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What arcade game, based on the concept of eating, was developed primarily by Tōru Iwatani over the course...............

posted May 18, 2022 by Mridul

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In the first Olympic Games in which Arts were part of the programme there were five categories; how many medals.........

posted May 17, 2022 by Vishal

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As the 1984 Summer Olympic Games began, Welsh pop star Howard Jones released which single?

posted May 17, 2022 by Mohammad

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Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, the official mistress of Louis XV of France from 1745 to 1750, lent her titled name..........

posted May 16, 2022 by Anshika Utadi

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What was the aim of the 1984 Mexico Declaration by the National Olympic Committees?

posted May 16, 2022 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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Who is acknowledged as the founder of Singapore as a trading post and European settlement in 1819?

posted May 15, 2022 by Kapil Kapoor

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The discovery was announced in 2014 of what proved to be nearly 40,000 years old what, in caves in Sulawesi, Indonesia?

posted May 14, 2022 by Akriti

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It started as a play in Germany in 1897 by Oscar Blumenthal and actor Gustav Kadelburg, was recreated...................

posted May 14, 2022 by Anamika

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Between 1901 and 1909, Karl Landsteiner, Jan Janský and William Moss worked on the classification of what?

posted May 13, 2022 by Ritika

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In 1980, Israeli legislation prohibited what activity in Palestinian art?

posted May 13, 2022 by Prithvi

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In which Olympics did the International Olympic Committee (IOC) accept Arts into its programme for competition?

posted May 13, 2022 by Harshita Dhaliwal

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In 1346, Edward III and his son the Black Prince were repeatedly attacked by French forces in which forest?

posted May 12, 2022 by Ankur Athari

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Who was the last monarch in the recent reunified kingdom of Italy?

posted May 12, 2022 by Varuna Magar

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In 1903, Maurice Garin was the first winner of which event?

posted May 10, 2022 by Manish Tiwari

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In 1657, who turned down the opportunity to become King of England?

posted May 9, 2022 by Brijesh Talwar

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When was the eastern part of Australia claimed by Great Britain?

posted May 8, 2022 by Karan Joglekar

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The catastrophic disaster at a plant in Chernobyl in the Ukraine in April 1986 is described as what kind of accident?

posted May 7, 2022 by Aastha Joshi

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What sport, when it was first played in 1902, was called immoral and "a monster that spreads its claws to all sides"?

posted May 6, 2022 by Aarati Mahajan

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On 10 and 11 June 1964, what was at 2120 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA?

posted May 6, 2022 by Simranjeet Singh

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What name was given to a series of violent events on 21 May 1979 in San Francisco, USA, sparked by the lenient..........

posted May 5, 2022 by Maninder Bath

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At the 2009 Freediving Individual World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, and in the Bahamas, competitors...............

posted May 5, 2022 by Yogeshwar Thakur

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In what is often called boxing's biggest upset ever, Buster Douglas beat whom in the world unified Heavyweight.........

posted May 4, 2022 by Swati Arora

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By what name is William Thomson better known?

posted May 4, 2022 by Aman

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Who was tried for treason on 17 November 1603 for trying to remove James I from the Engish throne?

posted May 4, 2022 by Mridul

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On which body of knowledge was the 1552 "Badianus" manuscript of botanical medicine (in various libraries...............

posted May 3, 2022 by Udita

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In what field is or was the art of Ralph Steadman, Thomas Nast, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson usually expressed?

posted May 2, 2022 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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The series of wars known in some places as the French and Indian Wars was fought over the late 17th...............

posted Apr 28, 2022 by Akriti

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In its first 32 years which was the first time the 4-yearly Rugby World Cup was hosted in an Asian country?

posted Apr 27, 2022 by Vikram Luthra

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An annual rodeo, exhibition and festival first held in 1912 and named the Stampede, is now held every July, where?

posted Apr 27, 2022 by Prithvi

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Who signed and issued the Emancipation Proclamation in the USA on New Year's day 1863?

posted Apr 26, 2022 by Sandeep Otari

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In 1750 French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille set up an observatory in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope..........

posted Apr 26, 2022 by Ankur Athari

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Where, in 1857, was there a brutal and unsuccessful uprising against British control, with estimates of the number......

posted Apr 25, 2022 by Ujjwal Mehra

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The Bretton Woods Agreements, signed by 44 nations in 1944, were about what?

posted Apr 22, 2022 by Manish Tiwari

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African nations boycotted the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976, as a protest against a recent tour of South Africa........

posted Apr 22, 2022 by Puneet Batra

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Which Dutch fabric merchant, surveyor, wine assayer, and minor city official, learned to grind lenses for simple.......

posted Apr 22, 2022 by Amarvansh

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What was the name of the English parliament that restored Charles II as king in 1660?

posted Apr 22, 2022 by Madhavi Latha

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What was reported as being from ancient Greece by authors Lynn and Gray Poole in their "History of the Ancient..........

posted Apr 21, 2022 by Chahat Sharma

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Which was the first Olympic Games to held in the Balkans, after the 1896 Games in Athens?

posted Apr 21, 2022 by Saif Khanam

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What was the special field of history examined by English historian and Member of Parliament, Edward Gibbon?

posted Apr 20, 2022 by Aastha Joshi

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Which country was the first to win the Rugby World Cup other than its founders, New Zealand and Australia?

posted Apr 19, 2022 by Simranjeet Singh

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Jean de Ockeghem, composer of sacred and secular music, wrote in which century?

posted Apr 19, 2022 by Anuradha Tabyal

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Which was the first National Olympic Committee to be recognised by the International Olympic committee after...........

posted Apr 18, 2022 by Maninder Bath

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What was the code name for the German invasion of Russia in World War II?

posted Apr 17, 2022 by Swati Arora

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Who was killed on 4 January 1967 when his jet propelled boat, Bluebird K7, somersaulted and disintegrated...........

posted Apr 13, 2022 by Balwinder

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After Mac Bethad mac Findláich, or MacBeth as he is known in English, the Mormaer of Moray, claimed the throne..........

posted Apr 11, 2022 by Ritika

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He was of Huguenot descent, lost sight in one eye in a practice fencing bout with his father, was knighted..............

posted Apr 11, 2022 by Prithvi

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What is the name of the 1928 ballet commissioned for performance at the Library of Congress in Washington...............

posted Apr 9, 2022 by Rahul Chandel

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The first 1863 issue of American magazine Harper's Weekly carried the first of an image which developed...........

posted Apr 9, 2022 by Sandeep Otari

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Under what name is Company Bahadur better known?

posted Apr 8, 2022 by Pardeep Kohli

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Initially a lawyer, then serving his monarch as English ambassador to France (where he witnessed the............

posted Apr 8, 2022 by Sandeep Bedi