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Question 1 of 5:
In which of these sports did India win 6 gold medals at the 2022 Commonwealth Games?
From July 28 to August 8, nearly 200 Indian athletes competed for medals across 16 different sports at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham.
At CWG 2022, Indian athletes won 61 medals, 22 golds, 16 silvers and 23 bronze, at the Commonwealth Games 2022. India’s dominance was most evident on the wrestling mat, where it secured 12 medals — 6 gold, 1 silver, 5 bronze.
The answer is- Wrestling
Question 2 of 5:
In the movie 'Raksha Bandhan' Akshay Kumar plays the role of Lala Kedarnath the eldest and only brother of how many sisters?
Raksha Bandhan (transl. The bond of protection) is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Aanand L. Rai and written by Himanshu Sharma and Kanika Dhillon. The film is produced by Zee Studios, Colour Yellow Productions and Cape of Good Films and stars Akshay Kumar, Bhumi Pednekar, Sadia Khateeb, Sahejmeen Kaur, Smrithi Srikanth and Deepika Khanna.
Lala Kedarnath is the eldest and only brother of four sisters named Gayatri, Durga, Laxmi and Saraswati, runs a chat shop name as Premlata Chat Bhandar that was started by his grandfather.
The answer is- 4
Question 3 of 5:
Shashi Tharoor has recently been bestowed with which of these honours?
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (French: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, it has been retained by all later French governments and régimes.
The order's motto is Honneur et Patrie ("Honour and Fatherland"), and its seat is the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur next to the Musée d'Orsay, on the left bank of the Seine in Paris.
The French government honoured him with its highest honour, ‘Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur’, for his writings and speeches.
The answer is- Legion of Honour
Question 4 of 5:
Name this adventure sport
Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. The pilot sits in a harness or lies supine in a cocoon-like 'pod' suspended below a fabric wing.
Despite not using an engine, paraglider flights can last many hours and cover many hundreds of kilometres, though flights of one to two hours and covering some tens of kilometres are more the norm.
The answer is- Paragliding
Question 5 of 5:
In which US state (the 49th) is this historical building located?
Brown & Hawkins is a general store in Seward, Alaska. It was founded in 1904 to serve the town and those constructing of the Alaska Central Railroad, and has been the oldest continuously operating business in Seward. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It was announced in 2013 that the owners were retiring without finding anyone to buy their business.
Brown & Hawkins was a business venture between partners Charles E. Brown of Montreal, Quebec, Canada and T.W. Hawkins of Roanoke, Virginia.
Alaska (/əˈlæskə/ (listen) ə-LAS-kə; Russian: Аляска, romanized: Alyaska; Aleut: Alax̂sxax̂; Inupiaq: Alaaskaq; Alutiiq: Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: Alaskaq; Tlingit: Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America.
Alaska - Capital Juneau
Governor - Mike Dunleavy (R)
The answer is- Alaska
