Infinite Pounce

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• Although one would expect the director to take the photo especially for the movie, it was actually a photo taken from 1923 with the actor’s head added in.

• Who replaced the guy in the next picture and for which movie?

• Jack Nicholson, The Shining.

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• Supposed model of something being built for a company named Pink Visual. What is being built? Why is it “different” from the others?Image in next slide.

• 2012 Bunker for their stars.

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• Connect:• Escalator• Heroin• Kerosene• Zipper• Yo-yo• Xerox

• Genericized trademarks

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• X lies in far West Texas. According to the 2010 census the city's population is 649,121. X is the nineteenth most populous city in the United States of America and the sixth most populous city in the state of Texas.In 2010 X was awarded an All-America City Award, the oldest community-recognition program in the United States.

• We know X best for a massacre at a church here. How it happened, who was there, how many got killed and who killed them - changes depending on who's telling the story.

• X?

• El Paso, Texas.Wedding chapel massacre from Kill Bill

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• The sunrise problem can be expressed as follows: "What is the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow?"

• The sunrise problem illustrates the difficulty of using probability theory when evaluating the plausibility of statements or beliefs.

• Which mathematician introduced this problem in the 18th century?

• Pierre-Simon Laplace

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• Born in Kerala, India. Sagittarius. Supposedly blessed by Agni.

• Image in next slide

• Dhalsim

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• The X was the creation of Camden, New Jersey, chemical company magnate Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr., whose family owned and operated the R.M. Hollingshead Corporation chemical plant in Camden.

• Hollingshead's X opened in New Jersey June 6, 1933, on Admiral Wilson Boulevard at the Airport Circle in Pennsauken, a short distance from Cooper River Park. It offered 400 slots. He advertised his X with the slogan, "The whole family is welcome, regardless of how noisy the children are.”

• X?

• Drive in theatre.

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• The company gives away The Clean Stick Award to people who do this. They usually do this to find the answer to a question popularized by their ads. Since 1970, they have received more than 20,000 letters from children who believe they have the answer.

• Funda.

• How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

• According to the company, given to people who get to the center without giving in to the temptation to bite.

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• And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days.

• from The Book of X, 12:10• And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all

was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

• from The Book of X, 7:15• X?

• Book of Mozillaquotes seen on entering about:mozilla on Firefox.

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• X not only said he wanted a role in The Expendables 3, but that director Darren Aronofsky offered him the lead in The Wrestler. Aronofsky quickly took to Twitter to deny X’s claims.

• X that he turned it down. The reason?“The problem is, if I had done it, Hollywood would have looked at it as a joke.”X has previously lied about being offered a position to play bass for Metallica.X?

• Hulk Hogan

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• X was devised by the Danish Situationist Asger Jorn to explain his notion of triolectics, his refinement on the Marxian concept of dialectics. The game purports to deconstruct the confrontational and bi-polar nature of the conventional version as an analogy of class struggle in which there stands a signifier of the state and media apparatus, posturing as a neutral arbitrator in the political process of ongoing class struggle.

• The May 2010 X held at Haggerston Park ended with Labour winning 0-2-3 to the Conservatives and Lib-Dems.

• X?

• Three sided football

12What did this comic supposedly inspire?

• Inception

13• Takashi Hashiyama, CEO of a Japanese television equipment

manufacturer, decided to auction off the collection of impressionist paintings owned by his corporation, including works by Cézanne, Picasso, and van Gogh. He couldn’t figure out whom to award the sale to.

• Christie's went to the 11-year-old twin daughters of the international director of Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Department Nicholas Maclean, who suggested ”________" because "Everybody expects you to choose ’____'." Sotheby's said that had no particular strategy, but went with ”_____". Christie’s won and sold the $20 million collection, with millions of dollars of commission for the auction house.

• Funda.

• Auction house rock-paper-scissor match.

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• Connect

• Charles Manson• The Beatles- “Helter Skelter”• Marilyn Manson• Polanski and Tate. Tate was murdered by him.

15• _____ ______:Vampire Hunter is a 2001 cult film from Odessa

Filmworks which deals with X‘s modern-day struggle to protect the lesbians of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from vampires with the help of Mexican wrestler El Santo.

• Ultra______! is a comedy from 2003 produced by LeisureSuit Media in which X comes to modern day New York City to usher in 2000 years of peace. When he discovers that he is unable to relate to modern youth, he dons a superhero costume and appears to the world as Ultra______!

• _____ ______ Superstar is a 1973 American musical film directed by Norman Jewison. A film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock opera of the same name, the film stars Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson and Yvonne Elliman. Ted Neeley was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of X.

• Who was the subject of all these movies?

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Infinite Pounce II

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• In vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal improvization with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all. Scat singing gives singers the ability to improvised melodies and rhythms, to create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using their voice.

• This show was named after Frank Sinatra’s scat at the end of his recordings of “Strangers in the Night”.

• Which show/eponymous character?

• Scooby Doo

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“Actually, it's not a question of room, it's a question of buoyancy.”

X said this about a certain “problem” fans had with a part in his film. He then enlisted The Mythbusters to defend his stance. Mythbusters decided to find out for themselves whether or not X’s buoyancy theory was actually correct. And they proved him wrong.

X then tried to save face and said that it had to happen that way because it was in the script.

What did they prove?

• They proved that both Jack and Rose could have got on the raft at the end of Titanic.

