Sunday, May 22, 2022

QUIZ - 2022/20

 

1) Adani Group will become India’s second largest cement producer after their $10.5 billion deal to acquire Switzerland based Holcim’s cement business in India. Who is India’s largest cement company?

2) Everyone knows that India won the Thomas Cup last Sunday for the World Men’s Team Championship in Badminton by engineering a stunning upset over 14-time champions Indonesia. But which country defeated 15-time champions China to win the Uber Cup and clinch the women’s championship?

3) Name the birthplace of Buddha, where Prime Minister Modi laid the foundation stone of Centre for Buddhist Culture and Heritage on Buddha Purnima day.

4) Which member nation has raised objections towards granting NATO membership to Sweden and Finland?

5) To address the shortage of what item did President Joe Biden invoke the Defence Production Act?

6) Who is the South Korean creator of Terra and Luna, cryptocurrencies that collapsed within days during the week resulting in massive losses to investors?

7) What is the name of the reusable spacecraft built by Boeing for NASA to transport its crew to and from the International Space Station?

8) Under what article of the constitution did the Supreme Court invoke its “extraordinary powers” to free one of the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case?

9) What is the name of the leading fashion magazine that threatened to sue a British pub because it carried the same name as theirs? The pub owners wrote back that they were older than the magazine and take their name from the tiny hamlet in which they are located. Subsequently, the publishers bought peace by sending a framed letter of apology.

10) Finally, a question on badminton to celebrate one of our finest sporting moments. In India, badminton was originally known by the name of a city where it was pioneered by British army officers. What is the name of that city?

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