Visual Trivia- care to identify?

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Hello there! As part of the annual trivia contest I’m involved in, I’m attempting to identify the visual trivia. During the actual contest, questions will be asked concerning any aspect of the pictures- names of people, places, movies, artists… anything! Before hand, I try to find out as much as I can about the pictures. I invite you all to take a look and share your knowledge, all help is appreciated. The pictures are located here. The theme for this year’s contest it “Viva Los Trivia”- so some (but not all) of the visual may be associated with Los Vegas in some way. I posted the ones I wasn’t able to identify.

Here’s what I know about the visual already:

  1. Nothing
  2. Not much
  3. Appears to be Mayan or Aztec
  4. Looks like an advertisement for contact lenses… don’t know the company or where this appeared.
    5, 6. Nada
  5. Reminds me of Itchy from All Dogs Go to Heaven, but it isn’t.
  6. If Rhett Butler was a duck, I’d imagine he’d look something like this.
  7. The man in the derby looks like Edward VII, I think.
  8. I know some of the actresses- Natalie Wood, Julie Andrews, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman (?)… don’t know the others. Perhaps there is a common, possibly Los Vegas related, link between all of them.

As you can tell, I’m not very knowledgeable about these and would really appreciate your help. Thanks!

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This is more of an MPSIMS thing, I think.

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Entirely guesses on my part (and I should mention I’ve had a few glasses of Cabernet as well) but here goes:

(1) Phillis Porrageton-Smythly. Lesser know member of the sufferagette movement. Notable as the first feminist to burn her brazier in protest – the brazier in question bieng a thirty-five pound item composed of lace, cotton flanse and whalebone (as was the style of the day) which managed to cause several thousand dollars in damage before fire crews contained the blaze.

(2) A depiction of Gumby’s tragic suicide, as he plummeted sixty stories to his death from Chicago’s Clokey Building.

(3) A depiction of the Aztek God-King Tor’Tillaz, who’s name translates as “Builder of an entire cuisine based on the same five ingredients”. He is always depicted holding a burrito.

(4) The famous “Disguise Your Eyes Eyeshadow™” advertising campaign that ran in comic books of the 50’s, prompting the Comics Code Authority to add “Drag Queen” to the list of ‘Subversive and anti-American Influences’. J. Edgar Hoover is said to have been quietly furious at the decision.

(5) A New Yorker cartoon from the thirties, said to be the first cartoon to ever allude to cunnilingus, the punch line bieng “That’s not my date, that’s my lunch”.

(6) Briefly famous rock group “The Gerbils” who ushered in the famous “Belgian Invasion” of Belgian rock music in the sixties (it lasted perhaps three days).

(7) “Sam Antics” the spunky animated sidekick of Noam Chomsky in the short-lived 70’s Saturday morning cartoon “The Noam Chomsky Power Hour With Shazam”.

(8) “Plat-Tista the Puppet Dictator” a puppet that combined a duck-billed platapus and former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. A popular guest on The Ed Sullivan Show, 50’s audiences loved the Plat-Tista’s good-natured railings against the evils of Capitalism.

(9) A photograph showing the four muslim terrorists convicted of hijacking streetcars and cashing them into properties on Park Place and Atlantic and Pennsylvania Avenues. It is said that before they were captured by Uncle Pennybags (seen far right) they were set to blow up the metal shnouser.

(10) The cover of The Rolling Stones album “Some Girls”.

(11) Pidgy the Pidgeon.

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Uh, thanks. Actually, 11 is a picture that I took of a pigeon on my roof. However, his name is Pidgy.

Come on, 179 views- doesn’t anybody out there recognize these pictures?

(Eutychus- sorry about the inappropriate question placement, I thought the television/movie/music themes of some of the pictures could possibly land it a spot in Cafe Society…my bad.)

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Well, #2 is a slightly-rotated version of the logo for the Adam’s Mark hotel chain.

No clue on the others.

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Number 4 reminds of that creepy Jocelyne Wildenstein.

Number 10 looks like something from a magazine. Like “Au Courant Bouffants, see page 84!”

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Ooo! I know one.

#9 (I think) is the picture of the boarding of H.M.S. Dreadnought, by William Cole. Cole wanted to sneak aboard the ship, so he and a few of his friends (including Virginia Woolf) dressed up as Abyssinian princes and bluffed their way aboard.

http://www.sniggle.net/cole.php

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Thanks a lot! I knew somebody out there had some answers…

Anybody else? That cartoon dog almost seems to be mocking me.

::Shakes fist at oh-so-familiar cartoon dog::

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2 looks like the adam’s mark logo

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Inky, I’m not sure you’re correct about #10; I don’t have it on hand, but I don’t recall Audrey Hepburn being on the cover of “Some Girls.” It looks similar, but I don’t think that’s it.

Not that I have any clue what it actually is…

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10 is probably the original Some Girls cover. The Rolling Stones used a whold bunch of actresses pictures, but didn’t get permission. When they were going to release the album, they had to change all the pictures because some of the actresses were going to sue.

But I’m not sure if that is it. It looks like it.

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Here is the cover for Some Girls- doesn’t appear to match up. Good guesses, though. Anybody else?

http://www.collectable-records.ru/groups/rolling%20stones/somegirls2.htm

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I have an answer for #6, and a partial one for #10.

I have a copy of “The Great 1960s Quiz Book”, and recognized those photos immediately. They’re even on the same two-page spread!

#6 is Nikita Khrushchev’s daughters: Julia Gontar, Jelena Khrushchev, and Rada Adzmubei.

#10 is The Ten Best Coiffed Women of 1963!

Now, I don’t call that a satisfactory answer, myself. Best-coiffed…according to who? The book doesn’t say. It was compiled by a guy named Dan Karlinsky, and I think it’s safe to say that he hasn’t found any work on “The Weakest Link” or even “Jeopardy” or “WWTBAM”. He’s flat out wrong on at least one question, and several others are so obscure, poorly worded, or lacking in significant data that even people who lived through the era didn’t get them when I asked.

But at any rate, from left to right along the rows, uppermost row to lowest, they are:

Bess Myerson
Suzy Parker
Julie Andrews
Natalie Wood
Audrey Hepburn
Wilhelmina
Donna Reed
Charlotte Ford
Edie Adams
Irene Dunne

And speaking of WWTBAM, here’s one of the bonus questions. Scattered throughout the book are 30 or so “Who The Hell Was…?”

“Who the hell was Regis Philbin?”
“Joey Bishop’s sidekick on his late night show.”