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Monthly Archive for October, 2009

Daily Question # 359

Question  from  the  BFP . Tribute  to  what ? This  is  the  statue  of   the  main  character , the  Hedgehog , from  one  of  the  best  animation  features  of  all  time , Hedgehog  in  the  Fog , in  Kiev . Fantastic  crack  by  Arun  and  Jyothi !

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Daily Question # 358

Just  identify  the  contraption  the  chaps  are  inspecting . Robert  Boyle  and  Denis  Papin  with  Papin’s  Digester , the  forerunner  of  the  pressure  cooker . Uncracked .

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Daily Question # 357

Why  was  the  logo  chosen ? Quoting  Appu , “The Tasmanian Devil is in danger of extinction and the Linux community is doing its part to prevent that from happening. The Linux community, spearheaded by Linus Torvalds himself, have decided to take a temporary substitute for Tux, the Linux penguin mascot, in the form of [...]

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Daily Question # 356

What  are  those  colorful  things  around  the  monument ? This  is  the  memorial  to  Sadako  Sasaki , a  victim  of  the  atom  bomb  dropped  in  Hiroshima . Sadako  developed  Leukaemia  soon  after  and  was  hospitalised . One  of  her  friends  visited  her  in  the  hospital  and  presented  her  with  a  paper  crane . Inspired  by  [...]

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Daily Question # 355

Flavour  of  the  season . What  connects  these  gentlemen ? The  chaps  are  Jacob  von  Uexhull ( A ) , the  man  behind  the  “Right  Livelihood  Award”  and  Niels  Henrik  Abel ( B ) , after  whom  the  Abel  Prize  in  Mathematics  is  named . Both  these  awards  are  considered  Alternative  Nobel  Prizes . Cracked  [...]

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Daily Question # 354

Connect . Leonardo  da  Vinci ‘s  “The  Lady  with  the  Ermine” ( A ) , Hans  Holbein’s  “The  Lady  and  the  Squirrel” ( B )  and  Giovanni  Battista  Tiepolo’s  “Young  Woman  with  a  Macaw” ( C ) were  the  inspirations  for  the  concept  of  Daemons  in  Philip  Pullman’s  His  Dark  Materials Trilogy . Cracked  by  [...]

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Daily Question # 353

Whose  sons ? Mahatma  Gandhi They  are  ‘Filos  de  Gandhi’ , which  translates  into  ‘Sons  of  Gandhi’ . They  are  one  of  the  most  famous  and  popular  carnival  groups  in  Brazil  and  was  created   just  after  Gandhi’s  death  in  his  memory  and  in  support  of  peace . Read  more  HERE . Cracked  by  Freestyler , [...]

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Daily Question # 352

Scroll  down  for  the  results  of  The  365  Quiz . Alrite , back  to  business  now . Who’s  being  targetted  here ? Bill  Clinton  famously  portrayed  as  a  Waffle  in  Doonesbury . Cracked  by  Anish  and  Arun  Hiregange . Good  work  guys !

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Epilogue – The 365 Quiz

And they happily quizzed ever after. We were thoroughly underwhelmed by the number of entries: a not-exactly-mind-numbing 17 entries However, as it turned out, matters were not helped by some stupidity on our part. What we are pleased to point out is, however, that many quizzers promptly pointed out our attempts at non-intelligence . ‘Nuff [...]

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Hello. Welcome to The 365 Quiz. Here are the rules: 1. The quiz consists of 50 questions. 2. Each of the 50 individual questions have their respective marks next to them. That will count up to 80 points. (Please don’t do the math) 3. If you crack every single question, you get another 10 points. [...]

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