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X is a fictional supervillain who is obsessed with giving

forewarnings of his impending crimes using complex puzzles. With this self-conscious use of a gimmick, X’s crimes are usually flamboyant and ostentatious. X is depicted as wearing a domino mask either with a green suit and bowler hat, or a green unitard with question mark prints. A black, green, or purple question mark serves as his visual motif. X’s modus operandi is so deeply ingrained in his personality that he is virtually powerless to stop himself from acting it out. He cannot simply kill his opponents when he has the upper hand; but should put them in a deathtrap to see if he can devise a life and death intellectual challenge that the hero cannot solve and escape.

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__________ Wakes is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by John Wyndham whose title refers to Alfred Tennyson's sonnet ___________. Given below is the sonnet.

Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His antient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep ________sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides: above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; And far away into the sickly light, From many a wondrous grot and secret cell Unnumber'd and enormous polypi Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green. There hath he lain for ages and will lie Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep, Until the latter fire shall heat the deep; Then once by man and angels to be seen, In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

What should come in place of _________?

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Name this iconic volleyball.4

When Apple launched the Macintosh in _______, its debut was announced by the now famous $1.5 million television commercial “______". Acted by David Graham and Anya Major and directed by Ridley Scott, it was aired during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, ________. It is now hailed as a watershed event for Apple's success and as a "masterpiece“. Name it. (The first pic which carries a direct literary allusion is the greatest clue.)

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Identify.

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X is a dystopian novel by a Nobel Prize-winning English author which has influenced many other works.

• Stephen King got the name Castle Rock from the fictional mountain fort of the same name in X, using the name to refer to a fictional town that has appeared in a number of King's novels. X itself appears prominently in his novels Hearts in Atlantis ,Misery and Cujo.

• King's fictional town of Castle Rock inspired the name of Rob Reiner's production company, Castle Rock Entertainment, which produced the film version of X in 1990.

• The final song of Boy, the debut album of U2, which portrays the thoughts and frustrations of adolescence, takes its title, "Shadows and Tall Trees", from Chapter 7 of X.

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Id X

8 Which book?

In 2008, Italian treasury minister Giulio Tremonti introduced a windfall tax on the profits of energy companies. Tremonti called the tax __________as it was aimed solely at the wealthy, i.e., big banks and investment firms, with revenue raised from it to be used for the benefit of poorer citizens.

What might be its possible name?

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What is the inspiration behind this John Quidor painting?

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X is a fictional supervillain who is obsessed with giving

forewarnings of his impending crimes using complex puzzles. With this self-conscious use of a gimmick, X’s crimes are usually flamboyant and ostentatious. X is depicted as wearing a domino mask either with a green suit and bowler hat, or a green unitard with question mark prints. A black, green, or purple question mark serves as his visual motif. X’s modus operandi is so deeply ingrained in his personality that he is virtually powerless to stop himself from acting it out. He cannot simply kill his opponents when he has the upper hand; but should put them in a deathtrap to see if he can devise a life and death intellectual challenge that the hero cannot solve and escape.

Id X

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The Riddler (a bit self-reflexive )

Put funda.

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• Dr Strangelove syndrome is a neurological disorder in which the afflicted person's hand appears to take on a mind of its own, named after the character Dr Strangelove.

Dr Strangelove syndrome

__________ Wakes is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by John Wyndham whose title refers to Alfred Tennyson's sonnet ___________. Given below is the sonnet.

Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His antient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep ________sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides: above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; And far away into the sickly light, From many a wondrous grot and secret cell Unnumber'd and enormous polypi Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green. There hath he lain for ages and will lie Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep, Until the latter fire shall heat the deep; Then once by man and angels to be seen, In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

What should come in place of _________?

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The Kraken

Name this iconic volleyball.4

•In the film Cast Away, Wilson the volleyball, serves as Chuck Noland's(played by Tom Hank) personified friend and only companion during the four years that he spends alone on a deserted island in the Pacific ocean.

When Apple launched the Macintosh in _______, its debut was announced by the now famous $1.5 million television commercial “______". Acted by David Graham and Anya Major and directed by Ridley Scott, it was aired during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, ________. It is now hailed as a watershed event for Apple's success and as a "masterpiece“. Name it. (The first pic which carries a direct literary allusion is the greatest clue.)

