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New scores were set. World records were broken. We got hotter than the sun and went to chilly extremes. Can you guess what happened in the last week?
Spencer Elden appeared naked on an album cover 30 years ago as a baby. He enjoyed the fame, but sued the band last year for sexual exploitation. A judge dismissed the case. Name the band or the album.
It legalised same-sex unions last week. Its locals set beehives outside the presidential palace to protest a 10-year megadrought last week. It’s planning to rewrite its constitution in keeping with the climate crisis. Which nation?
RIP Betty White. The feisty actor died at age 99. She’ll perform in heaven with this feisty Indian actor, who died in 2014, at age 102. Name Bollywood’s beloved dadi who appeared in Saawariya, Veer Zara and Dil Se.
No one cares about your scores. But fans of the now-viral, 6-try, daily word game share them anyway. It was created by a British software engineer Josh Wardle for his partner Palak Shah. The name?
The name was fruity. The phone had a keyboard and BBM instant messaging. The brand was big in the 2000s, before touchscreens took over. Name the company retiring this famous OS, leaving fans nostalgic.
Norway’s Roald Amundsen did it first, in 1911. The Soviets placed a bust of Lenin there in 1959 – he’s cold and lonely. Last week, Harpreet Chandi became the first Indian-origin woman to trek there. Where?
This self-described colour authority declared Very Peri as 2022’s colour of the year. It’s a “dynamic periwinkle blue with a vivifying violet red undertone”. Name the company, famous for its shade card.
Indian-origin Ashok Elluswamy was the first person hired for this EV company’s Autopilot team. He got recruited via Twitter and previously worked with Volkswagen. So who’s his new employer?
Our neighbour just tested a tokomak reactor to harness clean energy by 2040. It’s five times more powerful than the real sun, heating plasma to 120 million degrees Celsius for a few minutes. Which nation?
Asha Rani set a new world record last week for pulling a 12,216 kg London double-decker bus. She didn’t even use her hands. Which dead-but-growing part of the human body did the pulling?
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