Monday, March 25, 2013

E6. If you take the name of this holy sea (no, no, not Holy See!) and change the last letter to another vowel, you get the first name of a famous heretic. Change it to another vowel, and you get his last name. What is the name of this place?

A. Galilee. The famous (recanted) heretic is, of course, Galileo Galilei.

Monday, March 4, 2013

D6. The ruling party in current-day Argentina is the Justicialist Party, which has its origins in a document titled 'The Twenty Truths of Justicialism' articulated in 1950. Its author, the founder of the party, used various means to popularise his political ideology, including initiating the production of the car in the picture (also called the Justicialista) as an attempt to create an Argentinian automotive industry in the 1950s. Name him.

A. Juan Peron