Who is the current Defence Minister of Russia?
- A. Alina Kabaeva
- B. Dmitry Medvedev
- C. Sergey Lavrov
- D. Sergei Shoigu
Correct Answer: D. Sergei Shoigu
Correct Answer: D. Europian countries
More than 150 monuments and buildings across Europe will be lit up blue on October 24, 2020 to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations.
Correct Answer: B. July 04, 2023
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will stay in office for another year, the 31-nation military alliance decided on Tuesday (4 July 2023). U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts had been due to name a successor when they meet in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11-12. But the world’s biggest security organization makes decisions by consensus, and no agreement could be found on a new candidate. “With his steady leadership, experience, and judgement, Secretary General Stoltenberg has brought our Alliance through the most significant challenges in European security since World War II,” Biden said in a statement.
Correct Answer: A. $1.1 billion
The US State Department has approved a potential $1.1 billion sale of military equipment to Taiwan, including 60 anti-ship missiles and 100 air-to-air missiles, with China threatening to take countermeasures. The Pentagon announced the package on 2 September 2022 in the wake of China`s aggressive military drills around Taiwan following a visit to the island last month by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking US official to travel to Taipei in years.
Correct Answer: C. Tokyo
Tokyo began issuing partnership certificates to same-sex couples who live and work in the capital on November 1, 2022, a long-awaited move in a country without marriage equality. The certificates allow LGBTQ partners to be treated as married couples for a range of public services in areas such as housing, medicine, and welfare.
Correct Answer: B. Mohamed Ould Bilal
Mohamed Ould Bilal, is a Mauritanian politician serving as the 16th and current Prime Minister of Mauritania since 6 August 2020. Bilal was appointed by the President of Mauritania Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and had replaced Ismail Ould Cheikh Sidiya, who resigned with his entire government due to an investigation into alleged high-level corruption.
Correct Answer: A. February 8, 2022
Luc Montagnier, a French virologist who shared a Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering the virus that causes AIDS, died on 8 February 2022 in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. He was 89. The town hall in Neuilly confirmed that a death certificate for Dr. Montagnier had been filed there. Luc Montagnier was a French virologist and joint recipient, with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen, of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).