Quiz – Week Twelve

Question 1

Every year, 23 December marks the contributions of which group of people in India? Despite being central to our survival, they are almost always in the margins of mainstream dialogue.

Question 2

The San Paolo Stadium, the home of football club SSC Napoli in Naples, Italy will be renamed in tribute to whom?

Question 3

The history of how this day in the United States came to be can be attributed to multiple sources. It has now been sanitised to represent only one source – that after operating at losses through the year, retailers see profits because of the sales they make on this day and the period following it. Which day?

Question 4

Ahmedabad, Chandola Lake, Aslali, Navagam, Matar, Nadiad, Anand, Napa, Borsad, Ras, Kanakpura, Kareli, Gujera, Ankhi, Jambusar, Amod, Buva, Samni, Trasla, Derol, Bharuch, Ankleshwar, Sajod, Mangrol, Rayma, Umrachi, Ertham, Bhatgam, Sandhier, Delad, Chhaprabhatha, Surat, Dindoli, Vanz, Dhaman, Navsari, Vejalpore, Matwad, and _____. If one had travelled through these places between March and April 2020, one would be marking 90 years of which historic journey?

Question 5

When the National Register of Citizens for the state of Assam was published in 2018, Syeda Anowara Taimur found herself excluded. Why did this exclusion create a buzz?

Question 6

With 23 Grand Slam titles, who is the most successful tennis player in the Open Era? If wins across the history of competitive tennis are taken to account, this player is only one behind the highest number of title wins.

Question 7

Which East Asian country is home to the Chrysanthemum Throne – the world’s oldest surviving hereditary monarchy?

Question 8

Starting in 1991, a folded red ribbon has been used to create awareness and invoke compassion about what?

Question 9

Which Indian company has named its Australian business ‘Bravus Mining and Resources’. The word ‘bravus’ in Latin means crooked, which has been argued, aptly describes this company’s activities in Australia.

Question 10

In 2019, Oxford University Press, declared which word as its Hindi Word of the Year? According to them, this word represented ‘a people’s document, given to the people, by the people’.

Answers

1. It is National Farmers Day. 23 December is the birth date of the former Prime Minister of India, Chaudhary Charan Singh, who was also a farmer.
2. Diego Maradona. The stadium may soon be called the San Paolo Diego Armando Maradona Stadium.
3. Black Friday.
4. The Dandi March. One can trace the March on Google Earth and learn more about what happened at every village.
5. Syeda Anowara Taimur was the Chief Minister of Assam from 1980 to 1981. She passed away in September 2020.
6. Serena Williams. Margaret Court holds the highest number of title wins at 24. To know more about how the Open Era came to being, one can read this article.
7. Japan.
8. AIDS. 1 December is World AIDS Day.
9. Adani. To know more about the Stop Adani Movement, visit their website.
10. Samvidhan (Constitution).