Sunday, March 20, 2011

Roll of Honour

Not really. Just a list of who cracked what and when.

563:

THEME CRACKED BY:

Siddarth Pai at Question 563 c: +40
Pi.R.Square at Question 563 c: +40

WRONG GUESSES:
Archimonde at Question 563 d: -15
Archimonde at Question 563 f: 0

RED HERRING (+20):
Siddarth Pai
Pi.R.Square

564:

THEME CRACKED BY:

Siddarth Pai at Question 564 b: +50
Pi.R.Square at Question 564 c: +40

WRONG GUESSES:
Manish Hn at Question 564 e: -10

RED HERRING (+20):
Siddarth Pai
Pi.R.Square

CONNECT BETWEEN THE TWO SETS OF QUESTIONS (+20):

Pi.R.Square
Siddarth Pai
Sukanto

Theme Connect




CONNECT:The Red Herrings in both the sets come from the same source.


Wile E. Coyote - 563
                                                                } The Roadrunner Show
Acme Corporation - 564




Connect = Red herring

Theme 564: Answers

564 - U turns are good

THEME:
Companies that changed their core products to the ones that they're known for today.

Wrigley -  originally sold soap and baking powder.

Tiffany & Co. - originally started as a stationery and fancy goods emporium.

Hasbro - textile company which moved on to selling pencil boxes and school supplies.

Nintendo - initially it produced handmade hanafuda cards.The company also tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel.

Avon - door-to-door book sales.

RED HERRING:
Acme Corporation -  is a fictional corporation that exists in several cartoons, films and TV series, most significantly in the Looney Tunes universe. Products from the fictional Acme Corporation are both generic and tend to fail.

Theme 563: Answers. Oh Joy.




563 -  Vhateezinnoonymme?
(I honestly have no idea why this was the title. But when spelt in a non idiotic manner it's supposed to read, " What is in -onym" or atleast that was the intention)

THEME:

Cartoon Characters named after famous people/characters.

Yogi Bear - Yogi Berra


                



Scrooge McDuck - Ebenezer Scrooge




Duck Dodgers - Buck Rogers


   


Huckleberry Hound - Huckleberry Finn

           

Buzz Lightyear - Buzz Aldrin

           File:Aldrin.jpg

RED HERRING:
Wile E. Coyote - His name Wile E. is a play on the word "wily"




Other Cartoons are:

Stony Curtis - Tony Curtis

           

Whatte looker! :D


Owl Jolson - Al Jolson