Question Courtesy: Easwar

This pop song has its origins traced to the composer approaching X, who had previously collaborated on many projects, to render it. X however turned down the offer due to the lyrics (more specifically the title) of the song. The song eventually went to Y and became a huge hit, marking a high point in Y’s career. Just give me the song. It is very much guessable from the question.

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Answer: Guess the word “pop” threw people off track. It is basically an Indian pop song, Made In India. The music director was obviously Biddu, who first approached Nazia Hassan, who being a Pakistani had objection with the lyrics, and the song as you all know went to Alisha Chinai. No cracks today.

Connect the following songs:

Song 1

Song 2

Song 3

Song 4

Answer in comments. May I add that the connect is not restricted to the above four songs. This is a much bigger list.

Answer: These are a few of the songs that RD Burman drew inspiration from. Most of the folks got it right. Creative answer from swaps btw, though it wont fetch you any point. Points to:

Easwar

Rosh

Nirad

Wasi

Flightless One

Praneetha

Debasish

MS

According to a legend, during the Virata Parva in Mahabharata, one of the brothers was given the responsibility of handling the kitchen. The guy had no clue how to cook and so he just chopped and boiled all vegetables and added a seasoning to serve. What was the name of the dish?

Question Courtesy: The Flightless One

The nickname for this team refers to a form of dance music that has evolved in the last 30 years. ID the music type.

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Answer: Soca, a form of dance music from Trinidad & Tobago, which has its roots in Calypso. The pic is of the Trinidad & Tobago national football team who are known as the Soca Warriors.

Apologies for not being able to post a question yesterday, thanks to our internet connection speed. Instead we have two questions today. Here is the first.

Connect these bands:

Answer: A few of the bands that Metallica covered in their album “Garage Inc.”

In picture is the artist’s impression of a dinosaur whose fossil was excavated from Antarctica in early 1991, the first carnivorous dinosaur to be discovered in Antarctica. Due to its facial features’ resemblance to something else, this dinosaur was known by a popular nickname. What was it?

Answer: This is indeed the Elvisaurus, or Cryolophosaurus, the nickname owing its origin to the haircomb reminiscent of Elvis’s famed ducktail hairstyle.

It was gladdening to see so many responses, and all of them correct at that. A point apiece to:

Sharat

Rosh

Flightless One

Vivek

Mrinalini

Jayesh

Swaps

Umang

Emmanuel

Dante

A real sitter. Whose face has been blanked out?

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Answer: The band in picture is the fusion band Roots, which was active from 1985-89, and consisted of John Anthony, Sivamani, Jojo and A R Rahman whose face has obviously been blanked out.

Quite surprisingly just one crack. The face of Sivamani would have acted as a hint I thought! In any case, Nirad‘s fallback plan worked.

Connect the four pics.

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Answer: These are all species named after Frank Zappa. The four pics are respectively Zappa Confluentus, Pachygnatha Zappa, Amaurotoma Zappa and Phialella Zappai.

Correctly answered by Praneetha and Sharath. Nice crack!!

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Finally coming to today’s question

Connect (A slightly cheeky one today):

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Answer: The members of Pink Floyd were part of various bands before they settled on the name. Meggadeaths, Sigma 6 and Tea Sets being a few of them.

Cracked by swaps and the flightless one.

The band in the picture takes its name from two other guys shown in the picture. Although not a very famous band otherwies, they are probably the most famous band in their genre which sounds quite geeky. Identify the band.

Answer: The band Don Caballero takes it name from the SCTV character Guy Caballero, who in one of the episodes, while spoofing the character of Don Vito Corleone was called Don Caballero.

The Genre I was referring to was Math Rock.

Cracked by the flightless one and Praneetha.