242: Question from Vikram Rajan. Identify. 241: John Birch, an American Military Intelligence Officer and a Baptist Missionary in World War II who was shot by armed supporters of the Communist Party of China. Some politically conservative groups within the United States consider him to be a martyr and the first victim of the Cold…
241: Supposedly the first victim of something. Who / What? 240: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
240: If these statues could talk, what would one be saying to the other? 239: Untitled / No Name. Sergio Leone (directed The Man With No Name trilogy) Almost Famous (originally called “Untitled”) Wilkie Collins (wrote No Name) Cocaine energy drink (renamed as No Name following protests)
239: Not making a decision is also a decision. Connect. 238: Hitchcock and Truffaut.
238: Identify the two people. 237: British actor Michael Sheen has played all these people on screen – Tony Blair, David Frost and Brian Clough.
237: Connect. 236: The surviving participants of the first ever Chipko action.
236: A reunion 30 years later. What did they accomplish the first time around? 235: The wooden spoon – a mock or sometimes real award given to individuals or teams which finish last or runners up. It has its origins in a custom at Cambridge as a kind of prize given for the person who…
235: What moccolade? 234: Krakatoa, the Kangaroo and the Yucatan peninsula all supposedly got their names from variations of “I don’t know” in the native languages. This is considered to be a myth.
234: Connect. 233: John Coltrane’s son Ravi Coltrane was named for Norah Jones’ father Pandit Ravi Shankar.
233: Thanks to Harish for this question. Connect. 232: Brunei Darussalam and the Tanzanian city Dar Es Salaam both have names that mean “Abode of Peace” in Arabic.
