Quizzically Yours

Connect.. or put funda..

Regarding the first pic, which is the poster of a movie, this is what the director had to say:

"We planned several topics to shoot about, like black horses, _____, gambling, misjudges, terrorism and hooligans. And we chose to shoot the _______ when the amazing prophet X appeared,” said Xiao Jiang, the director. X is the lead actor in the movie but passed away about two months after the release.

Taking the current situation into account, come up with a phrase/line to connect the two

Sparky is partly correct..
themasterhimself gets it fully correct

"Paul is Dead"

Okay... this is my first attempt at such a question

Connect Vanilla Ice to The Buggles in the least number of steps possible.

Vanilla Ice's song "Ice Ice Baby" was remade by Baba Sehgal and released by him as India's first hindi rap song. Baba Sehgal's 'Dil Dhadke' was the first video to be shown on MTV Asia. The first video to be ever telecast on MTV was The Buggles's 'Video Killed the Radio Star'.

Dedicated to whom??

Click Here for the audio link.

This is a song by Parikrama, released in association with Microsoft during Bill Gates's visit to India in 2005. Called "Superhero", it is dedicated to "all the geeks of India's IT capital, Bangalore"

Listen to the 'bittu's and put fundae.

Click Here: Bit1 Bit2 Bit3 Bit4

The songs are "Bagpipes from Baghdad", "Obsessed", "The Warning" and "I'm a Slick Rick".
For full answer, see here.

Connect and put funda.

Sparky gets it right

Sir Peter Blake is the connect.

Connect and gimme a double Grammy winning artist.....

Sparky gets it right.
Its Harold faltermeyer.

Gimme a song/phrase connecting the three

1. What is the main source of income for this set of pacific islands?



2. X means 'whole burnt sacrificial offering to a god' in Greek. It is substituted to Ha-Shoah in Hebrew and Porajmos or Samudaripen in Romani. Identify X.

3. That’s the pic of the Raffles Hotel in Perth and the Canning highway leading up to it. Because the Hotel is at the bottom of a steep hill, the intersection there has had many accidents and crashes. What did this inspire?

 

3) Highway to Hell

Sparky gets the second alone..

The "West Side Story" is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, is referenced in this Grammy winning song, featuring proteges of Wyclef Jean, The Product G&B , which is about a girl named X falling in love with the artist,Y. X happens to be the name of the lead character in "West Side Story". The artist set up a chain of restaurants with the name of the song. Y repaid his debt to Product G&B,when he played on the track "Dirty Dancin" from their first album, Ghetto And Blues, which unfortunately was not released by Y's label. Identify the song and the artist.

X :"I doubt very much if I would be the first one who ever did that. That's like saying I invented the wheel, I'm sure someone did that at some other point. I think you'd have to say that I made it fashionable. I used it so much and all the time and it had become my trademark until the Britney Spears audience decided to do it as well. So it kind of lost its meaning with that. But it was...I was in Y at the time. It was symbol that I thought was reflective of what that band was supposed to be all about. It's NOT the devil's sign like we're here with the devil. It's an Italian thing I got from my Grandmother called the "Malocchio". It's to ward off the Evil Eye or to give the Evil Eye, depending on which way you do it. It's just a symbol but it had magical incantations and attitudes to it and I felt it worked very well with Y. So I became very noted for it and then everybody else started to pick up on it and away it went. But I would never say I take credit for being the first to do it. I say because I did it so much that it became the symbol of rock and roll of some kind."

Gimme X & Y. And what is being talked about?

konvict gets it

4) What are these the locations of?



5) What is special about mykandi.com, a website launched in November, 2009? ( Its the first of its kind)

6) It is known as Lappa Duggi in Pashto, Kuttiyum Kolum in Malayalam, Billam Godu in telugu. What?

1) Prior to 2007, it began on the first Sunday in April and "normalcy" returned on the last Sunday in October, but since 2007 it begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on first Sunday in November. Something of this sort was first suggested by Benjamin Franklin in 1774 in an essay titled "An Economic Project". What?

Daylight Saving Time

2)Which song by Aerosmith came out as a result of a session with Motley Crue, their glam look and their frequent use of a word referring to a person, typically a male, who is well dressed or who has never lived outside a big city?

