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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