US President Donald Trump has named a Muslim American ______ to find a vaccine for Covid-19.
- A. Zalmay Khalilzad
- B. Adil Najam
- C. Moncef Mohamed Slaoui
- D. Mohamed El-Erian
Correct Answer: C. Moncef Mohamed Slaoui
US President Donald Trump has named a Muslim American, Moncef Mohamed Slaoui, to head a fast track program called for finding a vaccine for Covid-19. Moncef Mohamed Slaoui is a Moroccan-born Belgian-American researcher and former head of GlaxoSmithKline’s vaccines department, retiring in 2017. President Trump said that Moncef Mohamed Slaoui was `one of the most respected men in the world in the production and, really, on the formulation of vaccines.
Correct Answer: D. September 27, 2022
On September 27, 2022, bin Salman was appointed Prime Minister of the kingdom by his father the king. This is the first time since 1964 that the positions of King and Prime Minister are not held by the same person. He is the seventh son of King Salman.
Correct Answer: C. USA
The US military`s secretive X-37B robot space plane blasted off from Florida on 28 December 2023, night on its seventh mission, the first launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket capable of delivering it to a higher orbit than ever before. The Falcon Heavy, composed of three liquid-fuelled rocket cores strapped together, roared off its launch pad from NASA`s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in a spectacular liftoff carried live on a SpaceX webcast
Correct Answer: B. Amanda
Amanda the name of the tropical storm that has hit Central American countries El Salvador and Guatemala recently. The heavy rains from Tropical Storm Amanda caused many people dead and missing.
Correct Answer: B. Iran
Iran has displayed a surface-to-surface ballistic missile, that has a range of 1,400 kilometres, named martyr Qassem Soleimani. The surface-to-surface missile has a range of 1,400 km Amir Hatami said on Thursday 20 August 2020.
Correct Answer: D. OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developmented (OECD) has created a new global tax transparency framework for the automatic exchange of information related to crypto assets between countries. The framework named Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) will be used by the countries to track the cross-border transfer of crypto assets. CARF will be presented to G20 Finance Ministers this week in Washington DC.
Correct Answer: A. France
The new COVID variant named IHU (B.1.640.2) has been discovered at the IHU Mediterranee Infection institute in France. The new variant is said to have 46 mutations more than Omicron. The first case was reported from a person who had come from the African country of Cameroon. As per the Scientists, the new strain carries E484K mutation making it vaccine-resistant.