Question - 539

What is shown? The red square in the middle is text blanked out by me.

Answer: This is the 3-D logo of Wikipedia unraveled and spread out. The red square is the distinctive 'W' in English. The N/A in the image represent the hole in the logo. Ramki, Devadutta D Ghat, tsp, Iam, Krithi, Anurag, അവസ്ഥാന്തരങ്ങള്‍, nitinsunny and Kamal Rathi got it. Well done.

Question - 538

Identify the place.

Answer: A dry Niagara falls (the American side). Civil Engineers dammed the river that fed the falls while they strengthened the cliffs and the river bed against erosion. Mekie, Jaggi and Raghu got it. Well done.

Question - 537

Identify the man in the center of the picture.

Answer: Hayao Miyazaki, God of animation. Kamal Rathi, Raghu, Shravan, Jaggi, Anurag and tsp got it. Well done.

Question - 536

What are these? A particular combination of the engravings found in these (and other such) stones is very familiar to us in the modern technological world.

Answer: These are Jelling stones, stones erected by Harold Bluetooth in memory of his parents. Two of the runes present in these stones combine to give us the symbol for bluetooth technology. Two anons cracked it. Well done.

Questioin - 535

Connect the woman to the practice shown in the first visual.

Answer: The first visual shows a bunch of people being sprayed with DDT as a "health" measure against malarial attack. The second visual shows Rachel Carson whose revolutionary Silent Spring outlined the dangers of DDT and gave birth to the environmental movement as we know it today. Kamal Rathi and Jamie got it. Well done.

Question - 534

Who are these people?

Answer: These are the Marx brothers with their mother. tsp, v.chandrashekar, anon, matti tapaninen, Kamal Rathi, anon, Raghu and nice try got it. Well done.

Question - 533

Connect the two visuals.

Answer: The connect is the ongoing trial of Liberian dictator Charles Taylor's war crimes and him presenting Naomi Campbell with blood diamonds during a party hosted by Nelson Mandela in 1997. The movie is of course Blood diamond. Karthik, Ameya, Krithi, Anand, anon, Arvind, Matti Tapaninen, Hari, Vetti, Mekie, nice try, Hirak, Kamal Rathi, Mihir, Raghu, Rajesh K and Nitin Sunny got it. Well done.

Question - 532

Shown is a town on the pacific coast in the state of Oregon. X was commissioned to write a magazine article on a major ecological problem that this town faced. His article never got published but what did the research X did on the topic result in?

Hint: This question has garnered all of 0 hits so far. His article was title "They stopped the moving _____" and the ecological problem mentioned is actually visible in the picture.

Answer: The city is Florence, Oregon where the famous Oregon sand dunes are located. Their erosion and inward march into the city were studied by Frank Herbert for a newspaper article. He based his Dune universe and its desert ecology on his findings from this study. Hari, Mekie, Arvind, Krithi and Nitin Sunny got it. Well done.

Question - 531

Shown are some members of a famous club. Which club?

Answer: The RNA tie club - 20 members one for each amino acid with an additional four honorary members representing each nucleotide. The club's stated aim was to solve for the RNA structure and to understand how it builds proteins. Kamal Rathi, Matti Tapaninen, Mekie, anon, Rajeev, Ramki, Ramji, Arvind, Raghu and Hirak got it. Well done.

Question - 530

Who is next in this list?

Answer: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, India's leading bowler in cricket (don't believe me? Check out Jeopardy). He just became the most capped player in the history of test match cricket. Colin Cowdrey, Sunil Gavaskar, Allan Border and Steve Waugh were the record holders before him. Mihir, Rajesh K, Anand, AJ, anon, Rajeev, Jaggi, Jamie, v.chandrashekar, Arvind and Ramki got it. Well done.