Answers : Visual Connects - Quiz 11

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1. British citizens born in India.
George Orwell - Motihari (formerly in Bengal Presidency, now in Bihar)
Pete Best - Madras
Vivien Leigh - Darjeeling
Bob Woolmer - Kanpur
Rudyard Kipling - Bombay

2. Woodstock (15 - 18 August, 1969)
Swami Satchidananda gave the invocation for the festival.
Martin Scorsese (along with his long-time editing choice Thelma Schoonmaker) edited the film 'Woodstock' made by Michael Wadleigh.
Joni Mitchell chose not to be there but recorded a hit single 'Woodstock' for Crosby, Stills, Young and Nash.

3. Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini a.k.a. Ayatollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran who issued a fatwa (religious decree) calling for the assassination of Salman Rushdie for the alleged blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad in the novel.
Top Chef was a program that aired on Bravo TV. It had chefs competing against each other on a weekly basis. Season Two was hosted by Padma Lakshmi who was briefly married to Rushdie.
'Satanic Verses' features a protagonist named Gibreel Farishta who, in his hallucinations, becomes the archangel Gabriel.
Rushdie based Gibreel Farishta on Amitabh Bacchan.

4. Comeback Men
Bill Clinton gave himself the nickname 'Comeback Kid' during the Presidential primary elections of 1992.
Mohinder Amarnath was called the comeback man of Indian cricket and on occasion, the Frank Sinatra of Indian cricket.
Frank Sinatra, renowned for his numerous comebacks.

5. Racers whose sons won / took part in Grands Prix.

Graham Hill - Phil Hill
Antonio Ascari - Alberto Ascari
Gilles Villeneuve - Jacques Villeneuve
Nelson Piquet Souto Maior - Nelson Piquet

*The eerie similarities between the deaths of Alberto and his father still haunt his fans to this day. Alberto Ascari died on May 26, 1955, at the age of 36. Antonio Ascari was also 36 when he died, on July 26, 1925 (Alberto was only 4 days older). Both father and son had won 13 championship Grand Prix and drove car number 26. Both were killed four days after surviving serious accidents and on the 26th day of the month. Both had crashed fatally at the exit of fast but easy left-hand corners and both left behind a wife and two children*

6. English Loan-words from Indian languages
Bandana - Sanskrit (badhnati - binds)
Cheetah - Sanskrit (chitraka - speckled)
Shampoo - via Hindi (champo) from Sanskrit (capayati)
Betel - via Malayalam (vettila) from Tamil (vettru + ilai)
Mongoose - Telugu (mungeesa) or Kannada (mungusi)
Neem - Sanskrit (Nimbah)
Jute - Bengali (jut)

7. A little fanciful :). Rocket
Tracy McGrady, plays for the Houston Rockets
Tipu Sultan, pioneer of Rocket warfare
Jog Falls. The four waterlets are referred to as Raja, Rani, Roarer and Rocket.

8. Enron - Satyam
The Satyam scandal has been labelled as India's Enron.
The diagonals conform to the company - auditor relationship.
Jeffrey Skilling & Kenneth Lay (Enron execs who were jailed)
Logo is that of Arthur Andersen, the auditing firm which dissolved as a result of the Enron scandal. (Big 5 became Big 4)
Ram Mynampati, the man whose name was initially proposed for Satyam leadership.
Sam DiPiazza, the CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

9. Dreyfus
Josh Brolin as George Bush in Oliver Stone's biopic 'W.'. It features Richard Dreyfuss (Jaws, Close Encounters ...) as Dick Cheney.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine Benes, Seinfeld), a distant relation of Richard Dreyfuss and Alfred Dreyfus.
Anti-Semitic cartoon depicting Alfred Dreyfus - a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French and European history. It is still known today as the Dreyfus.
Adi Dassler (Adidas) and the logo of the football club Olympique de Marseille - Both were once owned by Robert Louis-Dreyfus (a direct cousin of Julia).

10. Tata Group
Tetley Tea Folk, the figures used in the advertisements for Tetley Tea (now owned by Tata - Tata Tea, Tetley, Good Earth)
Watson's Hotel, where Jamsetji Tata wasn't allowed entry during the days of the British. He retaliated by building the Taj Hotel.
Yuvraj Singh - brand ambassador for Westside, brought from Trent by Tata out of the money got by selling Lakme to Hindustan Lever Ltd.
Aishwarya Rai Bacchan as Jodhaa - The jewellery she adorns was designed by Tanishq
Logo of Corus Steel

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