Shehan Karunatilaka, who won the 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction, is from which country?
- A. India
- B. Sri Lanka
- C. Bangladesh
- D. Malaysia
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Marcos Junior has been elected as the new President of which country?
- A. Malaysia
- B. Singapore
- C. Philippines
- D. Mauritius
Correct Answer: C. Philippines
Marcos was proclaimed the President-elect of the Philippines on May 25, 2022, alongside his running-mate and Vice-President-elect Sara Duterte. Marcos received 31,629,783 votes, or 58.77% of the total votes cast, about 16.5 million votes ahead of his closest rival, Vice President Leni Robredo, who received over 15 million votes.
Tsirkon’, is a hypersonic missile tested by which country?
- A. United States
- B. Russia
- C. China
- D. Kyrgyzstan
Correct Answer: B. Russia
Russia recently announced that it has successfully tested a new hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile named ‘Tsirkon’. The Tsirkon missile was fired from the White Sea in the Russian Arctic and it successfully hit its target 450 kilometers away in the Barents Sea. The missile has also reached a speed of Mach 8 – eight times the speed of sound.
Fiction writer and former lawmaker Bushra Rehman passed away on:
- A. February 7, 2022
- B. February 8, 2022
- C. February 9, 2022
- D. February 10, 2022
Correct Answer: A. February 7, 2022
Fiction writer and former lawmaker Bushra Rehman passed away on February 7, 2022. Bushra Rehman was born in Bahawalpur in 1944. She did her MA in Journalism from Punjab University. She was elected to the Punjab Assembly on a reserved seat for women in 1985 and then the 1990 elections. She served as an MNA on a seat reserved for women in 2002 and 2008.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah signed a “Power-sharing deal” on:
- A. May 17, 2020
- B. May 18, 2020
- C. May 19, 2020
- D. May 20, 2020
Correct Answer: A. May 17, 2020
On Sunday, May 17, 2020, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah signed a power-sharing deal, ending a bitter months-long feud that plunged the country into a political crisis. The breakthrough comes as Afghanistan battles a series of crises, including a rapid spread of the deadly coronavirus and surging militant violence that saw dozens killed in brutal attacks last week. Pakistan welcomed the agreement.
Which country signed deals worth USD 1 billion to settle the land claim of ‘Siksika tribe’?
- A. USA
- B. Australia
- C. Canada
- D. New Zealand
Correct Answer: C. Canada
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently signed deals worth 1.3 billion Canadian dollars to settle a Blackfoot tribe’s land claim. The 1.3 billion Canadian dollars (USD 1 billion) settlement is one of the largest agreements of its kind reached in Canada. It aims to correct the mistakes dating back over a century when the Canadian government broke promises and wrongfully took half of Siksika Nation’s reserve land to sell to settlers.
Israeli delegation visited Sudan on ______ to discuss normalizing relations.
- A. October 20, 2020
- B. October 21, 2020
- C. October 22, 2020
- D. October 23, 2020
Correct Answer: B. October 21, 2020
An Israeli delegation visited Sudan on October 21, 2020 to discuss normalising relations following the Jewish state`s US-brokered deals with UAE and Bahrain, according to sources in Khartoum and Jerusalem.