QUIZ - 2025/17

 

1) In which city did Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo sign a peace agreement?

2) What revised growth forecast for 2025 was put out by the International Monetary Fund?

3) Who claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack?

4) What is the name of the never seen before colour that scientists claim to have discovered?

5) This week commemorates the 20^th anniversary of the first video to be uploaded on YouTube by its co-founder Jawed Karim. Jawed and his two other co-founders were former employees of what tech company?

6) After what former player is the biennial world badminton championship for mixed teams named?

7) Pope Francis who passed away at the age of 88 was also the Bishop of which diocese?

8) What celebrity pop star’s mother came out with a memoir titled “Matriarch”?

9) In what event did humanoid robots participate in Beijing?

10) This week marked the 70^th anniversary of the Afro-Asian conference that gave birth to the Non-Aligned Movement. In which city was it held?

 

Answers to Quiz - 2025/16

 

1. Prada
2. Algeria
3. Harvard
4. Maldives
5. Six
6. Golf
7. Rajasthan Royals
8. Cough Syrup
9. Article 142 of the constitution
10. El Salvador

QUIZ - 2025/16

 

1) What fashion house did Prada acquire in a $1.4 billion deal?

2) With which African country and France did a diplomatic row escalate leading to tit-for-tat expulsions of 12 diplomats?

3) Which Ivy League school refused to accede to Trump’s demands for change leading to a $2.2 billion federal funding freeze?

4) What country banned people holding Israeli passports from entering in an act of solidarity with Palestine?

5) The week witnessed the first all-women space flight, six decades after Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963. How many women were there in Blue Origin’s spacecraft?

6) In which sport did Rory Mcilroy write history with his victory, joining 5 other greats in an exclusive club?

7) Vaibhav Suryavanshi became the youngest debutant in IPL history at the age of 14. For which team did he play?

8) What item was banned by the Indian government for children below 4?

9) What was described as "Nuclear Missile" by VP Jagdeep Dhankar?

10) To which country has the USA wrongfully deported a person provoking the intervention of the Supreme Court?

Answers to Quiz - 2025/15

 

1. Tamil Nadu
2. 125%
3. Singapore
4. Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd
5. Kazakhstan
6. Laurence Olivier
7. Dire Wolf
8. 6%
9. Thailand
10. Elon Musk and Peter Navarro

QUIZ - 2025/15

 

1) Governor of which state was criticised by the Supreme Court for withholding his consent to the bills passed by the legislature?

2) In the bizarre on-going trade war, what % of tariff has China imposed on US goods in retaliation?

3) What city's airport was named the world's best for the 13th time?

4) Who built the new Pamban bridge, India's first vertical lift sea bridge?

5) A 3-member crew to the International Space Station took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. In which country is it located?

6) After what legendary actor are the UK theatre awards which were given out at London's Royal Albert Hall named?

7) What extinct animal was claimed to have been resurrected through genetic engineering?

8) What is the new Repo Rate after the 25 BPS cut announced by RBI?

9) Which country is celebrating its New Year, the Songkran festival, today the 13th April?

10) Boys will be Boys - that was the quote of the week emanating from White House Press Secretary about a public spat over tariffs. Who are the 2 boys?

Answers to Quiz - 2025/14

 

1. Chile
2. Seven
3. Fram2
4. Hands Off
5. Hungary
6. Embezzlement
7. No human inhabitation
8. Cory Booker
9. Wisconsin
10. W H Smith

QUIZ - 2025/14

 

1) Head of which South American country was on an official visit to India this week?

2) How many member states are there in BIMSTEC?

3) What is the name of the unique space mission in which 4 private astronauts orbited the earth in a novel polar trajectory?

4) What is the name of the protests that have erupted across USA over the policies of Trump and Musk?

5) Which country left the International Criminal Court as it hosted the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu?

6) Marine Le Pen, the French far-right politician and a front-runner in the 2027 election for President was barred from contesting after being found guilty of what charges?

7) President Trump slapped tariffs on almost all countries of the world. What was unique about the tariff imposed on Heard and McDonald Islands?

8) Who set a record for the longest ever speech in the US Senate?

9) In which US state did voters elect a Democrat-backed liberal judge to the state supreme court despite a high-profile funding and campaign by Elon Musk?

10) What 230-year-old retail store chain dating back to the Victorian era will disappear from the city centres in UK following a sale?

 

Answers to Quiz - 2025/13

 

1. Zimbabwe
2. Venezuela
3. Tiger Woods
4. The Atlantic
5. Eggs
6. Sagain
7. Rana Sanga
8. Mukesh Ambani
9. Habitat
10. Arabic

 

QUIZ - 2025/13

 

1) Kirsty Coventry, who was elected as the first woman president of International Olympics Committee, is the sports minister of which country?

2) President Trump announced a 25% tariff on all countries that import oil from which country?

3) Who declared a relationship with Vanessa Trump, the former daughter-in-law of Donald Trump?

4) Journalist affiliated to what publication was added by the US National Security advisor to a group chat on Signal stoking a huge controversy about the security breach?

5) Washed or Unwashed - the debate that raged across the world this week - is about what object?

6) What fault was responsible for the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that rocked Myanmar and Thailand?

7) Debate over what Rajput king led to a ruckus in the Parliament?

8) Who became the first business tycoon to own a Boeing 737 Max jet?

