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…
501: Connect the first two images. Third image (of the group) can act as a clue. 500: The so called “Night of Shame” monument at Bebelplatz, Berlin. The Bebelplatz is best known as the site of the book burning ceremony held on May 10, 1933 by members of the S.A. (“brownshirts”) and Nazi youth groups,…
500: Identify this structure and elaborate the story behind it. (The third photograph is the location where the structure might be found.) 499: Paraphrasing one of the correct answers – Statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Gandhi Square in Johannesburg. One of the few statues (perhaps only one) that depict Gandhi – not as the world…
499: What is the significance of this statue? 498: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, written by James Thurber
