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Which former skipper of the Zimbabwe cricket team took over as the head coach of Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2024 IPL season? Please provide the full name of this prolific wicket-keeper batsman.
Which historical-romance series was produced by Shonda Rhimes' production house Shondaland and features marriageable elite youth debuting in England's social season? It was the most-watched original series launch on Netflix before being surpassed by Squid Game.
What rhythmic gymnastics apparatus (4) made of either rubber or synthetic material, is 18 to 20 cm in diameter with a minimum weight of 400 gm? Its routine is created in a way that it can contrast between power for throwing and gentleness for catching.
Netflix designed a tarot experience based on their 2026 lineup. This tarot card is for the third instalment of which Netflix film franchise that began in 2020? It is based on a young adult fiction series by Nancy Springer.
In the first week of March 2024, Formula One driver Carlos Sainz Jr was diagnosed with appendicitis and quickly scheduled for surgery. This paved the way for a dream debut for which reserve driver, who drove alongside Charles Leclerc for Ferrari and became only the 18th driver in F1 history to score points in his very first race?
In Buddhism, which redemptive figure is predicted to rise to teach enlightenment in the next age? Buddha predicted his teaching will be lost after 5000 years of his preaching and this Bodhisattva is believed to be his successor.
What kind of pasta gets its name from the Italian word meaning 'feather' or 'pen'?
One of the furniture pieces Eileen Gray designed for the villa E-1027 was the Transat (visual), which consisted of a wooden frame covered with upholstery. What items, found onboard the transatlantic ocean liners Eileen Gray journeyed on, served as inspiration for the Transat's design?
Fans of emo pop-punk bands often created cartoons of their idols that they shared on Tumblr.
Which band led by Gerard Way has released genre-defining albums like I Brought You My Bullets (2002) and Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004) followed by "rock operas" The Black Parade (2006) and Danger Days (2010)? It takes its name from a work by Irvine Welsh that revolves around recreational drug use.
One of the key arguments that W.E.B. DuBois wanted to make in Encyclopaedia Africana was to prove wrong which German philosopher's argument that Africa was a place without history? This philosopher made this argument as a defence of slavery in his work Lectures on the Philosophy of World History.
While the Greater species of this bird migrates to India from parts of Europe and the Middle East, the Lesser species migrates to India from Africa. Which "flamboyant" group of birds is this whose name is used to describe both Kutch Desert Sanctuary and Navi Mumbai as [BLANK] City ?
This plate from the "Queens" section of the Famous Women Dinner Service depicts which queen who was widely criticised along with her husband, Ahab, for causing "moral decline" after replacing Yahwism with Baal and Asherah worship in Israel?
For this photo, Leibovitz and Chastain turned to which painting by Vincent van Gogh inspired by Pierre Loti's novel Madame Chrysanthème? It gets its name from the Japanese word for "girl", "daughter", "mistress", or "young unmarried woman".
Las Meninas refer to "ladies-in-waiting", the ladies flanking which infant royal in the Royal Alcazar of Madrid? Velasquez worked in the court of Philip IV of Spain, and painted this daughter across ages. She would go on to become by marriage Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. She's also the grandmother of (and very similarly named to) someone you met last week in this very quiz. Give us her full name please.
Only a handful of athletes have completed the (G,S,B) medal set in the same individual event across different Olympics.
Who achieved this Olympic medal set in the Super Heavyweight class? His 2012 Silver came at the back of controversy as the referees awarded a tie-breaker win to Anthony Joshua.
Because of the building's outlay, and more so because of the carefully designed gardens that front it, this building has been compared to which structure on a different continent?
Which South Asian dish consists of meat or vegetables braised traditionally in a clay pot with dahi (yoghurt), water or stock, and spices to produce a thick sauce or gravy? An anglicisation of the Urdu word for "braise", its popular versions are chicken or lamb. The vegetarian version is generally made with 9 key ingredients.
Which French literary critic is the subject of Binet's whimsical whodunnit The 7th Function of Language? He is perhaps best known for Mythologies (1957) and The Death of the Author (1968), which led Jacques Derrida to pay an ironic homage with "The Deaths of [blank]".
Which American astrophysicist became the the fourth woman recipient of the Physics Nobel in 2020? She was awarded alongside Reinhard Genzel for their discovery of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.
The Sun Throne and the Naderi Throne are the most famous of the many thrones built for the Shahs of the Qajar dynasty in which country? They came to power in 1789 after deposing Lotf Ali Khan and ruled until the 1920s when they were ousted by Reza Khan.
Which statue exhibited in the Cleveland Museum of Art was rocked by a metal pipe bomb by a group protesting against the Vietnam War? It was one of the many pensive versions around the world cast using the original mould designed in the 1880s.
What two-word term has been used to refer to the Tibetan plateau and the Karakoram range for its abundance of ice, which is comparable to that of the Arctic and Antarctic regions?
