Time for November's first quiz!

WORKOUTABLES is not a routine quiz that merely tests your memory. This one is work-outable by thinking through popular relevant facts from current news. Here we go...

Can you identify this place? Look at question number four for clues.

1. Arm wrestling tournaments worldwide are held in different categories where players are classified based on their age, gender, weight class and a fourth category X. Find X.

2. The tips tend to be flaky and can break off easily, posing a danger as they might float into someone's nose or eyes. Also, both the lead and wood were flammable and can be a fire risk, something they were keen to avoid. These are two reasons explaining why what a popular urban myth suggested was in fact dangerous and never happened in reality. What are we talking about?

3. As part of the 11,000 page charge-sheet filed against him, X was even booked under the Railway Act, because X entered a railway station’s premises without obtaining a ticket. Who is X?

4. This is a place (refer photo) called Wadi Rum in Jordan. It is famous for its red sands and barren landscape. Its popularity as a tourist destination increased so much recently that it is now featured prominently in a tourism advertisement for Jordan. Where would you have seen Wadi Rum recently?

5. It was always difficult being X and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee, a husband and father of three school-age children. While X grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.” Who is X? And this is the promotional message for what?

 

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1. Stronger hand. Right handers / left handers play in separate categories.

2. The myth that the Americans spent billions of dollars on developing the Fisher Space pen, while Russians gave their cosmonauts a pencil. This is untrue.

3. Ajmal Kasab, the terrorist convicted in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks

4.  In the film The Martian. Scenes set in Mars were shot in Wadi Rum.

5. X : Harry Potter. Promotional message for ‘Harry Potter and the cursed child’. New sequel to the Harry Potter books in the form of a play to be premiered next year.

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