Dude(looks like a lady)

3)X is the title of several Marvel comic books exploring "the road not traveled" by its various characters. Events in the series are considered separate from mainstream continuity in the Marvel Universe. Y is X's counterpart on the DC Comics side. Unlike X, which bases its stories on a single point of divergence from the regular continuity, most Y stories instead take place in entirely self-contained continuities whose only connection to the canon DC continuity are the presence of familiar DC characters. Id X and Y.

What if... and Elseworlds (X and Y)

4) A simple one. Id the man on the left.



Wolfgang Puck

5) This one is a straight lift from one of the Odyssey Quizzes I attended.
This quote is often mistaken as a quote from a movie though it wasn't even in the script. Its origin was chauvinistic, back-lot humour. It was a quip by a five gold medal winning Olympian to the actress of the movie they both were working in. Seeing her struggling to lift her suitcase into the trunk of her car, the Olympian laughingly uttered these words as he swooped the suit case and put it in the trunk. Who is the Olympian and what is the quote?

Johnny Weissmuller and "Me Tarzan, You Jane"

6) This book by the Medved Brothers, Michael and Harry, awards the fictional ________ to films that the Medveds feel are poor in quality, along with directors and actors judged to have created a chronically inept body of work. Id the book.

The Golden Turkey Awards

7) _______ is considered a parody of Santa Claus or Easter Bunny Which exists in the imagination of Linus van Pelt. According to Linus, when writing to _______, you don't ask anything specific: you wait for whatever he brings you. In this way, Linus states a difference between the _________ and Santa Claus (children writing to Santa include in their letters lists of exactly what they want). Also, Linus states that Santa gives away toys because it's his job and it's expected of him, whereas the _______ gives away toys because he feels he is fulfilling a moral obligation.

The Great Pumpkin

8)The name transltes to "The Immaculate Conception of Mary". Owned by Juan de la Cosa, it was originally named La Gallega becuase it was built in Galicia.Given below is a functioning replica of this.



Santa-Maria. Largest of the three Columbus's ships.

In 1986, British band Half Man Half Biscuit released their debut single, "The Trumpton Riots". On the B-side was the now legendary track, "All I want for Christmas is a __________ away kit": the finest study of adolescent obsession, frustration, rivalry, violence and table football ever to grace the wrong side of a bit of vinyl. The title is a play on Dora Bryan's"All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth".

Id this football club, which soon after the release of this song, vanished from the scene and reappeared in 2007 in the second division.

Dukla Prague

1) The pic is of the Haiku Laddder or _______, a steep hiking trail on the island of O'ahu.
It was installed in 1943 to enable the construction of antenna cables that would be strung from one side of the cliffs above Haʻikū Valley to the other.


Stairway to Heaven

2) It was a seccret feature when it was established. It is a private club the entrance of which is located next to the Blue Bayou Restaurant in Disneyland at "33 Royal Street". Another one of the same kind i slocated in Tokyo Disneyland. Id the club.



Club 33

3) His drawings appear in the 1901–1904 issues of The Reveille, published by this college in his native state. His works also appear in the 1921 and 1922 editions of the U.S. Naval Academy, Lucky Bag.However, he is best known for his work with Life magazine on its covers. He is known for fade-away style of painting and for using negative space.


Coles Phillips

4) The name in Tamil means "Path of the Father". Its a dharmic belief system having its roots in South India. Its based on the philosphy of Ayya Vaikundar and the texts Arul Nool and Akilattirattu Ammanai. Its referred to as a monistic religion by many, but the followers declare themselves as Hindus in censuses.
Which belief?

Ayyavazhi

5) X was born Maria Ann Sherwood. At 19, she married Thomas Smith, a farm labourer.
The Smiths were primarily orchardists. The earliest account of Y appeared in the Farmer and Settler of 25 June 1924, in an article by Herbert Rumsey, a Dundas orchardist and local historian. He interviewed local fruit-grower Edwin Small who recalled that in 1868 he and his father had been invited by Maria to examine a seedling growing by a creek on her farm. She explained that the seedling had developed from the remains of some French crab apples grown in Tasmania. Y is today recognised as a fixed mutation or 'sport'.

