QUIZ - 2022/8

 

1)    Ruth Karauri took the Internet by storm after her textbook landing of Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Heathrow during Storm Eunice. What carrier operated that flight?

2)  More than a century after they were looted by British troops, two iconic artefacts were restored to a traditional palace in Nigeria. What are they famously known as?

3)   Following Russia’s recognition of separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, Germany suspended the certification of Nord Stream – 2 gas pipeline. Under which sea does this pipeline run from Russia to Germany?

4)   An untitled oil painting from 1969 became the highest valued Indian work of art when it fetched Rs 42 Crores at an auction. Who is this artist who broke his own previous record?

5)   One of the earliest casualties of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been the Champion’s League final, which has been shifted out of Saint Petersburg. Where will it be played now?

6)    NATO nations are mulling over disconnecting Russia from SWIFT which would cripple its ability to trade with the outside world. What does SWIFT stand for?

7)     Of which coast did the President’s Fleet Review take place over the last weekend?

8)   KPAC Lalitha passed away this week at the age of 74 after wowing Malayalam speaking viewers in over 550 films in an acting career that spanned 5 decades. What was her real name?

9)    What is the name of the US-bound cargo ship carrying thousands of luxury electric vehicles that caught fire off the coast of Azores Islands and burnt for several days?

10) Which Oscar-winning Hollywood actor is currently in Ukraine filming a documentary on Russian invasion?

Answers to Quiz - 2022/7

 

1. Methane
2. Chris Morris, Rajasthan Royals
3. Bengal Stove
4. Munich Security Conference
5. Speak Out, Act, Reclaim
6. Apollo
7. Tokamak
8. “We baptise you” instead of “I baptise you”
9. Curling
10. Oak

QUIZ - 2022/7

 

1. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is building a radically different spacecraft with the idea of establishing a permanent settlement on Mars. The vehicle, known as Starship, is designed to be reused 1000 times and can ferry up to 100 people to Mars. Starship will be powered by a new kind of rocket engine, “Raptor”, unlike anything that has been used before. What unusual fuel would be burned by Raptor?
2. Ishan Kishan was the most expensive buy in IPL 2022 auction with Mumbai Indians snapping him up for a whopping Rs 15.25 crores. Which player holds the record for the most expensive player of IPL in its 14-year-old history and which team acquired him?
3. This year’s Super Bowl was won by Los Angeles Rams who defeated Cincinnati Bengals 23-20. Founded in 1967, Cincinnati Bengals adopted the name as a tribute to a club by the same name that played from 1937 to 1941. The original Bengals got its name from the founder Hal Pennington after an object in his mother’s kitchen. What is this object that continues to lend its name to a premier NFL team even today?
4. Born a year after the end of WW-II, Wolfgang Ischinger became a career diplomat and was German Ambassador to USA and UK. Since 2008, as the chairman of a non-profit organisation, he has been helming an annual summit where he hobnobs with world’s top politicians, policy makers and military experts. What is the name of this elite gathering, which will be held from 18^th to 20^th February this year?
5. A photograph taken in 2001 showing Prince Andrew with his arm around the waist of a 17-yo teenager has been the symbol of one of the most high-profile sexual abuse cases in recent times. Though the veracity of the picture has been hotly contested, the prince reached an out of court settlement with the woman in question, Virginia Giuffre, offering to pay a large undisclosed sum to her charity – SOAR. What does this acronym expand to?
6. The National Medical Commission has plans to replace Hippocratic Oath by Charak Shapath. By which multifaceted Greek god do doctors swear when they take the Hippocratic Oath?
7. By producing 59 megajoules of energy over 5 seconds in an experiment, a 24-year-old record of nuclear fusion was smashed. This is only an infinitesimal step towards mastering a near-limitless source of clean energy. Such experiments use magnetic fields to confine plasma in doughnut shaped reactors. What are these reactors known as?
8. The Catholic Church has ruled that thousands of baptisms performed by Rev Andres Arango, a priest in Arizona, are invalid because of the incorrect usage of a single word. What was the offending pronoun?
9. What is the intriguing winter Olympic sport that seemingly defies the laws of physics and is played in ten Ends?
10. A 20-foot long white table across which Putin had separate meetings with Macron and Scholz in Kremlin has spawned numerous hilarious memes on social media. The table was only one of the many items of furniture made by a small Italian family firm under a contract valued 50 million Euros in 1995-97. After which sturdy wood is the Italian firm named, though the table top is made out of beech wood?

