World Affairs Quiz

World Affairs Quiz for High School Students

• When did the current Russia-Ukrania war start?
• Who is the current Prime Minister of Israel?
• When did the First World War start?
• During the Second World War who was the Prime Minister of Britain?
• Who is the current Head of the World Health Organization?
• What is the full form of COVID?
• Which president refused America’s offer of help to evacuate him from his war-torn country?
• What is the full form of USSR?
• Which is the longest surviving monarchy in the world?
• Which basketball player died in an air crash?
• Which President of America abolished slavery?
• The term ‘peristroika’ is associated with which Russian leader?
• Which nuclear facility in Japan was damaged during an earthquake in Japan?
• What is the name of the crown prince of Brunei Darussalam?
• How many states are there in the United States of America?
• How many states are there in India?
• How many countries are there in the world?
• Name 9 vaccines that have been approved against Covid 19.
• What is the full form of ASEAN?
• What is the national flower of Ukraine?
• Which are the countries that comprise the European Union?
• How many astronauts are staying in the International Space Station currently as of March 2022?
• What is the full form of CHOGM?
• What is the full form of UNICEF?
• Where will the 2022 football world cup be hosted?
• Who is the inventor of wikileaks?
• Who received the Nobel peace prize in 2021?
• Who is the Hollywood actor who has won the maximum number of Oscar awards till date, as of 2022?
• Which are the countries in the Borneo Island?
• Which countries made up the Axis countries in the Second World War?
• Which two countries fought in the Kargil war?
• What is the name of the lady chancellor of Germany who was replaced recently?
• On what date and day were the twin towers in America destroyed?
• Why was Pluto taken out of the list of sun’s planets?
• What was the epicenter of the tsunami of 2004?
• What is known as the Silk Road?
• Who is the current Prime Minister of Thailand?
• What is the name of the current president of Venezuala?
• What is the tallest building in the world?
• What is the deepest place known to man?
• Who wrote the books 1984?
• What is the capital of Brunei?

Answer Key

• 24TH February 2022
• Naftali Bennett
• 28 July 1914
• Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
• Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
• Corona virus disease
• Volodymyr Zelensky.
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• Queen Elizabeth II
• Kobe Briant
• Abraham Lincoln
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
• Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah bin Hassanal Bolkiah
• 50 states
• 28 states
• 195 countries
• As of 12 January 2022, the following vaccines are available
  1. The Pfizer/BioNTech Comirnaty vaccine
  2. The SII/COVISHIELD and AstraZeneca/AZD1222 vaccines
  3. The Janssen/Ad26.COV 2.S vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson
  4. The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA 1273)
  5. The Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine
  6. The Sinovac-CoronaVac vaccine
  7. The Bharat Biotech BBV152 COVAXIN vaccine
  8. The Covovax (NVX-CoV2373) vaccine
  9. The Nuvaxovid (NVX-CoV2373) vaccine
• Association of South East Nations
• Sunflower
• European Union Countries:
  1. Austria
  2. Belgium
  3. Bulgaria
  4. Croatia
  5. Cyprus
  6. Czechia
  7. Denmark
  8. Estonia
  9. Finland
  10. France
  11. Germany
  12. Greece
  13. Hungary
  14. Ireland
  15. Italy
  16. Latvia
  17. Lithuania
  18. Luxembourg
  19. Malta
  20. Netherlands
  21. Poland
  22. Portugal
  23. Romania
  24. Slovakia
  25. Slovenia
  26. Spain
  27. Sweden
• Seven
• Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
• United Nations Children's Fund
• Qatar
• Julian Assange
• Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov
• Katharine Hepburn
• Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei
• Germany, Italy, Japan
• India and Pakistan
• Angela Merkel
• Tuesday, September 11, 2001
• Too small to be classed as a planet
• Off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia
• The Silk Road was a network of trade routes connecting China and the Far East with the Middle East and Europe
• Prayut Chan-o-cha
• Nicolás Maduro Moros
• Burj Khalifa.
• Mariana Trench
• George Orwell
• Bandar Seri Begawan