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"Politics and sport should not mix" is often heard, but for the 1920 Olympics the line seems to have been blurred.......

posted Dec 29, 2022 by Samardeep Acharya

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Who was "Sports Illustrated" magazine's first "Sportsman of the Year"?

posted Dec 28, 2022 by Nikita Sehgal

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Who was the first British monarch of the House of Windsor?

posted Dec 27, 2022 by Mishthy Mukherjee

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When Dartmoor Prison first opened in 1809 what was its purpose?

posted Dec 27, 2022 by Yogeshwar Thakur

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Who was Charles XIV John, also known as Charles III John?

posted Dec 27, 2022 by Yogeshwar Thakur

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The opening of the 2012 Summer Olympics had echoes of what event at the 1984 Olympic Games opening?

posted Dec 26, 2022 by Swati Arora

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What are the first words of the hymn written by Henry Francis Lyte in 1847 that continues "Fast falls the Eventide"?

posted Dec 26, 2022 by Mridul

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What caused the eventual sinking of the Italian ship, MS Achille Lauro, hijacked in 1985 by four members..........

posted Dec 23, 2022 by Vishal

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Voyages of exploration which stretched from 1492 to 1504 started with what purpose?

posted Dec 23, 2022 by Atif

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Who were the Persians defeated by in the sea battle at Salamis in 480BC?

posted Dec 22, 2022 by Anshika Utadi

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Football athlete, broadcaster and actor, O.J. Simpson, ran in the Torch Relay for which Olympic Games?

posted Dec 22, 2022 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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What field of work is Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) best known for?

posted Dec 21, 2022 by Riteshwar

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In 1864, as retaliation for an incident the previous year which involved death or injury to about 5 Spanish citizens....

posted Dec 21, 2022 by Akriti

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Which US President has figured on the cover of the magazine Sports Illustrated, twice?

posted Dec 20, 2022 by Vikram Luthra

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Concorde, a collaboration between British Aircraft Corporation from the UK and Aérospatiale from France...........

posted Dec 20, 2022 by Varun Kumar

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What was the nickname of Lawrence Peter Berra, a former Major League Baseball player and manager who played.........

posted Dec 20, 2022 by Harshita Dhaliwal

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A partial meltdown in a nuclear power plant on 20 March 1979 happened where?

posted Dec 16, 2022 by Ujjwal Mehra

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Blood Wedding (1932) by Garcia Lorca was based on elements of a true story which happened when?

posted Dec 16, 2022 by Sandeep Bedi

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Which 18th century self-taught Liverpudlian, who studied human anatomy and spent 18 months dissecting horses........

posted Dec 15, 2022 by Puneet Batra

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Which is a game thought to have been commercialised in 1760 by John Spilsbury, a London mapmaker and engraver?

posted Dec 14, 2022 by Brijesh Talwar

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The short story writer Katherine Mansfield died in 1923 at the age of 34 from what?

posted Dec 13, 2022 by Karan Joglekar

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In the time of the British Empire, India was referred to by Britain as what?

posted Dec 13, 2022 by Samardeep Acharya

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Which Olympic Games were the last to offer gold medals made of solid gold?

posted Dec 12, 2022 by Pushpak Chauhan

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What was the name of the unfortunate fish in the 1988 film starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline........

posted Dec 12, 2022 by Anuradha Tabyal

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In 1713 Charles XII, King of Sweden, created what position to ensure that public officials acted in accordance..........

posted Dec 9, 2022 by Mishthy Mukherjee

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The GANEFO tournaments were initiated, and first held, where?

posted Dec 9, 2022 by Yogeshwar Thakur

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From 1925 to the start of World War II in 1939, Ahmed Muhtar bey Zogolli ruled what country?

posted Dec 9, 2022 by Rahul Vaidya

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Where was there an armed attack on the Parliament building by militants on the morning of 19 October 2010?

posted Dec 8, 2022 by Dilbagh

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The first Pierre de Coubertin medal awarded was to Eugenio Monti who competed in what discipline in the 1964 Winter.....

posted Dec 6, 2022 by Deepak Chitragar

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What song was a UK #1 hit for Mike and the Mechanics in 1989?

posted Dec 5, 2022 by Akriti

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The era of political liberalisation in Czechoslovakia in 1968 was called what?

posted Dec 2, 2022 by Vikram Luthra

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The three month Kargil War in mid 1999 was between which two countries?

posted Dec 2, 2022 by Harshita Dhaliwal

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When was canoeing accepted as an Olympic sport?

posted Dec 1, 2022 by Upma

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In which Canadian province, in the 2006 census, was English the mother tongue of 79.99% of the population, followed.....

posted Dec 1, 2022 by Varuna Magar

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The following people died from what cause: Eva Braun, Wallace Carothers, Odilo Globocnik, Joseph Goebbels...........

posted Nov 30, 2022 by Pankaj Deshmukh

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Which chemist, engineer, and armaments manufacturer invented dynamite and a detonator for it and then founded...........

posted Nov 29, 2022 by Manish Tiwari

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When were 18 year olds allowed to vote in a General Election in the United Kingdom?

posted Nov 29, 2022 by Puneet Batra

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When the amateur World Wrestling Championships combined events for men and women after 2003, the Championships..........

posted Nov 29, 2022 by Amarvansh

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It was released as a video game in 1994, was restructured as a subscription-based MMORPG in 2004, and in February.......

posted Nov 28, 2022 by Chahat Sharma

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What London establishment was created in 1753 by Sir Harris Sloane?

posted Nov 28, 2022 by Saif Khanam

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What was the name of the Liverpool club where the Beatles played in the early 1960s?

posted Nov 28, 2022 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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Which bank, which had opened in 1762 (and was the oldest merchant bank in London) collapsed in 1995 after one..........

posted Nov 25, 2022 by Karan Joglekar

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Who became president of Afghanistan in December 2004?

posted Nov 23, 2022 by Rahul Vaidya

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Set to poetry, owing much to fairy tales of the same kind as those used by Hans Christian Andersen, and an enduring.....

posted Nov 22, 2022 by Swati Arora

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"The Spanish Tragedie, or Hieronimo is Mad Againe", written in the late 16th century, is a work by which playwright?

posted Nov 22, 2022 by Aman

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Which polemical and lastingly influential book about writing and freedom was published in England in 1644 at the......

posted Nov 21, 2022 by Udita

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When did the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire achieve the right to have legislative independence.........

posted Nov 21, 2022 by Vishal

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Where was the centennial Winter Olympics held?

posted Nov 21, 2022 by Atif

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When was the first modern Olympic Games scheduled to be held in an Asian country?

posted Nov 18, 2022 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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The Oregon Treaty of 1846, which divided "the Oregon Country" along the 49th parallel, gave the USA land which later....

posted Nov 15, 2022 by Ankur Athari