A A week of firsts, highs and other delights
A lot has happened this month, a lot more this week. Have you been tuning in?
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On Monday, Spacex deployed a record-breaking 143 satellites into orbit aboard the Falcon 9 rocket. Which space agency held the previous record for most satellites on a single mission, when it launched 104 satellites into orbit in 2017?
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The Bidens’ two best friends made headlines when they moved into the White House with the first family. One is named Champ. The other Major. Major was rescued but neither fought in a war. Who are they?
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Last week, Kamlas, Kamalas and Kamalams were give free entry into
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which amusement park for one day, in honour of Kamala Harris being Bridgerton has been viewed by over elected the first woman vicepresident 82 million households and is now of the US? (The clue is, Netflix’s biggest show ever. But curiously, in her name.) which long-running medical drama,
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that pitted Mcsteamy against
Last Sunday, 20-year-old Shrishti Mcdreamy, put showrunner Shonda Goswami reviewed government Rhimes on the map?
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programmes, presided over
Bhanu presentations on crime records, and No breather for Delhiites! First
Kapil addressed issues related to women smog, and now fog. A new study by
just won and child safety, drug use and hill researchers at IIT Madras found the
one of migration in Uttarakhand. What was major cause for low visibility in the
Britain’s her designation for the day? winter months to be the burning of
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most this man-made material. It’s found
prestigious He’s 73, sold over 350 million books everywhere and can live forever. poetry and is deemed the Master of Horror. Which?
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honours. Billy Summers will be the latest to
Why is it join the ranks of Carrie, Cujo and It clocked over 4 million registrations
unique? Dolores Claiborne as the titular on Google Play Store before its character of his new novel. release on Republic Day. Gameplay Who? involves fighting the enemy at India’s
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border, wielding a club, pipe or axe. Bhanu Kapil became the You can also punch and kick, but you 27th recipient of the cannot shoot! Name the game.
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prestigious TS Eliot poetry prize last week for Troubled videogame retailer How to Wash a Heart, Gamestop’s market value soared which explores the from $2 billion to $24 billion complex dynamics overnight, when millions of amateur between an traders collectively invested in a immigrant and her stock that Wall Street designed to fail. white host. On which now famous Reddit board What makes her was the plan hatched. achievement special?