Correct Answer: D. Basic sciences for sustainable development
World Science Day for Peace and Development is observe annually on November 10. It aims to create awareness on how important science is to society and in our everyday life. ‘Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development’ is the focus of this year’s World Science Day for Peace and Development.
Correct Answer: B. Australia
Google warned Australians on August 17, 2020, that the Australian government’s plans to make digital companies pay for news content will threaten users’ access to free search services in Australia. The tech giant warned that it could also hand over users’ data to media organizations
Correct Answer: B. Emma Alam
Pakistan’s Emma Alam on 21 March 2022 won the 13th World Speed Reading Championships finals, beating more than 100 competitors from all over the world. Held in hybrid form, the championships, which were delayed due to Covid-19, concluded this week with a great victory for Team Pakistan. Emma, who defeated her Chinese competitor in the finals, was also crowned in 2020 as the World Memory Champion and holder of two titles of Guinness World Records and also recognized as Pride of Pakistan by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). Coming in the fourth position in the World Speed Reading Championships is Abeerah Ather. Team Pakistan also competed in the 12th World Mind Mapping Championship, in which Emma Alam grabbed third position and Ambreen Hameed fourth.
Correct Answer: A. Global Response International Pledging Conference
On May 5, 2020, around 40 countries took part in an online summit called Global Response International Pledging Conference. The Conference was initiated by the European Union. The main aim of the conference was to raise funds for research of COVID-19, especially vaccine development.
Correct Answer: B. Endeavor
The United States astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon, landed back on the Earth. The astronauts splashed down aboard Crew Dragon ‘Endeavor’ in the Gulf of Mexico after a 64-day voyage in space. This is NASA’s first crewed mission from American soil in nine years. This splashdown is the first of its kind by NASA in 45 years.
Correct Answer: B. $103.5 million
The Nobel Peace Prize put up for auction by the Russian journalist Dmitri A. Muratov to help Ukrainian refugees sold for $103.5 million to an anonymous buyer, obliterating the record for a Nobel medal. The proceeds from the auction will go to UNICEF to aid Ukrainian children and their families displaced by Russia’s invasion of their country.
Correct Answer: C. Javier Milei
Argentina elected right-wing libertarian Javier Milei as its new president on 19 November 2023, rolling the dice on an outsider with radical views to fix an economy battered by triple-digit inflation, a looming recession and rising poverty. Milei, who rode a wave of voter anger with the political mainstream, won by a wider-than-expected margin. He landed some 56% of the vote versus just over 44% for his rival, Peronist Economy Minister Sergio Massa, who conceded.