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lThird year

The week that was!

Rules:• 1: +10 for direct• 2: +20/-10 on pounce

Q1. Easy• I bagged the 1 st gold medal for India in the ongoing commonwealth

game. Who am I? • Complete name please

ANS• Sanjita Khumukcham (weight lifting)

Q2. • Which country became the first nation to legalise child labour from

the age of 10 this week?

HINT: south American nation

ANS• Bolivia

Q3• India’s test victory at lord’s this year has startling parallels with the

1986 version.• Mumbai batsmen Rahane scored hundred this time, who scored

then?• Who was the counterpart of Alastair cook then?

Half point available

Ans• Dilip Vensarkar• David gower

Q4

• Who plays the role of Megara,1 st wife of the Hercules in the Dwayne jhonson starrer Hercules?

• Hint: You all know her!

ANS• Irina Shayak

Q5. easy again

• He represented England in diving event of commonwealth games 1990 • Finishing 8 th • In 1998 he made a new start with the movie Lock , stock and two

smoking barrels.

Ans• Jason Statham

Q6• Which nation was recently given green light by European union to

adopt euro as it’s currency and become the 19 th member?

Ans• Lithuania

Q7• What has been blacked out?

It is named after the Siamese word for thunder god

Ans• Typhoon Rammasun

Q8• An ongoing epidemic of ________ virus disease has spread

throughout the western part of Africa leading to 661 reported deaths . Recently spread to continent’s most populous nation Nigeria,4 th of the list . Which virus or disease is being talked about?

Ans • Ebola

Q9• Who won the German GP of 2014? Name the track.

ANSNico rosberg• Hockenheimring

Q10• CONNECT

Ans• Insurance companies of the crashed airlines• Lloyd’s of London-Malaysian airlines(Ukraine incident)• AIG-Turkish airways (Algeria incident)• Cathy- Transasia( Tunisia incident)