The Arts & Etymology quiz which I conducted in a Quiz Club session on 10th January 2017.

1. The Arts & Etymology Quiz
IIT Kanpur Quiz Club
Quizmaster:
Anshul Roy

2. Rules of the game
• 1 round of Infinite Bounce. 42 questions in total.
• +20/-10 on a pounce.
• +10/-0 on a bounce.
• The answer to none of the questions in this quiz is 42. A team answering 42 to any
question would be sent to the Gulag.
• Hints on special request (valid only if the Quizmaster is in a good mood).
• The more you stare at the question, the more the answer stares back at you.
• Kindly refrain from cybernetic investigations.
• While preparing the quiz, Wikipedia has been assumed to be factually correct.
• Quizmaster is Ozymandias, the King of Kings. His decisions are final and binding.

3. Bad Luck Brian memes serve as safety slides in
this quiz, keep an eye out for some easy chuckles.

5. इनिफिनट बाउंस

6. Q - 1
In the year 1849, in New York City, a man named William
Thompson would walk up to random strangers and
spark a conversation. He would gain their trust and then
ask them - “Have you the confidence to trust me with
your watch until tomorrow?’”. Having said that, he would
then never return. He was finally caught in the act when
a stranger recognised him.
He was nicknamed X. Over a time period, this nickname
X was edited a bit and gave rise to the word Y.
Id Y.

8. Answer
Y = Con man (derived from the word “Confidence Man”)

9. Q - 2
This is a couch gag from “The Simpsons” referencing which famous
painting by which famous artist?

11. Answer
Relativity by M.C. Escher

12. Q - 3
The famous painting X by Y has sparked considerable academic debate as
scholars interpret the painting. Some critics believe the melting _______ in
the piece are a response to Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Art critic
Dawn Ades says - "the soft _______ are an unconscious symbol of the
relativity of space and time.”
When Y was asked directly if Einstein's Theory of Relativity was an
inspiration, Y declared his true muse for the deformed _______
was a wheel of Camembert cheese that had melted in the sun. As Y
considered himself and his persona an extension of his work, the
seriousness of this response is also up for debate.
Many people also believe that X might be a self-portrait. The floppy profile at
the painting's center might be meant to represent Y himself, as the artist was
fond of self-portraits.
Id X and Y.

14. Answer
X = The Persistence of Memory, Y = Salvador Dali

15. Q - 4
The Classic Cafe is a diner located in New York City’s West Village
neighbourhood (image on the next slide).
In 2014, a Chicago native named Mark walked into the cafe and told the
manager, Alex Vigor, something unexpected which left him “star-struck for a
second”.
Alex Vigor and the cafe owner, Fiko Uslu, were intrigued by this revelation
and began researching the building’s history. They came to the conclusion
that the revelation was true and they changed the name of the diner to X.
Most of their evidence is based on the visual similarity between their diner,
located at 679 Greenwich Street, and the one shown in X. Both are triangular
spaces with large windows and seating at a dark wooden bar. They also
talked to elderly residents of the neighbourhood, and they recalled the
building housing a diner in the 1940s.
Id X.

18. Answer
X = Nighthawks

19. Q - 5
These are some paintings from a series of 46 paintings made by an
artist. What is the first and the most famous painting of this series?

25. Answer
The Great Wave off Kanagawa

26. Q - 6
Wanting to support USA during World War 2, and inspired by Franklin Roosevelt's January
1941 address to Congress, X sought to illustrate the President’s vision for a postwar world
founded on the Y, that is - A, B, C, and D.
Finding new ideas for paintings never came easy, but the high concept became an even
greater challenge for X. By chance, the artist attended a town meeting near his home in
Arlington, where one man rose among his neighbors to voice an unpopular view (this
particular incident later inspired X to make the sketch called A).
The same night, X awoke with the realization that presenting the Y from the perspective of his
own hometown experiences could prove quite effective.
X made some rough sketches and went to Washington to propose his poster idea, but the
Ordnance Department of the U.S. Army did not have additional resources for the commission.
On his way back to Arlington, X stopped at the Philadelphia office of Ben Hibbs, editor of The
Saturday Evening Post, and showed him the proposed sketches for the Y. Ben Hibbs
immediately made plans to use the illustrations in the The Saturday Evening Post.
The United States Department of the Treasury later promoted war bonds by exhibiting the
original sketches in sixteen cities.
Id X and Y.

