twtw-46 Answers

 

1. Aswan, Egypt
2. Rani Kamalapati
3. Arunachal Pradesh
4. Eight
5. M Mukundan
6. Kartarpur Sahib, Pakistan
7. David Cameron
8. Vijay Shekhar Sharma
9. SMS Bodrog
10. Tempel-Tuttle

QUIZ 2021 twtw-46

 1) Where in the world were hundreds of people stung by scorpions flushed out by floods following a freak storm?

2) After which 18^th C Gond queen has Bhopal’s revamped Habibganj railway station been renamed?

3) In a first of its kind, which state government in India adopted the “Pakke Declaration” on climate change?

4) Air Quality Index (AQI) is much in news these days. Concentrations of how many pollutants make up this composite index?

5) Who won this year’s JCB Prize, India’s richest literary award of Rs 25 lakhs, for his book – Delhi: A Soliloquy?

6) Which is the world’s biggest Gurudwara?

7) Name the former Prime Minister who quit his job as the adviser to a software company after its founder was accused of sexual harassment.

8) Name the founder and CEO of Paytm which had a disastrous listing on the stock market, wiping out more than a quarter of investors wealth.

9) Name the ship of Austro-Hungarian military that fired the first gunshot of WW-1 in July 1914, which has now been converted into a museum in Serbia.

10) The annual spectacle of Leonid Meteor Shower peaked during the early morning hours of 17^th November. From what comet do the debris originate?

twtw-45 Answers

 

1. Boxing
2. Khasi
3. Falguni Nayyar
4. General Electric
5. Hanoi
6. Tuvalu
7. Rivian
8. Singhbhum, Jharkhand
9. Bangladesh
10. Poland and Belarus

QUIZ 2021 twtw-45

 

1) In which sport was AI used to vet the integrity of officials at the recent world championships?

2) Which Indian tribe’s matrilineal tradition of the property being bequeathed to the youngest daughter is being sought to be upended by legislation?

3) Who is the founder and CEO of Nykaa, the e-commerce company that had a blockbuster debut on Bombay Stock Exchange after its IPO?

4) What iconic 129-year old American corporation is proposed to be split into 3 companies by its first outsider CEO Larry Culp?

5) Which capital city inaugurated its first Metro line over the last weekend?

6) Which country’s foreign minister addressed COP26 delegates standing knee-deep in water?

7) Name the Amazon-backed company that has raised $11.9 billion in world’s biggest IPO this year?

8),A new analysis of ancient rocks suggests that earth’s first landmass might have risen from the ocean 700 million years earlier than previously thought. In what present day Indian state did this occur 3.2 billion years ago?

9) Which country became the first to market a generic version of Merck’s anti-Covid pill?

10) What two European countries are involved in a border standoff affecting thousands of migrants from the Middle East?

twtw-44 Answers

 

1. Alok Sharma
2. Elton John
3. Bret Lee
4. UK
5. The Promise
6. Dr Krishna Ella
7. New Zealand
8. Bali, Indonesia
9. Vax
10. Tiramisu

QUIZ 2021 twtw-44

 

1) COP26, the UN Climate Summit at Glasgow is hogging all the headlines this week. Name the British politician who is serving as the President of this summit.

2) Name this iconic singer, songwriter and composer who launched an exclusive eyewear collection during this week.

3) Sri Lankan spinner Wanindu Hasaranga became only the third bowler to achieve a hat-trick in T20 World Cup history. Who was the first bowler to achieve this feat in the first T20 World Cup in 2007?

4) Which country launched a commemorative coin in honour of Mahatma Gandhi on Diwali day?

5) What is the name of the novel for which the South African writer, Damon Galgut, was pronounced this year’s winner of the prestigious Booker Prize, awarded for a fictional work in English?

6) Covaxin, India’s homegrown Covid19 vaccine, received approval from WHO. Who is the Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Biotech, the Hyderabad-based company that has developed and manufactured this vaccine?

7) In which country did a bat win “Bird of the Year” poll?

8) G20 summit was held in Rome over the last weekend. Which country and city will host next year’s summit?

9) What 3-letter word has been chosen as the “Word of the Year” by Oxford English Dictionary?

10) Ado Campeol, an Italian restaurateur, passed away at the age of 93. What celebrated dessert, loosely translated as “pick me up”, was invented at his restaurant Le Beccherie, by his wife?

twtw-43 Answers

 

1. Wheeler Island
2. Weight and length
3. Israel
4. Mo Salah
5. Colin Kaepernick
6. Sudan
7. Cows
8. Princess Mako
9. Quantum
10. Australia and New Zealand

QUIZ 2021 twtw-43

 

1) Agni-5 was launched from an island off the coast of Odisha. What was the island’s original name before it was named in honour of APJ Abdul Kalam in 2015?

2) Baguette, the iconic bread of France, is in news these days as its rising price is stoking public discontent. What features of the baguette are prescribed by a law enacted in 1920?

3) In which country has Facebook’s new name Meta has been ridiculed because it sounds like “dead” in the local language?

4) What footballer was immortalised last week at London’s Madame Tussauds wax museum?

5) Quentin de Kock pulled out of South African team at the T20 World Cup when the players were ordered to take the knee before start of the match against West Indies. What American footballer started this form of anti-racism protest in 2016?

6) What African country witnessed a military coup during this week?

7) A private engineering college in Bihar, that was popular for its unique payment model, has been shut down because of loan non-repayment. What was the college accepting as fees in lieu of money?

8) Name the princess who had to give up her royal status because she chose to marry a commoner

9) Amitabh Bachchan became the first Indian celebrity to announce the auction of his collection of NFT tokens. What is the name of the first NFT token created by Kevin McCoy in 2014?

10) T20 cricket world cup is currently underway in UAE. Which 2 countries played the first men’s international T20 match in 2005?

twtw-42 Answers

 

1. Jordan, Mali and Turkey
2. Nuri
3. Kidney
4. One Sun One World One Grid
5. Truth Social
6. Alec Baldwin
7. Berlin
8. Ritu Kumar
9. Adidas
10. Maria Callas

QUIZ 2021 twtw-42

 

1) Which 3 countries were added to the watch list this week by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Paris-based international organisation that monitors and sets guidelines against money laundering and financing of terrorism?

2) What is the name of South Korea’s homegrown three-stage rocket which failed to deploy a satellite into orbit this week?

3) What organ from a pig was successfully transplanted into a human for the first time by a US medical team at New York University?

4) OSOWOG, an ambitious initiative by India is likely to be adopted at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. What does OSOWOG stand for?

5) What is the name of the new Social Media Network proposed to be launched by Donald Trump?

6) What Hollywood actor fired a prop gun on the set of the movie “Rust” in New Mexico, killing the cinematographer and wounding the director?

7) Glasgow is getting ready to host COP26, the 26^th edition of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Where did the first COP meeting take place in 1995?

8) Whose fashion label did Reliance acquire this week for an undisclosed amount?

9) Paul Pogba of Manchester United became the first to wear a pair of vegan football boots. What brand has created this boot?

10) Whose statue in Athens was scorned as “Gandhi in Heels”?