Trivi 32

Explain

 

Ans: These are the state approved hairstyles in North Korea.

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Trivi 31

Identify the blacked out words.

Ans: Reality Distortion Field.

Prashanth Madhavan got it right

 

 

Trivi 30

Identify the film. What did it give rise to?

 

Ans: The film is Rasputin and the Empress. It gave rise to the All persons fictitious disclaimer.

Answered by Prashanth Madhavan

Trivi 29

What is the specialty of this restaurant?

 

Ans: Conflict Kitchen. More info

Answered by Shreenath Krishnamurthy, npm123, Saquib Ahmed

Trivi 28

Identify this person

Ans: Charles Ponzi.

Trivi 27

How did the Austrian Post immortalise this?

Ans: The video shows the goal scored by Andi Herzog for Austria against Sweden in 1997 and made their way to the 1998 World Cup. In 2008, the Austrian Post commemorated the event by issuing a “lenticular stamp” that showed a 3 second clip of the famed goal.

More info here, here and some more bizarre stamps

Answered by Sibi Rajendran and Shreenath Krishnamurthy (wanted a more specific term)

Trivi 26

He was awarded the Ig Nobel Peace Prize for his unusual campaign against bureaucratic inertia. While he made arrangements to travel to Harvard to accept his Prize, the US government declined him entry in to the country. Why? And yes, identify him.

Ans: Lal Bihari Mrithak from Uttar Pradesh, who was officially dead between 1976 and 1994. He was awarded the IgNobel Peace Prize in 2003, amongst other reasons, for his posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives.

More about him here, here and here.

Answered by Abhishek Bagchi, Shreenath Krishnamurthy

Trivi 25

Where on Earth would you find this?

Ans: Statue of Lenin at the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility in Antarctica.

More info and images.

Answered by Suryateja, Vinod, SM Muneer ali

Trivi 24

A sitter. Explain What did these result in?

Ans: The Peace Sign.

The British artist Gerald Holtom combined the semaphores for N and D to create the logo for British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament which would later become the peace sign.

Other peace symbols.

Answered by Sudip, S M Muneer Ali, C K Jaidev and Sindy

Trivi 23

Where would you find this?

Ans: This plaque is at Führerbunker, the bunker complex where Hitler committed suicide.

More media and news.

Answered by Murthy, Shreenath Krishnamurthy, s m muneer ali, Prashanth Madhavan narasimhan