Q.2575

This 2017 book's title is about a boy named William Wallace, his father, and a Buddhist concept of a state between death and before being born again. Which award-winning book?

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Lincoln in the Bardo', the 2017 Booker Prize Winner.

Q.2574

2017 sees the 19th edition of this political event. The first was held in 1921, but since 1977, it has been held every five years. Only once was it held in Moscow.

What are we talking about?

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The National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

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?

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Nero.

Q.2572

In Oct 2017, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature in India announced that it had photographed this 'vulnerable' animal for the first time in Arunachal Pradesh. Which animal, whose scientific name is 'Panthera Uncia'?

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The Snow Leopard

Q.2571

In 2017, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella released his autiobiography 'Hit Refresh'. In the US, the book was released at the company's Ignite conference. However, in the UK, the book was released at a venue associated more with tradition than with technology. Which venue?

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Lord's Cricket Ground - Nadella is a big cricket fan, and describes the role of cricket on his life in the book

Q.2570

The rapper Eminem spoke the following words in a protest performance during a 2017 event:

“Racism’s the only ___ he’s Fantastic Four / Cause that’s how he gets his f***ing rocks off and he’s orange.”

Who is the 'he' being referred to, and what's the word in the blank which is the analogy Eminem is making from the Fantastic Four?

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US President Donald Trump and 'The Thing' from the Fantastic Four (which is 'orange'!)

Q.2569

Unverified reports of these began in Sept 2017 in Kashmir, with hysteria resembling those of the 'monkey man' scare in Delhi years ago. Several men, including foreigners, have been accused of this. In these cases, alleged victims said that they had been assaulted in what peculiar manner?

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That their braided hair was chopped off mysteriously. More on this.