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457: Identify the two people in this photograph from the 1970s. (The photograph is featured in an upcoming book subtitled “Good Times, Bad Times.”) 456: Both these films are based on Anthony Hope’s “The Prisoner of Zenda”

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456: Question based on inputs from TKB. What connects these two films? Clip1, Clip2. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVbIUQneRS0] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMP86h3wkkg] 455: The start of Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses”

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455: First two pages from the acclaimed new comic book series – “Air”. (An author’s name has been blanked out.) What literary allusion is being made here? 454: Jerry Garcia. (The Cherry Garcia flavour named after him; Captain Trips, the name given to the apocalyptic flu which wipes out most of human civilization in the…

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451: In these pages from the French comic book “The Killer”, the lives of two men are compared. Identify both. 450: The “Republic of Heaven”. Gerrard Winstanley, Philip Pullman. The Republic of Heaven, in Philip Pullman’s philosophical fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, refers to the idea that humans must build their happiness in the here…

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450: The mural depicts a 17th century religious reformer. He believed that the Church’s emphasis on the afterlife was a tool of oppression. He is credited with coining a phrase which appears in the works of the man in the photograph and his philosophy has also influenced said works. Identify and explain. 449: Page from…