511: Connect. 510: “The Melting Pot”

510: Poster for a play. What phrase did this play popularize? 509: The Battle of Marengo – on of the key battles in Napoleon’s military career; lent its name to Napoleon’s horse and to the dish Chicken Marengo.

509: Connect the picture of the battlefield to the horse and the dish. 508: The picture of the book lying amidst broken glass is a photograph from the infamous Tiger Woods automobile mishap. The book is the physics tome “Get a Grip on Physics” by John Gribbin. Gribbin, a science writer with a dozens of…

508: What’s the amusing story? (The technical diagram could act as a clue.) 507: 1932 film Freaks inspired the Ramones catch phrase “Gabba Gabba Hey”. Brad Pitt is dressed up as DJ Lance Rock, the character who hosts the Nickleodeon children’s TV show “Yo Gabba Gabba!” whose title is inspired by the Ramones slogan.

507: Connect. 506: Eisenhower And Churchill were both hobbyist painters. In the photograph, Eisenhower is showing one of his paintings to Churchill, a portrait of  Churchill painted by Eisenhower himself!

506: Something very interesting is happening in this picture. Explain. 505: H.G.Wells and Jules Verne.

505: Identify the two people with differing approaches depicted in this comic strip. 504: Charlie “Bird” Parker.

504: Very simple one. Identify the artist. 🙂 503: Stained glass window dedicated to Lewis Carroll in the All Saints Church in Daresbury,  Warrington – the so called “Alice in Wonderland Church”. “All Saints in Daresbury is synonymous with Alice in Wonderland as the author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was born in the parsonage…

503: What’s the story behind these images? 502: Tooter – a time traveling cartoon turtle from the 1960s. Each segment of the show ended with the Tooter’s trip becoming a  catastrophe, when he always called out the same thing, the famous, “Help me, Mr. Wizard!” to his friend Mr. Wizard the Lizard. One major reference…

502: Flashback from 1999. How are this cartoon turtle’s antics memorialized in film? (Video here – particularly relevant portions at the 4th minute.) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYUvj8jRf3I] 501: Dean Elton, saxophonist and Long John Baldry, blues singer – were part of the group Bluesology. One of their bandmates, one Reginald Dwight, decided to go solo and named himself…