Monday, March 23, 2009

A#76-100

76/ CLOCKWISE:- R.K. LAXMAN; WORLD BANK LOGO;BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO LTD (PUBLISHER OF TIMES OF INDIA) LOGO.
THE WORLD BANK WAS THE SUBJECT OF LAXMAN’S 1ST CARTOON TO APPEAR ON THE FRONT PAGE OF TIMES OF INDIA.
77/ DAVIS CUP. THE GENTLEMAN IS DWIGHT DAVIS.
78/ GODZILLA. GORILLA (IN JAPANESE)+ WHALE (IN JAPANESE)= GOJIRA ( GODZILLA’S ORIZINAL NAME IN JAPANESE)
79/ CLOCKWISE:- GOPAL(KRISNA GOKHALE), LUCKY,(GODDESS LAKSHMI), MAHADEV (SHIVA).
CLUE:-HRISIKESH MUKHERJEE
GOPAL,LUCKY,MAHADEV&LAKSHMI- THESE ARE THE NAME OF THE FOUR PROTAGONIST FROM WHOM THE MOVIE DERIVES ITS NAME- GOLMAAL( OLD ONE BY HRISIKESH MUKHERJEE)
80/ THIS IS THE FIRST ISSUE OF PLAYBOY, IT DIDN’T CONTAIN ANY DATE COZ THE FOUNDER WAS NOT CONFIDENT WHETHER THERE WOULD BE A SECOND ISSUE AT ALL.
81/ DID NOT CAST ANY MAN IN IT.
82/ TOP: THE GATES OF PARADISE SCULPTED BY LORENZO GHIBERTI .
BOTTOM:- THE GATES OF HELL DESIGNED BY AUGUSTE RODIN.
HELL & PARADISE- TWO OPPOSITE FACTORS.
83/ LEFT: POSTER OF HIDDEN FORTRESS BY AKIRA KUROSAWA. RIGHT: R2D2 & C3PU OF STAR WARS.
THE BASIC PLOT OF STARWARS AND THE DUO R2D2 & C3PU WAS INSPIRED BY THE CHARACTERS IN HIDDEN FORTRESS.
84/ CLOCKWISE:- CARL SANDBERG, ERNEST HEMINGWAY, ALBERT EIENSTIEN.
CLUE:- L TO R RONALD REAGEN, NANCY REAGEN, STEVEN SPEILBERG.
E.T.-THE EXTRA TERRESTIAL.
THE EYES OF THE POET CARL SANDBERG, THE FOREHEAD OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND THE NOSE OF ALBERT EIENSTIEN WERE PASTED ON TO THE PHOTOGRAPH OF A BOY TO RESULT IN THE CREATION OF E.T. (BY SPIELBERG)
85/ PHOTO:- NICHOLAS FLAMEL.
FLAMEL’S PHILOSOPHER STONE IS THE BASIS FOR J.K. ROWLING’S FIRST HARRY POTTER BOOK ‘H.P AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE’. HE IS PROBABLY THE ONLY REAL PERSON TO FEATURE IN THE H.P. SERIES.
86/ CLOCKWISE:- E M FORSTER, INDIA FLAG, NIRAD C CHAUDHURI, MAP OF ENGLAND.
E M FORSTER IS THE AUTHOR OF ‘A PASSAGE TO INDIA’ & N.C.C IS THE AUTHOR OF ‘A PASSAGE TO ENGLAND’.
87/ TOP:- A PORTION OF A POSTER OF ‘SHOLAY’.
BOTTOM LEFT:- DEMIS ROUSSOS, BOTTOM RIGHT:- R.D. BURMAN
CONNECTION:- THE SONG ‘ MEHBOOBA O MEHBOOBA’. R.D. BURMAN’S SONG ‘MEHBOBA O MEHBOBA’ FROM ‘SHOLAY’ IS BASED ON A NUMBER ‘SAY YOU LOVE ME’ WHOSE ORIGINAL SINGER IS DEMIS ROUSSOS.
88/ THIS IS TINKERBELL FROM PETER PAN COMICS WHICH IS MODELLED ON MARILYN MONROE.
89/ ASSASINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN BY JOHN WILKES BOOTH. THE PICTURE SHOWS BOOTH’S ESCAPE ROUTE.
90/ A twelfth-century Byzantine manuscript of the Hippocratus Oath, rendered in the form of a cross.

91/ CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (C.I.A)

92/ INORDER TO PREPARE A BUST OF CHARLES I.
THE VIEW FROM 3 ANGLES WAS THE CLUE.

93/ BARRACK OBAMA….HUH, A SITTER!

94/ CLOCKWISE:- MILKHA SINGH, P.T. USHA, GURBACHAN SINGH RANDHWA, HENRY REBELLO.

A SILLY ANSWER: ALL OF THEM REACHED THE FINALS OF THE OLYMPICS. BUT NONE WON A MEDAL.

95/ CENTRE:- TOOTHBRUSH.
CLOCKWISE (NEGLECT THE TOOTHBRUSH FOR COUNTING):- WALRUS, ANTHONY VAN DYKE, THE PAINTING ‘PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY’ BY SALVADOR DALI, GIUSEPPE VERDI, FRANK ZAPPA.

CONNECXON:- WALRUS, VAN DYKE, DALI, VERDI, ZAPPA & TOOTHBRUSH ARE ALL TYPES OF MOUSTACHES.

96/ 1ST TOP: GLEN GREGORY OF THE BAND HEAVEN 17
1ST BOTTOM: STANLEY KUBRICK.
2ND IMAGE:- ANTHONY BURGESS
3RD IMAGE:- MARTYN WARE OF HEAVEN 17

CONNECXON:- HEAVEN 17 TOOK THEIR NAME FROM A GROUP MENTIONED IN THE NOVEL ‘A CLOCKWORK ORANGE’ BY ANTHONY BURGESS THAT WAS MADE INTO A FILM BY STANLEY KUBRICK.

97/ TOP LEFT: PALM TREE; TOP RIGHT; CANNES FILM FESTIVEL; BOTTOM: CONCH
THE INDIAN DOCUMENTRY AND SHORT FILM FESTIVEL.
GOLDEN PALM IS AWARDED AT CANNES FILM FESTIVEL AND THE GOLDEN CONCH IS AWARDED AT THE INDIAN DOCUMENTRY AND SHORT FILM FESTIVEL.

98/ CLOCKWISE:- BOLIVIA FLAG; PERU FLAG; GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ’S NOVEL ‘THE GENERAL IN HIS LABRYNITH’; REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA FLAG.

CONNEXON:- SIMON BOLIVAR. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ’S NOVEL ‘THE GENERAL IN HIS LABRYNITH’ IS BASED ON THE LIFE OF SIMON BOLIVAR, ONCE PRESIDENT OF BOLIVIA, PERU AND GRAN COLOMBIA (NOT THE ONE INDICATED BY THE FLAG IN THE QUESTION).

99/ WESTMINISTER ABBEY.

100/ CLOCKWISE:- AMERIGO VESPUCCI, JEAN NICOT, ELBRIDGE THOMAS GERRY, AMBROSE BURNSIDE.

THEY ALL HAVE WORDS NAMED AFTER THEM. THEY ARE AMERICA, NICOTINE, GERYMANDER AND SIDE BURNS.

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