Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Oct 16, 2017
Q.2573
"The Golden House" is Salman Rushdie's 2017 novel about the Goldens, a family that relocates from Mumbai to the USA. In doing so, they change their names to famous ancient Romans. If the sons are Petronius, Dionysius, and Lucius Apuleis, which infamous emperor's name does their father take?
Oct 4, 2017
Q.2561
In July 2017, this transport location's code became PBHD from EPR. The new code refers to a local deity, while the old one represents a Scottish MP from the 19th century. In the news for other reasons in Sept 2017, what do these codes stand for?
Feb 19, 2017
Q.2334
Norma McCorvey died on Feb 18, 2017. She's famous in American history, but by a pseudonymous reference in a pathbreaking legal case. Ironically, though she won the case, later she became an opponent of the very principle that the case upheld.
If the first name of her pseudonym was 'Jane', what was the last name and what was this case?
Oct 24, 2016
Q.2216
After much analysis by some researchers and editors, the 2016 edition of the New Oxford Shakespeare, a compendium of the Bard's plays, will feature some important changes to the title pages of plays like Henry VI and All’s Well That Ends Well.
What important change?
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 20, 2016
Q.2212
In Oct 2016, General Admiral Air Chief Marshal Prem Tinsulanonda became the Regent of which country? (he was once a controversial Prime Minister of the same nation).
Oct 14, 2016
Q.2206
Hollywood actress Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske. Her Jewish parents had emigrated from Eastern Europe. Via her father's side, she was related to a man named Szymon Perski (whose family also emigrated from the same region but not to the USA).
Perski died in 2016 after a life of accomplishments. How do we better know him?
Oct 10, 2016
Q.2202
There are 10 such instances. The latest happened in Oct 2016. The countries associated with the first nine countries are:
USA (1906), USA (1919), Egypt (1978), Costa Rica (1987), USSR (1990), South Africa (1993), South Korea (2000), USA (2009), and Liberia (2011).
What's the tenth and latest, and what are we talking about?
Jun 25, 2016
Q.2095
In June 2016, India made a strong bid to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group organisation which aims to regulate nuclear exports. The NSG was set up specifically in response to which event involving a country, about four decades before 2016?
Jun 23, 2016
Q.2093
This Broadway production sweeped up 11 wins out of its 16 Tony award nominations in June 2016, prompting comment that it was perhaps the greatest Broadway musical of all time. Which production, based on an American historical figure?
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 16, 2016
Q.2086
Legendary Indian bodybuilder Manohar Aich passed away in 2016 at the age of 104. The 2nd Indian winner of the Mr. Universe contest, what was a popular nickname for him on account of his strongman feats and because he was short, an inch less than 5 feet?
Jun 11, 2016
Q.2081
In May 1916, this secret agreement carved up areas in Western Asia held by the Ottoman Empire among European Allied powers. The agreement has been held responsible for many of the geo-political problems in the region and has been the subject of many an article by historians marking its centenary in 2016.
Officially called the Asia Minor Agreement, it is usually referred to by the names of the two diplomats who created it. What's this eponymous name?
Jun 4, 2016
Q.2074
The United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth celebrated her 90th birthday in 2016. Disney created a book called "____ and the Royal Birthday" in which this fictional character travels to Buckingham Palace with his friends, also bumping into the Queen and even Prince George.
Incidentally, the character also turned 90 in 2016. Which character?
May 10, 2016
Q.2049
A scene from the 2016 film 'The Man Who Knew Infinity' about the Indian mathematician S. Ramanujan. The picture shows actor Jeremy Irons (right) playing Ramanujan's mentor G.H.Hardy. In the middle is the actor Jeremy Northam, playing a famous colleague and friend of Hardy's.
This person, in real-life, also appeared in a 1967 Hindi film. Who is Northam playing in this film?
May 7, 2016
Q.2046
In April 2016, the U.S. Treasury announced its much awaited decision of putting a woman on a dollar note design, naming Harriet Tubman as the person who will be added to the front of the $20 bill.
Tubman was a 19th century abolitionist who helped a large number of people escape slavery. What famous nickname did fellow abolitionist William Garrison give her, making a Biblical allusion?
Jan 3, 2016
Q.1921
A special edition of this tournament will be held in June 2016, in the USA for the first time. 16 teams will take part in this, the centenary commemoration of which tournament?
Dec 18, 2015
Q.1905
The image shows the cover of the book ‘The ____ Brothers and Indian Independence – An Insider’s Account’ by ‘Madhuri ___’, the grand-niece of a famous Indian Nationalist. Madhuri presented a copy of her book to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 17 December 2015. It chronicles the role of these Brothers in the Indian freedom struggle.
Fill in the blank!
Dec 8, 2015
Q.1895
On 8 December 2015, a handful of aging U.S. military veterans marked the 74th anniversary of an infamous event. They wore Hawaiian leis around their necks and watched as a bugler played ‘Taps’, when they gathered at Kilo Pier, near the USS Arizona Memorial.
They were the survivors of which attack?
Dec 5, 2015
Q.1892
The 44th Navy Day was observed on 4 December 2015. The occasion saw screening of a Navy Telefilm titled ‘Empowering India Through Maritime Security and Indigenisation’ on DD National.
The Navy day is celebrated every year to commemorate the success of an operation, during which the Indian Navy sank three vessels near the largest Pakistani port of Karachi in a night’s attack.
Which famous operation is this?
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