This is a quiz all from the newspapers. But forgive me for the length of the questions. The next quiz will have questions of lesser length. Have fun :):):)

1. By –
Saksham Koul

2.  A Tokyo hotel has set up crying rooms specifically
for women – complete with luxury tissues and a
selection of ‘girly’ films.
 The X hotel in the ward of Shinjuku said the rooms
are designed to allow female guests to ‘cry
heartily’ in comfort.
 It’s part of an effort to help them to de-stress or
overcome any emotional problems that may be
plaguing them, the hotel said.
 They can also choose from a selection of manga
comic books or films that tend to make viewers cry,
including Forrest Gump and the South Korean film
A Moment to Remember.
 Identify the hotel (X).

3.  The Mitsui Garden Yotsuya Hotel

4.  A futuristic-looking Electric Vehicle that can
erect the driver’s cabin up to 3 meters (9.8
feet) high while it’s still driving on the road.
It’s not fast, but has a decent range and
comes in handy in situations that involve
large crowds, especially for police forces
that need to get a better view. In fact, that
is the exact reason the French authorities
are currently considering buying one.
 Sold as the first electric vehicle in the world
with a piloting post and telescopic
observation, X was recently used for
surveillance at a carnival close to Paris.
 Picture on next slide …

6.  Iris Viseo

7.  What is the name of the parliament of
Israel?

8.  Knesset

9.  X is a Chinese micro blogging website.
Akin to a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook,
it is one of the most popular sites in
China, in use by well over 30% of Internet
users, with a market penetration similar to
the United States' Twitter. It was
launched on 14 August 2009, and has
503 million registered users as of
December 2012. About 100 million
messages are posted each day on X.
 PM Narendra Modi has recently made
his account on the website.
 Logo on next slide…

11.  Sina Weibo

12.  Chennai-born X has been sworn-in as a criminal court
judge in New York by Mayor Bill de Blasio, becoming the
first India-born woman to be appointed a judge in New
York City.
 X, 43, who had migrated to the U.S. from Chennai as a
teenager, previously worked with the Richmond County
District Attorney’s Office for her entire career in several
bureaus including Criminal Court, Narcotics, Supreme
Court, and the Sex Crimes Special Victims Bureau, where
she last served as Deputy Chief.
 Identify X.

13.  Raja Rajeswari

14.  She has been recently elected as the
youngest MP of the House of Commons,
since the 17th century.
 She ousted Labour Party’s Alexander
Douglas, and still has an exam to go at
her college.
 Identify her.

15.  Mhairi Black, 21

16.  Name the new political party formed by
former Bihar CM Jitan Ram Manjhi.

17.  Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM)

18.  In April 1865 while serving as lieutenant colonel of the
Confederate Army's 12th Cavalry Regiment, Georgia State
Guard, John Pemberton was wounded in the Battle of
Columbus, Georgia. He was slashed across the chest by a
saber, and like many wounded veterans, he became
addicted to the morphine used to ease the pain. He was a
pharmacist and as such searched for a cure for his addiction.
In 1866, in Columbus, Georgia, he started working on painkillers
that would serve as opium-free alternatives to morphine. His
first was "Dr. Tuggle's Compound Syrup of Globe Flower.” He
next began experimenting with X and X wines, eventually
creating his own version of Vin Mariani, containing Y nut and
damiana, which he called Pemberton's French Wine X.
According to XY historian Phil Mooney, Pemberton's world-
famous soda was "created in Columbus, Georgia and carried
to Atlanta.”
 Identify XY, which is very popular in the modern world.

19.  Coca-Cola
John
Pemberton,
inventor of
Coca-Cola

20.  Why are these two men famous?

21.  Peter Habeler and Reinhold Messner are
the first ones to climb the Mt. Everest
without supplemental oxygen.
 On 8 May 1978, Reinhold Messner stood
with Peter Habeler on the summit of Mt.
Everest.

