Wine, wisdom and some kind of a wonder drug
News from the real world, the virtual world, a declassified world and outer space. How will you fare?
1 Would you pay a million dollars for wine? What if the bottle in question was out of this world? Christies is selling a 2000 vintage (a merlot from Bordeaux, France) that has been aged aboard the International Space Station for 14 months. Name the wine brand.
Name the brand of wine that just spent 14 months aboard the ISS and is now up for sale.
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2 In 1912, Anna Jarvis trademarked the phrase “Second Sunday in May, X’s
Day, Anna Jarvis, Founder”, to honour her own X, a social activist. She made it clear: X’s day is not for all Xs around the world, but for each family to honour their X. What’s X?
3 Watch out! Space debris, 23 tonnes in weight and almost 10 floors tall, is headed towards Earth this weekend.
Its chances of hitting land are low but not zero. It’s a rocket fragment made by which neighbouring nation?
4 All through her pregnancy, Malian mother Halima Cisse’s ultrasounds showed a record seven babies in her womb. When she went into labour last week, she had an even bigger surprise.
All babies are doing well, but how many are they?
5 The IPL has finally stopped amid the pandemic. But someone has been runout of Twitter, causing a nationwide sigh of relief. Name the
‘Fashion’able ‘Queen’ who is paying for her ‘Panga’.
6 We’ll remember composer Vanraj Bhatia, who died last week, as the man behind Mero Gaam Katha Parey from Manthan, and Kya Hai Tera Gham Bata from Kalyug. Name the lemony soap brand that used his iconic “Laaa lala lala” tune as a jingle.
7 In Hyderabad, Ayaansh Gupta is battling Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a rare disease in which kids don’t live past the age of five. The cure: a single dose of the world’s most expensive drug, which costs Rs 16 crore. Fundraising is on. Name the drug.
8 This crypto-currency, inspired by a caninethemed meme from 2013, started as a joke. Now it’s worth over $74.13 billion. Shiba Inu breeders would certainly be pleased. Name the coin.
9 It’s set to launch as Battlegrounds Mobile India, and pre-registrations open soon. What was the game called before the government’s ban on Chinese apps last year?
10 The FBI has maintained files on The
Notorious B.I.G, Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees and John Denver. Last week, it released a 10-page dossier on one grunge musician who died by suicide in 1997. Don’t know? Nevermind. Come as you are. And guess.