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1984

• The first pic shows a dystopian future ruled by a televised "Big Brother" and the second one represents the coming of the Macintosh (indicated by the actress’s white tank top with a stylized line drawing of Apple’s Macintosh computer on it) as a means of saving humanity from "conformity“. These images were an allusion to George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Identify.

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The world's first xerographic image

•“10-22-38” refers to the 22nd of October, 1938 when the world’s first message was produced by photocopying technique, and Astoria to the location of Chester Carlson’s rented apartment in Astoria, Queens where with the help of his lab assistant Otto Kronei, this magic was wrought.

X is a dystopian novel by a Nobel Prize-winning English author which has influenced many other works.

• Stephen King got the name Castle Rock from the fictional mountain fort of the same name in X, using the name to refer to a fictional town that has appeared in a number of King's novels. X itself appears prominently in his novels Hearts in Atlantis ,Misery and Cujo.

• King's fictional town of Castle Rock inspired the name of Rob Reiner's production company, Castle Rock Entertainment, which produced the film version of X in 1990.

• The final song of Boy, the debut album of U2, which portrays the thoughts and frustrations of adolescence, takes its title, "Shadows and Tall Trees", from Chapter 7 of X.

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Id X

Lord of the Flies

8Which book?

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In 2008, Italian treasury minister Giulio Tremonti introduced a windfall tax on the profits of energy companies. Tremonti called the tax __________as it was aimed solely at the wealthy, i.e., big banks and investment firms, with revenue raised from it to be used for the benefit of poorer citizens.

What might be its possible name?

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Robinhood Tax

What is the inspiration behind this John Quidor painting?

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The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow

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"First things first - but not necessarily in that order." - Doctor Who

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The words X and Y make their first appearance in an epigram satirising the disagreements between George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Battista Bononcini, written by John Byrom. X and Y are perhaps best known from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There . Carroll, having introduced two fat little men named X and Y, quotes this nursery rhyme, which the two brothers then go on to enact.

Identify X and Y

X and YAgreed to have a battle;For X said YHad spoiled his nice new rattle.Just then flew down a monstrous crow,As black as a tar-barrel;Which frightened both the heroes so,  They quite forgot their quarrel.

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

• The names “Tweedledum and Tweedledee” have become synonymous with any two people who look and act in identical ways, generally in a derogatory context.

On Sept 11, 2010, i.e., on the 9th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Indian artist Jitesh Kallat unveiled an art installation called Public Notice 3 at the Art Institute in Chicago. This installation connects the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to something that happened precisely 117 years before it. What?

Swami Vivekananda's speech at the Parliament of World Religions on Sept 11, 1893.

X is first-person shooter video game inspired by the novel Y. X makes several references to Y, for example, the initials of the game's antagonist Andrew Ryan is a play on the name of Y’s author whose themes are explored at great length and portrayed with quite a bit of criticism in X.

• “To build a city at the bottom of the sea: insanity. But where else could we be free from the clutching hand of the parasites? Where else could we build an economy that they would not try to control, a society they would not try to destroy? It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.”

—X• “John Galt was a millionaire, a man of inestimable wealth. He was

sailing his yacht one night, in the mid-Atlantic, fighting the worst storm ever wreaked upon the world, when he found it. He saw it in the depth, where it had sunk to escape the reach of men. He saw the towers of Atlantis shining on the bottom of the ocean. It was a sight of such kind that when one had seen it, one could no longer wish to look at the rest of the earth. John Galt sank his ship and went down with his entire crew.”

—Y

Give me X and Y

X-BioshockY-Atlas Shrugged

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X, which literally means “an instrument that exhibits the natural movements of animals”, is an early device used for displaying motion pictures. Created by the photographic pioneer, Eadweard Muybridge ,X may be considered the first movie projector. X projected images by rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion. The stop-motion images were initially painted onto the glass, as silhouettes. A second series of discs used outline drawings printed onto the discs photographically and then colored by hand. Id X.

