World Elephant Day observe every year on?
- A. 12 August
- B. 15 August
- C. 16 August
- D. 18 August
Correct Answer: A. 12 August
World Elephant Day is an international annual event on August 12, dedicated to the preservation and protections of the world’s elephants. The goal of World Elephant Day is to create awareness of the urgent plight of African and Asian elephants, and to share knowledge and positive solutions for the better care and management of captive and wild elephants. African elephants are listed as “Vulnerable” and Asian elephants as “Endangered” on the IUCN Red List of threatened species
Correct Answer: B. 59
Dean Jones, the former Australia batsman, has died of a heart attack aged 59. Jones was in Mumbai as part of the commentary team at Star Sports for IPL 2020 when he passed away on September, 24 September.
Correct Answer: A. Gabon
Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda has been appointed as the first woman Prime Minister of the Central African country, Gabon. She is 56-year-old. She had served as the Budget Minister in 2012 and then in Defence Ministry.
Correct Answer: C. Walmart
Walmart landed at No. 1 for the ninth straight year, trailed by Amazon, which reached its highest ranking ever. Chinese energy giants State Grid, China National Petroleum, and Sinopec rounded out the top five.
Correct Answer: B. July 05, 2023
U.S. President Joe Biden met with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson as the White House works to persuade Turkey to approve Sweden’s NATO accession ahead of the alliance’s summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, next week. “Sweden is going to make our alliance stronger and has the same value set that we have in NATO,” Biden said to Kristersson ahead of their meeting at the White House on Wednesday. “I’m really looking, anxiously looking, forward for your membership.” Sweden and Finland abandoned their policy of military nonalignment and applied for NATO membership following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Correct Answer: C. Hallucinate
Hallucinate is the Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year, as it gains an additional definition in one of many AI-relate update in 2023. The traditional definition is to “to seem to see, hear, feel, or smell something that does not exist”.
Correct Answer: B. Indonesia
Nine people died after Indonesia’s capital was hit by its deadliest flooding in years, authorities said Wednesday, as torrential rains on New Year´s Eve left vast swathes of the megalopolis submerged. Thousands were evacuated to temporary shelters as electricity was switched off in scores of waterlogged neighbourhoods across greater Jakarta, home to about 30 million people, with some train lines and one of the city´s airports also shut. Indonesia´s National Disaster Mitigation Agency called on residents to leave flood-hit areas.