517: Question from G. Sreekanth. Constructing A required demolishing significant portions of a capital city’s historic central district. A is also referred to as the House of _________ (B’s surname). Identify A and B. Answer: A – Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest; also called the House of Ceausescu B – Nicolae Ceausescu 516: Igor…
516: The colour photographs are from a film about two famous people. They can also be spotted in the (real life) black and white photograph. Who? 515: Dakshin Gangotri, India’s first base station in Antarctica.
515: Which abandoned site? 514: Palash flowers, lend their name to the place Plassey (anglicized from Palashi), remembered mainly for the battle fought there.
514: Connect. 513: Charbagh, a garden layout – a quadrilateral garden, divided by walkways or flowing water into four smaller parts. In Persian, “Chār” means ‘four’ and “bāgh” means ‘garden’.
513: What distinctive kind of garden associated with the Mughals is depicted in these pictures? (Not “paradise garden”, though that is another name.) This description from an account of Sir John Mandeville’s travels into the East, c. 1370 could act as an excellent clue: “And this Paradise is enclosed all about with a wall…and in…
512: Connect the religious iconography to the scientific apparatus. 511: Robert Burns. “Of Mice and Men”, “The Catcher in the Rye” and Cutty Sark – all owe their names to his works.
511: Connect. 510: “The Melting Pot”
510: Poster for a play. What phrase did this play popularize? 509: The Battle of Marengo – on of the key battles in Napoleon’s military career; lent its name to Napoleon’s horse and to the dish Chicken Marengo.
509: Connect the picture of the battlefield to the horse and the dish. 508: The picture of the book lying amidst broken glass is a photograph from the infamous Tiger Woods automobile mishap. The book is the physics tome “Get a Grip on Physics” by John Gribbin. Gribbin, a science writer with a dozens of…
508: What’s the amusing story? (The technical diagram could act as a clue.) 507: 1932 film Freaks inspired the Ramones catch phrase “Gabba Gabba Hey”. Brad Pitt is dressed up as DJ Lance Rock, the character who hosts the Nickleodeon children’s TV show “Yo Gabba Gabba!” whose title is inspired by the Ramones slogan.
