The Blog has hit 50 and it’s a proud moment for its author 
! I extend my happiness and gratitude to everyone who has contributed in all ways possible in this feat. I hope to see the same kind of support, if not more , in the coming days – and soon , we’ll be celebrating 500.
I’v come up with a special question for you on this occassion which will be open till 15-5-09
There are 9 questions – Each carries 0.5 marks each. All these lead to a specific theme which carries 1 mark. If everything is perfectly answered, a bonus of 0.5 marks.
Note :The links to the theme / connect may be in the question or the answer.
Total marks: 4.5 + 1 + 0.5 = 6 points
Question 1
Connect
A
B
Question 2
What was the contribution of this Island to the English Dictionary???
A
B
Question 3
Identify
Question 4
Connect
A
A
Question 5
Connect the duo A to writer B.
A
B
Question 6
What is the Occasion ??? [B is a clue]
A
B
Question 7
Connect him to this Video
A
Question 8
What invention Connects???
A
B
Question 9
What is the literary connection???
A
B
Question 10
Theme/Connect ???
1A – Heath Ledger
1B – Emily Brontë
Connect – Wuthering Heights.
Heath and his sister Catherine, sources are reporting, were named after the Heathcliff and
Catherine characters from one of my favorite novels, “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë.
2 – Lesbos Islands. The residents of this island are called Lesbians.
3.Crucuification of St.Peter
4A – Sicily
4B – Pegasus
5A – Jerry Yang & David Filo
5B – Jonathan Swift
Connect – Yahoo
6 – FDA inspector Frances Oldham Kelsey receiving an award from President John F. Kennedy in
1962 for blocking use of Thalidomide in the United States
7A – Wes Craven
7B – The Freddy Krueger Song.
Connect – A Night on Elm Street
8A – Bartolomeu de Gusmão
8B – Michael Faraday
Ans.: Hot Air Ballon
9A – Hans Christian Andersen
9B – Alexander Pope
1.A Heath Ledger
3. Stained glass crucification of St.Peter in Notre-dame des andelys church in Normandy France.
4.B Pegasus, on the top Poznań Opera House
5 .A David Filo and Jery Yang Inventor of yahoo
B Jonathan Swift , Coined the word Yahoo.
Connect = YAHOO
6. Frances Kelsey receiving the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service
7.Wes Craven – Directed Nightmare on Elm Street
great work dude
1. Heath Ledger & Bronte… Ledgers residence
2. Lesbian!(notorious question from a high school boy )
3. Andelys StPierre
4. Martin Davies’ The Unicorn Road
5. Yahoo
6. .
7. .
8. Laws of electricity
8. Airship ? a.Bartolomeu de Gusmao , Inventor of the first
airship.
1.heath ledger n emily bronte .ledger was named after the character in wuthering heights ..
2.lesbos island ..word is lesbian ;nice question …
3.st peter’s cricifixion
4.map of sicily ,pegasus
sicilian flag depicts medusa…pegasus arose from the slain medusa..
5.jerry yang n david filo ; jonathan swift
connect :yahoo
6.FDA inspector Frances Oldham Kelsey receiving an award from President John F. Kennedy in 1962 for blocking use of the drug in the United States
7.wes craven ,creator of horror films like a nightmare on elm street with the character freddy kruger in it .video is of rueben song of the same name .
8.Bartolomeu de Gusmão
by benedito calixto . mike faraday
connect balloons . former invented the first balloon while latter made rubber ballooons.
9.hans christian anderson , alexander pope
harry clarkes illustrations of anderson’s fairy tales and alexander pope’s rape of the lock .
10.theme …hmmm…
okay theme is :poems in the sylvia plath collection of poems called ariel …
1. A: Heath Ledger.
B: Some Bob Dylan picture probably, thus the connect being “I’m not there”
2. The Lesbos Island, in the Aegean sea, gave us the word Lesbian, after the poems of Sappho.
3. Crucifixion of St. Peter in Notre Dame Church in Normandy. He wanted to be crucified upside down so he doesn’t imitate jesus.
4. A: the island of sicily.
B: Pegasus, the horse of bellerophone
5. A: Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo
b: Jonathan Swift, from whose book ‘gulliver’s travels’, the duo picked up their company name.
6. FDA inspector Frances Oldham Kelsey receiving the President’s Distinguished Federal Civilian Service Award in 1962, for minimizing the reach of thalidomide, which could cause children to be born like polydactyl, ala Hrithik Roshan!!
5 is Yang/Filio + Swift = Yahoo.
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1.Heath Ledger is named after a character in Wuthering Heights by Emile Bronde
Connect-Wuthering Heights
7.Wes Craven who directed the Night of the Elm Street
5.Yahoo named after a charcter in Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift
3.Crucifixion of St. Peter
2.The term “Lesbian” orginated from the Island of Lesbos
8.Shud be a Balloon
Know tat B is Faraday [Rubber Balloon]
4.Map of Sicily and Pegasus
Connect-Medusa
# Seen in the flag of Sicily
# Pegasus orginated from the head of Medusa
Dont know abt the connexn………
5.Founders of Yahoo,Jonathan Swift-from whos novel ‘Yahoo’ is taken.So connect=Yahoo?
3. peter being crucified.
5. jerry yang, david filo and jonathan swift- yahoo.
8. B’s faraday. is d connect dynamo?
1. Heath Ledger named after from Heathcliff from Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
2. Lesbos Island – Lesbian
3. Crucifixion of St Peter
4. Sicily and Pegasus ; Connect – ?
5. Yahoo ; A – Jerry Yang n David Filo founded Yahoo n B – Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels feature Yahoos
6. Frances Oldham Kelsey being felicitated by JFK for efforts against Thalidomide
7. Wes Craven , directed A Nightmare on Elm Street featuring Freddy Krueger n tats d song wid d same name
8. Balloon
9. Harry Clarke was the illustrator for both o em ?
2. Lesbos – Lesbian
5. Yahoo
7. Nightmare on elm street (Freddy Krueger)
2. bikini
5. Founder of Yahoo!.. author of gulliver travels.. the name yahoo was derived from gulliver travels
6. Madam curie..discovery of radium
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