I'll be Bach

Warm welcome to whoever is reading this blog after a longtime.Keeping with the out-of-crypt-again mood I want to set, here's the question.

The subject of the painting(1) and personality(2) represent something real and fake(respectively) in the world of zoology. Explain funda.

(1)



(2)


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Answer: The Elvis Taxon and the Lazarus Taxon. Speculative and Actual examples of species seen in a time frame when they were believed to be extinct

Happy Quizzing,
Mayur

Fast Food

Connect the following personalities with Indian politics and geography..

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2.


Answer
V. Chandrashekar, Mrinalini get it. Quoting Mrinalini:
"(1) is Potti Sriramulu who undertook a fast unto death for the creation of the state of Andhra
(2) is K Chandrashekhara Rao who is also fasting - this time for the creation of a seperate Telengana state (to be carved out of Andhra)"



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Mayur

Luck-Kiwi

The person who took the following photo(pic1) is also related to the tragedy that is pic2.It sounds strange but the tragedy also led to this gentleman's second marriage.ID the person and the tragedy.

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2.


Answer
Only Mrinalini gets it..
" Sir Edmund Hillary and the Mount Erebus Crash in New Zealand. Hillary was supposed to be the guide on the Air New Zealand flight that crashed, but could not do so. His friend took over as the guide on the fatal journey. Hillary eventually married his friend's widow.
"

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Mayur

Ad(vertisement) Infinitum

The following pics are examples of the 'X' effect named after a Dutch brand which used it first in marketing. ID X. ( The Memento image is a slight variation you can say)







Answer
Mitalee and Mrinalini get this.It's the Droste Effect where images(usually advertisements for a product) carry the picture in picture in picture....effect. Droste is a Dutch Cocoa powder brand which first employed this in their ad.


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Mayur

Freak Benzene?

The universal logo (1) is a very good example of a 'X'.Also, (2) is a very good example for an 'Y'. Together, X and Y form the mighty Z.
Incidentally, both Z and (2) are works of the same dude. ID the dude and X,Y,Z.

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2.


Z.


Answer
Mrinalini again..
Quoting her
"X: Mobius Strip
Y: Ouroboros
Z: Mouroborobius
(2) and Z were created by Dutch artist, M.C.Escher, famous for his optical illusion art, inspired by math. "

Happy Quizzing,
Mayur

6 years of separation

Pic 1 and 2 are famous photos taken at the same venue on the same date(albeit different years). But one of them is a fake. ID and put funda.

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2.


Answer

Mrinalini gets the whole thing.Raghavan and Mitalee get the "unfake" photo.The fake photo is quite (in)famous in its own way and I wanted the term "9/11 Tourist Guy" who has since turned into an internet meme.
Quoting Mrinalini:
"(1) is a shot of a 1995 match played atop the World Trade Centre between Kasparov (defending his title) and Anand, coincidentally on Sep 11.

Six years later, the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened. (2) is a guy supposedly snapped moments before the attack. (2) was proven to be an internet hoax. "Tourist Guy" has since then been in several other fake internet photos."



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Mayur

The best (alimony) a man can get

How can the kid in the following pic be responsible for the rise in sales/popularity of the nondescript book shown?





Answer
Mrinalini and Anonymous get it. That kid is Tiger Woods and that book was found in the 'car'nage of Woods' accident.The incident helped increase the sales and popularity of the book..especially on Amazon

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Mayur

What's in a father's name?

Connect the following US Presidents( apart from the fact that they are US Presidents of course)






Mrinalini again!
Quoting her-"Ulysses S.Grant and Harry S.Truman - both had the middle initial "S" that did not stand for a name. They did not have a middle name - only an initial."

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Mayur

FF0000+FFFF00

Connect the following suit and the bridge.






Answer
Mrinalini cracks again!
Quoting Mrinalini:
"The colour - International Orange. It is the colour of suits worn by NASA astronaut on the Space Station (pic 1). It is also the colour in which San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge (pic 2) is painted."

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Mayur

Rh positive

One of the most bizarre pit stops in the history of motorsports involved the removing of a monkey from the car. Identify the driver and the monkey.





Answer


Mrinalini cracks. This is Tim Flock and his rhesus monkey partner(co-driver!) Jocko Flocko who had to be taken out of the car when he felt uneasy and this resulted in a pit stop.

Happy Quizzing,
Mayur