Who is the current Defence Minister of Turkiye?What is the theme of the ‘World Day Against Child Labour 2022’?
- A. Yaşar Guler
- B. Selim Akar
- C. Hulusi Akar
- D. Arif Çetin
Correct Answer: C. Hulusi Akar
Hulusi Akar is the current Turkish Minister of Defense and a former four-star Turkish Armed Forces general who served as the 29th Chief of the Turkish General Staff. On July 9, 2018 Akar was appointed by Turkey’s President Erdogan as the Minister for National Defense. This was the first time in Turkey’s history that a civilian government appointed an active duty military officer to this position.
Correct Answer: B. 45
A total of 45 journalists were killed in connection with their work in the year 2021, research done by the International Press Institute (IPI) revealed on December 30, 2021. Seven of the killings took place in Mexico, six each in Afghanistan and India, and three in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Correct Answer: B. Ixchiq
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Ixchiq, the first chikungunya vaccine. Ixchiq is approved for individuals 18 years of age and older who are at increased risk of exposure to chikungunya virus. The chikungunya virus is primarily transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito. Chikungunya is an emerging global health threat with at least 5 million cases of chikungunya virus infection reported during the past 15 years.
Correct Answer: C. United Kingdom
Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak is set to become Britain’s next prime minister. The 42-year-old will become the country’s third prime minister in less than two months, after his predecessor, Liz Truss, was brought down after just six weeks in office.
Correct Answer: A. Roberta Metsola
Maltese politician Roberta Metsola was elected head of the European Parliament on January 18, 2022, the youngest person ever to clinch the job. Metsola was first elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2013 and became the First Vice-President of the European Parliament in November 2020. Metsola a member of the largest bloc, the European People`s Party won a sweeping majority with 458 votes in a secret ballot after a deal between the leading political groupings. She becomes the third woman to head the chamber.
Correct Answer: A. 27 January
TheInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one-third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities between 1933 and 1945 by Nazi Germany. The day remembers the killing of six million Jews, two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population, and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators
Correct Answer: C. Mira Murati
Mira Murati is the new interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of OpenAI after the ChatGPT maker’s board said on 17 November 2023 that it had fired CEO and co-founder Sam Altman. In a statement, the company said that Murati is uniquely qualified for the role and it “anticipates a seamless transition while it conducts a formal search for a permanent CEO