Lucy,who was in the sky..

For all those who acknowledged that the terms magicians and musicians were coalesced into a single form for the bunch that was "The Beatles" , it's time to bid farewell to someone that was made hugely known eponymously through one of the Beatles masterpiece.

Lucy Vodden,the inspiration for the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” has died, following a long battle with the autoimmune disease lupus. The British housewife — whose passing was announced by the St Thomas’ Lupus Trust charity — was 46.

Quoting WSJ,

"Vodden first achieved pop culture fame as a tot, when John Lennon’s son Julian drew a picture of her in nursery school in 1966. He took the picture home to his pops, explained it as “That’s Lucy in the sky with diamonds,” and a song legend was born."

The actual drawing and Lucy herself.

"Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,

Towering over your head.

Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,

And she's gone."

Quest Pistols # 54

Pretty much in the name !!
Give funda.

Answer

The image above is the poster of the Kannada film "Eddelu Manjunatha" ,which in English translates to "Wake Up Manjunatha".The upcoming bollywood film "wake Up Sid" is said to have been based on this film.

Quest Pistols # 53

Identify.

Answer

Kalavati Bandurkar.
She recently filed her nomination from Wani for the upcoming Maharashtra assemply polls.
Previous year she had come into the limelight after Rahul Gandhi mentioned her in the parliament during the nuclear deal deliberations.

Quest Pistols # 52

An easy one. What can they all be linked to? Also name the missing personality.

Answer

Hosts of the famous talk show 'The Tonight Show' running on air on NBC since 1954.

From top to bottom-
Conan O'Brian
Johny Carson
Jack Paar
Steve Allen

Jay Leno (missing) hosted the show before Conan O'Brian took over recently.

Quest Pistols # 51

Both the images can be linked to a very famous battle.

Answer

Battle of Iwo Jima.

Movie is 'Letters from Iwo Jima' directed by Clint Eastwood (watch it if you haven't as yet)

Joe Rosenthal is the war photographer who took the very famous 'Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima' picture - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima

Quest Pistols # 50

All of these sporting legends have something in common.What?

Tata Crucible Corporate Edition-Chandigarh

Pickbrain descended onto the city to conduct an exciting Corporate Edition of every quizzer's dream,Tata Crucibles.

Infosys,after a faltering start went on to finish the proceedings in great style.The winners took home a crash prize of Rs 75,000 and will represent Chandigarh at the National Finals.They were closely followed up by the team from Western Command,Indian Army.

Following are the questions asked in the preliminary round:

1)The question had details of the Caparo Group and the name of the owner was asked.

Answer: Lord Swaraj Paul

2)Expand MNP.

Answer: Mobile Number Portability

3)Swayam Infotainment is headed by the daughter of which Indian politician ?

Answer: Lal Krishna Advani

4)The logo of the company RIM was shown and the name of its major global brand was asked.

Answer: Blackberry

5)Whose media arm is Mumbai Mantra Media ?

Answer:Manhindra & Mahindra

6)Which company's evolution is described in the book "It Happened in India" ?

Answer: Future Group

7)Ben Southall was the find of this peculiar search . What ?

Answer: Best Job in the World

8)An ad of Lifebuoy.

9)"The Fan Of India" was the campaign of ?

Answer: Barclay's

10)Which brand has the tag line "100 % juice,nothing else" ?

Answer: Parle Agro

11)The book "Married to the mouse" by Richard E. Foglesong is based on which global giant ?

Answer: Walt Disney

12)Which company's brands include Safi/Roohafza/Pachnol ?

Answer:Hamdard

13)Who along with Bill Gates founded Microsoft ?

Answer: Paul Allen

14)Cover page of the book "Screw It,Let's do it" was shown and the name of the author was asked ?

Answer:Richard Branson

15)Which sport team has Airtel partnered ?

Answer:Manchester United

16)Uncannies was launched in India by which famous Internet portal ?

Answer:Yahoo!

17)Identifying the advertisement- Union Bank

18)Identifying the advertisement- Godrej

19)Name the president of World Bank.

Answer:Robert Zoellick

20) Precept is the golf management division of which tyre manufacturer ?

Answer:Bridgestone

Quest Pistols # 49

Question

Connect them to an extremely popular icon.

Quest Pistols # 48

Question

... blackening and more of it.

Identify/Give funda.

Answer

(refer to the comments section)