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This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August…

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In Texas Hold’em Poker, which hand is known as ‘six tits’?

Glory and Sadness, Beauty and Pain

X is a song written by Y and famously covered by Z. Time Magazine’s Josh Tyrangiel described it thus:…

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In the book “The World of _____” by Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K Bealer, there is a photograph…

23 February, 2007

No property, no will

Question by BV Harish Kumar

In his year of death, the Nobel committee rejected a flood of nominations for ‘X’ citing, among other reasons, the practical one that he belonged to no organization and left no property and wrote no will: Who will the money go to? The prize was withheld that year as no suitable candidate was found available. Who is ‘X’?