Answers and Scores of 50 Not Out

Answers for 50 Not Out

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1.Connect-WUTHERING HEIGHTS

The actor Heath Ledger and his sister, Kate, were both named for the book’s characters.
Author Emily Brontë

2.The LESBOS Island, in the Aegean sea, gave us the word Lesbian, after the poems of Sappho.

3.The crucifixion of Saint Peter is shown in this French stained glass window. Peter is conventionally shown as having been crucified upside down A k a THE HANGED MAN

4.Connect-MEDUSA

Map of Sicily in which their map features Medusa
Pegasus rised from the head of Medusa

5.Jerry Yang and David Filo – Founders of Yahoo and they choosed the name from Jonathan Swift novella GULLIVER‘s Travels.

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.

7.A-Wes Craven
B-The Freddy Krueger Song.
Connect – A Night on ELM Street

8.The first balloon was (called the balloon of pie) invented by Brazilian-born Portuguese priest at 45 years of age, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, and the first public exhibition was to the Portuguese Court on August 8, 1709, in the hall of the Casa da Índia in Lisbon. The rubber balloon was invented by Michael Faraday in 1824; it was inflated with hydrogen and used in his experiments with that element.

Connect – BALLOON

9.Connect -Princess ARIEL

The character is based on the protagonist of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” story
Princess Ariel also a character in the Ruby-Spears cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian, created by Steve Gerber.

10.Theme/Connect ???

All bolded ones are Various Poems in the book Ariel written by Sylvia Plath.

Theme cracked only by Jyothi!!!! Take a bow!!!!!

SCORES

1.Jyothi EK-4.5

2.Kamal Rathi-4

3.Captain Chandrakant-3.5

4.Incognito-3.5

5.Suraj S -3

6.Sumo_ftb-2.5

7.D-Day-2

8.Anil Ramachandran-2

9. Abhi -2

10.Tom Strong-1.5

11.Varun Shenoy-1.5

12.Johny Walker-1.5

13.Hadi-0.5

14.Sreeram-0.5

15.Ameya- 0.5

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Rithwik