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Connect this mythical symbol to the world of science.

This depiction of a snake biting its own tail and thus completing a circle, known as Ouroboros is what Kekule saw in his dreams and this is what inspired him to come up with the delocalised structure of Benzene. Cracked by one and all.

1. What is the significance of the pic?? what did this practice result in??
2.Identify the guy
3.Name the organization??

ANSWERS
1. The hog boys use to take their mascot, a pig on victory laps . Hence the hog connection with Harley arises
2. Cecil Rhodes (Compared to Colossus of Rhodes)
3. ok, the ans is Free India Legion raised by Bose in Germany with Hitler's assistance..diff from the Azad Hind Fauj..(AHF had more to do with the japanese i think, not sure)..
anyways will give it

kudos to srinivas and vivek for getting it all right. well done aravind, king and jaideep.

Visually Challenged - 3



Sweet and simple...connect these
ANSWER: Metallica as everyone guessed
Those were the ex-bands of Hammett and Newsted

Visually Challenged - 2

My tributes to one of the greatest influences in my childhood...just explain the images/put fundas....this qn's a sitter so please avoid googling or wiki-ing as much as possible

1) (What has been blocked? whats the significance?)

2) Again, simply explain what this is


ANSWER
Everyone guessed the doom connect....
The first pic is of the graph of the usage of the words "Doom clones" against that of the phrase "First person shooters" (FPS's were called doom clones)
And the second one is Bill Gates cashing in on Doom's popularity to promote Win95

Visually Challenged - 1




Just Connect the three images.

ANSWER TIME:
The connect is Donnington Castle, as kaul, vivek and trilok guessed...
The first pic is the castle itself, the second is that of the download festival which happens there every year ("the spiritual home of rock in England, as it is called), and the third is of the race track there

Connect





This one is a classic googleable question. 2nd pic is that of gordon moore.
The answer is this

Connect.



That's Jerry Lee Lewis at the top. The 2nd pic is the movie poster of Great Balls of Fire, where Dennis Quaid portrays Jerry Lee Lewis. The pretty lady in the 3rd pic happens to be Vivien Leigh, whose character Scarlett O'Hara in the classic Gone With The Wind has "Great Balls of Fire!" as one of her famous lines which gets repeated during the course of the movie. And of course, Top Gun, where an uncredited soundtrack was Great Balls of Fire. (The track was later included in the 2000 re-release).

Ergo, the connect: Great Balls of Fire. Good answer Rishabh.

Simple

Simple enough, put funda(bitsians, yes i know itsa rip off)

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Continuing the tradition of galeej connects. Fairly simple, if you've seen the movie.

Bunty and Babli featured a cameo by Tania Zaetta and the second pic has Mike Whitney on the right. So the connect is Who Dares Wins./tania. all of them got it right

Identify




Identify the babe?
Well whaddya know, it is Sonia Gandhi. The portion cut was ob her late hubby Rajiv Gandhi.
I should've rather asked who is the surd next to her.
Cracked by EVERYONE

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Spaghetti Westerns
quite cheap...

Rocky Mountain

Name this rather strange hill

Answer: Fairly easy, its the Manmad Hill, or more popularly called the Thums Up Hill, which is quite self explanatory.
Almost everyone got this one. Kastubh, You're probably right, since Manmad does fall into that region.

Cheap Connect-1

Apologies again. :)




 
Ok. That;s a picture of the Knights who say Ni. Kingfisher Airlines' IATA callsign is "IT". "It" also happens to be the one word the Knights who say Ni cannot bear to hear.

I also wanted to put in a picture of Cousin It from the Addams Family, but then i found out he's not Cousin It, but Cousin Itt.

B&W


Identify this pack
It's the original Ocean's eleven.
Cracked by Kamal Rathi, Conga, Vernie,Nishanth,Udit,Prahlad Srihari,Srikar

Colours.

Regular, Green Regular, Red Regular, Blue Regular, White Regular, Silver Regular,
Orange Regular (Liquorice),
King Size, King Size Dark Blue.

Types of what?






Cracked by one and all who commented. Special mention about Manasvi. Great answer.

The answer is Titanic, thought the Captain there was pretty obvious. Check out http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/titanic.php for more.

Identify

Identify this famous crossroad.

kuttapan,aravind,prahlad srihari,nishant cracked this.
The answer is obviously the chocolate avenue at Hershey's Pennsylvania. The chocolate "kisses" for streetlamps was a giveaway.

X

The Wiki entry on X describes it thus:

X is the name of a class of compounds created from nitrocellulose and camphor, plus dyes and other agents. Generally regarded to be the first thermoplastic, it was first created as Parkesine in 1856 and as Xylonite in 1869 before being registered as X in 1870. X is easily molded and shaped, and it was first widely used as an ivory replacement. X is highly flammable and also easily decomposes, and is no longer widely used. Its most common uses today are the table tennis ball and guitar picks.

What's X?

Ans: Celluloid

Identify

I'm sorry if the question seems too arbit, consider it my tribute to Daly Haal :)




Bulletwallas India, India's answer to The Hell's Angels, and I think it's also some form of dating service...

Connect.

I think i'll let it stay for another day... And its NOT a Bowie knife!

1.


2.

Ans: Rampuri knife and the Rampur Hound.

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Connect the three. Plus there'sanother person missing which would have
made this a giveaway, identify that person too...



cracked by shayak psyche n nishant. Quoting nishant "In February 2004, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Sophia Loren won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the Russian National Orchestra's album Peter and the Wolf/Wolf Tracks."