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A mercenary spyware and a massive data breach. A new movie and old favourites. Wind down, take a breather and test your knowledge about the news of last week
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In 1964, Peter Higgs proposed the existence of a particle that would help explain how matter formed after the Big Bang.
The Large Hadron Collider detected it in 2012. He leaves behind a legacy that shaped the future of physics. What is the Higgs boson particle also called? 6
He was born in Pakistan, studied at Oxford and Cambridge, served as chief economist, central bank governor, finance minister and foreign minister, and held the third highest rank in the Order of Precedence in India. Who retired from public life, after 33 years in the Rajya Sabha?
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Bonnie Tyler’s 1983 power
A winged horse, a group of stars north ballad saw a sudden surge in of Aquarius and Pisces and an Israeli online searches and downloads spyware only sold to governments, in the US last week. The last time have a name in common. Apple sent this happened was in 2017. The
Name the warnings to users in India and 91 other next time could be in 2044. Name the Bonnie countries, who have been targeted with soundtrack for the celestial event that Tyler hit the spyware. Give the name. got millions of Americans looking up.
2 8 power ballad that This test was devised in 1950, to check If you’re one of 7.5 million saw a if a machine can demonstrate human customers using earbuds, headphones surge in intelligence. This prize, aka the Nobel or speakers from this brand, then your online prize for computing, was awarded to name, email id and address may be searches mathematician Avi Wigderson, for available on the dark web for a mere last week. showing that computers can harness €2. You won’t find oars or sails. Which randomness in algorithms. Name the electronics company suffered a test or the prize. massive data breach?
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Margot Robbie’s company LuckyChap For the world’s youngest billionaires, produced Saltburn, Harley Quinn: wealth has come easy. None of
Birds of Prey, and Barbie. It’s turning them under 30 are self-made and there another childhood staple into a will be more of them in the next two movie. Expect houses and hotels to decades. It signals the first wave of the pop up. Take a chance, name the great wealth transfer. How did they movie, do not pass go, do not make their money? collect $200.
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The godawan could have been
India’s national bird if its common English name didn’t sound so offensive. There are fewer than 150 individuals left.
This led the Supreme Court to recognise a new fundamental right against climate change.
Which great Indian bird?
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Connect the headlines to one
Indian company: A woman got an Eid-related discount for a Navratri special thali; employees now get ‘paw-ternity’ leave; a ‘pawlice’ force will help locate lost pets; an agent was caught stealing shoes from an apartment building in Gurugram.