The Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games officially open on:
- A. 2 February 2022
- B. 4 February 2022
- C. 6 February 2022
- D. 8 February 2022
Correct Answer: B. 4 February 2022
The Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games officially open on 4 February 2022, though competition will start two days prior to the Opening Ceremony with preliminary games in curling and ice hockey. The Games will come to an end at the Closing Ceremony, scheduled for 20 February 2022.
Correct Answer: A. Clade
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced new names for variants of the monkeypox virus to avoid causing any cultural or social offense. Experts will refer to the former Congo Basin clade (group of variants) in Central Africa as Clade I, and the former West African clade as Clade II. It consists of two sub-clades, Clade IIa and Clade IIb. The monkeypox virus was named when it was first discovered in 1958.
Correct Answer: B. Indonesia
Nine people died after Indonesia’s capital was hit by its deadliest flooding in years, authorities said Wednesday, as torrential rains on New Year´s Eve left vast swathes of the megalopolis submerged. Thousands were evacuated to temporary shelters as electricity was switched off in scores of waterlogged neighbourhoods across greater Jakarta, home to about 30 million people, with some train lines and one of the city´s airports also shut. Indonesia´s National Disaster Mitigation Agency called on residents to leave flood-hit areas.
Correct Answer: B. UAE
The United Arab Emirates will Start its first lunar rover in November, the mission manager said on 19 September 2022. Hamad Al Marzooqi told The National, a state-linked newspaper, that the “Rashid” rover, named for Dubai’s ruling family, would be launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida sometime between Nov. 9 and Nov. 15. The exact date will be announced next month, he said. The rover is to be launched aboard a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket and deposited on the moon by a Japanese ispace lander sometime in March.
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.
Correct Answer: C. 17 October 2023
On 17 October 2023, an explosion took place in the parking lot of the courtyard of al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, resulting in a large number of fatalities and injuries among displaced Palestinians seeking shelter there. A few days prior to the incident, the hospital had received evacuation orders from Israel, and was hit by Israeli rocket fire, which damaged two floors and injured four staff members.
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.