10 February 2013 Current Affairs
Australia complete clean sweep
Australia
completed a 5-0 sweep of the one-day series against the West
Indies.Australia won the last match of 5 one-day series against West
Indies on 10 February 2013 and cliench the series with 5-0.
On
10 February Rest of India retained the Irani Cup by virtue of their
first innings lead of 117 runs against the Mumbai team ended in a tame
draw in the final at Wankhede Stadium.Rest of India, who clinched the
title for the 26th time in the tournament’s 51st year.Jaffer has crossed
the 1,000-run mark to become the highest scorer in the tournaments
history .
On
10 February Ranchi Rhinos defeated Delhi Waveriders to won the first
Hero Hockey India League (HIL) at Birsa Munda Astroturf Hockey Stadium
.Sardar Singh received the player of the tournament award.
A
brainy 3 year old girl Clever Alice Amos has been unveiled as the
youngest new member of Mensa with a higher IQ than Stephen Hawking.Amos
has been granted full membership of the brain box society after scoring
an incredible 162 on an IQ test – she took in Russian.Her IQ of 162
ranks her higher than a list of the world’s greatest luminaries – dead
and living.Former US presidents Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin and
Bill Clinton could only muster 128, 160 and 137 respectively.
First-ever Original Song Written and Recorded in Space
A
Canadian astronaut has teamed up with Barenaked Ladies lead singer Ed
Robertson for the first ever original track to be written and recorded
in space, 402 km above the Earth aboard the International Space
Station.The pair wrote the song together before the collaboration was
recorded via satellite at a studio in Toronto.The song, called “ISS ( Is
Somebody Singing)” focuses on the experience of a person in space
missing his loved ones on the Earth below.
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