Saturday, July 24, 2021

QUIZ 2021 twtw-29

 

1)    Baseball and Karate are 2 of the 5 new events introduced at Tokyo Olympics which was inaugurated this week. Name the other three.



2)   Liverpool was stripped off its World Heritage Site status because of its development activities including a new football stadium for Everton. Only twice before has UNESCO taken such a drastic step. What countries had those two unfortunate sites?  



3)     Who is this minister who may play in Ranji Trophy this season?



4)   She faced disciplinary action at FTII for protesting against the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as the institute chairman. Her film, “A Night of Knowing Nothing”, won the prestigious Golden Eye award for Best Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival. What is her name?



5)   The country was rocked by news that opposition politicians, journalists and activists have been snooped upon by Pegasus spyware that can be covertly installed on mobile phones. The Israeli company NSO Group that has developed this spyware takes its name from the initials of the 3 friends who founded it. Name them.



6)   Name the late founder-chairman of the Dainik Bhaskar Group of newspapers, whose multiple premises across the country have been raided by Income Tax department in what appears to be a vindictive act.



7)   In a blow to thousands of undocumented immigrants to US, a court in Texas declared that the Obama-era programme of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was unlawful. What are the beneficiaries of this programme popularly known as?



8)   What line at an approximate altitude of 100 km, named after a Hungarian mathematician and aerospace engineer, that defines the boundary between earth’s atmosphere and outer space, was crossed by Jeff Bezos and his team in the Blue Origin spacecraft New Shepard?



9)  What celebrity chef’s voice was cloned through a software to “speak” words in a documentary film triggering ethical concerns about use of technology?



10)   Which city was named as the host of 2032 summer Olympics?



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