X-Zoopraxiscope

A legendary sculpture of what?

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer’s Pathummayude Aadu

X: Y is an anime series loosely based on Z’s classic French novel, Y. The general plot of X:Y, while broadly the same as the novel Y on which it is based, changes many aspects of the source material. In the anime series, Y’s previous identity as a sailor working for the Morrel family's shipping company is shown through flashbacks. Through betrayal ,Y becomes imprisoned in the Château d'If on false charges, and it is here that he meets the demonic X(known as “The Ruler of the Cave”). In exchange for the strength and means to gain revenge, Y allows the cold-blooded demon to possess him. Because of X, Y is afflicted with an odd condition which causes his body to be crystalline, revealing his bones and internal organs. X is initially suppressed by a special drug, but fully manifests near the end of the series as a triple set of dual colored eyes that run down the greater length of Y’s face.

Id X,Y and Z.

X:GankutsuouY-The Count of Monte CristoZ-Alexandre Dumas

“We all come out from X’s Y- Fyodor Dostoevsky.

“We all come out from Gogol’s Overcoat- Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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Lady Godiva• Lady Godiva was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according

to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry protesting the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants. The name "Peeping Tom" for a voyeur originates from this legend in which a man named Tom had watched her ride and was struck blind.

• Godiva Chocolatier was named so in honour of the legend of Lady Godiva.

• The 100m for Runners with No Sense of Direction-On firing the gun, the runners run off in every single direction.

• The 1500m for the Deaf-The runners don't move because they can't hear the starting gun.

• The 200m Freestyle for Non-Swimmers- At the starting whistle, the participants all jump into the water and immediately sink without surfacing, to which the commentator remarks that they'll return to the swimming when they start "fishing the corpses out".

• The Marathon for Those with Extremely Weak Bladders- In this, runners fall away from the group every couple of metres to relieve themselves, giving others the lead.

• The 3000m Steeplechase for People Who Think They're Chickens- The runners do chicken movements all over the course, and seem to be trying desperately to lay eggs.

• The High Jump- A woman takes a run-up, then jumps ridiculously high over a wall and onto a high balcony.

Where do these events “traditionally held every 3.7 years” occur and who are the conductors?

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Sloppy Firsts: "Finally, four major department stores and 170 specialty shops later, we were done.”

X:"Five department stores, and 170 specialty shops later, I was sick of listening to her hum along to Alicia Keys...“

Second Helpings: “... but in a truly sadomasochistic dieting gesture, they chose to buy their Diet Cokes at Cinnabon.”

X: “In a truly masochistic gesture, they had decided to buy Diet Cokes from Mrs. Fields ...”

Haroun and the Sea of Stories: Warning reads, "All the dangerous overtakers end up safe at undertaker's."

X:Poster reads, "If from drink you get your thrill, take precaution—write your will."

Can You keep a Secret?:"a full-scale argument about animal rights ... The mink like being made into coats.

X:"a full-fledged debate over animal rights .. The foxes want to be made into scarves."

The Princess Diaries:"Meanwhile, Paulo was picking up chunks of my hair and making this face and going, all sadly, "It must go. It must all go." And it went.”

X:"The whole time, Frederic kept picking up long strands of my hair and making sad faces. "It must go," he said. "It must all go." And it went.”

Born Confused:"India. I had few memories of the place, but the ones I held were dream clear: Bathing in a bucket as a little girl. The unnerving richness of buffalo milk drunk from a pewter cup.

X:"I had only a few memories of India…Some impressions stood out sharply in my mind, still as clear as freshly developed Polaroids. I remembered the cold, creamy taste of fresh buffalo milk…”

Id X

X-How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life

Kaavya Viswanathan’s novel ran into trouble when it

was discovered that various portions of the book had been plagiarized from several sources, including

• Megan McCafferty's Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings • Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories• Sophie Kinsella's Can You Keep a Secret? • Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries• Tanuja Desai Hidier's Born Confused

Id X and Y

X, which is the fictional setting for all of Y’s fantasy novels, makes use of the archaic belief that the Earth's shape is that of a plane. As such, X, which is a flat surface with edge-of-the-world drop-off and consequent waterfall, rests on the backs of four huge elephants which are in turn standing on the back of an enormous turtle, named Great A'Tuin which is similar to Chukwa/Akupara from Hindu mythology.

