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?