# 165 Begins...

Given are two images which connect to a person (he might also be a phenomenon). The second image is the screenshot from his earliest work.

Identify the images and find out the person.

Cracked by V.Chandrashekhar, and gks.

Rohan you made quite a guess but you made a small mistake, the image is from Nolan's first work but it is not Following instead it is Doodlebug. So you will get only half a point buddy.

Answer: Chritopher Nolan, Syncopy is his production company and Doodlebug is his earliest work.

#164 Conceptual art.

Identify the piece of art and its significance.

Cracked by Rohan, V. Chandrashekhar and Ameya aka Raklodrama.

Answer: Please read the comments for the answer.

#163 Upside down.

Identify the two images and also tell me how they are different from each other.

Cracked by Rohan, V.Chandrashekhar and gks. Partially answered by anshuman.

Answer :

pic 1--fra mauro map pic 2--ptolemy map in fra mauro map,the orientation is with the south at the top(a convention of muslim maps),in contrast with the ptolemy map, which has north at the top.

# 162 The one and only...?

Identify the incident.

Give me the name of the kicker and his extra-ordinary achievement.

Cracked by V. Chandrashekhar, Rohan, gks and Anurag alongwith the one and only Leonadro(lol).

Answer:

Leandro Cufre of Argentina became the first player in the world cup history to be red carded after the final whistle of the match.The match being Germany vs Argentina WC 2006 QF and the person who got his balls kicked in Leandro's process of getting famous is Pert Mertesacker .

# 161 So Un"Real".

Identify the movie and give me the name of the director.

Cracked by Raklodrama, gks, Rohan and V. Chandrashekhar

Answer: Real, the movie directed by Borja Manso.

# 160 Past becomes the future.

A.)

B.)
C.)
'X' developed a game based on his childhood experiences. Name of 'A' inspired 'X' to name "the game".

The main character of 'B' is named after 'X' as a tribute.

'C' is a parody of "the game".

The game has sold almost 59 million copies ever since its first release.

Name X, A, B, C and "the game".

Cracked by Anurag, Ameya , V. Chandrashekhar, and Rohan.

Answer: X: Shigero Miyamoto, A: Zelda Fitzgerald, B: John Romero's Daikatana and the character is Hiro Miyamoto , C: Legend of Neil and the game is Legend of Zelda.

#159: cat flap = fat clap

____x____ is the term for accidental or deliberate transposition of corresponding sounds in consecutive words. It is named after the guy in the picture who used to do that a lot.

Give the term, as well as the name of the guy.

#158 The big guns down...

Connect.

Cracked by Rohan and V. Chandrashekhar

Answer: Bofors Scandal.

Pictures are of N. Ram, the Bofors gun and Chitra Subramaniam(in the middle)

#157 The Escape Route.

Connect.

Cracked by Prahlad, Ameya, Rohan and V. Chandrashekhar.

Answer: Harry Houdini

For detailed answers please refer to the comments.

#156 Isai Puyal, The storm of....

Connect the above pictures (answer is very obvious) and explain how (supposed to be the difficult part).

The second picture might seem vague but it is not if you think a little out of the box.

Cracked by Rohan, Anurag and V. Chandrashekhar.

Answer: The one and only A. R. Rehman, pride of our nation. For the detailed answers please read the comments.

#155 Ocean blues!

Connect the three pics in the only possible way.

(Do not mind the heading, :P)

Cracked by V. Chandrashekhar .

Well tried Rohan and Anurag.

Answer: Quoting Chandrashekhar, who instead has quoted the wiki, "the anime series,samurai champloo,in an episode entitled 'baseball blues' depicts a fictional character named 'admiral joy cartwright' who challenges the japanese locals to a baseball game in order to establish trade relations.the character is named after alexander joy cartwright,the father of baseball and obviously modeled after commodore perry."

pic 1--alexander joy cartwright
pic 2--commodore perry
pic 3--samurai champloo

# 154 And the winners are.....

The above three pictures connect to one thing and one thing only (hint: a unique feat). What is the connect?

Cracked by V. Chandrashekhar

Answer: Tottenham won the F.A. Cup in 1901 as a Southern League Club, and they are the only non- league (i.e.Premier League) club to have won the cup.

Sorry for the delay in posting questions. We had been caught up in some other work , you know how a college can be , but we plan to post questions daily from here on.

Have fun and "Stay hungry, stay foolish".

#153 Connect.

No attempts.

Answer: Onomatopoeia.

For details please check the wiki page of the same.