Sample questions from previous current affairs rounds:

The Current Affairs round of questions consists of 8 questions related to the news from the previous seven days. The questions generally cover major global news. From politics, international conflicts, and economics, to science, weather extremes, and culture, we try to cover as wide a range of current events as possible.

Here are a sample of 8 questions from The Wednesday last season:

Question 1

• Volodymyr Zelensky has marked the 500th day of the Ukraine war by posting a video from an island that became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance. What is the name of the island? (12/07/23)

Question 2

• A government official in which country has been suspended after he ordered a reservoir to be drained to retrieve his phone?

  It took three days to pump millions of litres of water out of the dam, after Rajesh Vishwas dropped the device while taking a selfie. (13/05/23)

Question 3

• More than 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in a move that could bring an immediate halt to the production of many television shows and possibly delay the start of new seasons of others later this year.

  When did they last go on strike? (03/05/23)

Question 4

• New Zealand is in a national state of emergency, as a cyclone batters the country, with floods trapping people on roofs, thousands displaced and landslides destroying homes in what officials have described as an “unprecedented” natural disaster. What was the name of the cyclone/storm? (15/03/23)

Question 5

• British singer Dua Lipa was granted citizenship of which other country this week, for promoting it through her music and fame? (07/12/22)

Question 6

• Which country, with a right-wing government, has backed a bill that would ban laboratory-produced meat and other synthetic foods, highlighting their food heritage and health protection? (29/04/23)

Question 7

• What is the name of the former governor of South Carolina, and United Nations ambassador, who has announced she is a candidate to become US president in 2024? (15/03/23)

Question 8

• Fifteen-time major champion Tiger Woods has had to apologise after the first round of the Genesis Invitational in California on Thursday. “If I offended anybody, it was not the case, it was just friends having fun. As I said, if I offended anybody in any way, shape or form, I’m sorry. It was not intended to be that way. It was just we play pranks on one another all the time and virally I think this did not come across that way, but between us it was – it’s different.” What did he do? (22/02/23)