501: Connect the first two images. Third image (of the group) can act as a clue. 500: The so called “Night of Shame” monument at Bebelplatz, Berlin. The Bebelplatz is best known as the site of the book burning ceremony held on May 10, 1933 by members of the S.A. (“brownshirts”) and Nazi youth groups,…
500: Identify this structure and elaborate the story behind it. (The third photograph is the location where the structure might be found.) 499: Paraphrasing one of the correct answers – Statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Gandhi Square in Johannesburg. One of the few statues (perhaps only one) that depict Gandhi – not as the world…
499: What is the significance of this statue? 498: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, written by James Thurber
498: Identify the book from the cover. (The author is featured on the magazine cover.) 497: Jean Nicot, the French diplomat who brought back tobacco plants from Portugal to France. The tobacco plant was named Nicotiana in his honour, as is nicotine.
497: Connect. 496: Quoting one of the correct answers, Close-Up (pic 1), the 1990 movie directed by Abbas Kiarostami (pic 3) tells a story of the real life trial of a man who impersonated film maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf (pic 2), conning a family into believing they would star in his new film. Interestingly Makhmalbaf appears…
496: Spin a yarn. 495: Bartholdi, the Statue of Liberty.
495: Famous creator working on one of his works. Identify both. 494: Doppler effect.
494: Connect. 493: “Rock of Ages” – The popular Christian hymn was supposedly inspired by a gorge in the Mendip Hills in England; the Offspring song starts with a few words of mock German which are in turn sampled from the Def Leppard song, also named “Rock of Ages.” Video here. (Cheesiness alert! 🙂 )
493: Connect this video with the image. 492: Bertolt Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera” – “Mack the Knife” was originally a song in the work; “Tales of Black Freighter” the comic within the comic in Watchmen is inspired by “Pirate Jenny”, another song in it.
492: Connect this video with the image. 491: Longplayer, a piece of music designed to last over a 1000 years. Read more about it here.