X-DiscworldY-Terry Pratchett

Identify A,B,C and D

• A means a typographical symbol derived from the Greek word for star, indicating the footnote to a text. In Turkish, A was first named Bücür meaning "shorty", but the name was then changed.

• B means either a massive monument or the typographical symbol ‘†’. Either way, the name is befitting because of B’s rotundity and because of B’s habit of casually carrying heavy stone monuments around with him.

• C’s name is a pun on obtaining a dose of a recreational drug and a reference to the magic potion C produces.

• D, which is another wily pun, means “a canine which clings fastidiously to set of beliefs”. In the original French, D’s name is Idéfix, itself a pun on the French expression idée fixe (fixed idea) meaning an obsession.

Asterix Characters created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.

• A-Asterix• B-Obelix• C-Getafix• D-Dogmatix

X is stance used in traditional Indian sculpture, art and classical dance forms like the Odissi where it is considered the most graceful and sensual of all positions. X literally means “a break in three parts”, and consists of three bends in the body- at the neck, waist and knee- which give the body a gentle "S" shape . X is closely associated with Lord Krishna, who in the picture below, is portrayed in this posture.

Identify X

X-Tribhanga

After wandering around aimlessly for a long time, X was finally inducted into a large family in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. X’s arrival caused ripples all round the world, with over 1,000 suggestions being received as regards X’s name. However the name X proposed by Venetia Burney, an eleven-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, was finally accepted as it was considered most appropriate to describe X’s dark and frigid nature. Although X’s life was controversial, X bumped along overcoming many obstacles until on September 13, 2006, a fatal decision threw X out of the family(not because of X’s perceived connection with the Underworld though). The decision which cast aspersions on X’s stature was made because X, according to some authorities, failed to qualify as a member of the prestigious family which X had insidiously sneaked into. However as a kind of compensation, X was allowed to be a member of another, though blemished, family of which X is still a member.

Id X

X-Pluto

• On September 13, 2006, The IAU included Pluto in the dwarf planet category as its mass is only 0.07 times that of the mass of the other objects in its orbit.

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• 1 Mark Twain(Tom Sawyer wall-painting scene)• 2 Franz Kafka(The Metamorphosis)• 3 X-Ray• 4 Vincent Van Gogh

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“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”-Margaret Thatcher

X based the character of Y on his son who was only four years old when he refused to take a nap and somehow messed up his whole room. X had tried many possible names for the character, but when his then-wife Alice, in utter exasperation of their son’s antics, exclaimed, "Your son is a _________!", the name of “Y the _______" finally stuck.

The picture shows X and his son, the inspiration for Y.

X-Hank KetchamY-Dennis the Menace

“What a dull world it would be without any Dennises in it! Peaceful, maybe-but dull.”

The _________ effect is the recursive appearance of a picture within itself, in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. It is named after the image on the tins and boxes of ________ cocoa powder, one of the main Dutch brands, which displayed a nurse carrying a serving tray with a cup of hot chocolate and a box with the same image.

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In Affectionate RemembranceofX,

which died at Yon

29th AUGUST 1882,Deeply lamented by a large circles of sorrowing

friends and acquaintancesR.I.P.

N.B.—The body will be cremated and theZ taken to Australia.

This obituary, written by Reginald Brooks under the pseudonym "Bloobs" appeared in the British newspaper informally known as The Pink 'Un on 2 September, 1889.Id X,Y & Z.

X-English CricketY-OvalZ- Ashes

In the Simpsons episode of A Fish Called Selma which shows Troy McClure's sagging film career as getting a momentary boost when he has a sham marriage with Selma Bouvier, there is a hilarious situation which results from the implication that Troy McClure has a sexual fetish for fish.

When Fat Tony sees Troy McClure walking around alive and well after he had been presumed to be dead(hearing the pronouncement of “Legs” that “he(Troy McClure) sleeps with the fishes”, Fat Tony asks "Legs" with amazement why he had said such a blatant lie. “Legs” answers in this manner: "No what I said was: "He sleeps with the fishes."

