QUIZ - 2024/07

 

1) Kelvin Kiptum, long-distance runner and the Marathon world record holder dies in a car crash. What was his nationality?

2) Prime Minister of which country was put on the “wanted list” by Russia?

3) Which country held the world’s largest single-day election involving over 200 million voters?

4) What is the name of the privately built lunar lander launched SpaceX?

5) Who became the first orthodox Christian country to allow same-sex marriages?

6) What is the nickname of the ISRO rocket that launched India’s weather satellite INSAT-3DS?

7) Medals at the Paris Olympics will contain scrap metal from which monument?

8) Which world leader joined Tik Tok this week?

9) Name the city in southern Gaza that came under latest Israeli bombing.

10) Which country was affected by snow storms caused by Nor’easter winds?

Answers to Quiz - 2024/06

 

1. Rajagopalachari, Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan and C V Raman
2. Gabon
3. World’s Coolest Dictator
4. Mexico
5. Abu Dhabi
6. Blue
7. Las Vegas
8. Dragon
9. 6.5%
10. Tracy Chapman

QUIZ - 2024/06

 

1) It rained Bharat Ratnas during the week. Who were the first three to be awarded Bharat Ratna in January 1955?

2) Which African country with the highest population of elephants in the world announce the inauguration of the 500^th mobile electric fence to reduce man-animal conflict?

3) Nayeb Bukele easily won a 2^nd term as the President of El Salvador. How does he describe himself?

4) Which country has surpassed China to become the top exporter of goods to USA?

5) Where did the England cricket team retreat to for a 10-day break before playing the third test at Rajkot later next week?

6) After yellow and red cards, what colour card has FIFA proposed to be introduced in football for showing dissent?

7) Which American city will host the Superbowl for the first time today?

8) What creature is the Chinese new year named after?

9) Reserve Bank of India left the Repo Rate unchanged at what % for the 6^th time in a row?

10) Who stole the show at Grammys with a rare live performance of her 1988 song “Fast Cars” sending it to the top of the charts?

Answers to Quiz - 2024/05

 

1. Jordan
2. Belgium
3. Pakistan
4. Telepathy
5. Fentanyl
6. Chile
7. Drought leading to low water level
8. Evergrande
9. France
10. Elon Musk

QUIZ - 2024/05

 

1) A drone attack on a remote US base killed 3 American soldiers in which country?

2) Protests by farmers in which country lead to the blockade of Zeebrugge, one of the largest ports in Europe?

3) In which country did the Cipher Case lead to the conviction and imprisonment of an important political personality?

4) What is the name of the computer chip implanted in the brain by Elon Musk’s company Neuralink?

5) US and Chinese officials held talks to crackdown on the trafficking of what drug?

6) Which South American country was ravaged by massive wildfires killing more than 100 people?

7) What is the reason for scaling back shipping through the Panama Canal?

8) What Chinese property developer with $300 billion in liabilities has been ordered to liquidate by a Hong Kong court?

9) Which country’s parliament passed a bill to enshrine the right to abortion in its constitution?

10) Whose pay package of $ 56 billion was blocked by a US judge calling it “an unfathomable sum”?

Answers to Quiz - 2024/04

 

1. Chicago
2. Evonne Goolagong Cawley
3. Wrestling
4. Nitrogen
5. Cameroon
6. Dior Handbag
7. Fastest triple century
8. Saryu
9. John Williams
10. UNRWA

QUIZ - 2024/04

 

1) Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists retained the Doomsday Clock setting at 90 seconds to midnight. In which city is this clock physically located?

2) Special coins were minted for the toss at Australian Open. What iconic tennis player was featured on the coin?

3) Netflix signed a $5 billion deal to livestream what sports?

4) Alabama used asphyxiation for the first time in US to execute a convicted killer. What gas was used?

5) In which African country was the world’s first malaria vaccination programme rolled out?

6) South Korea was plunged into a political scandal after a secret video of the President’s wife accepting a gift went viral. What was the item in question?

7) What first-class cricket record did Tanmay Agarwal create in the Ranji Trophy match between Hyderabad and Arunachal Pradesh?

8) On the banks of what river is Ayodhya located?

9) What legendary composer broke his own record to earn the 54^th Oscar nomination among living persons?

10) Many countries stopped aid to what UN agency after some of its staffers were alleged to have been involved in the Hamas attack against Israel?

Answers to Quiz - 2024/03

 

1. Nauru
2. Pep Guardiola
3. Fujitsu
4. Ivory Coast
5. SLIM
6. Saudi Arabia
7. Tamil Nadu
8. Erbil
9. Jimmy Lai
10. Samsung

QUIZ - 2024/03

 

1) Which island nation severed ties with China after Democratic Progressive Party was voted back to power in Taiwan?

2) Who won the FIFA men’s best coach award?

3) More than sub-postmasters in UK were prosecuted for false accounting and theft because of a software glitch between 1999 and 2015. Which company supplied the software?

4) Which country is hosting the Africa Cup of Nations, Africa’s premier football tournament?

5) Japan became the 5^th country to land on the Moon. What is the name of its spacecraft?

6) Which country hosted the 46^th edition of the Dakar Rally, one of the toughest motorsports event?

7) Which state is hosting the Khelo India Youth Games?

8) What is the capital city of the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq which was attacked by Iran?

9) Name the media tycoon and pro-democracy activist whose high profile trial began in Hong Kong?

