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lol

ALSO
QUESTIONS 490-495 ARE STILL OPEN
HAZARD AN ANSWER
REGARDS
PAI

Question 495: MEMEonics

My exams just ended, and in awaiting black monday, i decided to just post a few meme questions.

ID the meme
And hope that i'll be alive to post questions post monday
Regards

20 points, 5 per meme.
(Proper names please)

ID whats blanked out

Id whats blanked out

Meme name

Id the personality who became a meme, and brownie points for why

Guest Questions

Anyone who wants to contribute a question, mail it to
thequizzard2000@gmail.com

->Your name
-> The Question(obviously)
-> The Answer

ALSO, LOOK AT THE ANSWERS TO EACH QUESTION ONCE THEY HAVE BEEN POSTED UP


-PAI

they'll be up soon!
Thanks!

Question 494: Gene Kelly Would Not have been Proud of this.

The vaguest of reasons.
We can't say for sure why many of us do this.
This is something most of us don't really do at will, when we're in the company of our friends or maybe even at college/work. In other words, we aren't really inclined to doing it in public.
The cause for this habit differs from person to person, depending on his peculiarities, confidence, skill, etc.
When we're far away from the rest of the world in this particular place, mentally, at least, we tend to let our inhibitions go.
The good resonance and acoustics of this small, closed area of space, in which we spend at least 25 minutes of our day, boost our own capabilities. Well, only we think so. Not in reality! The sound of the elixir of life can dilute the extent of how bad we actually are. Hence, the short burst of being highly eloquent. After that little period, BOOM, back to your shell.

Slightly vague.
Lot of clues.
Causes(probable) for what?

Question 493: Another Hole in the Wall

Sorry for not posting, but i busy playing a game on the comp, and time just slipped by.


Anyway, here's a game ive found absolutely infuriating, but somehow fun. Wasn't what i was engrossed in, that is a question for later on in the day


The game consists primarily of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player's character and simple objects using the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (ASHPD, also dubbed the "___X___"), a unit that can create inter-spatial __X__ between flat planes. The player character, Chell, is challenged by an AI named GLaDOS to complete each puzzle in the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center using the __X___ with the promise of receiving cake when all the puzzles are completed.
(Must have been bloody good cake, but spoiler alert, you can't have your cake and eat it too
lol)
 The unusual physics allowed by the __X___ are the emphasis of this game by Valve, and is illustrated in this stupid meme i found online


Enjoy


Question:
1) ID the Game X

Question 492: As Mad as a Hatter.

Cartoon depicting whom?

Question 491: Gossip Monger

Julio Cesar:  Supermarket
Iker Casillas:  Horrible
Luiz Fabiano:   Supernatural
Buffon:  Shameful
Joe Hart:  Good Fun
David James:  Dreadful
Fabio Capello:  Completely Different
Carlos Queiroz:  We love it.
Messi:  Complicated


Now, what is all this about?

Question 490: "No if, no but, only ____"

The title is from a film (obscure one at that), brownie points for anyone who can give me the title of the film, and an utter loss of respect if you've seen that film
lol
Now onto the question
Ive divided it up into two parts, one with text, and the other, a picture parody (its always a parody).
One for the googlers, and one for the tin-eyers.
Both combined, gives you one for the purist quizzer (a combination of google and tineye)
smirk.
Both have the same answer.


Textual Question:


Georges Seurat, motivated by study in optical and colour theory, he contrasted miniature dots of colors that, through optical unification, form a single hue in the viewer's eye. For example, he painted many green and red dots in a certain way that when you see the painting, the colour would be seen as the combination of both colours, in this case yellow. He believed that this form of painting, now known as __Y___, would make the colors more brilliant and powerful than standard brush strokes. To make the experience of the painting even more vivid, he surrounded it with a frame of painted dots, which in turn he enclosed with a pure white, wooden frame, which is how the painting is exhibited today at the Art Institute of Chicago.

In creating the picture, Seurat employed the then-new pigment zinc yellow (zinc chromate), most visibly for yellow highlights on the lawn in the painting, but also in mixtures with orange and blue pigments. In the century and more since the painting's completion, the zinc yellow has darkened to brown—a colour degeneration that was already showing in the painting in Seurat's lifetime.

The island of____X__ is in the Seine in Paris between La Defense and the suburb of Neuilly, bisected by the Pont-de-Levallois. Although for many years it was an industrial site, it is today the site of a public garden and a housing development. In 1884, the island was a bucolic retreat far from the urban center.

Pictorial representation:

Question:

1) ID X (the picture being described, and the progenitor of the parody)

2) The art form described, and utilized even in the parody (by someone as jobless as me to get all this info, and you for reading it. lol)

3) Brownie points for completing the title of the question

Open Questions (Click on the link)

1) Till 9 pm, IST (so thats about 10 pm Indian time i guess,lol)

Question 485

Question 486

2) Questions still open for a couple of more days

Question 487

Question 488

Question 489

Regards

Pai

Question 489: How Cold Is it?

It is often stated that the phrase originated from the use of a certain metallic tray, called a "____", to hold cannonballs on warships in the 16th to 18th centuries. Supposedly, in very cold temperatures the "___" would contract, causing people to remark, " ___X___"

Later on, a humorist personified this phrase in the form of a patent for the picture below. He says that it works upon the conditions and principles of the phrase __X__, such that when a preset optimum climatic conditions are achieved, it shall cause a noise, emanating from the result of the phrase, as an indication that it is "_____X______"

SO ID X, the phrase in question (or in reply to the question asked)

(Filling in the blank would only give you part of the phrase)

Question 488: Not Very Lucrative, I'm afraid..

Text(A)

'In Tarquin's likeness I did entertain thee:
Hast thou put on his shape to do him shame?
To all the host of heaven I complain me,
Thou wrong'st his honour, wound'st his princely name.
Thou art not what thou seem'st; and if the same,
Thou seem'st not what thou art, a god, a king;
For kings like gods should govern everything.

The Bearded One(B)

Okay. You see a piece of text from an insignificant piece of literature, written by someone really jobless. It might help to know who he is, though, mind you. Call the verse __A__
Then you see a picture. Call him ___B___
If you connect A&B, chances are there that you'll find a particular incident as a the connect.

Call the connect __X___
As a result of __X___ , something quite historic happened. Maybe the first of its kind?
Call this historic event___Y___

Just give me X and Y