Monday, March 23, 2009

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 ...")

Cracked by Arun, Shreeranjani, Dinesh and Ajay Parasuraman

Sunday, March 22, 2009

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.



Cracked by Arun, Anirudh, Rithwik and Vishal

Saturday, March 21, 2009

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

Cracked by Vishal, Ajay Parasuraman, Mario, Peregrine, Anirudh and r123

Thursday, March 19, 2009

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.



Cracked by Vishal. Arun got half there

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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

Monday, March 16, 2009

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

Thursday, March 12, 2009

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