395. Identify

These awards are the oldest media awards in Germany. They are awarded annually to recognize excellence in international media and television who with vision and creativity affected and inspired the German public that year. Michael Jackson, Sophia Loren, Armani, Shakira, Kate Winslet among others have been the awardees.

Name it.

394. Gift from God?

His first name is Hebrew for "gift from God" and the surname is a corruption of the French term for "the ox" or "the beef".

Who?

393. Western Propaganda?

He got his name from the title of a poem by the German children's writer Boy Lornsen: Der Tintenfisch ______ _______. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized him several times and accused the West of using him to spread "western propaganda and superstition.”

Who am I talking about?

392. Silenced?

Athletes in Tudor England used church bells of various sizes for training purposes. To make it easy and ergonomic they removed the bell clappers and thus, in a way "silenced" them.

As a result what did we get?

391. Son of Goa?

He was one of the earlier proponents of scientific study of hypnotism, departing from the earlier theory of animal magnetism by Franz Mesmer (after whom we have the word mesmerize). He was born in Goa to Saraswat Brahmin Christian parents who in turn were descents of Hindu Saraswat Brahmins. He along with his father had to escape to Paris when found involved in a plot to free Goa from Portugal. He has been immortalized by Alexander Dumas is his book The Count of Monte Cristo as a omniscient scholar who helps his fellow prisoner Edmond Dantès to escape from Château d'If?

Who is this son of Goa? (Picture above: His statue next to the Old Secretariat in Panaji, Goa)

390. Title, translated....

The title by which we primarily know it today is a literal translation of the original. Which is a little bit unfortunate, as it may lead one to believe that it may be a reference to corporal punishment and also for the fact that the original expression actually stood for "raising hell".

So what am I blabbering about?

389. Cinema jigsaw?

In 1966, this dude picked up clips from Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (literal English title: International Secret Police: Key of Keys), a Japanese spy film. Instead of translating the film, he added completely original dialogue that had nothing to do with the plot of the original Japanese film, put in new scenes and rearranged the order of existing scenes, to completely change the tone of the film from a James Bond clone into a comedy about a secret egg salad recipe.

Id the dude.

388. Tripartite?

Dao Cao Dai (Caodaism in English) is the third largest religion in Vietnam (after Buddhism and Roman Catholicism)

They recognize three saints:

Sun-Yat-Sen (1866-1925), leader of the Chinese Revolution of 1911.
Trang Trinh (1492-1587), Vietnamese poet and prophet.

Who is the third?

387. For the love of literature

Vladimir Bukovsky defined it as follows: "I myself create it, edit it, censor it, publish it, distribute it, and may get imprisoned for it."

Refers to the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed literature or other media in Soviet-bloc countries. Copies were made a few at a time, and those who received a copy would be expected to make more copies. This was often done by handwriting or typing.

Identify.

386. d'Artagnan's loot...

The thief was nicknamed d'Artagnan after the Dumas character because he used a magnet on a sword-like pole and was banned from the area in 2002 after 30 years of stealing from it.

Using this technique, at the height of the tourist season, in one week, he scooped out an impressive 22 kilos in just fifteen minutes.

Had d'Artagnan not been successful the loot would have been given to Caritas, a catholic charity that provides services for the poor.

Identify d'Artagnan's loot.

385. An oral tradition?

X is derived from the Salvadora persica ,a small tree or shrub with a crooked trunk, seldom more than one foot in diameter, bark scabrous and cracked, whitish with pendulous extremities.

An important benefit to Muslims is also that the reward of prayer is multiplied 70 times if X is used before it. Although not mentioned in the Qur'an its use is frequently advocated in the Hadith.

What be X?

384. Everything for a reason....

This term refers to the literary technique whereby an element is introduced early in the story, but whose significance does not become clear until later on. For example, a character may find a mysterious object that eventually becomes crucial to the plot, but at the time of finding, the object does not seem to be important.

Which term?

383. Which way the wind blows?

"You don't need a ________ to know which way the wind blows"

Which radical left organization(logo above)took its name from the above Bob Dylan song?

382. The Guilty Mother.....

If “The Guilty Mother” was Number 3 (as well as the last), what was No 1 and No 2 ?

381. Too fucking busy....

“Too fucking busy, and vice versa"

[Reply to her editor who was bugging her for delivery of a manuscript while she was on her honeymoon]

Who?

380. Pepper Water?

This curry flavored soup’s name is an anglicized corruption of the Tamil term meaning “pepper water”. Interestingly the name is a misnomer as pepper is not a vital ingredient of the soup.

Name please?

379. Shahjahani Flu

In the mid-1600s, soon after the Mughal emperor Shahjahan established the capital city of Shahjahanabad, a major flu swept through the city, striking many including the emperor himself. The royal physician devised a spicy recipe to clear blocked sinuses and as an all-purpose remedy to keep the body warm, and a method of overnight cooking was utilized as a way to kill the germs in Delhi’s contaminated water lines.