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• Scrapped concept model for what? (Another image next slide)

• Gun wielding dino-human hybrids in Jurassic Park IV

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• Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, was an outlaw and member of The Wild Bunch, in the American Old West. Longabaugh likely met Robert Leroy Parker after Parker was released from prison around 1896. Together with the other members of "The Wild Bunch" gang, they performed the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in American history.

• Longabaugh is better known to us by a name he adopted when he was in a jail in ________, Wyoming. Robert Redford played him in a 1969 American Western. Something that takes place every year in Utah was renamed after Redford’s character.

• How do we better know Longabaugh?

• The Sundance Kid. • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was the

‘69 movie and Sundance Film Festival, the event.

5• John Wright• Thomas Wintour,• Thomas Percy• Robert Keyes• Thomas Bates• Robert Wintour• Christopher Wright• John Grant• Sir Ambrose Rookwood• Sir Everard Digby • Francis Tresham.• Obvious one has been removed. What did they all do/plan to do?

• Gunpowder plot. Guy Fawkes has been removed.

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• X is a 1942 American Film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright and Walter Brennan. It was a tribute to Y. The film starred Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, Mark Koenig and Bill Dickey as well. It was nominated for 11 Oscars winning and for Editing. Gary Cooper who played Y was right handed and Y left handed so many scenes were shot and then prints reversed. Y also starred in the 1938 western film Rawhide. Researchers presented a paper in 2006 after analyzing this movie and concluded that “Examination of Rawhide showed that Y functioned normally in January 1936.”

• X, Y?

• The Pride of the Yankees, Lou Grehig

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• It has been the center of two urban legends.• First one, that the face of General Robert E Lee

was carved onto the back, and looks back across the Potomac towards his former home Arlington House.

• Another legend says that _______ is shown using sign language to represent, with his left and right hand showing his initials.

• What am I talking about?

• The Lincoln Memorial Statue

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Which movie is being referred to here? [Image in next slide]

• Rosemary’s Baby

9• X was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in China,

before he decided to move the seat of his dynasty to the Jin Dynasty capital of Zhōngdū, which he renamed Dàdū, the present-day Beijing. In 2012, X was made a World Heritage Site. X was also visited by Marco Polo.

• In 1797, according to his own account, the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was reading about X in Purchas his Pilgrimage, fell asleep, and had an opium-inspired dream. The dream caused him to begin the poem known as 'Kubla Khan'. Unfortunately Coleridge's writing was interrupted by an unnamed "man from Porlock," causing him to forget much of the dream, but his images of X became one of the best-known poems in the English language.

• Xanadu

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Connect.• Geoff Horsfield• Nenȇ• Bobby Moore• Francisco Franco• Adolf Hitler• Mao Zedong• Bruce Lee• Lance Armstrong

• They all have Monorchism, i.e one ball.

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• Chrysippus- after giving his donkey wine, then seeing it attempt to feed on figs.

• Thomas Urquhart, the Scottish aristocrat, polymath and first translator of François Rabelais's writings into English- upon hearing that Charles II had taken the throne.

• In 1989, Ole Bentzen, a Danish audiologist, while watching A Fish Called Wanda.

• At the end of the film Mary Poppins, Mr. Dawes, Sr.

• What happened to them?

• They died laughing.

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• Interviewed in 1966 by François Truffaut, Y illustrated the term "X" with this story:

• It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men in a train. One man says "What's that package up there in the baggage rack?", and the other answers, "Oh, that's a X". The first one asks "What's a X?" "Well", the other man says, "It's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands". The first man says, "But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands", and the other one answers, "Well, then that's no X!" So you see, a X is nothing at all.

• What is X?

• X-MacGuffin• Y-Hitchcock

13• This language was created by David J Peterson, a member of the Language

Creation Society. David J. Peterson and his development of the language were featured on an April 8, 2012 episode of CNN's The Next List. Peterson drew inspiration from the writer’s description of the language, as well as from such languages as Russian, Turkish, Estonian, Inuktitut and Swahili.

• David Peterson has said that "You know, most people probably don’t really know what Arabic actually sounds like, so to an untrained ear, it might sound like Arabic. To someone who knows Arabic, it doesn’t. I tend to think of the sound as a mix between Arabic (minus the distinctive pharyngeals) and Spanish, due to the dental consonants.“

• The name of the language which is also the name of the people who speak it, was listed fourth in a list of words from television most used on the Internet, compiled in September 2012 by Global Language Monitor.

• Which language? Show gets you no points.

• Dothraki from Game of Thrones

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• When typing the initials in X for New York City, "NYC", the three resulting glyphs are an eye, a heart, and a city skyline: "I Love New York." A spokesperson for the company explained that "typographers took pains to ensure that the image corresponding with the capital letters NYC was a pleasant one". This occurred after _______ accidentally associated "NYC" with a poison (death) symbol, a Jewish Star of David, and a thumbs-up, creating what appeared to some people as an endorsement of anti-Semitism.

• X-Webdings

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• X(23 March 1893 – 4 January 1974) was an Indian inventor and engineer who is also referred to as the Edison of India. He is credited with the manufacture of the first electric motor in India. His contributions were primarily industrial but also span the fields of electrical, mechanical, agricultural (Hybrid cultivation) and automobile engineering. He had only primary education but excelled as a versatile genius. Among his hobbies was train travel to nearby cities.

• Who?

• G.D. Naidu :D

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• Musicians/band names inspired from literature.• 1)Holly Golightly• 2)Moby• 3) Veruca Salt• 4) Opeth (derived from the word "Opet," taken from

the Wilbur Smith novel The Sunbird)• 5) Velvet Underground• 6) The Doors• 7)Aerosmith