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Friday, October 9, 2009

320. Name the game?

This game was created by Leslie Scott while using children's wooden building blocks which her family purchased from a sawmill in Ghana.Though a British national, Scott was born in East Africa where she was raised speaking English and Swahili, before moving to live in Ghana. This explains the Swahili name of the game meaning to 'to build'.

Identify the game.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

319. Unwanted advice?

This is the Yiddish term for a meddler who offers unwanted advice to others

Now mostly encountered to specify a hanger-on/spectator in a game of bridge or chess, offering (often unwanted) advice or commentary.

Which term?

Monday, October 5, 2009

318. Bringing back to life?

This cinematic effect is most commonly used by makers of documentaries on subjects where principally still material (photographs, paintings etc) is available. To bring the still material to life, for example, the camera zooms in on subjects of interest and then pans from one subject to another, finally coming to rest on the element which is the subject of the voice-over narration.

This effect is also present in many professional and home software applications (the iPhoto, iMovie etc from Apple) and is named after the guy who popularized it in some epoch making documentaries.

What is this effect called?

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

317.Only If he drove a Volkswagen?



Fill in the missing blank. Also, an allusion to which incident?

Sunday, September 27, 2009

316. Rules for Spontaneity?

When asked how he wrote 'Spontaneous Prose' he replied back with his thirty 'essentials':
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside your own house
4. Be in love with your life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You're a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

Who?

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

315. Hercules's victim?

According to Greek myth, this geographical entity is named after the daughter of Bebryx, who after being raped and impregnated by Hercules, decided to track down Hercules, was lost in a storm and was finally eaten by wolves.

Hercules not knowing exactly where she was, built a great tomb for her which became this entity. Which one?

Monday, September 21, 2009

314. Fresh Fruits



Created in 1966 by Ron Karenga, X is a week-long holiday celebrated in the United States honoring African heritage and culture. The name of the festival is derived from the Swahili phrase "matunda ya X", meaning "first fruits". Each of the seven days is dedicated to Nguzo Saba or 'The Seven Principles' described as Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-Determination), Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity) and Imani (Faith).

The week day celebration is marked by lighting a kinara (candle holder) and pouring of libations, and culminating in a feast and gift giving. The greeting for each day of is "Habari Gani", Swahili for "What's the News?"

The US stamp (pic), created by artist Daniel Minter, shows seven figures in colorful robes symbolizing the seven principles.

Which celebration am I talking about?