10) Which company launched the world’s first AI-powered Smartphone?

Answers to Quiz - 2024/02

 

1. Der Kaiser
2. Sana’a
3. Peregrine
4. Christopher Nolan
5. The Hague
6. 21.8
7. Ecuador
8. Spice Girls
9. France
10. Surat

QUIZ - 2024/02

 

1) Franz Beckenbauer, one of only three players to have won the World Cup as a player and later as a coach, passed away this week at the age of 78. By what nickname was he popularly known? The nickname had little to do with football but with his resemblance to a historical figure.

2) USA and UK carried out air strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen’s capital. What is the name of the capital city?

3) The first American mission in 51 years and the first by a private company to land on the Moon failed. With what powerful bird does the hobbled spacecraft share its name?

4) Who won the Golden Globe award for Best Director for the film Oppenheimer?

5) The International Court of Justice (ICJ) commenced hearing South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. In which city is the ICJ located?

6) Atal Sethu, India’s longest bridge and the 12^th longest in the world was inaugurated during the week. What is the total span of the bridge (in km) including the portions over land?

7) In which South American country did masked gunmen hijack a live television broadcast?

8) UK’S Royal Mail issued a set of 15 stamps to commemorate the 30^th anniversary of which iconic band?

9) Which country got its youngest ever prime minister, as well as the first openly gay man to hold the post?

10) Indore was declared the cleanest city in India for the 7^th successive time. But this time it had to share its honour with which other city?

Answers to Quiz - 2024/01

 

1. Camelids
2. Charisma
3. 107
4. Ashtray Queen
5. Shindo
6. Kerman
7. Darts
8. Harvard
9. Stanley
10. Four Stars of Destiny

QUIZ - 2024/01

 

1) 2023 was International Year of Millets. What is 2024 the year of?

2) “Rizz”, Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2023 means an ability to charm and woo a person. Middle syllable of what word has it been derived from?

3) The 2^nd test match between India and South Africa at Cape Town became the shortest match in the history of test cricket. How many overs did it last?

4) Queen Margrethe of Denmark announced her abdication after ruling for 52 years. By what nickname is she known due to her habit of chain smoking?

5) Japan was rattled by a powerful earthquake on New Year’s Day triggering a tsunami warning. What is the name of the unique Japanese seismic scale that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake?

6) In which Iranian city did more than 100 people die in a blast at a memorial for the former military commander Qaseem Soleimani?

7) In which sport did Luke Littler, a 16-year-old boy, narrowly miss out on becoming a world champion?

8) President of which Ivy League university resigned over charges of plagiarism?

9)Whose limited edition Valentine’s Day cups created stampedes in several stores in the US?

10) What is the name of the memoirs of ex-army chief General Naravne which is being withheld from publishing pending scrutiny by the Indian Army?

Answers to Quiz - 2023/38

 

1. Kenya
2. Dynasty
3. Canada
4. Dominica
5. Hallucinate
6. Chipping Norton
7. Iceland
8. Navayuga Engineering Company
9. Cyprus
10. Sam Altman

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 ?

Answers to Quiz - 2023/37

 

1. Chhattisgarh
2. Angelo Mathews
3. Watermelon
4. Patrick Dempsey
5. Euclid
6. Iga Swiatek
7. Grok
8. Portugal
9. Spain

QUIZ - 2023/37

 

1) Chief Minister of which state was alleged to be involved in a betting app scam?

2) Who was “timed out” for the first time in the history of international cricket?

3) What emoji has emerged in social media as the symbol of Palestinian protest?

4) Who was named as the “sexiest man alive” by People magazine?

5) What is the name of the European Space Agency’s telescope that revealed spectacular images of our universe?

6) Who reclaimed the No. 1 ranking in women’s tennis by winning the WTA finals at Cancun?

7) What is the name of the AI Chatbot launched by Elon Musk?

8) Which country’s Prime Minister stepped down amidst a corruption scandal involving lithium mining and hydrogen projects?

9) In which country did a Prime Minister sign an agreement with separatists to secure a majority for forming a government?

10) What is the name of the largest hospital in Gaza, that Israel alleges is the headquarters of Hamas?

Answers to Quiz - 2023/36

 

1. Bolivia
2. Navy
3. Dagestan
4. General Motors
5. Bletchley Park
6. Kozhikode
7. Charles Taze Russell
8. Chandler Bing
9. Now and Then
10. Erling Haaland

QUIZ - 2023/36

 

1) Which country became the first to sever ties with Israel over the war with Hamas?

2) Lisa Franchetti became the first woman to head what branch of military service in USA?

3) What region of Russia witnessed the storming of an airport by anti-Israeli protestors?

4) The United Auto Workers strike finally ended with a historic wage rise after striking a deal with which automaker of the Detroit Big Three?

5) What historic place, widely regarded as the birthplace of Modern Computing, near London played host the world’s first AI Safety summit?

6) Two Indian cities were added to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. One of them was Gwalior. Name the other.

7) Who founded Jehovah’s Witness in 1870?

8) What is the name of the character played by Matthew Perry in ‘Friends’?

9) What is the title of the “final song” released by The Beatles 60 years after their debut single?

10) Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’Or for the 8^th time. But who came second in the voting?

Answers to Quiz - 2023/35

 

1. Malaysia
2. Meta
3. Maine
4. Iceland
5. Digit
6. Acapulco
7. Slovakia
8. Vienna Convention
9. Goa
10. Mike Johnson