QUIZ 718

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. The U.S. is leading the push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new regional free-trade agreement which excludes China.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. US$40 billion Silk Road Fund — Using this fund, China planning to build a network of trade-and-transport infrastructure linking China to Central and South Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. US$50 billion Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and US$40 billion Silk Road Fund - Chinese inititatives - have the potential to eclipse the World Bank and Asian Development Bank as the dominant multilateral lending institutions in Asia.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. The FTAAP [ Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific] could become a direct competitor to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the central economic component of the Obama Administration’s rebalance to Asia.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. Flying Geese model- As one country becomes too expensive to produce a low-end product, it outsources it to others with cheaper labor.

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 717

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Lo Manthang, the capital of Mustang, is a walled city built in 1440 by the legendary warrior Ame Pal.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Padmasambhava is the founder of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. The USS Zumwalt - US futuristic new stealth destroyer.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. The Zumwalt is the U.S. Navy’s do-everything ship in many ways, it was designed with land attack in mind.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, made a final decision to support the Iranian Chabahar port project on the shores of the Arabian 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 716

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Rising temperatures breed lightning because the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere - the fuel for thunderstorms - increases exponentially as the air gets warmer.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Kafr Kana, a village near Nazareth, is probably the place where Jesus – according to the New Testament – turned water into wine.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. Sheltered by some of the world’s highest mountains, the 8000-meter peaks of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri, bordering China and the Tibetan plateau, lies the ancient “Forbidden Kingdom” of Mustang.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. Capital Lo Manthang is home to the Loba people, the original inhabitants of Mustang.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. After Nepal became a republic, and Mustang lost the status as a tributary kingdom it had held from the late eighteenth century, and became a district of Nepal.

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 715

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. By 2020, Russia will supply more natural gas to China than it supplies today to Western Europe.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Beijing has just launched the Silk Road Investment Fund, a new $40 billion fund which will focus on investments in the seven countries of Central Asia.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. In 2014, China will provide about 40% of total world growth.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. China has $11 trillion economy.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. For all its resource riches, Russia has produced very modest decreases in poverty since 1990.

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 714

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. The world’s 123 smallest economies combined produce $2.2 trillion of goods, or just a little more than 3% of world GDP, in 2012.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Only 18 countries account for 1% or more of the world’s total GDP.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. The Netherlands has the smallest GDP of that group of countries, with $770.6 billion as of 2012.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. The largest three economies in the world account for a combined 42% of the global GDP.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. The U.S. economy alone accounts for 22.5% of the world’s measured GDP.

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 713

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Of the 189 countries for which the World Bank has recent GDP data, 123 of them individually account for less than 0.1% of world GDP.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Cuba and Azerbaijan led the “0.1% club” with GDP’s of $68 billion and $67 billion respectively.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. Forty-seven countries in the 0.1% club have economies smaller than 0.01% — or 1/1000th — of world GDP.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. Rwanda leads the 0.01%, with a $7.1 billion GDP.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has the smallest measured national GDP, at $40 million.

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 712

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. As of 2013, Brazil’s GDP was just over $3 trillion, making it the seventh-largest in the world.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Brazil’s economy surpassed eighth-ranked France’s ($2.53 trillion, in 2013) for the first time in 2007.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. In 2007, the gap between the Brazilian and French economies was about $20 billion.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. The only countries with larger economies than Brazil are the United States ($16.8 trillion), China ($16.1 trillion), India ($6.8 trillion), Japan ($4.7 trillion), Germany ($3.5 trillion) and Russia ($3.5 trillion).

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. Brazil has two key economic advantages over France (and, for that matter, most other countries) — land and people.

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 711

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Currently, India’s GDP is about $10 billion less than U.S. GDP ($16.7 trillion) and Chinese GDP ($16.1 trillion).

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. While the overall size of India’s economy has grown almost seven-fold since 1990, its per capita GDP has risen less spectacularly.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. In 2013, India’s per capita GDP was $5,450, the lowest by far of the five largest emerging markets of Russia ($24,300), Brazil ($15,000), China ($11,900) and Indonesia ($9,600).

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. India’s per capita GDP in 2013 was just a little more than four times what it was in 1990 ($1,200).

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. On October 26, 2014, Brazil’s incumbent President Dilma Rousseff — the first woman to hold that office — won re-election to a second four-year term.

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 710

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. In 1990, the year before India began a program of economic liberalization, its economy was the seventh-largest in the world.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. By 2000, India had moved ahead of France and Italy to become the fifth-largest economy in the world.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. By 2003, India surpassed Germany as the world’s fourth-largest economy.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. In 2008, India moved into its current spot by moving ahead of Japan to become the world’s third-largest economy.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. By 2013, the Indian economy (at $6.8 trillion) was 45% larger than the Japanese economy ($4.7 trillion).

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 709

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. ICICI Bank, India’s largest private sector bank, has launched EMI (equated monthly installments) facility on debit cards.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. TCS, Bharti Enterprises pledge Rs. 100 crore each for ‘Clean India’ campaign.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. Kristof Van Hout — the tallest professional football player in the world.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. India signs MoU with Czech Republic to develop infra for semi high-speed trains.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. Salman Rushdie gets Denmark's top literature award - The HC Andersen Literature Award.

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 708

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. A spacecraft is rotated in space to induce artificial gravity.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. At the center of every black hole is an extremely dense, massive, compact star called a neutron star.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. Spinning neutron stars, that are dense enough, produce spinning black holes.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. Spinning black holes warp the space around them (called frame dragging) differently than stationary black holes.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. Frame dragging affects the way a black hole looks and distort the space and, more importantly, the spacetime around it.

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 707

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. The Project Tango tablet is geared towards professional developers interested in 3D sensing.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Project Tango tablet development kit is developed by Google.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. Project Tango tablet development kit contains custom hardware and software that allow it to track 3D motion and capture geometry of the environment at the same time.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. The three greatest wines of Italy all begin with the letter ‘B’: Barolo, Brunello & Barbaresco.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. Tuscany or Toscana in Italian, known for olive oil and the best steak in Italy.

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 706

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Google is investing in a NASA-owned airfield to expand research into space exploration and robotics.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Planetary Ventures, an offshoot of Google, will take over management of the Moffett Federal Airfield.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. As per Google's agreement with NASA regarding the leased airfield, the agreement will provide it with $1.16bn (£731m) in rent over the initial 60-year lease term.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. As per Google's agreement with NASA regarding the leased airfield, Hangar One, an important landmark in Silicon Valleywhich was built in 1933, is one of the world's largest free-standing structures.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. Nasa-owned airfield [previously maintained by Nasa's Ames Research Center], which Google has taken for lease, is located 4 miles from Google's Mountain View headquarters.

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