A celebrity in the field of Biochemistry, and a knight to boot,

this man X created a technique which has something to do with pic1. The technique is thusly, named after him. Let’s call it X1.

sir_biochemist

structure_pic1

Now, the prankster scientists in the field started naming other techniques as a pun on X1.

So, a technique based on pic2 was called Y ( which had some relevance in naming, in fact)
and one based on pic3 was called Z ( no connection whatsoever, done just for kicks) and so on.
The list continues for some 2 more techniques.

structure_pic2

structure_pic3

hints:
1. pic1, pic2, and pic3 are generic representations.
2. pic2 has three subtypes, one of which is a courier of sorts.

X, X1.
Y, Z, please.

Connect the subject matter of this PBS strip, to the remaining three images.

pbs

Sir_Pianoman

poster

lady

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Cracked by kcgadiyar, cheezy, Rahul, and Mrinalini.

Answer:

The punchline to the PJ in the comic is ” Don’t Cry for me, Argentina“.

which is a song from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical ‘Evita‘
Evita, the musical, was named after Eva Perón

Shown Images. Put story.

author

book

structure

team1

team2

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Cracked by Cheezy, Mrinalini, and Vikram.

Cheezy has put extra fundaes as well. Thnx

Update: Mishtek corrected

Check her comment for the answer.

Update2: Whoa, Stephen Cosgrove himself has commented here.
Hurrah Hurrah

Why was this fellow in the news recently?

[ or to put it another way, spin a yarn around these images ]

it_fellow

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A generic representation

jadoo

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rankings

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Cheezy cracks it. Well done.

Answer:

Brad Niesluchowski , I.T Director for Higley Unified School District in Mesa, Arizona.
Forced to resign after after the district discovered that he had installed software for the SETI@home project on the school district’s computers.

[ Pro View] [ Against view]

Yeah, we didn’t post for a while. Lazy QM’s, we.
Here are three questions. All of them are fairly easy.

1. A, is known by the name of a person B in the western world, while in the land of the Great Firewall, it’s known by the name of C.
B, C ?

2. Sean Connery, and Mike Myers, are flaunting this apparel, that became immensely popular in the west, following a certain celebrity group’s endorsement in one of their historic music tours.
The suit, and the group, please.

3. Shown is a representation of a character Z, wearing a suit, famous around the WWII times. These have had their share of notoriety owing to a violent sequence of events, at around the same timeframe. The chief perpetrators were identified by their excessive ‘wearage’ of these type of suits.
The character is of course part of a long-running comic strip created by Y.
The ’soot’, and Y( or the comic strip).

P.S : Also, In the witty words of bigfatphoenix,
Safari Suit #kvlt

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Mrinalini cracks all three. Respect.

Mr. Guessthelogo, and Mr.quintili < long_name> get the 2nd one right.

Answer:

1. Mao Zedong. Sun Zhongshan ( Sun Yat Sen) [wiki]

2. Nehru Jacket, worn by the Beatles during their Shea Stadium concerts.

3. Lil’Abner comic strip, by the famous Al Capp. [ Zoot Suit] [ Zoot Suit Riots]

This gentleman here, happens to be a composer.

He’s very famous in the tech-biz world for an interesting composition consisting of just 5 notes.

Simple. Id him and the creation.

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Cracked by Akshay. Welcome back, i say.

Answer:

Walter Werzowa, the composer of the Intel Jingle.

D♭ D♭ G♭ D♭ A♭

Some ‘general knolij’ , and a nice funda.

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

The tamilian fisherman sect, that is A

, 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

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Cracked by Priya, Chandrashekhar, and Mrinalini

Answer

Firstly, a huge blunder on my part.
The clay pot etymology was considering that it was Karavas. [ the word has Pali origins, karaka etc]
Mea Culpa.

As the commenters pointed out , these are the acceptable answers.

A – Paravas , a fisherman community.
B – Catamaran, (from Tamil kattumaram) is a type of multihulled boat or ship consisting of two hulls, or vakas, joined by some structure,the most basic being a frame, formed of akas.
C – William Dampier

D – NR Narayana Murthy recently started a VC firm called Catamaran.
[ this was supposed to be the original question, the rest were hurriedly gathered bits. oops ]

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]