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#80 #2016 Q) He was Under-12 National Chess Champion and represented India at the Asian Youth Chess Championship and at the World Youth Chess Championship in Greece. His Profile looks like below on FIDE's Official Website . Name him. Ans: Cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal

#79 #2016 Q) X was the first player to score 2000 runs in T20 Internationals and the only player till now to score 2500 runs in T20 Internationals. Id X ? Ans: X is Charlotte Edwards (England) , who announced retirement from International cricket today.

#78 #2016 Q) On 5th May 2016, The Indian Super League’s (ISL) Regulatory Commission fined FC Goa Rs 11 crore and banned its owners Dattaraj Salgaocar for three years and Srinivas Dempo for two years respectively on disciplinary grounds in the ISL 2015 final controversy . Now my question is which former cricketer was the member of this Regulatory Commission ? Ans: Former Indian Wicket-keeper Kiran More .

#77 #2016 Q) How can you connect a Diversity Advisory Council of Microsoft which started first as an e-mail community to initiate dialogues and the following image. Ans:  Grace Hopper . Known as "Amazing Grace" , she invented the first compiler for a computer programming language. Women at Microsoft Corporation formed a Diversity Advisory Council comprising of only women and named it Hoppers and established a scholarship in her honor. Hoppers has over 3000 members worldwide. Amazing Grace is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( In image ).

#76 #2016 Q) The place name means "water springs" in Arabic which came to news recently due to the ISIS unrest, inspired which fictional place ? Ans: Tatooine , the fictional desert planet that serves as the setting for many key scenes throughout the Star Wars saga. The name is  name is derived from Tataouine , a Southern village in Tunisia ( the map ).

#75 #2016 Q) This military related word is derived from a process associated with the following bird. What word ? Ans: The word is Sniper. Snipe (a family of shorebirds) are difficult to catch for experienced hunters, so much so that the word " Sniper " is derived from it to refer to anyone skilled enough to shoot one.

#74 #2016 Q) The military slang used by the U.S. Army, , the U.S. Navy Seal and Canadian Forces   is possibly derived from the Turkish language phrase ‘öldürmek’ that translates as ‘kill them all’ , that was adopted as a Russian battle cry, that is still used today. Which military slang ? Ans: The shout is "Hooah" or "Hooyah" .

#73 #2016 Q) It was first banned in Mecca in 1511 as it was believed to stimulate radical thinking and hanging out. In 16th century Italian clergymen tried to ban because they believed it to be "satanic."  When Murad IV Ghazi took absolute rule of the Ottoman Empire in 1623 , he decided to ban it as he believed it reduced the people's visit to mosques. In 1746 , the Swedish government banned it. In 1777 , Frederick the Great of Prussia also tried to ban it. What is it ? Ans: Cofee

#72 #2016 Q) Xintong Tiandi Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd. , which sells a number of leather products such as phone cases, passport covers and handbags recently won a Trademark Lawsuit over the use of the name X in China. The web address of the company also has X as the domain name of its official website. Even though name used by the company has a letter in different case, the judgement of court did not make any distinction between the name used by the two warring companies. Give the name X and the company that lost the case. Ans: X is iPhone and the company is Apple Inc.

#71 #2016 Q) Discovered ( "Created") by Nate Kelso and Tom Patterson in January 2011, it is one of the smallest and least-visited nations on Earth. It sits 1600 kilometres off the western coast of Africa.Its flag has stripes binding the blue with orange representing the sea and the colour of African celebration, and the gray representing the staple food Taro, whereas the central medallion commemorates its unique location.  What is it ?   Ans:  Null Island . Null Island is a fictional island in the Gulf of Guinea added to the Natural Earth public domain map dataset, located where the equator crosses the prime meridian, at coordinates 0°N 0°E. Although intended humorously, the fiction has a serious purpose and is used by mapping systems to trap errors. Website Click Here