1. Which global leader fell to Lee Harvey Oswald's bullets on this date in 1963?
2. Name the owner of AC Milan and the longest-serving post war Prime Minister of Italy who resigned recently.
3. Which English Premier League side's home ground has been re-christened as Sports Direct Arena?
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4. Sebastian Loeb recently won the world championship in his sport for a record eighth consecutive year. In which event?
5. Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt is considered (by experts) as the inventor of which ‘tracking device'?
6. Fill in the blank: Recently Andreas Gursky's Rhein II sold for $4.3 million to become the world's most expensive ______?
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7. How erythrocytes are commonly referred to?
8. Name a much read and respected cricket writer (and a columnist for The Hindu ) who committed suicide recently.
9. Who sculpted the giant 17-foot David statue that stands in Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence?
10. In a disturbing development, the ‘Diceros bicornis longipes' was declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. How is the herbivore better known?
11. Who wrote the semi-autobiographical ‘Tom Brown's Schooldays'?
12. Name the two champions named as the ‘World Athletes of the Year' by the International Association of Athletics Federations.
13. ‘Pietr-le-Leton' (The Case of Peter the Lett) saw the introduction of which detective?
14. The 2018 Commonwealth Games are to be held in…?
15. Which recurring Star Wars character came from Kashyyyk?
Answers:
1. The U.S. President
John F. Kennedy;
2. Silvio Berlusconi;
3. Newcastle
United's St.
James' Park;
4. World Rally Cham
pionship;
5. Radar;
6. Photograph;
7. Red Blood Cells;
8. Peter Roebuck;
9. Michelangelo;
10. Western Black Rhinoceros;
11. Thomas Hughes;
12. Usain Bolt of Jamaica and
Sally Pearson of Australia;
13. Inspector Maigret;
14. Gold Coast in Australia;
15. Chewbacca