Recently, Kazakhstan has renamed its capital back from Nur-Sultan to:
- A. Astana
- B. Almaty
- C. Shymkent
- D. Aktobe
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What is the theme of World Humanitarian Day 2023?
- A. It takes a village
- B. The Human Race
- C. No Matter What
- D. Real Life Heroes
Correct Answer: C. No Matter What
The theme of World Humanitarian Day 2023 is #NoMatterWhat. In a world beset by challenge #NoMatterWhat speaks volumes about the extent to which humanitarian workers go, in an often dangerous and violent world to ensure that they alleviate human suffering.
Who becomes the first African American woman to appear on US coin?
- A. Guy Johnson
- B. Maya Angelou
- C. Oprah Winfrey
- D. Sally Ride
Correct Answer: B. Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou has becomed the first Black woman ever to appear on a US quarter, after a coin featuring the late poet and activist’s image went into circulation on 13 January 2022. The quarter features an image of Angelou with her arms uplifted, a bird in flight, and a rising sun behind her, with a portrait of George Washington on the “heads” side. The US Mint said the image of Angelou was “inspired by her poetry and symbolic of the way she lived”. The poet and writer, who died in 2014, was the author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, in which she wrote about the racial discrimination she experienced growing up.
On June 5, 2022, which country launched a spacecraft ‘Shenzhou 14’?
- A. UAE
- B. China
- C. Russia
- D. Pakistan
Correct Answer: B. China
Shenzhou 14 is a Chinese spaceflight that launched on 5 June 2022 at 02:44 UTC. The flight marks the ninth crewed Chinese spaceflight and the fourteenth flight of the Shenzhou program. The spacecraft carries three People’s Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonauts on the third flight to the Tianhe core module, the first module of the Tiangong space station. The launch of the three-person crew with a Long March-2F launch vehicle took place from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
The world`s biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor in operation was inaugurated in which country?
- A. Japan
- B. China
- C. Itlay
- D. USA
Correct Answer: A. Japan
The world`s biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor in operations was inaugurate in Japan on December 1st, 2023, a technology in its infancy but billed by some as the answer to humanity`s future energy needs. Fusion differs from fission, the technique currently used in nuclear power plants, by fusing two atomic nuclei instead of splitting one.
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi blamed which country for the attack on Qasem Soleimani tomb?
- A. USA
- B. Israel
- C. Afghanistan
- D. Saudi Arabia
Correct Answer: B. Israel
Prior to Islamic State’s claim of responsibility, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi blamed Israel for the attack. Vice President Mohammad Mokhber and Expediency Discernment Council member General Mohsen Rezaee also blamed Israel for the bombings. Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani claimed that the perpetrators were “supplied by the United States and the Zionist regime”.
Which country is named the President of the UN Security Council for August 2021?
- A. Russia
- B. China
- C. India
- D. Norway
Correct Answer: C. India
India, which has been elected as a non-permanent member of the Security Council recently, will serve as its president for the month of August 2021. Tunisia will begin 2021 as the President of the Council in January. India was elected as the non-permanent members of the 15-nation-UNSC for a two-year term beginning January 1, 2021.