My Yearly Begging for Help (W/Small Update)

Sukigod

Member
Hi all CMONers!

Some of longer timers might recognize this time of year when I start begging for help for a trvia kontest my friends and family compete in. Every year, the event organizers hand out a poorly photocopied packed of images and during the weekend they ask some questions about them. So far we\'ve figured out/confirmed 18 out of thirty pics and I\'m posting some here hoping to see if any of you know anything about the ones we have left.

To answer a few questions that usually come from a posting like this...

1. It\'s for a fifty hour marthon in February that out local Uni throws.
2. No, there are no prizes, just bragging rights over the teams behind you and the comraderie of friends and family you see once a year (like Christmas without the gifts!).
3. We don\'t know what they\'ll ask so we find out as much as we can, track down any lead.
4. Some forums complain \"aren\'t you supposed to find out for yourself?\" This is finding out to the best of our abilities. We\'ve had 30 people searching for nearly a month already before we start heading to the online forums for help. We can use all available resources as long as they\'re not illegal.
5. No, it\'s not Humphrey Bogart, as much as people say it looks like him :)
6. Please, if you can\'t offer help or advice/clues/leads, simply don\'t respond. It\'s all in research and fun. (You would be surpised how angry/indignant some people can get when someone asks for thier help...)

Our basic premise is, the more people you show things to, the better chance you have of someone recognising something. We\'ve been through our own personal libraries, the local libraries, online, and asked nearly everyone we know.

This year they\'ve been pretty diabolical and very good about \"Google-proofing\" the photos so some of these will most likely generate the WTF? response. Yeah, us too!

Thanks in advance for any help that may be provided and hope you all have a very good year!

Team D.O.A. Hole

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Sukigod

Member
I is right here...!

(It looks too much like the number 1 with the font I chose and I was too lazy to change it.)
 

uberdark

New member
F. is a childhood picture of an architect i think....but i am not too sure on that... not frank lloyd wright though.
 

ScottRadom

Shogun of Saskatchewan
Okay, I had some time today so I put some research time into your problem. Here\'s what you need to know....

a) A Barrel turned into a sink
b) Moose dancing with a compass. Hehe, he has no clue how to use a compass!
c) Old Dude
d) Mad Scientest just milliseconds after figuring something out/beginning exposition about how he is so much better then his opponents
e) Piece of something Blackish nailed to a two tier display base that is Whiteish
f) A young kid with glasses.
g) Some numbers in a grid on top of a guys head. That one was tricky!
h) Man in plaid shirt on rooftop
i) There\'s no I. ??? What the hell. Oh right, it\'s a team thing, no I in team and all that. CLEVER!
j) Candy add from an old porn Theater
k) Man with a secret (Actually could that be Alfred Hitchcock?)


Anyway, there you go. When you guys win the competition I want you to raise a toast to me in honor of the success I have brought you. That\'s all I ask.

Scott
 

BarstoolProphet

New member
We\'ve seen C and K before.
In an older thread.
I\'m sure of it.
The answers should also be there.
My search-fu is weak. Is there a master in the house?
 

mud duck

New member
B. The Caribou Coffee mascot? If not (and I couldn\'t find that picture anywhere (weak Google-fu), I think that the logo on the cup (that\'s how I read it) may be the key to it.
E. modern art piece would be my guess.
F. This one pisses me off! I could swear that I have seen it someplace (magazine) The kid is in a barn ish Carpenter\'s workshop. A Smithsonian Magazine from mid-2008?!?
G. The cover to a medical journal (genes) or a hacker journal (router protocols)?

H. Would place this some where in the Pacific. Hawaii given the trees and all the weight lifting equipment in the background.
K. This is the best guess of the lot (hint hint) It is and is not Bogie. See if you can find a picture of a fellow named Kevin O\'Connor (7may38 to 22jun91). Played in the 1980\'s TV movie \"Bogie\". I couldn\'t seem to find any pictures of him, but I\'m guessing that y\'all will have a better time at it.

Hope that this as helped a little. Good Luck, and remember we\'re pulling for you.
Brian
 

Sukigod

Member
Originally posted by mud duck

F. This one pisses me off! I could swear that I have seen it someplace (magazine) The kid is in a barn ish Carpenter\'s workshop. A Smithsonian Magazine from mid-2008?!?

K. This is the best guess of the lot (hint hint) It is and is not Bogie. See if you can find a picture of a fellow named Kevin O\'Connor (7may38 to 22jun91). Played in the 1980\'s TV movie \"Bogie\". I couldn\'t seem to find any pictures of him, but I\'m guessing that y\'all will have a better time at it.

Hope that this as helped a little. Good Luck, and remember we\'re pulling for you.
Brian

@Barstool - if Barstool is where you spend a lot of your time, you might know of the Buzztime Trivia that many bars have going on thier TVs. I\'m a forum member on the site and if you are too, you might have seen a similar post there...

@Mud Duck: I\'ll be scanning the Smithsonian magazines as the local library this week for that. I alos searched for the TV show Bogey but came up blank. There was a regulr, for theater release, movie called \"The Man with Bogart\'s Face\" but this starred Robert Sacchi. Close, but we can\'t find this exact image in connection with that movie either. We\'ll use your listed name though on our \"back up list of options\" for this question.

And thanks to ScottRadom we can cross the rest of the items off the list ! lol

Thanks all and every little bit helps!
 

