54. The wind that rocks the casbah??

This Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara and reaches hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe is known by various names in various places.

In North Africa, it derives its name from the fact that it blows from a particularly important direction. Kindly provide this name.

53. Tinted mirror...

X is a small mirror, slightly convex in shape, with its surface tinted a dark colour. Bound up like a pocket-book or in a carrying case, these were used by artists, travellers and connoisseurs of landscape and landscape painting.The mirror is named for a 17th-century landscape painter, whose name in the late 18th century became synonymous with the picturesque aesthetic. These were famously used by picturesque artists in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as a frame for drawing sketches of picturesque landscapes.The user would turn his back on the scene to observe the framed view through the tinted mirror—in a sort of pre-photographic lens—which added the picturesque aesthetic of a subtle gradation of tones. What mirror?

52. The Virgin Killer!

According Ibn Batuta, Rannamaari, the notorious sea demon haunted the people of the Maldives since time began. Every month, a virgin had to be sacrificed for the demon, or the people were to face his wrath. A girl was chosen from the inhabitants by the king or his advisors and she would be kept alone on the first night of the month in an isolated temple at the eastern seafront in Malé. At dawn, the girl's family would return to the temple to find the dead body of the girl. How was the problem resolved and what resulted as a consequence?

51. Blissful receptor!

The name of this neurotransmitter found in animal and human organs, especially in the brain comes from the Sanskrit word for "bliss, delight". This biomolecule plays a crucial role in pain, depression, appetite, memory, and fertility. Which biomolecule?

50. Rambling on....

Identify the movie from the plot synopsis below. If it helps the movie was silent throughout and is accompanied by an acoustic guitar led soundtrack from beginning to end.

A young guy, carrying a closely guarded guitar case, hooks up with a free spirited girl when hitchhiking across the desert in southern California en route to the Pacific coast. Along the way, the man engaged the girl in an olive spitting contest and the girl initiates the guy into the joys of cannabis smoking and sex in a sleeping bag. As the pair reach the beach, the guy frolics in the surf and the girl checks out the contents of his guitar case: a suit and tie, toothpaste, mouthwash, a roll of toilet paper and a copy of Arthur Clarke's The City and the Stars. The girl smiles in bemusement, perhaps sensing all along that her companion was a geek.