Thursday, December 24, 2009

Question - 395

Connect all the images. Also, identify the especially famous item that is missing from this collection.

Answer: These images are the elephant and donkey of the Democratic and Republican parties, Uncle sam, the Tammany hall tiger and Columbia (a personification of the US). Though they can all be connected as US political symbols, the particular connect I was looking for was that they were all drawn by Thomas Nast, the legendary US cartoonist. He is partly responsible for the now familiar depiction of Santa Claus as a bearded rotund man. Santa Claus was the famous missing item I was looking for. AjithP, Iam, Renuka + Anand got the connect I had in mind while Hirak and Hari went with other connects. Well done all.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

THOMAS NAST AND SANTA CLAUS

Hirak said...

US/ Party Symbols:

US: Uncle Sam, Columbia (lateral connect to Columbia pictures).

Parties: Dems and Republicians, and Tammany Hall As the Tiger as political symbols.

Iam said...

Santa Claus

By Thomas Nast: Uncle Sam, Columbia, Tammany hall tiger,democratic donkey & republican elephant

Renuka and Anand said...

The connection is political cartoonist Thomas Nast. The missing item is Santa Claus.

Hari said...

Personifications of the United States; Liberty