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Monday, 9 March 2015

#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.

Sunday, 8 March 2015

#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. 

Friday, 6 March 2015

#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.

Thursday, 5 March 2015

#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?

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

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

#153.
W.H. Auden’s best-known poem, _______________ was written the day that Germany invaded Poland, launching World War II. From the moment it was published in The New Republic that year, the work was instantly popular but Auden wanted to revise it. He thought parts of the poem rang false. He especially hated its most famous line: “We must love one another or die.” Auden later reflected, “That’s a damned lie! We must die anyway.” So in the next version of his poem, Auden altered the text to read, “We must love one another and die.”
FITB or ID the poem.

Monday, 2 March 2015

#152.
Google doodle dedicated to whom?

MC Escher's 105th Birthday
#151.
This is Will Shortz from Indiana. What unique degree does he hold?. He is the only known person to hold this college degree.

Will Shortz 2006.jpg

Sunday, 1 March 2015

#150.
Other than being Nobel Peace Prize laureates what is common among Carl Von Ossietzky, Aung San Suu Kyi and Liu Xiabo.

Saturday, 28 February 2015

#149.
ID the lady in the pic. She is the only fashion designer listed on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

Coco Chanel, 1920.jpg
#148.
This website started out as dating website. It began as a video dating website called "Tune in hook up" inspired by the website "hot or not". ID the website.
#147.
X  is a gymnastics and artistic festival held in the Rungnado May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea. Also known as the Mass Games, it usually begins in early August and ends around September 10th. The name X refers to a Korean folk story about a young couple who are torn apart by an evil landlord, here intended to represent the division of Korea.
ID X.

Friday, 27 February 2015

#146.
X is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk. X is believed to have originated in the U.S. with Texas knitters trying to find a creative way to use their leftover and unfinished knitting projects. The start of this movement has been attributed to Magda Sayeg, 37, from Houston.
ID X.

Thursday, 26 February 2015

#145.

Whose ad campaign?















#144.
ID the brand. This brand was originally Southern and/or Scots/Irish slang for moonshine (homemade whiskey). Its advertisement in Arizona is shown below.


Monday, 23 February 2015

#143.
The tradition of X grew out of the comedy clubs in America and drew inspiration from a street game called ‘The Dozens’ which is often played on the streets in black majority areas in the United States. Serious research exists connecting ‘The Dozens’ to a Nigerian game called Ikocha Nkocha, which when literally translated means “making disparaging remarks”.
ID X. 

Sunday, 22 February 2015

#142.
On 21 February 1958, the peace symbol design was completed. It was commissioned by the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. The three lines inside the circle represent the letters "N" and "D", for Nuclear Disarmament used in a particular system of notation. This system uses flags to send information great distances, such as from one ship to another ship. "N" is formed by a person holding a flag in each hand and pointing it toward the ground at a 45-degree angle. "D" is formed by a person holding one flag straight down and one straight up. What is the name of the system?

Friday, 20 February 2015

#141.
“To cut the Gordian knot” is used as a metaphor to refer to an intractable problem. With which famous historical figure would you associate the Gordian Knot?

Thursday, 19 February 2015

#140.
Ever counted the number of stars in the Paramount pictures logo around the Majestic Mountain. At the start in 1912 it had 24 stars while currently it has 22 stars. What does these stars represent?
#139.
These are the four Wonskolasers- Harry(born as Hirsch), Sam(born as Szmul), Albert( born Aaron) and Jack( born as Itzhak) who emigrated with their parents to North America from Krasnosielc(a part of congress Poland). How do we know them more famously?
#138.
 Two questions from the Dreamworks pic below:
1. What does SKG stand for?
2. Who is the inspiration for the boy in the moon?