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Where were the more than 4,000 years old Tarim mummies excavated in the 20th century?

posted Jun 25 by Rajni

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Which World Championship inaugurated in 1963 has been dominated primarily by the Australian and New Zealand.........

posted Jun 6 by Prithvi

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Bela Lugosi's most famous role was as who?

posted Jun 4 by Harshita Dhaliwal

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Poland was partitioned in 1795 and again in 1815. In 1918 what happened?

posted May 29 by Ankur Athari

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The Olympic torch reached the North Pole, for the first time, during its journey to which Olympic venue?

posted May 28 by Varuna Magar

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General Franco, the Spanish military general, was head of state of Spain from October 1936 following the Spanish........

posted May 26 by Sandeep Bedi

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Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira, was an explorer for which kingdom?

posted May 1 by Amarvansh

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What is the black hole information paradox propounded by Stephen Hawking in the 1970s?

posted Apr 30 by Madhavi Latha

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Who led barons to revolt against Henry III in 1263, established England's first elected parliament, and was killed......

posted Apr 29 by Brijesh Talwar

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Which space telescope was carried into orbit by a space shuttle in April 1990?

posted Apr 21 by Simranjeet Singh

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Which British ruler was nicknamed "The Merry Monarch"?

posted Apr 15 by Nikita Sehgal

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When was the Warsaw Pact formed?

posted Apr 15 by Anuradha Tabyal

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Where did the Simon Commission start sitting in 1928 to consider constitutional reform in that country?

posted Apr 12 by Yogeshwar Thakur

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Which 18th century Italian adventurer was imprisoned in Venice, escaped and managed state lotteries in Paris.........

posted Mar 28 by Mridul

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NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) welcomed which new member on 6 May 1955?

posted Mar 21 by Kapil Kapoor

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Tolstoy's book "War and Peace" is set when?

posted Mar 21 by Anamika

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On 31 October 1941, the USS Reuben James, a post-World War I four-funnelled Clemson-class destroyer, became...........

posted Mar 20 by Vikram Luthra

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What year did students at Oxford University organise the first university "athletic sports" meeting?

posted Mar 20 by Varun Kumar

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In 1954, in a television adaptation of a book by Ian Fleming, Barry Nelson was the first person to appear.............

posted Mar 19 by Sandeep Otari

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Where was "Postimees", the first regular newspaper published in the language of the indigenous people.............

posted Mar 12 by Pankaj Deshmukh

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What music was commissioned for George II's coronation in 1727, and has featured in every British coronation since?

posted Feb 20 by Parampreet Kaur

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Where is Mozart's 1787 opera "Don Giovanni" set?

posted Feb 12 by Simranjeet Singh

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Who was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

posted Feb 12 by Pushpak Chauhan

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The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour was a gift in 1886 to the USA by whom?

posted Feb 11 by Maninder Bath

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Who did Juan Antonio Samaranch succeed when he assumed the presidency of the International Olympic Committee..........

posted Feb 11 by Yogeshwar Thakur

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Choreographers Max Perry, Jo Thompson Szymanski and Scott Blevins were instrumental in developments of what...........

posted Feb 11 by Yogeshwar Thakur

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James Prescott Joule gave his name to a unit of energy, and to what else?

posted Feb 11 by Prachi Sharma

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Which Canadian-born bandleader and violinist formed The Royal Canadians in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert........

posted Feb 4 by Nimish

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Herodotus, one of the earliest writers now to be called a historian, lived when?

posted Feb 4 by Mohammad

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Which country had been, at various times between 1918 when it was pulled together and 2003 when it was finally..........

posted Jan 29 by Kapil Kapoor

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When did the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the bill of rights entrenched in Canadian law as part...........

posted Jan 28 by Akriti

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What song was played at the end of the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb"?

posted Jan 28 by Anamika

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Who in the 16th century founded the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits?

posted Jan 27 by Ritika

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He led the Kuomintang for five decades, was born in Zhejiang on the east coast of China and died in Taipei; who was he?

posted Jan 24 by Varun Kumar

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"Massacre in Korea", a 1951 expressionistic painting by Pablo Picasso which is seen as a criticism of American..........

posted Jan 23 by Rahul Chandel

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Which phrase that first came to public attention as a U.S. television commercial for the Wendy's chain of hamburger.....

posted Jan 23 by Sandeep Otari

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What was invented by George de Mestral in 1957?

posted Jan 22 by Ujjwal Mehra

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Under what name was tacataca, or metegol, patented in the UK in 1923?

posted Jan 22 by Sandeep Bedi

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Which country annexed Korea in 1910?

posted Jan 22 by Pankaj Deshmukh

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Where are the Mulu Caves, explored since 1978 by a collaboration between UK speleologists, the Forestry Corporation.....

posted Jan 21 by Sidharth Malhotra

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Who, in the years prior to World War II, conceived and oversaw the development of an integrated air defence system......

posted Jan 21 by Amarvansh

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Which 1909 one-act opera was the first of the many collaborations between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal?

posted Jan 20 by Chahat Sharma

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On 17 May 1928 the Royal Flying Doctor Service made its first official flight in what country?

posted Jan 17 by Saif Khanam

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In the Battle of Langshan Jiang, or Wolf Mountain River, the force which eventually won the battle attacked.............

posted Jan 16 by Aastha Joshi

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For the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, USA, why was there only one new venue in the 15 used?

posted Jan 15 by Aarati Mahajan

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He established inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, and is thought to have died from pneumonia contracted....

posted Jan 15 by Nikita Sehgal

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What "Commonwealth" was formed on 1 January 1901, with Lord Hopetoun as Governor-General and Edmund Barton..............

posted Jan 15 by Anuradha Tabyal

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Which country declared war on Mexico on 13 May 1846?

posted Jan 14 by Maninder Bath

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Who was expelled from the Surrealist movement due to his views on the Spanish Civil War?

posted Jan 14 by Mishthy Mukherjee

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In 1983, Mandy Smith, when aged 13, began dating which 47 year old?

posted Jan 13 by Aman