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1 Marie Antoinette's Watch
The story of Marie Antoinette's watch is as full of romance and tragedy as the life of the queen herself.
Tough
10 Q
janetgool
Oct 19 09
78 plays
2 The Möbius strip and Other Impossible Figures
The Möbius strip is a famous example of a figure that doesn't comply with everyday geometry. What do you know about it and other, similar objects and how they're featured in art?
Difficult
10 Q
mountainmage
Oct 23 07
744 plays
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Last Updated Oct 31 09 5:57 AM

Some sample questions from this category:

* The Möbius strip has the property of being non-orientable, meaning that it can be moved around the surface and back to where it started so that it looks like a mirror image of itself. Which of these figures is also non-orientable?
* A famous artist was fascinated with the Möbius strip as well as other impossibilities. He put them in many pieces of his art. Who was he?
* Which of these is not another name for the Devil's pitchfork?
* Which impossible shape was created by artist Oscar Reutersvärd?
* The impossible cube (shown at the lower left-hand corner of M.C. Escher's "Belvedere) is based off of a wire-frame 2D cube first published in 1832. Which of these is the correct name for it?


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