Monday, December 6, 2010

Question 432: Found neither in Giza nor Ibiza

n his Poetics the Greek philosopher Aristotle put forth the idea "A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end". This three-part view of a plot structure (with a beginning, middle, and end – technically, the protasis, epitasis, and catastrophe, was how most dramas were modelled until 1863, when __X__ wrote a book called Die Technik des Dramas.

In this book, he put forth a view which has become the crux of comedies and a tradition in theater. Building upon Aristotle's views, he made a pyramid like structure as shown in the picture.

Question
1) Id X
2) Fill in the blanks in the pyramid (bottom left, top, bottom right)

Sorry im posting after so long.
Most of my questions are being put into the Christ quiz.



Sunday, December 5, 2010

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Question 430: Ive shone you all i need to

THis is a lego parody of a parody of a famous scene from a movie, a cult classic in which launched actor __X__ really shone. This scene has oft been repeated in many movies and TV shows, and has been rated amongst the scariest scenes in any film ever.

Id

1) The actor X
2) The original movie
3) The parody, and where it was shown.
(pay attention to the video)


Friday, December 3, 2010

Question 429: Knocking on heaven's door

____X_____ is a term synonymously used to denote something impregnable, invincible and what can only be described as the most secure place on earth. It has been denoted in comics, especially in Donald Duck comics ( read Uncle Scrooge), who compares his fortifications as rivaling ___X___.

Cited in movies such as goldfinger, and shows such as Simpsons, Pinky and the Brain, a slew of movies have used this term to describe the ultimate show of a debaucher's dexterity ( or in layman's terms, a crooks cunning and skill).

But what is unknown to most is that it holds a museum to general Patton, a high school, and has a population of 12000 odd people.

Id X

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Question 427: If Pink Floyd met The Beatles

2 part question, the answers connect up to a theme.

Find the connect and the answers.
Also, the relation to the question name.

1) In the world of economics, connect the 2 pictures






2) Id X and Y from this extract.


______: This is an outrage! You're out of line, _____X_____


____X_____: ________, Mr. _________, ________r has 33 different vice presidents, each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents.


The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated.


In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you.


I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them!

The point is, ladies and gentleman, ______________Y_________________ .

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Question 426: Weight a second

THis really needs no explanation, just fill in the blank in the last image. Something we all leartn before we knew what it was. This is aongst the most famous derivations in the world, as is the answer.





Question 425: Post Graduate

CONNECT



Monday, November 29, 2010

Question 424: Goddy's Gift; (HP)

In one of the myths surrounding Alexander the Great, Alexander's army was attacked by ____X_____ as they marched east, with a great number of soldiers killed. Rather than retreating, Alexander, admiring the creatures' strength and nobility, trapped four of them with meat lures fixed to his chariot. The ____X____ took the lures and were caught, then took flight, drawing the chariot high into the air, where Alexander saw the whole of Greece and Europe stretched out beneath him in the sun. Eventually they flew so high that the sun started to burn the ____X______s' wings, and they landed again. Since the establishment of this mythology, _____X_____have often been depicted as chariot- or carriage-pulling beasts for especially noble or powerful individuals.

However, in 1997, this word ( the creature's name) has entered the normal parlance (refer to the name of the post)
Question:
1) Id this creature.
2) Explain its connection to the picture

Question 423: Kingstown.

Our first guest question, by SyntaXerror


Fill in the Blanks.


2 - annihilated by bombardments during the second world war
2 - razed down and supplanted by 2 highways.
1 - Rebuilt in the 1930's.
The remaining ones are original, from __X___'s time.

Currently there are 5 in _____Y_____.

Gimme the person X and the place Y.



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