647: Theme Answers

Cross your i's and dot your t's...or?

THEME:

Characters from the British tv show Mind Your Language

JUAN CERVANTES

SIDNEY
MAXIMILLIAN PAPANDRIOUS

INGRID SVENSSON

ANNA SCHMIDT

GLADYS

Ms. COURTNEY

RED HERRING: LUCIANO PAVAROTTI

RIGHT THEME GUESSES:

quizenthusiast - 647 f - +30
bazzinga - 647 h - +10

WRONG THEME GUESSES:

allornothing - 647 g - no negatives because he was on the right track

RED HERRING GUESSES:

Anonymous - +20

Question 647 h: Courting leads to love

Connect these two to a person and give the theme a shot.
Last chance.
C'mon.

Question 647 g: /with pleasure

Identify this, ahem, piece of art and the, ahem, artist.

Where would you have come across this?

Also, go for the bloody theme!





Ps: Please.

Question 647 f: Get the leow down

What?

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

• Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky
• Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky 
• Princess Darya Alexandrovna Oblonskaya 
• Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin 
• Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin
• Nikolai Levin 
• Sergius Ivanich Koznyshev 
• Princess Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya 
• Princess Elizaveta ("Betsy")
• Countess Lidia Ivanovna 
• Countess Vronskaya
• Sergei 
• Varenka 

Question 647 d: The world will always welcome lovers, as time goes by

X and Y connect to Z. Identify the 3 and explain the connection.

X

Y

Apparently this is how he poses for a picture. Sad.

Anyone going for the theme? :P

Question 647 c: He's a thief. One thinks it's Peer pressure.

The Encyclopedia Britannica quotes,


Id the subject.
Reminder: The main challenge is the Theme, not the individual question :)




At ---- he wasn't understood till he met with his audience of fellow disciples of --- at the Jacobin Club. His fanaticism won him supporters; his singularly sweet and sympathetic voice gained him hearers; and his upright life attracted the admiration of all. As matters approached nearer and nearer to the terrible crisis, he failed, except in the two instances of the question of war and of the king's trial, to show himself a statesman, for he had not the liberal views and practical instincts which made Mirabeau and Danton great men. His admission to the Committee of Public Safety gave him power, which he hoped to use for the establishment of his favourite theories, and for the same purpose he acquiesced in and even heightened the horrors of the Reign of Terror ... ______'s private life was always respectable: he was always emphatically a gentleman and man of culture, and even a little bit of a dandy, scrupulously honest, truthful and charitable. In his habits and manner of life he was simple and laborious; he was not a man gifted with flashes of genius, but one who had to think much before he could come to a decision, and he worked hard all his life.

Question 647 b: Not Knighthood

X(pic) was born in Guyana, Georgetown.
He's known for his stories on racial discrimination against Black people. Both his parents were Oxford educated, and his early days were good.
The work of his that draws our attention now is ____Y____, an autobiographical novel about his experiences as a school teacher.
A hugely popular movie was made, based on __Y____, starring ___Z___

X

Id X, Y, Z

Question 647 a: Takes one to know one

__X__ is a fictional character notorious for his womanizing prowess. __X__ has been the subject of many works of literature. A slight grammatical variation of the term is used with reference to male hypersexuality.

One of the more famous works based on him is the eponymous poem by __Y__.
In __Y__s poem however, __X__s character has been reversed from that of seducer to the one that succumbs to seduction.

The work is generally considered to be one of __Y__s greatest masterpieces and is a testament to his skill in the art of satire.

Identify __X__ and __Y__.

Theme Round! : Cross your i's and dot your t's...or?

Hello all!
New theme round starting tomorrow. Don't worry, no simultaneous theme. :)
8 questions and rules as per the RED HERRING PROSPECTUS.

That is all :)

Theme 10 Answers: Liquidity

Theme Connect:

"Companies Named After Rivers"

Answers:

• Isuzu
• Hudson Bay Company
• Samsung: Red Herring
• Avon Cycles 
• Adobe
• Amazon
• Lagonda
• Nokia

Theme Cracked by:

1) Nagaratna - Question 3
2) Pi.R.Square - QUestion 3.

Red Herring: Samsung.

1) Pi.R.Square
2) Nagaratna

Question 602 h: Droolsome Foursome

Another throughly lame question.
We'll come up with something better soon, fret not!

Anyway, get this over with!
Connect, I beg of you.

Question 601.h: Another (Phone) Brick In the Wall

ID the man making the call and the company which manufactured the phone. After this occasion, the company rose to prominence
#brownie points for the Phone's Name.

Question 602 g: ...__ Will make Amends

What's talked about?

Be specific.

The origin of the word _____________ is obscure. The Oxford Dictionary suggests the name is related to the verb poke used in the game of hurling for striking or pushing the ball.

It is possible that Halifax natives, many of whom were Irish and played  hurling, may have introduced the word to Canada. The first known printed reference was in Montreal, in 1867, just a year after the first indoor game was played there.

The X

Well, essentially, all the blanks allude to X!

The use of the _______________in the early 1990s was the first attempt to improve the visibility of hockey pucks as seen on television. This invention incorporated coloured retro reflective materials of either embedded lens elements or prismatic reflectors laminated into recesses on the flat surfaces and the vertical edge of a standard hockey ____. Yellow was the preferred reflected colour. A spotlight was required to be positioned on the TV camera and focused at the centre of the viewing area.

A short demonstration tape of the Minnesota North Stars skating with the _______ was shown during the period break at the 1993 National Hockey League All Star game in Montreal, Canada. The International Hockey League (IHL) pursued testing the __________ with its inventor, Donald Klassen. The next television viewing was the IHL All star game in Fort Wayne IN, Jan 1994, where the__________ was used the entire game. The IHL tested the ________ in two more games, and finally the East Coast Hockey League used it Jan 17, 1997 for their All Star game.

The use of the________ was discontinued because:

• The slight structural change increased the tendency for the ----- to bounce on the ice. This made it more difficult for the goaltender and resulted in increased scoring.
• The skaters objected to the use of camera spotlights which reflected off the ice.
• The television viewing contrast of the ______- was not noticeably enhanced when the camera view was of the entire rink, this being the most common camera shot.

The _____________ name was branded during the 90s but has since been discontinued.

Question 601.g: Smell of Napalm in the Morning

The basic premise of the project was to create a weapon capable of shooting a jet of flame high and wide enough to force incoming bomber pilots to either pull out of their dive or brave a pillar of flame potentially capable of damaging or destroying their plane.

The most effective was a design submitted by the __X__ car company, which fired eight gallons of a diesel oil/tar fuel mixture per second, igniting to produce a continuous gout of flame with a range of nearly 100 feet (30 m), which at its widest point was roughly 30 feet (10 m) in diameter. According to Gerald Pawle, an engineer working on the project, the __X__ flamethrower universally inspired both awe and horror in all staff officers invited to watch the demonstrations. Further refinements were made to the design which increased its effective range to 200 feet (61 m), though a much larger quantity of fuel was needed to maintain the flame for any significant period of time.


So Connect __X__ with the following:

Question 602 f: A Tattle of Wit.

No Xs and Ys.
Just tell me what this little legend's about.
I think we'll be going too far to term this as a controversy, bt anyway, here goes.




The story of the posting on the door has settled as one of the pillars of history, but its foundations in truth are minimal. _____ on doors is unparalleled in history. Even further, ________ is known as strongly law abiding, and to publish his thoughts and direction in such a way would be strongly against his character. The great man has never mentioned anything in this direction in his writings, and the only contemporary account of the publishing is the account of Agricola, written in Latin. In this account, Agricola states that______ presents ‘------- in the year of 1517 according to the customs of University of_________ as part of a scientific discussion. The presentation was done in a modest and respectful way, preventing to mock or insult anybody”. There is no mention of nailing  to a door, nor does any other source report this. In reality, -------- presented a hand-written copy, accompanied with honourable comments to the archbishop Albrecht of Mainz and Magdenburg, responsible for the practice of the ______, and to the bishop of _________, the superior of --==--. It wasn’t until January 1518 that friends of his translated the ---------- from Latin into German, printed, and widely copied, making the controversy one of the first in history to be aided by the printing press. Within two weeks, copies had spread  throughout Europe.  His writings circulated widely, reaching France, England, and Italy as early as 1519.

Question 601.f: Alpha Tango Oscar Zulu

__X___ is a 1995 book by Douglas Hofstadter and other members of the Fluid Analogies Research Group exploring the mechanisms of intelligence through computer modeling. It contends that the notions of analogy and fluidity are fundamental to explain how the human mind solves problems and to create computer programs that show intelligent behavior. It analyses several computer programs that members of the group have created over the years to solve problems that require intelligence.


