Entertainment.....

1. Which was the first African - American music video to be aired on MTV ?

2.What is the significance of this image ?

3. Which is the best selling album of all time ? The album is cited as selling as many as 110 million copies worldwide. The only album to have sales above 100 million!!!!!

4. X has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century and beyond, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was once the world's only black billionaire. X is also, according to some assessments, the most influential person in the world. Identify X.


5. Identify the building...

6.  " You asked me earlier if I catch fish - maybe I might use him as a bait to catch a fish... He's soft. He only looks big and strong, but he's soft. "
Identify me and he.

7. The group set a chart record when its first four singles  peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
    Identify the group and the singles.

8. Identify the lady in white.

The Hannah-Barbara (or Cartoon Network) Toon Quiz

Running with the popular quizzing theme, after the TV serials, its time for the cartoons. Cartoon Network has shaped our lives. I remember that when we were kids the channel used to alternate with TNT and then went on to have a complete channel on its own. This is a quiz on those cartoons we loved watching....

Q.1) Created by Christian Tremblay and Yvon Tremblay, this series features the adventures of Chance Furlong and Jake Clawson and was the number one syndicated animated show of 1994. Identify

Q.2) Although cartoon network is broadcast in more than 50 countries, Cartoon Network India(south asia) was the only one to broadcast the English dubded version of X. X is a 1974 anime series by Zuiyo Enterprises based on the Swiss novel "X's Years of Wandering and Learning" by Johanna Spyri. Identify X

Q.3) The characters of this show were inspired by the characters from the popular sitcom comedy The Phil Silvers Show.A frequnet plot line revolved around the local NYPD cop, Officer Charles Dibble. The name Dibble has passed into the vernaculaar as slang for police officers.

Name the cartoon series...

Q.4) X was usually depicted as a sheriff in the American Old West. He was often accompanied by his sidekick Baba Looey, both the characters parodying the legendary duo of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. In some episodes, X would assume the identity of the masked vigilante Y (a parody for Zorro). Name X and Y.

Q.5)What is this list?

1.The Swiss Alps and Tokyo, Japan

2.Acapulco and England

3.Florida and China

4.The Sahara Desert and Scotland

5.France and Australia

6.Athens, Greece and the Ozarks

7.Italy and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

8.Egypt and Sherwood Forest

9.Spain and the Himalayas

10.India and Israel

11.Africa and San Francisco

12.The Grand Canyon and Ireland

13.Hawaii and Norway

14.North Pole and Tahiti

15.Arizona and Holland

16.Quebec and Baghdad

Q.6) How are Major Glory, The Infraggable Krunk, and Valhallen better known as?

Q.7) His real name is Susan Astonomonov. His assumed name is the short form of monarch of darkness. His parents are Hippies and apparently his mother OceanBird gave birth to him in water. How is he better known?

Q.8) X lives in a cavern, which he constantly tries to make more habitable for himself and is best known for his famous catchphrase, "Heavens to Murgatroyd!" along with phrases such as "Exit, stage right!". X is also the co-host of the Laff-a-lympics. Identify X.

Q.9) X wears white gloves and boots, a blue suit with a white belt, and a long, wavy, purple cape. While he is portrayed as serious and arrogant, he is often used to make humorously long speeches or sarcastic statements, and has a tendency to rephrase a statement in different ways over and over again. Despite his high intelligence, he is known for planning his schemes badly. According to a countdown of the 10 worst villains in the series held by Cartoon Network, he's the number 1 worst villain in the series. Who is X?

Q.10) Which famous series based on a DC comic cartoon strip features Max 'Brilliant' Ray, Jake 'Rugged' Rockwell and Ace 'Daring' McCloud.

Q.11) It was initially launched as a one-off episode, 'The Chicken from Outer Space' which was nominated for the Oscars in 1996. Later on, it became a regular Cartoon Netowrk series. Identify the series.

Q.12)X is an ordinary human endowed by the sun god Ra with the ability to shoot solar rays from his fists and project “solar shields” to defend himself against attacks. He was recruited by a top-secret government agency, Inter-Nation Security, and now works full-time fighting crime, assisted by his sidekick Avenger. Who is X?

