A Second Solution

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2.1
You know, I really wish the Academy had accepted him. The artist is Adolf Hitler. Cracked by Corpsed. Now say that fast ten times :) Oh, wait, Shrey got it too!

2.2
Croquet! Interestingly there is a move in croquet known as the roquet. Corpsed and Shrey strike again! Akshat open his account!

2.3
The diagram shown was associated with phrenology. The cat's got this one.

2.4
No twist to this tale... it is indeed Aryton Senna car wreck. Full points to everyone.

2.5
Think outside the box... a beautiful answer from everyone. I'm afraid I don't know if Bono was involved in particular. The box in this case referred to the box formed by the square of dots, and the fact that the lines drawn would have to project out of it. Neat, eh?

2.6
Kaushik had the right idea but the wrong genre.... the map showed a small, but rather famous, Gaulish village.... home to Asterix and Obelix.

2.7
The year was the clue here, and Corpsed and Shrey latched on immediately. It was the first modern Olympics.

2.8
Direct from Kaushik we have the answer - the Jaipur Foot, the easy to make and highly reliable prostethic leg.

2.9
I'll have to double check my answer, but unless I'm sorely mistaken, the answer is Alaska. Just Alaska, you see, there is a chain of islands (Aleutian?) which cross the 180 degrees meridian, putting them farther East and West then any other part of the USA. The International Date Line is crooked precisely because of these islands (as well as because of part of Asia).

2.10
Beautiful answers from everyone - it was indeed to represent the deaths due to poverty.

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