The book is a collection of revised articles that appeared in precedence, each preceded by an introduction by Hofstadter. They describe the scientific work by him and his collaborators in the 1980s and 1990s. The project started in the late 1970s at Indiana University, where Hofstadter collaborated with Marsha Meredith and Gray Clossman. In 1983 he took a sabbatical year at MIT, working in Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Lab. There he met and collaborated with Melanie Mitchell, who subsequently did her Ph.D. with him, David Rogers, and Marek Lugowski. Subsequently Hofstadter moved to the University of Michigan, where the FARG (Fluid Analogies Research Group) was founded. Eventually he returned to Indiana University in 1988, continuing the FARG research there. The book was written during a sabbatical year at the Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica in Trento, Italy.

Given that mouthfull, what place does this have on this particular theme?
#brownie points for __X__, if you can remember the whole name.
& the title explanation.

For TLDR Quizzers like me, & Tineyers (No connection)

Question 602 e: The Phrince

Cultivation of ___X___ may have preceded apple culture, and many references translated to "apple", such as the fruit in Song of Solomon, may have been to a __X__. Among the ancient Greeks, the  __X__ was a ritual offering at weddings, for it had come from the Levant with __X___ and remained sacred to her. _____reports that a Greek bride would nibble a __X__ to perfume her kiss before entering the bridal chamber, "in order that the first greeting may not be disagreeable nor unpleasant"

Ibn Al Qayyam wrote that "When the _________ is broiled, it will become softer and milder. When one removes the ____________, stuffs them with honey, dips them in a paste and then broil them under hot ashes, they will become very beneficial. The best way to eat the ___________ is broiled or cooked in honey."

More about this

So here we provide step by step procedure _______ preserve in your kitchen.

• 1. Wash the , cut them carefully, they are hard & you need pressure on the knife, be careful to safeguard your fingers.
• 2. Remove the seeds & do not throw them,_______ is an expensive medicine; you may eat them later by boiling in milk.
• 3. Now take the sliced fruit over the stove, add some water
• 4. Boil for 45 minutes & the fruit will tender with heat, now smash properly with a wooden spoon.
• 5. Add honey (for 4 kg __________, add 1 kg honey).
• 6. To add a preservative, add 100 ml of pure home-made vinegar.
• 7. Boil again unless the fruit, honey & vinegar homogenize & you have a beautiful, crimson colored quince preserve.
• 8. To make it softer; I take the preserve to my blender & apply the pulse for 5 minutes, but it is not necessary.
• 9. Keep the preserve refrigerated.

That is all; your ____ preserve is ready to repair the damaged heart. تجم الفؤاد means that _________ pleases / strengthens the heart, & opens the coagulation (if available). والطخاء للقلب is meant for darkness, like clouds or a sand storm cover the clear sky which is then un-seen, so_______ will do the same job for the heart, it will remove blockage & the heart will be clear & healthy Insha'Allah.

Question 601.e: Make Up for the Monitor

Note:


Question 601.a has been edited, check it out when you can to crack the theme.
Regards
Pai.


A Redditt Article about an update from the company __X__ about its Product ___Y__

"One intrepid Reddit user tried out __X__'s __Y__ new Content Aware filter (basically, it can fill in or erase content areas through the power of wizards and gum drops). Unfortunately, the test proved less than fruitful when attempting to get a dress off of Olivia Munn. Technology…not taking us quite far enough.

Though it’s disappointing that the Content Aware filter didn’t seem to work as well as you’d hope, just think: It’d be much worse if it did work and that was still the output. For all we know, Olivia Munn may very well have aliens attempting to burst out of her rib cage as evidenced by this photo. And that’s the story I’m sticking with until Olivia Munn attempts to discredit me by sending us nude pictures. It’s my job and duty to you, as a reporter and chronic masturbator, to investigate this to the fullest extent. Prove me wrong, Munn. Prove me wrong."

& as much as this seems like Nihar's doing, especially the desperate plea and the "prove me wrong" part,  this was written by someone else about the product.

SInce there was no dearth of funny pictures, have your pic(k) for identifying __X__ & __Y__.

Question 602 d : Her Ladyship

Another sitter!

Connect the four images.

Question 602 c: : Scassassin

Id X, Y, Z

Marvel's strongest human female, except possibly the __X___, and the wife of the ___Y___. She was created by then Editor-in-Chief Jim SHooter, in the successful company-wide crossover known as ______. An aspiring bully, __Z___ became a significant threat, and the main rival of the __X___. She is also well known for having a long lasting fear of Spider man.

According to writer/editor Chris Priest, Mary MacPherran is a tuckerised version of Mary McPherson, a production assistant at Marvel.

friend of