1. “Three Billboards” and “Lady Bird” won the top movie awards on Jan. 7. But it was the #MeToo movement, and Oprah Winfrey’s rousing speech, that defined which awards function?

2. It was his father Pietro who came up with the recipe for this delicious product and advised to add hazelnuts to the mix which would also mean saving money on cocoa. However, credit to him for making it into a paste form with almost an ointment like consistency. Which product?

3. Which city revoked its 1997 decision to grant its freedom to Aung San Suu Kyi, de facto leader of Myanmar, in the face of her studied inaction to the plight of 500,000 Rohingya Muslims?

4. This leader branded which President an “old lunatic, mean trickster and human reject.” Who, in turn, was branded as “Rocket Man”?

5. Tweeting can be very distracting. Thanks to the accountant who was tweeting at the time he handed over the envelope to Warren Beatty, which movie, instead of Moonlight, was wrongly declared the 2017 Oscar winner for the Best Picture?

6. In Dec 2015, China launched the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Satellite. Its purpose is to search for smoking-gun signals of dark matter. It is named after which Monkey King with penetrating eyes in the Chinese classical fiction Journey to the West?

7. Three of the four winners of the 2016 World Food Prize worked on the same project: to bring an orange-fleshed version of a vegetable to parts of Africa. Rich in Vitamin A, this vegetable variant has helped improve nutritional levels on the continent. Which vegetable?

8. Which English term for a time of day is derived ultimately from the Latin phrase meaning the ninth hour after sunrise calculated according to the Roman method?

9. The “Shrine of the Book”, in the Israel Museum in occupied Jerusalem, houses which collection of around 900 documents discovered between 1947 and 1956 in caves near the Wadi Qumran?

10. “Crank It Up”, a new book aims to explore the culture impact of the grizzled action movie actor, shedding light on his “indefinable star quality”. Edited by two academics from Leeds Beckett University, it will feature no fewer than 13 essays on the many sides of this Hollywood actor, with topics covering everything from “Cockney ‘Gallicness’ in The Transporter Trilogy” to the actor’s status as “a fashion icon”?

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