The name of this missile means "to strike" in Hindi, and is also known as the name of a 1991 Hindi film featuring army life, the directorial debut of a noted actor. What name?
Jul 31, 2011
Q.304
Jul 30, 2011
Q.303
Who?
Jul 29, 2011
Q.302
"The __s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll" is a book written by Eric Segalstad and illustrated by Josh Hunter. This is a visual guide through the lives of a certain select group of musicians with something in common. Recent events may probably mean that an update to the book is inevitable.
The blank is a number. What number?
Image: the book's website
Jul 28, 2011
Q.301
This is an image from a match in the recently concluded Copa America football tournament. You see the referee holding something. This is a recent innovation that has been used in South American football for the last couple of years and was introduced to such an international tournament for the first time.
It was invented by the Argentinian player-turned-businessman Pablo Silva who has a company called "9.15 Fair Play Limit" that produces it. Some reports claim that since its introduction, the number of goals in matches has gone up.
What does the referee usually use it for?
Image: Yahoo! and Getty Images
This has led to the introduction of an aerosol spray can that the referee can use to (temporarily) mark the 10 yard spot, thus helping to enforce the rule. See this article for more.
Jul 27, 2011
300 - THIS IS, well, Infinite Zounds!
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Q.300
Others would argue that the change is long overdue as the current name ceased to remain relevant from 1971.
Which state and what name change?
Jul 26, 2011
Q.299
- 'Ashadh ka Ek Din' - a play by Mohan Rakesh
- 'Duvidha' - a play by Vijaydan Detha
- 'The Idiot' - a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 'A Gentle Creature' - a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jul 25, 2011
Q.298
Past winners include the likes of Tim Berners-Lee, Hamid Karzai, the magazine Der Spiegel, and even Wikipedia. Three of this year's awardees were Salam Fayyad (the Palestinian PM), Betul Durmaz (a German author), and Patricia Espinosa (Mexico’s secretary of foreign affairs). The fourth name plunged the whole thing into controversy. Former winners Vaclav Havel and Jimmy Wales threatened to return their award. Some board members of the non-profit that gives the prized protested and resigned. Eventually, the award for 2011 has been cancelled.
Who is this controversial figure, who is currently serving as the Prime Minister of a European country?
Image: Wikipedia
Jul 24, 2011
Q.297
The same name has been used by a recent Tamil film, a complex tale set in the underworld of Madras. It ran into trouble with the censors (the film even features Jackie Shroff in the buff) ; after its release, it has gained much acclaim.
What's the name?
Image: Wikipedia
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Jul 23, 2011
Q.296
This South American country formally achieved independence on July 5th, 1811, and thus has been celebrating two hundred years of that momentous event for the last one year. Google also commemmorated the event on July 5th this year with a special doodle for users from that country.
The flower in the middle is a type of orchid known locally as the "Flor de Mayo" ; it is the country's national flower.
Which is this country, whose name literally means "Little Venice" and whose football team seems to have got into the act by taking them to their best ever performance in an international tournament by making it to the semis of the Copa America?
Image: Google
Jul 22, 2011
Q.295
She admitted to being addicted to alchohol and prescription drugs and successfully recovered from them. In response, she co-founded a clinic (which continues to be in her name).
Who is this lady, who passed away in July this year?
Jul 21, 2011
Q.294
What are we talking about? (and yes, some of you can show off by naming the other three, and telling us if there are any more.)
Jul 20, 2011
Q.293
This is a screenshot of a search on Google Trends for a specific keyword. For those not familiar with such a trend graph, this image shows the amount of Google searches (and the amount of news coverage) for the keyword over time. You will notice that there was a highly significant spike of searches for this keyword in June 2011 - in fact, the peak (indicated by "A") was on June 9th.
This search term consists of two words and was related to a person called Lester Polsfuss. What term and why the unusual spike?
Jul 19, 2011
Q.292
This year's list came out in June and its top ten has seven African countries; Haiti, Afghanistan, and Iraq make up the rest. Somalia is the unfortunate #1. India ranks #76 (while Pakistan is #12). Expectedly, Scandinavian countries (Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark) and Switzerland are at the very bottom.
Such high ranking countries are described by a two-word geopolitical phrase that indicates the inability of their governments to govern effectively. This is also the name of the Index. What term?