9) What is the name of the studio in Mumbai that was vandalised after a stand-up comedy act?

10) Ghibli, the image generator that has taken the Internet by storm, originates from which language?

 

Answers to Quiz - 2025/12

 

1. Finland
2. London
3. New Zealand
4. Boxing
5. Medusa
6. Japan
7. Odisha
8. Lima
9. 8 days
10. Google

QUIZ - 2025/12

 

1) Which country has been adjudged the happiest country in the world?

2) In which city did the airport shut down operations for 18 hours because of a power outage?

3) With which country did India sign a defence pact?

4) What sport was reinstated in 2028 Los Angeles Olympics after having been dropped earlier?

5) Cybersecurity warning about ransomware named after what mythical creature was issued?

6) The opening games of this year’s US Baseball season happened in which foreign country?

7) The discovery of significant gold deposits was announced in which state assembly?

8) Emergency was declared in what capital city due to violence resulting in the killing of a popular singer?

9) Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams returned safely after spending 9 months in the International Space Station. What was the planned duration of their mission?

10) What tech company agreed to pay $28 million to settle a lawsuit alleging pay discrimination?

 

Answers to Quiz - 2025/11

 

1. Philippines
2. Vanuatu
3. Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
4. Sun
5. Rachin Ravindra
6. Switzerland (IQAir)
7. Aluminium
8. Green
9. Spain
10. Canada

QUIZ - 2025/11

 

1) Rodrigo Duterte, the former President of which country was arrested by the International Criminal Court to face charges of crimes against humanity?

2) Which country cancelled the citizenship of Lalit Modi, the former chief of IPL?

3) Which Indian institution has secured the highest (20^th) position in this year’s subject-wise rankings of QS?

4) NASA launched the PUNCH mission to study what object in space?

5) Who was adjudged Player of the Tournament in the ICC Champions Trophy?

6) Delhi was named the world’s most polluted capital city by a report of an air technology company based in which country?

7) A hefty 25% tariff was imposed on the import of steel and what other metal by USA on all countries?

8) Ireland and Irish people across the world will celebrate St Patrick’s Day on March 17. With what colour is the festivity associated?

9) In what could potentially rewrite human history in Europe, fossilised facial bones 1.1 to 1.4 million years old were unearthed in which country?

10) In the wake of the turmoil unleashed by Trump, which country hosted the meeting of the G7 Foreign Ministers?

 

Answers to Quiz - 2025/10

1. Lesotho
2. Mouse
3. Denmark
4. South Korea
5. Obese
6. HPCL
7. Architecture
8. Benjamin Franklin
9. Anora
10. Blue Ghost

 

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?

 

Answers to Quiz - 2025/09

 

1. Chile
2. Katy Perry
3. $5 million
4. South Korea
5. Chainsaw
6. Telangana
7. Vidarbha and Kerala
8. Sambhaji
9. Austria
10. USA

 

QUIZ - 2025/09

 

1) What South American country was plunged into darkness for several hours forcing the government to declare a state of emergency?

2) What pop star was named to be part of an all-women crew in the upcoming space flight of Blue Origin?

3) What is the cost of "Gold Card" visa mooted by Donald Trump for wealthy people seeking permanent residency in USA and a path to citizenship?

4) Which country reported an increase in birthrate for the first time in 9 years?

5) What did the Argentine President gift Elon Musk in appreciation of his efforts to reduce the bureaucracy?

6) In which state did an irrigation tunnel collapse trapping 8 workers and led to a massive rescue effort?

7) What two teams are currently contesting the Ranji Trophy final?

8) Chhaava, the movie has taken Box Office by storm, is based on the life of what historical figure?

9) In which country did 3 centrist parties agree to form a coalition government after 5 month-long negotiations?

10) A measles-related death of a child occurred in which country for the first time in 10 years?

 

Answers to Quiz - 2025/08

 

1. Hatshepsut
2. Vladimir Zelensky
3. Riyadh
4. New Zealand
5. Toronto
6. Myanmar
7. Argentina
8. Venice
9. Refusing to use the term “Gulf of America”
10. Italy

 

QUIZ - 2025/08

 

1) For the first time in more than a century, a pharaoh's tomb has been uncovered in Egypt. The tomb of King Thutmose II was found in a joint Egyptian-British archaeological expedition. Thutmose II is best known as the husband of what Queen?

2) Whom did Donald Trump label as a "dictator"?

3) Which city hosted talks between Russia and USA to end the Ukraine war?

4) Which country's tourism slogan - "Everyone Must Go" - evoked criticism and ridicule?

5) In which city did a plane skid along the runway in flames before flipping over and coming to a dramatic halt upside down, losing its tail and an entire wing in the process? All the 80 passengers survived.

6) More than 1000 Chinese nationals working in online scam centres were rescued and brought back from which country?

7) In which country did a politically endorsed cryptocoin "Libra" surge briefly before crashing?

8) Which city is currently hosting its annual carnival, with a special celebration to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Casanova?

9) Donald Trump has restricted White House access to Associated Press (AP) over what issue?

10) Eruption of the volcano Mount Etna is drawing tourists in thousands hampering rescue operations in which country?

 

Answers to Quiz - 2025/07

 

1. Ethiopia and Tanzania
2. France
3. Lake Nasser
4. Syria
5. Frontier
6. Ramses II
7. Osiris
8. Akhenaten
9. Eagle
10. Air