In the special episode of the program "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", singer Ho Trung Dung had to stop at a difficult question related to famous painter To Ngoc Van. Despite the help of advisory group member Ha Viet Hoang, both still could not find the correct answer.
Question number 12 has the content: "The name of famous painter To Ngoc Van is given to a location located in which celestial body in the Solar System? " with four options: A - Jupiter, B - Mercury, C - Mars, D - Venus.
Ho Trung Dung admitted "no idea in his head", while Ha Viet Hoang commented that this is a form of knowledge "or knowing, or not knowing" due to lack of clues.
In the end, both chose D - Venus, but MC Quoc Khanh announced the correct answer was B - Mercury, making them surprised.
From 1973-1974, after Mariner 10 sent the first images of Mercury, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) began naming the impact holes on this planet after famous artists who had been missing at least 3 years and had a reputation of over 50 years.
According to the USGS (NASA) Center for Planetary Geology, the name of the famous painter To Ngoc Van was given to a collision pit in the Shakespeare quadrangle, discovered in January 2008 during the first flight of the MESSENGER spacecraft.
The To Ngoc Van pit has the characteristic of central collapse, similar to panholes on Earth, which may have formed due to the collapse of the magma chamber below.
Famous painter To Ngoc Van was born on December 15, 1906 in Xuan Cau village, Nghia Tru commune, Van Giang district, Hung Yen, but grew up in Hanoi. He is one of the "four talents" (Tri, Van, Lan, Can) of modern Vietnamese painting.
He is famous for his delicate oil paintings of young women and later became a pioneering revolutionary painter. His typical works include "A Young Woman with Lilies" (1943), "Two Young Women and a Baby" (1944, National Treasure) and sketches of the Dien Bien Phu campaign, where he sacrificed himself while working.
To Ngoc Van was posthumously awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize, first phase in literature and art (1996) and his name was given to many streets in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Thu Duc, Hung Yen, Hai Duong, Yen Bai...
