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

Google Doodles Quiz - Part 3...Composers & Musicians

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

Now it's time to guess the Composers and Musicians whose birthdays were recognized with a Doodle:

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#1    Ray Charles
#2    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker)
#3    Michael Jackson
#4    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#5    Dizzy Gillespie
#6    Igor Stravinsky (Firebird, Rite of Spring)
#7    Luciano Pavarotti
#8    Antonio Vivaldi (The Four Seasons)
#9    Sergei Prokofiev (Peter and the Wolf)
 

Google Doodles Quiz - Part 2...Authors

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

Now it's time to guess the Authors whose birthdays were recognized with a Doodle:

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#1    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)
#2    Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island)
#3    Antoine de Saint Exupery (The Little Prince)
#4    Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice)
#5    Beatrix Potter (The Tale of Peter Rabbit)
#6    Hans Christian Andersen (Thumbelina)

Google Doodles - The Quiz! (Part 1...Artists)

Almost everyone uses Google, and eventually notices that the Google logo at the top of the search page changes periodically.  These alternate versions of the Google logo are called Google "Doodles".

In 1998 the founders themselves, Larry and Sergey, were going to attend the Burning Man Festival in Nevada.  They playfuly added a stick figure behind the second letter "o" in the word Google to indicate that they were attending and would be out-of-the-office.  This was the first Doodle.  Here is the official logo and the first Doodle:

The official Google logo 

The first Google "Doodle"

Note:  the official Google logo itself has changed since the company was founded.

About a year later, in 2000, they asked their webmaster  Dennis Hwang (who was an intern at the time!) to produce a Doodle for Bastille Day.  The result was popular, so they made Dennis "chief doodler".  Today, Google has a team of designers, will listen to your suggestions, and holds competitions.  To date they have created over 300 for the U.S. and 700 world wide.

The entire archive of Google Doodles can be found here and descriptions here... but that's not fun.  Se we'll share some in quiz format!

Here are some Doodles that recognized birthdays of famous artists.  Try to guess -- answers at the bottom.

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#1    Paul Cezanne
#2    Andy Warhol
#3    Edvard Munch (The Scream)
#4    Vincent van Gogh (Starry Night)
#5    Jackson Pollock
#6    Piet Mondrian
#7    Leonardo da Vinci
#8    Pablo Picasso
#9    M. C. Escher
#10  Norman Rockwell
#11  Marc Chagall
#12  Michaelangelo (Statue of David)
#13  Frank Lloyd Wright (Guggenheim, Falling Water)