Which of the abhorrent offsping of Typhon and Echidna had a crest and three tongues, and was responsible for tirelessly guarding the Golden Fleece? It was put to sleep by the use of a potion devised by Medea, but of course the man who was with her got all the credit. Your answer should contain a place name that once described the Black Sea coast of Georgia and a mythical creature.
These series of propaganda stamps (inspired by such posters) were issued by the country in question in 1988 on the 2nd anniversary of America bombing their nation. It features its supreme leader on all the stamps in civilian clothes, stripped of his trademark military uniform. Which country issued this?
In which air adventure sport would a pilot fly the light, non-motorised foot-launched namesake aircraft pictured here? The pilot is in a harness suspended from the airframe that is covered with a synthetic sailcloth to form a wing.
These are lines from the poem The Miner by which 19th century Norwegian, also the subject of this illustration by Max Beerbohm?
These are the first two pages of which 2024 novel, the fourth by an Irish author? The checkerboard pattern aptly hints at the activity that the plot revolves around.
What two-word phrase originates from a West African religious dance ceremony led by a masked dancer called maamajomboo? A clerk from the Royal African Company transcribed the name in his book “Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa” and soon English speakers started to divorce the phrase from its African origins and apply it to anything that confused them.
Lean ___ _____ (3,5) is a method to improve performance by systematically removing waste and reducing variation. What set of techniques and tools (3,5) introduced by Bill Smith while working at Motorola is used in this method along with lean principles? It makes use of statistics and data analysis to analyse and reduce errors or defects.
A year after the discovery of rubidium, William Crookes of the Royal College of Science in London announced the discovery of which element that he named after the Greek word for a young shoot or twig after its distinctive spectroscopic lines? It is used today in photoresistors, optical lenses, and in nuclear imaging tests for cardiac stress. It is infamous as a “poisoner’s poison” for its use in political assassinations.
Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski's PhD thesis argued that what objects have two aspects: a religious one, as a relationship between persons and nature, and a sociological one, as a mode of social grouping? It derives from an anglicisation of an Ojibwe term that is now used to refer to any spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people like a clan or tribe.
The Priory of Sion proposed that this character's womb was the Holy Grail, and her child with Jesus connects the kings of France with the Royal House of David. This was also a key plot point in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Which character?
Which Japanese designer launched the collection A Piece of Cloth (A-POC) in 1971? The collection is named for the fact that every garment is designed by customers themselves by cutting a long single tube of fabric into a shape of their choice. Known for his ability to combine technology and fashion, this designer was the favourite of an iconic technology pioneer.
In architecture, what term is given to a self-supporting arched form serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof? The term is now used to refer to strongrooms, typically in banks, as their ceilings originally had this feature.
The 1748 work An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, a revision of an earlier effort, was widely criticised by the Vatican for arguing that belief in miracles was irrational because they violated natural laws and relied on unreliable human testimony. Which Scottish philosopher published this work?
A hyperbolic paraboloid is quadric surface that happens to be a doubly ruled surface, meaning it is made of 2 sets of mutually skewed lines. This means it is surprisingly simple to manufacture using a variety of materials and for a variety of purposes, from concrete roofs to snack foods. WHICH WELL-KNOWN SNACK resembles a truncated hyperbolic paraboloid?
Signed in 1259 BCE, the Eternal Treaty is believed to be the world's first peace treaty. It was signed between the belligerents of which battle? Fought between the forces of Ramesses II and the Hittites led by Muwatalli II, it is the earliest pitched battle in recorded history for which details of tactics and formations are known.
Which style of street dance, grooved to 70s disco music, was created in the LGBT clubs of Los Angeles during the 1970s disco era? It is an extremely expressive, free form of dance with strong emphasis on arm movements, posing, and improvisation. It was once called 'punking', but the name was changed to avoid the negative connotations of the word punk.
What crop gets its name from the Tupi origin word “naná”? The individual flowers, i.e., the inflorescence, of this bromeliad fuse to form a single mass of fruit that is surrounded by a prickly protective covering.
The Last Judgement follows the traditional approach of showing the ascending on the left and the descending on the right (Biagio was placed at the bottom right). The damned who would descend into hell, were judged by the figure which bore Biagio's features. Identify this kingly figure who had a penchant for sending folks under even when he lived.
This style of dress is based on what loose outer garment (6) from the Americas, typically made of thick fabric to keep one warm or dry?
This specialised mould gives shape to a pastry shell used to prepare what dessert that is typically filled with a sweet, creamy filling containing ricotta? Historically, it was prepared during Carnival, possibly as a fertility symbol preceding Easter.
In 2022/23, Tate Modern presented a retrospective of which Polish artist who pioneered a new form of installation through the radical sculptures she created using woven fibre? These towering works that typically hung from the ceiling are her most recognisable alongside the humanoid sculptures that populate her various outdoor installations.
