Daily Question 119

What did this 'work of art' inspire? (for lack of a better word)



Lucy in the Field with Flowers - The Museum of Bad Art

The Museum of Bad Art was established in 1994 by antiques dealer Scott Wilson, who discovered what has become the museum's signature piece—Lucy in the Field with Flowers—protruding from between two trash cans on a Roslindale-area curb in Boston, among some garbage waiting to be collected.

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Daily Question 118

Connect





Lawrence of Arabia. First pic is T E Lawrence, second is The Seven Pillars of Wisdom rock formation in Wadi Rum, where lawrence based his operations, and also the title for his memoirs. The third pic is, of course, the memoirs of Lowell Thomas, an American writer, broadcaster, and traveller best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous.

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Daily Question 117

The organisation whose flag is depicted in 1, has as its motto what was also the motto of the man who is the center of attention in 2. It was based on an earlier group, which in turn was decimated by the people in 3 and honored by the monument in 4.

Well, you know what to do...






The Sacred Band was a battalion founded by Alexander Ypsilantis at the beginning of the Greek War of Independence, in February 1821 in Wallachia, now part of Romania.

The flag of the battalion held the greek inscription (In this sign, you will conquer), motto of the Roman emperor and founder of the Byzantine Empire Constantine the Great, who is also portrayed in the flag with his mother Helena of Constantinople.

It was named after the Sacred Band of Thebes, a troop of picked soldiers, numbering 150 age-structured pairs, which formed the elite force of the Theban army in the 4th century BC. It was organised by the Theban commander Gorgidas in 378 BC and played a crucial role in the Battle of Leuctra. It was completely annihilated, however, by Alexander the Great under Philip II of Macedon in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC.

The last pic is the Lion of Chaeronea.

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Daily Question 116

ID the people in the front row. Question by Shortage



Group photo 1909 in front of Clark University. Front row: Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung

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Daily Question 115

What is happening here?



The island of Surtsey which was formed due to volcanic eruptions around Nov,1963 off the coast of Iceland

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Daily Question 114

ID and connect.

PS. there are 2 levels to the connect






1) Zeus makes love with Io, painting by Antonio da Correggio c. 1531

2) The Abduction of Europa by Rembrandt, 1632

3) The Rape of Ganymede, by Rubens

4) In Jupiter and Callisto by François Boucher, Zeus takes the form of Artemis/Diana

The connect is the Galilean moons. Another level could be that, given that the moons are named after the lovers of Zeus, all the paintings depict Zeus having his evil way with them.

Cracked to varying degrees by r123, peregrine, anirudh, vishal, dinesh and mario

Daily Question 113

Connect





Virginia Tech shootout

Thw two guns used by Cho, a .22-caliber Walther P22 semi-automatic handgun and a 9 mm semi-automatic Glock 19 handgun.

The memorial on campus

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Daily Question 112

What? Some lines should be a giveaway.



Draft of Frankenstein ("It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld my man completed ...")

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Daily Question 111

Connect




In 1995 Michael Jackson produced a music video, "You Are Not Alone", featuring himself and his then wife, Lisa Marie Presley, in which they appear semi-nude in emulation of Daybreak.



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Daily Question 110

simple one
connect/ identify what's great about these paintings?
technically a non exhaustive list

Question by Alva





3 of the paintings for which highest prices were paid

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Daily Question 109

What is this the inspiration for?



Picasso declared once that his earliest cubist works were inspired by Absinthe, including one named "Bottle of Pernod and Glass" painted in 1912, directly based on the Pernod publicity posters designed by Maire, picturing a bottle of Absinthe, a glass, and a folded newspaper.



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Daily Question 108

Why is this image momentous in the history of science?



Discovery image of active volcanism on Io

The first instance of a moon having a comparable geological activity to a planet

Daily Question 107

What is happening here?



Oliver Cromwell forcibly dissolving the Long Parliament in 1653 when it seemed they might disband his expensive army of 50,000 men..

Went uncracked

Daily Questions 103-106

As your blogmaster will be out of town, and devoid of a net connection over the weekend, heres 4 questions to take you through to Monday :)

103) Exhaustive list of what? Pictures are fairly generic







104) Connect. I want a very specific answer





105) Y's take on X. Y? X?

(Y: Movement; X: Painting)



106) Identify the image



A103) The only 5 non-Germanic origin words in Green Eggs and Ham: box, car, Sam, train, and try

A104) The two possible candidates for the Southern Pillar of Hercules: Monte Hacho in Ceuta and Jebel Musa in Morocco

A105) Feminism on the Judgement of Paris

A106) The Migrant Mother, an iconic image of the great depression

Daily Question 102

What it is? and fundaes?



The Lion Monument (German: Löwendenkmal), or the Lion of Lucerne, is a sculpture in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution, when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris, France.

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Daily Question 101

Connect







The Nine Unknown Men

The Nine Unknown Men are a two millennia-old secret society founded by the Indian Emperor Asoka c. 270 BCE.

The society occasionally revealed itself to wise outsiders such as Pope Sylvester II who was said to have received, among other things, training in supernatural powers and a robotic talking head from the group.

Believers in the Nine also point to the mysterious Iron pillar of Delhi, which they claim to have been constructed at a time before the technology to create it existed in common circulation.

In more recent times, it has been suggested, the Nine assisted humanity by revealing the secret of the Cholera vaccine.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (of "It was a dark and stormy night" fame) wrote a parody of the Nine Unknown Men that many, including perhaps Helena Blavatsky, took as fact.

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Daily Question 100

Connect, and tell me why I put this question up now.




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Fermium (after Enrico Fermi; Z=100) was first discovered by a team led by Albert Ghiorso in 1952. The team found 255Fm in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion.

Question number 100 :)

Daily Question 99

The first two images refer to operas. Something(s) derived from these two operas became the most famous of their kind, due to their association with 3.

Fundaes?





Wedding march

The traditional processional at Western weddings is the Bridal Chorus from Richard Wagner's Lohengrin, while a traditional recessional is the Wedding March from Felix Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The popularity of these selections was greatly increased when they were used for the wedding of Princess Victoria.

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Daily Question 98

Connect





Peter Pan
J M Barrie, the author of Peter Pan
Paris Hilton’s dog’s name, Tinker Bell, is the name of a character in Peter Pan
Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch was named after “Neverland” in Peter Pan

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