Q.14) The famous Belgian cartoonist Peyo, was once having a meal with his colleague and friend André Franquin in which, having momentarily forgotten the word "salt" Peyo asked him (in French) to pass the schtroumpf. Franquin replied: "Here's the Schtroumpf — when you are done schtroumpfing, schtroumpf it back" and the two spent the rest of that weekend speaking in schtroumpf language. What was the result?

Q.15) The James Bond film Dr. No inspired Joseph Barbera to develop an action-adventure program. Hanna-Barbera had originally intended to produce an animated adaptation of the radio serial Jack Armstrong. Hiring noted comic book artist Doug Wildey, the company began negotiations with Jack Armstrong's copyright owners, and produced a short (approximately two-minute) Jack Armstrong test animation sequence in 1962. Negotiations fell through, and the Jack Armstrong project was retooled into X. Working titles for the series included The Saga of Chip Baloo (the protagonist's original name) and _____ File 037, finally settling on X. Identify X.

Q.16) Identify(the easy part) and connect(the not so easy part)

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Q.17) (Not exactly a Hannah-Barbara question...) Identify this cartoon series that appears within another famous cartoon series. It is a parody of the Hannah-Barbara all time classic - Tom and Jerry.

Q.18) Identify both the characters....(used to be my favorites)

Q.19) This is the poster of a famous series that went on to inspire a famous cartoon. Identify the cartoon.

Q.20) Identify this spin-off cartoon series.

Q.21) Identify this producer who has won 7 academy awards.

Qu33k Beta

1. Connect:





2. Connect again

3. Identify the person (guru for many, known for his rants) and the language X, that led to a popular saying on the Internet that he doesn't know X

X is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the X programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

4. Identify (easy):

5. Identify this, which in the world of computer software takes a long long time to install and yet is the fastest in its field:

6. Identify, (video game programmer) of one of the most popular game of all times.

7. Connect again:

8. Which famous open source project began as a program to implement a client and server to stream videos across a campus network at the Ecole Centrale Paris?

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Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.

What is being talked about here (identify the software).

10. Connect:

11. Identify

X was already studying at Stanford University, when he volunteered as a guide for potential first year students. His duty was to show new recruits to the campus, in which Y was also there. When they first met, they clashed incessantly on almost everything, yet they went on to form a powerful company we worship. Identify X and Y.

12. Whose mascot?

13. Connect

14. Identify the logo:

Merry Christmas to everyone.....

1. Connect the following series of pictures to a famous prsonality and if possible what shud be next in the series

2. Connect

3. X was launched in Japan on December 3, 1994, North America on September 9, 1995, Europe on September 29, 1995, and Oceania in November 15, 1995. The launch price in the American market was US$299.

X was also able to generate interest with a unique series of advertising campaigns. Many of the ads released at the time of launch were full of ambiguous content. The most well-known launch ads include the "Enos Lives" campaign, and the "U R Not e" ads (the "e" in "U R Not e" was always colored in red, to symbolize the word "ready", and the "Enos" meant "ready Ninth Of September", the US launch date).

Identify X.

4. Identify....

5.  Connect..... ( for all the football fans...may be an easy one )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 6.In 1993 an advertisement appeared in many Irish newspapers calling for auditions to form a new Irish boy band group. More than 300 people replied to the advertisement. At the auditions the applicants were asked to sing the song Careless Whisper by George Michael. Each audition would be taped and watched again to judge the applicant's performance. Out of the 300, 50 were selected for a second audition.

For the second audition the applicants where asked to sing two songs, including one of their own choice with a backing tape. One of the eventually to be band member sang " Two Out of Three Ain't Bad "by Meat Loaf. The second sang " I am Too Sexy " by Right Said Fred. The other sang " Father and Son " by Cat Stevens (a cover version of which the band would later release).
Out of this 50, 10 were selected for a third audition. In the end, A,B,C,D,E & F were chosen. G originally was rejected but would later join after the departure of D.

A initially faced a lot of opposition from his parents and teachers. He was planning to move to New York to study in college on a sports scholarship and pursue his dream to win an Olympic medal for athletics. In the end A decided to give up his education and go along with the band. C's parents were against their son's throwing away a solid and promising career and joining the band. The manager set about trying to get a deal with a good record company but it would take many rejection letters before the boys would be signed. In 1994 E and C were involved in a nearly fatal car crash, but luckily both survived without serious injuries.

Identify the band.
This was one of my favorite bands....