199: E.C. Bentley, wrote the first Clerihew on Humphry Davy. 200: The manuscript containing a number of old poems and songs was discovered in the monastery. The bespectacled man set a few of the songs to music. Identify all.

198: The films of Tarkovsky – Andrei Rublev -the painter, Solaris – written by Stanislaw Lem, Stalker – based on a work by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky and Nostalghia – based on the life of composer Maxim Berezovsky. 199: He created a form of verse and supposedly wrote the first one on the guy in…

197: Isaac Asimov. 198: Connect the painter, the writers and the composer.

196: General Anthony McAuliffe who sent a message to the German just saying “Nuts!” when asked to surrender during the Battle of the Bulge and a campaign by fans of the TV series Jericho who sent in tons of peanuts to CBS executives after the show was cancelled at the end of season one. The…

195: Tom Sharpe who wrote the Porterhouse books satirizing Cambridge life, specifically Peterhouse. 196: Connect the foolhardy attempt to arrive at some closure, to some epic cojones.

194: Christopher Dorling and Peter Kindersley who started DK. In 1999 DK printed 18 million Star Wars books but sold less than half of them, leaving the company with crippling debt. As a direct result, DK was taken over the following year by the Pearson PLC media company, and made part of Penguin Group, which…

193: Colleridge, while writing Kublai Khan was interrupted by a “man from Porlock”. In Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams, the “man from Porlock” is the main protagonist who saves the world by time-travelling from the present day to distract Coleridge from properly remembering his dream. 194: Two people whose dreams were destroyed…

192: The three capitals of South Africa – executive capital Pretoria (named for Andries Pretorius), judicial capital Blooemfontein (which means flower fountain) and legislative capital Capetown (named after the Cape of Good Hope / Cape Peninsula.) 193: I was interrupted while setting this question.

191: Victorian era body builder Eugene Sandow who lent his name to various health enthusiasts of the time who became film personalities – Raja Sandow, Sandow Thevar etc. Cracked by two grand old men of Chennai quizzing, who probably know this on a first hand basis. 🙂 192: Capitalize.

190: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist – the lead characters are named in tribute to the Hammett characters. 191: How is this guy remembered in Indian cinema?