QUIZ - 2022/39

 

1) What is mentioned as the cause of death in Queen Elizabeth’s death certificate?

2) NASA successfully carried out the DART mission to veer an asteroid off its trajectory. Expand the acronym DART.

3) Giorgia Meloni was elected Italy’s first woman Prime Minister. What is the name of her political party?

4) Name UK’s new Chancellor whose proposed tax cuts precipitated a historic plunge of the Pound Sterling against the US Dollar.

5) What is the name of the monstrous hurricane that led to a “500-year flood event” in Florida?

6) Who has taken over as India’s new Chief of Defence Staff?

7) In which sea is natural gas leaking from the Nord Stream-2 pipeline, allegedly due to sabotage?

8) The funeral this week of Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, once again brought to the forefront his links with a cult organisation that led to his murder. What is the name of this organisation that has its roots in South Korea?

9) Who received this year’s National Award for best actress in the country?

10) King Charles III has replaced the St Edward Crown used by Queen Elizabeth with what crown in his monogram that was unveiled during the week?

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Answers to Quiz - 2022/38

 

1. Qatar Airways
2. Rex, meaning King
3. Arsenal
4. Winston Churchill
5. Tasmania, Australia
6. Fiona
7. 300,000
8. Mahsa Amini
9. Neptune
10. Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe

QUIZ - 2022/38

1) Which airline was named as the world’s best airline for a record seventh year in a row?

2) King Charles signs documents as “Charles R”. What does the R stand for?

3) Ethan Nwaneri became the youngest to play in English Premier League at the age of 15 years and 181 days. What club does he play for?

4) Before Queen Elizabeth who was the last person to receive a state funeral in UK?

5) Where did 200 whales die after mass standing on a beach?

6) What is the name of the first major hurricane of this season that is bearing down in Canada?

7) Following Russia’s “partial mobilisation”, the first since World War-II, how many people can be called up for military duty?

8) Name the 22-year-old Kurdish woman whose death in police custody has triggered widespread protest in Iran.

9) Which planet’s spectacular new images were revealed by JWST during this week?

10) Who are the 2 rival captains of the Laver Cup currently played in London?

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Answers to Quiz - 2022/37

1. Wimbledon 2003
2. Sweden
3. Jean-Luc Godard
4. Lleyton Hewitt
5. White Lotus
6. Columbia University
7. Samarkand
8. Ethereum
9. Foldscope
10. St. George’s Chapel, Windsor

QUIZ - 2022/37

 

1) Roger Federer has announced his retirement from tennis after playing more than 1500 matches over 24 years. What was the first of his Grand Slam titles?

2) Which country’s first woman Prime Minister resigned after her government lost the election by a razor-thin margin to right wing parties?

3) Name the legendary pioneer of French New Wave cinema who died at the age of 91.

4) Whose record did Carlos Alcaraz break to become the youngest No.1 in men’s tennis at the age of 19?

5) Which TV Series won the most Emmys this year?

6) Which Ivy League university plummeted 16 positions from its No. 2 spot in this year’s rankings following allegations of a scandal?

7) Which city is hosting this year’s annual summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation?

8) What cryptocurrency undertook the “Merge” to switch from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake?

9) What is the name of the low-cost, high-performance paper microscope developed using principles of Origami, which was recognised by the Golden Goose award for its potential to have a huge societal impact?

10) Where is the final resting place for Queen Elizabeth?

Answers to Quiz - 2022/36

 

1. Winston Churchill
2. Kushiyara
3. Volvo
4. iNCOVACC 
5. Hans Niemann
6. Ladakh
7. K K Shailaja
8. Chile
9. King George V
10. Lion

QUIZ - 2022/36

 

1) Liz Truss was the 15^th Prime Minister appointed by Queen Elizabeth during her 70 years’ reign, just a couple of days before she died at the age of 96. Who was the first Prime Minister to serve under her?

2) India and Bangladesh signed a river sharing pact for the first time in 25 years. What is the name of the river involved in this treaty?

3) Cyrus Mistry accident brought the seat belt, especially at the rear, to the forefront. Which auto maker introduced the three-point seat belt in 1959?

4) What is the name of the nasal Covid vaccine for which Bharat Biotech got emergency use approval?

5) Name the American chess player who offered to play naked after being accused of cheating.

6) India is planning to build a “dark sky reserve” without light pollution around the Hanle observatory. Where is it located?

