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Which Colombian guerrilla organisation led a Marxist–Leninist insurgency to address social inequalities and land distribution issues in the country? They kidnapped former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt in 2002, which culminated in the daring 2008 rescue mission Operation Jaque.
Which 1989 Nobel Peace Laureate, officially a citizen of India but holder of several honourary citizenships, held permanent residence in India at the time he received the Prize?
Which Indian river's name means "one who soothes and gives pleasure to all" in Sanskrit? Its alternate name is Reva and the controversial Sardar Sarovar dam in the state of Gujarat is on it. You can also combine the words for male and female from Hindi nature documentaries to arrive at this river (though this would be slightly different phonetically from the name of the river).
This branch of the Shia Islamic faith, mainly based in Northern Yemen and Saudi Arabia's Najran, is named after a figure who led an unsuccessful coup against the Umayyad caliphate. This branch comes closest to the Sunni faith in ideology. Which sect is this?
These are the medallists of which women's event from the 2025 World Athletics Championship? Provide a distance as part of your answer.
Faith Cherotich 8:51.59
Winfred Yavi 8:56.46
Sembo Almayew 8:58.86
Zubrowka from Poland is the third best selling brand of Vodka in the world (after Smirnoff and Absolut). What gives Zubrowka its pale green colour? This is sourced from the Białowieża Forest by hand, and the imagery on the bottle should lead you to the correct two-word answer.
Elle Kemper plays the titular 29-year old woman who is rescued from a doomsday cult and adjusts to life outside of it in which sitcom (2015-19), created by Tina Fey? The title alludes to how Kemper’s character isn’t one to back down and is determined to be seen as more than just a victim.
Identify the full name of the POTUS from his first 100 days in office:
Appointed the Warren Commission, signed the Clean Air Act, and pushed through his predecessor's stalled tax cuts.
This is a segment of a music video directed by Hiro Murai in 2014, which features an elaborate dance routune performed by roller skaters who are following a camera mounted on a moving car. What is the name of the track, and who is the artist behind it? The Australian artist briefly reverted to using his birthname Nick Murphy for a few years, but eventually went back to his stage name, which pays homage to an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist.
Which character, who lives in solitude on the swamp planet Dagobah, named this deep-sea acorn worm due to the large lips on either side of the creature's head? Reminded them of wrinkled, floppy ears it did.
Which school of philosophical thought, present since Ancient Greek history to modern day, often come in etiher of two varieties - those who deny all possibility of knowledge, and those who advocate for the suspension of judgment due to the inadequacy of evidence? The parable of the blind men and the elephant, often used in Buddhism/ Hinduism, is a nod to this school of thought.
"I am an _________ ___(9,3). No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am ________(9), understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Which 1952 literary masterpiece begins thus?
Identify the filmmaker duo from these selected writer credits. We'll need two full names.
2006 The Prestige
2008 The Dark Knight
2012 The Dark Knight Rises
2014 Interstellar
The red blooms and buds of which plant of the Prunus genus represent February in hanafuda? Along with bamboo, this plant is most intimately associated with art, literature and everyday life in the Sinosphere, symbolising endurance by being the first to flower despite the cold.
Which line, a favourite of Amit Varma on the show 'The Seen and the Unseen', is a slight variation of a line in the poem Song of Myself from Walt Whitman, also later made into a song by Bob Dylan? It refers to the fact that human beings are complex creations and boxing them under labels is a futile exercise. You may give the original line or the variation [one key word].
What is the name (4,6 or 10) of this brand by Mars Wrigley, a sour gummies version of a ring-shaped candy? It shares its name with an emergency floatation equipment, and can refer to anything that provides help in a difficult situation.
What is the name of this class (9) from Darkest Dungeon that is a competitive sharpshooter using a type of long gun? If you knew the answers to all other questions in the quad, your answer for this one should be right on target to join this class yourself.
In architecture, a pendentive is the placing of a circular dome over a square room. The structure with the world's first pendentive dome also became the world's largest interior space following its construction between 532-37 CE. Which structure, that has undergone many "conversions", is this?
Identify the director of this commercial for YSL. It features an actor who previously collaborated with the director on an Oscar nominated 2010 psychological horror film.
Owl wings have a comb of bristles along their leading edge, and a fringe on the trailing edge, that help break up air turbulence. These give the nocturnal owl an advantage as it approaches its prey, effectively acting as _________ (9, plural). UK scientists have tried to replicate the concept in airplane wing technology too. Fill in the blank. All cars have this feature too of course, but they operate in a different way.
What term refers to a deep inlet of the ocean almost surrounded by land, with a narrower opening than a bay? The largest of its kind is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean and was the location of the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) features many interactive maps. Which map is set in a small Italian town and shares its scorching name with the first part of a seminal 14th-century narrative poem?
