Let's Fire Up Those Neurons!

interesting connection to previous puzzle; if I am right.

 

Ah I did get it right...rule number 53 section 32 addendum A says u cannot
reveal the answer and only give oblique hints to the maker of the puzzle..

Knowing ur inclinations and higher pursuits ..how could the solution to the puzzle be otherwise?

 

You got it.

 

When will the answers for #2216 and #2238 puzzles be released? I am waiting for the authors to make the formal announcements to ensure I got the answers right.

As far as # 2274 puzzle, so far Gauri and JAG solved it already and I am waiting to hear from others.

@deepslikes, may be I am missing something to find the connection with the previous puzzle. Can you elaborate?

Viswa

 

Answer to post #2216


Images:
Mercury thermometer
Queen Elizabeth II
Symbol of Zoroastrianism
Farooq Shaikh




Freddie Mercury, lead vocalist of Queen. He was born Farrokh Bulsara, his parents were Indian origin Parsis.

 

I have a feeling that I am wrong, as it was the first result of my search and I am out of time to check further. I ended up with a well traveled spreader of God's esoteric and secret doctrines. Right or wrong, I will explain about the connection when the answer is posted.

 

@Deepslikes,

My bad. You got it right. My lack of knowledge made me fail to understand the connection. I will wait for your post explaining the connection.

Viswa

 

When I quoted getting the answer by listening to FM radio in response to # 2216, I meant the first two letters of his name Freedie Mercury.

Viswa

 

Answer for #2238 is: The Great Hedge of India! (How much weirder can it get?)

Clues:
(1) Well, it's a hedge. The maze is a red-herring.
(2) The Salt March Monument, New Delhi.
(3) The logo for the Department of Customs & Excise, Govt. of India.
(4) Map of the hedge itself.

Easy because [hedge + India] should lead you to the answer directly.

Unless you were sleeping in middle-school history class, or skipped the bits between the Morley-Minto Reforms and the arrival of Linlithgow in favor of running riot at your uncle's wedding, you have heard of the Salt Tax and Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March or the Salt March of 1930. What has disappeared from the books are the details of the enforcement of excise duties and taxes in British India.

One of the strangest strategies was the Great Indian Hedge, which was literally a hedge, 2500 miles long at its peak, linking customs houses together and built (grown?) to deter smuggling of taxed items including salt. Just think about it - this was a 12 feet high, 14 feet thick hedge, a wall that ran all the way from Punjab to Orissa, as shown on the map!

:biglaugh

If this does not strike you as something straight out of Monty Python, nothing will. I can just imagine the planning meeting for this effort. John Cleese in a Raj Major's khaki, mustache 'n all, saying:

"I say, let's plant a hedge - that should keep the bloody natives in check!"
"Hedge? Surely you don't mean a 'hedge'?"
"Yes, a hedge!"
"A hedge? As in plant? Leaves and twigs and whatnot?"
.... and so on and so forth.

Anyway the hedge was successful enough to provoke the Dandi March in protest against the salt monopoly. The rest, as they say, is history!

You can read about the Great Indian Hedge here & in Roy Moxham's book.

Donald Trump, are you listening? laugh1smiley

 

The clue about Allan Octavian Hume as the Founder of the Indian National Congress helped me find the answer for # 2238.

Viswa