This is an archive article published on July 13, 2024
Premium

Express News Quiz: Ambanis, Batman vs Biden & Arunachal’s Siang protests

How well do you know this week’s headlines? Take our news quiz to find out.

indian express news quiz july 12 2024A certain Batman, bride and 'baller feature on this week's Express News Quiz.
Written by: Nayanika Mukherjee
2 min readNew DelhiJul 15, 2024 03:22 PM IST First published on: Jul 13, 2024 at 09:00 AM IST

With the kinds of denial floating around these days, this might as well be Egypt. This author speaks not only of India, but of global leaders and flagrant choices that continually place the common man second to profits and pretty faces. Juvenal’s lines, written in Satire X some 2000 years ago, come to mind when reading headlines today:

“… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.”

Advertisement

You might remember that bread and circuses (‘panem et circenses’), or the idea of superficial appeasement keeping a miserable population busy, was the central theme of the dystopian Hunger Games series.

On that cheerful note, let’s see this week’s news quiz. To get your final score, you must attempt all 10 questions. Good luck, and see you on the other side:

More from Express Puzzles & Games

BEGINNERS | The IE Mini Crossword, made with Indian English

MEDIUM | Digital Sudoku with pen, pencil and checking tools

EXPERT | Chess strategy puzzle: find best moves, solve trivia

Latest Comment
Post Comment
Read Comments