28. Answer
X = Norman Rockwell, Y = Four Freedoms

29. Q - 7
These two paintings were painted by the famous artist Edvard Munch in the year
1907 as his own interpretation of a very famous painting.
Which famous painting am I talking about?

31. Answer
The Death of Marat

32. Q - 8
In the early 1900s, traveling circuses would display what they
called “X shows”. These shows featured either performers with
some utterly bizarre ability or physical feature, or a
performance in which something bizarre happened. Usually,
that meant a person eating something disgusting, like biting
the heads off live chickens.
It is believed that the word X in those shows came from the old
German word Y, which basically meant - “a stupid person”.
Nowadays, the word X is used in a very different context.
Id X.

34. Answer
X = Geek

35. Q - 9
Franz X was a German physician and astrologist. He is known
for a particular medical procedure where he sat with a patient,
looked into their eyes and made passes in front of their face.
Franz X believed that this would remove the barriers in our
body and allow the free-flow of the processes of life. This
procedure was later developed, by others, into the complex
__________ procedures practiced today.
Franz X was highly criticized at the time for his procedures,
mainly due to the lack of scientific evidence to support them.
What word is derived from the name of this German physician?

37. Answer
Mesmerize

38. Q - 10
This is the movie poster of the 2011 film “Winnie the Pooh”. Which
famous painting is this poster inspired from?

40. Answer
Washington crossing the Delaware

41. Q - 11
Back in the 14th Century, X were the backbone of the agriculture
industry. That is to say, they were the guys who worked on farms.
The word X is an old French word that traces it’s etymological
roots to the word Y, which was Latin for “country house”.
Over a period of time, the meaning of the word X gradually
changed. Farm workers were generally poor peasants. Peasants,
because they were poor, were deemed untrustworthy and
suspicious. At that time, it was believed that untrustworthy
people committed crimes.
Eventually we ended up with the modern day definition of X.
Id X.

43. Answer
X = Villain (derived from the Latin word “villa”)

44. Q - 12
In 13th Century France, wooden shoes were unfashionable. These
wooden shoes were called Y, and were worn generally by lower class
citizens because they were cheaper than leather shoes. Walking more
than a few steps in a Y was very difficult, clumsy, and noisy. The French
noticed this fact, and came up with a word to describe this - “Yier, to
walk noisily and clumsily wearing Y”. Eventually, Yier became known as
any sort of bungle, like getting the words wrong in a speech and
completely bungling the whole thing. By 1910, the meaning of Yier had
further progressed to mean malicious bungling, and the word was
eventually changed to X.
Another etymological theory states that - when French workers went on a
strike, they would angrily hurl their Ys into the factory machinery,
damaging them beyond repair. Thus Ys became a symbol of destruction
and obstruction. Eventually, the word Y was changed to the word X.
Id X.

46. Answer
X = Sabotage (derived from the word “sabot”)

47. Q - 13
This is a phrase from Rule 6 of the “Laws Of The Mendip
Miners” –
“If any man do pick or steal any lead or ore to the value of
13 Pence, the Lord or his officers may arrest all his Lead or
Ore with his Grooves and workers and forfeit it and shall
take the person that hath soe offended and bring him where
his house or his workplace is and all his tools and
instruments are and put him into his house or workplace
and burn it all together with him inside and banish him”.
This is the origin of a very popular phrase.
What phrase am I talking about?

49. Answer
Being fired from a job

50. Q - 14
Which famous painting directly inspired the album cover of the music
albums “Use Your Illusion I” and “Use Your Illusion II” by Guns N’ Roses?

52. Answer
The School of Athens by Raphael

53. Q - 15
In 1819, X purchased a house on the banks of Manzanares near Madrid called
“Quinta del Sordo” or “Villa of the Deaf Man”. It was a two-story house which was
named after a previous occupant who had been deaf, although the name was fitting
for X too, who had been left deaf after contracting a fever in 1792.
Between 1819 and 1823, before X left the house to move to Bordeaux, he produced a
series of 14 works, which he painted with oils directly onto the walls of this house. At
the age of 73, and having survived two life-threatening illnesses, X was likely to have
been concerned with his own mortality, and was increasingly embittered by the civil
strife occurring in Spain. Although he initially decorated the rooms of the house with
more inspiring images, in time he overpainted them all with the intense haunting
pictures known today as the “Black Paintings”. Uncommissioned and never meant for
public display, these pictures reflect X’s darkening mood with some intense scenes of
malevolence and conflict.
Y was one of six works with which X decorated the dining room of the house. Y is
among X’s most famous paintings. Many art historians believe that X may have been
inspired by Peter Paul Rubens' 1636 picture of the same name.
Id X and Y.

