2014 Dec 14th - Q130

There were protests outside the British Parliament recently, by many who were against the country's bans on paid television-pornography. The protestors sat on each others' faces, in a form of opposition. Which apt British song, did the protestors sing? 

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=> Sit on My Face by Monty Python

2014 Dec 12th - Q129

This recently released book broke the record for the highest first-week sales for a debutant author. It is also the fastest selling book in this year. The book was in hot water lately, when officially confirmed that it was ghostwritten. Which book, and who is the author [not the ghostwriter]?

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=> Girl Online by Zoe Sugg [Zoella]

2014 Dec 12th - Q128

Shown below are two paintings done by Norwegian artist Ruth Elisiv Ekeland in 2014. Where would you have likely seen the two?

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=> On the Nobel Peace Prize diplomas of Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai.

2014 Dec 11th - Q127

In the 10 topics most discussed about on Facebook in 2014, only one of them is a corporate. Name the corporate. And, three of these topics are sporting events. Name them too.

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=> The corporate is Malaysian Airlines; The sporting events being the FIFA World Cup 2014, Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Super Bowl.

2014 Dec 8th - Q126

The Hamilton Watch Company, based and incorporated in the US in 1892, is one of the twenty brands owned by the Swatch Group. Two of its watch models related to which 2014 sensation, has brought the company into the news?

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=> Interstellar - these are the watches worn by Murph and Cooper in the movie.

2014 Dec 7th - Q125

This terrorist organisation, whose logo is an octopus, was started by the Greco-Polish Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Ernst stands around 6 foot 3, weighs 21.6 stone, and is powerfully built. Blofeld was named after cricket commentator Henry Blofeld's father. The organisation is named for going for counter-intelligence, terrorism, revenge and extortion. Name the organisation. 

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=> SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) - The new James Bond movie is named after the organisation in James Bond.

2014 Dec 5th - Q124

The following picture shows the ranked list of the most Instagrammed places on Earth, in 2014. What is the blanked out number one?

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=> Disneyland - Anaheim, California

2014 Dec 2nd - Q123

23andMe is a California based private company. One of their products was chosen in TIME's 2008 Best Inventions List. Founded by Anne Wojcicki, Sergey Brin's wife, the company have recently started selling its products in the UK and Canada. Last year, it was banned by the FDA in the United States. With the company's name, identify what this company, or its product, is all about?

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=> Direct-to-consumer saliva genome testing - the company's named for the number of pairs of chromosomes in a human cell.

2014 Dec 2nd - Q122

Selma is a city, and the county seat of Dallas County, Alabama. Recently, the film Selma was released, as an autobiographical account of a certain person, well-associated with this place. Who is the film based on?

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=> Martin Luther King Jr. - Selma was the starting point of his Selma to Montgomery marches.