1. A well-known anti-nuclear activist, the person in picture (first slide) is also AAP’s candidate from Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu. Identify him.
2. The Path to Power , Downing Street Years and Statecraft: Strategies for a changing world are books written by which former British Prime Minister whose first death anniversary falls on April 8.
3. Polish jurist Raphael Lemkin is credited with coining which term that is used today in the context of mass killings.
4. Which widely-used sporting technology was developed in Roke Manor Research Ltd., in the United Kingdom by Dr. Paul Hawkins and his team in 1999?
5. In August last year, the United Nations General Assembly approved to observe April 6 every year as the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace. Why was April 6 chosen?
Answers
1. S. P. Udayakumar. He is famous for the protests he leads against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamilnadu.
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Genocide. He coined the word from the Greek word genos meaning ‘race’ and the Latin word cide meaning ‘killing’.
4. Hawk-eye
5. It was the day the modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece in 1896.
Your turn!
The actress in picture (slide 2) is connected to question 2 of this quiz. Can you identify her and the connect? Send your responses to anjana.k@thehindu.co.in [Subject: Quiz].
