Intricate Ramblings

Question #391

rjsvaljean — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:46:31 +0000

Name this guy who was called “the most influential web entrepreneur you’ve never heard of”

Question #390

rjsvaljean — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:34:14 +0000

What’s the cute bunny in (1) called? Or just fill in the blacked out portion in (1). The creator of this mascot is married to the guy in (2) and also created the mascot for (2)’s current project.

Ans: Plan 9 from Bell Labs. Rob Pike.

Question #389

rjsvaljean — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:11:32 +0000

What’s the very convoluted, possibly true story that connects these three artists:

Ans: F For Fake

Question #388

rjsvaljean — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:27:12 +0000

Makeup being applied to which character ?

Cracked by Rithwik. Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th.

Question #387

rjsvaljean — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:05:52 +0000

The only two people to be awarded which honour?

Hint: IHTFP

Question #386

rjsvaljean — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 04:29:24 +0000

Who is this character from a comic strip whose last name is now an adjective.

Question #385

rjsvaljean — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:39:34 +0000

More news media celebrities in their younger days. Identify this Pinhead/Patriot:

Ans: Bill O’ Reilly

Question #384

rjsvaljean — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:52:03 +0000

Identify this TV personage from his younger trouble-making days.

Ans..: Larry King

Question #383

rjsvaljean — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:16:12 +0000

The ___X___ state was an alert state indicator previously used by the UK Ministry of Defence to warn of non-specific forms of terrorist activity, established on 19 May 1970. According to the Ministry of Defence, the word ___X__ was randomly selected by a computer.

What’s X ? The common noun has nothing to do with defense except perhaps in its origins.

X= Bikini

Quiz #22

rjsvaljean — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:13:14 +0000

8. A popular band took their name from the location of this memorial for the victims of an air-show gone horribly wrong. Which band?

Rammestien

9. _____X_____ first found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds performed for the radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was reported to have caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by beings from another world was occurring. Among X’s less well known accomplishments are an adaptation of Julius Caesar set in fascist Italy and a film adaptation Kafka’s The Trial.

Orson Welles

10. A little known fact about the Irish authors X and Y is that X’s childhood sweetheart who he was courting after his graduation from Oxford ended up marrying Y. X was best known as a playwright and only ever wrote one novel that could be classified as Gothic Horror Fiction and Y is also best known for a novel that is very well known in that genre.

X= Oscar Wilde, Y= Bram Stoker

11. Cameo of?

Hint:

Daft Punk who did the score for Tron Legacy

12. Connect:

Meme. The concept was introduced by Richar Dawkin’s The Selfish Gene.