Fortnightly Quiz-279

1 Which country has the largest number - more than 100 million — of malnourished children?

2 Name Pakistan’s longest range ballistic missile with a range of 2000 km.

3 Which state has become home to the country’s largest information technology park ‘Tejaswini’?

4 Name the country’s domestic and international air carriers that will be merged.

5 Which are the only two tropical islands in the world inhabited by wild populations of orangutans, facing a serious threat from habitat loss, illegal logging, fires and poaching?

6 Which country, the world’s largest coal producer and consumer, plans to shift 1 million people from mining areas and shanty towns sinking due to
intensified mining?

7 Which Indian city is popularly known as Vizag?

8 Name the mangrove swamp that has the largest population of tigers in the wild.

9 Which Asian country recently ushered in the ‘Year of the Golden Pig’, which comes every 60 years and is believed to bring good fortune?

10 Which tennis grand slam tournament has decided to give equal prize money to women and men players from this year?

11 Name the writer of the book ‘Sourav Ganguly —The Maharaja of Cricket’.

12 What is the highest score by an Australian in a one-day international cricket match?

13 Name the Indian bowler who claimed the first-ever hat-trick — all clean-bowled — in cricket World Cup.

14 Which country enters the cricket World Cup this year as the number one ranked team?

15 Which country recently handed down Australia its first-ever 10-wicket defeat in limited overs cricket?

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Winners of quiz 278: The first prize by draw of lots goes to Abhinav Bakshi, VII-C, Army School, 90, Alexanandra Road, Ambala Cantt-133001. Second: Ruchi Gupta, IX, Our Lady of Fatima Convent School, Patiala-147003. Third: Manish Arora, 9th, Govt Higher Secondary School, Haibowal Kalan, Ludhiana-141001.

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