QUIZ 699

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Obesity is a known risk factor for cancer, particularly midriff fat.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Researchers found that a unit increase in UK skirt size every 10 years (for example from 12 to 14) between 25 and post-menopausal age was linked to a 33 per cent increased risk of breast cancer.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. High melatonin levels at night put breast cancer cells to 'sleep' by turning off key growth mechanisms.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. The BlackBerry smartphone, pioneered in 1999, changed the culture by allowing on-the-go business people to access wireless email.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. BlackBerry has launched a new smartphone called PASSPORT.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

Best of luck!

Answers

1 – A, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – A, 5 – A

QUIZ 698

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Chemical signals - called TNF alpha -  produced by a type of immune cell, called macrophages, also act as a survival signal for melanoma cells.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer with around 13,300 people diagnosed in the UK each year.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. Melanoma is particularly difficult to treat as many patients develop resistance to standard treatment within a few years.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. "Liar's Dice" has been chosen as India's official Oscar entry for the best foreign language film category.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. Actress Geetanjali Thapa, who plays the protagonist in "Liar's Dice", won the National Award for best actress for her performance in "Liar's Dice".

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

Best of luck!

Answers

1 – A, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – A, 5 – A

QUIZ 697

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. India’s Mars Orbiter Mission, Mangalyaan, entered the orbit of the Mars on Wednesday at the end of a 300-day voyage.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) became only the fourth agency—after those of the US, Russia and Europe—to either send a successful probe to Mars or make a landing on it.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. Mangalyaan, the low-cost spacecraft will now stay in the Martian orbit for six months, moving along an elliptical path as it gathers scientific data about the Red Planet.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. Mangalyaan, the orbiter is carrying five scientific payloads weighing a total of 15kg, which will observe the Martian surface, atmosphere and exosphere extending up to 80,000km.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. China’s only attempt to reach Mars, in 2011, was a failure.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

Best of luck!

Answers

1 – A, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – A, 5 – A

QUIZ 696

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Afghanistan's election commission declared former finance minister Ashraf Ghani as the war-ravaged country's president-elect.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Bill Gates is worth an astounding $81.6 billion.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the 'Gen Next' politician of Pakistan, has said that his Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would get back entire Kashmir from India.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. The tankers that move through Indian Ocean carry 80 percent of China's oil, 65 percent of India's and 60 percent of Japan's, making those waters crucially important to three of Asia's great powers.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. Xi's (Chinese President) latest initiative is the maritime Silk Road, a series of agreements that would link China to Europe by sea.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

Best of luck!

Answers

1 – A, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – A, 5 – A

QUIZ 695

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Peng Liyuan, who was a pop star, is Chinese first lady.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. ‘Invest India’ is the country’s official agency dedicated to investment promotion and facilitation.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. India had fallen to a lowly 134th rank out of 189 countries this year (three down from 2013) in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. Currently, in India, it takes 12 procedures and 27 days to start a business, 35 procedures and 168 days to get construction permits and 1,420 days to enforce contracts in India.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. Indian PM, Narendra Modi, started MAKE IN INDIA initiative which focuses on 'Sell in an country, but manufacture in India'.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

Best of luck!

Answers

1 – A, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – A, 5 – A

QUIZ 694

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. India is now the world’s third largest Internet market.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Google  is the largest digital advertising company in world.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. Google is promising to make YouTube available offline on its phones.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. Photoshop now comes with two new blur options, path and spin.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. Creative Cloud is Adobe Photoshop's cloud repository for Photoshop features.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

Best of luck!

Answers

1 – A, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – A, 5 – A

QUIZ 693

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. VIEs are based on contracts that say an offshore entity in the Cayman Islands or another corporate haven will control a Chinese company.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Companies which want to invest in restricted sectors of China's economy, they have to get comfortable with the VIE structure.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. In China, November 11 was proclaimed "Singles' Day" because of the number of ones in the date.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. China had 564 million Internet users at the end of 2013 and 180 million single people.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. Chinese shoppers have spent a record $ 5.7 billion on 'Singles Day' festival created by e-tailers for loveless to console themselves with retail therapy.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

Best of luck!

Answers

1 – A, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – A, 5 – A

QUIZ 692

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Scotland said "no" to a plan to end their 307-year union with England.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. UM Renegade Commando, aggressively prices at 1.25 lakh, is from UM India Two Wheelers, an American company.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. ISIS means Islamic State.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4.  George W Bush, ex-US President, branded Iran as "an axis of evil", prompting outrage in Tehran.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. Omar Gonzalez, is the name of the person who has recently intruded into White House.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

Best of luck!

Answers

1 – A, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – A, 5 – A

QUIZ 691

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Big Data is all about information you have internally or drawn from external sources such as internet, and combining and analysing them to get valuable insights.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Harvard Business Review has termed Data Scientists to be "sexiest career of the 21st Century."

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes, or a billion terabytes.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. The ultracompact galaxy, named M60-UCD1, is one of its kind because it is the smallest galaxy known to contain such a massive light-sucking black hole at its centre.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. The Milky Way is 500 times larger and more than 1,000 times heavier than the dwarf galaxy M60-UCD1.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

Best of luck!

Answers

1 – A, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – A, 5 – A

QUIZ 690

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Scotland's "No" campaign focused on the economic dangers of independence, in particular warning of uncertainty over the currency. 

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp ( ONGC)'s major oil discovery in the Bay of Bengal will start production in 2019.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. Launched in 2001, the six-member Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) includes China, Russia, and central Asian nations (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan).

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. Data scientists — the term was coined in 2008 by DJ Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. SmartEyeglass is Sony's Google Glass.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

Best of luck!

Answers

1 – A, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – A, 5 – A

QUIZ 689

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Czech Republic consumes more beer per capita than anywhere else in the world.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Czech Republic is the birth place of pilsner, a lager beer with a strong hop flavour, originally brewed at Pilsen (Plzeň).

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. Czech beer has been brewed since 993 AD.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. In Prague, beer is cheaper than bottled water.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. Pilsener Urquell, is Czech Republic's most famous beer.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

Best of luck!

Answers

1 – A, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – A, 5 – A

QUIZ 688

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Shashank Ghosh's Khoobsurat presents us with Fawad Afzal Khan, who plays a character that exists only for the purpose of being eye candy, is a Pakistani artist.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. U Srinivas, who is known as Mandolin maestro and recently died at the age of 45, is from a small town called Palakol in Andhra Pradesh, India.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba, is China's richest man with a net worth of $21.8 billion.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba, management philosophy is an eclectic mix of Tai Chi, Taoism, and Buddhism.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. The recent latest Chinese incursion into India is into Chumar, Jammu and Kashmir’s Ladakh region.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

Best of luck!

Answers

1 – A, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – A, 5 – A

QUIZ 687

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Shooting World No.5 Jitu Rai (India) won first gold medal in the 17th Asian Games at the Ongnyeon International Shooting Range in Incheon, South Korea.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. The alliance between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena in Maharastra is 25-year-old.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. Alibaba has become by far the dominant e-commerce company in China, a country with the world's greatest number of Internet users, in only 15 years.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. Alex Salmond is the main person behind the referendum for Scottish independence.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. Chinese Internet giant Alibaba's founder is Jack Ma.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

Best of luck!

Answers

1 – A, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – A, 5 – A