1) For 50 years, the 2 countries fought a friendly war with each other, planting liquor bottles on the barren Hans Island in the Arctic Sea. Finally, this week they resolved the dispute by agreeing to split the 1.3 square km island equally. Name the 2 countries involved.
2) Which country is planning to print health warnings on individual cigarettes in order to deter smokers?
3) India, Israel, UAE and USA are coming
together to build a platform for economic cooperation. What is the popular name
for this grouping?
4) What awards, named after the American
actress Antoinette Perry, are given every year to recognise excellence in
Broadway productions?
5) Microsoft retired Internet Explorer
after 27 years. Which country would be hit the hardest because more than half of
its businesses have websites that are compatible only with this browser?
6) An engineer working with Google
sparked off a controversy saying that one of the company’s AI systems may have
feelings. Google responded by sending the engineer on leave. By what acronym do
we know this breakthrough technology that can engage in free-flowing
conversations?
7) The idea of men and horses running
against each other took off from a drunken argument in a pub. This year, a man
defeated horse for only the third time since the annual race began in 1980. In which
country is this quirky competition held every year?
8) The 14th C Bubonic plague
pandemic, known as “Black Death” was responsible for wiping out half of Europe’s
population. Archaeologists using ancient DNA data have now traced the origins
of this pandemic to which modern day country?
9) For what record breaking value were
the IPL media (TV + Streaming) rights for the next 5 years sold? Answer in US
Dollars.
10) Johnny Bairstow failed by a whisker to beat a 1902 record and become the fastest Englishman to score a test match century, as he pounded New Zealand to register a spectacular victory for England at Trent Bridge. But who holds the world record for scoring the fastest hundred in a test match in just 54 balls?
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