Day Nine Today was another fun one! It involved a bit of travel for me, but it was a lovely trip. Here’s the challenge, so let’s get right into it! Question one This song is closely linked to a statue. Before this statue was moved, what could it read, engraved on the pediment facing it? You’ll have to listen to the snippet of the song on the site, but these are the lyrics that we really care about; ...
Day Eight I’ve breezed through the past few days far too easily. It’s time to once again test my French skills with today’s challenge. Question one Near this department store, several shots for a classic French film were illegally filmed without permission at the end of the 20th century. What is the filming date of these stolen shots? We can use [images.google.com] to find that the image was taken the Galeries Lafayette in Paris, in the 9th arrondissement. It was pretty easy to find this given that the image for today is seen on the Wikipedia page: ...
Day seven Today’s OSINT challenge takes a bit longer than Day six. Not too much longer, mind you. Day seven’s challenge is marked as being a Medium difficulty challenge, but this time no French language is needed. In fact it’s a very English challenge… Question one In 1963, the Beatles released the first edition of their Christmas “flexi-disc”. These limited editions, both humorous and a symbol of the group’s musical and artistic creativity, were distributed to members of the band’s British fan club. In the first flexi-disc, one of the boys speaks at 4:05 and thanks three people. What are their surnames? ...
Day six Day six is listed as being Medium difficulty. After yesterday’s challenge I felt like this might be the point where I hung up the towel and write a self-pittying post about not being able to complete all 25 (24?) days. Thankfully, today took about 2 minutes to complete! Question one You come across this inspiring video on LinkedIn. Which influencer was the first to make this video go viral? I took a screenshot of the post (slightly different to the below, the video kept playing while I took the initial screenshot and kept playing while I was taking the below screenshot): ...
Day five Day five broke me. I’m sorry to admit it, but I spent a long time on this day. In yesterday’s post I mentioned that I had a horrible headache. On day five it got even worse and I fell off the wagon a bit. I failed in my goal to write a daily blog post, but I’ll make up for it! I’ll still be completing every day before the 25th rolls around. Just excuse the 9 day break. ...