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Current Affairs General knowledge

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In October, the World Health Organization (WHO) approved a vaccine for which deadly disease transmitted by mosquitoes?

  1. Malaria

  2. Measles

  3. Meningitis

  4. Mumps


Correct Option: A

What did billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos both do this year?

  1. Pledged to solve world poverty

  2. Travelled into space with their own space companies

  3. Funded COVID vaccination programmes

  4. Invented zero emission aeroplanes


Correct Option: B

In August, what fell on Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time ever known?

  1. Snow

  2. Meteorites

  3. Rain

  4. Hail


Correct Option: C

Which country did the Taliban take control of on 15 August?

  1. Azerbaijan

  2. Afghanistan

  3. Algeria

  4. Argentina


Correct Option: B

Popular tourist city Venice banned which water transport from their city centre on 1 August this year?

  1. Cruise ships

  2. Gondolas

  3. Jet skis

  4. Pedalos


Correct Option: A

In May, the World Health Organization (WHO) decided to name COVID variants of concern after letters in which alphabet?

  1. Greek

  2. Roman

  3. Morse code

  4. NATO phonetic alphabet


Correct Option: A

The 3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’ of Aten has been discovered in which country?

  1. Australia

  2. Britain

  3. Egypt

  4. Greece


Correct Option: C

What got stuck in the Suez Canal for a week in March?

  1. HMS Queen Elizabeth

  2. A blue whale

  3. The Ever Given container ship

  4. A navy submarine


Correct Option: C

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, celebrated which birthday in January this year?

  1. 5th

  2. 10th

  3. 20th

  4. 50th


Correct Option: C

What is the name of the 46th president of the USA who was officially sworn into office on 20 January this year?

  1. Joe Biden

  2. George Washington

  3. Barack Obama

  4. Donald Trump


Correct Option: A
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