Gilbert Baker, a designer & activist, was asked to create a symbol for a particular movement. Baker was inspired by the hippie movement & world peace movement of 1960s.
The designer also cited the Rolling Stones song “She’s a Rainbow” as a source of inspiration.
The design was released in 1978 & has been used widely ever since.
What did Baker design?
Show AnswerPride/Rainbow Flag
The original flag had 8 stripes, with a meaning to each one of them. Over the years, number of stripes has been reduced to 6, and that's how we know it today.
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Kendrick Lamar’s album ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ very popular in 2015. But, Lamar almost ended up naming the album ‘To Pimp a Caterpillar’, before he went with the eventual title. For what reason of tribute did he want to name Caterpillar instead of Butterfly?
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In 1969, Dr. Karsanbhai Patel, a chemist at the Gujarat Government’s Department of Mining and Geology manufactured phosphate free synthetic X, and started selling it locally in and around Gujarat. He sold 15-20 packets of this a day through local dealers before his business boomed.
He named his product after his daughter Nirupama Patel.
How do we know this as ?
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Gregory Roberts was once a heroin addict and wanted criminal in Australia. He was caught and sentenced to a 19 year imprisonment. He escaped prison in 1980 becoming one of Australia’s most wanted criminal.
The story which follows is a mix of fiction and real life events, and become the plot for which book?
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X are a parody awards given to genuine scientists and researchers for their off beat inventions. The stated aim of the prizes are “first make people laugh, and then make them think”. Some of the recipients of the awards have been:
a bra that can be converted into a pair of gas masks
research on the “five-second rule”
converting old Russian ammunition into diamonds
discovery that chimpanzees can identify other chimpanzees individually from seeing photographs of their rear ends
Id X.
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During the early days of cinema in theaters, the owners would collect all the coins in chests and store them in a room towards the interior of the theatre complex.
This room gives its name to what in film parlance?
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X is an alkaloid found in chocolate, tea, cola beverages, acai berries and some other fruits. While these foods are safe for humans to consume, large doses of X can cause poisoning in smaller mammals, especially dogs and is called X or chocolate poisoning.
X in Latin also means ‘Food of the Gods‘.
Id X.
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OpenAI recently introduced a new model called o1, which is optimized for logical reasoning. According to sources, the internal name of the model is ‘Strawberry’. The fruit can also be seen incorporated into the demo of some of the videos uploaded by the company.
Question is, what is the significance of the fruit to OpenAI & ChatGPT?
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The need to build X came during the World War II to house the additional requirement at the time.
A location was chosen & the building was shaped according to the existing road network. However, location was blocking the view to a cemetery, hence a new location was chosen nearby. But the original shape was liked so much that was retained despite no constraints.
The name of this building is now synonymous with this shape. Identify it.
Show AnswerThe Pentagon
The shape was a hit with the top brass for its uniqueness & hence was retained. The shape also has a callback to medieval forts.
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X is a type of fund which is usually funded by surplus reserves from state-owned natural resource revenues, money from privatizations, etc.
The largest of its kind is valued at $1.6 trillion & based out of Norway, created through surplus form the country’s oil trade. A few other popular examples of X are Temasek from Singapore & Mubadala from UAE.
What am I talking about?
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The myth goes that X married 27 daughters of Daksha but truly loved only one of them. His other wives complained about his negligent behaviour to Daksha, who cursed him that he would become ugly forever. As a penance, X prayed to lord Shiva to remove the curse, who said that he could not completely remove the curse, but that whenever X lost his beauty completely, he would again gradually gain it back and the cycle would go on.
Who is X and what resulted thus?
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James Earl Jones, known for his roles in Field of Dreams, The Lion King, and Star Wars, passed away recently at the age of 93.
Among his many distinctions was being one of the few to get an EGOT. Named after the awards of different fields in entertainment, EGOT is the ‘grand slam‘ of American show business.
Can you tell me what EGOT stands for?
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When asked why he chose to paint X, the artist offered a deadpan reply: “I used to have the same lunch every day, for twenty years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.”
That daily meal became the subject of this work consisting of 32 individual pieces.
Which artwork am I talking about?
Show AnswerAndy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
The art piece was mocked at the time of its release because of its pedestrian nature.
However today, the work has become synonymous with Pop Art & is displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York stating "Repeating the nearly identical image, the canvases at once stress the uniformity and ubiquity of the product’s packaging and subvert the idea of painting as a medium of invention and originality".
Watch how Andy Warhol changed the face of Pop Art.
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While it is difficult to determine the exact reason for X, ‘camouflage’ seems to have taken less importance in recent studies.
One of the leading theory is that X confuses blood-sucking flies, and hence gives a significant advantage.
Another is possible reason for X might be be regulation of heat.
Which great mystery of the animal kingdom am I talking about?
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As a young boy, he comes from a poor background, polishing and shining boots in his native Glasgow. He migrates to the US at the age of 13 and literally strikes gold & makes his first million.
Once rich, he settles down on the top of Killmotor Hill, in a building called ‘Money Bin’.
Who, from fiction, who gets his name from another work of fiction?
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The dish was likely prepared first at Anchor Bar in New York.
Served hot with vegetable sticks accompanying it, there’s usually a dressing/dip that does along with the dish.
You may be confused that the name of the dish refers to a bovine, while it actually refers to the name of the area where it was first served.
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While this company is a world leader in its category, it also happens to be among the top food chains in the world.
The idea for a food service had come from the founder himself, who said “Hungry customers buy less”. In fact, the company sells a billion meatballs a year.
Which company am I talking about?
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Released 25 years ago, this movie contains a lot of talk on soap. The protagonist is a soap maker & seller (among other things). There is a crucial scene which talks about making soap in historical times.
When it came to finally deciding the poster, a pink coloured soap was chosen with the movie’s name embossed.
Which movie am I talking about?
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X is a valley about 10 km east of Duesseldorf in Germany where a discovery was made in 1856. While it was not the first of its kind, it coincided with publishing of one of Darwin’s books.
This made the efforts to study the discovery serious, and the discovery itself ended up being named after the valley X.
What am I talking about?
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The recently released cover of Time’s take on 100 influential people in the world of AI has two actors (covered in green). Scarlett Johansson & Anil Kapoor
The first is known for their work in movie on AI, which later became a point of issue for the actor.
The second is an Indian actor, who fought and won a case preventing AI to use his likeness.
Can you identify them both?
Show Answer Phoenix
Scarlett known for voicing the AI in the movie 'Her', was at the receiving end when she found that an OpenAI model sounded exactly like her.
Anil won a case in New Delhi, preventing his likeness to be used by AI, which he went on to dedicate to actors across the globe.
The cover has also come under fire for not including biggies of the industry like Elon Musk & Sam Altman.
