#178.

What connects Anne Boleyn, Sir Walter Raleigh, Guy Fawkes, Lady Jane Grey and Rudolf Hess(inexhaustive list)?

#177.
X is considered to have been invented during the Mauryan Dynasty, originated in the southern states of India. X(weapon) is used in Kalaripayattu, the martial art of Kerala. The word X is of north Keralan origin. In the state's southern region it is more commonly called a chuttuval, from the words for coiling or spinning (chuttu) and sword (vaal).
ID X(a weapon).

#176.

Making Star Wars during its time was completely an unconceivable idea. No studio had a special effects department. However, George Lucas not only helped invent a new generation of special effects but launched a legendary company that would change the course of the movie business. X was born in a sweltering warehouse behind the Van Nuys airport in the summer of 1975. Its first employees were recent college graduates (and dropouts) with rich imaginations and nimble fingers. They were tasked with building Star Wars’ creatures, spaceships, circuit boards, and cameras. Pixar began, essentially, as an internal investigation of X. Photoshop was invented, in part, by an employee of X.
ID X.

#175.



This picture is of a dispute between Serra Pelada gold mine worker and military police taken in Brazil in 1986. Who is the photojournalist?

#174.


(image source: beautifullybrown.com)

ID the YouTube personality. She is the #1 beauty guru on YouTube. Loreal launched a new makeup line called Em designed by her. Her tutorials include: actress Angelina Jolie, Game of Thrones' Daenerys Targaryen and singer Taylor Swift.

#173.

The persons shown in this picture are:(L to R) Neils Bohr, Max Von Laue and James Franck. What famous historical event connects them?

#172.
 Connect:(inexhaustive list)
Nasdat
The Ludovico technique

#171

KM Music Conservatory (KMMC) is a higher education institution founded in 2008. Located in Kodambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, the Conservatory offers a range of part-time and full-time courses in Hindustani and Western classical music and music technology. Who is the founder?

#170.
What has been blanked out is the inventor of the modern toilet paper. Who is he?

#169.
X is an audio manufacturer known for hand building high-end dynamic open-air headphones and cartridges in Brooklyn, New York. It was founded in 1953, by master watchmaker Joseph Grado. X has never advertised and a cultish audiophile customer base drives its sales through word-of-mouth. Devotees include Phish, Aerosmith, Neil Young and Spike Jonze. ID X.

#168.

During solar eclipses pendulums or gravimeters behave anomalously, this effect is called Allais Effect. It was first observed by X in june 30, 1954, who was a French polymath who won Nobel Prize in Economics. The effect was named after him. ID X.

#167.
X born in salem, massachussets, 1826 was of puritan heritage. His great-great-grandfather came to Salem in 1636. As the Massachusetts Bay delegate, he tried to rid the town of Quakers by having them whipped and dragged through the street half naked. As a magistrate during the Salem witch trials of 1692, he examined more than one hundred accused witches, and found them all guilty. X detested this legacy and distanced himself from his ancestors by adding the “W” to the spelling of his surname. ID X.

#166.
X, a movie studio, was founded in 1915. X started out as simply the Studio Tour in 1964, giving guests a behind-the-scenes glimpse at movie and television production. The tour included a boxed lunch and the vehicles used to transport people were called Glamor Trams. One of the first tour guides was John Badham, who is famous for directing Saturday Night Fever and War Games.
ID X.

#165.
Connect:
Declaration of Independence
Battery
Conductor
Electrician

#164.

This is the Palais Ideal in Hauterives, France which took the postman Ferdinand Cheval 33 years to construct it. What is unique about this structure?

#163.
ID the person from the two pictures: a google doodle on behalf of the person and a plaque.

#162.
This book is an antisemitic hoax purporting to describe a Jewish plan for global domination.  It was first published in Russia in 1903. Henry Ford funded printing of 500,000 copies that were distributed throughout the US in the 1920s. Adolf Hitler was a major proponent. It was studied, as if factual, in German classrooms after the Nazis came to power in 1933, despite having been exposed as fraudulent by The Times of London in 1921. It is one of the best-known and most-discussed examples of literary forgery.
ID the book.

#161.
This term X was coined by Kenji Kawakami which means "unusual tool" and is a form of Japanese art. Created in the 1980s, X are inventions that are designed to solve everyday problems, but are far too odd and eccentric to use regularly. This unusual art movement called the X movement started when Kawakami included one of his prototypes at the end of his magazine, Mail Order Life, which was dedicated to housewives who couldn't easily go to city to shop. ID X. 

#160.
X(10 AD-70 AD) was a Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria. These are X's inventions:

• The first vending machine was also one of his constructions, when a coin was introduced via a slot on the top of the machine, a set amount of holy water was dispensed. 
• In optics, he formulated the Principle of the Shortest Path of Light. It was nearly 1000 years later that Alhacen expanded the principle to both reflection and refraction, and the principle was later stated in this form by Pierre de Fermat in 1662.
• Today, X's name is most closely associated with X's Formula for finding the area of a triangle from its side lengths.

ID X.

#159.
She was the first woman to win a pulitzer prize for fiction in 1921. She got the award for her book "The Age of Innocence". ID her.

#158.
 Marked in red in the pic below is the end credits of a famous hollywood movie. ID the movie.

#157.
The rationale for this tradition predates the early Christians and goes back to the Norse god Baldur, second son of Odin. He was so beloved by the other gods that they sought to protect him from all the dangers of the world. His mother, the goddess Frigg, "took an oath from fire and water, iron and all metals, stones and earth, from trees, sicknesses and poisons, and from all four-footed beasts, birds and creeping things, that they would not hurt Baldur." however, Loki found out that his mother forgot to ask a particular poisonous plant(name withheld on purpose) not to harm her beloved son. In the end, a dart fashioned from the little plant was used to murder Baldur. Frigg, devastated, her tears became the berries of the plant and it was decreed that the plant would never again be used as a weapon and that she would place a kiss on anyone who passed under it. Name the tradition. 

#156.
X is a Christmas tradition in the United States. There are a number of different origin stories attributed to the tradition, but it was primarily thought to have originated in Germany. Berrien Springs, Michigan is known as the X capital of the world. This tradition is commonly believed by Americans to come from Germany and be referred to as a Weihnachtsgurke, but this is probably apocryphal. ID X.

#155.
Which company made the first stringed Xmas lights?

#154.
 This is the title page of Beethovan's Eroica Symphony. What has been scratched out by Beethoven himself?