55. Answer
X = Francisco Goya, Y = Saturn Devouring His Son

56. Q - 16
In Greek mythology, X was a nymph who cast a spell on
Zeus which caused him to fall in love with her. In
consequence of this, Hera metamorphosed her into the
Eurasian Wryneck bird.
This bird has occasionally been used for magic and
divination and is remarkable for it’s ability to twist it’s head
by almost 180 degrees while hissing like a snake. The
Eurasian Wryneck bird is found in Africa and Eurasia and is
popularly known as the X bird.
What superstition gets it’s name from the popular name of
this particular bird?

58. Answer
Jinx

59. Q - 17
Charcot Marie Tooth disease (CMT) is a group of inherited conditions that damage the
peripheral nerves. These nerves are found outside the main central nervous system
and they control the muscles and relay sensory information, such as the sense of
touch, from the limbs to the brain. People with CMT may have - muscle weakness in
the feet, ankles, legs, hands and an awkward way of walking.
In May 2016, Professor Marc Patterson, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, said that X
from the painting Y by Z is likely to have suffered from a form of Charcot Marie Tooth
disease. Professor Patterson reviewed X’s medical history, and also studied all of Z's
paintings of X, including Y.
He said - “This was a fascinating case. This painting has long been a favourite of
mine, and the question of X’s ailment was an intriguing medical mystery. I think her
case best fits the profile of this disease.”
The findings were presented at the 23rd annual Historical Clinicopathological
Conference held at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The conference is
devoted to the diagnosis of disorders that afflicted historical figures.
Id the painting Y.

61. Answer
Y = Christina’s World

62. Q - 18
This is a very famous painting (next slide) by the English poet and painter
William Blake titled - X.
In the year 1981, a serial killer named Y saw this particular William Blake
painting in an art gallery, which gave a voice to his alternate personality. Y
became obsessed with this particular painting. He became fixated with the
strength and power he thought the ___ ______ exuded. He also had a giant
tattoo of the ___ ______ on his back. He believed that killing people - or
"changing" them, as he called it - would allow him to more fully "become"
the ___ ______. Y murdered two entire families in two months, on a full
moon night. Y chose his victims through the home movies that he edited as
a film processing technician.
Y was nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy" due to the nocturnal nature of his crimes,
his tendency to bite his victims bodies, the uncommon size and sharpness of
his teeth and other apparent oral fixations.
Id X and Y.

65. Answer
X = The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun
Y = Francis Dolarhyde

66. Q - 19
The word X was adopted in English language from
the French language. The French word is a 16th
Century permutation of the Italian word Y, which
was the name of a particular Venetian coin. The
word Y literally means “little magpie”.
The word Y became an epithet for _____________
during the early and middle 16th century, because
the first Venetian _____________ costed only one Y.
Id X.

68. Answer
X = Gazette

69. Q - 20
The word X originated in medieval Europe. Back then, castles were
prone to attacks by enemies. To keep themselves safe, the powerful
owners had their castles built with vertical arrow slits known as Xs.
These Xs enabled guards in the castle to strike down enemies with
little exposure to danger. Although Xs were narrow on the outside,
they were much wider on the inside, enabling archers to strike from
different angles. Their length varied from 1 to 3 meters. A X also
served as a source for letting light into the castle. With the invention
of the crossbow in the 12th century, horizontal slits were added to the
Xs to enable accuracy and efficiency. The Xs were built in the form of
crosses and were known as crosslets.
Over a period of time, the literal meaning of the word was eventually
replaced with its metaphoric definition - “gaps that can be exploited
to avoid consequences”.
Id X.

71. Answer
X = Loophole

72. Q - 21
The word X may have been derived from the Scottish term for
clothes, Y. The term X was first used in print in 1876, in Putnam's
Magazine, to mock how a woman was dressed. The use of the
word X for clothing in English goes as far back 1567.
In the popular press of the 1880s and 1890s, X was a new word
for "dandy" – an extremely well-dressed male, a man who paid
particular importance to how he appeared.
The word was used to refer to Easterners and referred to a man
with "store bought clothes". The word X may have been derived
from the Spanish phrase “lo ______” meaning “doubtful". The word
was used by cowboys to unfavourably refer to the city dwellers.
Id X.