7) Who rejected Ramon Magsaysay award under party orders?

8) In which country did people vote to reject a new draft constitution?

9) Delhi’s ceremonial avenue Rajpath has been renamed. In whose honour did it get its previous name?

10) What animal has been chosen as the mascot for the National Games set to start at the end of this month?

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Answers to Quiz - 2022/35

 

1. Apex and Ceyane
2. Viktor Axelsen
3. Bunol
4. Markham, Canada
5. Glasnost
6. Shan no Varunah ( शं नो वरुणः )
7. Zaporizhzhia
8. Air France
9. Vostok
10. Crash dummies aboard Artemis I

QUIZ - 2022/35

1) What are the names of the two towers demolished at Noida because they were illegally constructed?

2) Who won the men’s singles title at the World Badminton Championship in Tokyo?

3) Which Spanish city celebrated the famous La Tomatina festival in which participants throw tomatoes at each other?

4) In which country did a city name a street after music composer A R Rahman?

5) Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of former Soviet Union, who passed away at the age of 91, will always be associated with two Russian words. One of them is “Perestroika”, meaning reconstruction. What is the other, meaning openness?

6) Indian Navy got a new flag with St George’s Cross being replaced by a new insignia. What is the motto of Indian Navy which is inscribed in the new insignia?

7) The largest nuclear power plant of Europe was partially shut down amidst growing fears of an accident. In which Ukrainian city is it located?

8) Pilots are behaving erratically these days. This week two pilots were suspended for trading blows in the cockpit. Which airlines?

9) What is the name of the military exercise currently underway in Russia, in which both India and China are participating?

10) Who or what are Helga, Zohar and Moonikin Campos?

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Answers to Quiz - 2022/34

1. Ethiopian Airlines
2. Prevention of Money Laundering Act
3. Edinburgh Fringe
4. Hungary
5. Usain Bolt
6. Karim Benzema
7. Dugong
8. Dom Pedro I
9. Amit Chaudhari, Finding the Raga, James Tait Black Prize
10. Central Bankers

QUIZ - 2022/34

 

1) Which airlines suspended two of its pilots for allegedly falling asleep on their flight and failing to land? The incident has highlighted the fatigue resulting from gruelling and haphazard working hours.

2) During the last week of CJI Ramana’s tenure, the Supreme Court went on an overdrive of hearing many important cases pending before it. One of them was about PMLA. What is PMLA?

3) It began in 1947, when eight theatre groups turned uninvited to the Edinburgh International Festival. Today it has grown into the world’s largest celebration of arts and culture. What is this three-week festival currently underway in Edinburgh?

4) Which country celebrates St. Stephen’s Day on 20^th August to commemorate the founding of the state by King Stephen I?

5) Which iconic sportsman wants to trademark his famous celebratory pose as a logo?

6) Who was crowned as men’s player of the year by UEFA?

7) Which is the world’s only herbivorous marine mammal that was declared extinct in China?

8) Name the Portuguese King whose embalmed heart is touring Brazil to commemorate 200 years of independence from Portugal.

9) A book on Indian classical music has won Britain’s oldest literary prize dating back to 1919. Name the writer, the book and the prize.

10) What professionals are the main invitees to the annual Jackson Hole Symposium currently underway in Wyoming, USA?

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Answers to Quiz - 2022/33

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1. Yuan Wang 5
2. Japan
3. Scotland
4. Tanzania
5. Midnight’s Children
6. Australia
7. Finland
8. LeBron James
9. Ten
10. 3 of the 13 candidate regions identified by NASA for landing next Americans on Moon.

QUIZ - 2022/33

1) What is the name of the Chinese spy ship that has docked at the Sri Lankan port of Hambantota raising concerns in India?

2) Which country has launched a campaign to urge its young people to drink more alcohol in order to boost tax revenue?

3) Which country has decided to make women’s sanitary products available free of cost?

4) High-speed Internet is being installed on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain, to help climbers stay in touch with rest of the world. In which country is it located?

5) For which book did Salman Rushdie win the Booker Prize in 1981?

6) Indian Air Force is sending Sukhois to participate in the “Pitch Black” military exercise. Which country hosts this biennial exercise?

7) Which country’s Prime Minister is facing backlash after video leaks of partying with friends?

8) Who signed a 2-year contract extension with LA Lakers for $97 million to become the highest paid player in the history of NBA?

