500: Identify this structure and elaborate the story behind it. (The third photograph is the location where the structure might be found.) 499: Paraphrasing one of the correct answers – Statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Gandhi Square in Johannesburg. One of the few statues (perhaps only one) that depict Gandhi – not as the world…

499: What is the significance of this statue? 498: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, written by James Thurber

498: Identify the book from the cover. (The author is featured on the magazine cover.) 497: Jean Nicot, the French diplomat who brought back tobacco plants from Portugal to France. The tobacco plant was named Nicotiana in his honour, as is nicotine.

497: Connect. 496: Quoting one of the correct answers, Close-Up (pic 1), the 1990 movie directed by Abbas Kiarostami (pic 3) tells a story of the real life trial of a man who impersonated film maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf (pic 2), conning a family into believing they would star in his new film. Interestingly Makhmalbaf appears…

496: Spin a yarn. 495: Bartholdi, the Statue of Liberty.

495: Famous creator working on one of his works. Identify both. 494: Doppler effect.

494: Connect. 493: “Rock of Ages” – The popular Christian hymn was supposedly inspired by a gorge in the Mendip Hills in England; the Offspring song starts with a few words of mock German which are in turn sampled from the Def Leppard song, also named “Rock of Ages.” Video here. (Cheesiness alert! 🙂 )

493: Connect this video with the image. 492: Bertolt Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera” – “Mack the Knife” was originally a song in the work; “Tales of Black Freighter” the comic within the comic in Watchmen is inspired by “Pirate Jenny”, another song in it.

492: Connect this video with the image. 491: Longplayer, a piece of music designed to last over a 1000 years. Read more about it here.

491: What innovative art project? 490: Riemann Hypothesis, the famous unsolved problem – depicted in the cartoon; proposed by Bernhard Riemann.