Scenes From 2 D’S Memory

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Scenes From 2D’s Memory

1• 1566 ______ is a near-Earth asteroid). It

is said to be a Mercury-crosser asteroid. It is also a Venus and Mars-crosser. Its

unusual characteristic is that at perihelion it is closer to the Sun than

Mercury. It’s apparently the only asteroid that passes between the Sun and Mercury. What is it aptly called?

• And the answer is…

Icarus (who flew too close to the Sun)

2• Gimme the artist. (This was found in his Journals)

The comic strip (and song of the same name) is an attack on stereotypical redneck men that <insert name

here> grew up around in rural Washington.

Kurt Cobain

• At a Long Island (NY) high school, three female students dressed up as X and the principal placed a costume ban for all students. The three girls put on beige leotards and nude stockings under white briefs and red capes. According to the principal, “The appearance was that they were naked." X?

Captain Underpants

• @ is a popular choice for commercial wordmarks, including those for 3M, American Airlines, American Apparel, AT&T, BMW, Jeep, JCPenney, Lufthansa, Microsoft, Orange, Toyota, Panasonic, Motorola, Kawasaki and Verizon Wireless. Apple Inc. has used @ widely in Mac OS X, the iPhone OS, and the iPod. NASA uses @ on the Space Shuttle orbiter. @?

Helvetica

5• The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is a 1633 painting

by Rembrandt van Rijn that was in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, prior to being stolen on March 18, 1990. The painting depicts the miracle of Jesus calming the waves on the Sea of Galilee, as depicted in fourth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is Rembrandt's only seascape.

[Painting on next slide]

There are fourteen people in the boat - twelve disciples, Jesus and X. Who’s X?

Rembrandt himself

7• Nightmare Cinema was a spoof rock band active

from 1997 to 1999. They usually performed a cover of Perfect Strangers by Deep Purple, on stage. The members’ stage names were:

• Abdul MatahariNicky LemonsJohnny JamesJuice MalouseMax Del Fuvio

• Fundae?

Dream Theater members playing instruments other than their usual instrument

8• “27 Aquatic Lifeforms You Never Caught

While Fishing” was a post on @, which featured a certain fish called an axolotl. This was followed by another one, which was “This Fish Looks Like the @ Logo”. After this, @ actually changed their logo for a while! @?

[Pic of the axolotl on next slide]

Reddit.com \m/

9• This team’s home stadium is nicknamed La

Bombonera ('The Chocolate Box'). Three sides of the Bombonera are made up of traditional sloping stadium stands, but the fourth side had to be built vertically, with several seating areas stacked one on top of the other, giving the appearance of a chocolate box. La Bombonera is renowned for vibrating when fans start to jump in rhythm; in particular, the unique vertical side will sway slightly, leading to the phrase, “the Bombonera does not tremble. It beats.” Which team?

Boca Juniors

10• In 1990, @ became one of the most popular

characters on television in what was termed “@mania". He became a very prevalent character on T-shirts. In the early 1990s, millions of T-shirts featuring @ were sold; as many as one million were sold on some days. Believing @ to be a bad role model, several American public schools banned T-shirts featuring @ next to captions such as "I'm @. Who the hell are you?" and "Underachiever ('And proud of it, man!')". @?

Bart Simpson

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