Question - 617

This year's winner at what famous event?

Answer: The Sapporo snow festival. Jaggi and Krithi got it. Nicely done!

Question - 616

What is inscribed on this object?

Answer: The Code of Hammurabi. Saket, Iam, Manix, Royan, matti tapaninen, and Dinesh got it. Nicely done.

Question - 594

An illustration of what biblical concept?

Question - 587

What is this interesting object?

Answer: The Rosetta stone. Divya Shanker, Anand, Manix, ReedArmOwl,v.chandrashekar, Anirudh Patil, Hari, and matti tapaninen got it.

Question - 501

Identify the artist.

Question - 413

Identify the monument that has become a shrine of sorts for a certain group of people who have taken to leaving small pieces of tokens of remembrance here. Also, connect it to a famous apocryphal phrase.

Answer: This is the memorial of the British cyclist Tom Simpson atop Mont Ventoux, one of the steepest sections of Tour de France. He had taken a fatal combination of alcohol and amphetamines which led to severe dehydration during the race. He collapsed once and supposedly said "put me back on my bike" (this is likely untrue) to the bystanders. He collapsed again in a short while and died. Anand, Mekie, Arvind, Ramji, Ajinkya, anon and Karthik got it. Well done.

Question - 369

Where is this located? What occasion does this commemorate?

Answer: This is the memorial commemorating Douglas MacArthur's landing in Leyte Island, Philippines. A famous photograph of the event can be seen here. On returning to fulfill his famous vow, he declared "I have returned". Hirak, Karthik, P, Anand and Krithi got it. Well done.

Question - 286

This is the zoology department at a very famous university. Why is the statue the way it is?

Answer: The statue is that of the poor zoologist Agassiz whose fate it is to be buried head first at the entrance to the department in Stanford University. His statue fell off the pedestal during the notorious 1906 San Francisco earthquake and it has been left as such as a memorial to the event. Vetti, Iam, Anand, Renuka, Srivats, anon, Schmetterling, Adi, Hirak and Rajesh got it. Well done.

Question - 259

The first visual shows a public art work near Seattle where a series of metal tubes make eerie moaning sounds when wind blows through them. Identify the place and connect with the second visual.

Answer: The art work is called a sound garden from which the Seattle based band takes its name. Srivats, Iam, Vetti, Raghu and Rajeev got it. Well done.

Question - 254

Memorial commemorating what? Where is it located?

Answer: This is the memorial for the fallen astronauts located in the moon. It commemorates the memory of all the astronauts who died in the advancement of space exploration. It is possibly the only art work on moon. Srivats, Vetti and Iam got it. Well done.

Question - 225

Sculpture by whom? What influential work of art is it inspired by?

Answer: This is Salvador Dali's Rinoceronte vestido con puntillas, inspired by Albrecht Durer's woodcut Rhinoceros. Durer's woodcut is remarkable because it was made despite him having never seen a rhino. Durer made the woodcut from rough sketches and descriptions of an animal sent to the Portuguese king Manuel I as a gift from India. Dali repeatedly uses rhinos in his works which, according to him, signify the themes of chastity and the Virgin Mary (don't ask me how). In his apperarence on the Tonight Show, he came with a leather rhinoceros and refused to sit on anything else!!! Raghu, Vetti, Srivats, Anshul, Arvind and Adi got it. Well done.