Quizzically Yours

Yup.. Short Quiz is back.

1) Put funda.

Piss Christ. More here

2) Connect

In the sketch, focus on the guy with the stick.

The lady is Gillian Gibbons, a school teacher working in a school in Sudan. She was arrested in the Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case. The guy referred to in the sketch in Theodore Roosevelt during his days as NYPD chief. The connect hence, is teddy bears.

3) In 1984, followers of X, based in the settlement Z had hoped to incapacitate the voting population of the city so that their own candidates would win the County elections. So they, led by Y, contaminated the salad in ten local restaurants with salmonella, resulting in the first and largest bio-terror attack in the US. It led to around 750 people being infected. When the case was being investigated Y formed a group to assassinate the Attorney Charles Turner in 1985, though the attempt failed and all involved when sentenced.

Id X, Y and also give the names by which these incidents are known.

X- 'Osho' Rajneesh.

Y- Anand Sheela

More here and here

4) ______ laws are American state laws that provide a remedy for purchasers of cars in order to compensate for cars that repeatedly fail to meet standards of quality and performance. These cars are called ____.

Fill the blanks.

Lemon laws

5) X consider themselves a family. They have their own slang, idioms etc. X derived their name from a song by The Insane Clown Posse. In fact, X is the name given to a follower of any Psychopathics Records hip hop group. Shaggy 2 Dope (aka Joseph Utsler), one of the mainstays of ICP, clarified that X is a state of mind and that an X need not listen to ICP.
X was in the news when Tila Tequila was attacked in the 2010 Gathering Of X.

Id X

The Juggalos

6) N began its life as two companies: L (or Lak Hui) Chemical Industrial (est. 1947), which made cosmetics and M (est. 1958), a radio manufacturing plant. L became famous in Korea for creating the L Cream, with a container bearing the image of the Hollywood starlet Deanna Durbin. M evolved from manufacturing only radios to making all sorts of electronics and household appliances.

In 1995, LM changed its name to N. Since N was a conglomerate, there was a whole range of companies that also changed their names, such as N Chemicals, N Telecom, and even a baseball team called the N Twins. All these adopted the current tagline of the group, which is rumoured to be a backronym.

Interestingly, N denies that their name now stands for LM… or any other words. They’re just "N."

N- LG L- Lucky M-Goldstar

7) Put funda again.

Here please..

8) Orion III was a spacecraft featured on the cover of 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the story, Orion III, a “space clipper”, is a 213-foot-long commercial spacecraft operated by J airlines. When William Anders, took a very famous snap of the earth K(shown in the postage stamp) while orbiting the moon, J’s chief Juan Trippe announced that J will start taking reservations for space travel. J established a waiting list for future flights to the moon. Id J and K. Also what is the significance of the lines on the postage stamp?

K- Earthrise

J- PanAm (Pan American)