Entries in Google (12)

Tuesday
Jul052011

Google Doodles Quiz - Part 10...Media and multi-theme logos

In this prior post we briefly described Google Doodles and had a quiz.  This blog entry is the 10th "quiz" of Doodles and the last one (for now).

Below are three Doodles recognizing the birthdays of radio and film directors, two historical figures that did not fit into the previous categories, plus two Doodles that each reflect two topics:

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#1    Birthday of Alfred Hitchcock (The Birds)
#2    Birthday of Akira Kurosawa (Japanese film director)
#3    Birthday of H. G. Wells (War of the Worlds)
#4    Birthday of Ghandi
#5    "Birthday" of Confucius
#6    Independence Day (4th of July)  and  Birthday of Rube Goldberg (cartoons of complex machines)
#7    New Year's Day  and  Birthday of TCP/IP which is the communications protocol for the Internet!

Monday
Jun272011

Google Doodles Quiz - Part 9...Scientists, Inventors, & Explorers

In this prior post we briefly described Google Doodles and had a quiz.

Now it's time to guess the Scientists, Inventors, and Explorers whose birthdays were recognized with a Doodle:

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#1    Alexander Graham Bell (invented the telephone)
#2    Robert Bunsen (discovered the element cesium, developed the Bunsen Burner -- remember chemistry class?)
#3    Albert Einstein (invented the Theory of Relativity)
#4    Louis Braille
#5    Gaston Julia (mathematician who devised the Julia set, which is the foundation for the Mandelbrot set and fractals)
#6    Nikola Tesla (invented the induction motor, Tesla coil, alternating current electrical transmission, wireless communication before radio... and much more)
#7    Jacques Cousteau (co-developed the aqua-lung, oceanic explorer)
#8    Thomas Edison (invented the light bulb, phonograph, motion-picture camera, and more)

Monday
Jun202011

Google Doodles Quiz - Part 8...Popular Culture

In this prior post we briefly described Google Doodles and had a quiz.

Now it's time to guess the People and Items in Popular Culture whose birthdays were recognized with a Doodle:

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#1    Birthday of Lego bricks
#2    Birthday of Tetris
#3    Birthday of Pippi Longstocking ("Pippi Langstrumf" in Germany!)
#4    Birthday of the Ice Cream Sundae
#5    Birthday of Harry Houdini
#6    Birthday of Pac-Man (you could click on the logo and it opened a game you could play!)

Monday
Jun132011

Google Doodles Quiz - Part 7...Historic Milestones & Achievements

In this prior post we briefly described Google Doodles and had a quiz.

Now it's time to guess the Historic Milestones and Achievements whose dates were recognized with a Doodle:

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#1    Berlin Wall starts to fall
#2    First Ascent of Mt. Everest by Edmund Hillary
#3    First Hot Air Balloon Flight
#4    First [Airplane] Flight
#5    First Human-made Object to Orbit the Earth (Sputnik)
#6    First Human Landing on the Moon

Monday
Jun062011

Google Doodles Quiz - Part 6...Inventions & Discoveries

In this prior post we briefly described Google Doodles and had a quiz.

Now it's time to guess the Inventions and Discoveries whose dates were recognized with a Doodle:

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#1    Discovery of X-Rays
#2    Invention of the Laser
#3    Discovery of Buckeyballs
#4    Invention of the Large Hadron Collider
#5    Invention of the Bar Code
#6    Discovery of DNA

Monday
May302011

Google Doodles Quiz - Part 5...Holidays

In this prior post we briefly described Google Doodles and had a quiz.

Now it's time to guess the Holidays that are recognized with a Doodle (often a different Doodle every year):

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#1    Easter
#2    Valentine's Day
#3    Father's Day
#4    Thanksgiving (designed by Ina Garten)
#5    St. Patrick's Day
#6    Halloween (designed by Wes Craven)
#7    St. Nicholas Day (not Christmas!  Notice the shoes...)
#8    Feb 29th in Leap Year
#9    Dr. Martin Luther King Day
#10  New Year's Day (Roman numerals will tell you the year...)

Monday
May232011

Google Doodles Quiz - Part 4...Events & Festivals

In this prior post we briefly described Google Doodles and had a quiz.

Now it's time to guess the Events and Festivals that were recognized with a Doodle:

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#1    Oktoberfest!
#2    Day of the Dead (connected to All Saints Day and All Souls Day)
#3    Diwali
#4    La Tomatina
#5    World Cup Final (check the flags to see which year...)
#6    Dragon Boat Festival
#7    Guy Fawkes
#8    Lantern Festival