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Challenges: Year Long Main 2021
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MAZZA1 Annual Challenge 2021
Reporting Badge 5 1 of 12
Museum 21. The Musée du Louvre in Paris
1. Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo
2. The Pyramid of Mud
3. Mercy
4. In Black and White
2 of 12
Museum 23. Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid
1. Hot Milk
2. The Christmas Train
3. Sovereign
4 Carolina Moon
3 of 12
Museum 25. Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
1. Chasing Windmills
2. Cake and Cocktails at Cafe Swan
3. Mister Pip
4. Anatomy of a Disappearance
4 of 12
Museum 26. The Vasa Museum in Stockholm
1. Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd.
2. The Sea Road
3. Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
4. Something in the Water
5 of 12
Museum 27. The Acropolis Museum in Athens
1. Protector
2. Gods of Jade and Shadow
3. A Dog Named Slugger
4. The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
6 of 12
Museum 28. The British Museum in London
1. The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
2. Empire State
3. Swimming Home
4. The Peppermint Tea Chronicles
7 of 12
Museum 29. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
1. The Jewels of Paradise
2. 1066 Turned Upside Down
3. Sophie's World 18/06/2021
4. Big Sky
8 of 12
Museum 36. Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem
1. Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
2. The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman
3. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
4. Second Sight
9 of 12
Museum 37. National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
1. Murder in the Mystery Suite
2. Innocent Graves
3. The Canterbury Tales
4. Murder in Mesopotamia
10 of 12
Museum 38. Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil
1. The Silent Land
2. Marilla of Green Gables
3. Ready Player Two
4. What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
11 of 12
Museum 39. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
1. Moral Compass: To Be, or Not to Be
2. Diary
3. The Cranes Dance
4. The Book of Dreams
12 of 12
Museum 40. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington
1. Potiki
2. Stardust
3. Fifteen Postcards
4. Ink and Bone
1. Badge 5 Book 1 2. Museum 23. Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid
3. Task about
4. The Christmas Train
5. 260 pages
6. Read a book that has 200-299 pages.
7. 260 pages
1. Badge 5 Book 22. Museum 25. Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
3. Collection
4. Mister Pip
5. 256 pages
6. Read a book with a book on cover
7.
1. badge 5 Book 32. Museum 26. The Vasa Museum in Stockholm
3. Interactive
4. Something in the Water
5. 342 pages
6. https://www.vasamuseet.se/en/collecti... - an item used to pump water
Task read a book with Water on cover or water in title
7.
has both
1. Badge 5 Book 4 2. Museum 27. The Acropolis Museum in Athens
3. Collection
4. A Dog Named Slugger
5. 250 pages
6. Read a book in which a dog is a significant character
7. Memoir about how slugger works with author as a helping dog author has cerebral palsy
1. badge 5 Book 5 2. Museum 25. Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
3. Interactive
4. Anatomy of a Disappearance
5. 247
6. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collect...
Anatomy of the head
Read a book with Anatomy in the title
7. Anatomy in the title
1. Badge 5 Book 62. Museum 27. The Acropolis Museum in Athens
3. Task Interactive
4. The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
5. 352 pages
6.https://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/...
On her head she wears a stephane decorated with paint, once further embellished with bronze jewellery & perhaps flowers
Read a book with flowers on cover
7.
1. Badge 5 Book 72. Museum 28. The British Museum in London
3. collection
4. Swimming Home
5. 176 pages
6. Cover must be 75% blue
7.
Tin eye results
36.3 %#41b2c0 Blue
33.7 %#1b5083 Blue
12.7 %#1687aa Blue
4.4 %#593028 Brown
4.2 %#818876 Grey
3.5 %#57807d Grey
1.9 %#d6e9eb Grey
1.3 %#b2967e Grey
1.2 %#93adbf Blue
0.7 %#60b57e Green
total 83.4% blue
1. Badge 5 Book 82. Museum 28. The British Museum in London
3. Interactive
4. The Peppermint Tea Chronicles
5. 256 pages
6.https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect...
