Which actor, who passed away recently?
Mar 31, 2011
Q.182
Mar 30, 2011
Q.181
Which company and what will be marked thus?
Q.181 India-Pakistan Oldie Special
(this is one of those questions where I am only 90% sure of being right. Write in if you find any flaws.)
Mar 29, 2011
Q.180
Which car maker? (image courtesy: IN Auto News)
Mar 28, 2011
Q.179
Who are they and what did they not want people to see?
Mar 27, 2011
Q.178
The family of the original author have authorised writer Frank Cottrell Boyce to write a sequel, the first in a series of three. This time, it will feature a Volkswagen van. What book?
Mar 26, 2011
Q.177
He recently released his latest album, also ornithologically titled, called "Rare Bird Alert". Who is this comedian?
Mar 25, 2011
Q.176
2010:Suman Sridhar:Kalki Koechlin:Imran Khanthen
1973:Mohammad Rafi:Priya Rajvansh:?Identify both the missing person and the connection between these two sets.
Mar 24, 2011
Q.175
What?
Mar 23, 2011
Q.174
Mar 22, 2011
Q.173
Mar 21, 2011
Q.172
The column breathed its last in Feb 2011, thanks to a change in editorship of the magazine. This has resulted in lots of protests by its loyal readers, and has resulted in the inevitable Facebook campaign to bring it back. The new editor has now indicated that there may be plans to revive the column in the future.
So what is the (simple) name of this column?
Mar 20, 2011
Q.171
Image source: Bloomberg and Asahi Shimbun
Mar 19, 2011
Q.170
1. "___ Story:the true account of a rape and its aftermath" (1998)
2. "Bitter Chocolate: child sexual abuse in India" (2000)
3. "Once was Bombay" (1999)
4. "Deaf Heaven" (2009)
Her first book was back in the news this year. Who is this, or what's the missing blank?
Mar 18, 2011
Q.169
What was chosen to be lifted by these balloons, and why?
(Question inspired by this Telegraph article)
Mar 17, 2011
Q.168
So who was his companion on this trip?
Question courtesy Harsh Nene
Mar 16, 2011
Q.167
This was in response to the slogan 'Stronger ____ Build Bridges of Peace'. Which event?
Mar 15, 2011
Q.166
Mar 14, 2011
Q.165
What kind of intrusions, commonly seen in houses and removed by simple cleaning, was at fault?
Mar 13, 2011
Q.164
Mar 12, 2011
Q.163
A guy goes to a psychiatrist, who tells him, 'You’re crazy.'Who?
He says, 'I want a second opinion.'
'You’re ugly.'
Mar 11, 2011
Q.162
The music and lyrics are by two very influential rock stars. According to the New York Post (via Wikipedia), once when musical composer Andrew Lloyd Webber joked "I’d like to thank rock musicians for leaving me alone for 25 years – I’ve had the theater all to myself", they "decided to give Andrew a little competition" and began work on this.
Who are these two gentlemen?
Mar 10, 2011
Q.161
So who is in this campaign?
Mar 9, 2011
Q.160
Hurley, I; Hershlag, N; Woodward, J (October 1998). "A Simple Method to Demonstrate the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen from Sugar". Journal of Chemical Education 75 (10): 1270.Baird, AA; Kagan, J; Gaudette, T; Walz, KA; Hershlag, N; Boas, DA (August 2002). "Frontal lobe activation during object permanence: data from near-infrared spectroscopy". NeuroImage 16 (4): 1120–6. doi:10.1006/nimg.2002.1170. PMID 12202098.
Mar 8, 2011
Q.159
Recently presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at India's first ever Comics Convention, Anant Pai was working with ACK media who now publish the Amar Chitra Katha books. Apart from "Editor Emeritus", what was 'Uncle' Pai's other designation at the company?
Mar 7, 2011
Q.158
So now, if a TV programme shows this "P" sign at the beginning and end of the show, what will it indicate the show contains?
(Image: Ofcom)
Mar 6, 2011
Q.157
So what are the Iranians complaining about?
Mar 5, 2011
Q.156
Who was this person? (The name of his most famous work can be translated into English as "Economics".)
Mar 4, 2011
Q.155
What trophy and which countries?
Mar 3, 2011
Q.154
What list?
Mar 2, 2011
Q.153
Later, perhaps to address certain criticisms, a third part to the name was also announced. What is the name?
Update (18 Mar 2011)
A follow-up to this question: after these protests, the name has once again changed, and incorporates one of the key symbols of Kerala. What's the new name now?
Updated follow-up question
Kochi Tuskers Kerala,
Mar 1, 2011
Q.152