A new week, a new round of clues
Babies, bans, blackouts and big bites. A week of ups and downs to think about
What connects Auckland, Osaka, Adelaide, Wellington, Tokyo, Perth, Zurich, Geneva, Melbourne, Brisbane? Specifically, they form the top 10 of which list that was released last week?
Indians marked Monday, June 7, as Vishwa X Divas. X represents a common food that shows up at breakfast, at snack time, in pakoras, phirni and even in Krishna-sudama tales. Food enthusiasts, however, are vocal about their love or hate for it. Name x.
When Israeli forces took over Gaza in the 1980s, they forbade Palestinians from publicly protesting, even flying their redblack-white-green flag. Protestors found an ingenious way to display it – they painted slices of a red-black-white-green summer fruit everywhere, as they’re doing now. Which fruit?
At Iit-bombay, alumnus Amit Dixit, Asia head of private equity at global investment firm Blackstone, donated an undisclosed sum to set up an endowed professorship. This makes the university India’s first to have a faculty chair for which underrepresented group?
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s daughter, born last week, is named for her paternal grandmother and the Queen. Her middle name is Diana. But her first name is not Elizabeth. It’s what the future Queen used when she was too young to pronounce her own name.
So, what’s the name?
Did Gosiame Thamara Sithole really give birth to 10 babies at once? Pictures of her while pregnant went viral. She claims she’s had seven boys and three girls at a Pretoria hospital. Which country has not yet verified the world’s first case of decuplets?
Peacocks have roamed one California county since the 19th century, when they were introduced by entrepreneur Lucky Balwin. Lately, they’ve been spotting their reflections in shiny cars, thinking they’ve found a rival, and attacking the vehicles. They’re too flashy even for this filmi city, which has issued a ban on feeding them. Where?
Guy Fawkes mask. Threats to Elon Musk for making the cryptocurrency market volatile with his tweets. Warnings of a digital attack. Altered voice messages. It could only be one incognito hacktivist group. Who?
Last week, the government of this African nation suspended Twitter indefinitely after a tweet by their president Muhammadu Buhari was removed. The country’s official handle, since Thursday, has moved to the Indian microblogging, rival Koo. Which country?
Where did the internet go? A global outage on Tuesday affected the websites of the New York Times, Amazon, The Independent, The Guardian, Reddit and Al Jazeera, among others. It appeard there was a bug in the content delivery network that services these sites. It’s not Slowly. It’s ______?