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Since the previous one went unanswered, here’s a super-easy connect for a lot of you to crack.

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Simply connect them to a single gentleman in the world of entertainment. And I believe I just turned this into a sitter among sitters.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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Rishabh had one clue, but because I haven’t changed the filenames, it was already apparent! No other responses here. The connect is Shah Rukh Khan, because he played the role of Ashoka in the eponymous film, and Mir Ranjan Negi and Ravi Kuchimanchi were the inspiration behind his characters in “Chak De India” and “Swades”, respectively.

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A slightly different connect.

1. Those lyrics and this legend….

2. Marilise…

3. Judge him not by what he has done, but by what he is about to do.

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It’s really easy, actually. Especially if one is able to zero in on the easiest of clues.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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Looks like nobody attempted this one. The connect is “Mr X”.

1. Kishore Kumar starred in “Mr X in Bombay”, which featured the song “Mere Mehboob Qayamat Hogi”. Hence the reference to the lyrics.

2. Carl Sagan wrote on his experiments with marijuana under the pseudonym Mr X.

3. Imran Hashmi is starring in a film called “Mr X”, which will be released next year.

4. Need we even ask what the name of this character from the “Resident Evil” games franchise is?

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A connection, after a loooooooooong time.

1. Clearly, this is the Idea jingle. And that’s one talented kid! Just tell me from where the music has been “inspired”. Simply the film will do.

2. Simply tell me which iconic (but later lambasted) TV show this screen-grab from “South Park” pays a tribute to.

PS: That was probably a dead giveaway for the connect.

3. Identify this gentleman. PS: That’s about the best quality of a picture of this individual I could find.

Hint: Here’s Akshaye Khanna depicting him on screen.

And now, connect the answers!

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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Four answers, and only half of them correct. Let’s solve this one at a time.

1. That’s the idea jingle, lifted from a song in the film Pallavi Anupallavi, directed by Mani Ratnam.
2. We have South Park “taking inspiration from” 24, the series.
3. And the gentleman in the black and white image is Harilal Gandhi, on whose life the film Gandhi, My Father was based.

The connect is Anil Kapoor, whose film debut was Pallavi Anupallavi, who now stars as the Indian version of Jack Bauer in the Hindi adaptation of 24, and who turned producer with Gandhi My Father.

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Should be a sitter.

The image above contains the text of a letter that is now a part of the Railway archives, and is often displayed at museums. If you can get past the language—transliterations and all—tell me what the significance of this letter is. As in, what change did it bring about in India’s Railway system?

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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Just one short of a SCORE when it comes to answers, and all of them correct, more or less. This letter led to the introduction of toilets in bogies, coaches or compartments in of Indian Railways, then under British control.

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A slightly difficult one here.

This structure is a slightly eroded dome that is 40 km in diameter. It’s claim to fame, among others, is that it is visible to the naked eye from outer space, and has often been used by astronauts for reference. Although it is politically in the country of Mauritania, geographically it is within a much larger land feature. As a result, the depicted formation, also called the Richat or Ritchat Structure, gets its more popular name.

Enough hints. Identify the structure, and without the help of search engines or other internet tools, please.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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Five replies and all correct! This structure is indeed referred to as the “Eye of the Sahara”.

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An absolute sitter this time.

What is being constructed here?

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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A score! Twenty comments in all, and barring a couple of stray “Eiffel Tower” guesses, the unanimous voice points to the correct answer. This is the cross-river structure more popularly known as the Howrah Bridge, which connects the twin cities of Howrah and Kolkata.

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Should be interesting.

The woman seen here is paying a floral tribute at the grave whose headstone commemorates a man who died in 1806 at the age of 72. It also commemorates his son, named after him, who was a captain in the army and died in Trinidad at the young age of 26, also in 1802.

After having been neglected for around two centuries, these graves in Edinburgh, England Scotland, have suddenly become the centre of attraction in recent times, with a lot of people in a certain literary demographic.

My question is which literary demographic, and who does the headstone commemorate?

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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Four answers, and all correct! The tombstone indeed commemorates a certain Mr Thomas Riddell, whose name served as the inspiration for the nomenclature of Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series!

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Should be another easy one.

Simply identify the lady with Charlie Chaplin. Her identity should be amply given away by what she is trying to do here.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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Four replies, and all correct! This is indeed Hellen Keller, the hearing and speech-impaired girl who still continues to be an inspiration for many after all these years.

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A relatively easy one for today.

Simply identify the writer and the context.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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Five replies here, and all answers are correct! The answer is indeed Banksy, the secretive British graffiti artist who is now in New York, leaving around his works in different parts of the city.

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Warning! This is one of those bait-and-switch questions. Please don’t mind the inferior quality of the image.

This is Elizabeth Key Grinstead, the first woman of African descent in the North American colonies to sue for her freedom and achieve it. She did it as long ago as in 1656, and not just for her own self but her infant son too! In fact, it was due to this lawsuit of hers that a new law was passed, decreeing that children born in the region would have the status of their mothers – “bond or free” – and not of their fathers, as had been the precedent till then.

She is ancestor to many famous people, including Days of our Lives and Liar Liar star Krista Allen. However, Allen is definitely not Grinstead’s most famous descendant. So who is? That, my friends, is the question for the day.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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Four answers here, and all correct! The most famous descendant is indeed versatile actor Johnny Depp!