How well do you know your world history? This is a basic test of your knowledge

Updated Apr 17, 2022 | 01:46 AM IST

It's important to know our past to help us understand the present and shape our future. This isn't a mere saying or an adage. It is something many swear by and lead their lives according to.

Inventions, incidents, and events that shaped the world and became dates that cannot be forgotten.

Global history is not a new form of learning. It actually emerged centuries ago. The field became much more active (in terms of university teaching, textbooks, scholarly journals, and academic associations) in the late 20th century.

Besides the academic space of world history, there are few things about the subject that should be known to all irrespective of their field of study or interest.

Q1. The ancient Egyptians used to sleep on pillows made of

A. Stones

B. Gold

C. Cotton

D. Iron

Q2. World War I began in which year?

A. 1923

B. 1938

C. 1917

D. 1914

Q3. Adolf Hitler was born in which country?

A. France

B. Germany

C. Austria

D. Hungary

Q4. The Magna Carta was published by the King of which country?

A. England

B. France

C. Austria

D. Italy

Q5. Who developed the first successful printing press?

A. Sir Isaac Newton

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Johannes Gutenberg

D. Chester Carlson

Q6. The disease that ravaged and killed a third of Europe's population in the 14th century is known as:

A. Smallpox

B. The Bubonic Plague

C. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

D. The White Death

Q7. The first newspaper was started in which country?

A. India

B. US

C. China XD. Japan

Q8. What does Mohenjadaro mean?

A. Telugu equivalent of 'Jaffa'

B. The mound of the dead

C. Mound of Sinai

D. Mound of horses

Q9. Which U.S. President was involved in the Watergate scandal?

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. George W. Bush

C. Richard Nixon

D. Ronald Reagan

Q10. When was the first democracy developed?

A. 6th century BC

B. 18th century

C. 3rd century BC

D. 15th century

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Here are the answers:

1. Stones

2. 1914

3. Austria

4. England

5. Johannes Gutenberg

6. The Bubonic Plague

7. China

8. The mound of the dead

9. Richard Nixon

10. 6th century BC

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Updated Apr 18, 2022 | 06:37 AM IST

A 41-second-long clip doing rounds on the internet shows the unlucky timing of the vehicle crossing a large tree that fell over. However, a closer look reveals that the three didn't just happen to fall in that exact moment. An unidentified person operating an excavator knocked the tree over.

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It seems as if logistic companies are going through an inexplicable curse that has not been established yet. Previously, a DHL cargo aircraft broke into two after it skidded off the runway during an emergency landing at a Costa Rican airport. It was later gleaned that the plane suffered a hydraulic system failure.

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Updated Apr 18, 2022 | 06:43 AM IST

It's also a story that will leave regular flyers shocked.

Vesna Vulović was just 23-years-old when she was working as a flight attendant on board the JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 36.

The plane exploded into three pieces, killing everyone on board. Everyone except Vesna, who wasn’t even supposed to be on the plane. She not only survived the explosion but also a 33,333-feet fall without a parachute.

Vesna wasn't supposed to be on the plane that day. The airline confused her with another flight attendant of the same name.

She was the only passenger of the 28 passengers and crew members who survived the crash.

Vesna didn't board JAT Flight 367 on January 26, 1972, from its place of origin. She was part of the secondary cabin crew, which got on board when the plane made a stopover in Copenhagen Denmark. As fate would have it, no one reached the second stopover in Croatia.

The fact that she wasn't meant to be on that flight was revealed by Vesna herself in a 2002 interview with Green Light Limited.

"My colleagues had a feeling that something would happen to them. The captain was locked in his room for 24 hours. He didn’t want to go out at all," Vesna told Green Light Limited.

What went wrong?

There was a huge explosion in the luggage compartment just 46 minutes after the plane took off from Copenhagen. The explosion was so huge, that it tore the plane into three pieces.

The passengers and other flight crew were believed to have been sucked out when the cabin depressurised.

Vesna's survived because she was pinned to the floor by a food cart at the tail end of the fuselage, according to Guinness World Records.

Later, investigation revealed the explosion was caused by a briefcase bomb that was placed in the cargo section of the plane.

How did she survive without a parachute?

The fuselage separated from the damaged plane and hurtled towards the ground which was reportedly a heavily wooded area. Luckily for Vesna, it landed in thick snow at a favourable angle.

Vesna was found by Bruno Honke, a local villager and former World War II medic who had administered first aid before rescuers arrived.

Physicians determined that Vesna's heart didn't burst from the strong impact because her low blood pressure had caused her to pass out when the cabin depressurised after the explosion.

Needless to say, she suffered several injuries - a fractured skull, two broken legs, three broken vertebrae, a fractured pelvis, and several broken ribs.

Vesna passed away in the year 2016 at age 66. The unwanted Guinness World Record she had broken was presented to her by Paul McCartney.

