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What is common to the stage names of the following rappers? It hints at how they are young and still have many years left in their career.
Season 6 of BoJack Horseman features a number of artworks inspired by the palette of a 20th century Polish painter. She is known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylised paintings of nudes. Which artist, known as the "Baroness with the Brush"?
Who is this British former World Heavyweight Boxing champion? He won his first title in 2015 by letting loose his anger on Wladimir Klitschko.
Combining the chemical symbols for the elements Tungsten, Astatine and Tennessine results in which SI derived unit in plural form? It is equal to 1 joule per second and used to quantify the rate of energy transfer.
The women’s floor event at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics saw two gymnasts tie for Gold after hitting an identical score of 18.733. If Agnes Keleti of Hungary is one, which Soviet athlete, who still holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals by a gymnast, is the other?
Identify this South American musical style played with drums, maracas and the eponymous instrument, a palm wood xylophone with bamboo tube resonators. It is included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists for Colombia and Ecuador, where it is performed alongside chanted stories and poems at rituals as a celebration of life.
Which 2000s film is referenced in this sequence of Everything Everywhere All at Once, where Michelle Yeoh is a chef being outdone by her colleague who is being helped by the creature pictured? It replaced the animal of the order Rodentia referenced in the original.
Which element lends its name to Levi's story where a person is painting his apartment white using a pigment created from the dioxide of the element known for being strong and corrosion-resistant? The bright white pigment is used widely in sunscreen as a UV blocking agent along with zinc oxide.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Graycliff (1926) is considered a stepping stone towards refining which design philosophy that promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world? The term is also used to refer to a farming method that doesn't use any synthetic chemicals.
This is the logo of the Indian organisation or governing body for what?
WHICH ISLAND NATION'S tourism tagline is "The Spice of The Caribbean"? The likely origin of the present name of the country is from a time when Spanish sailors named it for a city in Andalusia.
What type of nut (5) has a knurled or grooved outside surface, typically tightened by making use of the namesake, thick digit of the hand?
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils is a children's book by which Swedish author, the first woman to win a Literature Nobel? The book, about a boy who stops harming animals after he befriends a goose, inspired psychologist Konrad Lorenz to study geese and create pathbreaking research on attachment formation that won him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973.
First timers might think it is being used as abuse, but in Twitch lingo, which letter is used to pay respects when something unfortunate happens in a game or to show solidarity with losing players? Its origins lie in ‘Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’, where users were asked to type this letter in the chat to pay respects.
This painting by William Henry Powell that one can find in the rotunda of the US Capitol depicts the discovery by Europeans of which major geographical entity, led by the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto?
The primary section of the H-bomb when fired consists of a Pu-239 or U-235 core that is compressed to a smaller sphere by special layers of conventional high explosives arranged around it in an explosive [BLANK] pattern, initiating the nuclear chain reaction. The explosive [BLANK] is a specialized charge designed by John Von Neumann in order to focus the effect of the explosive's energy. Fill in the blank.
There have been a few instances of gender-swaps in portraying Shakespearean characters. While the gender of this character has been ambiguous, Shakespeare uses male pronouns twice, once in stage directions and once in a speech by Prospero. The role was played by women for all of the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1930, Leslie French became the first male in centuries to play which character? Since then, the role has been played by actors of all genders.
Indian Youtuber Anshuman Sharma breaks down how one can compose their own version of songs by popular artists. He has provided this recipe to recreate any song by which artist?
Step 1. Choose a topic like heartbreak or love, or get inspired by a Weeknd song.
Step 2. Write Punjabi lyrics that are kind of translated from a Weeknd song. Use ChatGPT.
Step 3. Make retro beats that sound like...a Weeknd song.
Step 4. Sing like you just woke up, with a ton of autotune of course.
Step 5. Don't forget to make an aesthetic music video.
The British museum houses 120 sculptures and inscriptions from a stupa in India, featuring representations of important episodes in Buddha's life and of the Jataka stories. Made from a limestone called Palnad marble, WHICH LOCATION was it taken from, the erstwhile capital of the Satavahana dynasty?
Between 1485 and 1560, houses in Britain were characterised by thatched roofs and exposed timber frames with very little embellishment. What style, named after the royal house that reigned in the period covering these years and extending up to 1603, ending with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, is this?
This author won the 2006 edition of BBC's Celebrity Mastermind with his specialist topic being single malt whiskies. It is thus appropriate that his only non-fiction work is 'Raw Spirit', a travelogue of Scotland and its whisky distilleries. Identify this author, famous for both his literary fiction and, with an added initial, his sci-fi.
The capital of the Veracruz state in Mexico is the source of the name of a spicy cultivar. While the capital’s name starts with an ‘X’, the spice uses a different letter, while retaining the same core pronunciation. Identify this cultivar.
Demonic _______ (7) is a roguelike game variant where one can play what game against demons by masterfully using the tiles in one's hand to craft powerful combinations?
