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Alexander McQueen's runway shows are known for their theatre and societal commentary. In his 1998 runway show, Alexander McQueen used a sinister style featuring models with peroxide blonde hair and blood-red contact lenses. The final model wore a beaded red dress that covered her face, encircled in a ring of fire, a direct reference to which tragic feminist figure from centuries ago who inspired the title and the collection?
When this country proclaimed independence from Colombia with the backing of the US in 1903, its proposed flag (visual) combined the US stripes and Colombian colours, with two connected suns in the top left. Which country? Its current flag has 4 quadrants with a blue star in the top left and a red star in bottom right signifying the 2 political parties from 1903.
This is the mission patch from which 2026 film? The ship, which lends its name to this film, is involved in a last ditch effort to save Earth from a star-eating microorganism called Astrophage.
Jerry Pinto's translation of Malika Amar Sheikh's Marathi autobiography Mala Uddhvasta Vhaychay is titled "I Want to Destroy Myself: A Memoir" and deals with her traumatic marriage to which writer who founded the Dalit Panthers alongside Arjun Dangle, Raja Dhale and JV Pawar?
Which apsara was created by the divine architect Vishvakarma, at Brahma's request, by taking the best quality of everything? She brings about the mutual destruction of the asuras, Sunda and Upasunda.
"I Always Loved You" by Robin Oliveira is a fictional biography about an artist and her relationship with Edgar Degas after she moved to Paris following the American Civil War. Which artist depicted in this painting by Edgar Degas?
Which TV show features several TV shows of varying genres and quality as important companions to the show's main setting? Influences of TGS with Tracy Jordan can be seen throughout the other shows' content.
This ancient town in Japan, today the center of the city of Kitakyushu, is best known for its historic castle. It was home to the 17th century swordsman-saint Miyamoto Musashi who founded the combat school famous for its use of two swords. Which town, one of the alternate targets for the 1945 atomic bombings? It was saved only because of fog, which diverted the bombing mission to Nagasaki.
Which disaccharide is a sugar composed of glucose and fructose subunits, and has the molecular formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁? It is produced naturally in plants and is the main constituent of white sugar. It is particularly dangerous as the cause of tooth decay, because streptococcus mutans bacteria convert it into a sticky, extracellular, polysaccharide that allows them to cohere, thus forming plaque.
During the American Revolution, Loyalists to the Crown who were captured by Revolutionaries were often branded with the initials GR on their skin. The letters were the Royal Cipher - the official initials used by that ruler to sign documents. This form of official signing exists till today. What did the letters expand to?
This section depicts a scene from which opera by a French composer about a love triangle involving Prince Golaud and the two titular characters - Golaud's wife and his half-brother? Adapted from a play by the Symbolist playwright Maurice Maeterlinck, it remains the French composer's only opera.
This English rock band was formed in Birmingham in 1970 by songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan. Which band, with a string of top 10 albums and singles, including the disco-inspired Discovery (1979) and the science-fiction-themed concept album Time (1981)? The song "Mr. Blue Sky", one of the group's numbers, has featured in many movies including the title track of Guardians of the Galaxy II.
This painting by Waterhouse depicts which sorceress of Aeaea offering a potion to Odysseus to bring him under her spell and turn him into a pig like she did with his crew?
The queen of all fairies in Sleeping Beauty is called the _____ (5) Fairy, and offers wisdom among other things to Princess Aurora. Which flower (5) is this fairy named after? It is based on the tradition of tucking a sprig of this flower inside babies’ cradles to wish them wisdom.
The Spirit Tunnel of which singer featured the staff welcoming her by "stomping their feet" and singing "A few times I've been around that track, so it's not just gonna happen like that"? It ends with a term that is used to refer to women with a flirty demeanour.
What skateboard trick involves laying on your back on the board and rolling? The manner in which the skater lies down is the way one would be finally laid to rest inside of a particular object.
In October 2025, Shayne Coplan became the world's youngest self-made billionaire. He is the founder of which prediction platform that was founded in 2020? This controversial company has wound down its US operations after being accused of running an illegal exchange by the FTC.
In response to Tiffany & Co's trademark over the colour 'Robin Egg Blue', artist Stuart Semple launched paints in a colour he called 'Tiff Blue'. Semple has been hailed as a "colour liberator" for his work, which includes the "pinkest pink", a response to which British-Indian artist's purchase of the sole rights to use a special blackest of black shade? Full name please.
At the height of the spice trade in the 17th century, the Dutch ceded an arguably unimportant piece of land -- Manhattan -- to the British in exchange for Run, a tiny island in the Banda Island chain in Indonesia. This was done to secure the Dutch monopoly on WHICH SPICE? The hallucinogenic properties of the spice make its importation to Saudi Arabia illegal.
