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Jai Ganesh · 2023-01-24 21:55:26

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#8881. Who is the author of Life of Pi? (a Canadian philosophical novel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, India who explores issues of spirituality and metaphysics from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger which raises questions about the nature of reality and how it is perceived and told.)

#8882. Who is the author of Hamnet (novel)? (a 2020 novel. It is a fictional account of Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, who died at age 11 in 1596.

In 2020, the book won the Women's Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The following year, it was named "Novel of the Year" at the Dalkey Literary Awards, was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.)

Jai Ganesh · 2023-01-25 16:09:47

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#8883. Name the Italian racing driver and first official Formula One World Champion (30 October 1906 – 30 June 1966). He gained the title in 1950. He was the Italian Champion in 1937, 1938 and 1939.

#8884. Name the Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur (20 February 1898 – 14 August 1988), the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque. He was widely known as "il Commendatore" or "il Drake".

Jai Ganesh · 2023-01-26 16:35:16

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#8885. Name the Scottish painter, especially known for his genre scenes (18 November 1785 – 1 June 1841). He painted successfully in a wide variety of genres, including historical scenes, portraits, including formal royal ones, and scenes from his travels to Europe and the Middle East. His main base was in London, but he died and was buried at sea, off Gibraltar, returning from his first trip to the Middle East. He was sometimes known as the "people's painter".

#8886. Name the American cartoonist (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) and the creator of the comic strip Peanuts, featuring what are probably his two best-known characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists in history, and cited by many cartoonists as a major influence, including Jim Davis, Murray Ball, Bill Watterson, Matt Groening, and Dav Pilkey.

Jai Ganesh · 2023-01-27 14:58:12

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#8887. Name the Russian composer of the Romantic period (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893). He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.

#8888. Name the French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917). He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay. He is known for such sculptures as The Thinker, Monument to Balzac, The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais, and The Gates of Hell.

Jai Ganesh · 2023-01-28 14:52:46

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#8889. Name the Alsatian-German/French polymath (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965). He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician.

He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life", becoming the eighth Frenchman to be awarded that prize.

#8890. Name the prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791). Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as among the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture".

Jai Ganesh · 2023-01-29 15:39:54

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#8891. Name the Italian painter and mathematician (1397 – 10 December 1475) who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. While his contemporaries used perspective to narrate different or succeeding stories, he used perspective to create a feeling of depth in his paintings. His best known works are the three paintings representing the battle of San Romano, which were wrongly entitled the Battle of Sant'Egidio of 1416 for a long period of time.

#8892. Name the Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence (1399/1400–1482). He is noted for his colorful, tin-glazed terracotta statuary, a technique which he invented and passed on to his nephew and great-nephews. Though a leading sculptor in stone, he worked primarily in terracotta after developing his technique in the early 1440s. His large workshop produced both cheaper works cast from molds in multiple versions, and more expensive one-off individually modeled pieces.

The vibrant, polychrome glazes made his creations both more durable and expressive. His work is noted for its charm rather than the drama of the work of some of his contemporaries.

Jai Ganesh · 2023-01-30 15:58:20

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#8893. Name the comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in five acts which was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre on 17 January 1775. The story has been updated frequently, including a 1935 musical and a 1958 episode of the TV series Maverick starring James Garner and Roger Moore, with attribution.

#8894. Who is the author of "Ode to the West Wind"? (written in 1819 in Cascine wood near Florence, Italy. It was originally published in 1820 by Charles Ollier in London as part of the collection Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems. Perhaps more than anything else, he wanted his message of reform and revolution spread, and the wind becomes the trope for spreading the word of change through the poet-prophet figure.

Jai Ganesh · 2023-01-31 16:19:16

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#8895. Who is the author of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'? (Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War".)

#8896. Who is the author of 'In Memoriam A.H.H.'? (an elegy for his Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died of cerebral haemorrhage at the age of twenty-two years, in Vienna in 1833.)

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-01 16:29:10

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#8897. Name the Early Modern Spanish writer (29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS)) widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work often cited as both the first modern novel and "the first great novel of world literature". A 2002 poll of around 100 well-known authors voted it the "most meaningful book of all time", from among the "best and most central works in world literature".

