Questionable by The Wire is a mosaic of the fortnight’s developments, featuring coverage from the mainstream press as well as off the beaten path, and ensuring a special focus on fighting misinformation.
Take this second edition of our fortnightly quiz and see if you’re as caught up with the news as you think you are! Send in your answers to questionable@thewire.in.
This edition is set by Amrit B.L.S. and Anirudh S.K. Scroll to the end for the correct answers to our previous edition!
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1. An early step towards a uniform civil code was the passage of the Hindu Code Bills in parliament in the 1950s, which sought to reform Hindu personal law to forbid bigamy and allow divorce, among other things.
Which one of these politicians was opposed to the Hindu Code Bills?
a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) B.R. Ambedkar
c) Rajendra Prasad
d) C. Rajagopalachari
2. Just four male tennis players received the top seed billing at Wimbledon between 2003 and 2022. That streak ended with the current edition, for which Carlos Alcaraz is the top seed. Who are the four legendary players that were top seeds in that period?
3. Riots in France – that led to millions of euros in damage to public transport and over a thousand arrests in a single day – have finally abated. Members of the country’s public were outraged by the lethal police shooting of a teenager named Nahel M., and blamed the country’s police forces for being systematically racist.
Which one of these former colonies of France did Nahel trace his ancestry to?
a) Morocco
b) Algeria
c) Vietnam
d) Madagascar
4. This pop icon’s ongoing tour is projected to earn $1 billion by the time it ends in August next year. If so, it could be the highest-grossing concert tour of all time, sending Elton John’s ‘Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour’ to second place. Name the artist and the tour.
5. Which one of these is the correct astronomical significance of the date July 2, 2023?
a) Middle day of the year
b) Longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere
c) The day the Earth is farthest from the Sun
d) The day the Earth is closest to the Sun
6. Ajit Pawar, a member of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), split the party and joined the BJP-led Maharashtra state government with at least eight MLAs. He has also claimed the NCP’s name and election symbol.
What is the party’s election symbol?
a) Right hand palm
b) Hammer, sickle and star
c) Analog alarm clock
d) Torchlight
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Correct answers to our last edition:
1. D
2. Halogens
3. D
4. Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)
5. A
6. C
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Congratulations to these respondents, who sent in their answers to our pilot edition!
1. Nalini Nayak
2. Reema Jamal
3. Asma Menon
4. Sonit Surana
5. فجر اورنگزیب [Fajr Aurangzeb]
6. Jayadeep Mir