74. Answer
X = Dude

75. Q - 22
A X worm is an extremely rapidly propagating computer
worm that spreads as fast as physically possible, infecting
all vulnerable machines on the entire Internet in
____________ or less. The term is based on X's remark that
"In the future, everyone will have ____________ of fame".
The SQL Slammer worm was the first observed example of
a X worm. In spite of deficiencies in its implementation, the
randomised attack was highly effective. 90% of all
vulnerable machines were infected within 10 minutes,
showing that the original estimate for infection speed was
roughly correct.
Id X.

77. Answer
X = Warhol

78. Q - 23
In medieval Spain, during the rule of Ferdinand of Aragon and
Isabella of Castile, the Moorish and Jewish people in Spain were
given an ultimatum to convert to Christianity or leave the country. All
those who stayed had to convert to Christianity to be accepted as
citizens of the country.
By they early 19th century, members of oldest and most powerful
royal family, which had refused to interbreed with these other races,
began to claim that their blood was pure and _____. The ostensible
reason for their prejudiced logic was that since they were fairer than
the Moors and Jews, who were mostly peasants who worked under
the Sun, their visible veins had a hue of _____.
The phrase soon spread to Britain, where it became popular.
What phrase am I talking about?

80. Answer
Blue blood

81. Q - 24
There is a famous puzzle. 9 dots are arranged in a square, like in the
image shown. The objective of this puzzle is to connect all of the
dots using only 4 straight lines without lifting your hand off the paper,
crossing each dot only once.
This puzzle is the origin of a phrase. What?

83. Answer
Out of the box thinking
(The only way to solve the puzzle is to extend at least one of the lines
beyond the perimeter of the "box". This solution never occurs to most
people. They see a box, and their thinking is limited by that.)

84. Q - 25
This Google Doodle was created as a tribute to X, on X’s 121st birth
anniversary on October 25, 2002.
Id X.

86. Answer
X = Pablo Picasso

87. Q - 26
After accepting the commission for the painting X, the artist Y expected that Z would be
sitting for the study, but Z refused point blank, not only on the basis that Z disliked
sitting but also because Z believed that the painting should be a representation of Z’s
character rather than his physical appearance. Here is how their conversation went -
Z - Sit? For what good? Do you think that the great men of Antiquity for whom we have
images sat?
Y - But Citizen First Consul, I am painting you for your century, for the men who have
seen you, who know you, they will want to find a resemblance.
Z - A resemblance? It isn't the exactness of the features, a wart on the nose which gives
the resemblance. It is the character that dictates what must be painted. Nobody knows
if the portraits of the great men resemble them, it is enough that their genius lives there.
Unable to convince Z to sit for the picture, Y took a bust as a starting point for Z’s
features, and made his son perch on top of a ladder as a model for the posture.
The refusal to attend a sitting marked a break in the portraiture of Z in general,
with realism abandoned for political iconography. After this point the portraits captured
an ideal rather than a physical likeness.
Id the famous painting X.

89. Answer
X = Napoleon Crossing The Alps

90. Q - 27
X is the Greek word for blood. The ancient Greek scholars
theorized that an excess of blood in a person made him
happier and more playful. And so the word Y has come to
mean cheerful and enthusiastic in the English language.
Id Y.

92. Answer
Y = Sanguine

93. Q - 28
During the World War 2, the Japanese Generals were facing
crushing defeat at the hands of USA. They had run out of
fighter planes and boats. As a last resort, they deployed a
depraved tactic called X. A pilot would fly a plane loaded with
arms directly into enemy territories and crash on the enemy's
ship with the intention of causing maximum damage.
Though such pilots were glorified and honored, there are
evidences that a lot of coercion was involved.
Nowadays the word X, imported to English, means something
reckless and often suicidal.
Id X.

