Saturday, August 07, 2021

QUIZ 2021 twtw-31

 1) Who is being honoured by this Barbie doll?


2) This picture from Tokyo Olympics captures the Olympic spirit like no other. Who are the two athletes involved?


3) Jamaican sprinter, Elaine Thompson-Herah became the first woman to win the “double-double” by winning both 100m and 200m sprints at consecutive Olympics. Why did Instagram block her when she shared the videos of her races?



4) Popstar Rihanna has been named by Forbes as the wealthiest female musician valued at $1.7 billion. What makeup and skincare brand accounts for much of her fortune?



5) What is the name of the proposed Ultra Low-Cost Carrier promoted by the stock trader Rakesh Jhunjhunwala?



6) How many aircrafts can be carried by INS Vikrant, India’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier that began sea trials this week?



7) What is the name of the newly launched digital platform through which the benefits are proposed to be directly transferred in the form of a digital voucher to the mobile phone of the beneficiary?



8) The entire nation went into raptures when the men’s hockey team captured the bronze 41 years after the last Olympic medal in 1980 at Moscow. When did India last win the hockey bronze at the Olympics?



9) Who won 7 medals at Tokyo Olympics to equal the record of the Russian gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya in 1952 at Helsinki for the most medals in any sport at one games?



10) New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern offered an elaborate ceremonial apology for carrying out “Dawn Raids” in the 1970s. Who were being targeted in these raids?




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