Answers to Quiz - 2022/6

 

1. Hema
2. Geomagnetic Storm
3. Kerala
4. Peru
5. Luc Montagnier
6. Media One
7. Freedom Convoy
8. Iceland
9. Norway
10. Bing Dwen Dwen

QUIZ - 2022/6

1) What was the name given to Lata Mangeshkar at her birth?

2) What rare phenomenon knocked out 40 Starlink sateliites of SpaceX?

3) In which state did mountaineers of Indian Army rescue a trekker stranded without food and water for 48 hours in the cleft of a steep hill?

4) Which country’s Prime Minister quit office after 4 days following allegations of domestic abuse?

5) Name the French virologist who won a Nobel Prize for co-discovering the HIV virus.

6) What is the name of the Indian TV news channel that has been banned for security reasons?

7) The truckers protest in Canada against vaccination requirements for re-entry is spreading across the world. What is this movement called?

8) Which country announced its plans to end whaling from 2024?

9) Which country maintains its top position in the Democracy Index of 2021 released by the Economist magazine?

10) What is the name of the Beijing Olympics mascot?

Answers to Quiz - 2022/5

 

1. Guinea Bissau
2. Train 18
3. Norman Brookes Challenge Cup
4. Diem
5. HMS Endeavour
6. Florida
7. Ireland
8. New York Times
9. Egypt and Senegal
10. Crows               

QUIZ - 2022/5

 

1) In which African country did a coup attempt fail during this week?

2) This year’s budget announced the rollout of 400 energy-efficient, new generation Vande Bharat trains in the next 3 years. What was this train originally known as?

3) What is the name of the trophy presented to the men’s champion at the Australian Open?

4) What is the name of the cryptocurrency project sold off by Facebook?

5) A row has broken out over claims that the shipwreck discovered off the coast of Rhode Island in US is the one which Captain James Cook sailed to discover Australia and New Zealand in 1770. What is the name of the ship?

6) Where was the inaugural Pillow Fighting championship held?

7) Which country’s fishing community forced Russia to relocate its naval exercise?

8) Who has acquired Wordle from its creator Josh Wardle for a price “in the low seven figures”?

                9) Which 2 countries will face off in the final of Africa Cup of Nations?

10) Who are being trained by a Swedish start-up to pick cigarette butts from streets?

Answers to Quiz - 2022/4

 

1. Kavi Pradeep
2. Andorra
3. Burkina Faso
4. Her wedding
5. Chile
6. L2, Second Lagrange Point
7. Deniis Gabor
8. Elon Musk’s SpaceX
9. Omnipod
10. Bangladesh

QUIZ - 2022/4

 

1) The hymn “Abide with me”, the sombre highpoint of Beating Retreat since 1950 has been replaced by the patriotic song “Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo”. Who wrote this song?

2) Which tiny country experienced Internet outage because of a cyberattack on a Minecraft tournament?

3) Which African country suffered a military coup during this week?

4) What personal event did New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put off because of Covid?

5) Which country’s President-elect took sides on Social Media and expressed support to American singer and songwriter, Taylor Swift?

6) James Webb Space Telescope reached its final destination where its optics and instruments will be perpetually in shade. What is the technical name for this orbit?

7) A hologram of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was projected at India Gate on his 125^th birth anniversary. Who invented the Hologram in 1948?

8) A rocket launched in 2015 is on a course to what would be the first uncontrolled rocket collision with the Moon and create a crater. Who launched this rocket that is unable to return to earth because it does not have fuel?

