By –Saksham Koul

QUESTION 1 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).

ANSWER

The Mitsui Garden Yotsuya Hotel

QUESTION 2 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 …

ANSWER

Iris Viseo

QUESTION 3 What is the name of the parliament of

Israel?

ANSWER

Knesset

QUESTION 4 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…

ANSWER

Sina Weibo

QUESTION 5 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.

ANSWER

Raja Rajeswari

QUESTION 6 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.

ANSWER

Mhairi Black, 21

QUESTION 7

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

ANSWER

Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM)

QUESTION 8 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.

ANSWER

Coca-Cola

John Pemberton, inventor of Coca-Cola

QUESTION 9 Why are these two men famous?

ANSWER 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.

QUESTION 10 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.

ANSWER

X – Alexander Fleming Y - Penicillin

QUESTION 11 Who is the person to the right?

ANSWER

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.

QUESTION 12

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

ANSWER

Robin

QUESTION 13 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.

ANSWER

Ingeborg Syllm- Rapoport, 102

QUESTION 14 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…

ANSWER

Dzhokhar Anzorovich "Jahar" Tsarnaev, or Dzokhar Tsarnaev

His brother – Tamerlan Tsarnaev

QUESTION 15 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!)

ANSWER

Kundapur Vaman Kamath, or KV Kamath.

Recently appointed president of the BRICS bank.

QUESTION 16

‘ Let Truth Prevail ‘ is the tagline of which company?

ANSWER

The Times of India

QUESTION 17 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 Societies2. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers3. Popular Science Magazine4. Bloodlines of the Illuminati5. Oxford History of Modern War This suggests that X was pretty interested

to know and read about himself. Identify X.

ANSWER

X – Osama Bin Laden Y – Abbottabad, Pakistan

QUESTION 18 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.

ANSWER

LK Advani