Chess pieces Found Found/Acquired: Uig
Europe: British Isles: Scotland:- Island of : Lewis and Harris: . Read a book set in Scotland -
7. Set in Edinburgh - from GR blurb" and for the habitués of Edinburgh's favourite street"
1. Badge 5 Book 92. Museum 38. Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil
3. Collection
4. Ready Player Two
5. 366
6. Read a book set in a Fantasy word
7. Fantasy game world known as the Oasis
1. Badge 5 Book 102. Museum 38. Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil
3. interactive
4. What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
5. 478 pages
6. https://www.inhotim.org.br/item-do-ac...
Galleriea Rouge
The installation True Rouge (1997) brings together suspended containers, in irregular positions, which resemble the universe of a laboratory.
Laboratories are linked with science read a Non-fiction book with MPG science
7. MPG Science and Non-fiction
1. Badge 5 Book 112. Museum 39. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
3. About
4. Diary
5. 262 pages
6. read a book from "Art & Artists in Fiction list." https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
7. Currently number 124 on that list
1. Badge 5 Book 12 2. Museum 39. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
3. Interactive
4. The Book of Dreams
5. 400 pages
6. https://www.malba.org.ar/evento/confe...
picture entitled what do women dream of Read a book with "dream(s)" in the title written by a woman
7. Dreams in title, female Nina George
1.Badge 5 Book 132.Museum 36. Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem
3. Task 2 About
4. The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman
5. 430 pages
6. Proper name in title
7. Norman foreman in title
1. Badge 5 Book 142. Museum 37. National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
3. Task 3 Collection
4. The Canterbury Tales
5. 528 pages
6. Features a nun
7. Abbess ans Second Nun's tales feature
1. Badge 5 Book 152. Museum 37. National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
3. Task 4 Interactive
4. Murder in Mesopotamia
5. 264 pages
6. https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-ob...
Task - Something with wings on cover e.g. angel, bird, plane etc
7.
1, Badge 5 Book 162. Museum 38. Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil
3. Task 1 location
4. The Silent Land
5. 262 pages
6. Read a book with a theme of Natural Disaster.
7. Theme of Avalanche
1. Badge 5 Book 172. Museum 39. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
3. Task Collection
4. The Cranes Dance
5. 386 pages
6. Read a book where the main character is a ballet dancer
7. Kate Crane is MC Dances for New York Ballet
1. Badge 5 Book 182. Museum 21. The Musée du Louvre in Paris
3. Task 2 about
4. The Pyramid of Mud
5. 271 pages
6. Pyramid in title
7 Pyramid in title
1. Badge 5 Book 192. Museum 37. National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
3. Task 2 about
4. Innocent Graves
5. 468
6. Set in 1990's
7. First Published in 1996
There is an interview with a character from Dubrovnik who says in response to the question
"when did you come here?
in 1991 after the siege" p 307 of kindle edition
There are also references to a computer diskettes which are more of a 20th than 21st century storage system
1. Badge 5 Book 20 2. Museum 29. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
3. Task 3 Collection
4. Sophie's World
5. pages 436
6. Task: The cover has a bearded man, or a signification character has a beard.
7. Alberto Knox Sophie's philosophy teacher has a beard p62 "middle aged man, rather short with a well trimmed beard"
1. Badge 5 Book 21.2. Museum 21. The Musée du Louvre in Paris
3. Task 3 Collection
4. Mercy
5. Pages 288
6. Task: Read a book with a theme of angels.
7. Mercy is an angel who on habits the bodies of others in order to find answers to mysteries - a disappearance in this case
this is the worst book i have read in a while
1. Badge 5 Book 222. Museum 29. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
3. Task Interactive
4. Big Sky
5. 476 pages
6.https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/print... Part of the picture looks like chess boards to me Read a book where a character plays chess
7. Character plays chess p 254 "she'd been taught to play by one of the judge's friends... but then men had many worse kinks than wanting to play chess"
1. Badge 5 Book 232. Museum 25. Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
3. Task 2 about
4. Cake and Cocktails at Cafe Swan
5. 202 pages
6. Read a book with "Swan" in the title, or on the cover.
7. Swan in title
1. Badge 5 Book 242. Museum 27 The Acropolis Museum in Athens
3. Location -
4. Protector
5. 416 pages
6. Read a book set in Greece, or written by a Greek author.
7. According to the book page, the location is identified as Athens (Greece) and Greece. At least 70% is set there
1. Badge 5 Book 252. Museum 23. Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid
3. Task 4 Interactive
4. Carolina Moon
5. I listened to Audio MMP is 470 pages
6. https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccio...
