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Nile, to protect their secret from being monetized Reader’s Digest
and abused. Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood,
it also features KiKi Layne and Chiwetel Ejiofor. A still from
UNHINGED
In what’s being considered one of the first
movies to be released in theatres in the wake
of the coronavirus crisis, the psychological
thriller UNHINGED is scheduled for release on
31 July. The film depicts a road-rage incident
that turns ugly and has severe repercussions
for a divorced, single mother who comes to
be stalked, harrowed and tormented by a
mentally unstable stranger in the aftermath
of the incident. Directed by Derrick Borte,
the film stars Russell Crowe, Caren Pistorius
and Gabriel Bateman.

#WATCHLIST: this timely series siblings land them
0N OUR RADAR streaming from in hot water: While
8 July on Netflix. some end up in the
past, others find
Stateless: The lives of The Umbrella Academy themselves in the
four strangers clash in middle of a nuclear
an immigration centre Season 2: In this sea- apocalypse. Strea-
in the middle of an son, the time-disrup- ming from 31 July
Australian desert in ting activities of the on Netflix.
superpowered

A scene Japan Sinks: 2020:
from Japan
Sinks: 2020 This animated series
sees Japan being ra-
vaged by catastrophic
earthquakes, and the
efforts of several fa-
milies to escape and
survive this annihila-
tion. Streaming from
9 July on Netflix.

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Books

Shaheen Bagh and the Idea of India, edited by
Seema Mustafa, Speaking Tiger Books

In December 2019, important questions: Scope Out book covers courtesy: speaking tiger books, hachette india (2)
Shaheen Bagh was not Can the Shaheen Bagh
just a protest venue, in movement undo the COVID-19: The
a corner of south Delhi, damage done to Indian Pandemic that Never
against the Citizenship democracy? How did Should Have Happened,
Amendment Act, it the non-violent move- and How to Stop the
became a symbol of ment sustain itself? Next One (Hachette):
resistance for the entire Will the movement
nation. As the protest continue to inspire Debora MacKenzie
gained momentum, more such solidarities tells the story of how
the backlash was also in future?
swift and brutal. the pandemic un-
folded, and how to
This anthology, prevent future ones.
featuring ground
reports, essays and The Pull of the Stars
interviews of some (Pan Macmillan India):
of the brave women
of Shaheen Bagh, by Set in 1918 Dublin,
journalists, authors, Emma Donaghue tells
social activists and
scholars, is essential the story of three
reading. It raises health-care workers
who come together
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
in a hospital.
(Hachette India): Set against the
backdrop of a psychedelic London The Peppermint Tea
in 1967, Utopia Avenue depicts a Chronicles (Hachette):
band’s brief blaze of glory, before
they embark on a journey to In Alexander McCall
America, where psychedelia was Smith’s latest book,
morphing into something more Stuart revives an old
sinister, stimulated by drugs. It is friendship, while Ber-
a celebration of music and a swan- tie and his friend have
song to a vibrant era on the wane. an unexpected adven-
ture in the circus.

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Funny People Culturescape

Danish Sait speeches during
the lockdown, to
Absurdity is what His sketches the US ban on H-1B
Bengaluru-based draw upon a bunch visas. Sait’s revolving
Danish Sait draws of contemporary cast of characters,
upon for his comedy. themes—from developed from his
The 33-year-old’s on- the Prime radio-jockey days, is
line videos have been Minister’s funny and memorable.
a laughter riot—cap-
turing the eccentrici- Though they are
ties, obsessions and mostly parodies of
frustrations of these
times. Little won- common, working-
der then that many class people of
of Sait’s sketches Bengaluru, they
on Twitter and hold true for other
TikTok have Indian cities too,
gone viral, capturing audiences
winning in Chennai, Mumbai
him instant or Delhi.
fame and
fandom. Given how
prolific he is, and

how popular his
sketches are, his
phenomenal
following is har-
dly surprising.

courtesy: youtube Historic milestones motion and gravita- Norfolk, England.
in politics, science tion, is published in
THROWBACK and publishing Latin on 5 July 1867. ÊThe Catcher In
the Rye published:
ÊLaws of motion ÊPrincess Diana The beloved work
and gravitation born: Diana, by J. D. Salinger
come to light: Isaac Princess of Wales, is published
Newton’s Principia, is born Diana as a novel by
containing his foun- Frances Spencer Little, Brown
dational laws of on 1 July 1961, in on 16 July 1951.

