Question - 599

Connect.

Answer: The US State of Ohio has special days named after the three people in the picture (clockwise): Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, and (oddly enough) the singer Shreya Ghoshal. Ameya, mekie (wrong singer), Dinesh, Kaushik, and Manasi got it. Nicely done - especially give the obscurity of this piece of trivia.

Question - 567

Connect.

Answer: The only winners of both the "Best Play" Tony award and "Best Picture" Oscar. From top left (clockwise): A Man For All Seasons, My Fair Lady, Amadeus, and The Sound of Music. Dinesh, matti tapaninen, and Krithi got it.

Question - 551

Connect.

Answer: The two pictures represent the feats, the levitating frog and Graphene, that got the Ig Nobel and Nobel prizes for the physicist Andrew Geim. Dinesh, Anirudh Patil, Vetti, and Ramki got it.

Question - 75

Identify the award shown.

Answer: This is the Chess Oscar statuette nicknamed The Fascinated Wanderer. The award is presented annually to the best chess player as judged by a poll conducted among chess players and chess experts around the world. The effort is coordinated by the Russian chess magazine 64 and a small logo of the journal can be found at the base. Vikrant and Raghu got it. Well done.