World Current Affairs MCQs

Which Planet’s moon is drifting away faster than expected?

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Which Planet’s moon is drifting away faster than expected?A. Earth
B. Jupiter
C. Saturn
D. Neptune

Titan Is Drifting Away From Saturn 100 Times Faster Than Scientists Expected. Saturn’s Moon Titan Drifting Away Faster Than Previously Thought. Larger than the planet Mercury, huge moon Titan is seen here as it orbits Saturn.
astronomers have found something really surprising: Titan’s outward migration is faster than expected – about 100 times faster.
This suggests that the peculiar moon formed much closer to the planet during the birth of the Solar System 4.5 billion years ago, and in the intervening years has migrated out to a distance of around 1.2 million kilometres (746,000 miles) from the planet.

 

Which venue was originally scheduled for the 46th G-7 summit 2020, that has been postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic?

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Which venue was originally scheduled for the 46th G-7 summit 2020, that has been postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic?A. France
B. United States
C. Germany
D. Italy

G7 is an association of seven of the world’s largest economies namely the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan. Previously it included Russia and was called the G-8.
The 46th G7 summit was originally scheduled to be held in the month of June 2020, at Camp David, United States. The US President Donald Trump recently announced that he is postponing the 46th summit to September or November. He also suggested to expand the G7 bloc to include India, Australia, South Korea and Russia.

 

The developers of which country has developed the world’s 1st digital contact tracing app utilizing the Exposure Notification API of Apple and Google.

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The developers of which country has developed the world’s 1st digital contact tracing app utilizing the Exposure Notification API of Apple and Google.A. United States
B. Switzerland
C. Germany
D. Italy

The world’s first contact-tracing app built on the backbone of the API jointly developed by Google and Apple has launched as a large-scale pilot in Switzerland. Dubbed SwissCovid, the tool can now be downloaded by several thousand users that have been designated as belonging to “pilot populations”, which include the army and some hospital workers.
SwissCovid is designed to quickly track and warn users who have been in prolonged contact with somebody who has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus in an effort to control the spread of the disease. Sign-up is voluntary, and it is expected that the app will be available to the wider public by mid-June, subject to the Swiss Parliament giving the tool the green light.