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…
179: Captain Benjamin L. Willard, from Apocalypse Now is based on Charles Marlow from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, supposedly named after the playwright Christopher Marlowe. 180: Tie them all up.
178: Edsger Dijkstra and Larry Wall – their approaches towards computer science and programming are amusingly caricatured on those posters. 179: Connect the fictional character with the playwright.
177: Howard Dietz supposedly created Leo the Lion, which appears in the MGM logo after the Columbia Lion. 178: Opposing ideologies are humorously depicted here. Identify and explain.
176: The 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Art) in Paris, the term Art Deco derives from the exposition’s title, though Art Deco was not widely used until popularized by art historian Bevis Hillier’s 1968 book Art Deco of the 20s and 30s. 177: What…
175: Italo Calvino created the Fiabe Italiane supposedly on the basis of the question, “Is there an Italian equivalent of the Brothers Grimm?” Heath Ledger appeared in the movie “The Brothers Grimm” which attempted a fictional reimagination of their lives. 176: What owes its name to both this 1925 exposition and the 1968 book?
