QUIZ - 2024/40

 

1)      Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day or Veterans Day was observed by many countries on 11^th November to mark the cessation of World War – I. What bright red flower with black seeds immortalised in the poem “In Flanders Fields” is the symbol of this day?

2)      11^th November is celebrated as Singles Day in China. A student initiative at Nanjing University in 1993, what e-commerce company transformed it into a 24-hour shopping extravaganza in 2009?

3)      Manufactured by Bharat Electronics Ltd, to which country did India export the Akash air defence missiles?

4)      What work of fiction featuring six astronauts aboard the International Space Station has won this year’s Booker Prize for Samantha Harvey?

5)      Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a forum of 21 Asia-Pacific countries, home to more than 2.9 billion people and accounts for over 60% of global GDP. Which city hosted the APEC summit this week attended by Joe Biden and Xi Jinping?

6)      To what powerful post, made famous by Henry Kissinger, has Donald Trump nominated Florida senator Marco Rubio?

7)      What oil company has won a landmark case overturning an earlier ruling requiring it to cut its carbon emissions by 45%.?

8)      It was the title of the highest official of the Republic of Venice for more than 1,000 years from the 8th to the 18th century. It is now the acronym of a newly created department headed by Elon Musk to overhaul federal bureaucracy and streamline governance. What is this acronym?

9)      Prime Minister of which country delivered a historic apology in parliament to 200,000 victims of abuse in care homes between 1950 and 2019?

10)   Billie Jean King Cup currently underway in Malaga, Spain is the international women’s team competition in what sport?

QUIZ - 2023/38

 

1) Which country declared a surprise holiday so that people can plant 100 million saplings?

2) Filoli House, the venue for the meeting between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping in San Francisco, was the set for what famous TV soap opera from the 1980s?

3) Who won Billie Jean King Cup for international team competition in women's tennis?

4) Which Caribbean country created the world’s first marine protected area of 788 square kilometres for sperm whales?

5) What word meaning “to provide false information” in AI context was declared as the Word of the Year by Cambridge Dictionary?

6) Former British Prime Minister David Cameron was made the Baron of which town so that he could be inducted in the cabinet?

7) Which country declared an emergency after being rocked by more than 1000 earthquakes in a span of 24 hours?

8) What engineering company was building the Uttarakhand road tunnel that collapsed trapping 40 workers?

9) Which country was alleged to have facilitated Russian money laundering?

10) Who was fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company behind the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT ?