Answers to 16 Blocks

The answers are:

1. Munich/Bavaria, both will fetch full points whereas Germany fetches you only 0.5 poins. (From top left in clockwise manner: Oktoberfest, probably world's largest fair is held in Munich;Sir Matthew Busby,former Manager of Manchester United team whose illustrious team was nicknamed busby babes. The busby babes including the manager were involved in the Munich Air Disaster in 1958 in which eight of them died;Steven Spielberg, director of the movie Munich based on the killings of the Israeli Olympic team during the 1972 Munich Olympics, an incident famously known as Black September; BMW, is headquartered in Munich.)

2. This weird guitarist is Duke, the mascot of Java programming language.

3. The only teams to have won the FA Premier League now better known as Barclays Premier League or English Premier League(EPL) since its inception in 1992. For those of you who aren't sports fanatic type, EPL is the main club football league of England and is one of the most watched sports leagues ever in the world. The clubs insignias shown are (from top left in clockwise manner) Arsenal(1997-98, 2001-02,2003-04), Chelsea(2004-05,2005-06), my favourite Manchester United(1992-93, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2002-03, 2006-07) and Blackburn Rovers(1994-95).

The Truth Seekers for this round are:

Chetan Prusty - 4 (early bird)
Siddharth Jain - 3
Sundari - 2.5
Tathagat - 2
R.Varun Krishna - 2
Rishabh Kaul - 2
Bhavin Vora - 2
VIAC - 2
Ninad W - 2
Kshira Saagar - 1
Sandipan Chakravarty - 1
Jagadish Mahendran - 1

Congratulations to all of you. Check out the updated cumulative scores in the The Cumulative Scores link wherein I have done some changes to the feel of it. Thank you very much for the tremendous response you have shown to my quizzes. Hence as a special treat from my side, I will be coming up with certain special quizzes every 1.5 - 2 months. The first one will be out this week and will be an identify the album covers quiz. These special quizzes will be special i.e., they will be topic oriented, won't be like my normal visual quizzes, will have a different scoring pattern but points gained will reflect in the cumulative scores section and will have more number of questions while giving you a greater time period to answer. So keep waiting for it. Do tell me how I can improve the blog and if any special quizzes you are interested in.

16 Blocks

Sorry people for the delay in posting the next set of questions. And after getting lot of requests to get back to quizzing, I think I couldn't delay any further. So here are the questions for this episode of Retinal Cerebrations. Send your answers to hookonthedot@gmail.com before 31st March, 6:00 A.M.(GMT). Don't forget to read the RULES POST to see how you score points in this quiz before sending the answers. I will be back with the answers, scores and the next quiz on 31st Mar.

Here we go...

1. Connect.

2. Identify this mascot. (clue: Again from the world for computers and Information Technology)

3. An easy bonus question for sports lovers. Connect.(Please be specific)