General Knowledge
Current US Secretary of State
Anthony Blinken
Who won women's T20 world cup this year
NZ
Who is the Indian with the most Academy Awards?
A R Rehman
The word "Diwali" originated from the term " Deepavali" in Sanskrit. What does it literally mean?
Row of lights
What is Apple's latest AI chip called ?
M5
(Apple's most advanced chip to date, with a Neural Engine that can perform 38 trillion operations per second.)
How many timezones are there in Russia?
11
Who is the first and only bowler in the world who has taken a wicket off the zeroth (0th) ball in international cricket?
Who is Virat Kohli?
This Spielberg Holocaust film was based on a book by Thomas Keneally.
What is Schindler’s List?
Jack is looking at Anne. Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, George is not, and we don’t know if Anne is married. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?
Yes
What English man was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, and is largely considered the originator of the concept of a digital programmable computer?
Charles Babbage
What country has the most islands in the world?
Sweden(over 220000)
How many gold medals has India won at Olympics?
10
Who is the music composer of the movie series Bahubali?
MM Keervani
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp
What innovative radio company developed the Music Genome Project to classify music by mirroring mathematical techniques for gene sequencing within human DNA?
Pandora
How many moons does Jupiter have?(Give or take 3)
95
Who scored the “Hand of God” goal in the 1986 Football/Soccer World Cup?
Diego Maradona
Guess the movie
"Zindagi jeene ke do hi tarike hote hai – ek jo ho raha hai hone do, bardaasht karte jao… Ya phir zimmedari uthao usse badalne ki."
Rang De Basanti
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
Corn
James Webb Space Telescope recently found CO2 and Methane on THIS planet, making it a very likely candidate for habitable planet already having life. Name the planet
K2-18b
This planet is a sub-Neptune, about 2.6 times the radius of Earth and 8.6 times more massive. It orbits the red dwarf K2-18, which is located about 124 light-years away from Earth.
What is Yoshinori Ohsumi known for?
Won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries about autophagy.
(Intermittent fasting)
The first official international cricket match was held in 1844 between which two nations?
USA and Canada
Name the 3 movies, that have won maximum number of academy awards.No credit for partially correct answer
11 awards each for:
Ben-hur
Titanic
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
How many squares are in a chessboard?
204 squares total 64 1x1 squares 49 2x2 squares 36 3x3 squares 25 4x4 squares 16 5x5 squares 9 6x6 squares 4 7x7 squares 1 8x8 squares
J Hopfield and G Hinton got 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics, for developing these using concepts in physics
Artificial Neural Networks / NNs/ ML