—COMPILED BY SAPTAK CHOUDHURY

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REVIEW

A Worthy Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby
Follow-Up
world now appears her show before
Articulate and to be reminded of the going on to expertly
insightful, though not iniquities of racism). deliver it nonetheless.
as powerful as Nanette,
Gadsby’s Netflix The show is named
Hannah Gadsby’s show was cathartic, after the rectouterine
Douglas is still a eye-opening, emo- pouch, a feature of
tional—taking a flame- the female body, laid
treat to watch thrower, for instance, claim to by Scottish
to society’s reverence anatomist James Doug-
By Shougat Dasgupta of Picasso as a transfor- las—a typical example,
mative artist while Gadsby says, of patriar-
AUSTRALIAN comedian ignoring his history chal entitlement.
of violent misogyny.
Hannah Gadsby’s ex- Douglas lacks the
traordinary Sydney But Nanette was not coruscating originality
Opera House perfor- about cancel culture of Nanette, but it re-
mance of Nanette—her so much as a viscerally mains a treat to watch
intense concoction of expressed plea to be Gadsby, particularly
comedy, drama, story- heard, for the right to her excursions into
telling, art history, be heard. In Douglas, art history, her mock
social commentary her Netflix follow-up, despair at what great
and feminist, outsider Gadsby is less perfor- art reveals about the
anger—became an matively angry, less predilections of men
international Netflix abrasive but also less and her very real des-
hit. Articulate, intelli- interesting. Her stylish pair about who gets to
gent, insightful and opening gambit is to make art and who gets
provocative, Gadsby set up the structure of to tell their story.
tapped into a post-
#MeToo vein, her
Netflix special airing
just as the world ap-
peared to be waking up
to the iniquities of the
patriarchy (just as the

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Culturescape

STUDIO

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Louis Pasteur there and set up the delicate use of light co-
by Albert Edelfelt scene with Pasteur’s ming through from an
consent)—his labora- unseen window—with
Oil on canvas, tory in the rue d’Ulm, a touch of the tech-
60 X 50 inches, 1885 Paris, amidst his nique of chiaroscuro—
equipment. realistically highlights
LOUIS PASTEUR Pasteur’s grace, poise
It captures a signifi- and thoughtful expres-
was among the cant moment—the sion, while conducting
medical luminaries, scientist holding a jar this experiment.
alongside Robert containing the nerve
Koch, Pierre-Paul- tissue of a rabbit in- The popular portrait
Émile Roux and fected with rabies, is currently housed in
Ferdinand Cohn, which he would use the Musée d'Orsay
who changed micro- to develop and test the museum in Paris.
biology forever, with rabies vaccine. The
their important con- —BY SAPTAK CHOUDHURY
tributions. Not only
did Pasteur’s findings readersdigest.in 103
lend overwhelming
support to the germ
theory of disease,
he also discovered
pasteurization, a
technique to treat
bacterial contami-
nation in milk and
wine, and the first
vaccine for rabies.

In the lifelike por-
trait of Pasteur, the
Finnish artist Albert
Edelfelt pictures the
scientist in his natural
habitat (Edelfelt
himself was present

ME & MY SHELF

Manjula Padmanabhan is an
author, playwright, artist and
cartoonist. She won the 1997
Onassis Award for Theatre, in
Greece, for her play Harvest. Her
comic strip Sukiyaki appears in
Chennai’s BusinessLine. Her books
include The Island of Lost Girls and
two collections of plays, Blood And
Laughter and Laughter And Blood.

