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#1. Manmohan Singh, who passed away on 26 December 2024, was the first sikh prime minister of India. True or false?
#2. Indian chess prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju made history on December 12, 2024, by becoming the youngest World Chess Champion. Who did he beat to win this title?
#3. World Book and Copyright Day, also known as World Book Day, is observed every year on April 23 to spread awareness about the benefits of reading books. What was the theme of World Book Day 2024?
#4. Which Indian film was selected as India’s official entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards?
#5. Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud served as the Chief Justice of India from 2022 to 2024. Who among the following is his successor?
#6. What was the name of the spacecraft on India’s first solar mission which successfully entered its final orbit around the first Sun-Earth Lagrangian point, approximately 1.5 million kilometers from the earth, on 6 January, 2024?
#7. Zakir Hussain, a four-time Grammy Award winner and tabla virtuoso who died on December 15, 2024, composed music for a well-known Malayalam movie. Which one?
#8. In 2024, which country became the fifth nation to successfully land on the Moon?
#9. Which term was selected by Oxford University Press as the Word of the Year for 2024, defined as the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental state due to overconsumption of trivial online content?
Brain rot is defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging.”
#10. Shyam Benegal, film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker, often regarded as the pioneer of parallel cinema, passed away in December 2024. Which of the following movies directed by him is inspired by the pioneering milk cooperative movement of Verghese Kurien?
#11. Which city of Kerala has been officially declared as India’s first UNESCO City of Literature in 2024?
#12. In the 2024 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup final, which team clinched their maiden title by defeating South Africa?
#13. What is the approximate orbital period of the International Space Station (how long does it take to orbit Earth once)?
The ISS travels at about 28,000 kilometers per hour. At this speed, the ISS orbits the Earth every 90 minutes, which gives the crew 16 sunrises and sunsets every day!
#14. In June 2024, which company, propelled by the surge in generative artificial intelligence, briefly surpassed Microsoft and Apple to become the world’s most valuable public company?
#15. Which country developed the world’s first wooden satellite, named LignoSat, designed to burn upon re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere?
The researchers found that honoki, a kind of magnolia tree native in Japan and traditionally used for sword sheaths, is most suited for spacecraft, after a 10-month experiment aboard the International Space Station.
LignoSat is made of honoki, using a traditional Japanese crafts technique without screws or glue.
Once deployed, LignoSat will stay in the orbit for six months, with the electronic components onboard measuring how wood endures the extreme environment of space, where temperatures fluctuate from -100 to 100 degrees Celsius every 45 minutes as it orbits from darkness to sunlight.