How much can you recall of the last week?
Flights, landings, records and rock’n’roll. Check out how much of it you still remember
1 Astronauts nicknamed it Percy. The car-sized rover just landed on Mars with seven scientific instruments, 19 cameras and two microphones. It’s also carrying an experimental helicopter that will attempt the first powered flight on another planet. What is Percy’s official name? 2 Priyanka Goswami, 24, first entered races hoping to win the bags they gave out as prizes. Now a national 7 record holder, she’s qualified for the 20km race at the Tokyo Olympics. He died in 2013. But the weapon he She won’t run. Name the sport. invented as a Soviet soldier during 3
World War II has become world Pakistan Geographical Indication famous. The company that bears registrations include Basmati rice, his name is now eyeing production Multani halwa, Kasuri methi, in India. Hands up! Name the man Sindhri mango and other foods. Next or the brand. 8 on the list: a pink item labelled ‘Himalayan’ in Indian gourmet A 2018 film, Rockumentary Evolution shops, to prevent us from of Indian Rock, released How capitalising on it. What? in cinemas next week. It traces the 4 many popularity of Western rock ’n’ roll Indians Pawri ho rahi hai! Where in your in India from the 1930s onwards. have held home would you stock the following Which of these bands have never Ngozi Indian brands: Kamlet, Black Bow, performed in India: Led Zeppelin, Okonjoiweala’s Rahasya, Nilgiris, Clearly Good, Deep Purple, The Police, Iron Beor360, Burlingtons and Makazai? Maiden, The Grateful Dead, The 5 9 job? Rolling Stones. Some 260km off the coast of this continent, researchers were Late for a meeting? Janardhan drilling through ice when they Bhoir, a farming entrepreneur from accidentally discovered Bhiwandi in Maharashtra, just several new species of spent ₹30 crore to buy what, to sponge-like creatures. escape traffic snarls on the way to They’ve been surviving Mumbai? 10 without a nearby source of food or daylight. Which continent? Old social media posts have revealed that Rashmi Samant made On March 1, 66-year-old Nigerianamerican insensitive comments about the development economist Holocaust, Asians and transwomen. Ngozi Okonjo-iweala will take As a result, she won’t be taking over office as the World Trade as the first Indian woman president Organizaton’s first female of the student union at which director general. How many prestigious institution?
Indians have held this post?
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