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Updated Apr 18, 2022 | 05:19 AM IST

There are plenty of reasons that companies cite for changing their logos. Many organisations start out as startups that don't have the resources to make brand image a primary focus and thus choose to rebrand once they've established themselves to be clearer about what the business represents.

Others redesign their logos to modernise the look of their brands. Many brand logos from the 20th century became obsolete when the age of the internet set in. Yet others give the identity a makeover for it to seem more appropriate.

Can you identify these 5 famous brands that redesigned their logos? Took a close look and check answers at the bottom of the story.

Hint: It was a joint venture between two motor companies that split in 2011.

Hint: This is a 156-year-old food and beverage corporation and sells one of India's beloved recipes.

Hint: This company holds a special place in nostalgic Indian motorists' heart.

Hint: This is food and beverage company is a household name globally.

Hint: E-commerce company Flipkart acquired this brand in 2014

How many brands could you recognise? Check your answers here:

1. Hero Honda

The joint venture between Hero Cycles and Honda used the logo for as long as it was in operation and the logo was accompanied by its official name.

2. Nestle

The Swiss conglomerate has refined its logos 7 times since its establishment. It used this particular logo from 1995 up until 2015, before it was simplified further to produce a softer design, easily readable on modern digital devices.

3. Maruti Suzuki

The leading brand in the Indian car market fiddled with its logos time and time again. The monochromatic logo with angel-like wings is an old logo which was accompanied by vertically aligned words "Maruti Suzuki". It was later updated to represent both Maruti and Suzuki's logos and eventually moved on to a solitary signature "S".

4. Pepsi

You could probably tell this one faster than all other logos so far. But did you know Pepsi only used this logo for 3 years from 2005 to 2008? While the original theme remains the same, Pepsi has stayed up to speed with the requirements of the modern times and now has a far more simple logo.

5. Myntra

This simplistic logo was further simplified by the fashion retailer after someone took objection to what they thought was a cheekily suggestive 'offensive' design. The middle section underwent changes to make the inner diagonal lines appear in different colours, completely doing away with the oval in the middle section.

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Updated Apr 18, 2022 | 04:24 AM IST

International airports receive complaints from flyers, authorities, and local residents all the time.

Addressing complaints is very crucial for airports because it has a direct impact on the rating, ranking, and how travellers feel about the place

As complaints, objections, and queries can be of varying nature, they are addressed through various mediums nowadays.

While many people flag issues with an airport on social media, others prefer sending letters or filing a complaint by visiting the place. For each channel, an airport lays down a communication process and even hires staff accordingly.

But what does an airport do if it receives more than 12,000 complaints from just one person?

The same individual fled 6,227 complaints in 2020, despite the fact that air traffic and aircraft movements at Dublin Airport were reduced significantly by the Covid-19 pandemic.

News reports said the unidentified complainant hails from Ongar in northwest Dublin. Authorities say the person has largely been responsible for the huge increase in complaints filed with the DAA since 2019.

Stats are proof. Before the unidentified person started filing his set of complaints, DAA was receiving around 1,500 noise complaints a year. That number went up to 13,569 in 2021.

Without the person's complaints, the total for 2021 would've been just 1,296 complaints.

This year, the person has already filed 5,276 complaints in the first three months of the year. His daily average is already more than last year, 59.

DAA mostly receives complaints from residents who live near the Dublin Airport and on flight paths of planes. The noise-affected areas are Portmarnock, Swords, the Ward, and St Margaret’s.

A DAA spokesperson said aircraft noise was the joint responsibility of Dublin Airport, the Irish Aviation Authority, and the airlines using the airport.

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Updated Apr 18, 2022 | 03:54 AM IST

“I never thought this day would come.”

“I never thought this day would come,” said Surabhi in a shaky voice. “It’s like a piece of my heart… I don’t know what to say.”

Her speech was nothing if not a sweet, final note of gratitude for her employer as the Indigo air hostess continued, “This company has given me everything, it’s an amazing organisation to work with.”

Surabhi added that it was “the best” company as they took care of each of their employees, and especially female flight attendants who “they pamper so much”.

“It’s amazing…It’s like I don’t want to go but I have to go,” the cabin crew member said.

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The heartwarmingly rare video has racked up over 3.2 lakh views as the internet poured a tonne of good wishes on her.

Many users could recognise her from their past flights and thanked her for her service as one wrote, “I think, We should say thanks to you lots of time for your great service. Which you dedicated for us. I always miss you and miss all that moment which we spend with you in indigo flight. Also thanks to Indigo for hiring your kind of flight crew. Thanks once again.

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Updated Apr 18, 2022 | 02:27 AM IST

A national flag is a flag that represents and symbolises a nation. It can be flown by the government and citizens of the country.

A national flag is typically designed with specific meanings for its colours and symbols, which may also be used separately from the flag as a symbol of the nation.

The national flag is often mentioned or described in a country's constitution, but its detailed description may be delegated to a flag law passed by the legislature, or even secondary legislation or in monarchies a decree.