9) As per Putin’s new scheme to increase the population of Russia, how many children does a woman need to have to get “Mother Heroine” title and one million Roubles?

10) What are Amundsen Rim, Malapert Massif and Haworth?

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Answers to Quiz - 2022/32

 

1. Kenya
2. Seoul
3. Sandman
4. Eldhose Paul, Triple Jump
5. Spanish Sausage Chorizo
6. S. Radhakrishnan
7. Somaliland
8. Ukraine
9. 3-point disembarkation
10. Domino’s
11. India
12. Langya Henipavirus

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 4^th 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 44^th 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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Answers to Quiz - 2022/31

 

1. 5.4%
2. Hellfire
3. British Empire Games
4. Murder Hornet
5. Somalia
6. Jack
7. Blind people crossing
8. Silly Season
9. Dolo, Micro Labs
10. Paris Henge

QUIZ - 2022/31

1) Inflation is the flavour of this season. Central bankers across the world are busy increasing interest rates. Bank of England hiked the rate this week by 50 bps, the biggest hike in 27 years, to 1.75%.  RBI also increased the rate by 50 bps yesterday. What is the new Repo Rate now?

2) One of the masterminds of the 26/11 attack, al-Zawahiri, the al-Qaeda terrorist, was taken out at his home in the heart of Kabul. What precision missile did USA deploy for carrying out this daring attack with minimum collateral damage?

3) The Commonwealth Games that are currently underway in Birmingham traces its history to 1930 when it was first held in Hamilton, Canada. But it got its present name only in 1978 at Edmonton, Canada. What was the games originally known as?

4) Entomologists have decided to give a new common name - Northern Giant Hornet - to the world’s largest wasp. What was its previous common name which evoked much fear?

5) Which country appointed the co-founder of al-Shabab, an extremist group affiliated to al-Qaeda, as its minister for religion?

6) Indian women’s team won a gold medal in the quaint sport of Lawn Bowls at the Birmingham Commonwealth games. The objective of Lawn Bowls is to roll your bowls closer than your opponent’s to a central white target ball. What is this target ball called?

7) This unusual and rare traffic sign in Bangalore confused most motorists. What does it mean?

8) Formula 1 takes a well-deserved 3-week summer break. This is also the period when drivers switch their affiliations and teams announce new drivers for the next season. What popular term, originally used for the midsummer holidays when newspapers carried frivolous and exaggerated stories, is used to describe this break in F1?

9) The manufacturer of an OTC drug, which became a household word during the pandemic, is currently being investigated for tax evasion. What is the name of the drug and the company?

10) Twice a year. in May and August, the Sun aligns along the Champs Elysees and the setting Sun is perfectly framed by the Arc de Triomphe. What is the name given to this beautiful event which is every photographer's dream?

Answers to Quiz - 2022/30

 

    

1. Johar
2. Anju Bobby George
3. James Lovelock
4. Nancy Pelosi
5. Thambi
6. Viktor Bout
7. GLASS – z13
8. Myanmar
9. Chhattisgarh
10. Sprite

QUIZ - 2022/30

 

                                        

1) With what tribal greeting did President Murmu begin her maiden address to the nation?

2) Neeraj Chopra became the second Indian to win a medal at the World Athletics Championships when he picked up a silver in the Javelin. Who was the first to win a medal in 2003 at Paris?

3) The British scientist who proposed the controversial Gaia Hypothesis passed away exactly on his 103^rd birthday. Name him.

4) Which American politician’s proposed visit to Taiwan is infuriating China?

5) What is the name of the mascot for the Chess Olympiad that got underway in Chennai?

6) Name the notorious Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death” who is being proposed in a prisoner swap with the American basketball player Brittney Griner.

7) The James Webb Space Telescope keeps surprising us. This week it captured images of the oldest galaxy ever seen. What is its name?

8) Which country executed four political prisoners sending shockwaves through the civilised world?

9) Which state became the first in the country to procure cow’s urine at Rs 4 per litre to make organic fertilisers?

10) What beverage is retiring its iconic green plastic bottles after 60 years in favour of clear bottles to promote recycling?

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Answers to Quiz - 2022/29

 

1. 40.3 Celsius
2. Azerbaijan
3. Foreign Secretary
4. Eugene, Oregon
5. Hasta la Vista, Baby
6. Namibia
7. Cooking Oil
8. Japan
9. Golf
10. Cigarettes