Connect.

Famous and not-so-famous paintings.

Hungry Kya?

Whose relatively enormous diet includes

1 apple

2 pears

3 plums

4 strawberries

5 oranges

1 piece of chocolate cake

1 ice cream cone

1 pickle

1 slice of Swiss cheese

1 slice of salami

1 lollipop

1 piece of cherry pie

1 sausage

1 cupcake

1 slice of watermelon

1 green leaf

Y is X?

Journalists have used this (false)claim to imply that cultural group X has reason to spend a great deal of time thinking about the specific idea Z. This served as the first example and the idea behind the name of the trope or a type of phrasal template in which certain words may be replaced with another to produce new variations with altered meanings, similar to the “fill-in-the-blank” game of Mad Libs.

Examples:

X is the new Y

The only good X is a dead X

To X or not to X?

X is my middle name We’re gonna need a bigger X

X, X Everywhere

I, for one, welcome our new X Overlords

Bitches Love X

One Does Not Simply Walk into X

Keep X and Y On

X’ers Gonna X

A Wild X Appears!

In Soviet Russia, X Ys You

 

What was the claim and the trope?

The Cosmic Joke

X is an Irish ballad in which a hod-carrier born “with a love for the liquor”, falls from a ladder, breaks his skull, and is presumed dead. The mourners at his wake become rowdy, and spill whiskey over his corpse, which brings him back to life. Whiskey (from uisce beatha, meaning “water of life”) thus causes both his death and resurrection.

It is famous for providing the basis of Y’s famous final work, in which this comic resurrection is employed as a symbol of the universal cycle of life.

What are X and Y?

Seeing Orange

Connect A, B, C and D.

The Economist describes A as follows: “involves commodity exports driving up the value of the currency, making other parts of the economy less competitive, leading to a current-account deficit and even greater dependence on commodities”. What is A?

B is a door divided horizontally in a way that the bottom half may remain shut while the top half opens. The initial purpose of this door was to keep animals out of farmhouses, or keep children inside, while allowing light and air to filter through the open top. What is B?

In 1650 Franciscus Sylvius, created C, a gin, in an attempt to create a diuretic medicine. This was then used in the Thirty Years’ War by English troops and was an instant success for its believed warming properties on the body in cold weather and its calming effects before battle.
What phrase was thus originated or what is C?

D is a practical joke where someone lying in bed with another person pulls the covers over the person’s head while flatulating, thereby creating an unpleasant situation in an enclosed space. What is D?

Clue:Gold leader

Yet Another Stupid Connect

Answer each part and connect

A is a hit 1965 Hammer film, based on the novel by H.Rider Haggard. It starred Ursula Andress in the role of Ayesha, the immortal queen of a lost African kingdom along with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

B is a horror/ drama series based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name, revolving around an inter-dimensional monster with the ability to transform itself into its prey’s worst fears, mostly taking the form of a sadistic clown called ‘Pennywise the Dancing Clown’.

C! is a 1954 Warner Bros. Pictures black and white science fiction film about a nest of gigantic irradiated ants discovered in the New Mexico desert. One of the first of the 1950s “nuclear monster” movies, and the first ” big bug” film, it is regarded as a classic now.

D is a 2013 science fiction romantic comedy-drama film by Spike Jonze and starring Joaquin Phoenix among others. The film centers on a man who develops a relationship with an intelligent computer operating system (OS) with a female voice and personality.

For Your Thoughts

X may now be the poster image for all things outdated but it had some distinct advantages over anything else present at the time. It was more comfortable and faster over the cobbled roads present at the time than the alternative because of the distinctive wheel. It was also lower in weight.
Then two new inventions came about and closed the chapter on X. They were the chain drive and the pneumatic tyre.
What is X?

A Big Happy Family

X wrote the novels -Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life – which were sort of fictional biographies. In them he hypothesised, that the real meteorite (Y meteorite) which fell near Y, Yorkshire, England, on December 13, 1795, was radioactive and caused genetic mutations in the occupants of a passing coach. Many of their descendants were thus endowed with extremely high intelligence and strength, as well as an exceptional capacity and drive to perform good or evil deeds. The progeny of these travellers were purported to have been the real-life originals of fictionalised characters, both heroic and villainous, over the last few hundred years, such as Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, Doc Savage, and Lord Peter Wimsey. This created the Y universe which was later expanded by X and other writers to include The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sherlock Holmes, The Spider,James Bond, Nero Wolfe, Sam Spade, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and even Star Trek.
 
This concept has been used as a unifying device by others such as Warren Ellis’s (Planetary), Alan Moore (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) and in Tales of the Shadowmen edited by Jean-Marc Lofficier, using characters from French Literature.
 
X and Y please. 

Epunymous

Science Fiction author Reginald Bretnor using the pen name Grendel Briarton wrote a multi-year series “Through Time and Space with Ferdinand X!”, in which each installment was a short-short that ended in a horrific pun. X and the nature of the stories—detailed and tedious, yet ending in vaguely familiar catchphrases—may have been inspired by Walter Bagehot, a major literary and political figure from the late 1800s now fallen into obscurity.

X is now used to describe stories of this kind. Isaac Asimov was particularly notorious for these.
An example Death of a Foy

What is X?