Guess who’s been going places and why

Artefacts returning home, chillies charging forward, heroes swimming forth and fossils dating back to even before dinosaurs. Were you tracking the movements of last week?

Dholavira in Gujarat and the Ramappa Temple in Telangana have just joined 38 other Indian sites (including Agra’s Taj Mahal, the Churches and Convents of Goa and Sikkim’s Kanchenjunga National Park) to make up which prestigious global list?

Big black eyes are watching you everywhere in this holy city in

Odisha. Last week, it became India’s first to provide drinking-quality tap water. What is the four-letter name of this ancient town?

Astronomers observing I Zwicky 1, a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at the centre, have, for the first time, been able to detect what’s behind it. What kind of radiation, the stuff you’ll use to identify a bone fracture, have they found?

The national art museum of this country is returning to India 14 items they acquired from art dealer Subhash Kapoor, who turned out to be a thief and smuggler. The bronze and stone sculptures, a painted scroll and photographs are worth $3 million. Name the island down under that’s doing the right thing, mate.

Of India’s 15 Olympic medals since 2000, 7 have been won by women. The first of them was by Karnam Malleswari. She is now vicechancellor of the upcoming Delhi Sports University. Can you recall the sport she competed in?

The oldest fossils ever found aren’t dinosaur bones. They’re of beings that existed even earlier, about 890 million years ago. Their skeletons look like connected branches of a tree. Name the soft sea creatures whose descendants still help us with dish-washing and sofa stuffing.

It’s the most sought-after kind of US visa among Indian IT professionals. Some 85,000 of them used to be issued annually, 70% of them to Indians. Trump banned them. Biden lifted the ban. Now, the US will conduct a rare second lottery to employ more foreign workers in speciality occupations using the visa. Its name?

This chilli from Nagaland got Geographical Indication certification in 2008. It’s among the world’s hottest and is known for its distinct flavour. It’s now being exported to Europe. It’s not the Bhut Jholokia. Name the kingly chilli.

Swimmer Tatjana Schoemaker set a new world record for the 200m breaststroke at the Olympics last week. She clocked an astounding 2 minutes and 18.5 seconds. Perhaps she can outrace penguins to Antarctica. Which African nation has she made proud?

This 3,500-year-old Dream Tablet, written in Akkadian, was discovered in 1853 in modern-day Iraq. In 2003, an American arts-and-crafts firm bought it on auction for more than $1.67 million. The US government has since seized it and will return it to Iraq. Name the Epic inscribed on the tablet, often considered the earliest written works of literature.

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PTI Telangana’s Ramappa temple has joined which prestigious global list?