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Nicotine is named after the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum. Who did the plant get its name from?

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What is the nationality of Mohammed Al Fayed, who sold the department store Harrods Knightsbridge to Qatar Holdings.....

posted Jul 7, 2022 by Udita

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What sportsman would perform a triple salchow?

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Which is the oldest identified era of activity by homo sapiens and relatives?

posted Jul 7, 2022 by Vishal

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Which river is the largest contributor (by volume) to the waters of Lake Titicaca?

posted Jul 7, 2022 by Atif

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What event coincided with the closing ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics and Paralympics in 2014?

posted Jul 7, 2022 by Mohammad

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A celebrated case in 1734 in England concerned Judith Defour, found guilty of murdering her two-year old daughter.......

posted Jul 6, 2022 by Anil Chaurasiya

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What does the Indian company MX Player specialise in?

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Of the 29 letters in the Turkish alphabet, how many are vowels?

posted Jul 6, 2022 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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The letters "G I", when applied to dietary matters, stand for what?

posted Jul 6, 2022 by Deepak Chitragar

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Professor Sprout is a character in which series of books?

posted Jul 6, 2022 by Balwinder

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Where is the Afar Triple Junction?

posted Jul 5, 2022 by Riteshwar

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Which cricket team was accused of being the subject of rigging the result of an international cricket game against......

posted Jul 5, 2022 by Kapil Kapoor

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The cochlea is part of which part of the body?

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Who used to observe the Sarum Rite?

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Who was Prime Minister of the UK on 28 March 1979, when the House of Commons passed a Motion of No Confidence...........

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Which brothers founded the studio which developed the dance rhythm game, Just Dance 2021?

posted Jul 4, 2022 by Ritika

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Pictures of a babirusa are seen in cave paintings of more than 30,000 years ago; what is it?

posted Jul 4, 2022 by Vikram Luthra

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The award-winning 1982 film "Gandhi" was filmed in the UK and what other country?

posted Jul 4, 2022 by Prithvi

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In Greek mythology Autolycus, a gifted, cunning and prolific trickster and robber, was the grandfather of Odysseus......

posted Jul 4, 2022 by Varun Kumar

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If someone is referred to as "ursine", what animal are they being compared to?

posted Jul 4, 2022 by Harshita Dhaliwal

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The London market at Billingsgate, now situated close to Canary Wharf in Docklands, London, deals in what?

posted Jul 1, 2022 by Rahul Chandel

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In what sport does the equipment include a spider, a hook rest and a half butt?

posted Jul 1, 2022 by Sandeep Otari

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The Jewish King Solomon was the son of whom?

posted Jul 1, 2022 by Ankur Athari

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What place was Pliny the Elder (23 - 79 CE) describing in his "Natural History" when he wrote "twice in every day.......

posted Jul 1, 2022 by Upma

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An atom of oxygen linked to an atom of hydrogen is a signature combination in the formulae of which compounds?

posted Jul 1, 2022 by Varuna Magar

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Tigray, which became particularly prominent in international news in 2020 and 2021, is a region in the north..........

posted Jun 30, 2022 by Nikhil Pandey

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At the 1912 Olympic Games Serbia competed as an independent nation, but did not do so again until when?

posted Jun 30, 2022 by Pardeep Kohli

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What expression that comes from angling means "everything"?

posted Jun 30, 2022 by Ujjwal Mehra

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What is the main ingredient of hummus?

posted Jun 30, 2022 by Sandeep Bedi

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If you do not have an instrument to measure angles, what are the most useful tools with which to draw a right angle?

posted Jun 30, 2022 by Pankaj Deshmukh

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The archipelago of Indonesia was colonialised for about 4 centuries as a major trade prize. When did it finally.........

posted Jun 29, 2022 by Manish Tiwari

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Why was Captain William Kidd hanged in 1701?

posted Jun 29, 2022 by Puneet Batra

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In 2005, Dan Wheldon became the first British competitor to win what event in over 30 years?

posted Jun 29, 2022 by Sidharth Malhotra

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Who won Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2012, and for what?

posted Jun 29, 2022 by Amarvansh

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Where are the vast grassland plains known as the Pampas?

posted Jun 29, 2022 by Madhavi Latha

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The names of Cannae, Gaugamela and Austerlitz are associated with what?

posted Jun 28, 2022 by Parampreet Kaur

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Who said "I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back"?

posted Jun 28, 2022 by Chahat Sharma

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In 2002 what, possibly unique, reaction was observed in cichlids, a freshwater fish species, in one short stretch.......

posted Jun 28, 2022 by Brijesh Talwar

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Tsvetana Pironkova is involved in which sport?

posted Jun 28, 2022 by Saif Khanam

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To drill the first foot of an oil well, is to what?

posted Jun 28, 2022 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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The first commercial (non-state) flights to carry a civilian to the edge of space happened in which year?

posted Jun 27, 2022 by Kuldeep Apte

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What is the engineering term for a shallow masonry construction used to carry the supports of a timber superstructure?

posted Jun 27, 2022 by Karan Joglekar

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Which cricket ground was the home ground of the Manchester Cricket Club from 1856 until it became the home..............

posted Jun 27, 2022 by Aastha Joshi

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Where is the United Kingdom's National Space Centre?

posted Jun 27, 2022 by Aastha Joshi

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He trained as a palaeontologist and geologist,but Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 - 1955) is more widely known as what?

posted Jun 27, 2022 by Samardeep Acharya

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In gymnastics, what is a salto?

posted Jun 25, 2022 by Aarati Mahajan

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Gordonstoun School is famous mainly because of which past pupils?

posted Jun 25, 2022 by Simranjeet Singh

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What is the British Engineerium, in Hove?

posted Jun 25, 2022 by Nikita Sehgal

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Found in the human body, what are the "venae cavae"?

posted Jun 25, 2022 by Pushpak Chauhan