Legs’s pronouncement is a famous parody of what?

• The death of Luca Brasi who is thrown in the canal in "The Godfather". Later his killers send a dead fish to Sonny Corleone with the message: "He sleeps with the fishes."

If the picture depicts a popular tourist site in Ireland dubbed as “the world’s most unhygienic tourist attraction”, what is the man doing?

Kissing the Blarney Stone

• Local legend has it that visitors who bend over backwards to kiss the stone built into Blarney Castle, near Cork, Ireland, are rewarded with the 'gift of the gab‘ or ‘skill at flattery’ . From the legend, the word “blarney” has come to mean "clever, flattering, or coaxing talk."

The _____ model was independently proposed by physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig in 1964. While George Zweig preferred the name ace for the particle he had theorized, Gell-Mann liked _____ which was however the one that came into prominence once their model had been accepted. The story goes that for some time Gell-Mann was undecided on an actual spelling for the term he intended to coin, until he found the word ______ in James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake.

Three _______ for Muster Mark!Sure he has not got much of a barkAnd sure any he has it's all beside the mark.

What then is Joyce’s unwitting contribution to Physics?

Quark

Three quarks for Muster Mark!Sure he has not got much of a barkAnd sure any he has it's all beside the mark.

Put funda

Poe Toaster

• Every January 19, starting in 1949, in the early hours of the morning, the "Poe Toaster” made a toast of cognac to Poe's grave and left three roses.

A police sketch of which famous murder?

The murder of John Lennon by Mark Chapman in the Dakota entryway.

• John Lennon was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City .Two of Chapman’s bullets struck Lennon on the left side of his back, and two more penetrated his left shoulder. Lennon died instantly from profuse bleeding. When the doorman, Jose Sanjenis Perdomo shouted at Chapman asking, "Do you know what you've just done?“, Chapman calmly replied, "Yes, I just shot John Lennon."

• A took an iconic photo of X wearing a black beret on March 5, 1960 at a memorial service for victims of the La Coubre explosion. By the end of the 1960s, the photo turned the charismatic and controversial X into a cultural icon. A has said that at the moment he shot the picture, X’s facial expression showed "absolute implacability" as well as anger and pain. A claimed no payment for his picture as he thought that X’s image represented his revolutionary ideals, and thus the more his picture spread the greater the chance X’s ideals would spread as well. Emphasizing the image's wide appeal, the Maryland Institute College of Art called the picture a symbol of the 20th century and the world's most famous photo whose versions have been painted, printed, digitized, embroidered, tattooed, silk-screened, sculpted or sketched on nearly every surface imaginable.

• In 1967, the Irish artist B started using A’s image as a basis for creating his own stylized posters. Because of the high demand, B formed a poster company called Two Bear Feet that produced a variety of posters using the original. All of them were created without copyright, because B wanted them to be reproduced. As B wanted the posters to reflect something of himself, he raised X’s eyes more and added his initial, a reversed "F" on the shoulder.

Id A,B and X

A-Alberto KordaB-Jim FitzpatrickX-Che Guevara

Inverted “F”

Sparked by a $25 bet, a long-haired and bearded Australian stockbroker by the name of Michael O'Brien created history on 20 April 1974 during an England vs. France Rugby Union match at Twickenham stadium. O'Brien's seemingly innocent act officially launched a certain practice that (happily ) remains with us even today.

What practice am I referring to?

STREAKING!

Identify these Lego tributes to the world of movies.

PENULTIMO

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning”.-Winston Churchill

X, which can be translated into “eyesore”, is a Bengali drama film based on the novel of the same name by Y(shown in pic). It was directed by Z in 2003 and stars Aishwarya Rai as Binodini, Prasenjit as Mahendra and Raima Sen as Ashalata.

Id X,Y and Z.

X- Chokher BaliY- Rabindranath Tagore

Z- Rituparno Ghosh

Identify the artist and his masterpiece.

L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp

• L.H.O.O.Q. (in French èl ache o o qu) is a pun, since the letters when pronounced in French form the sentence "Elle a chaud au cul", which can be roughly translated be as "She has a hot ass."

