Saturday, May 15, 2021

QUIZ 2021 twtw-19

 

1)   The cyclonic storm currently brewing in the Arabian Sea is named Tauktae. Which of our neighbouring country provided this name after a kind of lizard?

2)    The airline GoAir plans to rebrand itself. What will be its new name?

3)    Elon Musk, who once championed Bitcoin, has made a volte-face. What reason is he now giving for being critical of Bitcoin?

4)     In which city did the much talked about Russian vaccine SputnikV make its Indian debut this week?

5)     Name the stellar Indian Table Tennis player and coach taken away from our midst by Covid this week?

6)   Which American politician was stripped of her top post in Republican Party for not tiptoeing Donald Trump’s line that his re-election was stolen?

7)    K R Gouri Amma, the iconic communist leader and the architect of land reforms in Kerala passed away this week at the age of 102. What ministry did she head in the first communist government of Kerala in 1957?

8)   An incident in the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem seems to have triggered off violent clashes between Israel and Palestine. It is one of the 2 mosques mentioned in The Quran. What does Al-Aqsa translate into English?

9)  Against which former Chief Minister was a case registered for spreading misinformation about the N440K variant of the coronavirus?

10)   Why is Jerry Maguire, Magnolia and Born on the Fourth of July in news this week?

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Notes : Off and On said...

The cyclonic storm currently brewing in the Arabian Sea is named Tauktae. Which of our neighbouring country provided this name after a kind of lizard? Myanmar meaning highly vocal lizard - gecko

2) The airline GoAir plans to rebrand itself. What will be its new name? GoFirst - The Airline where you come first.

3) Elon Musk, who once championed Bitcoin, has made a volte-face. What reason is he now giving for being critical of Bitcoin? Environmental Concerns - rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel.

4) In which city did the much talked about Russian vaccine SputnikV make its Indian debut this week? Hyderabad

5) Name the stellar Indian Table Tennis player and coach taken away from our midst by Covid this week? Veteran paddler Chandra - Venugopal Chandrashekhar

6) Which American politician was stripped of her top post in Republican Party for not tiptoeing Donald Trump’s line that his re-election was stolen? Liz Cheney, the party's conference chairwoman.

7) K R Gouri Amma, the iconic communist leader and the architect of land reforms in Kerala passed away this week at the age of 102. What ministry did she head in the first communist government of Kerala in 1957? Minister for Revenue, Excise and Devaswom

8) An incident in the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem seems to have triggered off violent clashes between Israel and Palestine. It is one of the 2 mosques mentioned in The Quran. What does Al-Aqsa translate into English? The farthest mosque.

9) Against which former Chief Minister was a case registered for spreading misinformation about the N440K variant of the coronavirus? Chandra babu Naidu

10) Why is Jerry Maguire, Magnolia and Born on the Fourth of July in news this week? The actor Tom Cruise joins the outrage against HFPA and returned the trophies - Best Actor prize he won for Jerry Maguire, the Best Actor prize he won for Born on the Fourth of July and the Best Supporting Actor prize he won for Magnolia.

Notes : Off and On said...

Nice questions