Granny Smith/Ramsey Smith and the Granny Smith Apple(green apples) .

6)_______ are performers of either gender who meet specific physical requirements (athletic build, height between 5'10"-6'1"/1.78-1.85 m), specific performing talents (percussion, acting, non-verbal communication), and certain personality traits (openness, charisma, willingness to collaborate), among other qualifications.They even have their own hand gesture, is made by raising both arms in the air. Early in the history of the _____, the members would speak with audiences after the show while still in makeup, answering questions, signing autographs, and talking about the show.Eventually, however, it was decided that cast members would stay in character at all times while in makeup, meaning after shows they would still not speak to audience members, and the only "autograph" they would sign would be a smudge of blue paint. When shown a "new" piece of technology, such as a cell phone or even an old pair of binoculars, they will simply stare at it in wonder.
Fill the blanks.

The Blue Man Group.(They appeared in the Mirinda ads in Orange colour)

7)Connect to a person:




Charles Manson. Marilyn Manson's stage name is a mix of Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson. The lady is Sharon Tate, a victim of Charles Manson and his "family". The Beatles song "Helter Skelter" was interpreted by Charles Manson as a coded prophecy of a war arising from the tension between blacks and whites.

8)
Ce sont les meilleures équipes
Es sind die allerbesten Mannschaften
The main event
Die Meister
Die Besten
.......

What?

The UEFA Champions League anthem, "Champions League"

Book Of Love- The Monotones
Bob Dylan-Jester
Elvis Presley-The King
Mick Jagger-Satan
Janis Joplin- The Girl Who Sang The Blues

In 1997, 17-year-old student Daniel Malmedahl recorded himself impersonating the noises produced by internal combustion engines. He posted this on a website and caught the attention of a Swedish television researcher, who convinced Daniel to perform the sound live on air. After it debuted on television, recordings of his performance began appearing on peer to peer file sharing networks and various websites under the filename "2TAKTARE.MP3" ("Tvåtaktare" is Swedish for "Two stroker").

The sound was adopted as the sound of a formula one car as early as 2001 in the form of "Deng Deng Form" and later "The Insanity Test" both of which were a static background of a Ferrari Formula One car accompanied by the sound. However the sound was later adopted as that of a motorcycle for its most well known format.

In late 2003, Malmedahl's fellow Swede Erik Wernquist encountered the sound effect and, not knowing about the previous incarnations of the sound, was inspired to create the 3D animation "The Annoying Thing" to accompany it. Erik used the LightWave 3D modeling application to produce the animation and posted it on his website. The animation was a popular attraction at Erik's website, but the sound was credited to "Anonymous". Eventually, word reached Daniel that his impressions had been used in a now well-known animation. He contacted Erik, apparently giving an impromptu performance to confirm his claims. Erik was convinced, and gave credit to Daniel for his creation. They soon created X.

Id X.

The song has become very popular because of its nonsense lyrics (which sound vaguely English, but is 100% gibberish). The song earned the singer the nickname of _____ which translates to The Mute. It has an odd music video too.
Many internet sites have developed humorous videos of Batman, Mario, Shrek or Yoko(The Grudge). The most famous usage of this song is called "Ualuealuealeuale" (gibberish lyrics).

X, founder,frontman and the only official member of Y, promoted the band in a unique way. Before Zwas released, songs from the album were found on USB drives hidden at Y's concert venues in as part of the alternate reality game whose name is same as Z.

It presented the scenario of year 2022, termed Z, the year America is reborn. . The U.S. govt. maintains control through institutions like the Bureau of Morality and the First Evangelical Church of Plano.

A government corporation Cedocore distributes the drug ______ through the water supply, making Americans who drink the water apathetic and carefree. There are several underground rebel groups, mainly operating online, most notably Art is Resistance and Solutions Backwards Initiative(a group of students, professors and computer experts devise a successful means with which to send information into the pastto prevent the calamities.).

There are increasing sightings of a pair of massive ghostly hands and arms extending down from the sky into the ground. The sequence ends with a broken message announcing the appearance of the hands over the United States Capitol Building. The message cuts suddenly, implying the end of the world.

The websites and music of the Z alternate reality game are implied to be part of the information packets sent back.