Sunday, March 20, 2022

QUIZ - 2022/11

 

1) Which country suspended the airworthiness certification of more than 700 Russian aeroplanes following international sanctions on Russia?

2) What is the name of the ancestral village of legendary freedom-fighter Bhagat Singh, where the new Chief Minister of Punjab, Bhagwant Mann was sworn in?

3) For which island in the Mediterranean is France willing to consider autonomy, following days of violent protests?

4) Whose 40-year-old record did Rishabh Pant break to score the fastest fifty (in 28 balls) by an Indian batsman in test cricket?

5) This week we learned about the passing away of Mary Coombs, aged 93, the first woman to write a commercial computer program. What cost was the program used to calculate?

6) In which US bay has “Ever Forward”, a ship owned by Evergreen Corporation, run aground? The company’s “Ever Given” had been stuck in the Suez Canal for 2 weeks last year throwing maritime traffic into chaos.

7) Which legendary American singer has requested to pull out her nomination for induction into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, saying that she has not earned that right? Her request was rejected.

8) In an extraordinary display of personal courage and support to Ukraine, the Prime Ministers of which three countries travelled by train to Kyiv?

9) Who challenged Vladimir Putin to a “single combat” with Ukraine as stakes?

10) Why was the world’s largest potato, weighing 7.9 kg, dug up by a New Zealand couple rejected by Guinness World Records?

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