Due to COVID-19, Tokyo Olympics 2020 will postpone until ______.
- A. 2021
- B. 2022
- C. 2023
- D. Not Held until 2026
Correct Answer: A. 2021
The Tokyo Olympics will begin on July 23 next year, Organizers said after the outbreak of COVID-19 forced the historic decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics until 2021
Correct Answer: A. Will Smith
Correct Answer: C. USA
NASA’s ‘Oceans Melting Greenland airborne mission’ has found that Greenland’s glaciers that empty into the ocean, such as Apusiaajik Glacier, are at greater risk of rapid ice loss. It revealed that ice loss from Greenland’s ice sheet contributes more to the global rise of the oceans than any other single source. If all of Greenland’s ice sheets were to melt, global sea levels would rise by about 24 feet (7.4 meters).
Correct Answer: B. Lebanon
The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday cutting the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon and expanding its mandate to address U.S. and Israeli concerns about activities of the militant group Hezbollah in the area.
Correct Answer: B. UAE
Correct Answer: A. Astana
Kazakhstan’s capital is set to soon be rename back from Nur-Sultan to Astana after the Parliament endorsed the draft law on constitutional amendments required to rename the capital on Sept. 16. The document now awaits President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s discretion. President Tokayev had agreed to restore the former name of the country’s capital just three years after he proposed to rename it in recognition of the special role of the outgoing president Nursultan Nazarbayev, one of his first moves upon taking office in March 2019 when Nazarbayev unexpectedly stepped down.
Correct Answer: B. UN Environment Assembly
The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) with 175 member countries, signed a mandate which makes it legally binding for the signatories to end plastic pollution. The Global Plastics Treaty will be drafted and ratified in the next two years. The mandate recommends measures to tackle plastic production and address the toxic burden of plastic.