this year’s JCB Prize, India’s richest literary award of Rs 25 lakhs, for his book – Delhi: A Soliloquy?

6) Which is the world’s biggest Gurudwara?

7) Name the former Prime Minister who quit his job as the adviser to a software company after its founder was accused of sexual harassment.

8) Name the founder and CEO of Paytm which had a disastrous listing on the stock market, wiping out more than a quarter of investors wealth.

9) Name the ship of Austro-Hungarian military that fired the first gunshot of WW-1 in July 1914, which has now been converted into a museum in Serbia.

10) The annual spectacle of Leonid Meteor Shower peaked during the early morning hours of 17^th November. From what comet do the debris originate?

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1. Boxing
2. Khasi
3. Falguni Nayyar
4. General Electric
5. Hanoi
6. Tuvalu
7. Rivian
8. Singhbhum, Jharkhand
9. Bangladesh
10. Poland and Belarus

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1) In which sport was AI used to vet the integrity of officials at the recent world championships?

2) Which Indian tribe’s matrilineal tradition of the property being bequeathed to the youngest daughter is being sought to be upended by legislation?

3) Who is the founder and CEO of Nykaa, the e-commerce company that had a blockbuster debut on Bombay Stock Exchange after its IPO?

4) What iconic 129-year old American corporation is proposed to be split into 3 companies by its first outsider CEO Larry Culp?

5) Which capital city inaugurated its first Metro line over the last weekend?

6) Which country’s foreign minister addressed COP26 delegates standing knee-deep in water?

7) Name the Amazon-backed company that has raised $11.9 billion in world’s biggest IPO this year?

8),A new analysis of ancient rocks suggests that earth’s first landmass might have risen from the ocean 700 million years earlier than previously thought. In what present day Indian state did this occur 3.2 billion years ago?

9) Which country became the first to market a generic version of Merck’s anti-Covid pill?

10) What two European countries are involved in a border standoff affecting thousands of migrants from the Middle East?

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1. Alok Sharma
2. Elton John
3. Bret Lee
4. UK
5. The Promise
6. Dr Krishna Ella
7. New Zealand
8. Bali, Indonesia
9. Vax
10. Tiramisu

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1) COP26, the UN Climate Summit at Glasgow is hogging all the headlines this week. Name the British politician who is serving as the President of this summit.

2) Name this iconic singer, songwriter and composer who launched an exclusive eyewear collection during this week.

3) Sri Lankan spinner Wanindu Hasaranga became only the third bowler to achieve a hat-trick in T20 World Cup history. Who was the first bowler to achieve this feat in the first T20 World Cup in 2007?

4) Which country launched a commemorative coin in honour of Mahatma Gandhi on Diwali day?

5) What is the name of the novel for which the South African writer, Damon Galgut, was pronounced this year’s winner of the prestigious Booker Prize, awarded for a fictional work in English?

6) Covaxin, India’s homegrown Covid19 vaccine, received approval from WHO. Who is the Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Biotech, the Hyderabad-based company that has developed and manufactured this vaccine?

7) In which country did a bat win “Bird of the Year” poll?

8) G20 summit was held in Rome over the last weekend. Which country and city will host next year’s summit?

9) What 3-letter word has been chosen as the “Word of the Year” by Oxford English Dictionary?

10) Ado Campeol, an Italian restaurateur, passed away at the age of 93. What celebrated dessert, loosely translated as “pick me up”, was invented at his restaurant Le Beccherie, by his wife?

twtw-43 Answers

 

1. Wheeler Island
2. Weight and length
3. Israel
4. Mo Salah
5. Colin Kaepernick
6. Sudan
7. Cows
8. Princess Mako
9. Quantum
10. Australia and New Zealand