Alice’s Adventures animals. This visual device heightens photo: manjula padmanabhan
in Wonderland and the pathos and suspense, whilst also
Through the Looking Glass providing a soft, self-deprecating hu-
mour: The Jews are mice, for instance,
BYLEWIS CARROLL,Penguin Classics, `250 while the Nazis are cats.
These two small books contain a vast
universe of ideas—about a child’s limit- The Gormenghast Trilogy
less imagination of finding friends and
battling fears. About the games that rule BY MERVYN PEAKE, Vintage Classics,
all our lives, the mirrors that distort `1,099 The name Gormenghast belongs
reality and the delights of fantasy. to a vast, stony castle. The trilogy, begin-
ning with the birth of Titus Groan, the
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale 77thEarl of Gormenghast, follows Groan,
the castle’s rituals and its unforgettable
BYART SPIEGELMAN, denizens. The language has a mind-al-
tering quality, with elements of humour
Penguin UK, `999 and horror, sweetness and tragedy.
A searing representa-
tion, told through The Sea of Fertility
drawings, of Jews living
through the horror- BYYUKIO MISHIMA, Penguin Modern
years of Nazi Germany. Classics, `17,365 The four novels in this
Most of the characters tetralogy combine extreme beauty with
are represented as

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exquisite pain through the life of its pro- Cuckold
tagonist, Shigekuni Honda. He follows
a thread of love that spans four different BYKIRAN NAGARKAR,
lives, in successive reincarnations. It is
a breathtaking exploration of human HarperCollins Publishers,
longing, desire and loss. `599 Set in 16th-century
Mewar, the story follows the
Gödel, Escher, Bach: life of Maharaj Kumar. He is
An Eternal Golden Braid based on a historical char-
acter, Bhoj Raj, but he speaks to us
BYDOUGLAS HOFSTADTER, Basic Books, in the familiar voice of a modern man.
`999 It has been described as a gymna- He is warm and charming, but his wife
sium for the intellect—and it is! The is the legendary Meerabai, in love
author dissects human intelligence forever with Lord Krishna. A story
with dazzling wordplay, puzzles of of impossible, immortal love.
logic and mathematical riddles.
The Watchmen
The Night
Circus BYALAN MOORE AND DAVID GIBBONS,

BY ERIN DC Comics, `1,199 It’s a novel, told via
MORGENSTERN, comic-book imagery, about a group of
retired superheroes. When one of the
Vintage, `399 group’s members is mysteriously mur-
A magical tale, set in dered, another member, Rorschach,
the US and Europe, attempts to expose what he believes is
about two powerful a monstrous government conspiracy.
sorcerers and their battle for supre- Densely plotted, with multilayered
macy. The story spans several decades, storylines, it is as clever as it is prophetic:
starting in the early 20thcentury, skip- [spoiler alert] New York is almost des-
ping back and forth in time. It is centred troyed in a monstrous attack.
on the circus—a thrilling, dream-
inspiring confection. The Magus

The Alexandria Quartet BYJOHN FOWLES, Vintage Classics, `499
The novel unfolds like a beautiful,
BYLAWRENCE DURRELL, Faber, `1,876 maddening puzzle. Nicholas Urfe,
This story weaves through the lives of a a young Englishman, visits the Greek
dozen characters, in Egypt just before island of Phraxos and becomes
and after World War II. The book is as enmeshed in an elaborate psycho-
much about the philosophical confron- logical game of truth and deception,
tation between the East and the West love and death. It is intense, surreal
as it is about love, power and betrayal. and deeply disturbing.

Book prices are subject to change. —COMPILED BY SAPTAK CHOUDHURY

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THE
GENIUS
SECTION

11 Pages to sharpen

Your Mind

SURFING for
BRAINPOWER

How to avoid being clickbaited by your own brain

106 july 2020 By Daniel T. Willingham

adapted from THE NEW YORK TIMES

Photograph by Joleen Zubek

Reader’s Digest

Y ou can learn anything on the survive because they learnt about their
internet, so why do I so often environments; a forager that occa-
learn things I don’t want to sionally skipped a reliable feeding
know? When I’m surfing the web, I ground to explore might find an even
better place to eat.
want to be drawn in by articles on
Europe’s political history or the Humans, too, will forgo a known
nature of quasars, but I end up pay-off to investigate the unknown.
reading trivia such as a menu In one experiment, subjects were
from Alcatraz prison. Why am asked to choose one of four photos,
I not curious about the things each carrying some chance of paying
I want to be curious about? a cash prize. Photos repeated, so sub-
Curiosity feels as if it’s jects learnt to pick the best-paying, but
outside your control, and when a novel photo popped up, they
trying to direct it sounds as ill- chose it more often than the odds
conceived as forcing yourself dictated they should. This preference
to find a joke funny. But if for novelty is, of course, the reason
you understand what prompts manufacturers periodically tweak
curiosity, you may be able to product packaging and advertising.
channel it a little better.
Across evolutionary time, cu- But it’s good to know about your
environment even if it doesn’t pro-
rious animals were more likely to mise a reward right now; knowledge
may be useless today but vital next
week. Therefore, evolution has left
us with a brain that can reward itself;
satisfying curiosity feels pleasurable,
so you explore the environment even
when you don’t expect any concrete
pay-off. Infants prefer to look at novel
pictures compared with familiar
ones. Preschoolers play longer with a
mechanical toy if it’s difficult to
deduce how it works.

