Answers and Scores of #150

Very less response for the special edition #150 ! Still happy to have many cracks on the theme ! Hope you liked the set.Before going to the ans let me remind a few things.

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SCORES

1. Zizzyphus (Welcome Back saar) – Perfect 12

2. Comfortably and technically dumb – 10

3. Captain Chandrakant – 9

4. Kamal Rathi – 8

5. Basith – 7

6. Subin – 6

7.Sinnarion – 5

8. Yodha – 4

9. A J Raffles – 3

Answers

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. Lapis lazuli elatively rare, semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense blue color shres its name with a WB Yeats poem .

4. Nikita Mikalkov

1964 film poster for I Step Through Moscow. / Still from the Ostern At Home Among Strangers, showing the actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as the bandit Shurik / Nikita Mikhalkov as Tsar Alexander III in the film The Barber of Siberia (1998).

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. 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”

9. Mozart Effect – first coined by Alfred A. Tomatis who used Mozart’s music as the listening stimulus in his work attempting to cure a variety of disorders

10. Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Poe – Lola a diminutive of Lolita

— Tosca

— Axel

— Lazuli

— Nikita

— Hannibal – The film Hannibal Rising was directed by Peter Webster

— Wilson – The first Mother’s Day was officially proclaimed during the tenure of Woodroe Wilson

— Zorro

— Zappa

— Mozart

— Lola

The theme : List of the major Meerkats (names of meercats or the family names) featured in the British documentary television programme Meerkat Manor

Cracked by Zizzyphus , Captain and Comfortably and Technical dumb !

Regards ,
Rithwik