Weekly Quiz on Current Affairs!

1. The Week That Was
By : Amritendu Dey
Mechanical
3rd year

2. Q1. Which city has become the first
city to get all its power from
Renewable Energy?

3. Vermont

4. Q2. On Sept. 10, President Obama
authorized a major expansion of
the military campaign against
rampaging _________ militants in
the Middle East, including
American airstrikes in Syria and the
deployment of 475 more military
advisers to Iraq.

5. Sunni
In a speech to the nation from the State Floor of
the White House, Mr. Obama said the United
States was recruiting a global coalition to
“degrade and ultimately destroy” the militants,
known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. He
warned that “eradicating a cancer” like ISIS was
a long-term challenge that would put some
American troops at risk. Nearly 40 countries
have agreed to be in the coalition, including 10
Arab states.

6. Not For Pro’s :
Q3. Apple on Sept. 9 introduced a
highly anticipated product which
combines health and fitness
monitoring with mobile computer
capabilities like maps. The
company also introduced two
iPhones with larger screens.

7. Apple Watch

8. Q4. Nasdaq listed information
technology (IT) company X on
Monday announced its decision to
acquire TriZetto Corporation for
$2.7 billion in cash.
ID X

9. All hail Ent Gawd!
Cognizant

10. Q5. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
released a video on Sept. 13 of the
third beheading of a foreign hostage, a
_________ aid worker.

11. British
The execution was a clear message to Britain, a
vital ally of the United States as it builds an
international coalition to target the militant
group, which has made stunning advances
across Syria and northern Iraq in recent months.
The video shows the aid worker, David
Cawthorne Haines, kneeling on a bare hill under
the open sky, in a landscape that appears
identical to where two American journalists
were killed by the group in back-to-back-executions
in the past month.

12. Q6. Described in her Times
obituary as a “raspy loudmouth
who pounced on America’s
obsessions with flab, face-lifts,
body hair and other blemishes of
neurotic life, including her own,”
X died on Sept. 4.

13. Hint :

14. Joan Rivers
Ms. Rivers was one of America’s first
successful female stand-up comics in
an aggressive tradition that had been
almost exclusively the province of
men, from Don Rickles to Lenny Bruce.
She was a role model and an
inspiration for tough-talking
comedians like Roseanne Barr, Sarah
Silverman and countless others.

15. Q7. The Baltimore Ravens
terminated running back X’s
contract Sept. 8 after a graphic
video emerged of him punching his
former fiancée, who is now his
wife, in a hotel elevator in Atlantic
City in February.

16. Ray Rice

17. Q8. He has became only the
second man in Premier League
history to achieve a fit of scoring a
hat-trick within 4 games.
Who is he?

18. Diego Costa.
Gracias Fabregas

19. Q9. A wave on Internet Was created by a tweet
of Leading Newspaper.
The after affect is what caught the eye of all
audience. Whose tweets we are talking about?
Twitter: "YES! I am a Woman. I have
breasts AND a cleavage! You got a
problem!!??“
"Don't talk about Woman's
Empowerment when YOU don't know
how to RESPECT Women!"she added.

20. Deepika Padukone –
OMG: Deepika Padukone's
cleavage show".

21. Q10. IndiGo has signed a $2.6
billion deal with a leading bank for
the lender to finance more than 30
new aircraft.
Name the bank?

22. Industrial and Commercial Bank of
China (ICBC)

23. Q11. Who is the newest addition to
this list of the U.N. as Messengers of
Peace including
Stevie Wonder,
Michael Douglas,
George Clooney,
Brazilian author Paulo Coelho,
Primatologist Jane Goodall and
Conductor Daniel Barenboim.

24. As if you need another reason to love
Leo
Leonardo Di Caprio

25. Q12. Players like Makhaya Ntini, Ashley Giles,
Heather Knight and Clare Connor are heading up
to 5,785m to play a proper T20 match, which
will be the highest altitude a cricket game has
been played, ever. Along with them, four
qualified ECB umpires to ensure the game meets
the requirements of the Guinness Book of
Records. The project is raising money for three
charities – Cancer Research UK, Tusk (an anti-poaching
charity), and the Rwandan Cricket
Stadium Foundation. What is the location?

26. Mount Kilimanjaro

27. Q13. X is the first club in the
history of European football to
achieve this fit of scoring 1000
goals. Y scored thousandth goal for
his club.

28. X- Real Madrid
Y- Karim Benzema.

29. Q 14. This is Coco- Cola Zero. Why is it
recently in the news?

30. Coca-Cola India launches sugar
free beverage Coca-Cola Zero

31. Q15. New Apple Inc
phones include something that
enables users to lock their devices
and wipe them clean of data if
stolen, a victory for regulators who
have long pushed the
telecommunications industry to do
more to stem theft.
What is being talked about here?

32. Default kill switch.

33. Q16. This is Jack Ma, Alibaba's founder, celebrated his company's
initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.
It’s recently in news as it looks to enter India’s blooming online
market with collaboration with which Company?

34. Snapdeal.

35. Amateur question:
Q17. Jack thought he was living every dork's
dream. After sleeping outside of an Apple Store
in Perth, Australia, he was the first to purchase
an iPhone 6 landing him an unboxing interview
on Today. The dream turned to nightmare,
though, when the poor old Jack did something
that made it go viral!
Throw some light on the incident?

36. Immediately dropped that thing on
the ground

37. Q18. “Asia is getting stronger and I have not
come here to be a passanger. I have come here
to be a part of the development of the game in
India.” The above quote was stated by a
brazilian legend after he recently joined ISL.
Who is he?

38. Zico - "White Pelé"

39. Q19. X made its debut Friday on
the New York Stock Exchange as
the largest initial public offering in
U.S history. And Y(founder) who
owns 7.8% of the company--now
stands as the richest man in China,
with an estimated net worth of
$21.9 billion. ID X and Y

40. X : Alibaba
Y: Jack Ma

41. Q20.
Identify
the
company
.

42. Syndicate Bank.

43. The End.