Would you have guessed this happened in a week?
Temperatures soared, planets aligned, Twitter was bought and chaos ensued. This quiz will take you around the world and back in ten questions
1
The CBSE has excluded several chapters from the syllabi of Classes 10, 11 and 12, including course content on democracy and diversity. Name the peace-keeping Cold War-era movement, pioneered by Nehru, Tito and Nasser, that has also been dropped.
2
For the first time in 1,000 years, people living within 30 degrees of the eastern horizon could see the biggest, the most beautiful, the reddest and the closest planets align in a straight line with the moon. Name the celestial bodies.
3
While Vicon was bid adieu with full state honours by the UP police force, in Ukraine, Patron is emerging a hero. He has located over 150 explosive devices left behind by Russian forces and is paid in fresh cheese for his services. Who are they?
4
Hold all tweets. Elon Musk is on a buying spree. He’s now saying he wants to buy Coca-cola and reintroduce a controversial ingredient from the soft drink’s original recipe. Name the not-so-secret substance.
5
The England Cricket Board hosted its first-ever x at the Lord’s Cricket Ground. Over in India, Shahnawaz Akhtar, a passenger aboard the Howrah-ranchi Shatabdi Express, was also offered x by the catering staff. What is x?
6
Debdatta Chakraborty has been named the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year. The winning photograph features a street-food vendor in Srinagar, engulfed in white smoke, drizzling his skewers with marinade, as sparks fly. What’s cooking?
7
Sonepur in Odisha has been recording very high temperatures. It’s so hot that a local woman found a unique way to make a toasty statement – she got out her roller and roasted this staple on the bonnet of a car. What did she make? 8
This 118-year-old French nun has lived through both World Wars, is the oldest Covid-19 survivor, and is now the oldest person in the world. This pandemic isn’t her first. Which one did Sister André live through a century ago?
9
Don’t you hate it when your luggage causes fellow passengers at the airport to duck under tables and jump onto conveyor belts? What souvenir was an American family carrying at an Israel airport, that prompted authorities to evacuate the area?
10
For about 60 years, this meal sat unattended in the walls of a house in the US. New owners found it during renovations, and were surprised that there was no smell and the fries were still crispy. Name the Happy Meal supplier.