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This day last year: Q.426Nov 30, 2012
Q.792
Nov 29, 2012
Q.791
Incidentally, the serial also features the author's grand-daughter from his adopted family. Which author?
Nov 28, 2012
Q.790
Who was she?
Nov 27, 2012
Q.789
No stranger to the sword himself (at least in the movies), which noted British actor is seen here receiving a knighthood from the Queen?
Image: News.msn.co.uk
Nov 26, 2012
Q.788
On one side of these currency notes introduced in November 2012 (in denominations from R10 to R200) are the "Big Five": buffalo, lion, elephant, leopard, and rhino. Who, for the very first time, is on the other side?
Image: The Hindu
Nov 25, 2012
Q.787
These people have just watched something which the man in the suit, Erik Hamren (the team coach), would later describe as being like something out of a video game.
What did they witness?
Image: Reuters/Al Jazeera.com
Nov 24, 2012
Q.786
Biopic season in Hollywood has already begin with the likes of "Lincoln", as actors start to jockey for Academy Award recognition. These are images from two biopics, one coming out in 2012, and the other scheduled for 2014, whose "first look" promotional pictures were released in 2012.
The subject of the 2012 movie directed the subject of the 2014 movie in three well-regarded movies. Who are these two people?
Image: Dailymail.co.uk, HoustonPress.com
Nov 23, 2012
Q.785
Nov 22, 2012
Q.784
Who?
This day last year: Q.418Nov 21, 2012
Q.783
The pilot on the left was the first person to achieve something - he did this on October 14, 1947. Sixty five years later, on the same date in 2012, the person on the right emulated him - but in a different way.
What achievement links these two men?
Nov 20, 2012
Q.782
This upcoming Disney movie directed by Sam Raimi is a prequel to a famous 1939 film, and will release in 2013. It features James Franco in the role of "Oscar Diggs", a magician with a circus, who has to deal with three witches.
Which film is this a prequel to?
Image: Wikipedia
Nov 19, 2012
Q.781
China is in the midst of a political transition at the highest level, with President Hu Jintao making way (slowly) for Xi Jinping. In November, during the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China, this process began with Xi Jinping taking over which of these roles from Hu Jintao?
Your options:
- President of China
- General Secretary of the Communist Party
- Prime Minister of China
Nov 18, 2012
Q.780
Incidentally, the acronym is celebrating 25 years in 2012 (and was the subject of IZ 641), so it's not new to us. What was new is the grammatical form and meaning that gave it the title. This is now being used as a verb in the US and in parts of the World Wide Web, where it means: "to create an image or video sequence, especially relating to an event".
What acronym?
Nov 17, 2012
Q.779
The Samuel Johnson Prize is awarded annually by the BBC to an author for the best non-fiction work of the year. 2012's winner was the Canadian Wade Davis, for his book "Into the Silence: The Great War, ____ and the Conquest of Everest".
Which explorer (whose name has been blanked from the title above) is the primary focus of this book?
Image: The Guardian
Nov 16, 2012
Q.778
As he could not bat in the South African first innings the next day, which relatively unusual phrase is marked against his name (where the dismissal would be recorded) on the scorecard for the match?
Nov 15, 2012
Q.777
Who? Image: Sugarpova.com
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This day last year: Q.411
Nov 14, 2012
Q.776
Image: Reuters/DailyMail.co.uk
Nov 13, 2012
Q.775
Nov 12, 2012
Q.774
Identify this film based on a book.
Image: Wikipedia
This day last year: Q.408
Nov 11, 2012
Q.773
Which Nobel Laureate is this all about?
This day last year: Q.407Nov 10, 2012
Q.772
- Aravali
- Botad
- Chhota Udepur
- Dwarka
- Gir-Somnath
- Mahisagar
- Morbi
Nov 9, 2012
Q.771
One US administered territory voted on its political future: its residents (who incidentally cannot vote in the US Presidential elections) chose to tell their political masters that they would like to become America's 51st state.
Which territory, located in the Carribean, is this?
Nov 8, 2012
Q.770
Today, I also read the diary written for the BBC (in Urdu) and published in the newspaper. My mother liked my pen name 'Gul Makai' and said to my father 'why not change her name to Gul Makai?' I also like the name because my real name means 'grief stricken'.
Nov 7, 2012
Nov 6, 2012
Q.768
Image: Cyclonebiskit/Wikimedia Commons This day last year: Q.402
Nov 5, 2012
Q.767
Whose autobiography? (released in 2012)
Image: eonline.com
This day last year: Q.401Nov 4, 2012
Q.766
A member of the Pope's domestic staff when this happened, what was his role that thus brings to mind a cliché associated with detective fiction?
Nov 3, 2012
Q.765
In October 2012, a scientist in New Zealand was asked by lawyers of an author's estate to not use the term in a talk on the topic.
Which term?
Nov 2, 2012
Q.764
Which role?
Nov 1, 2012
Q.763
Which country's inaugural football "premier league" was this (which concluded in middle of October 2012)?