Answers for Themed Visuals - Quiz 10

Hi !
The answers,
1. Precious Stones / Gems
Pic1 – Movie poster of Aquamarine
Pic2 – Aladdin, described by Jafar as a ‘diamond in the rough’
Pic3 – Lee Harvey Oswald, who was assassinated by Jack Ruby
Pic4 – Emerald City in the Land of Oz
Pic5 – Tom (originally called Jasper)
Pic6 – Eddie Vedder, lead singer and guitarist of Pearl Jam
Pic7 – Kavya Vishwanathan whose debut novel ‘How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life’ was accused of plagiarism

2. Tiger
Pic1 – William Blake (Tiger, Tiger, burning bright)
Pic2 – Statue of Stallone as Rocky Balboa (Eye of the Tiger)
Pic3 – Sourav Ganguly (Bengal Tiger)
Pic4 – Jim Corbett (Man-Eaters of Kumaon)

3. Planets of the Solar System before the 2006 redefinition
Pic1 – Shaneeshwara (Saturn)
Pic2 – Freddie Mercury
Pic3 – Movie poster of Juno (in Roman mythology, the wife of Jupiter)
Pic4 – Manufactured by Mars Inc
Pic5 – Wimbledon (The Venus Rosewater Shield)
Pic6 – Mickey’s pet is Pluto
Pic7 – William Herschel who discovered Neptune
(Note - Pluto is no longer considered to be a planet. There are now eight planets - Mercury ... Neptune and five recognized dwarf planets - Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris)

4. Scarlet
Pic1 – The first Sherlock Holmes adventure – A Study in Scarlet
Pic2 – The Scarlet Pimpernel
Pic3 – Margaret Mitchell, authour of Gone With The Wind whose central character is Scarlett O’Hara)
Pic4 – Movie poster of Vicky Christina Barcelona featuring Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson

5. Bull
Pic1 – A Papal Bull – used by the Pope for public communication, of late only on formal or solemn occasions
Pic2 – Indiana Jones with his Fedora, leather jacket and bullwhip
Pic3 – John Thain, CEO of Merrill Lynch at the time of buyout by Bank of America (bull logo)
Pic4 – Ferruccio Lamborghini (bull logo and cars named after famous bulls)
Pic5 – Theseus. His many feats include the capture of the Cretan Bull of Marathon and slaying the Minotaur (half-man half-bull) of Crete
Pic6 – Phil Jackson the coach during the dream run of Chicago Bulls
Pic7 – World War I recruitment poster in England featuring John Bull

6. Ego
Pic1 – Cover of ‘The Fountainhead’ (Ayn Rand – “Man’s ego is the fountainhead of progress”)Pic2 – Sigmund Freud (Id, Ego and Alter-Ego)
Pic3 – Ratatouille (has a food critic named Anton Ego voiced by Peter O’Toole)
Pic4 – Clark Kent (the alter-ego of Superman)

7. Flight or Flying Machines
Pic1 – Protagonist of the novella is Stephen Daedalus (Joyce’s fictional alter-ego, appears in Ulysses as well). Daedalus (of Greek mythology) was imprisoned in a tower. Since sea routes and other means of escape were blocked, he built wings for himself and his son Icarus aiding them to escaping by flight.
Pic2 –Led Zeppelin
Pic3 – The contract between FIA, the F1 teams and the F1 administration is called the Concorde Agreement.
Pic4 – The movie ‘Garam Masala’, a remake of a 1985 Malayalam film ‘Boeing Boeing’ by Priyadarshan which in itself was the remake of a 1965 film of the same name starring Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis.
Pic5 – Stills from the silent film 'Pesum Padam' / ‘Pushpak’ / ‘Pushpaka Vimana’
Pic6 – Paul McCartney who formed his own band ‘Wings’ in the 70s

8. Sleep
Pic1 – Luca Brasi (‘sleeps with the fishes’)
Pic2 – German stamp to commemorate the fairy-tale ‘Sleeping Beauty’ (the wicked fairy cursing the baby princess)
Pic3 – American rock band REM (named for Rapid Eye Movement). REM sleep is a normal stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements.
Pic4 - The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow
Pic5 – An illustration of Lady Macbeth during the famous ‘sleepwalking scene’ in Macbeth
Pic6 – Rip Van Winkle about to drink liquor before falling asleep for 20 years

9. Leap
Pic1 – Mao Zedong (the Great Leap Forward)
Pic2 – Neil Armstrong (“ …, one giant leap for mankind”)
Pic3 – a Leap of Leopards (collective noun)
Pic4 – Hydrogen Emission Spectrum showing a ‘quantum leap’

10. 13
Pic1 – Movie poster of ‘Friday the 13th’
Pic2 – Sibyll Trelawney (played by Emma Thompson) from the Potter novels (“When thirteen dine together, the first to rise shall be the first to die)
Pic3 – The 13 colonies of the United States of America.
Pic4 – There are usually 13 steps leading to gallows
Pic5 - The seal of the Knights Templar who were all but annihilated on October 13th, a Friday.
Pic6 - Cartoon of the Cuban Missile Crisis featuring Jack Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. It lasted for 13 days. Robert Kennedy’s book on the episode was titled ‘Thirteen Days’. In general, historians refer to the incident as ‘13 days when the world came dangerously close to nuclear war’.
Pic7 – Judas Iscariot was the 13th to sit at the Last Supper (also the origin for the superstition mentioned in Pic2)

Scores
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Zed

Visual Connects - Quiz 11

Hi !

This one has 8 visual connects and 2 themed visuals and I've indicated the 2 as such.

1. What is common to these five British nationals ?

2. What famous event that took place during the second half of the 20th century in United States links these three personalities ?


3. Connect.

4. Something of a themed visual. These men were renowned for being able to do something in their respective careers for which they were rather loosely nicknamed. What were they called ?

5. What commonality do these four racers share ?

6. What is common to the objects/animals shown in this collage ?

7. A bit like a themed visual. What one word would be the theme of these three images ?

8. The guy whose close-up is shown is in the news. The orange-yellow ball was part of the logo of a company (a giant in its field in the 20th century) that no longer exists. Connect.

9. Familial ties. Connect.

10. Connect. The landmark is in Mumbai. The first visual is not a cartoon / comic character but is a figure from an advertisement.

Have fun !

Zed

Quiz 10 Update

Hi !
Am looking at closing this quiz by Friday. That'll make it 4 weeks.
Thanks.
Zed