In 49 BC, Julius Caesar led his army across the Rubicon river in Northern Italy to kickstart a long civil war against Pompey and the Optimates, leading to the birth of the idiom Crossing The Rubicon that refers to a point of no return. What Latin phrase did Caesar apparently utter at the time, also meaning the same? English translation works.
On which island's Four Seasons Hotel is the third upcoming run of 'White Lotus' being shot? Accessed via the town of Surat Thani, some activities that guests can look forward to are exploring the Angthong National Marine Park and learning a local martial art technique from a professional kickboxer. It's the second-largest island of its country.
Already [Blank]: Caregiving and Burnout in America is a book by Kate Washington about the exhausting nature of caring for a sick person. Which breakfast item completes its title, a word also used to imply someone is doomed or ruined, used here as a reference to how caregiving is all-consuming?
This shows the evolution of the shirt sponsors over the years of which EPL football club? Since 2006, they've been sponsored by the same airline brand.
Which word is common to the following in sports?
- In field hockey, lifting the ball into the air with a quick movement of the stick
- In fencing, a short jerky motion that makes the blade bend and touch the opponent
- In cricket, a shot played by whipping the wrists to send the ball to the leg side
John DeMarisco is the broadcast director for the New York Mets. He often sneaks in movie references in the imagery of his live broadcasts. Identify the film referenced here where he transitions from a black and white shot of Edwin Diaz to a colour one. The film does the same transition with the aid of a door following a weather disturbance.
Identify this style of saree (9) which is characterised by the pleats spreading out at the back. This style gets its name from the resemblance of the pleats to the wings of certain brightly coloured insects.
Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People shows a scene from the French Revolution of 1830. The figure of the pistol-wielding boy running over the barricade is widely believed to have inspired the character of Gavroche in which 1862 work, which covers the events of the Revolution of 1832?
Hot Dog Taste Test is a collection of comics by Lisa Hanawalt. This work shares many motifs (pop culture references, offbeat humour and awkward animals) with which hit show for which Hanawalt served as the production designer?
Which city witnessed Virat Kohli's ODI century against Australia in 2010? He battled cramps and made use of a runner to help India chase down a target of 290 in this city's ground named after a former Chief Minister.
Slavic folklore mentions that vampires possess an obsessive compulsive need to count things. This can be exploited while trying to stop vampires, as they would stop to count seeds or grains thrown at them. In Slavic coastal villages, since farming was not a major occupation, an alternative to seeds and grain was used to stop vampires. What were these items, commonly used in coastal villages, that caused vampires to spend time counting holes?
Identify the 2004 Hindi movie from its partially listed background score:
- Life in US
- Postman
- Dhaba
- A Cup of Water
- Dhoti
Wieden+Kennedy designed the ad campaign with the slogan "where do you want to go today" as part of which company's second global image in the late 1990s and early 2000s? The campaign aimed at demystifying technology suggesting that this company's devices could allow for good ideas to travel irrespective of where they came from.
This Tom Gauld cartoon references an English palentologist who, while admitting that Darwin's theories had some merit to them, felt slighted and became one of his most vocal critics. Which naturalist, known for his work on terrible lizards, was this?
Which anime-manga series had a collaboration with Adidas to release sneakers based on the iconic Dark Magician card often summoned by the protagonist? The side of the box also features the Eye of Wdjat, an ancient Egyptian symbol that appears when the protagonist's dark side takes control of him.
Which TV series that began in 2016 has this customised Tudum intro?
Which part of a flower is typically green and functions as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom? It derives from Greek for "covering" and differs by one letter from a South Asian country known for its unusual flag.
Which city in northeast France is the site of the Jackal's interception by the French Police while leaving Munich? Located near the trijunction of France, Germany, and Luxembourg, this city is the birthplace of the Carolingian dynasty, and home to branches of the Centre Pompidou and Georgia Tech.
The Guardian compiled a series of classic album covers in Google Street View. Which 1963 folk rock album's cover was shot at Jones Street in the West Village, New York as the carefree artist walked down with his girlfriend Suze Rotolo?
What is the collectors' term of the first series of postage stamps issued by Belgium in 1849, featuring an image of King Leopold I? A highly influential stamp that led to a series of such commemorative issues around the world, it gets its name from the prominent ornamental shoulder piece in the image, one that is worn by all ranks of elite or ceremonial units when on parade in European nations?
In which 1998 film does Sandler portray a socially inept, stuttering man who goes from providing refreshments for the Louisiana State Football Team to playing starting outside linebacker?
Which jazz trumpeter did Basquiat pay home in his artwork King Zulu? Nicknamed "Pops" or "Satchmo", his best known songs include What a Wonderful World and La Vie en Rose.
Found near the rocky Mumbai shores by @marinelifeofmumbai, the ______ (6) shrimps have a huge oversized claw. This claw has two parts, which when snapped shut, release a high-speed jet of water and an extremely powerful air vortex, enough to stun or even kill a small animal, thus earning them their name. Fill in the blanks with the name of these shrimps.
