An Addiction called Online Quizzing

I spent the first few days of January trying to crack the online quiz at Kurukshetra '08. This is the second one I have spent much time on, the previous being the Mood Indigo quiz. And I have found this to be very addictive. It is great fun, not just because of the joy of getting an answer right, but also because of the thousand things one learns about in the process. Here's an example:

Connect the three pictures.

The explanation:

The first pic is of La Sagrada Família, the biggest Roman Catholic Church in the world, which is being built in Barcelona. The most amazing thing is that its construction began in 1882 and it is proposed to be completed in 2026!

The second pic is of the Lo Shu turtle, a favorite symbol of the Chinese, long believed to bring money, luck, high status and good health- it is highly recommended by Feng Shui practitioners.

The third pic is Melancolia I, an engraving by Albrecht Dürer.

The connection??? MAGIC SQUARE!!!

The Passion façade of the Sagrada Família church, designed by sculptor Josep Subirachs, features a 4×4 magic square (left). The magic constant of the square is 33, the age of Jesus at the time of the Passion. The legend of the Lo Shu, the dragon turtle, has that the turtle has a magic square on its back(right). Melancolia I contains a magic square(bottom pic). In fact, the square on the passion facade is a modification of Dürer's square. More on these magic squares here: 1 2