THE NITK QUIZ BLOG

Slightly involved question. Put appropriate fundae.

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The comic for the day was actually strip 1.

strip_1

Some fanboys took note.

Soon, it became strip 2.

strip_2

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kcgadiyar, and chandrakant crack this. nice work.
Answer:

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Jolly sitter.

What’s this xkcd strip about?

Or to put it simply, blanks fill maadi.

engineering

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Cracked by Shrey, kcm, and Nair

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Question 3. [webcomics theme-week ]

There are quite a few good indian webcomics in the tubes.

1. [chuckle, giggle]

Whatz the subject of this strip?

indicom

2.
This webcomic X is about the life and times of this N.R.I artist Y, ( the one with the goatee ). The other comic he’s posing for in this strip ( the character drawn behind him) ,  is one of the earliest geeky comics on the net - Z.

Z is what he is most famous for.

Name the artist, this comic, and the other comic.
[ click on the image for a larger version]

nri_comic

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1 – Cracked by the innocent kids – panda, and mohit.

2 – Went Uncracked. yay

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And the 2nd qstn in the webcomics theme-week.

X is a webcomic giant.

x_comics

Y is a music phenom, who has a dedicated following owing to the subject matter of his lyrics, which should be kinda obvious if you see his pic.

y_rapper

An entire subgenre of rap/hiphop has been assigned to this kind of music. Let’s call it Z.

Y’s hitsong put below is tributed to X, and also happens to be its theme song.

Give me X, Y and Z?

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Remember our last themed week?

A new theme will be the focus of our questions this week.

“The wonderful world of Webcomics”.

Let’s start off with some awesome tributes/parodies to a famous, lame-ish cartoon

Id these comics.

1.

g1

2.

g2

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1. Cracked by Priya
2. Cracked by maga.

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Hybrid of which 2 people?

Maul Stanley is a parody hybrid of Darth Maul and Paul Stanley (aka The Starchild of KISS fame)

Cracked completely by Panda.

Id the book.

Velvet Underground by Michael Leigh from which Lou Reed took the band’s name.
Cracked by Panda and Kartik.

The painting shown below was sold for a whooping amount of 84000 Pounds at Sotheby’s in 2005. Claim to fame?

Inspiration for Gandalf.
The painting is Der Berggeist by Josef Madlener.

Hasan and jackandlagoon cracked it completely.
raklodramA got the painting right.

Id the book and its super-famous sci-fi author.

Also put a bit on the book’s recent claim to fame.

book

author

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Cracked by Kartik and Panda.

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Really simple one for the day.

Id the masked man, and connect him to the genius in the next picture.

cuppax

nerd

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Goes uncracked.
Kartik identified the Indian Physicist.

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What unique achievement does the guy in the first pic hold wrt to the second pic?

Owain Glyndŵr is the only Welshman (and not the heir apparent to the English throne) to ever hold the title of the Prince of Wales after England conquered Wales.

Logik got the insignia right.

Fresh. Fresh. Fresh.

Who’s the guy guest-voicing for the non-Homer character? His first time, I may add.

And put a name to Homer’s super-hero identity.

Simpsons

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Went uncracked, and rightly so. It was a crappy question
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Look. Images. Put. Connect.

[ Photo Credits: brewbooks on Flickr ]

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Cracked only by Anish. Kudos.

Answer:
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