“I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.”Bob Ross

Identify the mistake in these images.

The God of Music

ANACHRONISM

• Orpheus, the Greek god of poetry, depicted by Cesare Gennari with a violin that did not exist before 16th century.

• Aristotle, a 4th-century BC philosopher, portrayed in 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle appearing like an AD 15th-century scholar.

What is the claim to fame or rather notoriety of this house in Swansea, Wales?

Answer It resembles Hitler’s face! The slanted roof is said to

resemble Hitler’s fringe, the door lintel his moustache and the small top windows the dictator’s piercing eyes.

•The photograph went viral on twitter when it was tweeted by Jimmy Carr, the comedian, but the owner of the house in Port Tenant, Swansea, a man in his 70s, said he had never even heard of Twitter!

____________ is a gesture used to degrade, intimidate and threaten the individual receiving it. In the 1st-century Mediterranean world, extending _________ was one of many methods used to divert the ever-present threat of the evil eye. In Greek, the gesture was known as the katapugon. In Aristophanes' comedy The Clouds , when the character Socrates is quizzing his student on poetic meters, Strepsiades declares that he knows quite well what a dactyl is, and gives ________. Referred to in Latin as the digitus impudicus, ________ is similar to a gesture made by knights in the Middle Ages, in which they raised their lances upright towards each other. The first documented appearance of __________in the United States was in 1886 when Old Hoss Radbourn, a baseball pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters, was photographed giving it to a member of the rival New York Giants.

The finger

•PKD in his Do Android’s Dream of Electric Sheep? describes this painting in this manner:“The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless __________.”

•The Ghostface mask worn by the primary antagonists of the _________ series of horror movies is based on the painting, and was created by Fun World employee, Brigitte Sleiertin, as a Halloween costume, prior to being discovered by Marianne Maddalena and Wes Craven for the film.

•Cartoonist Gary Larson included a "tribute" to ________ in his Wiener Dog Art painting and cartoon compilation, in which the central figure is replaced by a howling dachshund.

Which painting by whom?

The Scream by Edvard Munch

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Novel Titles borrowed from Paradise Lost

Who?

U CAN’T SEE ME

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”- Lolita

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

A new species called Otocinclus ________i was discovered from the Rio Pure in Colombia and two creeks draining into the Rio Amazonas near Iquitos in Peru. Like other members of the Otocinclus genus, this species is also small, with most of the type specimens collected measuring just under 4cm long. Because of its flared tail with a single, intensely pigmented, vertical W-shaped caudal fin spot, ichthyologist Pablo Lehmann named it Otocinclus ________i aka “The _________ Fish.”Click to see pic

Batman

FINALE

“In the end, everything is a gag.”-Charlie Chaplin

Considered the most famous literary portrait of the 20th century that depicts the individual's impotence in the face of celebrity culture , this stalker photograph by Paul Adao appeared on the cover of the New York Post in 1988. Who is the person being stalk-photographed?

“You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart. ”- J.D Salinger

J.D Salinger

This is an attraction which no one would miss in Universal Studios Hollywood. Identify it.

• The Bates Motel in the Universal lot is inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho in which the motel is the site for Norman Bates’s infamous murders. The Psycho set also features a 1959 Ford Custom 300 similar to that driven by Marion Crane(Janet Leigh) in the film.

If this happens in the Spouter-Inn, who are the ones sleeping together?

Save me from this tattooed savage!

Where is my tomahawk???

Ishmael and Queequeg

• “I(Ishmael) found Queequeg’s arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost thought I had been his wife.”- Moby Dick

The set of which movie?

The Shining• Seen in the picture are Stanley Kubrick, his

daughter, Jack Nicholson and the crew of the movie.

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THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS

Lucifer: Pride (a pride of lions) Mammon: Greed Asmodeus: Lust Beelzebub: Gluttony Leviathan: Envy (Onida : “And thou shall not

covet”) Satan/Amon: Wrath(The Hulk/Anger

Management) Belphegor: Sloth

THIS HUMBLE EDUCATIONAL ENDEAVOUR NOW DESISTS

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