So what resulted?

378. Hand of God?

All of us have played this game at some point or the other! In the english speaking world, what is it called?!

377. The mullah with the lamp.....

One theory behind the origin of the name of this place is that about six hundred years ago an Islamic preacher named Hazrat Badar Aawlia arrived in this city from the seas and chose Cheragi Pahar as his vantage point to spread the message of Islam among the locals. It was at the apex of this hill that the pious messenger lit a X(=lamp in the local language) and called out for people to join him in saying prayer to God.

Another theory is that the first group of Kulin brahmins to have settled in this region all belonged to a particular sub-caste.

Which place?

376. To hide a wrinkle or two....

In the UK theatre circuit, a bright light placed at eye level, in front of the performer, which helps to hide wrinkles is named in her honor (because she always used to insist on one). Who?

375. Italian, German, French?

-->X was created by the Italian Giovanni Maria Farina in the 17^th century. At the time Germany had stringent laws for immigrants but Farina was granted citizenship. As a result, to show his gratitude he named his creation in the honor of his new German home town. Farina gave his creation a French name as in the 17th and 18th century French was spoken in European high society and also used by tradesmen. In the absence of any trademark and patent laws X is now a generic name for a specific class of products. Identify X.

374. Detached?

This sub-genre of alternative rock which originated in the United Kingdom during the late 1980s gets its name for the following facts. First, the band members stood relatively still during the live performances in a detached, contemplative and passive state with their heads down. Second, the bands made use of effect pedals using their feet. What music genre I am talking about?


Courtesy: Shashank

373. Mind and Body?

This fitness physical system was designed by the German gymnast Joseph ______ during the First World War as a method to improve the rehabilitation program for the returning war veterans. The exercise regimen was based on the idea that the functioning of muscles is controlled by the mind and hence, he termed his method as Contrology. But today the method is known by the founder’s last name. Which is this one of the most popular fitness programs am I talking about?

372. A complex one

Connect the following elements (not an exhaustive list)

a. Artur London, a Czechoslovakian communist minister arrested and tried for alleged treason and espionage in a "show trial" during the Stalin period.

b. US police official and alleged torture expert Dan Mitrione

c. An American journalist, Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody coup led by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile in 1973

d. The strange case of John Demjanjuk

e. The highly controversial 1963 play, Der Stellvertreter. Ein christliches Trauerspiel (The Deputy, a Christian Tragedy), by Rolf Hochhuth

371. Stampede of noisy elephants?

The sound produced by them has been compared to "a stampede of noisy elephants," "a deafening swarm of locusts,""a goat on the way to slaughter"and "a giant hive full of very angry bees. Some Freddie "Saddam" Maake claims to have invented it by adapting an aluminium version from a bicycle horn after removing the black rubber to blow with his mouth. He later found it to be too short and joined a pipe to make it longer.
What am I talking about?

370. Life beyond Second Life?

Where would you encounter the following entities?

Solaria
Mayuravaas
Noom
Turqua
Snowflash
Re-Janm

369. Escaping the wrath?

This term gets its origin from the 17th Century French practice of signatories to petitions against government officials adding their names on a document in a non-hierarchical circle so that none can be identified as a ring leader. The term finds frequent usage in various areas especially in sports.

Which term?

368. A quick one, that does not conform!

If that which does not conform is called treif, then what would you call that which conforms?

367. Sheepish ;)

One of the largest breeds of sheep the Ovis ammon polii (seen in the pic above) was first described by Indian zoologist Edward Blyth.

Why polii?

366. Watered down by prior art?

When Charles Hall approached the US Patent Office in 1968 for patenting one of his recent inventions - the water-bed - , his application was refused because descriptions of a waterbed constituting “prior art” had already appeared in at least three novels by this writer.

Which writer?

365. Twins in infinite universes?

Wincanton, a small town in south Somerset, England is unique in the fact that it was twinned in 2002 with a town Y which can only be found in the fictional universe X.

On 5 April 2009, a number of roads were retitled with names taken from Y , such as Peach Pie Street and Treacle Mine Road. There is also a shop in High Street called The Cunning Artificer, which sells collectors items relating to the fictional universe of X.

X and Y please.

364. Perpetual Motion?

In his search for a perpetual motion machine, Blaise Pascal devised the primitive form of which game?

363. Word of Honor?

This common term in the legal parlance means “(spoken) word” in French. It gets its origin from the Anglo-French chivalric practice in which the prisoners were released based on their word of honor to abide by certain restrictions.

Which word?

362. Fair and Lovely?

What you see in the picture is a practice (X) of cleaning and thickening fabrics such as wool by beating it with the foot. By the medieval period, a material (Y) occurring in nature was discovered to be pretty effective in doing this cleaning up, and gradually replaced the manual process to a large extent. As a consequence the material Y came to be named after the process X that it replaced.

Nowadays this material typically surfaces in stuff that the fairer sex smears on their faces.

