Prelim Answers

1. What has been blanked out in the strip below?

2. What has been blanked out?

3. ID the guy to Saddam’s right.

• Gaddafi

4. This picture represents a naturally occurring, scientific phenomenon.

What’s the phenomenon?

5. Who is been referred to in the two audio clips?

• Mariah Carey

6. Identify the brand advertised. The advertisement is an example of a campaign used by the company for the brand since 1956.

#7. What’s being depicted?

Holden Caulfield’s route in Catcher in the Rye

#8. What are these?

JFK’s letters to his Swedish mistress

9. Established in 1968 by the founder of X, the Sea Organization is an entity that serves as the management of X, taking it’s principal decisions.

X?

Scientology

10. It is a graphic novel written by Sarah Stewart Taylor about X and illustrated by Ben Towle. The author introduced several fictional characters including the narrator. The conversations are researched but are fictional. It recounts X’s time in Trepassey, Newfoundland before X’s cross Atlantic trip.

X?

Amelia Earhart

ID the original song.

11. What’s the original song?

12. Whose trend?

#13. Put funda.

Google’s exit from China

• A phrase which became a meme after Google supporters were prevented from keeping flowers in front of the Google HQ in Beijing.

14. A photo released by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, is shown Colleen R. LaRose when she was booked in 1997. She has since been in the news lately too. How is she known now?

Jihad Jane

15. CONNECT

Black September massacre of the Israeli athletes in the Munich Olympics

16. X had been a great follower of scientific texts, including the work of the famous astronomer Camille Flammarion, whose book Astronomie Populaire was then at the top of the best-seller lists.

An art historian at UCLA, Albert Boime investigated further into Y, and found that the prevailing conditions of the day when Y was produced were in fact almost identical to those depicted in Y.

X? Y?

X - Vincent Van Gogh Y - Starry Night

17. Two fleets under Kublai Khan attacked Japan in 1274 and again in 1281. In the first attack, the Mongols devastated Japan but retreated unaware of their success. Before the next attack (1281), the Japanese built walls for protection. The Mongol fleet were forced to stay afloat, exhausting their supplies. The fleet was eventually destroyed by a great typhoon. In popular myth at the time, Raijin (god of thunder) brought upon the typhoon on the Mongols.

What was the typhoon called?

Kamikaze

#18. From March 11th to September 12th, X's works are on display in Paris' Foundation Cartier. It's just one more expression of the 63-year-old's restless intelligence — alongside his work as a comedian, filmmaker, actor, TV presenter and poet.

A selection of X's paintings are on display along with videos, objects and installations in the exhibition Gosse de Peintre (The Painter's Kid), whose theme is childhood. X is bemused by the attention. "They probably ran out of ideas," is his explanation for the exhibition.

Takeshi

19. CONNECT

Cortez

#20. What is the comic strip referring to?

21. This is a minimalist poster for a TV series.

Name the series.

22. Standard ABSOLUT AD.

ID

#23. Who1 playing who2

Who1? Who2?

Gary Oldman playing Beethoven

24. Ad for?

Coca Cola

25. Put Funda.

Jack The Ripper

What has been parodied?