Looking up X on Google gives the result shown below. The interesting thing is that the word hidden by the box is exactly the same as the word being looked up. If you click on the ‘Did you mean: X’, you end up on the same page. What did I look up?
Qs of the Day
Monsoon QoTD #26
This book was published in 1943 and went on to become the author’s most successful work, and one of the best-selling and most translated books of all time, having sold 140 million copies to date.
Though ostensibly styled as a children’s book, it makes several observations about life and human nature. Quotations such as “You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed” and “One sees clearly only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eye” are famous for dealing with human relationships.
Which book?
Monsoon QoTD #23
The modern version of this chair was brought into the American market by the Gold Medal Camp Furniture company in 1892, and it won multiple awards for excellence in casual furniture design. The design goes back to coffer-makers’ chairs of the 15th century and eventually to the Roman curule chair whole status was a symbol of political or military power. What chair is being described here, whose name comes from the stereotypical image of it’s use?
Monsoon QotD #21
Depicted below is a cover for The New Yorker magazine from almost a decade ago. The artwork is named “Dark Spring” and was designed by Christoph Niemann to commemorate a tragedy that occured recently at the time. What event?
Summer 2018 QOTD #20 (Literature)
Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, it is the most printed original English book with more than 200 million copies sold.
It served as an inspiration to the 2012 Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises” by Cristopher Nolan.
Give the name of the book and the author.
Summer 2018 QotD #19 (Business)
Currently, only Mauritania and Madagascar have currencies which have a particular quirk. The rupee and the pound have had this property at some points of time, but both India and Britain made modifications to their currencies to fix it.
J.K. Rowling reportedly intended the currency system of the Harry Potter universe to be a satirical take on this aspect of the pound.
Put funda.
Winter ’15: QoTD #18 (Tech)
The term X arises from fishermen putting X in with the cod to nip at their tails and keep them active during overseas transport in order to produce more lively and fresh meat. This etymology has been described as having “all the hallmarks of apocryphal folklore” by Ben Zimmer writing for The Boston Globe, pointing out that X were used “as a kind of Christian parable”.
This term entered modern use after the release of a 2010 film titled X, and became popular after a hoax involving Notre Dame football player Manti Te’o in 2013.
ID X.
Winter ’15: QoTD #16 (Literature)
X’s first autobiography’s title claimed that he wasn’t someone (Y) whom he portrayed in a certain series. The book, which came out in 1975 was criticized by some fans because of the perception that X was rejecting the character Y. He maintained he was only clarifying the difference between himself and Y, whom he always enjoyed playing. However, he later published his second autobiography in an attempt to address the misconceptions. Give X, Y and the titles of the two autobiographies, which are functionally very similar to each other, and a whole host of titles in popular media.
Winter ’15: QoTD #15 (Sports)
X, a Major League Baseball legend, has to his name one of the most enduring streaks in professional sports history, and what, after some thought and calculation by a Nobel Prize winning physicist Edward Purcell, who was also a Sabermetrician (cool name for a hardcore Baseball analyst), was called “the most extraordinary thing that ever happened in American sports”.
That is arguably his most famous achievement. His popularity during his career was such that he was referenced in film, television, literature, art, and music both during his career and decades after he retired, in places like “We didn’t start the fire” and a really famous Hemingway work too.
But he is also known for courting and marrying Y, who was equally, if not more popular in the US and all over the world back then. They fell out, and he re-entered her life years later as another one of her marriages was failing. He quit his day job to ask her to marry him again, but he never got the chance to ask her, and he sent a dozen roses, thrice a week, for the next twenty years, to her grave, never marrying again.
ID X, and well, Y is who she is.
Winter ’15: QoTD #14 (Random)
“I was inspired by comic strips, where a little asterisk would appear above a character’s head in funny discovery, and it even bears a strong resemblance to the onomotapoeia (sic) of a popping noise. Like a pop of self expression explaining to the world your opinion. So I explored that direction and the___________ started to emerge. At first it appeared too flower-like, so I pushed it into a softer, more abstract asterisk shape. As I was finalizing the mark, I tried a few more ideas that were even further abstractions on the idea, but the burst won out ultimately with the team.”
This was an answer by X explaining how he designed Y’s (Y is a company obviously) logo. ID Y
To help you here’s an example of a similar pop of realisation above Calvin’s head…
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