General Knowledge

Option: D
Explanation :Now that the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 is over with England emerging as Champions, the next big event is the ICC T20 World Cup in Australia in 2020. It will be played from 18th October to 15th November.
Cricket’s governing body has announced the schedule and ticket prices for the fixtures. Ticket prices for kids start from 5 Australian Dollars (AUD) while for adults, the tickets will be available starting from AU$20 for the first round and Super 12 stage fixtures.
Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will play the group stage along with 6 other qualifier teams and 4 out of these 8 teams will make it to the Super 12 stage of the World Cup.

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Option: C
Explanation :In a bid to minimize the risks encumbering the miners Ali Gul a Computer Engineering graduate of Balochistan University of Information Technology Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS) got an idea of an ‘eye smart helmet’.
The ‘eye smart helmet’ utilizes modern technology to monitor the mine’s conditions, explosion risks, amount of toxic gases, and the health vitals of workers in a particular mine. Ali Gul stated in his tweet that the device is a need of the hour and should be installed into the operating mines immediately.
Ali developed the device with the help of two other individuals, Muhammad Azeem, an entrepreneurship and business operations expert, and Muhammad Jawad, a chartered accountant well-versed in finance modeling, operations, investments, and corporate affairs.

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Option: A
Explanation : A 10-year-old girl from Pakistan Selena Khawaja who is known as the Mountain Princess has successfully scaled Spantik Peak on Wednesday-17-July-2019. By doing so she has become the youngest ever mountaineer to summit a 7000m.
The prodigy already holds the record of summiting 5,000 and 6,000-meter peaks. In June this year, she scaled Mingli Sar (6050m) whereas in 2018 she made headlines when she climbed 5,765-metre Quz Sar Peak. No person younger than her has achieved these milestones ever in mountaineering history.
The young mountaineer has now set her eyes on (Broad Peak 8,047 meters) and if she is able to successfully scale the peak, she will be youngest to climb an 8000m. Earlier, she had said that she aspires to summit the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest (8,848 meters) in 2019.

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Option: A
Explanation : Namira Salim the first Pakistani to reach the North and South Pole will soon become the first Pakistani to travel into space as well.
Talking to the Orlando Sentinel at the Apollo 11 mission’s 50th anniversary, she said that she is inspired to do more. “So first of all, I think I should go as far as possible on Earth before I break the orbit,” she says.
44-year-old Salim has a $200,000 ticket for the suborbital flight of Virgin Galactic, a British spaceflight company. She is one of the founding members of famous billionaire Richard Branson’s space tourism company.

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Option: C
Explanation :Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles.

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Option: A
Explanation :The man who discovered some of the human blood types that we know today was an Austrian, Karl Landsteiner. His work was influenced by an article on blood typing in goats, which was written by Paul Ehrlich and appeared in the ‘Berliner klinische Wechenschrift’ in 1900.
Landsteiner discovered the common blood types A, B and O (which he referred to as A, B and C) in 1901, and Adriano Sturli and Alfred von Decastello – who were working under Landsteiner – discovered type AB a year later in 1902. Landsteiner was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work.

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Option: D
Explanation :Dr. Hans von Ohain and Sir Frank Whittle are both recognized as being the co-inventors of the jet engine as we know it today, even though each worked separately and knew nothing of the other’s work.
While Von Ohain is considered the designer of the first operational turbojet engine, Whittle was first to register a patent for his schematics of a prototype, in 1930. Von Ohain obtained a patent for his prototype in 1936, and his jet was the first to fly in 1939. Whittle’s took off for the first time in 1941. While von Ohain and Whittle may be the acknowledged fathers of modern jet engines,

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Option: C
Explanation :Marcian Edward “Ted” Hoff Jr. (born October 28, 1937 in Rochester, New York) is one of the inventors of the microprocessor.

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Option: A
Explanation :Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as “the father of the hydrogen bomb”, although he did not care for the title. He made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy and surface physics.

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Option: B
Explanation :Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming. People began using it to treat infections in 1942. There are several enhanced penicillin families which are effective against additional bacteria; these include the antistaphylococcal penicillins, aminopenicillins and the antipseudomonal penicillins. They are derived from Penicillium fungi.

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