Picture is titled Moral Fantasy Read book woth MPG fantasy and all letters of MORAL in title
7. MPG Fantasy cAROLina Moon= Moral in title
✔️Oooh - I like the task you gave yourself. I may have to make note of that idea for future challenges.
Janice wrote: "✔️Oooh - I like the task you gave yourself. I may have to make note of that idea for future challenges."
thanks Janice I was entranced by that pic and didnt wany just MPG task. BUT don't make next year's too complicated
When writing over a hundred tasks, duplications are hard to avoid. If you have two tasks for fantasy, adding an element like you did, makes them individual tasks.
1. Badge 5 Book 262. Museum 26. The Vasa Museum in Stockholm
3. Task 3 Collection
4. Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
5. 246 pages
6. Task: Read a book with a lion on the cover or the word "Lion" in the title. Plurals are allowed.
7. "Lions" in the title
1. Badge 5 Book 272. Museum 21. The Musée du Louvre in Paris
3. Task 1 Location
4. Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo
5. 325 pages
6. Read a book with the word "tower" in the title.
7. Tower is in title
1. Badge 5 Book 282. Museum 28. The British Museum in London
3. Task 2 About
4. Empire State
5 I listened to audio PB is 445 pages
6. Read a book with the work "Empire" in the title.
7. Empire in title
1. Badge 5 Book 292. Museum 23. Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid
3. Task 3 Collection
4. Sovereign
5. 583 pages
6. man with a hat on the cover
7.
1. Badge 5 Book 302. Museum 23. Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid
3. Task 1 Location
4. Hot Milk
5. 218 pages
6 read a book set in Spain
7. Setting is Spain on GR data
Books mentioned in this topic
Ink and Bone (other topics)Ink and Bone (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
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1. Location - Paris, France
Task: Read a book with the word "tower" in the title.
Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo
2. About - Task: Read a book with "pyramid" in the title or on the cover.
The Pyramid of Mud
3. Collection - Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss
(view spoiler)
Task: Read a book with a theme of angels.
Mercy
4. Interactive item - based on The Louvre in Paris.
Task: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:... someone with a wig on cover
In Black and White
Museum 23. Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid
1. Location - Madrid, Spain
Task: Read a book set in Spain.
Hot Milk
2. About - Task: Read a book that has 200-299 pages. Use the rules for audiobooks and ebooks.
The Christmas Train
3. Collection - Autorretrato (view spoiler)
Task: Read a book with a man wearing a hat on the cover.
Sovereign
4. Interactive item - based on the Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid.
Task: https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccio...
Moral Fantasy read a book with MPG Fantasy and has all the letters of MORAL in title
Carolina Moon
Museum 25. Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
1. Location - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Task: Read a book with "Windmill, Wind, or Mill" in the title.
Chasing Windmills Z library
2. About - The Swan by Jan Asselijn, remaining one of Rijksmuseum’s most renowned pieces.
Task: Read a book with "Swan" in the title, or on the cover.
Cake and Cocktails at Cafe Swan
3. Collection - Still Life with Books (view spoiler)
Task: Read a book with a book(s) on the cover.
Mister Pip
4. Interactive item - about the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Task: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collect...
Anatomy in title Anatomy of a Disappearance
Museum 26. The Vasa Museum in Stockholm
1. Location - Task: Read a book set in Sweden or written by a Swedish
Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd.
2. About - Task: Read a book with the theme of Vikings.
The Sea Road (Scribd)
3. Collection - Lion Masthead (view spoiler)
Task: Read a book with a lion on the cover or the word "Lion" in the title. Plurals are allowed.
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
4. Interactive item - based on the The Vasa Museum in Stockholm.
https://www.vasamuseet.se/en/collecti...
used to pump water
Water on cover or water in title
Something in the Water
Museum 27. The Acropolis Museum in Athens
1. Location - Athens, Greece
Task: Read a book set in Greece, or written by a Greek author.
Protector
2. About - Task: Read a book with a main page genre of mythology.
Gods of Jade and Shadow
3. Collection - Hunting Dog Votive (view spoiler)
Task: Read a book in which a dog is a significant character.