TAB Studio

New member
j looks like a jujyfruits ad now know as jujubes-Heide Candy Company began production in 1920 in Germany and this looks from that era maybe they also did red hots

H.) I noticed Washingtonian palms with full petticoat\'s in the background-rare. They were kept that way in for years before garden styles change.
There is a fishtail palm center back as well. can not grow that large except in the subtropics Tropical maybe FL would be a guess.
The youth looks a bit like a young Paul Anderson but that is a wild idea because of the weight equipment.
Ringling circus is in an area like this as well.
This is damn addictive stop please! I found this though in the process may help you in looking http://www.hmdb.org/
 

Sukigod

Member
Originally posted by TAB Studio
This is damn addictive stop please! I found this though in the process may help you in looking http://www.hmdb.org/

Thanks for the info! I\'ll be adding that link to our permanent set of resources.

Addictive? Been doing this for almost 20 years....:D Everyone we don\'t get just kills us a little, but it\'s all in fun.
 

freakinacage

Well-known member
Originally posted by squidders
H: spencer elden, the grown up baby from the Nirvana album Nevermind.
good call! well spotted. how in gods name did you know/find that out?

nirvana_baby.jpg


oh btw suki, you had better let us know the answers!
 

Sukigod

Member
Nice find there Squidders! Thanks. ANd yes, I\'ll come back here and let you know.

@Barstool: You\'re right - I forgot I already posted here (slaps forehead).

@Mud Duck: I finally found reference to the Bogart tV movie - I was mistyping it as Bogey insead of Bogie (again, slaps forehead)
 

mud duck

New member
Originally posted by squidders
Originally posted by freakinacage
Originally posted by squidders
H: spencer elden, the grown up baby from the Nirvana album Nevermind.
good call! well spotted. how in gods name did you know/find that out?

I wish I knew! REALLY!

Cool Mini or Not. Home for those, who know more then they know.???
 

Sukigod

Member
Shamelss, Shameless Bump.

And a slight update. We have found the actual source for J and they are the beloved candies we think they are. We found this in a 1997 entertainment magazine and the circumstances are kinda specific. I\'ll post the real thing after the contest along with the rest of the things we don\'t get before then.

Thanks again folks!
 

Sukigod

Member
OK - through stealthy internet shinanigans (all legle, of course) we\'ve found another team researching the same contest. They have solved the sink image and have posted a snippet of the larger image in an attempt to figure out a book title sitting on the shelf next to the vanity. I\'ve made a composite from the original and the one provided to us here...

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The book title seems to end with the words Woods or Words, kinda hard to tell with the bottle over it. I\'m hoping this might help ring some bells for those trying to help.

Again, thanks ahead of time for any help or ideas!

Sukigod
 

Sukigod

Member
OK Folks, here\'s on last shameless bump, a couple days before the contest starts.

I\'ve tracked down all the leads people posted here and gotten a few. Thanks to everyone who\'s helped. I have another idea that I\'d like to toss your way and see if anyone\'s interested.

I want to invite you to play along as part of our team for the contest through a secure chat room. If enough people are interested, I\'ll set one up. We\'ve tried this kinda thing in the past but it usually takes one person to watch the chatroom and its tough to do that and research answers at the same time. We\'re a pretty small team (15-20 people) and losing one person to focusing on a chatroom can make a big difference. This year, I\'m thinking of backing off the online research part and watching the chat room instead.

The idea of having other people from around the world helping at all hours of the day is intriguing.

Here\'s how it would work. (in theory) Point your browser to www.kvsc.org and click on the \"Listen Now\" button at the top left of the page. From here you can choose a streaming source (hi/low) and listen to the entire contest online - Live!. There is a small bit of delay, but that\'s to be expected. Anyone who\'s interested in joining in can email/PM me and I\'ll send you the chat URL and login/password. Or you could always just listen for fun!

There\'s no defined times you would have to play or be online, it\'s strictly \"at will.\" No answer is too stupid and other that general bad language, there\'s not much reason to censor one\'s self. When we call in the answers, we are given either \"Correct\", \"Incorrect\", or \"Partial\" as answers back. The first two are pretty self explanatory. The third one is a bit trickier and really, the key to getting a lot of our answers.

When you get a \"Partial\" reply, that means that part of the answer you gave is correct. Yes, that also means we can call back and try again (until they close the question out). Example: Who is the current President of the United States? If we call in Barrack Smith, we will get a reply of \"Partial\". They won\'t tell us what part is correct. We usually call back right away and winnow down which part is. In this way, even if the answer we give, in it\'s entirety might be wrong, if part of it is like the actual answer they\'re looking for, we can start tracking that down which gives us more things to look for.

So, any answer, even though incorrect, might lead us to the right answer.

Another bonus is people from different parts of the planet are more awake and thinking better when we\'re falling off in the dead of the night here in the US (usually between 1AM and 8AM central).

If you want more info on our team and what we look like during the contest you can check us out here...

http://www.doahole.com

I know it was long post and if you\'re still with me here, thanks for reading. Again, if you\'re interested, contact me and if enough people warrant a chatroom set up, I\'ll do it.

p.s. Yes, I\'ll come back here and post the questions and answers to the pictures I posted here earlier.

Thanks fellow hobbiests!

www.kvsc.org
 
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