Question
These images are cited in Rudolf Arnheim’s Visual Thinking, and serve as a visual analog of Ebbinghaus’s nonsense syllables in memory studies modeled on Gordon Bower’s. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these puzzle comics by Roger Price consisting of very simple drawings with complicated descriptive titles like “Rich Sardine in Private Can” or “Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch.”
ANSWER: droodles
[10m] Droodles exemplify the “visual riddles” theorized by Roger Abrahams, a scholar in this field. Much of the modern terminology of this field, like allomotif and motifeme, was coined by the scholar Alan Dundes.
ANSWER: folkloristics [or folklore studies; or folk life studies; accept word forms of folklore; prompt on tradition studies]
[10e] Roger Price also created Mad Libs with Leonard Stern while the pair worked for the first host of this show, Steve Allen. This show popularized Twister and caused a toilet paper shortage during one host’s 30-year tenure.
ANSWER: The Tonight Show [accept Tonight Starring Steve Allen or The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 14 | 7.86 | 43% | 36% | 0% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | We Need New Names | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | var merchants | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Lisan al-Quib | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| BHSU B | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Les Missourables | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | The Oldest Men in the World | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |