Saturday, November 15, 2008

Answers for Visuals 7

Hi !

The answers -

1. Bárány chair named after Robert Bárány, an Austrian physiologist. It's been used to great effect in motion sickness therapy.

2. They're both Padukones in the film industry. The gal's Deepika Padukone. The man is Guru Dutt who was born Vasanth Kumar Shivshankar Padukone.

3. The four of them are (in clockwise) Edwin Hubble, Subrahmanyam Chandrashekar , Arthur Compton and Lyman Spitzer. NASA has four satellites under the Great Observatories Program. They are the Hubble Space Telescope, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, Chandra X-Ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope named after the four physicists shown.

4. The person is Johann Strauss II (Waltz King) and the place is StadtPark, Vienna.

5. Richard Branson's Virgin Group has a subsidiary - Virgin Comics. The father-son duo are Deepak and Gotham Chopra (Goutham styled as Gotham from Gotham City). They launched Virgin Comics along with Branson to promote South Asian themes and culture through comic books. Some of their comics were Ramayan 3392 AD, The Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma, The Asura Analogues, Project Kalki and The Sadhu (from which the 3rd pic is taken).
Virgin Comics will be continued under the name of Liquid Comics after a recent management buyout.

6. Ponzi Scheme after Charles Ponzi. It's an investment scheme that promises high short-term returns to investors. Ponzi was an Italian immigrant to the US in the 30s.

7. The missing person is Mahatma Gandhi. The other people are (in clockwise) - Charlie Chaplin, Archibald Belaney (aka Grey Owl, Canada's famous conservationist), Sir Winston Churchill, C S Lewis and Steve Biko (founder of the Black Consciousness movement during the days of Apartheid in South Africa).

Richard Attenborough made six biopics on the six people shown in the collage. The most famous of them all was Gandhi. The movies are Chaplin (Robert Downey Jr. as Chaplin), Gandhi, Shadowlands (Anthony Hopkins as C S Lewis), Young Winston (Simon Ward as Churchill), Grey Owl (Pierce Brosnan as Grey Owl) and Cry Freedom (Denzel Washington as Steve Biko).

He also made 'In Love and War' featuring Chris O'Donnell as a young Ernest Hemingway during his days as an ambulance driver during WW I.

8. The Warsaw Ghetto.

9. The TIME Cover shown features the Hungarian Freedom Fighter as the Man of the Year 1956. This was during the Hungarian Revolution of the same year against the Stalinist Government of Hungary and the policies it imposed.

The other pic shows Ervin Zádor who represented Hungary in Water Polo in the '56 Melbourne Olympics. Soviet Union and Hungary met in the semifinals and the game was fraught with physical skirmishes between the two teams and Zádor was struck below his right eye. This match came to be known as 'Blood in the Water game'. Hungary won 4-0 though and took the gold in the finals.

10. Capybara - the world's largest rodent.


Scores
Venkatesh - 6
Saravanan - 1
Prithvi - 1

Zed