Sunday, August 14, 2022

QUIZ - 2022/32



1) Which African country conducted its general elections this week, considered to be the second most expensive in the world at a cost of $25.4 per voter for the registered 19.6 million voters?

2) Which capital city was ravaged by floods following rains reported to be heaviest in more than 100 years?

3) We all know about the superheroes trio - Superman, Spiderman and Batman. What superhero, who first appeared in 1841 in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, is now at the top of Netflix charts?

4) India won 22 gold medals at the Birmingham Commonwealth games to finish 4th among the 72 participating nations. Only a solitary gold came from track and field, the blue-riband event of any games. Name the winner and also the specific track and field event.

5) JWST keeps astonishing us week after week. This week’s reveal was Earendel - the most distant star known to us at 28 billion lightyears. A French scientist also shared image of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to us at 4.2 lightyears, purportedly captured by JWST. After the image went viral, the scientist admitted it was a fake. What object was it?

6) We got a new Vice-President this week. Who was India’s first Vice-President in 1952?

7) Which breakaway territory in Africa, yet to gain international recognition, riled China by refusing to cut off its ties with Taiwan?

8) Indian teams won bronze medals in both the open and women’s categories of the 44th Chess Olympiad that concluded this week. Uzbekistan won the gold in the open category. Who won the gold in the women’s category?

9) What novel feature did Indigo introduce becoming the first airlines in the world to do so?

10) Which American Pizza maker shut shop in Italy citing competition from traditional pizzas?

11) Which country has the highest % of female pilots in the world?

12) What is the name of the new zoonotic virus that is emerging from shrews in China?

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