189: The Zodiac killer and Sylar from Heroes both took their names from watches. 190: Connect.

188: Will and Ariel Durant. 189: Connect.

187: Eugene Jarecki’s documentary on the military industrial complex was named in reference to the series of World War II propaganda films directed by Frank Capra. 188: Which famed couple?

186: “Better Living Through Chemistry” – the DuPont ad tagline which also served as the title of a Fatboy Slim album. 187: Connect.

184: The connection is the Charles Dickens book “Our Mutual Friend”. Desmond Hume, a character on Lost, named after the philosopher David Hume, is portrayed as a Dickens devotee, having read every Dickens novel but “Our Mutual Friend,” He was shown to carry a copy around with him intending it to be the last book…

183: Zadie Smith’s On Beauty is loosely inspired by E.M. Forster’s Howards End. (The phrase “Only connect…” appears in Howards End and is also the title of the E.M. Forster website. ) 184: Connect the philosopher to the caricatured gent. The pensive strummer could act as a clue.

182: Jai Vilas Palace in Gwalior is supposed to have the world’s biggest chandelier. It is actually the sixth or seventh, and the ones in Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque (Muscat) and Sheikh Zayed Mosque (Abu Dabhi) are supposed to be the biggest ones. 183: Only connect…

181: The Kohima Epitaph, supposed to have been inspired by the one written for the Greeks who fell at the Battle of Thermopylae. The Battle of Kohima (the “Stalingrad of the East”) was the turning point of the Japanese U Go offensive into India in 1944 in World War II. 182: Locals continue to insist…

180: The Order of the Holy Spirit, an Order of Chivalry under the French Monarchy wore the Cross of the Holy Spirit. Due to the blue ribbon from which the Cross of the Holy Spirit was hung, the Knights became known as “Les Cordon Bleus”. Over time, this expression was extended to refer to other…