As we ring the bells of the year, here is a quiz on 2023!
1. If it was MS Dhoni in 2011, James Faulkner in 2015 and Ben Stokes in 2019, who was it in 2023?
2. Munna Qureshi and her team’s rescue of workers trapped in the Uttarakhand tunnel collapse made headlines. What currently banned mining technique was he an expert in?
3. Which acclaimed film released in 2023 is based on a 2005 biography called American Prometheus?
4. Inspired by an old adage that inheritance remained in royal families, what did Prince Harry name his autobiography?
5. The story of which Indian kingdom inspired Salman Rushdie’s “Victory City”?
6. Which pair became the first Indian pair to win an Asian Games gold medal in badminton and the first Indian doubles pair to be ranked world No. 1?
7. Which U.S. bank failure caused ripples across financial markets, the largest U.S. bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis?
8. Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin, Putin’s former confidant, died when his plane crashed near Moscow. What paramilitary organization did he create that played an active role in the war in Ukraine?
9. The Oxford University Press has declared « rizz » as the word of the year 2023. What word was shortened to create rizz?
10. Released November 2sdNow and Then is the latest release from which band officially broke up over fifty years ago?
Answers
1. Travis Head, man of the match in the Cricket World Cup final
2. Rathole mining
3. Oppenheimer
4. Spare, from the adage that all aristocratic families needed an “heir and a replacement.”
5. Vijayanagar
6. Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
7. Silicon Valley Bank
8. The Wagner Group
9. Charisma
10. The Beatles
