QUIZ - 2024/20

 1) What company became the most valuable company in the world briefly for the first time before surrendering the top spot to Microsoft a couple of days later?

2) Which company’s CEO was questioned by US Senate over safety concerns?

3) What was sprayed with orange paint by “Just Stop Oil” protesters?

4) Which country’s outgoing Prime Minister will take over as the Secretary-General of NATO?

5) 32-year-old heiress Marlene Engelhorn gave away $27 million to 77 charities picked by a group of 50 citizens. From the founder of what leading chemical company did she inherit her wealth?

6) Which state government has hired the services of US-based Boston Consulting Group?

7) Sony Music struck a deal to acquire the music catalogue of which iconic band for a record-breaking $1.27 billion?

8) What is the first named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season? (Hint-beginning with the letter A)

9) Following Putin’s visit to Vietnam, what phrase, named after a flexible and adaptive plant is being used to describe the country’s foreign policy?

10) What company launched its AI model – Claude 3.5 Sonnet – claiming it to be better than the 

Answers to Quiz - 2024/19

 

1. Jannik Sinner
2. Jeff Bezos
3. Artificial Intellligence
4. Too spicy
5. France
6. Maharaj
7. Switzerland
8. Seven
9. Mangaf
10. Canadian GP (F1)

QUIZ - 2024/19

 

1) Who dethroned Novak Djokovic to become the Number One in men's tennis?

2) Who has become the world's richest person once again?

3) The Pope made a surprise appearance at the G7 summit in Italy. What did he talk about?

4) Denmark banned instant noodles from Korea because they were

5) Which country called a snap election in the face of a stunning upset in the elections to the European Parliament?

6) What movie chronicling the life of Karsandas Mulji, a journalist who advocated for women's rights and social reform during the pre-independence period, has been stayed following protests by Hindu organisations?

7) Which country is hosting a 2-day Peace Summit in relation to the Russia - Ukraine war?

8) How many women ministers are there in the new union cabinet?

9) What is the name of the suburb in Kuwait City, where 49 migrant workers, most of them Indians, perished in a fire?

10) Generative AI has been used to design the trophy for what sporting event?

Answers to QUIZ - 2024/18

 

1. France
2. Spain
3. ABBA
4. Fort Lauderdale
5. Shambavi Choudhary
6. Game Stop
7. Indore
8. Sunil Chhetri
9. Moon
10. Operation OVERLORD

QUIZ - 2024/18

 

1) What G7 nation’s sovereign rating was downrated by S&P?

2) Which European country joined South Africa in the genocide case against Israel?

3) Which iconic band of yesteryears reunited to receive the knighthood in a royal ceremony?

4) USA is co-hosting the T20 Cricket World Cup with West Indies. Matches are being played at New York, Dallas and which other city in the US?

5) Who is the youngest MP to be elected to the 18^th Lok Sabha?

6) Name the US video game retailer, whose stocks plunged by 40% even as a stock influencer known as “Roaring Kitty” was doing a livestream on YouTube?

7) Which constituency elected its MP with the highest winning margin in the Lok Sabha election?

8) Name the iconic Indian footballer who hung up his boots this week?

9) China's Chang'e 6 landed on the dark side of the Moon. After what goddess in Chinese mythology is the spacecraft named?

10) 80^th anniversary of the largest amphibious mission in military history was commemorated on 6th June with much fanfare in France. Popularly known as D-Day, what was the military codename for this operation?

 

Answers to Quiz - 2024/17

 

1. Flight Attendant
2. Michael Cohen
3. Starliner
4. London
5. Mexico
6. South Africa
7. 52.9
8. Lymphoma (Blood Cancer)
9. Remal
10. Cambodia

QUIZ - 2024/17

 

1) Bette Nash who passed away at the age of 88 had the "Guinness Record" for the longest service in her profession, She served for 64 years, unusually long for her role. What profession was she engaged in?

2) Name the star witness whose testimony led to the historic conviction of Donald Trump in a criminal trial.

3) Boeing's maiden crewed voyage was aborted just minutes before lift-off. What is the name of the spaceship?

4) Which city hosted the Champions League final last night between Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid?

5) In which large country are two women contesting against each other in the Presidential elections today ensuring that the country will get its first female President?

6) In which country's parliamentary election did the party associated with its liberation fail to win the majority for the first time in 30 years?

7) An automatic weather station in Delhi recorded a temperature to create a historic high for India. It was later attributed to a sensor fault. What was the exact value of this "record high" in Celsius?

8) Researchers in Sweden have linked tattoo with what specific type of cancer?

9) What cyclone named after the Arabic word for sand ravaged parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal?

10) An expert clamimed to have located the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 using Google Maps in the dense jungles of which country?

 

Answers to Quiz - 2024/16

 

1. Garry Kasparov
2. Nokia
3. Athens
4. Germany
5. Chengdu
6. Sudhir Kakar
7. Rwanda
8. Kotak Mahindra
9. Ethylene Oxide
10. Papua New Guinea