Current Affairs on International

Nobel prize-winning US mathematician, who inspired the film "A Beautiful Mind," was killed with his wife in New Jersey in a car crash. What si the name of the mathematician?: John Nash

Explanation: According to Police, Nash, 86, and his 82-year-old wife Alicia were riding in a taxi on 23 May 2015 when the accident took place. The Princeton University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) mathematician John Nash is best known for his contribution to game theory — the study of decision-making — which won him the Nobel economics prize in 1994. His life story formed the basis of the Oscar-winning 2001 film "A Beautiful Mind" in which actor Russell Crowe played the genius, who struggled with mental illness.

Scientists on 22 May 2015 have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, the oldest such artifacts yet discovered. The discovery was made in which country?: Northwestern Kenya

Explanation: The new find came about almost by accident: Harmand and Lewis said that on the morning of July 9, 2011, they had wandered off on the wrong path, and climbed a hill to scout a fresh route back to their intended track. By the end of the 2012 field season, excavations at the site, named Lomekwi 3, had uncovered 149 stone artifacts tied to tool-making, from stone cores and flakes to rocks used for hammering and others possibly used as anvils to strike on. Hominins are a group of species that includes modern humans, Homo sapiens, and our closest evolutionary ancestors. Anthropologists long thought that our relatives in the genus Homo - the line leading directly to Homo sapiens - were the first to craft such stone tools. But researchers have been uncovering tantalizing clues that some other, earlier species of hominin, might have figured it out. he skull of a 3.3-million-year-old hominin, Kenyanthropus platytops, was found in 1999 about a kilometer from the tool site. A K. platyops tooth and a bone from a skull were discovered a few hundred meters away, and an as-yet unidentified tooth has been found about 100 meters away. 

According to World health organization (WHO) on 21 May 2015, Cholera kills 30 Burundi refugees in which camp?: Tanzanian camp

Explanation: Cases of acute diarrhea have been confirmed among the refugees, who include many women and children. Thus, WHO has warned that a ''severe humanitarian crisis'' is unfolding in Tanzania because an influx of refugees is overwhelming health and sanitation facilities. It said between 500 and 2,000 Burundians are arriving daily in Kagunga, a tiny fishing village on the shores of Lake Tanganyika because of every day amid unrest stemming from the president's bid for a third term. 

The 2015 edition of the Man Booker International Prize has been won by a Hungarian writer. What is his name?: Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Explanation: The prize which is presented once every two years to a living author for a body of work published either originally in English or available in translation in the English language. Krasznahorkai who writes in Hungarian has been translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet. Krasznahorkai announced he would split the £15,000 translator's prize between the two translators. Kolkata born author Amitav Ghosh's book Sea of Poppies was in the short list but failed to make the cut.

As per official data released on 19 May 2015, Britain`s (UK) annual inflation rate turns negative for first time since when?: 1960

Explanation: As per the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the rate hit minus 0.1 percent in April. Prices were pushed into negative territory on the back of falling transport services and notably air and sea fares and the earlier timing of Easter. Hence, that was the lowest rate on record  since the data series began in 1996 and comes after two previous months of zero inflation.

On 16 May 2016 who had took over as the 8th President of Guyana, who has also serve the nation as Army General?: David Arthur Granger

Explanation: The Indian-dominated People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has held power for 23 years but Partnership for National Unity and Alliance for Change or APNU, in collation with the AFC, won the 2015 General and Regional Elections by a slim margin. Thus, David Arthur Granger was sworn in as Guyana’s 8th Executive President on 16 May 2015. Granger lost the last election to Donald Ramotar, the incumbent President. Guyana is the third poorest country in Latin America after Haiti and Nicaragua, according to World Bank figures.

A 12-member jury on 15 May 2015 gave what verdict to the accuse Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013?: Death sentence

Explanation: Three people were killed and more than 260 wounded when two pressure-cooker bombs packed with shrapnel exploded near the finish line of Boston Marathon 15 April 2013. 21-year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev was the accused of Boston Marathon bombings. The death sentence to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sets the stage for what could be the US's first execution of a terrorist post-911, though the case is likely to go through years of legal appeals.  Dzhokhar’s elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev was the main accused in this case. He apparently wanted to punish the U.S. for its wars in Muslim countries. It was the most closely watched terrorism trial in the U.S. since the Oklahoma City bombing case two decades ago.