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Answer to XQUIZIT 65: “The tents where the BJP top brass would be staying in their meeting in Indore from 18th-21st february” - Kaushik Saha

3 submissions, 1 correct: Kaushik Saha

Debanjan and Jude better luck with 66.

Simple one. B is one of the earliest works related to depiction of A. C is the protagonist in one recent work of art depicting A. Solve variables.

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Ram Vasudevan

A is a board game called "GO"
B is 19th century Japanese woodcut of Guan Yu by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. In this scene he is being attended to by the physician Hua Tuo while playing the Go game.

Vinay

A is the Japanese board game Go-Moku
C is John Nash (protagonist of 'A Beautiful Mind')

Boku

A : Hex similar to a game called Go

B: General Guan Yu (160–219) being treated for a poisoned arm by the physician Hua Tuo while playing Go. (1853 Japanese woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi)

C: John Nash

Mrinalini

A is the Go board game, depicted in B - a Japanese artwork showing Chinese General Guan Yu being treated by his physician for an injured arm. Apparently, there was no anesthetic being used and the general played Go to keep his mind off the pain. C is Nobel Prize winner, John Nash, Jr. who was the subject of the award-winning book and movie. "A Beautiful Mind". The movie uses Go to show some of Nash's work in game theory.

Nishant

A is Go, also called Gomoku . A japanese board game.
B shows General Guan Yu (160–219) being treated for a poisoned arm by the physician Hua Tuo while playing Go. (1853 Japanese woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi)
C is John Nash.

HeeHaw

A = Go (board game)
B = 1853 Japanese woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi depicting General Guan Yu being treated for a poisoned arm by the physician Hua Tuo while playing Go.

Kaushik Saha

game : Go (A)

B: Japanese woodblock of Guan Yu by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861). In this scene he is attended to by the physician Hua Tuo. A wound from a poison arrow required the bone to be scraped. Without the use of anesthestic Guan Yu plays go to distract himself from the pain

C: John Forbes Nash