Question - 221

Identify the common theme behind all the visuals. The two visuals on the extreme right (the man and the moth) can be taken as one for the purposes of the connect.

Answer: The common theme is orchids. The first visual is Nero Wolfe, an American fictional detective who spends four hours every day with his orchid collection, Chris Cooper depicting the real life orchid poacher John Laroche in the movie Adaptation, the chemical formula for Vanillin, an extract from an orchid, Vanilla. The person is Charles Darwin who wrote an influential book on pollination of orchids where he first outlined his theory of evolution along with testable predictions. One of them was the prediction that there must be a moth with a probascis long enough (35 cm) to pollinate the Star of Bethlehem orchid. Sure enough, 41 years later such a moth was found (Morgan's Sphinx). Iam was the only one to get this. Bravo.