What’s more, curiosity doesn’t
just ensure new opportunities for
learning; it enhances learning itself.
In a recent experiment, subjects
read trivia questions and rated how
curious each made them feel. Later,
they saw the questions again, each

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I WANT TO BE DRAWN
IN BY ARTICLES ON THE
NATURE OF QUASARS,
BUT I END UP READING A
MENU FROM ALCATRAZ.

followed by a photograph of a face, factoid. We’re maximally curious tawatchai prakobkit/getty images
and judged whether that person when we sense that the environment
looked as if he or she would know the offers new information in the right
answer. In a surprise final memory proportion to complement what we
test for the faces, subjects better already know.
remembered those appearing after
trivia questions that made them Note that your brain calculates
curious. Curiosity causes a brain what you might learn in the short
state that amplifies learning. term—your long-term interests aren’t
a factor. That’s why a cardiac surgeon
This function of curiosity—to who is passionate about her job will
heighten memory—is the key to nevertheless find a conference pre-
understanding why we’re curious sentation on the subject boring if her
about some things and not others. brain decides that the talk won’t add
We feel most curious when explo- to her knowledge. Conversely, when
ration will yield the most learning. her friend persuades her to watch a
documentary on type fonts, her brain
Suppose I ask you, “What’s the may calculate that this will be a rich
most common type of star in the source of information—and she finds
Milky Way?” You’ll obviously feel no herself fascinated.
curiosity if you already know the an-
swer. But you’ll also feel little interest It’s that disconnect between long-
if you know nothing about stars; if you and short-term interests that makes
learnt the answer, you couldn’t con- frothy internet articles so frustrating.
nect it to other knowledge, so it would The feeling of curiosity promised you’d
seem nearly meaningless, an isolated learn something and, admittedly, you

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did—now you know French citizens’ feature scores of stories on the front
favourite macaron flavour—but you’re page, banking that one will strike each
disappointed because your new know- reader’s sweet spot of knowledge.
ledge doesn’t contribute to your long- So visit websites that use the same
term interests. You’ve been clickbaited strategy but offer richer content: for
by your own brain. example, JSTOR Daily, Arts & Letters
Daily and ScienceDaily.
If following curiosity results in
disappointment, maybe it shouldn’t And pay more attention to by-
be allowed to take the lead. Why not lines. Curiosity arises from the right
just search for topics you truly want balance of the familiar and the novel.
to learn about? That sounds logical, Naturally, writers vary in what they
but a search for ‘quasars’ will yield assume their audience already knows
thousands of hits and no way of and wants to know; when you find an
knowing which offers the just-right author who tends to have your num-
match to your current knowledge that ber, stick with her.
will maintain your curiosity. You’ll
probably end up like the surgeon at Albert Einstein famously advised
the boring conference talk. a young student to “never lose a holy
curiosity.” Given our evolutionary
If you wish for more serious rea- history, there’s little danger any of
ding when you surf the Web, the op- us will. The challenge is changing its
portunistic approach is actually fine. focus from the momentary to some-
You just need to frequent better thing more enduring.
foraging grounds.
The New York Times (18 october 2019), copyright
Many websites that snare your time ©New York Times, nytimes.com.

Deep Thoughts from the Readers of Reddit.com

Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone was absolutely useless
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When I was a kid, my parents taught me to not believe
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everything they see on Facebook.

