Fortnight's up. Here are the answers.
1. Guernica
It's a work by Pablo Picasso and depicts the aerial bombing of Guernica, Spain during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The raid involved planes of the Italian Aviazione Legionaria assisted by the German Luftwaffe. The painting is displayed on the wall of the United Nations at the entrance to the Security Council room.
The painting style is not purely Cubist but shows definite traces of it.
2. Financial Times
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Came across the ads in this blog. Not the 72 funniest print ads as touted on the page but the url is aptly named.
3. Schengen Zone after the Schengen Agreement
4. Resusci Anne / Rescue Anne / CPR Annie. It's used in CPR trainings.
5. Buzkashi / Kok-boru / Ulak Tartysh.
It evolved as a Central Asian sport played on the Steppes. The goal of a player is to grab the carcass of a headless goat or calf and then get it clear of the other players and pitch it across a goal line or into a target circle or vat. Features in Rambo III and Khuda Gawah.
6. Hergé and Chang Chong Chen (The Blue Lotus and Tintin in Tibet)
The man with the sailor's cap is Zhang Chongren, a friend of Hergé. The logo featured is that of a private airline operator in Nepal called Yeti Airlines.
7. Zakir Hussain and Shakti.
Shakti was a world fusion band that played in the 70s. It features Zakir (1st from left), guitarist John McLaughlin (2nd from left, nicknamed Mahavishnu), Ghatam exponent 'Vikku' Vinayakram (3rd), violinist L Shankar (4th) and R Raghavan on the Mridangam.
In the late 90s, McLaughlin and Zakir formed another band called Remember Shakti, and now included V Selvaganesh (Vinayakram's son), Mandolin Srinivas and Shankar Mahadevan.
8. Wrath of God
The first pic is taken from the sets of a 1972 Werner Herzog (featured in the pic) film - 'Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes' which translates as Aguirre, the Wrath of God.
The diva is Rita Hayworth whose last film was called 'The Wrath of God' in 1972.
The 3rd pic shows Steven Spielberg with actors Daniel Craig and Eric Bana on the sets of 'Munich'. The movie shows the covert Mossad operation to assassinate individuals involved in the Munich Olympics massacre of 1972 by Black September was called 'Operation Wrath of God'.
9. The places are (in clockwise) -
New York City (The United States), Nimes (France), Mosul (Iraq), Genoa (Italy), Osnabrück (Germany), Damascus (Syria), London (England), Calicut and Madras (India).
The connection is that these are places which have lent themselves to fabric names.
NYC & London - Nylon
Nimes - Denim
Mosul - Muslin
Genoa - Jeans
Osnabrück - Osnaburg
Damascus - Damask
Calicut - Calico
Madras - Madras Cloth
10. Blank editorial in The Indian Express on June 28, 1975 as a protest against press censorship imposed during the Emergency. The man in question was Ramnath Goenka.
Scores
Venkatesh - 3
Prithvi - 6
Vasanth - 1.5
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