95. Answer
X = Kamikaze

96. Q - 29
The etymological origins of the phrase X is highly disputed and various theories have
been made to explain it. Some of them are -
1. The earliest known English language work on magic, or what was then known as
"legerdemain", was published anonymously in 1635 under the title “X Junior: The
Anatomie of Legerdemain”. Further research suggests that X was the stage name
of a well known magician of the era. This may be William Vincent, who is recorded
as having been granted a license to perform magic in England in 1619.
2. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term X originates from the phrase
“hax pax max Deus adimax", a pseudo-Latin phrase used as a magic formula by
conjurors.
3. Some people believe that the term X has been derived from Y, a magician and
demon of the north in Norse mythology.
4. Many people believe that X is a nonsense word.
5. X may have been coined by Protestants to mock the Catholic transubstantiation
incantation used to turn bread and wine into flesh and blood, “________________”.
Id X.

98. Answer
X = Hocus Pocus

99. Q - 30
“The Empire of Light” is a series of paintings (images on the next
slide) by the famous Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte painted
between 1953 and 1954.
These paintings depict the paradoxical image of a nighttime street, lit
only by a single street light, beneath a daytime sky.
These paintings inspired a famous scene in the 1973 film X. This
scene was also used on posters as well as home video releases of X.
Id X.

103. Answer
X = The Exorcist

104. Q - 31
In any war, when a battalion is engaged in a gun battle
there are times when an emergency surgery is needed -
legs have to come off or deeply-buried bullets need to
come out. And sometimes, there's no time for anaesthesia,
especially when the enemy is bearing down.
So, in order to distract the patient from the extreme pain of
a surgical procedure, the surgeon would supposedly shove
a X in his Y and ask him to _____ down. Of course, the
surgeon could also use a belt or shirt but even in the throes
of death it's important for a man to look like a badass.
Which phrase traces it’s etymological origins to this
practice?

106. Answer
Bite the bullet

107. Q - 32
In the 1500s, homes had thatched roofs in which domestic
animals such as X and Y liked to hide. The animals would
keep themselves warm in the little nooks in the thatching on
the roofs and store their food. However, these thatched
roofs did not had the ability to repel strong winds.
When an especially ______ day came along, the animals
would either get washed off of the roof or would come
leaping down looking for better cover.
The story goes that the townsfolk would look out of their
windows, and proclaim it to be Z.
Id Z.

109. Answer
Z = Raining cats and dogs

110. Q - 33
This is an 8-foot-tall bronze statue situated on a hill overlooking
Ashland, Pennsylvania (image on the next slide).
It was built by the Ashland Boys Association in 1938, during
the Great Depression, as a tribute to mothers everywhere. The
pedestal of this monument quotes the famous poet Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, reading "A Mother is the Holiest Thing Alive.”
What was the inspiration behind this bronze statue?

113. Answer
Whistler’s Mother

114. Q - 34
In April 2013, the slogan “Our Heroes are Back” was used to announce that,
after an absence of one decade, all major art pieces in the Rijksmuseum's
collection were back where they belonged. A flashmob, staged in a shopping
mall, was used to promote this by recreating the famous painting X by Y.
Id X and Y.

116. Answer
X = The Night Watch, Y = Rembrandt

117. Q - 35
X is an American visionary artist whose body of work spans a variety of forms including
performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture, visionary art, and painting.
While in college, X had a series of entheogenically induced mystical experiences, due to
psychedelic drugs. X would frequently trip on LSD and DMT. X then spent five years at
Harvard Medical School working in the Anatomy department studying the human body and
preparing cadavers for dissection. X also conducted scientific experiments to investigate
subtle healing energies.
X is best known for his paintings of glowing anatomical human bodies, images that “x-ray”
the multiple layers of reality. The themes of death and transcendence weave throughout
X's artworks. X's art is a complex integration of body, mind, and spirit. X's paintings
examines in detail the physical and metaphysical anatomy of the individual. Many of X's
paintings include detailed representations of the skeleton, nervous system, cardiovascular
system, and lymphatic system. X's work incorporates many religious symbols, including
auras, chakras, and icons with geometric shapes. More recent work explores the subject of
consciousness from the perspective of "universal beings".
X's paintings have been featured in the album art of artists like Tool, The String Cheese
Incident, Meshuggah, the Beastie Boys and Nirvana (Images on the next slides).
Id X.

