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This week’s quiz has feuds and festivals, cocktails and cash flows. Mithun songs resurface as do major bits of history. Test your news skills here
In China, locals are protesting the government’s strict ‘zero Covid’ policy by sharing this 40-year-old Bappi Lahiri hit. The title sounds like “Give me rice”. Name the song every Disco Dancer would know.
Bow down to Taylor Swift. She’s made history as the first artist by appearing on the entire Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 song chart. Anti-Hero is No 1. The album, she says, was inspired by 13 sleepless nights. Give the 00.00 title.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, aka Lula, was its 35th President from 2003 to 2010. The trade unionist and former metalworker defeated far-right Jair Bolsonaro to become President again. Cheer with caipirinha. Name the nation that re-elected him.
Two House of the Dragon stars made a cocktail trend last week. The original features equal parts gin, vermouth and Campari. To make a sbagliato variation, drop the gin and put XX in it. Oh, stunning! Name the
sparkling substitution.
His mother’s 1992 biography was called In Her Own Words and laid bare a crumbling marriage. His upcoming one is called, fittingly, Spare. And promises insights into the rocky relationships with this brother and a new king. Who?
A survey by Price claims that Maharashtra has highest number of super rich. Some 6.4 lakh households make Rs 2 crore or more per year. Delhi is #2 with 1.81 lakh households. Guess which state is next with 1.41 lakh. Think dry, with lions.
Two words. On Twitter it will now cost $8. On Instagram, the mark of verification is still free. On WhatsApp, two appear. You can turn them off, so no one
knows you’ve read a message. What two words?
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison passed away in 2019. But the Beloved author has not been forgotten. The Nobel laureate will now be featured on a US postage stamp. She’s smiling in Paradise. Readers know her better as…
The word means “an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance”. The festival, which launches in India next year, features Imagine Dragons, The Strokes, AP Dhillon and Cigarettes After Sex. The name?
Only two first-edition copies exist. One fetched $43.2 million last year. The other goes on auction next month and could fetch $30 million. There are 39 signatures from 1787, including John Hancock’s. Which document is this?