1. February 21 is observed as a day to promote worldwide awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. What is that day called?
2. Name the British singer who won six Grammys last week, including record, song and album of the year
3. Which famous stone monument in the U.S. Capital was dedicated on this date in 1885?
4. Which country's football team is the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations champion?
5. Which popular book features the city of Lagado?
6. What is very special about a one-minute commercial for the Bakers dog food brand, a send up of the 1969 film “The Italian Job”, telecast recently in an English TV network?
7. What ambitious environmental first is the upcoming city of Masdar in Abu Dhabi aiming for?
8. Mohammed Waheed Hassan is the new President of which SAARC country following the previous President being forced to step down?
9. Which cartoon character belonging to the phylum porifera “lives in a pineapple under the sea”?
10. Which Bharat Ratna has become the first Indian to win the coveted “US National Humanities Medal”?
11. Which acid is also called “oil of vitriol”?
12. Name the multiple-award-winning singer behind such hits as “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)” and “I Will Always Love You” recently found dead in a hotel room.
13. Yang di-Pertuan Agong is the head of state of which country?
14. What record has the short 2007 video “Charlie Bit My Finger!” set?
15. What is the nationality of Victoria Azarenka?
Answers: 1. International Mother Language Day; 2. Adele; 3. The Washington Monument; 4. Zambia; 5. Gulliver's Travels ; 6. It is a advertisement created specially for dogs featuring high-pitched sounds that cannot be heard by humans!; 7. To be the world's first carbon neutral city.; 8. Maldives; 9. Spongebob Squarepants; 10. Amartya Sen; 11. Sulphuric Acid; 12. Whitney Houston; 13. Malaysia; 14. It has become the most successful non-commercial video in YouTube history with a mind-boggling 419 million views and counting!; 15. Belarusian.
