Question 476: Bet a pound of flesh that this won't go unanswered

The BBC informed the guardian about it latest project in this succinct statement. "You can have three words to work from, Adler, Hound, Reichenbach. Those are your clues."


Your clues as well.
Deduce the what is being referenced to here.
(only exact answers will be accepted)


The question


ALSO TRY QUESTION 474, WHICH HAS BEEN SANDWICHED BY MANY ANNOUNCEMENTS!

Question 475: Lemme do it

depicts what?

Theme Answer: Serendipitous Inventions

Serendipity: Serendipity is a propensity for making fortunate discoveries while looking for something unrelated.


Etymology:
The first noted use of this word was by Horace Walpole (1717–1792). In a letter to Mann (dated January 28^th) he said he formed it from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, whose heroes "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of". The name stems either from Serendip, an old name for Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), or from Arabic Sarandib, or from Sanskrit Simhaladvipa which literally translates to "Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island".


Hence the name of the theme, fortune favours the brave (lucky would have been a give-away)


Answer:


All the Discoveries were made by accident.




Red Herring:


Bra, was made with an intent to keep assets afloat
(smirk)


Results:


1) Theme Cracked By:


a) Nagaratna (Question 5) : +20
b) SyntaxError (Question 6) : +10
c) Tom Sawyer  (Question 6) : +10


2) Red Herring: (+20)


a) Nagaratna 
b) SyntaxError


3) Wrong Guess:


a) SyntaxError (Question 4): -15


Thats the end of the theme folks
Scores will be updated duly.


Cheers.

Scoreboard Update

Scores have been updated. Till 472.

Check if they're right.

The Theme will be disclosed shortly.

DO answer it!

Mind you, extra points for spotting the red herring

Hail Mary Pass for the Theme

The theme will be closing soon, so its your last chance to get your answers in before we publish the answers
And don't forget to spot the red herring as well.

Cheers

Question 474: Shaken up after seeing this

The following is a clip from a video by Celine Dion, doing a cover of a song __Y__ by a Band __X__.

If you can bear through the video, ID X and Y.

Or, for those unable to stand such an indignation to that wondrous institution unto itself, __X__, here is a text of the question.

__Y__ is a signature song from successful album ____Z____ (no need to ID it). It was number 10 on the top 100 songs of the 80's, and considered the band's best song by VH1 (another reason no-one cares about VH1 rankings). The song itself relates to a story with of the lead singer with a lady, and what they did inspired the name of the song, __Y__.

Question 473.g: A unit charge per vehicle

__X__'s efforts to obtain support for his voyages were not hampered by a European belief in a flat Earth. Sailors and navigators of the time knew that the Earth was spherical, but (correctly) disagreed with __X__'s estimate of the distance to __Y__, which was approximately 1/6th of the actual distance. If __Z__ did not exist, and had __X__ continued to __Y__(even putting aside the threat of mutiny he was under), he would have run out of supplies before reaching it at the rate he was traveling. 


Solve for X,Y,Z.
(only X and Z are pertinent to the theme)
ALso, how is it related to the question name?

Last question of the theme

Fortune favours?

The theme will be drawing to a close soon
The last question will be put up tomorrow
And all answers will be released by Sunday morning.

Cheers

Question 473.f: Beats any sword, doesn't it?

Given below is the biological process of the synthesis of __X__, discovered by __Y__.
Although __Y__ was credited with its discovery, he wasn't the original discoverer. 


The use of bread with a blue mould (possibly __X__) as a means of treating suppurating wounds was a staple of folk medicine in Europe since the Middle Ages. The first published reference appears in the publication of the Royal Society in 1875, by John Tyndall (of the famous Tyndall Effect). Ernest Duchesne documented it in an 1897 paper, which was not accepted by the Institut Pasteur because of his youth.


In March 2000, doctors at the San Juan de Dios Hospital in San José, Costa Rica published the manuscripts of the Costa Rican scientist and medical doctor Clodomiro (Clorito) Picado Twight (1887–1944). They reported Picado's observations on the inhibitory actions of __X___between 1915 and 1927. Picado reported his discovery to the Paris Academy of Sciences, yet did not patent it, even though his investigations started years before __Y___.


Plenty of theme and answers clues, also workoutable from the name.


This is also the second last question of the theme round. All answers to be displayed by Sunday Morning, and the theme unveiled as well.

Question 473.e: Guns and What?

This is a newspaper article commemorating the arrival of a certain article in England.


During Napoleon's Campaign, his soldiers were accompanied by the Commission des Sciences et des Arts, a corps of 167 technical experts (savants). In mid-July 1799, as French soldiers under the command of Colonel d'Hautpoul were strengthening the defences of Fort Julien, a couple of miles north-east of the Egyptian port city of Rashid, Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard spotted the article that the soldiers had uncovered. He and d'Hautpoul saw at once that it might be important and informed general Jacques-François Menou, who happened to be at a place __X___.


So ID X, and what has been blanked out in the Article.
Biggest clue to the theme is given here.