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The World Famous Bushman scaring passers-by.

Cracked by Fifthape, Deepu, Ram Sripathi, Appu, Akhil R Nair and Rithwik.

The  movie  and  the  actor (the  guy  on  the  right) please.

Irvine Welsh in Trainspotting.

Spotted by Akhil R Nair, Ahana Anil, Nakul Sharma, Deepu, Anil Raghavan, Fifthape, Alok, Siddharth Ravi, Rithwik and Appu.

The part that has been blanked out (the red area in the pic) is, in fact, factually inaccurate. So, what has been blanked out? Why is it inaccurate?

Quoting Gokul ,

“Blanked portion: “The Cheka is watching you, Tintin”
It should be OGPU because they were called Cheka before 1922 and the ‘Tintin In the land of Soviets’ was published in 1930″

Cracked by Jyotishraj, Ram Sripathi, Appu, Anil Raghavan , Siddharth Ravi, Fifthape, Akhil R Nair, Ramki , Deepu and Gokul.

Once  again, funda  please.

Quoting Appu,

“All US presidents have got icons to represent them on Doonesbury, this is about Obama getting his, and that he has nothing representative about him”

Cracked by Appu, Siddharth Ravi, Fifthape, Akhil R Nair, Devajyoti Ghosh and Ram Sripathi.

Funda please.

Frank Sinatra taking photographs of the Ali-Frazier Fight of the Century (as a reporter for the LIFE Magazine) in 1971.

Cracked by Akhil R Nair, Jyotishraj, Freestyler, Appu, Fifthape, Ahana Anil, Devajyoti Ghosh, Anil Raghavan, Joyce George, Deepu and Ram Sripathi.

Which movie? What is this particular image from the flick inspired by?

Lars von Trier‘s Melancholia. This still of Kirsten Dunst floating down a stream in her wedding dress with her bouquet is based on the John Everett Millais painting Ophelia (Ophelia’s death in Hamlet also accepted).

Cracked by Fifthape, Appu, Hari Parameswaran and Priyanshu Jaiswal.

Who’s the tennis player on the right?

Lars Ulrich of Metallica.

Cracked by Appu, Anil Raghavan, Ahana Anil, Siddharth Ravi, Priyanshu Jaiswal, Akhil R nair and Joyce George.

Sculpture by Canadian artist Amy Switzer. What is it based on? What is it made out of?

Clue: Current affairs

The sculpture is based on Loulou, the parrot from Gustave Flaubert‘s Un Cœur simple (A Simple Heart). It is made out of several copies of the same book. The current affairs connection, of course, is Julian Barnes, who missed the Booker earlier for “Flaubert’s Parrot”.

Cracked by Appu, Akhil R Nair, Jyotishraj, Nigel Thomas, Joyce George, Rajith Ravi, Devajyoti Ghosh, Anil Raghavan, Ahana Anil, Siddharth Ravi and Gokul. And well done, Hari Parameswaran, the only person who got the Julian Barnes connection.

Where  would  one  expect  to  find  this ? And  why  is  it  special ?

This is the panel in tribute to Andy Lippincott (from Doonesbury) on the AIDS quilt. He is the only fictional character to have an entry on the AIDS quilt. The panel, however,  hangs in The NAMES Project Foundation’s office in Atlanta and is not actually sewn into a block of the quilt.

Cracked by Appu, Fifthape, Jyotishraj, Akhil R Nair, Ahana Anil , Siddharth Ravi and Siddharth Jain.

One (out  of  two) is  pictured  here. Where’s  the  other  one ?

This is the Mosque of the two Qiblahs in Medina, the place where prophet Muhammad, leading the prayer, is said to have been commanded to change the direction of prayer from Jerusalem to Mecca. The qiblah facing Jerusalem was removed (and is the answer that I was looking for) during the recent renovation of the mosque and the one facing Mecca is pictured here.

Points to Ramki and Appu for getting the ‘other one’ right.