Saturday, October 30, 2010

The Polite One




Connect.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

The One About a Street

The Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Los Angeles, California was made famous as 'Love Street', because of the numerous hippies who would walk by, by a certain person. Who is he?

Monday, October 25, 2010

The One with a Cute Little Girl


Uncredited for her role in the film '2001: A Space Odyssey', this is ___________, daughter of the famous director _____________

Saturday, October 23, 2010

The One with the Impossibly Easy Connection




Connect.

The One with the Thing

In the land of its origin, is is known as 'Cosa Nostra', translating into 'Our Thing'. It is more popularly known as...

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

The One that's Pissing Off

There is a legend about Duke Godfrey III of Leuven. In 1142, the troops of this two-year-old lord were battling against the troops of the Berthouts, the lords of Grimbergen, in Ransbeke. The troops put the infant lord in a basket and hung the basket in a tree to encourage them. From there, the boy urinated on the troops of the Berthouts, who eventually lost the battle. What is this said to have been immortalized by?

Monday, October 18, 2010

The One with a Wicked Hotel


This is a picture of the Lexington Park Condominiums, built over the site of a much more famous building, the Lexington Hotel, demolished in 1995. What made the Hotel so famous?

The One with a Strange Kind of Woman

She made a special appearance in an eponymous film as a waitress, she is....

Monday, October 11, 2010

The One with a Cool Connection




Connect. Pretty easy.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

The One with a Book

The six sections of this 1937 book were as follows:
Fundamental techniques in Handling People
Six Ways to make People Like You
Twelve Ways to Win People to Your Way of Thinking
Be a Leader How to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment
Letters That Produced Miraculous Results
Seven Rules for making Your Home Life Happier

This book was later parodied in 2001 and a film was made on the parody in 2008. Name the book and the parody.


Saturday, October 9, 2010

The One without a Ship

Where would you find a masthead and a deck if not on a ship?

Friday, October 8, 2010

The One that Didn't Suck

This was about the ONLY decent question at the Limca Book of Records Quiz today.
Which is the easternmost state of the United States of America?

Thursday, October 7, 2010

The One Involving the Cinematographic Process a Lot

Connect the film 'The Birth of a Nation', the film 'Apocalypse Now' and a short in the Bugs Bunny Merrie Melodies series titled 'What's Opera, Doc?'

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

The One Related to Dying

His last words were to his wife: "You are beautiful" and his epitaph reads:

STEEL TRUE
BLADE STRAIGHT
_________________________
KNIGHT
PATRIOT, PHYSICIAN & MAN OF LETTERS

Who is he?

The One with a Memorial


This Memorial can be found near Clear Lake, Iowa, where a plane crash killed three famous people. The Memorial was erected for (arguably) the most famous of the three. Identify him. (Bonus for identifying the other two).

The One that's Impossible and is Being Done for Sadistic Pleasure




The Connection is Football Personalities in Manchester and the sunflower is Ferguson. Now connect.
I think I'll seriously consider filing for a change of name if anyone gets this. But it WILL have a wow value when you find out.



The One with the Scale

What would you use the Scoville Scale to measure?

The One with the Weird Thingummy


Simply identify...

The One with an Announcement

Its the holidays!! So I'll be giving you five questions today. Enjoy.
:)

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

The One with Yet Another Connection

This is Mae West, a famous Hollywood actress.
A lobster.
Self explanatory.

Connect the pictures and give me the connections.

Monday, October 4, 2010

The One with All the Flags





Connect the countries.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

The One with an Odd Series

Second in this series is Odin and it ends with Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertas. What is it a series of?

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Memor Nixor


I love Football. I love Chelsea. Some smart alec quips, how can you do both at the same time? I retort, how can't you?
This has happened more than often, and more than often, they never find any rational comeback, preferring senseless abuse instead. I have met all too few proper FANS of football. You're a supporter if you just go for a club by trophy count.
I think I stand alone in my school as a fan of Chelsea. I think no one whose support is limited to a 'chelc roxxxx' on Facebook and the same atrocious pronunciation when they say it, even knows our foundation year. I think I am one of the few lovers of Tait-Robertson and the hastily arranged team that finished THIRD, behind Bristol and Manchester United (who had been playing for 8 and 27 more years respectively than newly-born Chelsea, might I point out). And I know I love the solitude.
This has been a very painstaking compilation. Most articles I've read by supporters of other clubs (I've never known anyone to even BOTHER writing something for Chelsea) are either Wikipedian Wonders or shamelessly filched from club websites.
No one will ever know how many links I went through just to get this done. Bear in mind that old Chelsea data isn't as freely accessible as those of other clubs, being a fledgling club in terms of success before becoming the near-invincible powerhouse that we are today after a LOT of hardship and many heroes who pulled us through. This is a rags to riches story in its most essential sense. From being bought at 1 pound to having 1 billion pounds invested in it. We have come a long way. But I for one will never forget our history. What history? scoff Mancunians, Liverpudlians and Gooners. A history of near misses and perennial underachievement punctuated with flashes of brilliance, I reply defiantly. There are stories that you will never have but would have been proud of. With this I will begin my Remembrance series, starting with our first ever season, as soon as I can gather every stat necessary and I already possess quite a bit.


The One with All the Noise

The founders wanted to name the company Moore Noyce after themselves, but it sounded strangely close to 'more noise', something very undesirable for the kind of company it was meant to be. So, they used the name NM Electronics before deciding to name it _____. However, since the name had already been trademarked by a hotel company, they had to buy rights to it first. What do we know this company as today?

Friday, October 1, 2010

The One with the Pretty Woman


This is a picture of the world's first computer progammer, who also has the dubious distinction of being her poet father's only legitimate child. Identify both father and daughter.

A Sad One

Sasaki Sadako was a young girl who believed in the popular legend that folding 1000 paper cranes would grant her a wish. Her only wish was to be cured of her leukaemia. However, it is popularly believed that she fell short, having folded 644 before she died and that her friends folded the rest and buried them along with her. Inspired by her story, to this day, children all over the world fold paper cranes and send it to her memorial. Where is her memorial located?

The One with a Very Lucky Person

Which person connects Scotland and Russia, holding EXACTLY the same national post in both countries?
WARNING: Think a little.

The One with the Coloured Books

The book 'Quotations From Chairman Mao', popularly known as 'The Little Red Book' was one of the enduring symbols of China's Cultural Revolution. Now for a totally unrelated question, which country's leader wrote 'The Green Book'? Give yourself a bonus point in you can name who it was.

The One with the Important Tree




This tree can be found growing outside the Trinity College, Cambridge. This is said to be one of two descendants by vegetative propagation of the original tree. This is one of the most well looked after trees of the United Kingdom. What is so special about this tree?

The One with the Awesome Footballer






This footballer died exactly one month and one day ago at the ripe old age of 100. If possible, identify him, but more importantly, why is his death so special that it has prompted a FIFA statement by Sepp Blatter which reads: "The news that _____________ is no longer with us fills us with great sense of loss, both for his qualities as a person and an ambassador for our beloved sport ... In these grief-filled moments I can take immense pride from the fact that a character such as ________________, whom we shall never forget, represented the football family with such dignity."?