Showing posts with label Pritzker Prize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pritzker Prize. Show all posts

Sunday, March 09, 2025

QUIZ - 2025/10

 

1) In his address to the Congress, Donald Trump referred to what country as "nobody has ever heard of"?

2) As a first step towards resurrecting the extinct Woolly Mammoth, what animal did a US biotech company create by gene editing?

3) Which country's postal service will stop delivering letters by end of this year?

4) In which country did air force jets drop bombs over civilian areas by mistake during an exercise?

5) According to Lancet, a third of Indians will be ______ by 2050

6) In a first, a private sector consultant has been appointed as CMD of what public sector company?

7) China's Liu Jiakun won the Pritzker Prize, considered as the equivalent of Nobel Prize in what field?

8) A Republican lawmaker introduced a bill to feature Donald Trump on $100 currency note in place of who?

9) Sean Baker created a record at this year's Oscars by becoming the first person to win 4 awards for one film. What is the film?

10) It was an exciting week for space technology as 2 privately built spacecrafts landed on the Moon within days of each other. What is the name of the first?

 

Sunday, March 10, 2024

QUIZ - 2024/09

 

1) Which country officially joined NATO during the week?

2) Which country became the first to enshrine the right to abortion in the constitution?

3) In which city was Tesla’s Gigafactory attacked by arsonists?

4) Riken Yamamoto was declared as the winner of the Pritzker Prize for 2024. In what field is this highest recognition accorded every year?

5) The proposal to declare the start of a new geological epoch was shot down by a panel of experts. What geological epoch are we currently living in?

6) What Danish pharmaceutical company overtook Tesla in market capitalization after releasing clinical trial data of its weight-loss drug?

7) In which country did people vote on International Women’s Day in two referendums to amend the constitution to remove language about women’s duties being in the home and broaden the definition of family beyond marriage?

8) Which city hosted the Miss World pageant?        

9) “Caitlin Clark Effect” is sweeping what sport across USA?

10) Which company was slapped by an antitrust fine of 1.8 billion Euros by EU?