121. Answer
X = Alex Grey

122. Q - 36
In the year 1880, Captain Charles X was managing land in Ireland when
poor harvests struck. The Lord whose lands he was managing offered to
reduce the rents of his tenants, but the offer was unsatisfactory. One
landlord, Lord Erne, offered his tenants a 10% reduction on their rents.
The tenants rejected this offer and demanded 25% reduction. This was
refused by Lord Erne, and Charles X then attempted to evict some of the
protestors.
This angered the tenants and so they then refused to have anything to do
with Charles X. The lands were left untended, shops would not sell to his
family, and post was not delivered to his house. Supplies were shipped to
the estate from England since no one would deal with him in Ireland.
In the end the protest was successful and Charles X’s name became
synonymous with targeted __________.
Id X.

124. Answer
X = Boycott

125. Q - 37
This is a nighttime view of the city of Arles, in southern France.
This scene inspired a famous artist to draw a particular painting.
Which famous artist and painting am I talking about?

127. Answer
Starry Night Over the Rhône by Vincent Van Gogh

128. Q - 38
In the medieval times, people were very superstitious.
It was believed that jealous forces, always present,
are only too anxious to spoil any good venture. People
believed that a good luck wish would alert and
provoke them to do their evil work, whilst a curse will
make them turn their attention elsewhere.
The underlying principle of a popular phrase is the
belief that if you wish evil, then good will come.
What phrase am I talking about?

130. Answer
Break a Leg

131. Q - 39
X is an island in France, in the river Seine, at the very gates of
Paris, in the locality of Neuilly (image on the next slide). It is 7
km far from the towers of Notre Dame and 3 km from the Etoile. It
has about 4,000 inhabitants and is nearly 2 km long and nearly
200 m wide at its widest point. It’s name translates as "Island of
the Bowl" or "Island of the Big Bowl”.
In 1818 Louis-Philippe acquired the château of Neuilly in order to
house his family of ten children. He bought the land and created
a park which encloses the island, reachable only by boat. He
also put a temple on the northern point. Between 1850 and 1870
Napoléon III and Baron Haussmann further modified the island.
In the world of Arts, what is the significance of this island?

134. Answer
Setting for Georges Suerat’s painting “A Sunday
Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"

135. Q - 40
This is a snippet (next slide) from the webcomic “Existential Comics”.
This particular comic strip is about the philosophical concept of “The
Sublime”, which, in aesthetic theory, is something powerful and
terrifying that arouses a strange feeling of pleasure in the subject. For
example, when viewing a hurricane or a vast desert wasteland you can
be overwhelmed by their awesome force, but exulted at the same time.
The third panel in this particular comic strip is a reference to Caspar
David Friedrich's famous painting X, which is commonly used to portray
“The Sublime” in art. Many of his other paintings had similar themes.
Some art historians also say that the message conveyed by X is one of
Kantian self-reflection. Some people also believe that X presents a
metaphor for the unknown future.
Id X.

138. Answer
X = Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

139. Q - 41
In June 1816, the warship X departed from France, bound for the Senegalese port of
Saint-Louis. X headed a convoy of three other warships. Hugues Duroy De
Chaumereys had been appointed captain of X despite having scarcely sailed in 20
years.
In an effort to make good time, X overtook the other warships, but due to poor
navigation it drifted 100 miles off course. On 2 July, it ran aground on a sandbank off
the West African coast.
At least 147 people were piled onto a hastily built raft, that partially submerged once it
was loaded. After 13 days, the raft was rescued by a ship. By this time only 15 people
were still alive. The others had been killed or thrown overboard by their comrades,
died of starvation, or thrown themselves into the sea in despair.
The collision was widely blamed on the incompetence of De Chaumereys, who lacked
experience and ability, but had been granted his commission as a result of an act of
political preferment. This incident became a huge public embarrassment for the
French monarchy.
Which famous painting commemorates this infamous incident?

141. Answer
The Raft of the Medusa

142. Q - 42
In 2014, Vincent Icke, a professor of theoretical astronomy at Leiden
University inspected the famous painting X and published his
conclusion in the scientific journal “New Scientist”.
Vincent Icke closely examined the Y present in the painting X and
based on a number of observations he came to a surprising
conclusion that Y is not actually made of _____, but maybe silver or
polished pewter.
According to him - “A large part of the doubt, is caused by reflections
which are visible in the Y. An actual bead consists of thin layers of
calcite which scatter light of different wavelengths and break. This
creates the famous soft white, _____y sheen. Instead, we see a bright
reflection of light in the top left corner of the _____ and at the bottom to
see a reflection of the white collar.”
Which famous painting am I talking about?

144. Answer
Girl with a Pearl Earring

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