Who was this controversial choice?
Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts
Oct 25, 2016
Q.2217
In Oct 2016, this 75-year old was named a honorary ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls by the United Nations. Some UN staffers did not like the choices for reasons ranging from the lady's image, clothing, and inability to have an opinion, to be able to travel and be interviewed.
Oct 23, 2016
Q.2215
In 2014, a Punjab animated film called "Char Sahibzade" featured the story of the sons of the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. A 2016 sequel is about another disciple of the Guru, a legendary Sikh warrior originally called Lachman Das. Which leader?
Oct 16, 2016
Q.2208
American playwright Edward Albee died in Sept 2016. He won several Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Surprisingly, what is arguably his best known play didn't win a Pulitzer amidst controversial circumstances.
What was the name of the play, whose last line is, aptly, "I am, George...I am."?
Oct 11, 2016
Q.2203
Before 2016, the last time he did this was in 1999 for a movie titled after an Indian game. In 2016, he returned with a Punjabi folk-tale. Who and what are we talking about?
Jun 26, 2016
Q.2096
"Moana" is the name of a 2016 Disney animated film, which tells the tale of a young girl in the South Pacific. The film ran into some trouble with the Polynesian community who weren't happy with the way the character of Maui, a legendary Polynesian figure, was portrayed (they felt the depiction was as a stereotypical obese person).
'Maui' is voiced by an entertainer who is himself partly of Polynesian descent. Who?
Jun 17, 2016
Q.2087
In June 2016, a plaque marking the inscription of Indenture Immigration Records on the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register was unveiled at the Aapravasi Ghat World Heritage Site. In which country did these events happen?
Jun 12, 2016
Q.2082
Who was nominated twice for a Grammy Award in the category of 'Spoken Word Album' (1963) and 'Best Recording for Children' (for the album 'The Adventures of ___ and His Gang vs. Tooth Decay', 1976)?
Jun 8, 2016
Q.2078
Image: AP
This photo shows the artist called JR who has made something 'vanish' in June 2016. Where is he and what has he 'hey-presto'-d here?
May 30, 2016
Q.2069
The ascension of the planet Jupiter into the Leo section of the zodiac gives its name to which major 2016 event in India?
May 29, 2016
Q.2068
Vinicius de Moraes was a Brazilian poet and diplomat. Tom Jobin was a composer and writer, famous for 'The Girl from Ipanema'. They famously collaborated on a play called "Orfeu da Conceicao" and on other projects. What in 2016 is named after them?
May 25, 2016
Q.2064
From May 2016 till November 2016, labels on these cans will show words and phrases such as 'E Pluribus Unum", "Land of the Free", and "Since 1776" instead of the original words, including the brand name. What brand has thus been temporarily named as 'America'?
May 5, 2016
Q.2044
The 63rd National Awards for Indian Films were given away in May 2016. This legendary artist received an award for his 1000th film, but did not show up to receive the award. Reportedly, this was because he disagreed with the validity of the category he had received the award for, saying it seemed to indicate he had done an 'incomplete job'
Incidentally, he was the first winner in that category when it was formally introduced at the 57th National Awards.
Who is this artist, who has a total of 5 National Awards (as of 2016)?
May 2, 2016
Q.2041
What two word phrase from the world of performing connects these three:
* Gmail's 2016 April Fool-special feature that tanked
* Basketballer Kobe Bryant's last game (Apr 2016)
* US President Barack Obama's last White House Correspondents Dinner (Apr 2016)
Jan 4, 2016
Q.1922
What is the missing word in this extract from the Sherlock Holmes story "The Musgrave Ritual":
"Yes, my boy, these were all done prematurely before my biographer had come to glorify me." He (Sherlock) lifted bundle after bundle in a tender, caressing sort of way. "They are not all successes, Watson," said he."But there are some pretty little problems among them. Here's the record of the Tarleton murders, and the case of Vamberry, the wine merchant, and the adventure of the old Russian woman, and the singular affair of the aluminium crutch, as well as a full account of Ricoletti of the club-foot, and his _____ wife. And here--ah, now, this really is something a little recherche.
Jan 2, 2016
Q.1920
"The Hateful Eight" is director Quentin Tarantino's Dec 2015 release. The film was shot in a format no longer in vogue, which has required film theatres showing the film to get hold of expensive equipment.
Which format?
Dec 31, 2015
Q.1918
How can you connect the name of this movie to the Pope Saint Sylvester I (image shown)?
The movie stars Zac Efron, Ashton Kuthcer, and Robert De Niro etc. (poster shown)
Oct 20, 2015
Q.1846
In Buddhism, this word means "place of the deathless" and has philosophical significance. It later became the name of a place in India with Buddhist temples. In Hindu myths, it is the city with the court of Indra.
In 2015, a place with this name is formally coming to being. Which place?
Sep 24, 2015
Q.1820
The map shows the nationalities of the victims of which calamity?
It occurred on 24 September 2015 and resulted in the deaths of at least 2,236 people.
Sep 6, 2015
Q.1802
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 4 September 2015 released two commemorative coins of ₹125 and ₹10 in the memory of some personality. The ₹125 coin is not meant for general circulation, however. Both coins are stamped with a picture of this person on their obverses.
In whose honour were they issued?
Aug 29, 2015
Q.1794
Identify the poet and also tell what’s been blanked out?
The love in my body and heart For the earth's shadow and light Has stayed over years… With its cares and its hope it has thrown A language of its own Into blue skies… It lives in my joys and glooms In the spring night's buds and blooms Like a _____-band On the Future's hand.
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