Quiz Category: World Countries Quiz. 10 Amazing Questions

The Eiffel Tower now measures 330 meters, after growing 6 meters (19.69 ft) on March 15, 2022, when a new DAB+ (digital audio) radio antenna was attached to the top of the Paris monument by helicopter.

Memphis, Egypt, was the ancient capital of the Lower Egypt district of mḥw ("north"). Its ruins - 20 km (12 mi) south of Giza (just outside Cairo) - include the Saqqara site, which contains ancient burial grounds of Egyptian royalty, serving as the necropolis for ancient Memphis.

How many new mummies were found in 2022?

On May 30, 2022, Egypt displayed 250 painted sarcophagi with well-preserved mummies inside and 150 bronze statues of ancient deities and bronze vessels used in rituals of Isis, the goddess of fertility, all dating back 2,500 years. Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities displayed the artifacts at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara. The relics will be transferred for a permanent exhibit at the new Grand Egyptian Museum, still under construction near the famed Giza Pyramids. Take a look.

"Allinllachu" means hello in southern Quechua, the primary language in the Quechua linguistic family spoken mainly in Peru and Bolivia. Approximately 25% (7.7 million) of Peruvians speak a Quechuan language. Quechua variants are still widely spoken today, being the co-official language of many regions and the second most spoken language family in Peru. Quechua was one of 24 languages that Google added to its translation service in May 2022. Many, like Quechua, are spoken by Indigenous or minority groups.

According to the Pew Research Center, around 62% of the world's Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region (from Turkey to Indonesia), and just about 20% live in the Arab world - including the middle-east. The largest Muslim population lives in Indonesia, home to 12.7% of the world's Muslims, followed by Pakistan (11.1%), India (10.9%), and Bangladesh (9.2%).

The Arab World Vs. India

Qatar. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iran issued official protests against India (Pakistan and Afghanistan also reacted strongly) on June 6, 2022. The protest refers to remarks made on TV and Twitter by two prominent spokespeople from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's governing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. The comments bad-mouthed Islam's Prophet Muhammad and his wife, Aisha.

How many Muslims live in India?

Muslims comprise 14% (around 200 million) of India's 1.4 billion people. Anti-Muslim attacks have risen across India amid Modi's regular silence about such attacks since he was elected in 2014.

While the Constitution of Iran specifies Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians as the only recognized religious minorities, the Baháʼí Faith is the largest religious minority in Iran. About 350,000 members of the Baha'i faith live in the Muslim country.

Are Baha'is spying for Israel?

Iran's intelligence ministry arrested several members of the Baha'i faith on spying charges on Aug. 1, 2022. Iran said the suspects were linked to the Baha'i center in Israel, where the religious group's international headquarters are. In 2013, Iran's top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei published a fatwa (a religious decree) that bans all dealings with members of the Baha'i sect.

Completed in April 2022, and holding 60 apartments, New York City's Steinway Tower, or 111 West 57th Street, is the world's skinniest skyscraper. The 84-story residential house on "Billionaires' Row" is the second-tallest residential tower in NYC, surpassed only by the nearby Central Park Tower and rising 1,428 feet (435 meters). The tower's upper floors sway by a few feet whenever it gets windy, along with some very luxurious 360-degree view apartments.

With more than 1 million people participating, the annual Notting Hill Carnival is Europe's largest street party. During the Coronavirus pandemic, the carnival, which celebrates Caribbean culture every August, had to be held online and finally returned to the streets of London on Aug. 27, 2022.

As a tribute to the outgoing president Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Kazakh capital was renamed Nur-Sultan in 2019. As of Sept. 2022, Kazakhstan's president announced that the capital would again be known as Astana, its former name.

2022's UN climate conference will be hosted at the Egyptian coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheikh from Nov. 6-18. A sponsorship agreement between the conference and Coca-Cola, which has been described as the "world's top plastic polluter," has angered environmentalists.

The 2021 census of England and Wales, published Nov. 29, 2022, revealed that over the past 20 years, the proportion of people reporting “no religion” in the UK has soared from 14.8% to 37.2% – 22.2 million – the second most common response after Christianity. England and Wales are now minority Christian countries, with 46.2% of the population describing themselves as Christian, according to the census. The data also shows that Leicester and Birmingham have become the first UK cities to have “minority majorities.”