Daily Quiz Update- 17 & 18 May 2019

India's G.S. Lakshmi has become the first-ever woman to be appointed to ICC’s International Panel of Match Referees and will be eligible to officiate in international games with immediate effect.

The 23-year-old Captain of Mumbai has become the first woman in the world to cross the lone blind ocean (Atlantic Ocean) in Pandit Light Sports Aircraft (LSA).

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a lab by the US Department of energy.

The festival commemorates the birth, enlightenment (Buddhahood), and death (Parinirvāna) of Gautama Buddha in the Theravada or southern tradition. The week was started on May 15.

Assam’s forest officer named Jatindra Sarma has coincidentally discovered the parasitic bloom 'Lecanorchis taiwaniana, a variant of a Japanese orchid. It is found to have a maximum height of 40 cm and a blossoming period of five-six days.

The Taiwanese parliament took the historic step by passing a law in favour of same-sex couples and allowing them to form ‘exclusive permanent unions’.

The day marks the anniversary of the first successful operation of the laser by engineer and physicist Theodore Maiman on 16 May 1960. UNESCO celebrated it for the first time in 2018.

On 17th May 1969, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) was established and since its inception, the day is celebrated as World Telecommunication and Information Society Day.