What is the name of the tropical storm that has formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico?
- A. Cristobal
- B. Amanda
- C. Haman
- D. Harold
Correct Answer: A. Cristobal
A tropical storm named Cristobal has been formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico. A heavy flood threat has been announced for Mexico. Earlier in the year 2016, a tropical storm named Colin formed in the Gulf. It was formed from the miscellanies of the recent Tropical Storm Amanda.
Correct Answer: C. East Timor
José Alexandre “Xanana” Gusmão is an East Timorese politician who has served as the prime minister of East Timor since 1 July 2023, previously serving in that position from 2007 to 2015.
Correct Answer: C. USA
NASA’s ‘Oceans Melting Greenland airborne mission’ has found that Greenland’s glaciers that empty into the ocean, such as Apusiaajik Glacier, are at greater risk of rapid ice loss. It revealed that ice loss from Greenland’s ice sheet contributes more to the global rise of the oceans than any other single source. If all of Greenland’s ice sheets were to melt, global sea levels would rise by about 24 feet (7.4 meters).
Correct Answer: B. September 22, 2022
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel was a British writer whose work covers historical fiction, personal memoirs, and short stories. Her first published novel is Every Day Is Mother’s Day, was released in 1985. Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: the first was for her 2009 novel Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second was for its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. Mantel died on 22 September 2022, at a hospital in Exeter, from complications of a stroke that had occurred three days earlier.
Correct Answer: D. Opium Poppy
Afghanistan`s ruling Taliban on April 3, 2022, announced a ban on poppy production, even as farmers across the country began harvesting the bright red flower that produces the opium used to make heroin. The order warns farmers that their crops will be burned and they can be jailed if they proceed with the harvest. Taliban`s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced the ban at a news conference in the capital.
Correct Answer: D. Giorgia Meloni
Giorgia Meloni is an Italian politician who has been serving as the prime minister of Italy since 22 October 2022 , the first woman to hold this position. A member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2006, she has led the Brothers of Italy (FdI) political party since 2014, and she has been the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party since 2020
Correct Answer: B. Zalmy Khalilzad