Celebration time !
The blog has huffed and puffed its way to couple of landmarks today – 150 posts and 27,000 hits . Thanks and congratulations to everyone involved .We have something special for you .
This is a theme/ connect round with 10 questions scoring a point each . The theme worth 1 point and for answering all the questions perfectly another 1 point. So 12 points can be scored . 
ALL THE BEST !!!
1. Which opera connects ?
A
B
2. Identify the album and this is a tribute to who / what ?
3. Use the man in A to identify the object in B .
A
B
4. Whose iconic films ?
A
B
C
5. What was named after B by the man in A ?
A
B
6. Why was she in news couple of months back ?
7. By what nickname is he popularly called ? A famous character was supposedly created based on him by the man in B . Just identify this dude . ( Sorry for the resolution in pic B )
A
B
8. Put funda .
9. Which famous word was first coined by this man in early 1990s ?
10. The central character of the famous work of A was named after character who was inspired by the lady in B. Solve for A and B .
A
B
11. Theme / Connect ? ? ?
Hi RK,
1.Puccini(A), noidea abt B and connect.
2.Alex F
3.Yeats and Lapiz Lazuli
4.Nikita Mikhalov
5.The girl with a pearl earing by Veemer .No idea abt the man and connection.
7.Swamp Fox
8.Frank Zappa after whom, a belgian is named.
10.Vladmir Nabokov and Lolita, ofcourse he wrote a book titled Lolita
11.Russia
Look my 8th ans
8.Frank Zappa after whom a blegian spider is named
1.Tosca,opera by Giacomo Puccini(A) based on the drama by Victorien Sardou(B)’s La Tosca.
2.Axel F,the title theme from Eddie Murphy’s Beverly Hills Cop.The title comes from the character played by Murphy,Axel Foley.
3.W.B.Yeats poem Lapis Lazuli.
4.Nikita Mikhalkov.
5.Girl with a pearl earring(B) film by Peter Webber(A) was named after the painting of the same name by Vermeer.
6.Anna Jarvis,credited with the creation of Mother’s Day.
7.Francis Marion nicknamed Swamp fox(A) is said to the inspiration for Zorro by Johnston McCulley(B).
8.The spider Pachygnatha zappa is named after Frank Zappa because some of its markings on its abdomen resembles the moustache of Zappa.
9.Mozart effect by Alfred Tomatis
10.Virginia Poe(B) -> Annabel Lee -> Lolita -> Vladimir Nabokov.
11.Meerkat Manor meerkats
1.Tosca
2.Axel
3.Lazuli
4.Nikita
5.Hannibal -> Hannibal (Rising) -> Peter Webber
6.Wilson -> Woodrow Wilson -> Mother’s Day
7.Zorro
8.Zappa
9.Mozart
10.Lola
1. Giacomo Puccini – Victorien Sardou – TOSCA
2. Harold Faltermeyer’s Axel F – Tribute to Eddie Murphy’s character Axel Foley from Beverley Hills Cop
3. WB Yeats has written a poem titled ‘Lapis Lazuli’
4. Nikita Mikhalkov
5. Peter Webber’s movie ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’
6.
7. Francis Marion , nicknamed ‘The swamp fox’
8. Pachygnatha zappa named so cos the ventral side of the abdomen of the female of this species strikingly resembles Frank Zappa’s legendary moustache
9.
10. Vladimir Nabokov – Virginia Poe
11.
Theme : Meerkat Manor Meerkats
1.Giacomo Puccini’s character Nessun dorma from the opera Turandot
2.Axel F, Tribute to The Crazy Frog
3A.W.B.Yeats
3B.Lapis Lazuli
4.Nikita Mikhalkov
5A.Peter Webber
5B.Girl with a Pearl Earring
6.
7.The Swamp Fox
8.Pachygnatha zappa is a spider named after musician Frank Zappa because of its unique markings which resemble his famous moustache.
9.
10A.Vladimir Nabokov
10B.Poe
Connect – Lolita
11.
List of the major meerkats (names of meercats or the family names) featured in the British documentary television programme Meerkat Manor
1. La Tosca – Tosca
2. Harold Faltermeyer’s Axel F – Axel
3. Lapis Lazuli – Lazuli
4. Nikita Mikalkov – Nikita
5. Peter Webber’s movie Girl with Pearl Earrings – He directed one of the Hannibal movies
6. Don’t know yet. Will do more research and answer this
7. Swamp Fox
8. Frank Zappa – there’s a family named Zappa and a character named frank
9. Catch 22? though the book came out in the 60s – Yossarian. Will think of a better answer. This is temporary
10. Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Poe – Lola a diminutive of Lolita
8. Cameroonese spider, was named Pachygnatha zappa because “the ventral side of the abdomen of the female of this species strikingly resembles the Frank Zappa’s legendary moustache”
No Idea about 6 and 9
1 – La Tosca
2 –
3 –
4 – Nikita Mikalkov
5 –
6 –
7 – Swamp Fox
1.Giacomo Puccini’s character Nessun dorma from the opera Turandot
2.Axel F
3A.W.B.Yeats
Lapis Lazuli
4. Nikita Mikalkov
8.8.Frank Zappa after whom a blegian spider is named
1. La Tosca
2.Axel F
5. Peter Webber’s movie ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ named after the painting
6.Anna Jarvis,credited with the creation of Mother’s Day
1. Giacomo Puccini la TOSCA
2. Harold Faltermeyer’s Axel F
3. WB Yeats has written a poem titled ‘Lapis Lazuli’ (B)
4. Nikita Mikhalkov
5. Peter Webber’s movie ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’
6.
7. Francis Marion who was nicknamed ‘The swamp fox’
Theme no idea