A Dog Named Slugger
4. Interactive item -
https://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/.... On her head she wears a stephane decorated with paint, once further embellished with bronze jewellery – perhaps flowers
Flowers on cover
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Museum 28. The British Museum in London
1. Location - London, EnglandTask: Read a book based on the Arthurian legend.
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
2. About - Task: Read a book with the work "Empire" in the title. Plurals are allowed.Empire State Scribd audio
3. Collection - Dragon Tiles (view spoiler)
Task: Read a book whose cover is at least 75% blue.
Swimming Home
4. Interactive item - based on the British Museum in London.
Task:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect... made on Isle of Lewis and Harris Scotland
Set in Scotland and letters of one of the Islands in Title
The Peppermint Tea Chronicles
Museum 29. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
1. Location - Amsterdam, The NetherlandsTask: Read a book set in Venice.
The Jewels of Paradise library
2. About - Task: Read a book set between the years 900 and 1100.
1066 Turned Upside Down scribd
3. Collection - Self Portrait (view spoiler)
Task: The cover has a bearded man, or a signification character has a beard.
Sophie's World
4. Interactive item - based on the Vincent Van Gogh Museum.
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/print...
Laziness (La paresse)
1896, Félix Vallotton (1865 - 1925)However, where Japanese printmakers tended to use lots of different colours in a single print, Vallotton worked exclusively in black and white.
For me part of this looks like a chess board characters play chess
Big Sky
Museum 36. Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem
1. Location - Jerusalem, IsraelTask: Read a book set in Israel or written by an Israeli author.
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
2. About - The museum serves as the World Holocaust .
Task: Read a book with a proper name in the title.
The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman
3. Collection - Heartstrings - Music of the Holocaust (view spoiler)
Task: Read a book with the theme of Music. "Music" must show on the main page page genres.
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
4. Interactive item -
https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhib...
Photographer as MC / author/ photography MPG
Second Sight
Museum 37. National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
1. Location - Washinton, D.C.Task: Read a book set in either Maryland or Virginia.
Murder in the Locked Library virginia
2. About - Task: Read a book set in the 1990's.Innocent Graves
3. Collection - The Veiled Nun
(view spoiler)
Task: Read a book with a significant character who is a nun.
The Canterbury Tales
4. Interactive item -
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-ob...
something with wings on cover e.g. bird / plane
Murder in Mesopotamia
Museum 38. Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil
1. Location - Bumadinho, Brazil
Task: Read a book with a theme of Natural Disaster. The book may be about earthquakes, volcanoes, weather (hurricane, tornado), mountain slides, floods, forest fires, etc. It does not include situations like airplane crashes, shipwrecks, etc.
The Silent Land
2. About - Task: Read a book that takes place primarily on a farm, ranch, or plantation.
Marilla of Green Gables
3. Collection - Carrion Flower (view spoiler)
This flower looks fantastical.
Task: Read a book that is set in a fantasy world.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
or Ready Player Two
4. Interactive item - based on the Imhotim.
https://www.inhotim.org.br/item-do-ac...
which resemble the universe of a laboratory.
MPG Science
What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
Museum 39. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
1. Location - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Task: Read a book that is on the Kick Ass Military Science Fiction Books list. State position on the list.
Moral Compass: To Be, or Not to Be page 1 number 65
2. About - .
Task: Read a book that is on the Art & Artists in Fiction list. State position on the list.
Diary page 2 number 123
3. Collection - Ballerina
(view spoiler)
Task: Read a book where the main character is a ballet dancer. The book may be fiction or non-fiction (memoir, biography).
The Cranes Dance
4. Interactive item - based on the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano.https://www.malba.org.ar/evento/confe...
Titled what do women dream of - Dream or Dreams in title
The Book of Dreams
Museum 40. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington
1. Location - Wellington, New ZealandTask: Read a book set in New Zealand or written by a NZ Author
Potiki
2. About - Task: Read a book that is on the Pirates! list. State position on the list.Stardust number 20
3. Collection - Stamp (view spoiler)Task: Read a book with Postcard or Letter in the title. Plurals are accepted.
Fifteen Postcards
4. Interactive item - based on Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Task: https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ob...
Tattooing is known as inking as Ink is the material used to create them (could also relate to pigment)
Red a book with a word in the title that derives from the word INK - e,g, inks, inked, inking
Ink and Bone