Some ‘general knolij’ , and a nice funda.

The tamilian artisan sect A, that owes its name to a distinct variety of clay pots.

They used boats B, similar to shown in pic B.

boat

The english word for B, a distortion of the original Indian usage, was coined by the pirate/explorer C, shown in pic C.

pirate

As usual, A, B , C?
Lastly, connect B to D, shown in this pic..

nrn

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:

Scott Kurtz, the man behind the well-known webcomic PvP ( player versus player), drew this strip, with a character called Onomatopoeia ( which is a figure of speech, btw).
A character with the same name, and similar appearance ‘co-incidentally’ existed in the DC Universe ( DC = 600, apologies).
When made aware of this fact, he promptly changed the name and the character.

[link]

Also read kcm’s answer for full fundae.

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

Roadrunner.
ACME corporation products.

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

1 – [Link to the cartoon - via flyyoufools] -
http://www.flyyoufools.com/savita-bhabi-destroys-society

2 – X – Uncubed
Y – Krishna M. Sadasivam , a trical engineer
Z – The PC Weenies

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?

———– Cracked by Panda. X – Penny Arcade

Y – MC Frontalot

Z – Nerdcore

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.

1. Garfield minus Garfield – Thus the comic transforms into “a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb” . awesome

2. Garfield as Garfield. [ james garfield, that is]

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.

“On Stranger Tides“, by Tim Powers. The new Pirates of the Caribbean movie is based on this book.

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.

Firstly the pink thing is Dr Elena Bodnar’s ‘Gas mask bra’, that won an Ig-Nobel this year.
The two people invited to try it on were Paul Krugman, and Wolfgang Ketterle – 2001’s Nobel Physics winner.

Wolfgang Ketterle won the Nobel along with others, for creating the first gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensate, which was theorized by Satyendranath Bose and Einstein.

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

Seth Rogen , Everyman.
[wiki]

Look. Images. Put. Connect.

[ Photo Credits: brewbooks on Flickr ]

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Cracked only by Anish. Kudos.

Answer:

Basically Boing Boing started this trend of showing overcute unicorn pictures, following the posting of some gross articles [ say about certain notorious internet memes , say, involving a cup and 2 females, or goats.
well, you get the idea]

so part 1 of the connect – ‘ And now, we pause for an unicorn moment’

Part 2.
Virgin America started this scheme of getting its planes named by celebrities – ‘Name Our Planes’ campaign.
Grace Slick called one as Jefferson Airplane and so on.

The boing boing editors were asked to do the same, and they called it the ‘Unicorn Chaser’.

[wiki]

X is an album by the American comedian Y.

The phrase X , as used by Y, refers to a catastrophe of Epic proportions.

comic

The once-upon-a-time logo of a well-known prog-rock band Z is shown in the image. [ it has been cropped a bit for obvious reasons ]

wrench

The members of Z used to be good friends with Y. The title song from one of their best-selling albums, features the same theme X.

The artwork for the album also showed the after-effects of the catastrophe.

X, Y , Z ?

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Cracked by all and sundry, some even messing up the variable names in excitement.

@Hasan – thanks.

General advice from the QM – Learn to swim…

X – Arizona Bay

Y – Bill Hicks

Z – Tool

Identify this comedy-folk band. [ and the members as well ]

Also id the instrument, that the mousey looking female is holding.

band

Clue:
1. Better clue

clue

2. Hopeless clue. The title of the post.

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Anirudh and Hasan cracked the instrument.

Goutham and Aditya got the band right.

Band – Garfunkel and Oates
Instrument -Ukulele

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The image was of course of the duo – Simon and Garfunkel.
Stupid clues
Riki Lindhome – Played Nowitzki on Big bang theory
Kate Micucci – Played Gooch on Scrubs

Note: I’ll not be moderating questions for a few days. A few questions have been automatically scheduled. Have a crack at them. Accolades will be doled out in generous proportions, when I’m back.

Id the gentleman, and spin a general philosophy connect.

artist

dd

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Cracked by Hasan completely.
Kartik id’d the artist.

Quoting Hasan
It’s Carl Barks, illustrator for Disney, who invented the philosophy of Flipism, that is, using a coin toss to decide most things in life.

[ link to the comic's wiki ]

Two famous experiments. Two super-famous scientists.

A did the experiment similar to shown in image A.

experiment_1

B described the experiment shown in image B.

experiment_2

Give me A,B, and the names of the respective experiments.

[ If you also give me the colloquial, raunchy name for experiment B, I'll give you bonus imaginary points ]

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Cracked in bits and pieces by Anirudh Patil, and Vivek Nigam.
Consolation points to Avishek Dey for getting 1/4th of the answer right.

Answer:

Galileo. Inclined Plane experiment -
Time it takes for an object to fall from some height is independent of its mass. Also measured acceleration due to gravity to a decent degree.

Newton – Newton’s Cradle, Newton’s pendulum,executive ball clicker etc.Demonstrates conservation of momentum and energy.

In a colloqial usage, these are referred to as ‘ Newton’s Balls ‘.
[Citation needed ]

Most likely an Old chestnut.

If you’ve posted this question before on your blog, assume I’ve flicked it from you. thanks.

Collaboration by whom, and on which work, is being depicted in this image?

Authors, and the book – please.

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Cracked by Panda.

Answer:


Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett.

Good Omens

Sitter Sunday. Two questions.

1 .

These books are marketed under a common brandname. What it is?

book

Clues:

2.

On a similar note , What is this method ( a means of productivity ) called?

method

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1. Cracked by panda, Kitta, and Hasan.
2. Cracked by Kitta, although Hasan got the general funda right

Answer:

1. Moleskine Notebooks.
The title was a reference to this post

2. The Cornell Note-taking system ( or the Cornell method of note-taking)
[wiki]
supposed to be an efficient method to jot down points.