Identify the material Y.

361. Shake a leg?

Famous scene from a famous movie. Identify the movie and what is the lady trying to do?!

360. Beer - Bringing people together, since eternity!

This is Pakistan’s premier beer brand. It is named after the location of the original brewery, started in 1860 to cater to the requirements of British troops stationed there. The original brewery was closed down due to a water scarcity problem in the 1920s and brewing shifted to Rawalpindi and Quetta.

The company – now owned by Parsis - also happens to be the oldest continuing industrial enterprise in Pakistan.

Which beer brand?

359. The Yank who kept the doctor away?

Gentleman above has TWO primary claims to fame.

1) He was the only American citizen to have faced imprisonment for participation in Indian's freedom struggle.

Which is the other?!

358. Building looks like a painting....

Museum dedicated to the life and works of a painter. Which?

357. Every dog has his biography?

The person who wrote it based it on his real-life pet. He can be briefly seen in the book cover. Who?

356. Ineptitude?

Which term referring to an inept person/sportsperson comes from the comic strip character shown alongside?

355. The real 7% solution?

An exhaustive list of 7 entities. By what collective term would you refer to them?

354. Which medical condition?

This bizarre and painful medical condition is named after a Greek god, who was noted for his disproportionately large and permanent erection. In the condition the erect penis or clitoris does not return to its flaccid state, despite the absence of both physical and psychological stimulation, within four hours.

What medical condition am I talking about?

353. One Charles wrote about it, the other Charles popularized it?

First described by Charles Dickens in his 1857 novel Little Dorrit, this particular type of fraudulent investment operation was named after Charles ____, who became notorious for using the technique in early 1920. The scheme in question pays returns to separate investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned. The scheme allures new investors by offering returns other investments cannot guarantee, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent. The scheme came to light last year when some notorious fellow became the largest operator of such scheme. What fraudulent scheme am I talking about?

352. The Madras Triple Helix?

The “Madras triple helix” is the name assigned by scientific communities in the West to the proposed molecular model of what?

It is quite possible that the name came about due to the difficulty faced by western scientists in pronouncing the names of the Indian scientists who came up with the break-through.

351. It will make a damn mess?

This dish originated in Quebec, Canada, in the late 1950s with several Québécois communities including Drummondville, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, and Victoriaville claiming to be its birthplace. According to an often-cited tale the dish was invented when a customer ordered French fries while waiting for his cheese curds from the Kingsey cheese factory in Kingsey Falls. The exclamatory remark- ça va faire une maudite _______ ("it will make a damn mess") by one Mr. Fernand Lachance in response to the customer's order led to the origin of the name of the dish.

Which dish?

350. Lord, Have Mercy!

The Bogomils (from bog - Lord and milui - have mercy - in the Bulgarian language) were a Gnostic sect, the members of which supposedly indulged in unlawful sexual activities.

What term comes down to us from the name of this sect?

349. Nonclockwork orange....

This architectural entity is not of the color indicated by its name. Instead it bears a color called “International Orange” which was chosen for its visibility in fog rather than for any aesthetic reasons.

Identify.

348. All about choices. Yeahs or nays?

Identify what is in the picture. Also, inspiration for what?

347. Dangerous Diversions....

If you encountered the following in some order,

Golf Course
Three Blind Mice
Daniel's Dip
Sweet Sixteen
Marine Drive
Roller Coaster
Double Trouble
Club House
Black Money

what would you be upto? And where?

346. Created from a twig?

Which term is derived from the Greek word meaning "twig or branch" referring that a new plant can be created from a twig or a branch ?

345. Sip the "black" dragon, live by the sea....

Which word meaning “Black Dragon” in Chinese is used to refer to the dark, long and curly entity shown below?

344. Gandhi's friend?

He was European correspondent for the Chicago Tribune from 1925 to 1932, covering assignments in Europe, the Near East and India. In India he formed a close friendship with Gandhi and later on also wrote a book called "Gandhi: A Memoir".

He has also written - Love and Hatred: The Troubled Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy and The Sinking of the Bismarck but these are not why he gained world wide acclaim.

Who is this gentleman and name his most famous work!

343. Back after a hiatus

When orange trees were transplanted to ________ from Spain in 1527, they did not take to the climate and soil of the southern Caribbean too well, and evolution dictated that they take a green and inedible bitter form called the Laraha.

The dried peels of the Laraha, however, were discovered to be quite pleasantly fragranced, and subsequent experimentation with the extracts of these peels led to the creation of ________ .

Both blanks are the same. Please to fill

342. The sedative salt of Homberg?

This was first prepared by Wilhelm Homberg (1652-1715) and was given the name sal sedativum Hombergi ("sedative salt of Homberg")

Used in a myriad variety of ways – Antiseptic for minor burns and cuts, Insecticide, Flame retardant, In nuclear power plants to control the fission rate of uranium etc

More known by the masses in India (at least) for a slightly different usage.

Which one?