This quiz is designed for the week of mind

Seven days of news events - good developments, bad decisions, official visits, unofficial holidays and at least one cat who’s burning up the auctions. Can you crack these questions

Rihanna, Sonam, Jennifer Lawrence and Sophie Turner are doing it for the first time this year. Britney Spears is doing it again after 15 years. Priyanka Chopra didn’t do it. Alec Baldwin’s wife, Hilaria, is doing it for the 7th time. What?

It’s the largest one in the world and it’s at the Jio Convention Centre in Mumbai. It weighs 16 tonnes when empty and makes only 5 stops. It’s not a car. But it arrives at the press of a button. What?

PM Narendra Modi, at the India-Denmark Business

Forum in Copenhagen, drew attention to investing in India. He used a fourletter term you typically see on social media when whose at home envy those out partying on the weekend. What term?

Indian actors have long served as jury members at this prestigious film festival. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan did it in 2003. Sharmila Tagore did it in 2009. Vidya Balan did it in 2013. Deepika Padukone is serving next. Where?

Spoiler alert: She said yes. But what did Bobby Digi Olisa ask his partner, Laurie Cumbo, the commissioner of New York City cultural affairs, on the red carpet right in the middle of the ultraglamorous Met Gala?

Previous auctions of his estate – suits, art sunglasses, even accessories belonging to his cat Choupette – have fetched nearly $20 million. The final one closed last week in Germany. Name the designer who’s probably refusing to smile even in heaven

At age 100, Walter Orthman from Brazil just set his first Guinness Record. He didn’t have to move much. He stayed in the same place for 84 years and 9 days. Fabric company RenauxViewa is happy too. What was the record for?

India is scorching up. But the highest April temperature recorded anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere was not too far away. In Nawabshah, Jacobabad, temperatures hit a staggering 49.4 degrees Celsius. Where?

Asia’s first neo-bank is now India’s 100th unicorn. The start-up founded by Anish and Mabel Chacko in 2017 is now valued at $1 billion. Give its name – a word often associated with –source, –Sesame, and –season.

It’s not a religious observance, but it’s celebrated around the world. In many countries (and India) it’s today. Soviet nations celebrate it along with Women’s Day on March 8. The Middle-East celebrates it on March 21. What?

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AP Rihanna is doing it for the first time. Britney after 15 years. What are we referring to?