Question 510: Ostrich.

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Happy tineye-ing! :)


And, why the title for this question??

Question 509: Brrrrrr

One of the first to discuss the possibility of an ___________ was __X_____. His 1665New Experiments and Observations_________ articulated the dispute known as the ________. The concept was well known among naturalists of the time. Some contended an___________ occurred within earth (as one of the four so-called 'elements'), others within water, others air, and some more recently within nitre. 


Values of this order for the ____________ were not, however, universally accepted about this period. Laplace and Lavoisier, in their 1780 treatise on heat, arrived at values ranging from 1,500 to 3,000 below the _________, and thought that in any case it must be at least 600 below. Dalton, in his Chemical Philosophy gave ten calculations of this value, and finally adopted a far off, completely wrong value. .


What?


X

Question 508: PUNishment

Bet a lot of you have been PUNting when im going to put up another pun question

Enjoy

ID the Visual pun (+5 per)

Question 507: What else is the internet for?

In July 2008, Puneet Agarwal, an NRi from London, revealed himself to be the author of a web comic __X__, to challenge a ban on it. According to Alexa, it's currently among the 100 most popular sites in India, and over 80% of the traffic to the site comes from there. The comic is printed in 10 different Indian languages, not counting English. Pluggd.in, a startup blog from India even did a case study on their growth and strategy.

"Wow, India has now joined the elite club of China, Iran, North Korea and suchlike in the area of Internet censorship."

Graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee on the ban of __X___.

The official reason given for banning the comic was that it posed a hazard to Indian National Security. Thus for the sake of protection of our country, they banned this comic. Others rumour that it was due to the fact that the comic portrayed an actor __Y__ in an unsavory manner.

__X__ also spawned off a show which nobody watches, called Jay Hind, featuring __X__ and some guy called Jay.

Question:

1) ID X & Y
2) Brownie points for giving the unsavory manner in which __Y__ was portrayed, or the connection to the title.

Pic from the show nobody watches

Question 506: One's company, Eleven's a crowd.

What's blanked out?


When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark

At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark

Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
________________
________________

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
_________________
_________________

Question 505: 4th Hungarian Magik!

WHAT IS THIS??

Question DIV: Find me If you Can

"Many people have asked about the meaning of our name. '__X__' was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty. The poem compares the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles. '...hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood.' __X__, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal."


This site, overtook another famous site __Y__ in China, since it complied with all Chinese Government Directives. This lead to a famous Line "__Y__, __Z__", of which __Z__ was part of __X__'s name, when __Y__ decided to leave China based on those rules.


Question:
1) ID X,Y and Z
2) ID the phrase

Question 503 : The Quizzard( Yes, I know, weird Title)

Origin of?


The earliest printed reference to the origin of this proverb is attributed to the Ben Johnson in his 1598 play, Every Man in his Humour, which was performed first by Shakespeare.


'Helter skelter, hang sorrow, care will _______, up-tails all, and a pox on the hangman.'


Shakespeare used in Much Ado About Nothing.


'What, courage man! what though care _______, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care'


The Washington Post, 1916.


'On Wednesday the _____, __________ unsatisfied, tried to climb higher—and fell to the first floor. His cries could still be heard by Miss Godfrey; who, to effect Blackie's rescue, communicated with the following departments:
1. Police department.
2. Fire department.
3. Health department.
4. Building department.
5. Washington Heights court.

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.