How much do you know about current events in India and the U.S.? Try this short quiz!
1. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal issued an executive order permitting businesses and agencies to refuse service to gay couples on religious grounds.
2. Padmasree Warrior, the chief technology and strategy
officer at Cisco Systems, announced that she has accepted
a position with the NBA team that shares her name: the
Golden State Warriors.
3. A New Jersey man won $1.5 million in Las Vegas
betting that Indian-American contestants would be
co-champions of the National Spelling Bee.
4. An Indian-American student in Texas graduated
from high school with eight associate degrees earned at a
community college.
5. Delhi billionaire Bhanwarlal Raghunath Doshi gave
up his business empire to become a Jain monk.
Compiled and partly written by Indian humorist MELVIN DURAI, author of the novel Bala Takes the Plunge.
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