Can you work out this week’s news clues?
Two drakes, ten rings, a blue pill, and lots of new discoveries on our quiz
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Canadian rapper and singer Drake broke his own record for most streams in a day last week. Art for his sixth studio album features emoji-style illustrations of 12 pregnant women. Not Casanova, but close. Name the album.
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Speaking of drakes, an actual male duck in Australia has become the first on record to mimic human speech. Ripper has been repeating one phrase during mating display. It wouldn’t charm a woman or any human. What has he been saying?
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This director, who uses his mother’s name, Leela, as his middle name, completed 25 years in the business. He started out with Khamoshi: The Musical. He gave Devdas a lavish feel. He gave Sonam Kapoor her first film. Who are we talking about?
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Nasa’s Perseverance rover just made its first pick-up. It’s the first ever Mars sample destined to be flown back to Earth for study when future spacecraft can one day retrieve it. What has the rover collected?
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Fans call him Dada. Commentators have called him God of the Offside. At the Board of Control for Cricket in India, they just call him president. He’ll soon be the subject of a biopic. Who is this Prince of Calcutta?
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Mr Anderson – Or should we call you Neo? – has been popping blue pills in the trailer for his December release. Trinity appears too, and she remembers nothing. Will there be black coats and bullet-dodging? And is that really Morpheus? Resurrection is the follow-up to which movie franchise? 7
Shang-chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings pulled in $70 million in its opening weekend last week. It’s a record for Marvel superhero films, but even more so for this one. What’s unusual about this
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film?
Shana Parmeshwar and Anush Chakravarthi are building India’s longest racetrack. Soon, racecars and superbikes will be able to zip through the 5.5km Marque One. It’s an hour away from Bengaluru International Airport by road, but it’s not in Karnataka. Where is it?
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Oops. A London-bound Air-india flight aborted take-off in Delhi this week after some tiny surprises were discovered in Business Class. Perhaps they came for the desserts? Or to show passengers how to walk in a single file? Which insects are we talking about?
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Orca isn’t named for the whale, but after the Icelandic word for energy. It’s the world’s largest machine of its kind and started running on Wednesday. Four units, the size of shipping containers, suck something out of the air, and turn it to rock. Which pollutant are they trying to filter?