Quiz of the Day - 31 October 2012

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Another question from the annals of history.

The photograph on the right hand side shows the remnants of a once legendary fortification, which were destroyed in an epic war.

Identify the site or the war.

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Answer: The ruins are portions of the legendary walls of Troy (VII), identified as the site of the Trojan War (ca. 1200 BC). These are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites and located in the Western Turkey.
Congratulations to Ali for the right answer. :)

Quiz of the Day - 4 August 2012

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A biography and an interesting person for the daily quiz.

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On the right hand side, what you can see, is the scanned cover page of the memoir of a controversial, as well as, interesting (depending upon your point of reference) person. As can be seen from the photo, his memoir, titled "Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days" included tales of wars and destruction.

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Your task is really simple and straightforward. Just identify the person.

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You may simply answer the question by leaving a comment below this post. You may also send your answer to shovon76[at]gmail[dot]com. The comments will be moderated till tomorrow and will be published along with the answer.

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Answer: Answers to be declared now. The biography is that of Admiral Karl Donitz. A career Navy officer, and the Head of the Kriegsmarine throughout the WWII, Donitz, unlike the other top ranking German officers, was not executed and only had to serve a sentence for some years.
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Congratulations to Ali and Pranat Kashyap for getting the answer right.
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Quiz of the Day - 11 July 2012

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Another iconic photo for today's daily quiz.

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Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams captured this shot of an officer executing a prisoner of war and it became one of the most iconic shots of the concerned war. Sadly, Adams would come to lament the damage the Pulitzer-winning photo did to the officer, firing the shot, and his family, claiming that the man had killed a “so-called bad guy” and been demonized by people who didn't understand the scope of the situation.

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Which is the war in question? Also, if possible, name the officer about to pull the trigger and the particular battle this was a part of.

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Answer: Ali is really on a roll. Hat's of to you man! Of course, that does not take away any credit from the others, i.e. Anindya Mozumdar and Pranat Kashyap, who have also answered this correctly.
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This photograph, titled "General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet Cong Prisoner in Saigon" was taken by Eddie Adams on 1 February 1968. It shows South Vietnamese National Police Chief and a former Brigadier General of the Army of South Vietnam, Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Việt Cộng guerrilla in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. The executed man was probably Nguyễn Văn Lém, a member of the National Liberation Front, popularly known as Việt Cộng. 
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It has been attested that Lém commanded a Viet Cong death squad, which on that day had murdered South Vietnamese National Police officers, or in their stead, the police officers' families. Lém was captured near the site of a ditch holding as many as thirty-four bound and shot bodies of police and their relatives, some of whom were the families of Loan's deputy and six of whom were Nguyễn's godchildren.
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Lém was captured and brought to Loan, then Chief of National Police of the Republic of Vietnam. Using his sidearm, a Smith & Wesson Model 38 "Bodyguard", Nguyễn Ngọc Loan summarily executed Lém in front of AP photographer Eddie Adams and NBC television cameraman Vo Suu.

Quiz of the Day - 07 July 2012

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For the next weeks daily quiz, I am planning to have a series on Iconic Photographs, starting today.

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The photo on the right hand side was taken in a battlefield, in the first half of twentieth century. It was taken by Robert Capa and is considered to be one of the most impactful visual representation of the war in question.

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The question has two parts and no splitting of points. Please identify the war, in which, the person pictured, took part. And, who were the belligerents in the war?

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Answer: The picture was captured during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The war resulted in dissolution of the Second Spanish Republic and marked the beginning of General Franco's dictatorship.
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This photo was taken on 5th September 1936, and supposedly shows Federico Borrell García, an anarchist, fighting on the Republican side, being hit by a bullet and slumping to the ground. The photograph is popularly known as "The Fallen Soldier", and it's full title is "Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936", although, some doubts have been raised at the authenticity of the photograph. 
Congratulations Ali for cracking this question!

Quiz of the Day - 28 April 2012

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Another visual clue. The question has two parts and one needs to answer both.

You can see the actual photographic capture of an iconic event in the history of the world. Many films, over the years, have used this event as a backdrop in their story. The event has also been dramatically reenacted in numerous feature films, documentaries and TV shows.

For getting the full credits, you'll need to identify the event depicted in the photograph and tell me the name of the Oscar winning film released in 1998, which started with the dramatic representation of this particular event.

Send in your answers to shovon76[at]gmail[dot]com.

The answers will be published tomorrow.

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Answer: As usual, my anonymous friend is absolutely right. The photograph shows the action on D-Day in 1944, when the Allied troops landed at Normandy in France. This actually started a chain reaction and was the first time during WWII that the Germans lost in mainland Europe.
The 1998 Oscar winning film is Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg. The film opened with the D-Day scene when a group of US soldiers landed on the Omaha beach and their fight with the entrenched Germans.