Jul 18, 2011
Q.291
This is a map depicting something. Each marked unit shows a date and points to an associated place.
The latest addition to this map (shown in red) is Pyeongchang, South Korea, and the associated date will be 2018. This addition was announced in early July this year.
So what is this a map of? (clue: see the geographic spread of the locations)
Image: The Full Wiki
Jul 17, 2011
Q.290
How?
Image: Forbes.com
Jul 16, 2011
Q.289
What aspect of his assassination is common to the killing of other leaders such as:
- Laurent Kabila (President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; killed in 2001)
- Carlos Castillo Armas (President of Guatemala; killed in 1957)
- Indira Gandhi (PM of India; killed in 1984)
Image: Wikipedia
Jul 15, 2011
Q.288
Jul 14, 2011
Q.287
Then, in July, he was added to L'Oreal's list of celebrity male brand ambassadors, endorsing their beauty products. He was described as "the perfect example of a modern man: genuine, uninhibited, strong and willing to pursue his passions to the end."
Which actor?
Jul 13, 2011
Q.286
The book, in turn, is partly about the French filmmaker and magician Georges Méliès, who invented several film special effects and made some of the earliest science fiction movies.
"A Trip to the Moon" (1902) is perhaps his best known work, and features a famous scene in which a spaceship on its way to the moon runs into something on the moon. What?
Jul 12, 2011
Q.285
This image (one of the album covers) shows the name of this single. Two words are highlighted - but instead of the original words, you see their anagrams. Figure out the name of the single by working out what these words are. (There's a little but obvious hint in the image that you can use.)
Image: Wikipedia
Jul 11, 2011
Q.284
- A history of Indian civilization
- A history of Arab civilization
- 100 years of Indian cinema
Jul 10, 2011
Q.283
These events are now the subject of a new BBC television programme called "Holy Flying Circus". It won't feature any of the original Pythons, but God will be played by someone who belongs to the great Pythonic traditions of comedy. He posted this picture (of him in costume) on Twitter.
Who will be playing God here?
Image: Twitter and Metro
Jul 9, 2011
Q.282
What was the previous profession of the latest addition to this set of people?
Jul 8, 2011
Q.281
- Dignité - Al Karama (France)
- Eleftheri Mesogeios (Greece, Sweden, Norway)
- Gernika (Spain)
- Juliano (Greece, Sweden)
- Louise Michel (France)
- Stefano Chiarini (Italy)
- Tahrir (Canada)
- The Audacity of Hope (United States)
Jul 7, 2011
Q.280
Its best known name originated in Australia, which was also the site of its first known casualty (in May 2011). A man fell to his death attempting the fad on a 7th floor balcony, prompting all manner of health advisories to be issued by top officials.
What's this best known as ?
Image: Wikipedia
Jul 6, 2011
Q.279
In the late 80s, he shot to prominence for a series of high-profile agitations on farmer issues; the most famous being held at Meerut and a sit-in at the Delhi Boat Club, with a large force of unrelenting farmers.
Who was this politician?
Image: Jatland.com :-)
Jul 5, 2011
Q.278
The petition states that "like the horizontal bar (in gymnastics), the vertical bar should have a place in international sport."
What "sport"?
Jul 4, 2011
Q.277
The book is called "Flashback: My Life And Times In Bollywood And Beyond" and was released in Bangalore in June. Today's question is: which Hindi film actor wrote a foreword for the book (an apt choice)?
Jul 3, 2011
Q.276
This painting is seen on a mural on the wall of a floor in a company building; this was the secretive location of a new project by that company. "Emerald Sea" also became the code-name for that project, referring to its critical "sail or drown" nature.
What project?
Image: AlbertBierstadt.org
Jul 2, 2011
Q.275
His latest film (about such weighty topics as the creation of the earth) won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes International Film Festival. Like his other films (he has directed only six so far), it is exquisitely shot and has an interesting cast of performers, but its narrative and plot are hard to grasp. In fact, it led to a theatre in Stamford, Connecticut (in the US) putting out this unusual letter to its patrons: Which film?
(Image: Film School Rejects blog
Jul 1, 2011
Q.274
The series was originally created in French by Belgian cartoonist Peyo in 1958 and later became popular in Europe and America.
Which comic series?