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

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

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...)

Rube Goldberg and Honda Accord

Last week we saw a great Japanese commercial of a "xylophone" in a forest, and read that it took 4 days to setup and get a successful take for the video.

That might seem complicated, but perhaps nothing will ever match the Honda Accord commercial.  It is called "Cog".  The team created a Rube Goldberg-type machine using actual parts from an Accord (actually, two).  In the end, the commercial required over 600 takes over a week to get it right... this after six months of planning, with total budget of $6 million.  It was created in 2003 by London agency Wieden & Kennedy.

No, there is no CGI here either, although the tires rolling uphill make people skeptical.  It *is* possible using clever weighting.  Final voiceover by Garrison Keillor.  However, although it appears that it was one long shote panning with the action, it is two shots linked together.

Honda followed-up with this commercial in 2006, but although neat, just can't compare to "Cog".  In this video, a 60-person choir makes the sound effects for driving a Civic.  Keep it up, Honda.

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

Xylophone in a Forest

OK, perhaps I was a little over-eager to declare the U.S. as video marketing kings after the tear-jerking Google ad.  Here is a great ad from NTT Docomo, a mobile phone service provider.  Not only does music again play an important role, but actually is at the core of the "plot".  (J.S. Bach:  Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring)

The YouTube comments clarify that it took 4 days from start to finish, and no CGI was used in the final result.  It's a great contrast to the cityscape time-lapse video too - nature oriented, minimalistic rather than bombastic.  Great result.

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)