10Q (Mar 12, 2024)

1. Formed in 2019 by Andre Ventura, a guy who likes to make the Nazi salute, a right-wing populist party named Chega (meaning 'Enough') won 48 out of 230 seats in the legislature of which country in election results declared on March 11, 2024? That was four times the 12 seats they won during the previous elections in 2022!

2. This new plaything (pic below) is starting to gain a lot of ground on social media and in real life. Called Shashibo, its 36 rare earth magnets allow the cube to be taken apart and re-constituted into 70 different forms. Shashibo is an acronym (by syllables, not letters) whose expansion is pretty much a description of the toy. What does Shashibo expand to?

3. The map below gives you the global office distribution of what 'enterprise mobility solutions' company founded and headed by a man of Goan origin, Carl Rodrigues?



4. 1904-1967: Lyttelton Township
1967-1995: Verwoerdburg
1995-present: what name derived from the name of a cricket ground?

5. The End of the Road World Tour, which began on January 31, 2019, in Vancouver, Canada and concluded on December 2, 2023 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, was the final concert tour by the American rock band [X]. It has also been referred to as 'One Last [X]'. Which band? 

6. The event being promoted by the poster below is held annually in the locations and around the times mentioned on it. What is the word blanked out, which refers to a family of creatures called Lampyridae?

7. The word used for the object you see at this Victorian woman's waist – a decorative clasp or hook from which chains holding a watch, purse, keys, etc. were suspended – is a word referring to the lady of the manor (who would generally be in charge of the keys to the household, its petty finances, timetables, etc. What is the 10-letter word, derived directly from the French?



8. Known as the Huntress, this DC Comics character's 'real' name is Helena [X]. In an alternative universe established in the early 1960s and referred to as 'Earth-Two', she is the daughter of a superhero and his enemy-turned-ally lover. What is [X]?

9. A candi (pronounced [tʃandi]) is a Hindu or Buddhist temple in Indonesia. In Thailand a Buddhist stupa is called a chedi. Both these terms are reckoned to have evolved from what Sanskrit term for a hall within a stupa (or the stupa itself) such as the one shown below, which is at Bhaja Caves near Pune?

10. Below are two versions of the flag of Gilead, an autocratic religious nation, that appear in the television adaptation of a famous 1985 novel. The first one is seen while the story is set in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the second, more fascistic one appears after the narrative shifts to Washington DC. Name the novel.

Answers
1. Portugal
2. Shape Shifting Box
3. SOTI
4. Centurion
5. Kiss
6. Fireflies

7. Chatelaine
8. Wayne (will accept Kyle)

9. Chaitya
10. 'The Handmaid's Tale'