TDQD - The Daily Quizzing Dose

Question 1 Which current Indian cricketer and Mumbaikar, who made his ODI debut today dons the No. 10 jersey, which was traditionally used by Sachin Tendulkar. 

Question 1 Identify this person. Also tell me why would he be the sixth most prominent person in India.

Question 1 Who, apart from Sardar Singh, is the only other hockey player to win the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.

Question 1 This animal, featured in Ice Age series is a combination of which two animals and hence, has been aptly named as what?

Question 1 Who was the first Indian to win a medal at World Badminton Championships? Question 2 Who were the first Indian women to win a medal at World Badminton Championships?

Question 1 Which much loved fictional character in British culture, created by Michael Bond, was chosen by Britishers as the first item to pass through to their French counterparts when the two sides of the Channel Tunnel were linked in 1994?

Question 1 X and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. These are two neighboring islands in the South Indian Ocean and are inhabited by tiny people. Id X.

Question 1 From which living thing are these brushes made?

Question 1 Which European nation is reportedly planning to launch its own virtual currency named "estcoin" to boost its economy. The move comes after the nation had announced an e-residency programme in 2014, under which anyone in world can become a digital resident of the country.

Question 1 Flag of which fictional country? Also, in which work do we find this country?

Question 1 Abhinav Kumar who features in this advertisement is actually the company's country development head India and lives in Dusseldorf, Germany. He has been slammed on social media for being very "un model like". What is Abhinav Kumar's claim to fame, something which has stuck as an identity with this English counterpart Tim Williams and will stick with Abhinav Kumar for quite some time for sure.

Question 1 What are the residents of Venice protesting against?

Question 1 Various medical colleges in Mumbai are planning to have private rooms for lactating mothers to breastfeed their children. They will be named after which brave mother from 17th century, after whom a buruj (bastion) is named on Raigad Fort.

Question 1 Nordine Taleb is a professional French UFC fighter who currently competes in the welterweight division of UFC. However, he has been reportedly hired as a bodyguard by a person who has recently moved to Paris. Which high profile individual has hired Taleb as his bodyguard?

Question 1 These chocolate bars have been brought in market by a British company named Poundland. What are they named as, something which may remind you of a drama TV series?

Question 1 Which 2017 movie's opening titles were aptly written in the following manner, considering the subject of the movie. Some of the examples are: Neha धूपिया, Sanjay सूरी, Tillotama शोम.

Question 1 This is a Japanese god named Kangiten. It looks similar to which Indian god?

Question 1 "The Spotted Cheetah", a restaurant run by celebrity chef Anne Burrell, is devoted to dishes inspired from what? Question 2 "I'll Be There for You" is a book being penned by Kelsey Miller, which will be released in 2019, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the subject of book. The book will attempt to explore the history and appeal of the subject. So, what is the subject of book?

Question 1 After which fictional character is this bat named after?

Question 1 "Issey apni hi gaadi samjho" is a tagline for which multinational company's India centric ad campaign?

Question 1 In which famous 1656 painting, which is currently in the Museo del Prado, Madrid would you find young Infanta Margaret Theresa surrounded by her entourage of maids of honour, chaperone, bodyguard, two dwarfs and a dog.

Question 1 According to the daily newspaper The Hindu, "Pingali Venkayya was an authority in geology, agriculture and also an educationist who set up an educational institution in Machilipatnam. He, however, died in poverty in 1963 and was largely forgotten by the society and by his own party, the Congress." However, what remains Pingali Venkayya'a biggest claim to fame, something whose "transformed version" is used till date in India, especially on 26th January & 15th August.

Question 1 What distinction do these people share? It is exclusive to only these three people. From Left to Right, Yogendra Singh Yadav, Bana Singh and Sanjay Kumar.

Question 1 Russian entrepreneur Viacheslav Semenchuk has planned to start a first of its kind digital currency aimed at a certain community. It has been named BitCoen, which comes from a word meaning "priest" in the language commonly spoken by the community. The currency aims to simplify payments within community. So, which community?

Question 1 Which are these two sport forms?

Question 1 What eye shaped thing was designed by the then student of National Institute of Design, Ahmadabad Mr. Devashis Bhattacharya in 1970s, which in the words of Mr. Bhattacharya is "was designed for a system that shook the country".

Question 1 These postcards have been issued for whom?

Question 1 This 404 page is inspired from what?

Question 1 Left arm spinners Padmakar Shivalkar and Rajinder Goel, from Mumbai and Haryana respectively have been awarded C K Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2017. However, there is something different about them and is a departure from what many may consider a basic requirement for this award. So what is different about them being awarded with this prestigious award? 

Question 1 Which fresco by Mexican painter Diego Rivera has served as an inspiration behind this painting by Kamal Hassan's character Nallasivam in the movie Anbe Sivam. He paints this to oppose the the atrocities committed by Kandasamy Padayatchi, the capitalist businessman.

Question 1 These retractable bollards have been strategically placed in CBD of Melbourne to provide security against what?