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- 2. 1. What isthe phrase? Perhaps derived from the expression of not blaming the messenger, this phrase was sometimes printed on signages in saloons where the _____ ______ was often the only source of entertainment in those days. The owner of the establishment wouldn’t want this person to be hurt or killed in all the impulsive violence that might take place in a saloon. On his 1882 tour of North America, Oscar Wilde saw the phrase “____ _____ ___ _____ ______, he’s trying his best”, and that was its first brush with popular culture. Its second brush with popular culture was perhaps in 1960, when Truffaut released the movie _____ ___ _____ ______, just one word shy of the original phrase. Lastly, in 1973, Elton John released his sixth studio album, ____ _____ me, I’m only ___ _____ ______.
- 4. Don’t Shoot thePiano Player (/Pianist)
- 5. 2. Who? When askedabout why he chose what he did as his professional name, actor and retired pro-wrestler, Laurence Tureaud said that he hated how his father, uncle, and his brother who’d returned from Vietnam were disrespectfully called “boy”. He then asked himself what a black man had to do to get respect as a man. As soon as he was 18, he deemed himself a man, and wanted the first word from anybody’s mouth to be “Mister”, when they were addressing him. Which is why he chose his current professional name.
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- 8. 3. Name bothplays In “The Shakespeare Code”, The Doctor takes his new companion Martha on her first trip across time, ending up in Elizabethan England, to see ____’_ ______ ____ at the Globe Theatre. At the end of the performance, William Shakespeare announces that the next night will be the premier of a sequel titled ____’_ ______ ___. The play, which may have actually existed, was lost to the modern world in the mythos of Dr Who during the course of that episode.
- 10. Love’s Labour Lost Love’sLabour Won
- 11. 4. Peter Griffinand family are watching “Pan up, Pan down, French Song, The End”. What is this a parody of?
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- 14. 5. Comic/Song? _______ ___is a comic book series written by Eric Stephenson, published by Image comics in 2012. It centers around a fictional world where a group of four scientists, who have long since gone their own ways, have had huge cultural influences, similar to that of _______ in our world. The idea that scientists are the new popular idols is exemplified in the promotional tagline for the comic, “Science is the new Rock-n-Roll”. The title of the comic is derived from the 1965 _______ song, _______ ___, and also refers to the primary plot point that things seem to come out of the blue for the scientists.
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- 17. 6. What blasphemousmaterial was used to make The Holy Virgin Mary? In 1992, Ofili went to Zimbabwe. It was on this trip that he first started experimenting with ________ ____, where he would follow the trail of ____ in order to find ________ in the wild. He didn’t see _________, but he saw a lot of ____, which he packed and brought back to his studio to use. The 1996 painting shown, employed oil paint, glitter and polyester resin along with map pins, pornographic images and the material he had started using back in 1992, thereby generating a lot of controversy.
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- 20. 7. Who didthe Simpsons hire to make this couch gag?
- 23. 8. Connect L'Étranger La Peste LaChute La Mort Heureuse Le Premier Homme
- 25. Camus’ Novels The Stranger- L'Étranger The Plague - La Peste The Fall - La Chute A Happy Death - La Mort heureuse The First Man - Le premier homme
- 26. 9. Name ofthe award? What sort of trophy is awarded? ____ ___ is an award that puns on a much more famous award for films, just a letter and an apostrophe short of the original award. Past winners include Einstein in 2017, and Uggie in 2011.
- 28. Palm Dog, adog collar
- 29. 10. Band/Album? The leadwanted photographer Mick Rock to bring out the duality of black and white. Mick Rock came across this photograph of Marlene Dietrich on the sets of Shanghai Express, and she was under a top light, with hood eyes, arms crossed, fingers spread. Ultimately, it was this aesthetic that he brought out on the album cover.
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- 32. 11. Name ofthe achievement? In Team Fortress 2, while playing as the demoman, you get the achievement _____________ if you decapitate 50 enemy players. FITB with a pun on a 1996 film set in Edinburgh, with the change of a single letter.
- 35. 12. Name ofthe achievement? Keeping the topic on Team Fortress, the demoman, just like ______, is Scottish. So it is fairly fitting that when you kill 5 enemy players with critical swings from the melee weapon Eyelander, you get the achievement ____ __ __, ______. The achievement is an obvious pun, with only one letter different from the original. The exact original phrase that has thrived in popular consciousness, was never actually spoken by a certain William’s character in the original series.
- 38. 13. Who isthe woman that Pinky and the Brain was parodying? In the episode of Pinky and the Brain “___ ___ ____ __ Narf!”, Pinky becomes a spiritual teacher, and is visited by a famous group looking for spiritual enlightenment and inspiration. Brain eventually gets tired of the group, and goes around for a walk. He encounters a screeching, screaming woman, who also wants to meet Pinky. When he takes her to meet Pinky and the visiting group, one of the members remarks. “She's awful”. Another says, “She's terrible”. Yet another observes, “She can't sing”. But the last, bespectacled member exclaims, “I LOVE HER!”.
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- 41. 14. Painting, artist? Theoutfit that Django chooses early in Django Unchained, when Schultz takes him to a clothing store - ____ satin jacket, knee britches and white ruffled jacket resembles the clothing worn by the young man in X’s painting Y, which the costume designer admitted was a direct influence. Alternatively, it also serves as an ode to the German director Munrau’s silent film, “Der Knabe in Blau”.
- 43. Thomas Gainsborough’s TheBlue Boy
- 44. 15. Who voicedSimon Trent in the episode? Episode 32 of Season 1 of Batman TAS revolved around Simon Trent, an actor, who in his heyday played the Gray Ghost on television, which young Bruce often watched with his father, and shaped the dynamic costumed vigilante persona that Bruce would later take up. However, decades later, Trent has been reduced to a washed up, typecast actor, forced slowly sell off his Gray Ghost memorabilia to cover the bills. He is regretting having ever played the Gray Ghost. However, through a chance meeting with Batman, he ends up working with him, and being reminded of how he influenced the lives of countless kids. The episode ends on a happy note, with Trent having secured royalties from a rerelease of his decades old show, and embracing his identity as Gray Ghost.
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- 47. 16. What isthe name of this new HBO show or what is it about?
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- 50. 17. Excerpt fromMike Wallace interviewing whom in the February of 1959?
- 53. 18. ID this2009 movie, and the movie it is parodying
- 55. 500 Days ofSummer, The Seventh Seal
- 56. 19. ID bothmovies X’s (mid 1960s) influence on Y (early 2000s) is evident. While Y is supposed to be a neo-noir mystery, and X is a psychological drama film, both essentially are about two women living together under unusual circumstances, one sick and the other a caregiver, and in both cases one of the women is an actress. Both films show a general degradation of these women’s relationships, with their personalities changing irrevocably by the film’s finale.
- 58. X – Persona,Y – Mulholland Drive
- 59. 20. Name ofthe episode? In the 11th episode of Season 1 of Simpsons, Bart is sent on a school exchange program to France, which is really a thinly veiled migrant laboring program for crooked French vineyards, where he has to suffer the _____ of the two Frenchmen he’s forced to live with. What is the name of the episode, combining a flour, milk and eggs dish with a 1930s American literary classic to produce an interesting pun?
- 61. The Crepes ofWrath