Question - 698

Thought that a push to Q#700 might be worth a try; although, falling short seems to immortalize better (a la Bradman, Tendulkar, et al.)

This building (and suggestive logo) have contributed a term to business lingo related to radical innovation. What term?

Question - 638

Identify the blanked out portions. The blanks are different but related.

Answer: The comic is about Maxwell's demon - a thought experiment about a possible violation of the second law of thermodynamics. Anon, Krithi and Divya got it. Well done.

Question - 590

Connect.

Answer: Tourette's syndrome. Only Divya Shankar got it. Bravo!

Question - 584

Who is the guy in the middle upending the table?

Question - 542

This cartoon (allegedly) depicts the origin of what commonly used phrase?

Answer: The phrase is rule of thumb. According to Wikipedia, the cartoon satirizes British judge Sir Francis Buller for allegedly ruling that a man may beat his wife, provided he use a stick no thicker than his thumb. Matti Tapaninen, mekie, Jamie, Firebringer, Dinesh, and Anirudh Patil got it right.

Question - 476

What is being illustrated?

Answer: The buttered cat paradox - a humorous (?) combination of two adages about cats always landing on their feet and toast always landing on the buttered side. So, what happens if a cat is dropped with a buttered toast tied to it like shown above? Karthik, Matti Tapaninen, Raghu, anon, Mainak, Ramji, nice try, Riskit, anon, Arvind, hotmanoj and Nemani got it. Well done.

Question - 457

What is the blanked out caption?

Answer: "On the internet, nobody knows you are a dog" - a cartoon in the New Yorker by Peter Steiner that became enormously popular. Trevor Burnham, Ramji, Matti Tapaninen, JW, Krithi, nice try, Aparna , anon, Hari, Rajesh K, DrDate and Kamal Rathi got it. Well done.

Question - 422

The first visual shows a famous cartoon. The second visual parodies the two most prominent characters associated with the first cartoon and is drawn in the same style as the cartoon. Identify all and the etymological connection.

Answer: The cartoon is the yellow kid, from Richard F. Outcault's Hogan's Alley. The two characters are Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolf Hearst. Their papers ran the cartoon and were known as yellow kid papers. Soon, the name yellow journalism came to mean the papers' practice of taking sensationalism (even down to fictionalized stories) and profits as priorities in journalism. anon, Mitun, Kaushik, Hasan, Schmetterling, Raghu, rajesh, nice try, Amresh and Ajinkya got it. Well done.

Question - 417

What does the cartoon spoof?

Answer: The cartoon is about Disney's acquisition of Marvel. So Marvel's beast (a X-men character) is being laid off in favor of the beast from "Beauty and the Beast". Adi, Ajinkya, anon and Mekie got it. Well done.

Question - 395

Connect all the images. Also, identify the especially famous item that is missing from this collection.

Answer: These images are the elephant and donkey of the Democratic and Republican parties, Uncle sam, the Tammany hall tiger and Columbia (a personification of the US). Though they can all be connected as US political symbols, the particular connect I was looking for was that they were all drawn by Thomas Nast, the legendary US cartoonist. He is partly responsible for the now familiar depiction of Santa Claus as a bearded rotund man. Santa Claus was the famous missing item I was looking for. AjithP, Iam, Renuka + Anand got the connect I had in mind while Hirak and Hari went with other connects. Well done all.

Question - 384

What's the story behind the cartoon? Brownie points for identifying everyone.

Answer: This is a lithograph made in memory of Mel Blanc, the legendary voice actor for a bunch of well-known Warner Bros animated characters. The characters are Tweety bird, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, Speedy Gonzales, Foghorn leghorn, Daffy duck, Bugs Bunny, Porky the pig and Pepe Le Pew. Rajeev, P, Hari, Jaggi, nice try, Chandra & Swapnaa, jollyrover, Ramki, rishabh, Hirak, Corina and Iam got it. Well done.