______ (6) is a collective noun for a group of pickpockets. This is something a pickpocket might do, and is used in a similar sense in the title of a Guy Ritchie film. What term?
He allegedly immediately fell head-over-heels in love with the actress during a Filmfare Magazine shoot in Mumbai. Later during the shoot of the movie International Khiladi, their friendship turned into a serious relationship. The couple has now been together for over two decades and have two kids. Name them.
In professional boxing, what term is used for the weight class that places just below, i.e. lighter than bantamweight? It is also called simply light bantamweight, but we're looking for the name that uses a modification of the weight class below it.
In Top Gun: Maverick, what word in fighter pilot glossary does Rooster use to inform Maverick that he's spotted enemy aircraft? He's not counting them, just seeing them. It comes from hunting - when the prey is spotted, hunters use this word in conjunction with '-Ho!'
Which 2005 novel set in Nazi Germany follows a young girl named Liesel Meminger as she satiates her hunger for stories while forming a bond with her foster parents and a Jewish man hiding in their basement?
The game Balatro surged in popularity after making a roguelike variant of what game? Power-ups one can pick include more chips from getting a hand like a straight flush or a full house.
"Gully Number 001 - [blank] Calico White" is a two-tone pair which, according to its description, is inspired by [blank], the Indian philosophy of dualism. This concept of duality was founded by the 13th-century Vaishnavite philosopher Madhvacharya. What term lends its name to this model?
A tribute to 1970s B movies, this 2007 film which is part of a double feature has a final car chase sequence lasting over 15 minutes. Which film, whose title comes from the main antagonist believing that his stunt car makes him unkillable, is this?
Rugged Maniac is a Mark Cuban-funded OCR that has 25 obstacles in each race. One of the obstacles is to scale an 8-foot-tall wall that is named after a psychological phenomenon which suggests that a relative lack of height will propel people to act more aggressively. Name the obstacle.
In the chapter on Kerala in "Following Fish", Samanth not only shares tales of iconic dishes like karimeen but becomes enamored (and maybe inebriated) with shops selling what local item? Shops selling this drink are widely considered to be among the best places to sample the cuisine of Kerala, especially dishes like fish head curry.
This shows the evolution of shirt sponsors over the years of which EPL football club? Currently, they have no sponsors on their shirt, but its last sponsor was a British telecom company.
In "So High School", Swift pays homage to which American writer whose best-known work from 1962 is referenced in the following lines? This young adult science fantasy novel was adapted to film by Ava DuVernay in 2018.
The national flag of Norway has many “hidden” flags. Siniristilippu, the national flag of which country can be found embedded in the flag of Norway? Like Norway, this country also includes a Nordic Cross in its flag.
Identify the viral 2024 song for which he has written this English verse.
In the 1880s, the English comic journal 'Nuggets' frequently featured a cartoon family of Irish immigrants displaying buffoonish behaviour juxtaposed against proper English culture. What was the family name, which originally had a more subtly offensive connotation, but today is used to refer to people who behave rowdily or violently in public?
Originating in Mesoamerican cuisine, this dish features rolled flatbreads made from maize, filled with meat, beans or cheese, covered in a chilli-based sauce, and baked as a casserole. Its name comes from Spanish for “to season with chilli”. What dish is this, found in Tex-Mex restaurants as a non-casserole version as well?
Pray the Devil Back to Hell is a 2008 Tribeca award-winning film by Gini Reticker. It documents a peace movement by women, organised by social worker Leymah Gbowee. What started with prayers and singing in a fish market culminated in a historic presidential election in 2006. Who, awarded the Nobel Prize with Leymah, won the election?
Which country is called a "brick" and not a ball? A recurring meme involves its attempts to join the union of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, as it believes its inclusion can make the union’s name more apt.
In 2023, all references to these characters in Roald Dahl books were rewritten to make them gender-neutral. However, the first sensitisation change was made by Dahl himself in the 1970s. Initially describing them as having been shipped from African jungles "for their own good", his updated story said they hailed simply from '[BLANK]-land'. What characters? The blank forms only part of the answer.
Pierre Balmain designed this iconic uniform in 1968 for stewardesses of which airline that has been using it unchanged for many decades now?
This pore cleanser from the Korean beauty giant Innisfree consists of its key active ingredient (clusters) shaped by what natural phenomenon? These clusters are sourced from Jeju Island, a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site with a distinct geological makeup. Due to this phenomenon, the clusters are nutrient-rich and oil absorbent.
______(6) wants cut of ______'s (6) goose was the title of a 2001 article about a defamation case that was brought on by Mineko Iwasaki against an author for, ironically, publicly acknowledging her contribution to which 1997 one-hit wonder novel? Iwasaki claimed the publicity tarnished her reputation and even led to death threats.
Aadam, performed by Qawwali legends Abu Muhammad and Fareed Ayaz on Coke Studio in 2019, is different in that its tarana segment is called talana. This is because Amir Khusrau, who penned the song, was moved by the plight of a disciple who had issues and was struggling to sing it correctly. As a result, the singers do not do what, while performing the talana in Aadam? This is similar to songs rendered in the Carnatic raga Niroshta.
Which 2018 game is a popular venue for in-game photography for its expansive open world of the 19th century Wild West? Apart from normal screenshots, the game's photo mode allows the player to take sepia-toned pictures with a period-accurate box camera.
What sugar substitute, first described by Swiss botanist Moisés Santiago Bertoni, is about 50 to 300 times sweeter than sugar? Derived from a namesake plant native to Paraguay and Brazil, its leaves were used for several centuries by the Guaraní people before its glycoside form was isolated in 1931.
Which pharaoh constructed this mortuary temple, which was the largest funerary complex in Thebes during its time? Although only parts of the temple remain, it is popular because its entrance is flanked by the Colossi of Memnon, two massive statues of this pharaoh whose reign was marked with unprecedented prosperity.
The Beatles' 'Glass Onion' starts with a reference to which single released the previous year? The title refers to a place where "nothing is real". It has since lent part of its name to music festivals around the globe, including arguably India's largest student-organised music festival, held in Bangalore.
The Singh Twins are a British artist duo whose work draws primarily from Sikh tradition, Western medieval illuminated manuscripts and pop culture.
Which Sikh Guru, who founded the Khalsa in 1699 and introduced the Five Ks, is depicted here with his sword? His final contribution was the enshrinement of the Guru Granth Sahib as Sikhism's primary holy religious scripture and the eternal Guru.
Which web series (9,4) follows the lives of three students who have cleared NEET and are on their journey through their first year of medicine? The show's two-word title features a common procedure performed by these would-be doctors and the degree they are attempting to gain.
Which UNESCO World Heritage Site sustained damages during the post-2011 Libyan conflicts owing to its position on the main highway to the Tunisian border? This remarkably preserved ancient Roman site was one of the three cities of the "Tripolis" along with Oea and Leptis Magna.
Which soup, whose name literally translates to pepper-water in a South Indian language, does Elaine Benes order at the Soup Nazi's stand? Originally based on the rasam, this soup's recipe evolved to suit the British palette and now includes vegetables, meat and lentils.
InVision uses shortwave infrared technology to effectively study what bean-shaped structures by contrasting them against surrounding fat tissue? It is more accurate compared to physically examining these (swollen) lumps of tissue containing WBCs which are located near the neck, the arm pits, the groin etc.
Which early 90s sitcom had a gender swapped reboot set in Hawaii with Peyton Elizabeth Lee in the title role replacing Neil Patrick Harris? When 17-year-old Balamurali Ambati graduated from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, he gained comparisons to this title character.
UB40 is an English reggae and pop band that named themselves after the Form 40 required to claim monthly monetary aid from a particular branch of the UK government. What does "UB" in UB-40 stand for?
The U.S. government has participated in the overthrow of many foreign governments. In 1953, the CIA, in cooperation with MI6, launched Operation Ajax and overthrew which leader who was elected by the Majlis in 1951? This mission was primarily influenced by his decision to nationalise the oil company APOC, which had originally been under British control.
Which city in Haryana, close to the Punjab border, was one of the stops on the Bharat Jodo Yatra? Located on the water divide between the Indus and Ganges River systems, it witnessed the 1949 execution Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse at its central jail.
Identify this Marvel series, which features the titular character taking on the Witches' Road. Kathryn Hahn reprises her role from WandaVision after it turns out she was the villain the whole time.
Two elements of this meal featured on feastofstarlight.com are a tribute to the original film from which it is inspired: the Ambrosia Salad, and the perfectly sliced and chopped food. Of course, the website uses regular kitchen utensils, but retains a tribute to the original tools somewhere in the photo. Which 1990 film?
What word is repeated thrice in the title of a 1977 ABBA song from their album Arrival? Its lyrics, sung from the viewpoint of a hard-working woman, talks about the difficulties of her life and how if not for a well-off man, she'd have to possibly go to a Las Vegas casino to turn around her fortunes.
The area around Point Nemo is so remote that sometimes the closest human beings are those that occasionally pass within 400km of the spot. Who are these humans, who will usually pass by at least 16 times that day?
This map depicts the divisions between the Portuguese and Spanish Empires in the 15th century regarding their respective spheres of influence in Asia. This division was necessisated by their disagreement over the control of which archipelago of islands valued for its reserves of nutmeg, cloves, and mace? The Dutch and Portuguese fought a war over this “spice island” in the 17th century. End of Week 1.
What term is given to the type of writ issued by a court to compel testimony from a witness or for evidence to be produced in front of the court? These are usually issued "under a penalty" for failure to adhere to them and hence derives its name from Latin for the same.