Feb 28, 2013
Q.882
Feb 27, 2013
Q.881
Who is this achiever, and which is the sport?
Feb 26, 2013
Q.880
Belgium is famous for its chocolates. In honour of the country's famed chocolate makers, the Belgian post office "BPost" will be issuing these stamps in March 2013. These limited edition stamps are likely to cost a hefty 6+ euros.
Why would most people want to get their hands on them?
Image: The Telegraph
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Feb 25, 2013
Q.879
Since today is also IZzie day, a simple one to round things off: Two of the Best Picture nominees for 2013 have titles in French: one means "love" and the other is just sad. What are these titles?
Feb 24, 2013
Q.878
Which 1947 adventure, helmed by one of the most famous Norwegians of all time, that began in Callao, Peru and ended just over a hundred days later in Polynesia, is the subject of Norway's official entry to the 2013 Oscars? It was nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
Feb 23, 2013
Q.877
Since 2002, the Academy Awards ceremony has been hosted in this location in Hollywood. A company held naming rights to it until the firm went bankrupt in early 2012. At the time of the 2012 Oscars, the theatre had taken on the name of "The Hollywood and Highland Center".
In May 2012, another company bought the naming rights - you could say the theatre had now entered the era of sound. Both former and present companies have long been associated with the world of films.
Identify both of these.
(To see questions from 2011 and 2012, use the "Specials:Oscars" label)
Feb 22, 2013
Q.876
What similar but exactly opposite records have the actresses Emmanuelle Riva ("Amour") and Quvenzhane Wallis ("Beasts of the Southern Wild") set by being nominated for the category of "Best Actress"? (In doing so, they replace Jessica Tandy ("Driving Miss Daisy") and Keisha Castle-Hughes ("Whale Rider") in the Oscar record books.)
(To see questions from 2011 and 2012, use the "Specials:Oscars" label)
Feb 21, 2013
Q.875
The 85th Academy Awards ceremony will be held in five days time, so as is traditional on this blog, the next five days are devoted to question on this year's Oscars. (To see questions from 2011 and 2012, use the "Specials:Oscars" label)
The song "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" is one of the nominees for "Best Original Song", and is from the film "Ted". One of its nominated writers will be playing a more significant role during the Oscars. Who, and how?
Feb 20, 2013
Q.874
Feb 19, 2013
Q.873
What is all this about?
Feb 18, 2013
Q.872
The 2013 edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival was held in January 2013. Among its many high-profile events was the book launch of Pataudi: Nawab of Cricket", written by Suresh Menon. Sharmila Tagore unveiled the book along with another person, an ex-cricketer, who is yet to write a book of his own but was able to draw many a celebrity-hungry fan to the event.
Who was this other person?
Feb 17, 2013
Q.871
Who is this American?
Feb 16, 2013
Q.870
2012: Ukraine and Poland
2008: Austria and Switzerland
2004: Portugal
2000: Netherlands and Belgium
The UEFA announced the process to find the hosts of the 2020 edition: what will be different about that?
Feb 15, 2013
Q.869
Which crop?
Feb 14, 2013
Q.868
Which story by Ruskin Bond is this?
This day last year: Q.502Feb 13, 2013
Q.867
A catch portmanteau has also been coined, yoking the word "food" to the name of an iPhone app.
So what's the fuss about, and what's the portmanteau word?
Feb 12, 2013
Q.866
This monkey was unveiled to the press and the world with great fanfare in February 2013. Reportedly, it made a trip in a vehicle called "Pishgam", "pioneer" in Persian (it's not fully clear if the monkey was given the same name). Thus, it became the first Iranian of its kind to do what?
Image: AP/Al Jazeera
Feb 11, 2013
Feb 10, 2013
Q.864
Feb 9, 2013
Q.863
Working closely with Anthony Greener of Guinness and John McGrath of Grand Metropolitan, Wolff Olins shaped a vision for the new business รข€“ that it would be about everyday pleasure everywhere. From that vision, we defined a set of corporate values, a new name and a brand expression. The name combines "everyday" [...] and "everywhere" [...].Which company?
Feb 8, 2013
Q.862
Feb 7, 2013
Q.861
Jackie Harbaugh, the mother of Ravens' coach John Harbaugh, when asked about the game before the event, half-jokingly said that she would prefer if the Super Bowl ended in a tie. Why did she say that?
Feb 6, 2013
Q.860
Feb 5, 2013
Q.859
So who will now host the 2017 Cup?
Feb 4, 2013
Q.858
Much of this country's details were not available in Google Maps until January 2013. In an update to its data, Google Maps now shows details of various landmarks from this country whose geography may not be a mystery anymore, but almost everything else is.
Which country?
Feb 3, 2013
Q.857
Who is the author?
Feb 2, 2013
Q.856
2013 is the year when we find out what happens just before midnight. What are we cryptically hinting at (and being verbose and elliptical and talky-feely about?)
Feb 1, 2013
Q.855
One TodayOpening lines of a poem first heard in public on Jan 21, 2013. During what (usually quadrennial) event?One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores,
peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces
of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth
across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies.
One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story
told by our silent gestures moving behind windows.