Which luxury design house opened the "Blue Box Café" by Daniel Boulud within The Landmark, the company's flagship store on 5th Avenue in NYC? It opens everyday at 10 am, just in time for a late breakfast.
Identify this airport terminal design (4), whose name comes from how the terminal gates extend across a small, narrow structure, with the planes being "docked" on this strip-like structure. Examples include Chicago's O'Hare Airport and the Kansai International Airport.
Which Greek letter, in lowercase, is used for the following?
- The characteristic time or relaxation time of a process, across multiple fields.
- The rotational force, in physics.
- The ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius.
Pictured here is the Executive Wing of the Newzealand Parliament Buildings in Wellington. What is the nickname given to this, due to its resemblance to a traditional basket woven form of a structure called skep?
Which 1995 film starring Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan and Gina Gershon is considered a twin to this erotic drama (visual) featuring a lead character involved in the exotic dance industry?
Post-independence India saw heavy use of lines from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets in headlines, advertising slogans and even in speeches by politicians. Fill in the blanks in this excerpt from Nissim Ezekeil's poem The Patriot. You only need the first three blanks for points.
_______, ______, __________, (7,6,10).
I am saying (to myself)
Lend me the ____ (4)
Everything is coming
Regeneration, Remuneration, Contraception.
Formed from the words Stachel ("spikes") and Schwein ("pig"), Stachelschwein is the German word for which rodent? Its largest species (by size) is the third-largest rodent in the world after capybara and beaver.
The Ishihara plates - named after a Tokyo University professor - is a series of 38 plates with each plate consisting of a series of dots amidst which a number is hidden. These plates are the gold standard in testing which genetic condition? Simply put, those who don't have this deficiency will likely identify the number easily while those with the deficieny won't.
Analysing the dip in US crime rate in the 90s compared to the earlier decade, Dubner & Levitt suggest that it is closely correlated with another statistic as can be evidenced in the difference between states with low & high rates for a particular procedure. They hence present the argument that one of the primary causes for the drop in crime were the actions of which young woman from Dallas (blanked out in red in visual)?
This work by R. F. Kuang is about magical silver bars that have the ability to capture what is "lost in translation" between languages. The central setting of the story is the Royal Institute of Translation. What is the Biblical nickname of this college - also the title of the work?
If you start at Canada Water and end at Tottenham Court Road, you would be taking the bus route numbered #1 in which city?
In the Watchmen Universe, WHAT 1995 INCIDENT is foiled by the characters Nite Owl and Comedienne? The FBI considers this the deadliest act of homegrown terrorism in US history.
Samin Nosrat's James Beard award-winning cookbook, adapted into a show on Netflix, focuses on how four elements define food - [blank1], which enhances flavor; [blank2], which delivers flavor and generates texture; [blank3], which balances flavour; and [blank4], which ultimately determines the texture of food. What four words fill in the blanks and form the title of the best-selling cookbook as well as the Netflix show?
WHICH newspaper is the largest and oldest English-language newspaper in Pakistan and the country's newspaper of record? It was founded by Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Delhi in 1941, as a mouthpiece for the Muslim League before moving its headquarters to Karachi after the partition. It is well known for championing human rights such as its opposition to the death penalty.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem about the namesake king of Uruk who was later deified, believed to be the oldest historical text behind the Pyramid texts. Some of the best surviving versions of the epic was found in tablet in the ruins of a royal library dedicated to WHICH ASSYRIAN KING, the last of that empire?
Also called a cap, this common barrier contraceptive for those with female reproductive organs is placed over the cervix with a spermicide. It can also be occasionally used as a menstrual product. Not to be confused with an organ in the upper half of the body, what is this device called?
Which 1980 film, themed around reincarnation, witnessed Simi Garewal in this black chiffon dress with a belt? Styled by a bunch of celebrated designers, the dress was sourced from Parmeshwar Godrej's Dancing Silks, one of the first Indian stores dedicated to western outfits.
The first outlet of this restaurant chain, run by workers' co-operative societies, opened in 1938. But, it was shut down in 1957 only for the Communist Leader A.K. Gopalan to revive it through a movement albeit with a tiny change in the name. What chain, recognisable as much for their white-clad turban-wearing waiters as for its political role?
Name the companion painting of this early 19th-century work that captures scenes witnessed near the Puerta del Sol, where locals clashed with the Mameluke cavalry unit of the French Imperial Guard. The other painting however depicts a scene from the next day.
Which scent obtained from this plant's roots is a base note of Chanel No. 5? The scent produced from this fragrant grass is close to lemongrass but more earthy and green, and its English name is derived from Tamil for "cut-up roots".
This is the logo of the ABA team San Diego _____________ (13). It is named for the explorer-soldiers of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires of the 15th and 16th centuries. What term (13), applied to the forces that took over the Incas among others, completes the name of this ABA team?