ASCII Quiz 4: Solution
Created | Updated Apr 22, 2012
These are the solutions to the Ascii Picture Quiz 4 which appeared in a recent issue of The h2g2 Post. Follow the links to see the original pictures.
Picture 1
The photo inspired a Led Zeppelin album cover - it's the Hindenberg disaster. This German airship exploded in a ball of flame as it docked at New Jersey following its transatlantic flight on May 6, 1937.
Picture 2
Did you spot the Black Power salute given by American athletes Tommie Smith and Jon Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympics?
Picture 3
The familiar mushroom cloud thrown up by the first ever atomic bomb dropped in anger. This, of course happened over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
Picture 4
A lone protestor stands in front of a line of tanks. This was the most memorable shot of the short-lived student uprising in Tiananmen Square, Beijing in 1989. Hundreds lost their lives as the army opened fire on unarmed demonstrators, mostly students.
Picture 5
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain triumphantly holds aloft a piece of paper containing an Anglo-German agreement signed by himself and Adolf Hitler in September, 1938. Sadly, Chamberlain's policy of appeasement was short lived. Less than a year later, Germany invaded Poland, and the Second World War had begun.
Picture 6
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin poses for this iconic shot of the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.
Picture 7
As Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled by Nato forces in April, 2003, so his statue in Baghdad was too. The man himself went on the run, before being captured in December of that year, then subsequently executed.
Picture 8
American forces capture Iwo Jima from the Japanese in 1945, one of the key battles of the Pacific Campaign of World War II.
Picture 9
Crowds celebrate anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990 after 27 years.
Picture 10
The NASA space shuttle Challenger explodes following a catastrophic failure soon after take-off, on 28 January, 1986. Seven astronauts lost their lives; these included schoolteacher and mother of two Christa McAuliffe.
