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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Connect to an 'event'

Connect the following to an event and give me the reason behind each picture being a reference to the 'event'




Lateral Connect
Correctly cracked by Aman Oberoi & Vinay Parnami
ANSWER: The answer to the question is "The Ball of the Century" bowled by Shane Warne to dismiss Mike Gatting in the Ashes of 1993. The match was played at Old Trafford Cricket Stadium in Manchester, England.
The first picture is a representation of Magnus Effect which causes an object to "swerve" in air. The ball swerved and drifted towards the leg stump of Gatting, turned and bounced on pitching and broke through his defence.
The second picture is a logo of the Lancashire County Cricket Club which plays its home games at Old Trafford Cricket Stadium.
The third picture is an album cover of a band called The Duckworth Lewis Method who composed a track called "jiggery pokery" on the ball of the century. You can listen to the track here: http://bit.ly/b0Lcru
The fourth picture is of the coat of arms of the city of manchester.
The fifth is a lateral connect to the ashes. I don't think its got anything to do with The Ashes (Test Series)

BTW, you can have a look at the ball here: http://bit.ly/Q5W1W

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Literature (Should be easy!)

Connect the following to a poet/politician:

and the last picture is a tangential hint:
very shady hint..
P.S.: I'd really appreciate if you do not Google/tin-eye, etc. the book cover, there are enough hints to lead you to the answer. 

Answer: On Capt. Grim's request I'm posting the answer to this question really prematurely, yes, the answer is Pablo Neruda. Here's how it connects: He belongs to Chile, so there's the logic behind the red chilly, he finds a mention in HIMYM's episode titled, "The Naked Man"(explains the picture of Josh Radnor), the book shown is one of his more famous works and he always penned down his works in green ink as he thought it to be the color of peace.