The 2013 tournament was won comprehensively by the Irish team, who also achieved a rare Grand Slam in the process. What do you need to do to achive a Grand Slam?
This day last year: Q.548Mar 31, 2013
Q.913
Mar 30, 2013
Q.912
A good friend of Anand's made cameos in these three films. Incidentally, his wife makes a "referential cameo" (i.e she is named in the film) as well.
Who?
A nice article by Jai Arjun Singh on some of these Amitabh cameos.
Mar 29, 2013
Q.911
Mar 28, 2013
Q.910
(In fact, Mantel makes several observations about the rest of the English monarchy as well, but as this Guardian article points out, most people seem not to have read the actual speech. No surprises.)
Back to today's question: the speech starts with Mantel recounting how she was once asked to pick a famous person and suggest a book for them to read. She chooses Middleton and recommends Caroline Weber's Queen of Fashion: What ____ ____ Wore to the Revolution" as being relevant to the Duchess. Who is this book about?
Mar 27, 2013
Q.909
Thus, if you have it in your pocket, you can use a phrase that is usually applied to credit cards. What innovation is this?
Mar 26, 2013
Q.908
Mar 25, 2013
Q.907
In March 2013, who became the latest (and fastest) addition to a list (Indians only) that began with Lala Amarnath, Deepak Shodhan, and A.G.Kripal Singh?
Mar 24, 2013
Mar 23, 2013
Q.905
In terms of geographic eligibility, what will be its biggest difference from the Booker Prize?
Mar 22, 2013
Q.904
This is the story of how he came up with the name. Who, and what name?
Mar 21, 2013
Q.903
Who is seen here, at the opening session of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in his capacity as a newly appointed political advisor? Image: SI.com
This day last year: Q.538Mar 20, 2013
Q.902
The virus has been compared to the one that causes SARS and belongs to the same family of viruses. This family gets its name from the Latin word for "crown" because of how they appear when viewed through an electron microscope. What's the name?
This day last year: Q.537Mar 19, 2013
Q.901
Who is the director, and what is the character?
From a quiz I did at IIT Kanpur
Mar 18, 2013
Q.900
This application began life as "JavaCollect" and was started by Chris Wetherell: the initial idea was to collect headlines from various web sources. After he joined Google, the project was reimagined, ultimately evolving into the form we know it by.
Not for too long though. Which project is this?
Mar 17, 2013
Q.899
Who is he, and what did he thus bless?
Mar 16, 2013
Q.898
A new category was introduced this time: it's called the "Exceptional Achievement Award". This went to someone who once again shone at the Olympics and holds several hard-to-beat records. Who?
Mar 15, 2013
Q.897
All this happens thirty one years after the last military conflict involving the territory. Which one?
Mar 14, 2013
Mar 13, 2013
Q.895
- Oswald Gracias from Mumbai
- Telesphore Placidus Toppo from Ranchi
- Ivan Dias from the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
- George Alencherry from Ernakulam
- Baselios Cleemis from Thiruvananthapuram
Mar 12, 2013
Q.894
Which organisation?
Mar 11, 2013
Q.893
In February 2013, Google unveiled their laptop product, the latest in their Chromebook series. These laptops run Chrome OS, their cloud-based operating system.
The name chosen for this laptop is a fundamental term associated with display screens and may be in part a reference to the high resolution screen that it comes with. What name?
Mar 10, 2013
Q.892
What list and who is on top?
Mar 9, 2013
Q.891
Which two pioneering TV serials (considered the first two soap operas on Doordarshan) is he famous for having written?
Mar 8, 2013
Q.890
Mar 7, 2013
Q.889
What innovative model is Netflix using in distribution, which media experts called an idea whose time has come?
Mar 6, 2013
Q.888
The name for this kind of coach can be translated into Hindi as "sensation" or "realization". What's this name?
Bonus question: the first train to receive such an addition will be a Rajdhani express; in fact, the Rajdhani that links the Minister's parliamentary constituency to New Delhi. Which place?
Mar 5, 2013
Q.887
Who is the author?
Mar 4, 2013
Q.886
Today's question is a vIZual, from a recent TIME magazine cover. Identify the person featured on it.
Image: TIME.com
Mar 3, 2013
Q.885
Who?
Mar 2, 2013
Q.884
What are we talking about?
Mar 1, 2013
Q.883
Who?
This day last year: Q.518