22.  X recounted that the date of his discovery of Y was
on the morning of Friday, September 28, 1928. The
traditional version of this story describes the
discovery as a fortuitous accident: in his laboratory
in the basement of St Mary's Hospital in London
(now part of Imperial College), X noticed a Petri
dish containing Staphylococcus that had been
mistakenly left open, was contaminated by blue-
green mould from an open window, which formed
a visible growth. There was a halo of inhibited
bacterial growth around the mould. X concluded
that the mould released a substance that
repressed the growth and caused lysing of the
bacteria.
 Identify X and Y.

23.  X – Alexander Fleming
 Y - Penicillin

24.  Who is the person to the right?

25.  2015 National Geographic Bee
champion Karan Menon, 14, of New
Jersey celebrates his win with Bee
moderator and award-winning journalist
Soledad O’Brien at National Geographic
headquarters in Washington, D.C., on
May 13.

26.  Which bird has been recently selected
as the national bird of UK?

27.  Robin

28.  Neonatal expert X became probably
the oldest person in the world to get their
PhD, after the University of Hamburg
awarded her the title on Wednesday –
77 years after finishing her thesis, which
was earlier denied to her by the Nazis.

29.  Ingeborg Syllm- Rapoport, 102

30.  X was convicted of participating in the Boston
Marathon bombings of April 15, 2013 along with his
brother Tamerlan. The motivation for the bombings
was apparently political in nature. He reportedly
"told the FBI that [he and his brother] were angry
about the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the
killing of Muslims there.” CBS senior correspondent
John Miller, later reported X’s handwritten note
inside the boat where he lay bleeding stated, "The
[Boston] bombings were in retribution for the U.S.
crimes in places like Iraq and Afghanistan [and]
that the victims of the Boston bombing were
collateral damage, in the same way innocent
victims have been collateral damage in U.S. wars
around the world.“
 He is the first terrorist to be arrested after the 9/11
attacks in the US. Identify X. Pic on next slide…

32.  Dzhokhar Anzorovich "Jahar" Tsarnaev, or
Dzokhar Tsarnaev
 His brother – Tamerlan Tsarnaev

33.  X was born on 2 December 1947 in a Gaud Saraswat
Brahmin (GSB) family in Mangalore, Karnataka. His
family hailed from Kundapur in Karnataka. His
mother-tongue is Konkani and he also speaks
Kannada, Hindi and English fluently. He spent most of
his early years in Mangalore, and attended a
Kannada-medium government school. After
matriculation, he completed his PUC (Pre-University),
which at that time was only one year in length, at St.
Aloysius College. After completing his PUC, he joined
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
(known at that time as Karnataka Regional
Engineering College) for a Bachelors Degree in
Mechanical Engineering. After graduating from NIT
Surathkal in 1969, he joined the Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) for a Post
Graduate Diploma in Management.
 Identify X (very popular these days!)

34.  Kundapur Vaman Kamath, or KV
Kamath.
 Recently appointed president of the
BRICS bank.

35.  ‘ Let Truth Prevail ‘ is the tagline of which
company?

36.  The Times of India

37.  This is a list of some of the books X was
reading while his stay at Y, Pakistan :-
1. Necessary Illusions : Thought Control in
Democratic Societies
2. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
3. Popular Science Magazine
4. Bloodlines of the Illuminati
5. Oxford History of Modern War
 This suggests that X was pretty interested
to know and read about himself.
 Identify X.

38.  X – Osama Bin Laden
 Y – Abbottabad, Pakistan

39.  In a goodwill gesture, Pakistan has sent a
pitcher of holy water from the ancient
Katas raj temple in Chakwal District of
Punjab to BJP veteran X, who had in 2005
visited the temple for launch of restoration
work.
 The pitcher carrying the holy water from
the ‘Amar kund’ (holy pond) of the temple
was sent to X by Pakistan high
commissioner Abdul Basit.
 Identify the BJP veteran.

40.  LK Advani