#8898. Name the German polymath (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936), whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history. He is best known for his two-volume work, The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), published in 1918 and 1922, covering human history. His model of history postulates that human cultures and civilizations are akin to biological entities, each with a limited, predictable, and deterministic lifespan.

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-02 15:36:11

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#8899. Who said 'Cogito, ergo sum'? (usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am").

#8900. What does the term 'Aestheticism' mean? (According to Aestheticism, art should be produced to be beautiful, rather than to serve a moral, allegorical, or other didactic purpose, a sentiment exemplified by the slogan "art for art's sake.")

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-03 17:29:49

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#8901. Name the American lawyer (April 10, 1827 – February 15, 1905), Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, he is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century."

#8902. Name the English writer (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946). Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography and autobiography. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and has been called the "father of science fiction."

His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), which was his first novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), the military science fiction The War in the Air (1907), and the dystopian When the Sleeper Wakes (1910).

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-04 16:50:22

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#8903. Name the English historian (14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975), a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College London. From 1918 to 1950, he was considered a leading specialist on international affairs;[6] from 1924 to 1954 he was the Director of Studies at Chatham House, in which position he also produced 34 volumes of the Survey of International Affairs, a "bible" for international specialists in Britain.

He is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History (1934–1961).

#8904. Name the Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894). He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses.

Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health.

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-05 17:06:03

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#8905. Name the English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975). His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls.

#8906. Name the English novelist and physical chemist (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government. He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as Strangers and Brothers, and for The Two Cultures, a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf between scientists and "literary intellectuals".

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-06 16:31:26

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#8907. Name the 2021 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Sian Heder.

#8908. Name the adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 (equivalent to £1.9 million in 2019) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-07 16:17:32

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#8909. Name the Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950). His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, he became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

#8910. Name the English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821), with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death. By the end of the century, he was placed in the canon of English literature, strongly influencing many writers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1888 called one ode "one of the final masterpieces".

Today his poems and letters remain among the most popular and analysed in English literature – in particular "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Sleep and Poetry" and the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-08 15:35:53

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#8911. Name the English historian, writer, and member of parliament (8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794). His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organised religion.

#8912. Name the German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832). His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language, his work having a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day.

His first major scientific work, the Metamorphosis of Plants, was published after he returned from a 1788 tour of Italy. In 1791 he was made managing director of the theatre at Weimar, and in 1794 he began a friendship with the dramatist, historian, and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, whose plays he premiered until Schiller's death in 1805.

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-09 15:58:08

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#8913. Name the American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) . His economical and understated style—which included his iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.

His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929).

#8914. Name the Norwegian playwright and theatre director (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906). As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006.

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-10 15:50:13

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#8915. Name the English writer, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930). His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialization, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. His best-known novels—Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover—were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of sexuality and use of explicit language.

#8916. Name the English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965). Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, He was schooled in England and went to a German university. He became a medical student in London and qualified as a physician in 1897. He never practised medicine, and became a full-time writer. His first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), a study of life in the slums, attracted attention, but it was as a playwright that he first achieved national celebrity. By 1908 he had four plays running at once in the West End of London. He wrote his 32nd and last play in 1933, after which he abandoned the theatre and concentrated on novels and short stories.

His novels after Liza of Lambeth include Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), The Painted Veil (1925), Cakes and Ale (1930) and The Razor's Edge (1944).

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-11 15:39:39

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#8917. Name the English novelist and poet (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928). A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England.

Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895).

#8918. Name the well known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774), who is noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-12 16:34:01

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#8919. What is the Country Calling Code of Spain?

#8920. What is the Country Calling Code of Sri Lanka?

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-13 16:02:17

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#8921. What is the Country Calling Code of Sweden?

#8922. What is the Country Calling Code of Switzerland?

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-14 15:51:21

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#8923. What is the Country Calling Code of Thailand?

#8924. What is the Country Calling Code of Turkey?

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-15 15:29:17

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#8925. What is the Country Calling Code of United Kingdom?

#8926. What is the Country Calling Code of United States?

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-16 15:37:24

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#8927. What is the Country Calling Code of Venezuela?

#8928. What is the Country Calling Code of Vietnam?

Jai Ganesh · 2023-02-17 19:32:38

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#8929. What is the Country Calling Code of China?

#8930. What is the Country Calling Code of Colombia?

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