Who has been named as the Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2022?
- A. Joe Biden
- B. Volodymyr Zelensky
- C. Xi Jinping
- D. Boris Johnson
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When China launches its first mission to Mars?
- A. July 23, 2020
- B. July 24, 2020
- C. July 25, 2020
- D. July 26, 2020
Correct Answer: A. July 23, 2020
China on July 23, 2020, successfully launched an unmanned probe to Mars in its first independent mission to Red Planet. The Tianwen-1 mission launched atop a Long March 5 Y-4 rocket from Wenchang Satellite launch centre, on the southern island of Hainan.
When Qatar and Bahrain announced to re-establish relations?
- A. April 16, 2023
- B. April 13, 2023
- C. April 17, 2023
- D. None of these
Correct Answer: B. April 13, 2023
Qatar and Bahrain announced late on April 13, 2023, that they had agreed to end a long-running diplomatic feud and re-establish relation. Bahrain 2017 join Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt in imposing a diplomatic blockade on Qatar. However, the countries’ rivalry goes back even further, and Bahrain is the last to renew ties. Agreement on the reconciliation was reached in talks at the Gulf Cooperation Council headquarters in Saudi Arabia, Qatar’s foreign ministry said.
Which institution slashed the global trade volume growth to 1 percent?
- A. WEF
- B. IMF
- C. WTO
- D. World Bank
Correct Answer: C. WTO
The World Trade Organization (WTO) slashed its forecast for global trade volume growth to 1 percent from 3.4 percent estimated earlier. The Geneva-based body said that world trade may lose momentum in the second half of 2022 and remain subdued in 2023. WTO revised upward its merchandise trade growth forecast for 2022, to 3.5 percent from its April estimate of 3 per cent.
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is associated to which of the following countries?
- A. Iran, Germany, and the United States
- B. Russia, UK, and China
- C. France, Iran and European Union
- D. All of the above
Correct Answer: D. All of the above
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action known commonly as the Iran nuclear deal or Iran deal, is an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program reached in Vienna on July 14, 2015, between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States—plus Germany) together with the European Union.
Which is the venue of the ‘World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2022’?
- A. New York
- B. Paris
- C. Geneva
- D. Dehli
Correct Answer: C. Geneva
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2022 started on 15 March in a virtual format with the final week held physically from 30 May to 3 June 2022 at the ITU Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The forum was held under the theme of ‘ICTs for Well-Being, Inclusion, and Resilience: WSIS Cooperation for Accelerating Progress on the SDGs’. The WSIS Forum is co-organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP, and UNCTAD.
Earth has a new moon called a ______ that will orbit the Sun with us for at least 1000 years.
- A. Earth-moon
- B. Quasi-moon
- C. X-moon
- D. None of these
Correct Answer: B. Quasi-moon
Astronomer have recently discovered an asteroid that tags along with our planet during its annual journey around the sun. Dubbed 2023 FW13, this asteroid is consider by experts to be a “quasi-moon” or “quasi-satellite.” The asteroid was given this classification because it orbits the sun in a similar time frame as the Earth does. However, it is only slightly influenced by our planet’s gravitational pull.