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Path Puzzle 2 (PATH PUZZLE) RODERICK KIMBALL; (GO FORTH, SUBTRACT AND MULTIPLY) DARREN RIGBY
Difficult Draw a path that 3
leads from one of the maze’s
openings to the other. As the 4
path winds from one cell to
the next, it can move up, 5
down, left or right but not 5
diagonally. It cannot pass
through any cell more than 634
once. A black number tells
you how many cells the
path passes through in
the corresponding row
or column. A red number
indicates the total number
of cells the path passes
through in the corresponding
row and column. Can you
trace the path?

14 Go Forth, Subtract and Multiply
4 Moderately difficult Fill the whole
25 numbers from 1 to 9 into the cells, using
45 20 25 each number once. If the three numbers
in any given row, from left to right, and the
110 july 2020 three numbers in any column, from top to
bottom, are A, B and C, then the number
provided for that row or column is equal to
(A − B) × C.

reader’s digest

Dominoes
Easy A standard double-six set of 28 dominoes has been arranged into the rectangle
on the right. Can you draw in the lines to show the placement of the dominoes?
We’ve shown each one on the left so you can cross them off as you find them.

(DOMINOES; TRUE BLUE) FRASER SIMPSON True Blue Can you determine each person’s
Moderately difficult Noah, Esmé, shirt colour, and whether or not we
Shubham and Olivia are wearing solid- can expect to see Olivia in a blue
colour shirts. The colours of their four shirt tomorrow?
shirts are red, yellow, green and blue. Only
the person in the blue shirt tells the truth,
while the other three people lie. They make
the following statements:
Noah: “Shubham is wearing a red shirt.”
Esmé: “Noah is not wearing a yellow shirt.”
Shubham: “Esmé is wearing a blue shirt.”
Olivia: “I’m going to wear a blue shirt
tomorrow.”

For answers, turn to PAGE 112

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reader’s digest JIGSAW SUDOKU

BRAINTEASERS
ANSWERS

FROM PAGES 110 & 111 by Jeff Widderich

Path Puzzle 34789

2 98 3
3
48 9
4

5
5

634

Go Forth, Subtract 61 8
and Multiply 1 4

8 6 7 14 76254
3124 6
9 4 5 25
45 20 25 To Solve This Puzzle

Dominoes

Put a number from 1 to 9 in
each empty square so that:

) every horizontal row and SOLUTION
vertical column contains all
True Blue nine numbers (1-9) without 297618534
Esmé is wearing red, Noah repeating any of them; 561347892
is in yellow, Shubham is in 984725163
green and Olivia is in blue. ) each outlined, irregularly 415832679
Olivia will wear a blue shirt shaped zone has all nine 758493216
again tomorrow. numbers, none repeated. 632971458
129586347
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WORD POWER 9. unorthodox adj.
(un-’or-thoh-doks)
At first glance, this month’s words might a not conventional.
not seem like birds of a feather. But each b Eastern.
c beneath the surface.
has an animal name (or two!) nested
inside, the way ‘menagerie’ contains 10. welkin n.
‘nag’. So make a beeline to the quiz, (‘wel-kin)
try to spot the critters, then vamoose a fleece vest.
to the next page for all the answers. b sky.
c accordion.
By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
11. epigram n.
1. dogma n. 5. forbear v. (‘eh-pee-gram)
(‘dog-mah) (for-’bair) a long farewell.
a false belief. a hold back. b witty saying.
b perseverance. b go before. c ghostly presence.
c established opinion. c carry off.
12. malevolent adj.
2. cataract n. 6. simoleon n. (muh-’leh-vuh-lent)
(‘cat-uh-rakt) (sih-’moh-lee-on) a masculine.
a waterfall. a lookalike. b spiteful.
b tomb. b dollar. c good-hearted.
c eyeshade. c coincidence.
13. papeterie n.
3. toponym n. 7. execrable adj. (‘pap-eh-tree)
(‘taw-puh-nim) (‘ek-sih-krih-bull) a poetic meter.
a misprint. a discarded. b letter jumble.
b place name. b immortal. c fancy stationery.
c opposite. c horrible.
14. demur v.
4. escrow n. 8. camellia n. (dih-’mer)
(‘eh-skroh) (kuh-’mee-lee-yuh) a shy away from.
a money held in trust. a flowering shrub. b take exception.
b gross exaggeration. b horned lizard. c strongly imply.
c eviction notice. c love song.
15. clamour v.
(‘klam-er)
a shine brightly.
b demand loudly.
c leave speechless.

