Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Question -220

Connect the visuals.

Answer: These are some of the more famous April fool's day hoaxes over the years. The hoaxes are Spaghetti trees, write-only memory, the island of Sans Serriffe (a play on the font), Water on Mars (I haven't seen a more groan-inducing hoax than this one and it featured on NASA's front page) and a Buddhist pitcher Sidd(hartha) Finch who can pitch at 168 mph. I should have posted it a day earlier but didn't realize what the day was till I got fooled myself. Iam, Shweta, Anon, Mekie, Vetti, Anshul, Avinash and Rajesh got it right. Well done everybody.

11 comments:

Iam said...

April fools day pranks

Spaghetti tree
WOM
San Serriffe
Water on Mars
Curious case of Sidd Finch

Nice Q

Unknown said...

April Fools' Day pranks

1) On April 1 2005 the official NASA website reported having the first pictures of water on Mars; this was a picture of a glass of water resting on a Mars Bar.

2)San Serriffe is a fictional island nation created for April Fools' Day, 1977, by staff members of Britain's Guardian newspaper.

3) Signetics..... Write only Memory..... 1972 April issue of Electronics.....

4)Spaghetti tree...april fool's day prank on BBC panaroma in 1957

Unknown said...

April Fools' Day pranks

1) On April 1 2005 the official NASA website reported having the first pictures of water on Mars; this was a picture of a glass of water resting on a Mars Bar.

2)San Serriffe is a fictional island nation created for April Fools' Day, 1977, by staff members of Britain's Guardian newspaper.

3) Signetics..... Write only Memory..... 1972 April issue of Electronics.....

4)Spaghetti tree...april fool's day prank on BBC panaroma in 1957

Anonymous said...

April Fool Hoaxes.
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Spaghetti Trees and Sid Finch were easy.. had to wiki for the 'water on mars' and 'write only memory' parts..

Nice Blog

mekie said...

April 1 hoaxes!

Water found on Mars!
Write only memory
Sans Seriffe

Vetti said...

April fools day pranks publications

AJ said...

All are April Fool's pranks. The spaghetti growing, Write only Memory, The Guardian on the 10th anniversary of Sans Seriffe, Water on Mars by NASA and SI's story about the Mets signing Sidd Finch a rookie pitcher who could pitch at about 168mph - Ankur and Anshul

Vetti said...

Famous April fool pranks
Swiss sphagetti harvest
Signetics datasheet for a Write only memory
San Seriffe republic in indian ocean
Water on mars
168mph pitcher Sidd Finch

Unknown said...

the one visual i missed.....Sidd Finch ...Sports Illustrated ... April Fools' day ....

Avi said...

Famous April fool's day hoaxes

rajesh said...

April fool's day hoaxes