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What Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor was granted a peerage in 1917, was the first Minister of Information....

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What was the first satellite put into orbit by the USA?

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What island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean, comprising 32 atolls and one raised coral island......

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What is the name of the golf trophy for competition between teams of professional golfers from Europe and the USA.......

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What was the name given to the series of trials presided over by Judge Jeffreys after the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685....

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What is the estimated length of the year of the newly-discovered earth-like planet KOI-172.02?

posted Dec 7, 2023 by Vishal

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What Spanish city became famous in the middle ages for swords and fine steel?

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The country renamed eSwatini in 2018 was known internationally as what before the change?

posted Dec 7, 2023 by Mohammad

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In what book is King Belshazzar described as seeing the writing on the wall?

posted Dec 6, 2023 by Anil Chaurasiya

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FIDE organised an international championship first held in 2019, followed by an Intercontinental Online Chess........

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Until 2022 the only boycott of a Winter Olympics was at which Games?

posted Dec 6, 2023 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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A succession of referendums have been held for which commonwealth to decide whether, among other options, to become.....

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In motor mechanics, what does "TDC" stand for?

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What was the first name of the political cartoonist known as Hogarth?

posted Dec 5, 2023 by Riteshwar

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What does UAE stand for?

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Who became the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, as the result.........

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Where is the Great Man-Made River?

posted Dec 5, 2023 by Anamika

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The IWC, an international body established in 1946, is concerned with what activity?

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Which 1961 film, originally designed to star Marilyn Monroe, then Shirley MacLaine, then Kim Novak, eventually went.....

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The thymol derivatives concentrated in the roots of which flowering plant are used in ointments for strains, sprains....

posted Dec 4, 2023 by Vikram Luthra

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When was curling first played as a Winter Olympic sport?

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Which was the earliest to be an influential figure in the development of ballet as a performance art?

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Who were the contenders in the longest cricket test match ever played?

posted Dec 4, 2023 by Harshita Dhaliwal

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Marabi, a form of South African music popular 1920s-1940s, was characterised by restless, rebellious energy.........

posted Dec 1, 2023 by Rahul Chandel

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What is the name of mid-ocean ridge which separates much of north America from Africa and Europe?

posted Dec 1, 2023 by Sandeep Otari

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What is the early English name for the road that went from London through Lincoln and York to Hadrian's Wall?

posted Dec 1, 2023 by Ankur Athari

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What is the name for the middle part of the nose that separates the nostrils?

posted Dec 1, 2023 by Upma

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To recuse somebody, or to recuse oneself, from making a judgement implies that a potential problem is seen. Of what?

posted Dec 1, 2023 by Varuna Magar

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What is another name for a zucchini?

posted Nov 30, 2023 by Nikhil Pandey

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Kelly Slater is both the youngest and oldest person to hold the world title in what sport?

posted Nov 30, 2023 by Pardeep Kohli

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Who were, respectively, the first conductor and Artistic Director of the Glyndebourne Opera?

posted Nov 30, 2023 by Ujjwal Mehra

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The Volta River flows from central Ghana to where?

posted Nov 30, 2023 by Sandeep Bedi

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Erik Satie's three Gymnopédies were written in 1888 for which musical instrument?

posted Nov 30, 2023 by Pankaj Deshmukh

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In North American history, who was "The Flemish Bastard"?

posted Nov 29, 2023 by Manish Tiwari

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In digital typesetting programmes what is the name for a unit which holds printing information and instructions?

posted Nov 29, 2023 by Puneet Batra

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What is the Pink Lake, or Lake Retba, in Senegal particularly known for?

posted Nov 29, 2023 by Sidharth Malhotra

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In 2022 a number of international sports bodies banned events in Russia (and, in some cases, Belarus)...............

posted Nov 29, 2023 by Amarvansh

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What is looked for in the blue-tinged igneous rock called "kimberlite"?

posted Nov 29, 2023 by Madhavi Latha

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What is the name used in the USA for the board game that the English call "draughts"?

posted Nov 28, 2023 by Parampreet Kaur

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What is "stinkhorn"?

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What popular name was given to the 7th Armoured Division of the British Army in World War II?

posted Nov 28, 2023 by Brijesh Talwar

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If you travelled downstream along the main outflow from Lake Victoria, which forms part of the borders of Uganda........

posted Nov 28, 2023 by Saif Khanam

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Which area, which translates as "the land of five rivers", is on the border between India and Pakistan?

posted Nov 28, 2023 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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Which is an acute disease that affects humans and animals, caused by inhaling or ingesting bacterial spores that........

posted Nov 27, 2023 by Kuldeep Apte

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What is a dish that originated in 19th-century Russia, of sautéed pieces of beef served in a sauce with sour cream?

posted Nov 27, 2023 by Karan Joglekar

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When archery was included for the first time at the Summer Olympics, in 1900, how many nations competed?

posted Nov 27, 2023 by Aastha Joshi

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US TV personality Jerry Springer was once mayor of which city?

posted Nov 27, 2023 by Samardeep Acharya

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Although the modern Olympic Games was established for competition by amateurs, full professionals began to be admitted..

posted Nov 27, 2023 by Samardeep Acharya

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Serengeti National Park is on what continent?

posted Nov 24, 2023 by Aarati Mahajan

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What is "The Book of Margery Kempe" (ca 1440)?

posted Nov 24, 2023 by Simranjeet Singh