Day 8: Result and Answers

Day 8: Result and Answers
The Winner of the Day 8 Set of Visualz is Swarup Kar
Congratulations Swarup !!!!!

Day 8 Answers

Pic 1: Harry Houdini – Regarded as one of the greatest ever escapologists , his name is now immortalizes in the “Houdini Escapes” performed by magicians the world over. He also was an ardent investigator of the spiritualist claims. (Infact his friend Arthur Conan Doyle believed that he was a powerful supernatural medium, performing his escaped with the help of his paranormal abilities). He also had a brief career as a movie producer.

Pic 2: Louis Braille – Blinded since the age of three, this teacher of the blind improved the “Barbier Point Writing system” used by the army to encode messages, to enable the blind to read. The writing system named after him, is used in numerous countries in a modified form. He also was famous as an organist and a violoncellist in Paris.

Pic 3: Simon Bolivar – Known as the liberator , he and General Jose San de Martin are considered to be most important figures of the struggle against Spanish colonialism in South America. He is credited as the liberator of Venezuela, Columbia, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Panama. His dream of a grand Latin American dreams was never realized. The republic of Bolivia, and the Venezuelan currency Bolivar are named in his Honour. The currently Venezuelan presedent Hugo Chavez calls himself the president of the Bolivarian Republic. A Cuban Cigar is also named after him.

Pic 4: Leonardo da Vinci – Considered to be one of the greatest geniuses ever, he distinguished himself as a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Best known for his painting “Mona Lisa” and fresco, “The Last Supper”. He also is known to have designed a flying machine. His “Vitruvian Man” was referenced in the best seller novel “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown.

Pic 5: Niccolo Machiavelli – A man of the Italian Renaissance, he served as the Secratary to the second Chancery to the Republic of Florence. Best known for his work “The Prince” , his other works include “ A discourse on the Art of War” , “The Mandrake” . His name has become synonymous with ruthless politics, deceit, and persuit of power at any cost. He was imprisoned by the Medici family after the defeat of the Florancian Republic. It was in imprisonment that he wrote “The Prince” he dedicated it to the Medici family in the hope that it would guarantee his return to public life.

Pic 6: Hubble Space Telescope – Named after the physicist Edwin Hubble, the telescope was carried to space by Space Shuttle Discovery in april 1990. It is one of NASA’s great observatories along with Compton Gamma Ray telescope,Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Spitzer space telescope.

Pic 7: Pulitzer Prize – Instituted in 1917 as per the will of Journalist and Newspaper tycoon Henry Pulitzer, it awards each year meritorious performance in the field of Public Service, Breaking News Reporting, Investigative Reporting, Explanatory Reporting, Local Reporting, National Reporting, International reporting, Feature Writing, Commentary, Criticism, Editorial writing, Editorial Cartooning, Breaking news photography, Feature Photography, Fiction, Drama, History, Biography/Autobiography, Poetry, General non fiction and Music.

Pic 8: Mae West- American Actress and anti-puritan icon , known for her films “She Done Him Wrong” , “Diamond Lil” , “Night after Night” and “I am no angel” amongst others. She also was a subject of a lot of paintings by surrealist painter Salvador Dali. During the second world war, the allied soldiers called their lifejackets,” Mae wests” partly from Cockney rhyming Slang for “Life Vest” and partly for the resemblance to her curvaceous torso.

Pic 9: Molotov Cocktail – Named derisively after USSR foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov by the Finns, it is a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons. In its simplest form, it is a glass bottle containing petrol or alcohol, with a wick.

Background Pic: Mikhail Kalashnikov - Best known for his invention the AK assault rifle series, he was twice named the Hero of Socialist Labour. His most famous invention, the AK-47 (short for Avtovat Kalashnikova model 1947) , was a result of his participation in an Assault Rifle design competition in 1946 . AK-47 was made the soviet Army rifle in 1947. According to estimates there are some 100 million AK-47 assault rifles circulating. It has been used in the national flag of Mozambique, the flag of Hezbollah and numerous coat of arms.