9) What is the name of LG’s self-driving car that is proposed to be unveiled in February?

10) A question featuring a country whose name begins with B proved to the downfall of Amy Schneider and ended her 40-day winning streak in Jeopardy, highest rated non-sports programme on TV. Which country was it?

Answers to Quiz - 2022/3

 

1. Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai
2. Radar Altimeter
3. Vishwaroopam
4. Cristiano Ronaldo
5. GSAT 6 and 6A
6. Varanasi
7. 10 seconds to midnight
8. Turkey
9. Giants Brigade
10. Indira Cato

QUIZ - 2022/3

 

1) The massive underwater volcano eruption near the South Pacific island nation of Tonga, which triggered tsunami advisories, is being regarded by experts as a once-in-a-millenium event for the volcano. What is the name of this volcano?

2) Airlines are suspending their operations to US because of a perceived threat to flight safety from 5G signals. What flight instrument’s functioning are they specifically concerned about?

3) The doyen of Kathak, Birju Maharaj, passed away this week at the age of 84. For which Kamalahasan film did he win the National Award for Best Choreography in 2013?

4) Many tennis players at the ongoing Australian Open have been baffled and irritated by loud crowd chanting that sounds like booing. Which celebrated footballer’s goal celebration cry is being imitated by the crowd?

5) The controversial Antrix – Devas deal, back in the limelight following a Supreme Court order, revolved around leasing transponders of ISRO’S two communication satellites for digital multimedia services. What were the 2 satellites involved?

6) Punjab assembly elections were postponed by a week to accommodate the birthday celebrations of Guru Ravidas, a 14^th C poet-saint. The Ravidassia movement, a spin-off sect from orthodox Sikhism, came into prominence following an assassination attempt on its Gurus in 2009. Where is the headquarters of the sect?

7) Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has announced that the “Doomsday Clock”, a universally recognised indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophic events, will remain unchanged for the third year in a row. At what time to midnight is it presently set?

8) Which country is planning to change its internationally recognised official name in English by registering it with UN?

9) Houthi rebels of Yemen claimed responsibility for the drone attacks near Abu Dhabi airport which killed three. They were retaliating against the recent successes of “al-Amaliqa”, the UAE backed pro-government militia in the 7-year-old civil war. How do we know these troops in English?

10) During the course of this week, the world learned that Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez had a secret daughter out of wedlock. What is her name?

Answers to Quiz - 2022/2

 

1. Geneva
2. Armenia
3. Bitcoin mining
4. The Power of the Dog
5. Cyprus
6. Tearless onion
7. Pig
8. George Washington
9. Cameroon
10. Spain

QUIZ - 2022/2

 

1) The 2^nd week of 2022 was marked by diplomatic overdrive all across Europe. It was kicked off by talks between USA and Russia over Ukraine and NATO. Where was this held?

2) Another highlight of the week was the withdrawal of Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) troops from Kazakhstan after quelling violent protests. 6 countries make up CSTO. 5 of them are Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Which is the 6^th country?

3) Staying with Kazakhstan the 9^th largest country in the world, in which activity does it rank 2^nd in the world?

4) Which film won the best “Drama Motion Picture” at this year’s Golden Globe Awards, widely considered as a precursor for the Oscars?

5) A new strain of coronavirus dubbed “Deltacron” that combines the characteristics of Delta and Omicron variants has been discovered. In which country was it found?

6) A kind of onion called “Sunion” went on sale at grocery stores in the UK. How is it different from the traditional onion?

7) In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a 57-year-old terminally ill man received the heart from a genetically modified animal in Maryland, USA. What was the animal?

8) The celebrated poet and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou, became the first black woman to appear on a US Quarter coin. Whose portrait, originally composed and sculpted by an early 20^th C female sculptor, is on the obverse side of the coin?

9) Which country is currently hosting the African Cup of Nations, the continent’s premier football championships?

10) In which country did a new law come into force that will consider the welfare of pets when couples file for divorce?