Question DII: Can't dance your way around this

A happy Republic Day to all.

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”

Edward Abbey

Now on to the question

The picture below shows the extent of the kingdom of __X__, who is said to have unified the subcontinent under one kingdom.

In the Vedas, __X__ is described as follows

abhūtir eṣā kas tyajyāj jīvañ jīvantam ātmajam

śākuntalaṃ mahātmānaṃ dauḥṣantiṃ bhara paurava

bhartavyo 'yaṃ tvayā yasmād asmākaṃ vacanād api

tasmād bhavatv ayaṃ nāmnā bharato nāma te sutaḥ

Therefore, O thou of Puru's race, cherish thy high-souled son born of __Y__

and because this child is to be cherished by thee even at our word,

therefore shall this thy son be known by the name of ___X___.

 But others argue that the __X__ race, an Ayan tribe mentioned in the Rigveda were successful against other Aryan and Non-Aryan tribes. Thus in the post Vedic tradition, they were deemed as conquerors of all, and hence all was known as __X__.

Question:

1) ID X

2) ID its contribution to the world today (exact answer required).

3) Brownie points for explaining the connection to the title

A picture says a 1000 words, and takes a 1000 tries to get right

THE QUIZZARD FINALLY HAS A LOGO.

Thanks to help of a Graphic Designer, Anjana (who can be contacted via the quizzard email id, for any matters), we finally hit upon the right logo for the blog.

Took 2 hours just to get the dimensions right
So a huge thank you to Anjana for her gracious help.

Thats the reason the blog seemed to be in a state fo quiescence, and the logo kept changing.
But the scoreboard never did
(Thats coz i was busy, and Nihar, as usual, lazy
Lol)

WE'LL BE STARTING WITH A NEW THEME ROUND THIS EVENING.
UNTIL THEN, TRY ANSWERING ALL THE OPEN QUESTIONS.

The Evolution of the logo was as such:

Please leave your comments on the logo under this post
Regards
Pai.

Question DI: Play it again

____X___ is a 1942 Hollywood film, touted as amongst the most famous films that defined an entire generation and whose lines have become stuff of legend.

It follows the story of a person who has choose between love for a woman and helping her husband escape a place (blotted out on the map), in order to continue his crusade against the Nazis.

The movie barb wire, is a spoof of __X__ (it can't be considered anything but)

However, on the map, there are 2 locations blanked out

Question:

1) ID Both locations blanked out

2) ID the connection with X

The map

FOr the hell of it, to distract everyone BACK TO THE QUESTION
smirk.

Old Wine in a new bottle

We're still mooting a logo, or rather the proper dimensions for it
etc etc
So we haven't been able to post any questions today.
Tomorrow, on republic day, we'll be starting a new theme round.
Watch this space for more news.
Regards
Pai

Check out the unanswered questions in the mean time

Question 500: Start of a new era

Although the ____________ are now written with letters of the ____________, they were originally independent symbols. The Etruscans, for example, used I, Λ, X, ⋔, 8, ⊕, for I, V, X, L, C, and M, of which only I and X happened to be letters in their alphabet. One folk etymology has it that the V represented a hand, and that the X was made by placing two Vs on top of each other, one inverted. However, the _______ actually appear to derive from notches on tally sticks, which continued to be used by Italian and Dalmatian shepherds into the 19th century.

Thus, 'I' descends not from the letter 'I' but from a notch scored across the stick. Every fifth notch was double cut (i.e. ⋀, ⋁, ⋋, ⋌, etc.), and every tenth was cross cut (X), IIIIΛIIIIXIIIIΛIIIIXII..., much like European tally marks today. This produced a positional system: Eight on a counting stick was eight tallies, IIIIΛIII, or the eighth of a longer series of tallies; either way, it could be abbreviated ΛIII (or VIII), as the existence of a Λ implies four prior notches. By extension, eighteen was the eighth tally after the first ten, which could be abbreviated X, and so was XΛIII. Likewise, number fouron the stick was the I-notch that could be felt just before the cut of the Λ (V), so it could be written as either IIII or IΛ (IV). Thus the system was neither additive nor subtractive in its conception, but ordinal. When the tallies were transferred to writing, the marks were easily identified with the existing ______

WHAR IS BEING TALKED ABOUT?

Question 499: Justice is Justice, and

Rouget de Lisle was born in Montaigu. He entered the army as an engineerand attained the rank of captain. The song that has immortalised him, ___X___ (based on Piano COncerto no. 25), was composed at Strasbourg, where Rouget de Lisle was quartered in April 1792. He wrote the words in a fit of patriotic excitement after a public dinner. The piece was at first called Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin ("War Song for the Army o the Rhine") and only received its name of _____ from its adoption by the provencial volunteers whom Barbaroux introduced into Paris and who were prominent in the storming of the Tuileries. Rouget de Lisle was a royalist and was cashiered and thrown into prison in 1793, narrowly escaping the guillotine. He was freed during the Thermidorian Reaction

Question 498: No Calculus for this one

__X__ Chief Scout of the Cockchafers is the first comic strip series written by __Y___ who later wrote ____Z___. ___X___ published it monthly from July 1926 to summer 1929 and tells of a Boy Scout called __X___ on his adventures. The character would play a large part of inspiration for ___Z__, and the idea of a Scout was chosen because, firstly it was for a Scouting magazine, and secondly because ____Y___ had a great love of the movement. The series was drawn with pictures and captions separate, as most comics of that time were.

In 1930 ___Y___allowed a comics artist whose pseudonym was Evany (Eugène van Nijverseel) to write ___X___ on his own, as ___Y___was now very busy with his work on ___Z___ This second life of the series ran from February to July, 1930 and produced a total of five pages.

CHECK OUT QUESTIONS 493-498
THEY'RE STILL OPEN.

Question 497: Come on baby light my fire

Visual Connect:

Hint:
As a pair, in ancient greece it was known as the individuals in this picture

Poached a cracked egg, so the yolk's on you

This is just to inform that i've teamed up with Rohan and helped form a music blog
Another Quiz Blog In the Wall

Check it out when you can
And no, this doesn't mean that i've left The Quizzard
So you can stop rejoicing.
Especially you Nihar.

I'll be posting all my music questions, or most of them on that blog
But that doesn't entail that The Quizzard will be bereft of music, check out Nihar's question for the tune The Quizzard can carry in a barrel
lol

Question 494
Regards
Pai

Question 496: The Pole Position

Keeping in tradition with the soon to disappear style of questioning which has its advent and staunch advocate in Nihar, even i decided to discombobulate so that none can confabulate

Smirk.

The literal translation of this place __X___ is against the bear, which either refers to its policy against hairy homosexual men or the other kind of bear that everyone seems to have forgotten (not pedobear mind you)

Apocryphally, its said to be the antonym of another place __Y__, hence its name __X__.

I would say polar opposite, if i may be so bold.

But rumour has it that its name is based on the name of __Y__, its relative, hence the name __X__ came about, as it is supposed to be the ____ of __Y___.

__X__, referring to its literal translation (about the bears), is home to certain creatures __Z__, which hold strong views about those pesky bears, hence possibly the name __X__

This is most of the gibberish i could come up with about __X__.

So id X,Y and Z

If you can't and would ike to go back to googleable/tineyeable questions.

Please vote on the pole.

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Appendation:

Ive included one clue which would unravel the entire question
Read it a couple of times, you'll find it
Enjoy