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?