In Finland and Estonia Valentine's Day is celebrated as "Friend's Day"
The Turning Point and The Color Purple each with 11 nominations and not a single win.
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu from Bengal is considered incarnation of Radha Krishna
George Clooney has been nominated in a record six Oscar categories )Actor, Supporting Actor, Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and Adapted screenplay and he won in two of them. One for Best Picture "Argo" and the other for Best Supporting Actor in Syriana
Total number of judges in Supreme court is 31 including the Chief Justice.
Question of the day
2016-02-14
Q. Using these four companies CNBC business pundit Jim Cramer coined a particular term. What is it?
FANG Stocks, though Google is now changed to Alphabet.
Q. Rabindranath Tagore is the only person to have written National Anthem for two nations namely India and Bangladesh. Besides that he has inspired National Anthem of another nation. And some believe that it was written and set to tune by him. He did this in 1938 on a request made by his student in Shantiniketan named Ananda Samarkun. He then translated it to his mother tongue.
Name the country.
Sri Lanka. The national anthem "Apa Sri Lanka, Nama Nama Nama Nama Mata, Sundar Sri Boroni" seems to be originally Nama Nama Sri Lanka Mata in Bangla.
Q. This particular structure is most commonly found in churches and they have a specific name. And one particular athletic event originated in Ireland is named after it. Which is this sports event. Clue: Pan Singh
Steeplechase. This was a horse obstacle race. In Ireland this sports was named after the structures called Steeples the racers used to race from one town Steeple to the next one.
In Olympics the course is 3000m with 7 obstacle and 5 waterbodies
Q. In China "Singles Day" is celebrated on 11th November when young people who are single party with each other and this festival has now become one of the largest online shopping day promoted by for Alibaba, the ecomm giant.
What is the significance of the date of 11th November on which the "Singles Day" is celebrated?
11th Nov is 11/11, where the ones mean single. This day in 2011 was a Super Singles Day.
Q. According to Ramayana, Hanuman assumed five faced form called "Panchmukhi Anjneya" The five faces are Hanuman himself, Garuda, Narasimha, Hayagriv and Varaha. Narasimha is Lion headed, is boar, Garuda is a bird and Hanuman is in monkey form, then which form is assumed by Hayagriva?
Hanuman assumed "Panchmukhi Anjneya" to extinguish five lamps at a time to kill Ahiravana, who had abducted Rama and Lashmana to Patalloka
Q. What does the five rings of five different colours against white Olympic flag signify?
They signify five continents and the colours, red, yellow, bleck, green and blue combined with the white background represented flags of all the countries back in 1913 when it was created.
Q. when asked whst does she wear in bed, Marilyn answered "Why ______ __ __ of course"
Chanel No 5 perfume. French fashion designer Gabrielle `Coco' Chanel chose the fifth day of the fifth month in 1921 to introduce her new brand of perfume which she called Chanel No. 5.
Q. Flag of which country depicts the Five Holy Wounds (the five piercing wounds) Jesus suffered during the Crucifixion.
Two were on his hands or wrists, two on his feet and the last one on his chest
Q. This is a kind of drink that was introduced to England from India in 17th century. It generally consisted of "Five" ingredients namely lemon, alcohol, sugar, spices and tea. Today the non-alcoholic version uses various kinds of fruit juices. The name of the drink is based on the number of original ingredients used. Name it.
Q. Against which disease, the Supreme Court has directed the government on January 23, 2017 to adopt daily dosage drug instead of thrice a week dosage practice?
Q. A special stamp cover titled 'Golden girls of India - Pride of Nation' released by the Indian Postal Department on January 21, 2017 features which Indian sports players?
Q. Amitabh Bachchan is brand ambassador of Gujrat tourism, Shah Rukh Khan is brand ambassador of West Bengal, who is the brand ambassador of Assam tourism
Q. Which state has been listed in Guinness World Records on January 21, 2017 by creating a world record of singing National Anthem by over 3.5 lakh people together?
Q. Which state government launched a Nasha-Mukt campaign on January 21, 2017 by forming human chain of 11292 km to raise awareness for addiction free state?