The art and practice of designing flags is known as vexillography. The design of national flags has seen a number of customs become apparent.

Did you know all national flags are rectangular, except for the flag of Nepal?

The ratios of height to width vary among national flags, but none is taller than it is wide, again except for the flag of Nepal. That being said, the design of a national flag can sometimes be altered after the occurrence of important national or historical events.

The colours, patterns, and symbols of the national flag uniquely identify each country in the world. That's why it becomes easy for us to identify a country by just looking at its flags. But sometimes, confusion can arise because there are several national flags that look very similar.

Can you correctly identify each national flag from these 5 sets that look very similar?

Hint: West-African nations.

Hint: Big in international football

Hint: Nordic countries

Hint: One is famous for the Grand Ducal Palace, the other is famous for the Binnenhof

Hint: N'Djamena and Bucharest

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Sure about what you saw?

You can see all the sets again if there is any confusion.

Remember, each set has two national flags and there are five sets in total

Here are the answers:

Set A. Senegal and Mali

Set D. Luxembourg and The Netherlands

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Updated Apr 18, 2022 | 03:14 AM IST

We all know that several governments and non-government organisations around the world deploy artificial intelligent systems like facial recognition to track, trace and monitor citizens. Most of it is done for national and state security reasons that are not flexible.

It's the type of surveillance that the public cannot hide from even if they want to.

But now, researchers at Northeastern University, MIT, and IBM have designed something that can make a person invisible to facial recognition.

Don't the surprised because the device isn't really a fancy gadget or a piece of high-tech electrical equipment that one would expect.

It's just a T-shirt.

The top printed T-shirt has a kaleidoscopic patch of colour that makes the wearer invisible to Artificial intelligence.

Before creating the T-shirt, the researchers successfully identified areas of the body where adding pixel noise could confuse the facial recognition system.

While the wearer doesn't go totally invisible on surveillance camera by wearing the T-shirt, or she can be effectively undetectable from an AI perspective.

"The adversarial T-shirt works on the neural networks used for object detection," Xue Lin, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern, was quoted as saying by Wired.

Battista Biggio, an assistant professor, and creator of the first adversarial example said the main challenge was to create something that would make a wearer undetectable during the whole video duration.

"When detection is running in every frame, remaining consistently undetected is much harder," he said.

However, Xue Lin believes it is unlikely that people will get to use the T-shirt in the real world.

"We still have difficulties in making it work in the real world because there’s that strong assumption that we know everything about the detection algorithm," she told Wired.

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Updated Apr 18, 2022 | 12:34 AM IST

The announcement regarding its opening was made by French archaeologists on 14 April, just a day before the third anniversary of the fire that damaged the 12th-century structure.

The sarcophagus was found in March during preparatory work to rebuild Notre Dame's ancient spire. Workers spotted it buried 65 feet underground, lying among brick pipes of a 19th-century heating system.

France's INRAP national archaeological research institute said in a press conference that the sarcophagus was extracted from the cathedral on 12 April, adding it will be sent soon to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Toulouse.

Reports said experts have already peered into the sarcophagus using n endoscopic camera. As a result, the upper part of a skeleton, a pillow of leaves, textiles, and dry organic matter were revealed.

The sarcophagus measures 1.95 metres (6 foot 4 inches) long and 48cm (1 foot 6 inches) wide.

In the next few days, forensic experts are expected to study its contents in order to identify the skeleton's gender and former state of health said lead archaeologist Christophe Besnier.

"If it turns out that it is in fact a sarcophagus from the Middle Ages, we are dealing with an extremely rare burial practice," said Besnier, who added that the sarcophagus was found under a mound of earth that had 14th century furniture.

"A human body is not an archaeological object. As human remains, the civil code applies and archaeologists will study it as such," said INRAP President Dominique Garcia.

Garcia added that the skeleton would be examined ‘in compliance’ with French laws regarding human remains.

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Updated Apr 17, 2022 | 11:25 PM IST

The character’s popularity among all age groups was made clear by the fan frenzy that ensued after ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ hit theatres around the world in December 2021.

For over four months now, Spidey fans have been queuing up to watch the film in theatres amid Covid-19 restrictions. That's precisely why it became one of the highest-grossing films in history.

Unsurprisingly, there are thousands of fans who have watched the film several times on the big screen and at home.

Alanis secured the Guinness World Record for the most cinema productions attended for the same film – 292.

Yes, he has watched the MCU film a whopping 292 times from 6 December 2021 to 15 March 2022. Try beating that.

Alanis posted a video compilation of his trips to the theatre. In another post, he is seen posing with his Guinness World Records certificate.

Alanis is not new to Guinness World Records. He has set the world record for watching Avengers: Endgame the highest number of times, 191.

However, that record was subsequently broken by Arnaud Klein, who watched Kaamelott: First Instalment 204 times.

He has now watched 720 hours of Spider-Man: No Way Home. That's an entire month.

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