This "One Perfect Shot" is from which David Lynch film, capturing the dream-like nature of the film?
This 1888 painting by John William Waterhouse depicts the titular character of a poem, an Arthurian maiden, specifically from the lines: And at the closing of the day, She loosed the chain, and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away, [Blanks] WHICH POEM, that is also the name of the painting?
Identify this Minecraft block, based on a material made by shaping and firing porous clay. This form of "baked earth" can be stained with dyes and glazed to form colourful variants (visual).
Despite its title, this Netflix comedy anthology series explores how difficult it is to find love and happiness in today's age. It is a commentary on different approaches to make relationships work. Which show?
In June 2023, Dua Lipa started a book club as part of Service 95, her critically acclaimed newsletter.
Which writer did Lipa sit down with for a conversation around her inaugural Monthly Read? He explained how his 20-year career in the fashion industry taught him to seek inspiration from photography and showcased a photo series from 1980s Glasgow, which was central to penning his award-winning debut novel about a boy's relationship with his alcoholic mother.
An example of a deliberate Mondegreen in pop culture is a 2002 advertisement for T-Mobile which shows spokeswoman Catherine Zeta-Jones helping to correct a man who has misunderstood the chorus of which song by an English band as "Pour some shook up ramen"? The name of the band itself is a deliberate misspelling.
What class of food additives (10) help expel products sold in aerosol containers? They help create thrust, much like in a rocket, and common examples include N2O for whipped cream and butane for cooking spray.
"Returning home from war after being assumed dead, a pilot weds the woman he has long loved, unaware that she had been planning to marry his best friend." This is a synopsis of the 1962 Bollywood film Sangam. Which much-panned 2001 Hollywood movie about a historical incident from 1941, was heavily borrowed from it?
Which 1993/1998 pair of romantic comedy movies were both directed by Nora Ephron and both star Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan playing people who fall in love without (knowingly) meeting?
The Canopic Jars, always four in number representing the four children of Horus, can be found around almost every mummy recovered in the pyramids. Named after the Greek legend of Canopus, what purpose did these four jars serve, something the Egyptians believed would be needed in the afterlife?
While this brand of snack food, consisting of caramel popcorn and peanuts was introduced at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, its sales were boosted by a reference in the 1908 song "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" (..."Buy me some peanuts and ______ ____") which has since become the unofficial anthem of North American baseball. Which brand?
Another bit of misinformation found in American military textbooks in the NYT report was about which substance being more likely to cause lung cancer than cigarettes? Clearly many US state governments disagree given how this substance has been legalised in many states.
Floral decorations are a common part of Chinese New Year. Most flowers are acceptable to be used, covering about ten different types of prosperity, but one particular flower is not to be used (unless they're in red!) because they are associated with funeral rites and veneration of the dead. Which "golden" flower from the Asteraceae family is this that has major significance in Chinese culture and even more importance in surrounding regions?
A guide who led the transfer of "passengers” across "stations" of the Underground Railroad was known as a _________ (9). What term did they use? (9) This role also involved the issuing and verification of the various “tickets” along the way.
This building in Holmdel, New Jersey - "dubbed the greatest mirror ever" - served as the home of which company until 2006, employer to nine Nobel Prize winners, and the research wing of AT&T?
In modern dating, what term refers to the act of keeping someone on the sideline because you aren't interested in them enough to pursue it but would like the opportunity to do so later, should your primary plans not materialise? In that sense, you will call upon them only when needed.
Which English singer songwriter performed a virtual concert on the online platform Pokemon Go in November 2021, with a setlist that included songs like "Perfect", "Bad Habits", and "Overpass Graffiti"?
The [BLANK] Express runs 2000 miles from Beijing to Lhasa. Quite appropriately, the titular place is never reached by the train. What is this scenic train called, a nod to a 1933 work of literature?
The History of the World in 100 Animals is a 2022 book by nature writer and novelist Simon Barnes about the animals that have had the greatest impact on humanity and on whom humanity has had the greatest effect. In the chapter dedicated to the Horse, he talks of the significance of chariots. This is illustrated through the statue of a 1st century AD queen located at London’s Westminster Bridge. Which queen, who revolted against the invading Romans?
Why I Am Not a Christian is a 1927 essay by which British philosopher? In it, the author defines the term and then sets out to prove why he isn't one, while also covering logical arguments for the existence of God, Christian theology specifics, and Darwin's theories.
These panels from a Sandman comic show the chance encounter between Emperor Norton and which struggling author? The meeting is shown to have inspired a short story about a celebrated jumping frog that would be one of the first successes in an illustrious career. (Provide 35 seconds on direct)
In 1993, US Postal Service launched a commemmorative stamp for Elvis Presley that has gone on to become its highest selling tribute stamp. During the time, many people sent letters with the stamp on it to random fake addresses which obviously wouldn't get delivered. This was done by people to get what three words printed on the envelope, the title of a Presley song?