QUIZ - 2025/28

 

1) What company hit the $4 trillion market cap for the first time?

2) The first-ever Birkin bag set a record of $10 million at Sotheby's auction. What fashion house created this iconic bag?

3) Which country became the first to recognise Afghanistan's Taliban government?

4) Prime Minister Modi visited Namibia on his way back from the BRICS summit. Namibia was a former colony of which European country?

5) What is the responsibility of Rufus at The Wimbledon?

6) Flash floods in the river Guadalupe killed more than hundred in which country?

7) South Africa's captain Wiann Mulder declared when he was batting at 367 because he wanted Brian Lara to keep his highest test match record of 400. Who holds the record for the highest first score in first class cricket?

8) How much tariff is Trump threatening India with for buying Russian oil?

9) Dukes ball used in the India-England test match series have come in for criticism for their rapid deterioration. What leather is used for these balls?

10) The famous week-long San Fermin festival got underway in Spain. What does it involve?

 

QUIZ - 2022/27

 

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1) Whose controversial appointment as deputy chief whip led to the downfall of Boris Johnson?

2) In which Japanese city was the former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shot dead?

3) Which country hosted the G20 summit this week?

4) What province did Ukraine lose to Russian forces during this week?

5) Which country became the first to announce equal match fees for men and women cricketers across all formats and competitions?

6) What iconic sportsperson was nominated to the Rajya Sabha?

7) Which country is in talks with Taliban to take over the operations of Kabul airport?

8) Parts of USA were hit by a rare kind of storm characterised by a linear motion as opposed to the rotational motion of tornados and cyclones. What name derived from Spanish for “straight” is used to describe such straight-line storms?

9) Ten years after the sighting of Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider was reactivated again this week with higher levels of collision energy. Where is the LHC located?

10) Scientists recently announced the discovery of the largest bacteria, measuring one centimetre and visible to the naked eye. Among the mangroves of which Carribean archipelago was it found?