Sandra Oh plays the titular fictional British intelligence agent who is tasked with capturing a psychopathic assassin played by Jodie Comer in which BBC TV show based on a book series by Luke Jennings? While the book is titled after the assassin 'Villanelle', the show is named after the assassin's goal of getting rid of the titular agent.
This cover by Quentin Blake is used for which Roald Dahl classic? The story concerns the titular girl with telekinesis powers, [blank] Wormwood, and her adventures with the tyrannical headmistress of her school.
Along with milk, what is the primary ingredient in a golden latte? It is a powder obtained by grinding the dried roots of the Curcuma longa, a flowering plant of the ginger family.
What surname is shared by a captain who survived the Vietnam War and was entrusted to deliver a golden watch in Pulp Fiction and one of the men located on a bounty poster in Django Unchained?
This private residence of the department store supremo, Edgar Kaufmann, is considered to be the architectural marvel that defined the modernist style of the resort city of Palm Springs in California, even going on to inspire the Barbie home in the Gerwig film. Which Austrian-American architect is behind this work whose legacy is closely associated with the city and its residences?
Creatures like leopards, aye ayes, nightjars etc. have a layer of tissue called the tapetum lucidum, which bends light back. Depending on the creature, angle of reflection and amount of light, the colour may vary. This reflective membrane in a certain part of their body gives these creatures a specific advantage as well as a visible feature. Name either the advantage OR the feature
Celebrity couples are often given portmanteau names, such as "Bennifer" for Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. What was the portmanteau name (6) given to this pair, replacing one letter in the name of the Rare artist?
The title of episode 8 of the Netflix show Beef - "Drama of Original Choice" - borrows from a line from which feminist author's 1947 work The Ethics of Ambiguity, to mirror the idea of being trapped in a domino effect due to one's past? The work was written as a critical response to her partner Jean Paul Sartre's system of ethics described in Being and Nothingness.
Which two-time F1 World Champion voiced Strip "The King" Weathers in the Finnish version of Cars? He was involved in a near-fatal crash in 1995 that saw him undergo an emergency tracheotomy on the track.
In his song ’24-23 Kobe-Lebron’, rapper Jeezy uses their jersey numbers to indicate cocaine prices. He used to pay $24000 but now pays $23000. In the following rhyming lines from 'Empire State of Mind', Jay Z says he only pays $3000, by naming which player? Lebron would go on to join this Miami Heat legend and win multiple Championships. (Surname will do)
*Me, I got a plug, Special Ed - I Got It Made
If Jeezy's payin' Lebron, I'm payin' ______ ____*
Coined as an anagram of "patronym", an "aptronym" is a personal name aptly suited to its owner reflecting their character, profession, or situation. In a popular young adult fantasy series of books (and later films), a classmate of the protagonist has a name formed from Latin for "dragon" and French for "bad faith". What is the apt full name (5,6) of this antagonistic character?
Identify this cinematographer, the first woman of colour to win Best Cinematography. Recognised for Sinners, she became the first female director of photography to shoot a feature film entirely on large-format IMAX film.
Identify the staple missing ingredient in this recipe of Lahpet thoke, a salad that is a national delicacy in Myanmar.
Fried chickpeas, peanuts, toasted sesame, crushed dried shrimps, chillies, and [blank]. While globally consumed as a beverage by steeping in water, the Burmese consume a pickled variety of these as a dish.
WHICH regional political party of India was founded in Jharkhand by Binod Bihari Mahato? The party was officially created on the birthday of Birsa Munda, the 19th century tribal warrior, who fought against the British rule in present-day Jharkhand. The current leader of this party is Hemant Soren who is also the CM of Jharkhand [ACRONYM ACCEPTABLE]
What type of fries are long, thin potato slices that are deep-fried? Its form has been likened to a form of cord used for footwear or a slender piece of wood (with an oxidising agent as a head) used for starting a fire.
NH44 is the longest national highway in India, running from Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir to Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu. How long is it? (in km)
This individual in Raphael's The School of Athens is idenified to be which philosopher, who turned against Platonism and established his own school, known as "the Garden"? An inscription at the site supposedly read "Dear Guest, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure."
Some countries have national colours different from their flag colours. While green is for grass, the other national colour represents the acacia pyncnantha, the national flower. Which country is this, whose sports jerseys have used these since the late 1800s? The proportion of the colours on jerseys has sometimes been changed to avoid confusion with South Africa.
This board game was first released by Milton Bradley following the success of which American game show where one’s luck is as important as their ability to play the word-guessing game hangman?
Identify this quartic plane curve (5) that gets its name owing to a resemblance to a Greek letter, and not an East Asian water monster or an Italian sportswear brand.
What type of sushi is an inside-out roll with rice on the outside, and a sheet of nori and sushi filling at the center? Removing the first three letters from this seven letter word refers to the same type of sushi with rice on the inside and nori on the outside.
