Question - 659

Easy one for today. Identify the blanked out portion.

Answer: "The buck stops here" - a phrase made famous by Harry Truman. Tee, Anand, Raghu, Matti, Rajesh K, Jamie, Krishna, Manu, Karthik, Hari, Iam, Firebringer, nice try and Paddy got it. Well done.

Question - 625

This phrase can be used to describe a feature of the image on the right and many more images just like this one. However, the only known historical usage of this phrase (in its exact form) occurs in the first image. Identify the first object and the phrase.

Answer: The phrase is "Here be Dragons" used to denote uncharted areas on ancient maps. Though this phrase is now rather popular, it has only appeared in this exact form (in Latin) in one historical map namely the Hurt-Lenox globe. Siddarth Pai, Iam, Raghu, Krithi, anon, Giantamoeba, Divya and Saket got it. Well done.