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The Canine Islands

You might think the Canary Islands were named for canaries—after
all, the yellow finches are indigenous to the Spanish archipelago.
But ‘Canary’ here actually refers to another animal: the dog. In
Spanish, the islands are called Islas Canarias, derived from the
Latin word for dog, a moniker bestowed by ancient explorers
who reported seeing large canines there. The native songbirds
were named, in essence, after dogs!

Word Power 6. simoleon (b) dollar. 12. malevolent (b) fernando trabanco fotografía/getty images
Ravi was down to his spiteful. Cinderella
ANSWERS last simoleon when wondered why her
Lady Luck arrived. stepsisters looked
1. dogma (c) established so malevolent.
opinion. Galileo’s ideas 7. execrable (c)
challenged the religious horrible. We had 13. papeterie (c)
and scientific dogmas execrable weather fancy stationery. Soniya
of the time. last week: five rainy sent her wedding guests
days in a row! handwritten thank-you
2. cataract (a) waterfall. notes on beautiful
“Canoeing over that 8. camellia (a) papeterie.
cataract would be very flowering shrub. Many
unwise,” warned the people don’t realize 14. demur (b) take
park ranger. that tea is made from exception. You say
camellia leaves. there’s no chance
3. toponym (b) place of winning this game—
name. “Half the topo- 9. unorthodox (a) well, I demur!
nyms on this map are not conventional. Kari’s
unpronounceable,” unorthodox approach to 15. clamour (b)
Farzana grumbled. investing paid off when demand loudly. The
she retired early. protesters clamoured for
4. escrow (a) money held the jailed activist to be
in trust. “I’m afraid there’s 10. welkin (b) sky. released immediately.
not enough in escrow A faint rainbow stretched
to cover the taxes,” said across the welkin.
the lawyer.

5. forbear (a) hold back. 11. epigram (b) witty Vocabulary Ratings
If you’re offering my saying. The poet Dorothy
favourite cookies, how Parker was known for her 9 & below: moderate
can I forbear? biting epigrams. 10–12: swanky
13–15: shrewd

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QUIZ 10. The record for the
fastest non-tornado wind
by Samantha Rideout gust was set during tro-
pical cyclone Olivia in
which country?

1. Swahili, one of the most 6. What actor topped 11. In 2019, Italian artist
widely-spoken languages the 2019 Forbes list of Maurizio Cattelan taped
in Central and East Africa, the most influential what item of fruit to a wall
is the official language of Chinese celebrities? and sold it for US$1,20,000
which country? (₹90,63,480)?
7. In what resort can one
2. Now very rare, thanks race in a Star Wars-themed 12. What kills more
to vaccines, what infec- half-marathon? people worldwide:
tious disease is the reason road accidents or homi-
why Spain remembers 8. Who wrote the follo- cide (including war and
1613 as ‘the year of the wing? “Is there meaning capital punishment)?
strangulations’? to music? ... Yes. And
can you state in so many 13. The person who was
3. Before humans risked words what the meaning born Princess Anne-Marie
flying in a hot-air balloon is? ... No.” of Denmark would now be
themselves, they sent up the queen of which country
which three animals? 9. How old was Greta had it not abolished its
Thunberg when she first monarchy in 1973?
4. Late blight, the plant became an activist?
disease that caused 14. What sport, invented
ANDERS HELLBERG/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Ireland’s Great Famine, in Amsterdam in 1901,
no longer threatens potato requires four men and four
crops. True or false? women on each team?

5. Acclaimed humorist, 15. The ancient Egyptian
Sir P. G. Wodehouse, god Khepri was portrayed
was a big fan of which as what insect, or some-
sport in the early days times, as a man with that
of his career? insect for a head?

Answers: 1. Tanzania. 2. Diphtheria. 3. A sheep, a rooster and a duck. They landed safely.
4. False. 5. Cricket. 6. Actor Wu Jing, star of The Wandering Earth. 7. Disney World. 8. The composer
Aaron Copland. 9. 15 years old. 10. Australia. 11. A banana. 12. Road accidents, which are to
blame for around one in 40 human deaths. 13. Greece. 14. Korfball. 15. A scarab beetle.

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