What versatile, golden-brown confection is made by heating sugars to roughly 170°C, causing them to break down and form complex, nutty, and buttery flavours? The process of browning sugars is named after this confection.
One of the tales in this biography of Juan Pareja is about his first trip to the Vatican with his master in 1650. His master, allegedly, painted Juan as practice or as proof of his skill before executing which other famous portrait that had a series of screaming interpretations 3 centuries later?
At the inauguration of the United Nations in 1945, ______ __________ (6,10) was overwhelmed by the absence of the Polish flag. He stopped playing his piano, told the audience to stand up, and played the Polish national anthem. Who (6,10) is this great Chopin aficionado? His life was the subject of the 1969 Academy Award-winning documentary film The Love of Life.
This weekly horror podcast has been around since 2006, and focuses on short stories. It is named after a temporary growth on a cell that allows it be mobile, almost like a fake little foot. Amoebas make use of it to move around (the growth, not the podcast). What is the name of the podcast?
The lead actor from which critically acclaimed television series drives a car with this number plate that appropriately promotes his role for those involved in crimes in the Albuquerque region? While he begins earnestly as Jimmy McGill, the series traces his moral descent that was also showcased in another hit TV show.
Superposed (or superimposed) order is one where successive storeys of a building have different orders, the heaviest (Doric) at the bottom and the lightest (Corinthian) at the top. The most famous ancient example of such an order is which building, built during the reigns of Vespasian and Titus, which had no less than four storeys of superposed orders?
The Great Spa Towns of Europe is a transnational World Heritage Site consisting of 11 spa towns across seven European countries. Which city, that gets its name from the structures built by the Romans around the city's natural springs, is the only site from England that is part of this list?
The alliteratively named _______ (7) Chair was designed by Oki Sato as a response to a challenge posed by Issey Miyake to design something from wasted heaps of paper. What member of the Brassica oleracea family gives its name to this chair? Oki Sato found inspiration in this member, which displays high structural strength despite being constituted of individually delicate units.
In one of his illustrations, Robin Yayla juxtaposes himself holding a camera at the bottom of an iconic monument, with his hand twisting the monument like the lens of a DSLR camera. Which monument built by a republic that dominated the Ligurian sea until the early 15th century?
Which cocktail, a variation of the Bellini, replaces the peach purée with strawberry purée? It was named to honour a 19th-century Italian composer whose family name also derives from a shade similar to the drink.
The “-mab” in the names of therapies used to treat cancers, like trastuzumab and pembrolizumab, denote the class of drugs they belong to. If “a” and “b” stand for antibodies, what does “m” stand for – indicating that these antibodies are produced from a cell lineage made by duplicating a single, unique white blood cell?
TSH ([Blank] Stimulating Hormone) is a common blood test that calculates the level of T3, T4, and calcitonin in which butterfly-shaped gland? The gland is located in front of the neck, close to your windpipe.
This invasive species was introduced to other parts of the world from the US to reduce the effects of beetles on sugarcane plantations. They have an amazing defense mechanism; they produce toxic ooze which is fatal to any animal that attempts to eat them. With nothing around to keep their numbers in check, which species is this which has been taking its toll on native animal and plant species, especially in Australia?
Which John Hillcoat directed film inspired these sequences in The Last of Us? The film's subject of a father and son on a seemingly endless trek across a post apocalyptic United States informed a similar theme in The Last of Us.
In French cuisine, the mother sauces are a group of sauces upon which many other sauces ('daughter sauces') are based. The most common list is attributed to Auguste Escoffier, who listed 4 mother sauces and added notes that indicated 1 more. WHICH OF ESCOFFIER'S MOTHER SAUCES, a cold emulsion of egg yolk with oil and vinegar, was originally placed by Escoffier not in the main mother sauce list but in a chapter on cold sauces, and described in notes as a mother sauce for all cold sauces?
What is English title of this 2013 film, 'The ____ ______'(4 ,6), indicating the titular profession or ability? The film's Korean name is Gwansang which means 'physiognomy', and it shows Song Kang Ho having the ability to do something that all smartphones can now do using their scans of 80 nodal points, etc.
Which element is aptly depicted inside a Superman-style logo on the cover of Periodic Tales?
Even amidst the Writers Guild strike, the production schedule of Season 2 of this fantasy drama is somehow carrying on, with its executive producer (shown here supporting the strike) and other writers missing from the set and with script re-writes not permitted. Which show?
In 1991, following a treaty after decades of negotiation, Indian troops were deployed by the United Nations Transitional Authority in ________ (8) (also known as UNTAC) to resist local guerrillas and conduct peaceful elections. These elections brought Norodom Ranariddh into the role of Prime Minister in which country (8)?
S2E1 examines a scenario where a daughter of Thanos joined the Nova Corp early on in her life. Which character, portrayed by Scottish actress Karen Gillan in the MCU, is this?