Recent posts under tag personality

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Although well-known for the dance styles he popularised, which singer, equally known for his music, released as his.....

posted Dec 16, 2022 by Nikhil Pandey

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Which player made a comeback to international tennis in 2006 after 4 years?

posted Dec 15, 2022 by Manish Tiwari

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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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Uday Shankar was an internationally known pioneer of modern Indian what?

posted Dec 14, 2022 by Saif Khanam

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What is the best known work by German composer Carl Orff?

posted Dec 13, 2022 by Aastha Joshi

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The French novelist, polemicist and physician Louis Ferdinand Destouches (1894 - 1961, pen-name Louis.........

posted Dec 6, 2022 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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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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Who is remembered in the name for the "cold rain" process, the process by which precipitation starts in a mixed cloud...

posted Dec 2, 2022 by Ritika

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In what field is Robert Mapplethorpe known?

posted Dec 2, 2022 by Prithvi

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Anna Wintour is famous in what field?

posted Dec 1, 2022 by Sandeep Otari

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Under what name was American actress, dancer, and producer Margarita Carmen Cansino known in her celebrated...........

posted Nov 30, 2022 by Nikhil Pandey

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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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Christine de Pizan (1364 – c. 1430) was France's first what?

posted Nov 25, 2022 by Kuldeep Apte

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What nationality is the soccer player Dennis Bergkamp?

posted Nov 25, 2022 by Aastha Joshi

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Which 20th century American composer wrote the American Festival overture in 1939, and Symphony No. 3 considered........

posted Nov 23, 2022 by Maninder Bath

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Olympic gold medallists Natasa Janics and Alfréd Hajós represented which country?

posted Nov 23, 2022 by Yogeshwar Thakur

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Who choreographed (and directed) the 1972 film "Cabaret"?

posted Nov 22, 2022 by Dilbagh

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Who was the "Angela" whose ashes Frank McCourt included in the title of his memoir (publ. 1996)?

posted Nov 21, 2022 by Mohammad

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A two decade long relationship was broken in August 2021 between what celebrated sportsman and the club he had played...

posted Nov 14, 2022 by Pardeep Kohli

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Luigi and Lucia Galeazzi Galvani are credited with the first studies in what, published in 1791?

posted Nov 10, 2022 by Parampreet Kaur

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What is the title of ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard's autobiography, published in October 2010?

posted Nov 4, 2022 by Dilbagh

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When Sir Alex Ferguson retired in May 2013 after 26 years as manager for Manchester United Football Club who.........

posted Nov 4, 2022 by Mridul

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When Hugo Chávez entered the Venezuelan Military Academy in 1971 at the age of 17, what was he aiming to be?

posted Nov 3, 2022 by Nimish

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Anthony Wilding is the only New Zealander in what sport's Hall of Fame?

posted Oct 27, 2022 by Ujjwal Mehra

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What is Hilary Clinton's maiden name?

posted Oct 26, 2022 by Sidharth Malhotra

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In 2015 Lacy Thibodeaux-Fields brought a lawsuit against the NFL, which sparked a wave of lawsuits alleging wage........

posted Oct 25, 2022 by Parampreet Kaur

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Why was NBA player Kyrie Irving, a player with the Brooklyn Nets and 7-time NBA All-Star, excluded from practising......

posted Oct 19, 2022 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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Among the hyped contests in world boxing was the match in October 2021 between heavyweight WBC ex-champion..............

posted Oct 13, 2022 by Anuradha Tabyal

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What was the profession of the person who invented the mechanism of the door lock for London toilets operated...........

posted Oct 12, 2022 by Yogeshwar Thakur

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Who beat Lee Westwood, then the new world golf #1, into second place at the WGC-HSBC Championship in Shanghai..........

posted Oct 11, 2022 by Swati Arora

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Indycar sportsman Scott Dixon, who won his first Indy championship in 2000 and whose ratio of wins to career starts.....

posted Sep 30, 2022 by Anamika

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Who wrote the music for the musical "A Chorus Line"?

posted Sep 30, 2022 by Rajni

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Who is the "moi" to whom the quote "Après moi, le déluge" is attributed?

posted Sep 29, 2022 by Varun Kumar

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What is Archie Panjabi particularly known as?

posted Sep 29, 2022 by Harshita Dhaliwal

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George Harrison was deported from which city where the early Beatles had long term engagements, because of his youth?

posted Sep 22, 2022 by Aastha Joshi

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Which pioneer of molecular gastronomy is also the founder and proprietor of 3-Michelin-star restaurant..........

posted Sep 22, 2022 by Samardeep Acharya

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Who was the first to be credited with the opinion which led eventually to a quote describing history as a set of lies...

posted Sep 20, 2022 by Rahul Vaidya

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Which boxer watched his daughter win her first professional boxing bout in October 1999?

posted Sep 19, 2022 by Prachi Sharma

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Which song-writing duo wrote hit songs under the pseudonyms Ann Orson and Carte Blanche?

posted Sep 13, 2022 by Varun Kumar

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At which UK General Election was Helen Grant elected, the Conservative Party's first black female MP?

posted Sep 9, 2022 by Pardeep Kohli

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How did Ronnie Lee Gardner make the news at 6.20 p.m. on 18 June 2010 in Utah?

posted Sep 8, 2022 by Sidharth Malhotra

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Which country did the Olympic sprinter represent, who asked for protection to stop her from being forcibly returned.....

posted Sep 7, 2022 by Brijesh Talwar

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In 1936, whose paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" proved that...........

posted Sep 7, 2022 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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South African-born English cricketer Kevin Pietersen was dropped from the England team in August 2012. What was........

posted Sep 6, 2022 by Samardeep Acharya

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Which cricketer has scored the most first class centuries in history?

posted Sep 2, 2022 by Yogeshwar Thakur

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Pierre Poivre, an eighteenth‑century French horticulturalist and government administrator in the French islands.........

posted Sep 2, 2022 by Rahul Vaidya

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Pope Francis is sometimes slowed, and in 2021 was prevented from taking part in some traditional services, by pain......

posted Sep 1, 2022 by anonymous

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What was the nationality of the composer of the three piano pieces called "Gymnopédies"?

posted Aug 26, 2022 by Akriti

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An early hit for American singer-songwriter and actor Neil Diamond was music he wrote inspired by a piano concert.......

posted Aug 25, 2022 by Harshita Dhaliwal