Which team is the Winner of ICC Under-19 World Cup 2020?
- A. India
- B. New Zealand
- C. Pakistan
- D. Bangladesh
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Which country is presiding Security Council for the month of March 2022?
- A. Qatar
- B. UAE
- C. Istanbul
- D. Turkey
Correct Answer: B. UAE
The presidency of the Council is held by each of the members in turn for one month, following the English alphabetical order of the Member States’ names.
Roy: Going For Broke’ is the autobiography of which cricketer?
- A. Shane Warne
- B. Andrew Symonds
- C. Ricky Ponting
- D. Adam Gilchrist
Correct Answer: B. Andrew Symonds
Former Australia cricketer and two-time World Cup winner Andrew Symonds recently passed away in a car crash. He played all three formats of cricket as a batting all-rounder. The 46-year-old featured in 198 ODIs, scoring six centuries and 30 half-centuries. He also contributed 133 wickets. ‘Roy: Going For Broke’ was his auto-biography written with Stephen Gray.
Who has termed Israel an “apartheid” state?
- A. Amnesty International
- B. Human rights watch
- C. Human rights commission of Pakistan
- D. UNESCO
Correct Answer: A. Amnesty International
The state of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is a crime against humanity and is illegal under international law, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. The rights group says Israel’s “oppression and domination” of Palestinians amounts to apartheid. Amnesty said Israel has embraced laws and practices that “are intended to maintain a cruel system of control over Palestinians, have left them fragmented geographically and politically, frequently impoverished, and in a constant state of fear and insecurity.”
Where is the ‘Large Hadron Collider’, the world’s most powerful particle collider located?
- A. New York
- B. Siberia
- C. Geneva
- D. Paris
Correct Answer: C. Geneva
The world’s most powerful particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is set to function from July this year. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research located in Geneva. The Large Hadron Collider is a giant, complex machine built to study particles, the smallest known building blocks of all things. Three years after it was shut down for maintenance and upgrades, the collider was switched back recently.
Which country to cut its army by half after financial crisis?
- A. Sri Lanka
- B. Bangladesh
- C. Somalia
- D. Sudan
Correct Answer: A. Sri Lanka
Bankrupt Sri Lanka will drastically slash its military, the defence ministry said on January 13, 2023, as the government works to overhaul its shambolic finances after an unprecedented economic crisis. The island nation is still reeling from months of food and fuel shortages that made daily life a misery for its 22 million people last year. President Ranil Wickremesinghe has hiked taxes and imposed harsh spending cuts to smooth the passage of an expected International Monetary Fund bailout following a government debt default. Sri Lanka`s armed forces are next on the chopping block, with the defence ministry announcing it would retire 65,000 soldiers from its 200,000-strong army over the year.
ECOWAS stands for:
- A. Economic Council of West African States
- B. Economic Community of West Association States
- C. Economic Community of West African States
- D. None of the Above
Correct Answer: A. Economic Community of West African States