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Lee 08-08-2017 08:23 PM

I think I need to come up with harder questions for you guys. Don't forget you can correct or add information to other's answers within the time limit for more coins!

mdom 08-08-2017 09:16 PM

Name five words Shakespeare simply made up that are in common use today.
1- Assassination (Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII)
2-Elbow (verb) (King Lear, Act IV, Scene III)
3- Obscene - (Love's Labours Lost, Act I, Scene I)
4- Swagger - (Henry V, Act II, Scene IV)
5- Torture - (King Henry VI, Part II, Act II, Scene I)

Lee 08-09-2017 12:35 AM

Totting up the day's coins and sending them in. Everything this point on is Day 3.

tsukiko 08-09-2017 12:41 AM

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Riddle Me This
What has an eye but never sees?

a needle

tsukiko 08-09-2017 12:51 AM

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Riddle Me This
What can you add to a full barrel to make it lighter?

feathers

Death by Mirrors 08-09-2017 03:18 AM

I'd like to put a hole in that bucket please, thanks.

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Lost In Translation
  1. What was the original purpose behind a handshake?

To show that one wasn't carrying a weapon in their right hand. Depending on where exactly you lived, the handshake would also include either grasping the other person's forearm to check for hidden daggers, or fulfill an up and down motion which was believed to shake lose any knives hidden in that person's sleeves.

Lee 08-09-2017 09:42 AM

Alright, boys and girls, I'm going to have to extend the question answering limit. Prize payout will be the same, but you have to wait an hour between questions. You can still correct people and add to their answers without a time limit between corrections and additions.

Death by Mirrors 08-09-2017 09:57 AM

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A Word By Any Other Name
  1. What does the phrase 'get thee to a nunnery' imply?

Depends on who you ask. Nowadays I've heard people use it as a more sophisticated version of get the fuck off, but old Shakespeare would know it suggests a woman (Ophelia in his famous play Hamlet) should go join a convent instead of bringing children into this world. I probably don't have to tell how Shakespeare appreciated lewd humor - nunnery also used to be an euphemism for a brothel in Elizabethan times, which makes it a very deliberate double entendre.

mdom 08-09-2017 01:38 PM

3.What proof is there that Bucky Barnes was drafted instead of enlisted (if any)?
Bucky keeps repeating "32557" as his number in Zola's lab, but if he was enlisted his number would start with '12', not with '32'.

Death by Mirrors 08-09-2017 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Lee (Post 1794061)
Comicology
  1. Dick Grayson faked his death in order to infiltrate what organization?

That would be the villainous covert intelligence agency known as Spyral. He becomes Agent 37.

Lee 08-09-2017 06:04 PM

Front page updated! New minor rule adjustments and a new category!

Lee 08-09-2017 06:07 PM

Working on new questions as we speak.

Death by Mirrors 08-09-2017 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Lee (Post 1794061)
Riddle Me This
  1. What can you add to a full barrel to make it lighter?

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Originally Posted by tsukiko (Post 1795295)
feathers

I still want to make a hole in that barrel. Anything in there would spill => barrel empty => barrel lighter than before.

Lee 08-09-2017 09:28 PM

Death by Mirrors, you are correct! What would you like for your prize? Coins or an item?

Death by Mirrors 08-10-2017 03:59 AM

I'd like Gone Fishin' please.

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  1. Who was Snow White's sister?

Rose Red. It is worth nothing though in the original there were two different fairy tales and Snow White from that one isn't the popular story about a princess with her seven dwarfs.

mdom 08-10-2017 06:41 AM

What are the names and aliases of the three lady 'backup singers' for the Deadpool Gaston parody?
Black Widow:Natty
Rogue: Anna
Psylocke: Betsy

Death by Mirrors 08-10-2017 09:27 AM

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  1. Hank Pym is a man of many aliases. Name three.

Ant-Man, Yellowjacket and Goliath

Lee 08-10-2017 12:21 PM

Feel free to talk about things, here. It'll give me an idea of what questions I should be asking!

Lee 08-10-2017 12:21 PM

And on that note. Death by Mirrors, which version of Pym is your favorite?

Death by Mirrors 08-10-2017 01:53 PM

Tough, but I'll say Ant-Man. One would believe at first glance being the size of something that could easily be crushed by a human's foot would be a pretty useless super power, and I like stories that aren't what they first seem.

And yours?

Lee 08-10-2017 02:25 PM

Me, too! But for different reasons. He was a lot less... uh, insane, when he was Ant-Man.

mdom 08-10-2017 02:32 PM

I love your current avatar, Lee xD


7-What country was Captain America's iconic shield a gift from?
-Wakanda (fictional country of)

Illusion 08-10-2017 02:33 PM

In the Marvel Universe, what is The Initiative?

The United States government funded a program that monitors, regulates, coordinates and trains American Super Heroes.

Lee 08-10-2017 02:37 PM

:3 thank you~

Quiet Man Cometh 08-10-2017 07:35 PM

[*]A mermaid fell in love with a human and made a deal with a witch. What did her sisters trade her to give her a chance to escape it?


In the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the sisters traded their hair to learn how to break the mermaid's spell. She was to take the knife her sisters' brought and kill the prince, splashing his blood on her legs which would restore her tail.

Lee 08-10-2017 07:45 PM

Guys, what your favorite things? I want to put up questions you really want to answer!

Kaderin Triste 08-10-2017 07:47 PM

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18. According to myth, what's the easiest way to tell a witch (without killing/trying to kill them)?
There are actually several ways, the most common one was to put them in water like a pond with a rope tied around their middle and if they floated, it was because they were a witch and the water was rejecting them.
Another easy way would be to ask them to recite the Lord's Prayer which a witch would be unable to do because of the wickedness inside her
And a third way was weighing them. Because witches were believed to be soul-less and therefore weigh lighter than a person who hadn't sold their soul to darkness, witches would be weighed against a bible and if they were found to be lighter than it, they were a witch.

mdom 08-10-2017 08:10 PM

RAINBOWS ARE MY FAVORITE THINGS
and uh cats.

Kaderin Triste 08-10-2017 08:11 PM

Cats! And Dragons! And musicals!

Quiet Man Cometh 08-10-2017 08:22 PM

Gamer here (mostly Elder Scrolls), and a dog lover.

Lee 08-10-2017 11:48 PM

Wonderful, I'm already getting ideas. > v>

Illusion 08-11-2017 12:50 AM

What superhero team was responsible for inadvertently causing the catalyst that forced the Superhuman Registration Act into law?


Various answers to this specific question because there are no clarifying details of which specific Superhuman Registration Act from which Marvel comic universe.

The FIRST Registration Act for all superhuman beings in a Marvel Book came from the 1980's X-Men comics Mutant Registration Act. Came forth as an act of registering mutants in order to regulate and discriminate from the government and general populace, this act came to being with the exposure of mutants from the X-Men themselves.

What is more close to counting to all Superhuman registration was the Metahuman Act in the 1990's Fantastic Four comics, but only dealt with superhumans who were born with powers instead of people who later developed or gained powers.

The next Super Human Registration Act came from the 2006's Civil War Comics which ideas and laws came from the Mutant Registration Act but under a new name to help re-enforce the law. This wasn't a direct effect of a specific Super Hero team but rather because of a large amount of super human beings now exposed/living on Earth and the Government trying to regulate and control the super power populace. Which idealism came into the laps of Iron Man and Captain America who then fought over the idea of whether a registration act should take place or not.

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Healing factor aside, there was a mystical reason Deadpool could not die. What was it?

Thanos is in love with Death and Death is infatuated with Deadpool, therefore Thanos cursed Deadpool with eternal life so Death and Deadpool can never be together.

Lee 08-11-2017 12:53 AM

See, now this is the type of discussion I'm hoping to spur.

Kaderin Triste 08-11-2017 01:04 AM

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6. How did the stepsisters get the glass slippers to fit, and what gave them away?
They get the slippers to fit by cutting off parts of their feet (big toe, part of the heel). Despite, what I can image is quite a lot of blood, they are not discovered as frauds until the birds tattle, via a bird song, to the prince.

Quiet Man Cometh 08-11-2017 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Illusion (Post 1796639)
What superhero team was responsible for inadvertently causing the catalyst that forced the Superhuman Registration Act into law?


Various answers to this specific question because there are no clarifying details of which specific Superhuman Registration Act from which Marvel comic universe.

The FIRST Registration Act for all superhuman beings in a Marvel Book came from the 1980's X-Men comics Mutant Registration Act. Came forth as an act of registering mutants in order to regulate and discriminate from the government and general populace, this act came to being with the exposure of mutants from the X-Men themselves.

What is more close to counting to all Superhuman registration was the Metahuman Act in the 1990's Fantastic Four comics, but only dealt with superhumans who were born with powers instead of people who later developed or gained powers.

The next Super Human Registration Act came from the 2006's Civil War Comics which ideas and laws came from the Mutant Registration Act but under a new name to help re-enforce the law. This wasn't a direct effect of a specific Super Hero team but rather because of a large amount of super human beings now exposed/living on Earth and the Government trying to regulate and control the super power populace. Which idealism came into the laps of Iron Man and Captain America who then fought over the idea of whether a registration act should take place or not.

Just for some extra trivia: The Keene Act, of 1977 in Watchmen, which made it illegal for costumed vigilante or adventurer groups to form or act unless they were approved by the government, eg. The Comedian. Rorschach thought it was a load of garbage and kept going vigilante anyway.

Quiet Man Cometh 08-11-2017 04:22 AM

Not sure if I can answer a question after adding to someone else's but putting this up.

4. It's not unusual for one actor to be the wrong height for a part when compared to his fellow actors in a movie. What method was used to bring Robert Downy, Junior up to snuff?

RBJ is short(er) and wore platform wedge heels to make up the needed height. I would imagine he had a few pairs depending on who he had to stand next to during a given scene.

Extra Trivia! There is an Archie comic where Dilton wants to dance with Betty, who is wearing 4 inch heels. Dilton is normally 4 inches shorter than Betty to begin with. She feels silly about dancing with a short man (1970-80s or so, here) He solves the problem by having her remove her heels and give them to him. Math!

Death by Mirrors 08-11-2017 04:54 AM

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20. What is the Wendigo's favored method of luring prey?

It will imitate human voices. Depending on the mythological source, Wendigos are also able to shapeshift.

Gallagher 08-11-2017 02:12 PM

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It will imitate human voices. Depending on the mythological source, Wendigos are also able to shapeshift.

uhm, also by being mega cute, dude. have you ever looked at one?



awe. so precious.

Kaderin Triste 08-11-2017 02:25 PM

Pretty fucking adorable. I want to cuddle it.

Death by Mirrors 08-11-2017 04:09 PM

Tris needs a Wendigo Plushie.


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