Thank you all for guessing. In spite of a very busy week, the 30 or so minutes every alternate day checking your responses made the week interesting!
Maybe this round was a lot easier or you guys got the hang of it very nicely..
Most of the clues were cracked by round 2 or 3.
1. Gem | behead | Press | Jolie
Daniel Pearl - the Journalist who was beheaded after 9/11. Jolie was in the recent movie "A mighty heart" where she plays Mariane Pearl, Daniel's widow.
2. Kapiolani | Occidental | Harvard | Change
Barack Obama -> The "Change" man, born in Kapiolani hospital, went to Occidental college and Harvard.
3. Watchtower | Foxy | Experience | Wah Wah
Jimi Hendrix -> All along the watchtower, Foxy lady are some of Jimmi Hendrix's amazing performances. His band was called "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" and he popularized the Wah Wah pedal.
4. Boundary | Field | Kangaroo | Captain
Allan Border -> Thought this was a dead giveaway. Boundary is a cricket term and "border" is a boundary in the literal sense of the word. No one got it till round3.
5. History | Dangerous | Bad | Thriller
Michael Jackson -> 4 of his albums.
6. Seattle | Doors | foundaion | Antitrust
Bill Gates -> Doors is Windows by association. The rest was obvious. There were many Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan guesses after the 2nd clue. Can understand the sleepless in Seattle connection, but I missed the connection to doors. Judging by the overwhelming change from Gates to Hanks after second clue from so many, have to go watch that movie again!
7. Vande Mataram | Rose | Khadijah | Panchathan
ARR -> It was either him or B. Chandra. But ARR is in the news now. Rose was reference to Roja. Khadijah is is kids name and the last one is his studios name in Chennai.
8. Acid | 1947 | No Entry | Lifeline
Anil Kapoor -> Another in the news dude. Acid was Tezaab. 1947 was a reference to his next big hits Mr. India, 1942 a Love story (I put the freedom connection, but it would have been easier if the clue was 1942 instead of 1947), No entry was another award winning movie for him. Lifeline was a reference to "who wants to be a milllllionnnaiiiireeeeeeee"
9. Funny | Grimm | Knight | Mountain
Heath Ledger -> Funny ~Joker, he was in the movie "the Brothers Grimm" and Knight was a dead giveaway for "The Dark Knight" and finally "brokeback Mountain".
10. Sclerosis | Time | Cambridge | Physics
Stephen Hawking -> the posterboy for fighting ALS (a form of lateral sclerosis) who wrote "A brief history of time", Physics professor at Cambridge University.
Results (only those who sent responses consistantly) instead of quessing one or two clues.
Balaji......: 2/2/2/3/2/1/1/2/2/2 = 310
Dilip.......: 2/1/3/3/2/1/1/3/3/1 = 300
Coffeerocks.: 0/1/0/0/2/2/1/0/2/2 = 200
Karthik.....: 3/3/0/3/3/1/3/3/3/0 = 180
Bharat......: 0/3/3/3/3/3/3/3/3/3 = 180
Meblogs.....: 4/2/0/0/0/0/1/4/3/1 = 150
* Apologies.. Balaji won this one also.. Dilip was second.. My counting scores was based on going back into Gmail with the thread. Never verified if there were mutliple guesses between rounds or the time.
thanks for playing!
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Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 1:50PM